University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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Ga£eu ay. PROPHECY OF CLASS OF 1925 DUE to the fact that the Class of 1925 of this University of Omaha is the most iUustrious graduating class to which the university has even given her blessing, any attempt to part the veil of the future and reveal the trend of events that will overtake this class must needs fall tragically short of reality. We cannot trace in detail the brilliant futui ' e before these graduates of ours, nor span with our poor understandings the vast changes which their efforts will produce in the world. We can only sketch briefly, and note, in perusal of the class roll, that the larger portion of our class destines itself for the profession of teaching. At least, the world of the future is to be educated, with Irene Carlson, Helen Riekes, Martha Thornton, Sonora Canada , Lily Johnson, Flora Jorgensen, Caroline Guerney, Florence Jensen and Betty Pressley, all pouring knowledge into future generations of little pitchers. Benjamin Mead also intends a similar profession, except that, instead of mere knowl- edge he will pour chemicals. Pi ' ofessor Mead of the chemistry department will also be noted for his blushes, and a strangely reminiscent leniency towards pupils who eat candy in class. Howard Anderson is going to be a preacher. Ben Mead says he is. But, in spite of this brotherly assertion, Howard is undecided, as he has been informed that no good preacher would address one of his congrega- tion as you dizzy bat , and as that is the only term of endearment Howard has found effective in moments of stress. Herbert Fischer, the big man of the class, is going to be a lawyer. In face he is already far gone along that line, so far that we would almost trust our divorce problems in his hands. A career of art opens before Anita Edmiston and Elizabeth Wester- field, as Anita ' s future is to be played across the footlights in New York, and Elizabeth is slated by fate to sing over the new radio, to be invented in 1930, which broadcasts with ease all over the world so successfully that a crystal set can pick up the sound. Cecilia Starke is to take a trip around the world shortly after gradua- tion, on which trip she will meet a man whom she will start making happy for life. Frances Gordon has a similar car eer before her, except that the god of prophecy intimates that Frances will discover her life-work by means of a business letter written in her own personal handwriting, its style so arousing the curiosity of the life-work that he will come to Omaha to find out what she said. Result will be that he will never dare to risk another letter, but will decide to keep her by him for life. Nancy Catania and Mrs. Walter Halsey, although neither of them know it yet, are going into social settlement work and will spend some time in the same settlement. Helen Riekes will also forsake her general teach- ing for this more specialized foiTn of teaching.

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CLASS OF 1925 Martha Thornton Elizabeth Westerfield Howard Anderson Sonora Canada Irene Carlson Nancy Catania Anita Edmiston Herbert Fischer Frances Gordon Caroline Guerney Mrs. Walter Halsey Lily Johnson Florence Jensen Flora Jorgenson Benjamin Mead Elizaebth Pressly Cecilia 0. Starke Edward Rypins [8]

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Specialized teaching will appeal also to other members of the teachers group, notably Betty Pressley and Florence Jensen, who will be among the first to forsake the profession for a narrower field and a private class not to exceed five. Sonora Canada, also, will not teach long. His name is Ray, and he lives in Oklahoma. As a whole, the class will make its mark in the world, a mark to be only outshone when the class of 1926 comes along after which there will be nothing left for the rest of the world to do except to sit in appreciative comfort and enjoy results. — H. S. ' 26.