University High School - Nunc Dimittis Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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NUNC DIMITTIS S0 SAITH THE SAGE Ye gathering multitudes! Lend now your ears, While I tell you the horror of oncoming years. Don't try to change it: it's life's weary road: lt's taken from whimsical fancies you showed. We see him on Broadway, in London, in Paris: lt's Play Boy IACK DOBSON who married an heiress. ELEANOR BRIER is a charity fund raiser: She's not made a cent, but that doesn't faze her. ALFRED A. TREADVVAY t'Michelangelo Ted l Paints portraits of society matrons and debs. There's a Fifth Avenue styleshop that's run by MISS WISE: She'll make you buy clothes, regardless of size. There's a sign at the side of a highway well- traveled: KILLINS, it reads, For Inherited Gravel. Her horses come in with the field in the rear: IEAN LANGFORD'S runners improve every ear. Hg has built up a fortune by doing his best: And ARMAND has guards and a bullet-proof vest. BLUMENTHAL thought she'd try out as a dentist: But we'd never go to her unless someone sent us. Nobody came: the show was a flop: So DANIEL D. Wl-lEELER'S now wielding a mop. KNOTT'S following up the work of her pappy: Slaughtering languages makes her quite happy. Hailie Selaissie fled from his home: So NEWMAN dashed up and seized the old throne. She writes horror stories that raise every hair: lust read MISS McCALLA if you want a scare. With fields full of roses and woods full of trees, Landscapist BRIGHAM is ready to please. Within the forest, spade in hand, We see C. C. C. ALLEN, conservation man. CHARLOTTE was always an impersonal person: When she got out of school, she went in for nursin'. The Muse sees his picture on every midway: lt's Twinkle Toes WELLMAN, King of Ballet. Poor LIZZY WURSTER-you know her, of course- Got a B plus in college and died of remorse. We see GORDY with whiskers, test tubes, and mouse: I-le's working in research, while BETH keeps his house. Smart GINNY OSGOOD has gone on the stage As the publlc's ideal, she's quite the rage. MOOSE went out west and the Sioux took his hair: I-le's now East's assistant-they do make a pair. SCI-IMIDT tried casting her chance as a poet: She's published and published, and everyone knows it. In down town Chicago, in a classy skyscraper, FRANK HEIKE, draftsman, puts houses on paper. Page Sixteen I-lASKETT'S a magic gal, good as they make em: She'll astound you with tricks, but she always fakes 'em. He kisses the babies and gives away beer: That's Senator LEE when election is near. After the season Dinah MELOCI-IE, ingenue, Tours the whole country with her own retinue. You'll see him at all of the clergymen's dinners, The Reverend SCOTT OSLER, redeemer of sinners. ES3'HER'S a nurse maid and takes care of kid- ies: You'll find her in parks in all the big cities. Rash HUBBARD WHEELER tried fooling with stocks: The market went down and left Hub on the rocks. DORIS GIBB'S life has not been a loss: She married shekels and a political boss. With a clack and a stumble, and a heart- rending sob, Goes columnist SWINTON right on the iob. IEAN Willie WILLS had a flare for career: But she married her boss inside of a year. With wheel and cards he seeks his luck: He's known about as Faro BOYCHUCK. Not in a museum, though you see her through glass, LUTHERA makes pancakes for people who pass. When it comes to his dutY. IOHN can't be beat: He's a topnotch detective, just look at his feet. Miles I have travelled, ten thousand or more: But have never seen sailor's wife as sweet as PRAN ORR. His mind toward electricity had an increasing trend: SLEATOR died young, but he got it in the end. Paderewski WATKINS is now quite the thing: For concerts galore she both plays and sings. AMY FEE'S interests toward charity bent: She lives in the slums without making a cent. WELLER'S a doctor and nearly a wreck: He's running a med. school at Michigan Tech. And a twinkling tune comes from our GINNY LOHR. As she hammers a xylophone musical score. Bunny Boy RATLIFF has died of despair: I-le tried aviation-it gave him the air. VICTORIA'S high-minded, as wild as a preach- er: She's now in U. High as its best English teacher. While dancing and singing till dawn heralds the day, We find BETTYLOU in her swank cabaret. If you're arrested for arson, theft, or periury, Get Defense Lawyer DANA to plead to your Jury. Town's in an uproar: phones out of control: DICE is drawing pictures and won't connect a soul. RUTHVEN, the boy who far outdid the rest, Is hailed by Who's Who as America's best!

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NUNC DIMITTIS CHAPTER TEN Again, the boys were given a new home- room teacher. This time it was Mr. Trytten, who has remained with them. The class organized immediately with Bud Ruthven as president: Iack Dobson, vice- president: and Frances Henderson, secretary. After several hectic weeks of preparation, filled with making costumes and practicing original rhumbas and tap routines, the girls' homeroom presented their version of what a musical comedy should be- The Sophomore Revue - with full orchestral accompaniment. Immediately before spring vacation we gave the Spring Fever Frolic. As the first party, it was a huge success, with the historic white trellises and the spring flower decorations. Exams were scheduled a week early because No Retreat practices were in full progress. The pageant, with which we celebrated the three hundredth birthday of the first American public school, was a synthesis of the ideas of the whole school. Besides having Beth O'Roke on the committee that wrote it, al- most our entire class appeared in the cast. At Newport Beach we welcomed vacation with the annual picnic and sunburn. CHAPTER ELEVEN As soon as the class officers, David Sleator, Mary Margaret Meloche, Virginia Osgood and lack Weller, had been elected, plans were made to purchase class rings. Our Continental Cabaret, which was given between semesters, was the outstanding party of the year. The sober rec room simulated a metropolitan cafe when the lights had been lowered to a minimum, and the spot light played on the mirrored-ball hanging from the ceiling. The gay rhythm of The Contin- ental was caught in a modemistic staff which girdled the room. Our Iunior Play, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's The Schoolmistress, was both an artistic and a financial success. The class's one assembly program, a ready- made satire on opera matinee audiences, was given by the girls' homeroom. The class was increasingly active in school affairs, and was well repre- sented in all clubs and teams. We honored the departing Class of 1935 at the annual Iunior-Senior Prom to which outsiders were allowed to come for the first time. A Spanish atmosphere was attained by draping colorful shawls from the library balconies. Next morn- ing, after commencement exercises, we held a farewell reception for the seniors. CHAPTER TWELVE After a six-year climb, we reached that pinnacle slightly below the faculty Olympus, from which we could control events at U.H.S. The major part of all activity groups were seniors, and mem- bers of our class held all the key positions, Bud Dana, in the Council: Stan Swin- ton, in Broadcaster: and Beth O'Roke, in girls' sports. Our class officers, Phil Gordy, lean Langford, Virginia Lohr, and Armand Hewitt, chosen after a stormy election, have most successfully carried out our business during the year. We gave the Alumni a warm welcome at the Christmas party in spite of the wintry atmosphere and snow. Both Friday and Saturday night audiences were pleased by the class play, A. A. Milne's 'Mr. Pim Passes By. At semester time Dr. Iohnston took his sabbatical vacation, leaving Dr. Curtis to take his place and graduate us. The sophomores quite unexpectedly honored us at their Paris in the Spring party. The week before that, the Class of 1935 dedicated the furniture on the library balconies, announcing that it was for the particular use of seniors. But the last week was upon us. While the rest of the school was taking ex- aminations, we wandered disconsolately about. However, we had more fun than ever at the picnic which was held at Portage Lake. The class day program, a judgment day revealing our futures, had us all in stitches. After luncheon at the Michigan League, we returned to Honor's Assembly, sang our song, and filed out forever. The juniors lightened our sorrowing hearts with the Prom. After commencement at which Professor Preston W. Slosson spoke, we said good-bye. Page Fifteen

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-wlrrrrvwll' 1 nmgsrrw-wmgpmgs NUNC DIMITTIS IUNIUH PLAY - THE SCHUULMISTBESSU S the first big dramatic attempt of the class, The Schoolmistressu a social satire by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, was presented by the Class of '36, under the direction of Mr. Ford. The play centers about the escapades of Volumia College, a small boarding school for daughters of gentlemen, when the schoolmistress Uean Willsl leaves the school in charge of an older student, Peggy Hesselrigge tElizabeth Watkins! during vacation. The schoolmistress, Miss Dyott, is taking the leading part in an opera, a fact which she keeps a secret from the glrls and her husband, Vere Queckett tBryant Ruthvenl, who is secretly residing at the College. The girls, Virginia Osgood, Iune Bird, Elizabeth Watkins and Mary Margaret Meloche, soon discover him and force him to preside as their uncle over their celebration of Dinah Rankling's marriage to Reginald Paulover or Reggie tMary Margaret Meloche and Dan Wheelerl, the very thing which brought about Dlnah's imprisonment at the school during vacation. Much against Oueckett's will, the girls invite several of his friends to the party tPhi1 Newman and Bud Danal. They bring with them Admiral Rankling, Dinah's father CAI Leel, who has just returned from a four-year cruise and has not yet seen his daughter. As he is an old friend of Queckett's, he un- knowingly puts him in the very amusing and awkward position of trying to account for all his nleces. After Reggie's arrival, and in the midst of the festivities and toasts to the newly-weds' happif ness, proposed by the Admiral himself, the school goes up in flames. Two firemen tTed Treadway and George Wellmanl rescue the terror-stricken company and take them to the Rankltng home around the corner just as Miss Dyott arrives in all her opera finery. The next day Miss Dyott finally convinces Mrs. Rankling tFrances Orrl that her husband is a tyrant. In that state of mind she threatens to leave the Admiral unless he consents to Dinah's mar- riage. He does so, and Reggie is brought in from the street where he has been walking up and down in the rain all night. At a fitting climax, Mr. Otto Bernstein, the composer of Miss Dyott's opera, tStan Swintonl bursts in to announce that she has made a great hit. Thereupon, The School- mistress declares her intention to forsake Volumia College and pursue her career on the stage. Samoa PLAY - Mn, PIM PASSES pr ' HE class of 1936 presented to the school as their dramatic effort for the year Mr. Pim Passes By A. A. Milne. It is a light comedy dealing with the semi-farcical: situations developing from the poor memory of little old Mr. Pim Uack Wellerl and the happy verbosity of charming Dinah Marden tMary Margaret Meloche and Virginia Lohrl. i As Dinah exudes information concerning the history of the former husband of her newly acquired Aunt Olivia tliflizabeth Watkins and Charlotte Clayl, her Uncle George KAI Leel, andlofher own romance with a young modernist artist, Brian Strange fStan Swinton and George Danal, Mr. Pim is thoroughly confused. Later, in relating an incident of his recent trip from Australia, he confuses the name of a ship-board acquaintance whose nefarious history closely resembled that of Ollvia's first husband, leading George and Olivia to believe that he is still alive and that they. as a result,-'have never been legally married. George, much to the disgust of Olivia, Dinah, and Brian, istprepared to give her up should her first husband come to claim her. - K Mr. Pim, retuming to confirm their fears, announces with surprise that the man had died in Marseilles. Olivia withholds this information from George, and thus gaining the upper hand, forces him to consent to the marriage of Dinah and Brian. X. Page Seventeen