Warren Easton High School - Eagle Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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4 . fo Prophecy of June Class, 1931 --fri- - By HARRY HERM.-KN, Historian ..,Q.y-- Time: .Nbout 50,000 A. D. Place: Hades. Characters: Satan and his sinners, the June, 1931. Graduates. Srelw: SHHIIIQS main chamber. Sombre shadows lurk in the corners of the great cavern. A musty, revolting odor is noticeable. In the center of the cavern is seen the never-dying embers of Hell's main furnace. Everything has a ghastly outlook. Suddenly a commotion is heard and who should appear but old Satan himself in all his splendor! Behind him come long groups of attendants. impish figures, all dressed in scarlet. But what has happened? Satan has given a command to what seems to be his chief fire-tender to make the fire hotter. As his command is fulfilled the red glow of the furnace turns into a white-hot heat. So great is its brilliance that the immense cavern is illuminated. But what has become of the shadows? They have turned into the shapes of men! As we gaze with consternation at this infernal scene, and wonder what kind of drama is to be enacted before our eyes, we are suddenly brought out of our reverie with a bang. Old Satan with a stentorian voice has commanded everyone to rise. What is the meaning of this diabolical assemblage we cannot hope to fathom. Then. what appears to be old Beelzebub's right hand man comes in front of Satanfs throne and blows three blasts on a trunlpet-like instrument. After tlms centering all attention upon himself he proceeds to speak. We are amazed at his words: Oyez, oyez, oyez, all ye who have business with this infernal court, draw near and present your petitions. Then, the truth dawns upon usp Satan is having court. Today, the day of days, wherein those who have truly repented and atoned for their sins are given a CTIHIICC to redeem themselves. Meanwhile Satan proceeds to open his great book upon which are in- scribed the names and records of countless individuals. Satan's right hand man, whom for convenience we'll call his clerk ffor that seemed to be his busim-ssl arises and in a manner which resembled that of a clerk in the courts of the external regions, announces: The first case on the docket is an appeal from sinners Zito, Tusa, Rous- sarie, Sierra and Sanchez for the revision of sentences given them for the selling of intoxicating liquors to sinners Primos, Sabrieur, Dieharry, Sanders and Mares. These sinners will be represented by lawyers for is it liars?l 7 . . - . . . . - , . . , . .

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Info up since superintendent Edmund Garland introduced co-education in the high schools. But who would have thought we'd ever live to see Camille Berges principal of old Warren Easton, with Dutch McCarthy down in the gym yel- ling. Hey, youse guys, if I catch anybody throwing obstaclesv- And believe it or not, among the respected f?l members of the faculty are Albert Boyd, Henry Caldwell. Steve Cefolia, Henry Chambers. ,loc Deville. and Teddy Drell. ,lacob Drago has succeeded to George Armstrong's oflice. in- cluding the rheumatism. Pass me a cigarette. will you? And be careful with the lighter or the Anti- cigarette League will be raiding us. ,lust when Luke Carr had invented the first cigar lighter the world had ever seen that would actually always light. they had to go start the Anti-cigarette League. lt's a pain in the neck even if the President is an old classmate of ours, Harold Durr. Everywhere you go you run into the names of old classmates of ours. it seems. .lust look at the electric signs out there. Elmer's Permanent Wavesu: El Fornaris and El Ashton Cigarsng G'Gonzales Gartersu: Whitey Hall's Gymnasium g '4Humphreys Hog Meatvg 6'Lo Giudice and Lunn, Lumbern: Bill McGuire in 'Prairie Passioniwr, 'LMequet and Merwin. Morticiansu: Mori-I. Nelson, and Peterson, Divorce Lawyers-24 Hour Service. And there are two more of them pulling an endurance flight over the airport down the river, Tom Santon and Marshall Wreng and two more pull- ing an endurance sojourn in the new jail up the river, Billy Bosser and Kurt Schwartz. Sam Prager is the new warden up there. Everybody knew he would wind up in jail, but we didnit think it would be as a warden. And the alulnni of Warren Easton are doing their bit to keep that jail filled. what with criminal lawyers like Laurence Robinson, Leonard Salatbe. and Lucien Wallace, and criminals like-well, we wonit mention names. And ,ludge Simpson and Judge Trepagnier are pearls of great price on the bench. Hard-boiled? Wow! Oh. the world hears of New Orleans, all right. New Orleans-made prod- ucts go forth to the far corners of the globe. Rocl1's Rock Salt. Steineris Steins. Upton's Upholstery, Settoon's Spittoons. I W if The light has been slowly growing outside, and now ice see that perhaps the darkness has deceived us. Let us look more closely . . . yes. evidently our fancy has been playing us tricks. The hurrying planes are but the night birds and jireflies that throng a moonlit Southern evening. The airport lights are but the beacons of the ,lung and the Steamer Capitol, after all. And perhaps the building isn't 56 stories tall. No, it can't be: there aren'r any that Iall. This isn't 1951, iris 1931. Maybe we were dreaming! 'll' fl' 'll' Say, what are you laughing at, Boom? Talking to myself. was I? I was dreaming. No, a lot of crazy stuff. Not a bit of truth in any of it, probably. Except that l'm a Steve. Fold yourself out of that chair and come on-lt's time to start for the Prom. V 1 v I ... 1. t , -. . . , , -

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Info Ratclifle, Schwertz, Caldwell, France, Mobley, Hunn and Villere. Your own private staff of prosecutors Pradel, Roberts, Gregg, Bill Gerber and Honnoll will uphold your side of the casef, One of the prosecutors then proceeds to outline the case. These bootleggers were convicted of selling what is known in the external regions as 'cat gut' whiskey and they were the sworn enemies ol' a gang of hi-jackers composed of Thomas, Spooner, the Grazianni brothers. Terranova, Read and Huettmann. It scents that there were three men Dres- ner, Fatter and Kober who invented a concoction consisting of 50f4 alcohol to 50'Z Pluto Water, thereby insulting your infernal highness's favorite stim- ulant. They then sold their rights to these bootleggers who suceeded in making a 'pile' on it. But along cattle this corporation of hi-jackers from the nnderworld ol' the external regions whose 'racket' was anything from diaper pills to zeppelins. stole their concoction and gave it a new name--Plutal. The 'hig shots' of the hi-jackers' corporation, amongst whom were Vorhaben. Rau. Gordon. Lafourcade and Gilmore, succeeded in dodging the law ol' the upper world because of their 'jerkl with the politicians of the city. Patrolmen Miller, Napolitano, Dwyer and Norris were directly connected with them. The lnayor of the city, Mullins, and his commission council consisting of Gollmer. Barrow, Smith and Guerin, received most of the 'graftf They were so influential that they had four judges Freishon. Peters. Yvolfe Gerber and McHugh on their payroll. Whell the Lord sent this gang to Hades your highness was so delighted that you inaugurated a special banquet day in their honor. You even had old Georgie Hartman's 'Devil Syncopators' composed ol' our old friends Spencer, Dupas, Renter, Fitzpatrick. Zech. Delaune, Cos- tello, Chin Bing, Chiro and Bruno. If your diabolical highness should revoke the sentences ol' these miserable sinners it would bring down the wrath of the Lord upon your head and you should also have them teach you their methods of dealingf' Satan answered that he would heed his advice and beckoned to his clerk to go with the next case. Wlio should ascend the rostrum of Justice after hearing their names called but our old friends Vocke, Jacob, Jacobsen and Kirchem. who were all convicted of Hstutfingu the ballot box in a campaign for head of the garbage collectors of the city. Mechler was their proud candidate for the position. Besides him Mercier. Wooflcock and Bergeron ran for the office. The stuffing of the boxes came as a grand climax to a day full of excite- ment in which six people Gray, Sanders, Southerland, Beckham. Torre. and Lange were injured. Old Satan sympathized with them because he knew that if he'd have a chance to stuff the box if he and his Master were run- ning for oflice that he would gladly seize the opportunity, so he revised their sentences 1-llld they were made fire tenders, in which position four of their former comrades Biggio, Trahan, Mcclaill and Suares had already seen active service. The next case ou thc docket were two charges of polygamy against none other than little Hanemann and Harvey. Of the two, Hanemann's case was the more astollnding. ln the Lordis own book was written evidence showing -7- . -f r , . . - , . , . .