Washington Park High School - Kipikawi Yearbook (Racine, WI)

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SCENE III Place: Preview of a movie. Time: ThirTy years henceforward. Gerda Monefeldh Aren'T you excifed, Grace, whenever you see your sisTer in a movie? Grace ChrisTenson: Am I?! I do so hope everyone enioys The picTure. Gerda: You know how inTeresTed MyrTIe was in dramaTics in school. Grace: I wish she could be here, Too. I wrofe, asking her To come, buT she is Too busy having Gerfrude FiTzgibbons modeling cIoThes for her. No oTher model seems To do. Oh, There's Snappy STibgen wiTh his efernal news reel camera. Aubrey's never wiTh- ouT iT. Gerda: Say, who is ThaT sfanding over There? She looks so familiar. l'm quiTe cerTain l've seen her- Grace: Why, ThaT's Rose Recupero. She used To be The famous woman acrobaT wiTh The Dinzly BroThers Circus. You know ThaT was always her dream. She is now a parfner in The circus firm. IThey walk over To Rose, who is chaTTing.l Rose: Grace Chrisfenson of all people! WhaT are you doing now? Grace: Oh, l've been married These 24 years and have Two grown children. My oldesf daughfer is an inTerior decoraTor. AT presenf she is doing an aparTmenT in New York. l'm happy, for ThaT had always been my ambiTion. Rose: You remember Margaref Scoon, don'T you? She has been a privaTe secreTary for quiTe a number of years. MargareT: Isn'T iT fun meefing all your old friends? Gerda: Oh, Peggy, didn'T I read ThaT you and your husband are going To Travel The world To celebrafe your 25 years of married life? Your husband is an archiTecT, isn'T he. I Think archiTecTs are iusf wonderful. MargareT: Yes, he is: and we have planned This Trip for years. He was a Horlick graduaTe, you know. Grace: Yes, when he was There he had The iob of cheer leader, I remember. Oh, Bob, Tell us The news. WhaT can you- Bob Andersen: l've iusf refurned from Europe. I pilofed a Trans- oceanic plane over and whaT a job. By The way, does eifher oT you know Gordon Ince? Herschel Jones: No, I don'T believe I do. ' Bob: He was one of my passengers. He owns a large coffee pIanTaTion in SouTh America, and from whaT I hear is doing ex- cepTionaIly well. OuiTe a change, one mighT say, from his former repuTaTion. Herschel: l'm glad To hear iT. You said you piIoTed ThaT Trans- oceanic plane. ThaT's The laTesT one I designed. IT cerTainly is big, isn'T iT? Bob: Yes, iT's The TirsT large plane l've pilofed, buT I hope iT's by no means The lasT. Herschel: Think I'lI go over and speak To RoberT Larson. I iusT noTiced him sTanding over There wiTh Gladys Day and Dolores Mueller. lHe makes his way To Them.l Herschel: Hello everybody! Roberf. Why hello, Herschel: I noTiced you sTanding over There, buT I didn'T wanT To inTerrupT your conversafion. l'm glad To see you're noT quife as faT as some of our fellow cIassmaTes. They are surely going places! Herschel: IT's good To see you, Roberf. IT's been a long Time, hasn'T iT? You're The lawyer abouT whom l've been hearing so much oT laTe. RoberT: Well, I am a lawyer. You know These ladies, don'T you, Herschel? Herschel: Yes, I do. They were boTh in my home rc-om aT Park. WhaT are you doing, Dolores? Dolores: l'm a busy person now. I resT 24 hours per day, and iT is so wearying--so wearying- Herschel: And you Gladys, whaT are you doing? Gladys: l'm an orchesfra leader, believe iT or noT. My sisTer Virginia and I have a double orchesTra. You oughT To see land hearl us when we boTh sTarT direcTing. IT's a scream! Our orchesTra is aT The Ballroom TonighT. Herschel: WhaT made you inTeresTed in ThaT profession, Gladys? Gladys: I'Il Tell you IaTer. RighT now I am going over To see Margery Burgess, Norma Bergeson, Bernice Arcuri, and Marjorie AlIerT. lGIadys goes over To see The girIs.l Bernice: If iT isn'T Gladys Day herself. I haven'T seen you since we were in Reno TogeTher. Gladys: ThaT was five years ago. I am an orchesfra direcfor now. Are you sfill aT The Mefropolifan? Bernice: Yes, and I am very busy. I was lucky ThaT I could even make The Trip for The preview Today. Norma: I heard one of your operas The oTher day. I wenT wiTh Margery Burgess. You know Marge, don'T you? Bernice: NoT very well, buT I do remember her from high school. Are you married, or have you a profession, Margery? I Margery Burgess: BoTh. I am married and I own a beaufy salon on EifTh Avenue in New York. Norma: I have a preTTy good iob myself. Bernice: I'II say you have. Secrefary To The PresidenT of The UniTed STaTes. Norma: Oh, I don'T know wheTher l'm glad or noT. IT's a wonder- ful iob, and iT pays well, buT I don'T even geT Time To IisTen To Gladys. I do enioy music. By The way, Marge, whaT's The sfory of your life afTer you graduaTed from Park? Marge AIlerT: Affer I lefT school I Took a course in nursing. AfTer compIeTing The course I couIdn'T find any work To do. I wanTed To work for a privaTe docTor, buT There weren'T any open- ings. A couple monThs IaTer one of my disTanT reIaTives died and lefT me five Thousand dollars. I had always wanTed a Trip around The world, so I spenT my money on ThaT. I meT a Tall red-haired man. He Turned ouT To be a Tamous docfor, and I now am chief nurse in his hospiTaI. Norma: My, you cerfainly have been lucky. lln anoTher parT of The lobbyl Geraldine Wade: You asked whaT I was doing, Ida. Well, be- lieve IT or noT, I have The iob of Librarian aT Park High School. Ida Selky: I can'T say ThaT I envy you, Geraldine. You remember how ofTen we were senT or raTher chased ouT of The library? Geraldine: O yes, and The Troup aT Park now are almosf as bad. I Try To be a IiTTIe Ienienf Though. Say, Ida, isn'T ThaT John Corr over There Talking To Irma Lassen? He's a bariTone singer wiTh a Tamous chorus ThaT has iusT compIeTed an European Tour. Ida: I remember him from Park aIrighT. He used To smile aT every girl, or was iT every oTher girl? June Myer lcoming up To Theml: l'm inTeresTed in your con- versafion, girls. You looked so inTeresTed in someThing. Ida: Gee, June, I haven'T seen you since graduaTion. Whc'e have you been? Jufne: You mean where have you been, Ida? Ida: Oh, l'm a nurse aT ST. Luke's HospiTaI. You know I always wanTed To be one. June: I always liked To dance, and afTer graduaTion boughT a Ten CenTs-a-Dance Hall. l've builf up a preTTy good business, Too. Ida: How'exciTing! Do you remember Irma Lassen? She used To be in my home room. MyrTIe: Oh yes, I remember her. WhaT did she become? Isn'T she here? Ida: She married a wealThy lumber man. He died a few years back and lefT her a couplg of millions. She's using some oT if in Traveling. Now she's in A'rgenTina. IHerberT Jacobsen enTers.l Herberfz Well, well, you girls look as well as ever. Myrfle: You always have a line, don'T you, Herberf? Wish we could believe ThaT. WhaT are you doing now? Your greafesf ambiTion, if I remember correcTIy, was To be a greaT man. HerberT: Yes, iT was. I never became a very greaT man, buf l'm safisfied wiTh being a paffernmaker, as I always was inTeresTed in ThaT work. Say, I haven'T seen Nancy Smader here yeT, have ou? iGerda Icoming Toward The groupl: Did I hear someThing abouT Nancy Smader? I hardly Think she'Il be here. Irma Lassen .was aT her home, and Nancy and her husband were leaving for New York. Business, I guess. Now I Think we had beTTer go To our seaTs: The picTure will sTarT in Ten minufes. BuT before we go Yin, leT's all agree To meef again nexT week, aT The old Homecoming Game. How's abouT iT? All: ThaT's O.K. Gerda: IT's a daTe. Now, on wiTh The show. CurTain

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l is T Row I: Gerfrude Brix-I6, John Dvorsky-I4, MargareT Cowley-4, Virginia DeSmidf-9, Frances Burczylc-B. Row 2: Angel Carelli-ll, Leonard Carrier-6, Myrlle Chrisfenson-3, Belly Chrisiiansen-4, Grace Chrisfenson -3. Row 3: Marlin Clancy-l2, Charles Cape-6, John Corr -3, Lois Wyman-I3, Tom Clark-6. Row 4: Phillip Dahlberg-I2, Peler Dallas-ll, Mable Davies-8, Lucille Davis-9, Gladys Day-I. Row 5: Virginya Day-I, Genevieve Dedericlc-IO, Flefcher Browne-ll, Alice Deschler-2, Margery Burgess -3. Scene number follows name.l

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SCENE IV Place: Giganlic seaplane headed lor Racine lrom Europe. Time: Belore lhe slruggle. Slewardess: Pardon me, my name is Lois Barr. Haven'l I seen you somewhere before? , Passenger: Undoubledly-I used lo go lo lhe same school you did. My name is Belly Chrisliansen. Remember me? Lois: Of course, where in lhe world are you headed lor? Selly: Well, when you're a minisler's spouse, you lravel a greal ea . Lois: You a minisler's wilel Belly: Yes, and lhe lraining I had working in lhe caleleria al Park cerlainly comes in handy, lhal is, meeling lhe people- ,Here's lhanks lo Mrs. Hall. Lois: I'm sure you'd be inleresled in knowing we have several more ol our old lriends on lhis lrip. There's Dorolhy Kroulik and Lesley Beck up ahead. I'II gel lhem. lThey come back and occupy nearby seals.l Belly: Sil down and lalk! Il's cerlainly nice lo see you again. Tell me, where are you lwo coming from? Dorolhy: I was in France sludying inlerior decoraling. Lesley: And I was in Germany sludying music. German was my lavorile subiecl, so I lhoughl I'd make some use ol il. Lois: I always wanled lo visil Europe, and lhis was my only way ol gelling lhere, so here I am! lPerson slumped under newspaper in seal ahead ol lhem sud- genlyi jerks around. He's 'wearing dark glasses and long black ear . Lesley: Well, who are you, slranger? lSlranger removes beard and gIasses.l Dorolhy: Kilo Janes! Henry Janes: Yes, il's I, bul sh-h-hl Don'l lell anyone. I'm sludying criminology and I'm lrailing a desperale criminal. Belly: A criminal? Well, I hope he isn'l on lhis plane! Henry: No, he's on lhe one lhal Iell a day ahead ol us. Lois: I have anolher surprise lor you. Do you know who's pilol- ing lhis plane? . Henry: Don'l lell me-Iel me guess. Lois: Well, I'm laking no chances: I'lI lell you. Il's Ken Angvick wilh Willard Phelps assisling. Lesley: I lhoughl Ken always wanled lo be an underlaker. Lois: He slill does. Henry: Hey, slop lhis lhing and lel me oul ol here! Belly: Say, do any ol you know 'iwhal became ol Doris Wil- Iiamson? Dorolhy: I know one lhing. She's leading a slricl Iilel Lois: Whal do you mean? Dorolhy: Well, she lives by rules and regulalions. Bul lhal's whal she gels lrom choosing a husband lrom a mililary school! Belly: Has she conlinued sludying music? Dorolhy: Yes, she plays lor lhe choir al Sl. John's Mililary Academy. Henry: I see! Lesley: Say, have you girls ever seen any Wichaka Club mem- bers? Thal used lo be a real galhering place al Park. Lel's see, lhere was Helen Brill. Whalever became ol her? Belly: Haven'l you heard? She is lhe lirsl woman lo be elecled as a dislricl allorney. Henry: I saw Doris Jones on Broadway. She was slarring in lhe piclure Monolony on lhe Counly. Doris always liked Dramalics and her lavorile sludy was English. Reading was her paslime. She would sil lor hours wilh a good book. Lois: When I came on lhis iob I lound mysell compeling wilh anolher lrained nurse, Dorolhy Anderson. She was one girl oul ol many whose lavorile subiecl was bookkeeping. Horlick High donaled Dorolhy lo Park, and she cerlainly was an all-round sporlswoman. Anolher one, Carol Auslin, always disliked Miss Jones' library rules. CaroI's male public seemed lo gel her inlo lrouble in lhe library. Dorolhy: Carol seemed lo like prinling once--probably because of a side allraclion. Bul she raled a place on lhe honor roll. Henry: Say, did you know Marie Fornary is running a lraveling secrelarial school in lhe deplhs ol Africa? She slops al dillerenl places each day lo salisly lhe wanderlusl in her soul, bul lhey say il's a prelly good school anyway. Belly: My ambilion was lo be a leacher, bul lhe nearesl I've come lo lhal is leaching Sunday School. Lesley: Whal became ol Margarel Cowley? Henry: She's leaching algebra which was her lavorile sludy al school. She's sponsoring a movemenl which will lake lo lhe nalives ol lhe Fiii Islands lhe deep, dark mysleries ol algebra. According lo her, a person who does nol know algebra may iusl as well nol be living. Dorolhy: By lhe way, Laylon Dixon is really gelling somewhere wilh his lree lance wriling. I happened lo read a lew ol his arlicles in some weekly magazines. Belly: He is lhe one who look parl in lhe Taming ol lhe Shrew while al Park. Henry: I happened lo be on a lour Iasl summer and I slopped in lhe U. S. Congressional Library. and who do you lhink was chiel librarian? Belly: Could il have been Jeanne Fordice? Henry: You're righll I know she always worked in lhe library al Park. Thal's some improvemenl lrom lhe Washinglon Park High School library lo lhe U. S. Congressional. I heard lhal she has donaled quile a lew books lo lhe Park library. I guess her old alleclions lor il slill holds. Dorolhy: She used lo dole on dramalics. I lhoughl she'd lake lhal as a vocalional goal. Lesley: This Iasl winler I wenl ice-skaling a lew limes, and say, I saw Iols ol lhe old Park gang. I saw Elhel Goldbeck, one ol lhe chiel homework halers ol Park. Lois: Well, I don'l care much lor ice skaling, bul I saw Harrison Wurz, lhe famous millionaire bachelor, skale in lhe world races in Chicago Iasl lall, and walk oll wilh lirsl prize. I imagine lhal's where he makes his living, and lhal's nol so bad, is il? They say he always did wanl lo be a millionaire. Bul I slill can'l ligure how he has remained a bachelor! Belly: When I was in Tunis, I mel Mary Alice Johnson. I s'pose you remember her beller as Mary Alice Foxwell. She slarled lo lravel when she was al Park, and she's slill al il. Some perse- verance, I'II say. We have anolher in our sel ol graduales, loo. Remember Monica Wagner? Well, she iusl won lhe U. S. swim- ming lille. I know Monica always spenl mosl ol her lime al lhe beach when I knew her. I guess in her spare lime she wriles lor lhe newspapers, as her vocalional inleresl used lo be iournalism. Dorolhy: Say, speaking ol wriling, did you know lhal Andy Pendl is managing a newspaper ollice? His love lor iournalism did him much good, he claims. Lesley: Did you know lhal we once had a greal arlisl in our midsl al Park? Gladys Haller has made hersell lamous in lhal line. She is a well-known inlerior decoralor al presenl in New York. Her lavorile sludy was arl, you know. Ol course, lhere was I-Iowie lo lake up some ol her lime, bul she slill gol along. She also has achieved her grealesl ambilion-lo play lhe piano. You should hear her! Lois: Did any ol you know lhal Kay Harbridge is leaching? I guess her sludenls will be prelly lucky il only she remembers lhal she hersell haled home work, bul mosl leachers forgel lhal. Belly: I know a lamous goller who wenl lo Park. So do you, no doubl. Il's LeRoy May, beller known as Prelly Legs. LeRoy cerlainly has been pullin' 'em in! His lavorile sporl and paslime always has been goll-and he slill slicks lo ill LeRoy had a bad weakness lhough, liking lo hear lhe 4:00 o'clock bell ring. Dorolhy: Well, I knew a girl who disliked lhe slams lhrown around al Park. She had a lerrible lime lrying lo gel used lo lhem, bul she never did. Thal was Kalhryn Koehler. Kay's vocalional inleresl was lo be a leacher, which I guess she is now. Lois: I'm sorry lo see lhis lrip end. Il's been so inleresling, bul I guess we are iusl aboul al our deslinalion. Be sure lo lake everylhing wilh you. So long, lriends. A Curlain