Van Wert High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Van Wert, OH)

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vi '-6 ll bl Q djllw' her with great joy. She explained in answer to our inquiries that she was so worried because she couldn't ind a pair of rompers to lit Billy junior. But soon she forgot her maternal worries and was sharing in our gossip and contributing what she knew of the old gang. She told us that Jerry Eikenbary was writing on advice to the love lorni' column in the Ritchie Gazette, with Sunday warnings to the young and unwary to beware the fickleness of men. Bonny also told us that Vesta Maxton, being disappointed in love, had gone into a convent. Oyezie Gunsett had an apple ranch for should I say orchardj out in California. She now has all the apples she 56 452 Ii La., I s I ': 1, .59 Q wants to eat. Marcia Ireton is a far1ner's wife and has two beautiful children. Country air evidently agrees with her for you would hardly recognize her in her blooming buxomness. We all left the lunch table to go to a musical show now popular on Broadway called the Heebie-jeebie Musical Revue. We were only interrupted once on our way to the theater, and that was by a solemn looking minister whom We recognized as dear old Bob Hines. In response to our eager and surprised greeting he only shook his head reproachfully and rebuked us for our worldliness and frivolity in attending a musical show. As he passed on we caught a glimpse of his dashing young wife in whom we recognized Helen Spayd. As we continued on our way we passed a build- ing on the window of which was painted the advertisement V, Campbell, Professor of Muscular Development and Physical Culture. So that is the fate of Ginny Campbell, poor girl. After arriving at the theater and procuring our seats we con- tinued our gossip. Lenore vouchsafed the information that Lillian Wise, Mabel Lampe, Velma Harmon and Margaret Webber were successful typists in government work at Washington, D. C. It was then that Bonny leaned over to me and whisp- ered, 'tDo you know where Mim Springer is? I said No, to which she replied, She has a splendid position in a deaf and dumb asylum teaching the pupils Greek and conducting a class in scientific bridge. She has just published quite a brilliant document called Fraternities Again the general conversation was resumed and we learned that Boniti Eutsler conducts New York's leading beauty parlor, that Edith Palmer is charming every one by her work on the concert stage, and Elizabeth Stutsman is on the lecture platform with her famous lecture entitled, i'Why I Do Not Trust Menf' Her lectures are illustrated by pictures drawn by her inseparable and artistic companion, Helen Wilson. The show began and our chatter was temporarily checked. 'VVe all expressed audibly our surprise upon discovering Clara Johnson as the chorus director, and in the chorus groups were old old friends, Ruth Dake, Mary Severn, Regina Palmer, Ruth Steinmetz, Ruth W'oten, with' the Bayles twins balancing the ends of the chorus line. The costumes were shockingly brief, and one man had to be yanked from the baldheaded row for noisy conduct caused by overenthusiasm. In spite of his bald- head and specs we recognized Maurice Walter as he was taken forcibly away from the scene of attraction and action. Art Lybarger, Bert McGinnis and Norm Conn had leading parts in the show, and I couldn't suppress a little shriek when I heard Art give his well known t'Happy, Though Married monologue, and I learned the sad fact that by virtue of an unhappy wedlock he is able to speak the time-honored words from experience and from his heart. After the show we all left for our various abodes, possessing our joy at the inter- esting reunion As that's about all the news, folks, I guess I'll sign off with the iw Page Thirly-one W W 9 Wu!! 1? ' 5,5 . . gg I best of wishes for you all. Station PDQ signing off at 12 o'clock, Ian. 4, 1935. 5 5 ,A . 4, . I lm X .4 Q 1 M . ,h

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01131 -we X ' qfflmll C lass Prophecy By RADIU This is station PDQ, Van Wert, Ohio, broadcasting alumnus news of the class 5 l seskmfilmlnm ' x Q . . BQ of 224, of Van Wert High School. Miss Virginia Bien talking-Hello folks of the good old class of '24. I hope there are just heaps of you listening in on the radio tonight, for I've news concerning all the members of our dear old class. I met several of the girls downtown today, and we had a jolly old times chat'l at lunch. I met Lillian Benson, Margaret Webber, Charlotte Fugate and Lenore Hoghe, and it was from them that I got most of my news. It seems that Benny, Pauline Hoffman, Wava Ringer and Grace Duprey are all 'fschool marms out at our own Marsh Foundation, and Benny testified that they sure have their hands full managing the noisy children. William Allison is janitor in the same noble institu- tion. I learned, much to my surprise, that Marcile Ireton is a iiourishing business woman and can be seen driving her handsome ecru colored mare and wagon to match around the country on her rural mail delivery, or hanging out her washing on the line Qit's hinted that she is the most skillful washwoman in seven counties and manages to support the whole Conley tribe on her earningsj. The Bell boys, Gaylord and Wilbert, are now in court, I am ashamed to state, on a charge of editing in partnership a very shocking magazine called 'fWindy Talesjl a magazine, I take it, similar to Breezy Stories. Goldie Boham, Marguerite Crab- tree, Mary Fryer and Lydia Gocke have established an Old Maids Home and elected as their president Dick Priddy, who is filling his position admirably, assisted by Dean Pennell. I forgot to say that the lawyer for the defense in the Bell boys, trial is Bob Conley, who is now reduced to but a mere shadow of his former self by diligent and exhaustive study. Bernice Blake is married to her Ralph dearf' and they are happy in their missionary work in Greenland. It seems that in their honeymoon sojourn to the north land, Bernice was moved by the condition of the nation, so she and Ralph remained to reform them. Pearl Logan can now talk as much as she wishes to her Clyde for lo, she is now Mrs. Holtrey, wife unto the biggest railroad man in the state of Ohio. Cally is an automobile magnate in Detroit, having turned down a dazzling offer to sing When You and I Were Young, Maggie, in vaudeville. Bob Gunn lost all his money by getting married before he was twenty-five. He had made a bet, with an old flame of his, that he wouldn't do that, so of course when he lost by marrying the little girl of HN' York,'l he had to start at the bottom, but now he has amassed a huge fortune by the manufacture of shoe strings. Vera Gabriel, Bill Myers and Alice Rumble are now Hslinging hashu in Chicago restaurants. Carl Starkey is pitching for one of the big league teams and is quite devoted to his work. Red Wilson works in Woolworth's ladies, wearing apparel de- partment, Luther Carlo is a prominent Wall street financier. Millard Koogle is a train conductor and is happily married to a cross-eyed, bowlegged brunette. Leland Sharp is behind the bars for motorcycle speeding. john jackson is now a famous movie star in Hollywood. Paul Denig, Forrest Hertel and Lawrence Dewitt are wealthy ditch diggers and ride to work every day in their Rolls Royces. Peck Eck and Vern Hertel work on the section and may be seen any morning bidding their wives an ardent adieu as they depart for the work train with their dinner pails a worried look on her face whom We recognized as Ruth Bonnewitz, and we greeted Ax .0 Page Thirty if X 6' 1 am ICD! llllhikhi p x D 2 Q-I. At this point our conversation was interrupted by the entrance of a woman with i 4 -2- - w cm A A , ww' - ' f Q . lrflli 4

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