Wakefield High School - Echo Yearbook (Wakefield, MI)

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 JFarultji iHnuu' of 1U23 First in our faculty parade comes the dignity, Lula Mao Blair, alias Mrs. Winterfield, The fortunate town of Fair mount, Ind. was her birthplace. From the very start she was meant to be a teacher of English. She read Shakespeare at two years of age. At four she was browsed in her father’s vast library (he is a clergyman of no mean repute) and read Dante’s ••Inferno” with much shuddering and fear, until she resolved to be virtuous the rest of her life, which they say, she is to this day, Her fear of the proverbial wickedness of big cities has led her to pastoral ways, selecting the straight and simple life. Her schooling at Earlham and Purdue would show this, After graduation, too, she selected srpajl, rural towns, put of temptation’s way, and that Is why our own school can proudly call her one of our own. Her sunny disposition and witticisms have gained her many friends (some of whom aro marriageable, they say) but she is cautious, as we said be-, fore, so the man who would win her must be wi e, and above all things,—a virtuous Yankee. From the rockbound coast of the Canadian 9t. Lawrence carne Count Gordon Carlin to us, an Irishman from French community, who has had ‘un trea varle carrtere’ from life in a suave boarding school to swimming hopelessly In the North Sea, Loss of mother, life on western prairies, salesman, .oldier for the Dominion, and a sweet little lady from Iron-, wood .all forms a design in the kaleidoscope of his life. W«j shall always remember him for his humor, kindliness, his !,de. clensions” and “irregulars”, his faithful friendship, But to come back to his fascinating life story ask him about it sometime. The best stories are not found on library . helves, Maude Trebilcock is the third in our line, hailing from Ishpeming, from whence comes also our jovial RosswcH- Like Miss Blair, who favored English literature, in her youth, so too Maude favored her own mathematics, Her own child, hood was geometrical; when she learned to walk, at the ago of two, she declared herself to be perpendicular to a plane, and that she hoped never to be tangential to the earth’s surface and. knowing that a straight line Is the shortest dis tance between two points she lost no time in her education to reach success. From Marquette she travelled straight to Ann Arbor. Rumor says that year after next she will be interested in a solid, with obtuse angles above, and a quadrilateral at tho front, which she will open,—for after all, when cue is mar. ried -the door to a bungalow is the sweetest thing in the world, And harken, the strains of symphonic tones which rum. ble from out our Steinway, and we know that Drobnik is at the keys, “He can put a lot of feeling into ‘On Wakefield High’”, we’ve often heard tell. But of his past—Horace was born in Milwaukee, the home of another genius, picked cherries in Door county, Wis., for Algoma is his home now, studied den. tiatry at Marquette University, and learned- how to typewrite at Whitewater Normal. Evidently he preferred the drilling in the class room to drilling in the oral chambers of a suffer, ing creature for he has decided to teach in W. H ,S. Besides

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• t LULA MAE BLAIR l lirdm T nivorsity. B. A. English jiikI History OORBON M. CARLIN J flyn] University. (Canada). IJ. S. Latin ;iii«l Fr »ol) CORENNK ASllLUNB Wakefield High SrtiooJ Librarian and Ub?rk

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all this, he has worked with the great L’HevJnne, No wonder he plays the piano so masterfully, Elolse Shaw has been with us but a short time, and yet how well we have learned to know her—and liked it too. Eloise is ‘Chicago’ through and through. She was born there, reared there, got her M. A- from the University of Chicago, will mix sodas there, and always hope to live there. Even her predecessor went to Chi and they say she will be going there too, for the same purpose. How fortunate that her fath-er is a lawyer! L. A. Cluley comes swinging next in line hailing from Rose, bush, Mich., though he has travelled much (even to marching to Coblenz with the American forces) he always comes back to Wakefield. As a coach he ranks with the best in the U. P. The only thing we can say against him is that he won that first Bessemer basketball game from a bunch of invalids!?). Do you remember the most beautiful of the Persian dan. cers in the Glorious Girl ? Miss Tamblingson does so many things well, but best of all cooking, and Wava is not the least bit swell-headed either, She sews, cooks, skates, swims, speaks and dances to perfection, withal a marvelous teacher. She lives in Fort Atkinson; was educated at the University of Wisconsin and studied at Columbia. How fortunate that she will be with us for another year. My pen is almost running dry, and yet there are so many in the line, Here is Harrie Chapel, creator of Sparke”, and electrical wizard, who yearns that W. H. S. may have a radio next year. You’ll find his picture in this issue with Mrs, Chapel and their splendid family, And next Miss Sandstrom, who makes us wash the dishes and brush the crumbs away, queen of delectable viands and aspirant to the name of Olson. And next there is Rosswell Miners, who works with the noblest of metals, Fe, and teaches boys how to be useful with their hands, be ides eating candy. He loves his flivver, basketball and Bessemer. (Ana why Bes.emer?) And next comes Miss Anna Brand, who teaches the music of the Immortals and sings herself a strain that is heavenly, The Persian garden showed us all of her charms, n’est-ce-pas. Rose de Persian? Whenever we see a song book held up high. we shall think of Miss Brand. And next Messrs, Blair and Hackett, drafters and workers-We shall never forget their beautiful exhibit of handicrafts in the Community gymnasium. Speaking of that exhibit and art in general, we cannot help but toast Rebecca Ludeman, who is swinging along near the end of the line with pastel and chro-mos, smiling her best, and unconsciously telling us about Har. lap, and many things 1 can’t tell here. And lastly, he insisted on being at the end, comes Raymond G. Weihe. esteemed teacher and principal. Like Mr, Carlin’s, his life is full of rich experiences. He was born in Mil waukee, lived in the East and Central West, the victim of fate and circumstance. He attended school in four cities, and after having lived as a salesman, actor, correspondent and teacher in a private school, was commissioned in the psychology ser. vice of the U.S.A., crossed the ocean three times, and returned to complete his university course at Madison. With such a varied career, he did not find happiness until he came to Wakefield, Do you wonder why he says “Wakefield is the happiest little city I ever hope to see,”