Wakefield High School - Echo Yearbook (Wakefield, MI)

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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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 HORACE U. DRORNTIv Marquette l diversity Whitewater Normal School Commercial Courses I MACDE TREBILCOCK University of Michigan, It. S. Mat hematics 1IARRIE I). CIIAPEL Milwaukee School of Engineering Electricity GLADYS SAXDSTROM Northern State Normal School Home Economics

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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