Upper Arlington High School - Norwester Yearbook (Upper Arlington, OH)

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12:30 3:30 ..... Back in study hall where we try in vain to concentrate .... 1:30.. . Chemistry lab with its overwhelming odors and surprising explosions .... Here heroes are horn-and frequently exterminated . . . Now that we are here, we don't want to leave . lillflt' .YiIIl'ff'L'lL

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8215... Hasty references that must be found before the bell rings- The library will tell you everything about anything .... Payv Effjllfffll 1 11:15 .... We wish we had eaten more for breakfast .... The home ec girls get ready for lunch .... North Hall hlares out with that jammin' jive .... Every- one with two good legs swings it . . . 12:00

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fThus Decree the Fatesj fAll characters and names mentioned in this article are purely ficti- tious, any similarity to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.j Twelve long years of work for us, and yet the memory of that first day is very clear as I sit here in study hall this beautiful spring day and realize that not only do I have spring fever but also, only one more short month of school. My drowsiness makes it difficult to realize that any of us could ever amount to anything, even though soon we shall be out in the cold, cold world making our respective names. I wonder what we'll all be ten years from now, twenty, forty years from now ..... Our skyliner is making fast progress across the foot hills of the Rockies. Pilot Willis Fidler well knows the tricks of flying, for we have had only three forced landings since we left Chicago ten hours ago. Not a bad record-eh? Among the many passengers I seem to recognize a few. I notice Miss Ruth Goodwin, world renowned international buyer, who even now is on her way to Shanghai to buy the International Con- cession. We talked together a few minutes before we were joined by another former acquaintance, the Honorable Mary Ann White, recent ambassador to the Fiji Islands. Our conversation turns to the celebrity upon the ship, Joie de Fitz-Henri, who is too sophisticated now to speak to her one-time classmates. Miss Fitz-Henry has recently won first prize in a Glamour Babies contest in Hicksville, Ohio, and now she is on her way to Hollywood for a screen test in the Gigantic Super Ultra Studios, which are under the business management of William Knoderer III, and the film direction of Mr. George McClure. Our little chit-chat is interrupted by air hostess, Barbara Miller, who brings us disquieting news, Eugene Millikin and Richard Folk are off again. These two famous inventors have recently devised an air ship that flies without wings, controls, motor or fuel. It has just one disad- vantage, once off the ground, it can't be brought down. Its two inventors are still circling the globe in their test flight. Tsk!! Tsk! Again the plane veers wildly, the motor sputters and the ship glides toward the ground-another forced landing in the heart of the wild mountains, but our able pilot easily brings the plane down upon a meadow, smashing only the wings, undercarriage, and nose. HDon't worry, folks, says Fidler, 'Til have her fixed in a jiffyf, As we open the door expecting to meet a grisly bear, lone cowboy, Tom Fallon, bids us welcome to the Dude Ranch of the Palmer boys, sons of the late proprietor, William Francis Arthur Benjamin Harrison Xavier Palmer. A group of persons with familiar faces comes to meet us. Here is .loan Galbraith, head of the Insane Asylum of Kokomo, Indiana, where she contracted rickets and had to have her teeth extracted by a famous dentist, Dr. Ironhead Murphy. She is talking with Phyllis Nash, a cow- girl, and a group of others who seem to be discussing the recently de- ceased Marcia Overbeck who started out on a promising career as dieti- tian, but died when she first tasted her own food. Also in the group is grief-stricken Mrs. Mary Jean Tice Lorey, who has recently returned from Pongo-Wongo, Nyasaland, where her explorer-husband, Dick, had zealously taken up the white man's burden and tried to civilize the heathen black of Pongo-Wongo. Here Dick had a rather uncomfortable experience with the natives. In fact, it is said the old boys ate him. Page Twmzty