Waverly High School - Go Hawk Yearbook (Waverly, IA)

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mis THE PERISCOPE ,. 25 Glass ilrltstorp lt was only fitting that the year which ushered in the great World NfVar should also bring into Waverly High School the Class of 1918. For as one was destined to change the affairs of the world, so was the other destined to revolutionize the affairs of VVaverly High School. As the great NVorld VVar was started for the purpose of bringing about democracy in the world, so had the Class of 1918 an aim that was reached at last by the publica- tion of W'averly's first High School Annual, the 1918 HPERISCOPEH. Both had their small beginnings. The NVorld VVar started in the little country of Serbia, and in four years spread over the entire world. The Class of '18 entered high school on Sept. 12, 191-l, with an enrollment of about sixty. At first regarded as in- significant Freshmen, they had not much part in the affairs of the high school, but in the second year of their stay, as their members grew larger in a physical sense, so the influence of the class grew, making itself felt both in athletics and in the social life of the school. In the third year of their sojourn, the class became one of the most im- portant factors in the school. In ath- letics, led by Morgan, Schluter, Graen- ing and Hennings, the class was in the front, both in football and basketball. This was before the advent of track athletics as a school sport, or the class would have had a strong representa- tion in that line. In the last year of its reign, the class reached the zenith of its career. Again strongly represented in athlet- ics, it became the leading class in social affairs. Also the class in this year undertook its greatest task, the publication of an Annual. With Doc Kern at the helm, the Annual was started, and on graduation night the class gave to the town and the school the records of its deeds during its few years in high school. On the same night, the members of the class re- ceived the objects of their aims-their diplomas. And so ended the brief, but eventful history of the Class of 1918. 7 f -x f

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2-L THE PERISCUPE 1913 Che Senior GIHS5 Tuesday, May 21, 1918- .At the End ofthe 1flLilIIJOIl7u CAST OF CHARACTERS ROBERT PRESTON, a Lawyer ............A....................C................. ,....... P aulus Greening DOUGLAS BROWN, a Football Player ......... ----.-,----- H arry Hicks DICK PRESTON, the GFOOIII ...............Y........,...--... '-------- A m0S Colburn STANLEY PALMER, Hawkins, the Butler ......... , A.,...... Marvin Schluter TED WHITNEY, Captain of the Varsity Team ,....,.,.. ........ F red HeYll'liYlgS JACK AUSTIN, Preston's Secretary ...............,.....,. ..V........ S am Whitney TOM EVANS, a Kappa Beta Sigma ....l..,..... MARION DAYTON, a Ward of Preston ......,... ....,...Harold Gruben ....,...,.Helen Beyer NELLIE PRESTON, a bride ............,.,..........,. ..,........ M iriam Laird LOUISE ROSS, Known as Miss Grayson ......... ,...... ........ H elen Methfessel PHYLLIS LANE, a Football Enthusiast ......,.............,..,............... ,......... A daline Hennings KATHLEEN LENOX, Chairman of the Rushing Committee ......., .......... C lesine Bodeker THE IMP, a Freshman ...............,.....,........,.........................,,...,....i .......... I rene Harmon EMILY ELLIOTT, with a Conscience .................,,,. .... ..... D 0 rris Quinby JANE, a Maid with a Taste for Literature ...........,... .......,, M aurine Lynes MRS. BROWN, Step-mother of Douglas Brown ..,...,... ......... H ilda Hankner POLLY PRICE ..i....................,.....,.....,.,.,.,,,.,...,.,,,,,..,,.,.,,, ..,...... E lsie Albright ELSA ERNEST ..i............,...... .,..,.,...........,.. . .,..,,,.. Irene Vogelsang MARJORIE ARNOLD, of the Theta Phi ..i,...,.. ...........,. I rene Taylor MARIE SWIFT ....................,..............,.....i..... .. ,..,. Margaret Barber MOLLY BRUCE, the Maid ..........................,,............,.....,.,,....,.. .,i,..,.... O rpha Seeley SCENE--A College Town. TIME-The Present Day. ACT I.-Den in the Theta Phi House. ACT II.-Library in the Preston Home-Marion's Mask Ball. ACT III.-Interior of the Athletic Club House. VT? ' Q , W .iq 1:11 SYNOPSIS The students are practicing for a football game, and much interest in the outcome is shown. It develops that Douglas Brown. a football expert from another college, is in town on business connected with his father's estate, and to distract attention, enters this college and thru Phyllis Lane he is induced to play on the team. Robert Preston, a lawyer, secretly loves Marion Dayton, his ward, and she reciprocates. He intrusts to her the combination of his safe and tells her of a packet of important papers lying therein. Louise Ross and her mother. Mrs. Brown, stepmother of Douglas, learn that a second will disinheriting them is among the papers in Preston's safe. They plot to obtain possession of the document at a mask ball giv- en by Marion. Louise wears a costume ident- ical with that of Marion, deceives Preston, learns from him the combination of the safe, and obtains the papers therefrom by the aid of Jack Austin. The Imp , a girl student, sees and recognizes her. ' Preston enters and recognizes Jack. and convinced that he meditates robbery, upbraids him. Marion enters and, comprehending the situation, as she fancies, she shields Jack by assuming the guilt. Her innocence is fully es- tablished by The Imp , who exposes Louise. Meanwhile Douglas wins the game for the team and realizes that he loves Phyllis, but when he learns that she has trifled with him, he becomes cool. This. however, passes away, and happiness follows. Preston, after learn- ing of Marion's innocence, discovers that he loves her, and their dream of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is happlly realized.

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26 THE PERISCOPE 1918 61855 DFODDCCQ Scene-Lobby of the Hotel Fortner, Wav- erly, Iowa. Date-July 4, 1936. Action-A tall, dark man signing his name to hotel register, a man of medium height awaiting his turn. Looks over first man's shoulder and sees name he signs. Starts, and after signing his own name, goes over to first man, who has crossed the room to where sev- eral easy chairs are standing before a window facing Bremer avenue. He stops and taps first man an the shoulder and says, Pardon me, but I saw that you signed your name 'Wendell Kern'. Might you be the same who was editor of the 1918 'Periscope'? I have that honor , replies Mr. Kern. Perhaps you may remember me says the other, for I chanced to be the assistant editor of the same publication. 'Pussy' Schluter, by all that's holy! ex- claims Kern. Sit down and talk awhile. They sit down, and after minor articles of conversation, from which Schluter finds out that Kern is a. doctor by profession, but is now serving as congressman from the Third district, an Kern finds out that Schluter is a prosperous corporation lawyer engaged in helping to break the laws Kern helps to make, at last the conversation comes around to the various members of their class. Some such statements as these were overheard: Say, what became of that lanky business manager of ours ? asks Schluter. Graening? Oh, he is a real doctor now, and is practicing at Irma.' By the way, sev- eral of our classmates are around about that prosperous little town. There's Amos, our president, you know, is running a large farm in partnership with Morgan. They get along pretty well, except that they keep quarreling over who is to have their fair housekeeper, a person by the name of Louise. They haven't settled that matter yet. Have you struck any of the members of our class? I have, now that you mention it , replied Schluter. A couple of months ago, I went into a bachelor's club, and there I saw on the list of members the name of Herbert Nolting. He was pointed out to me later, and say, but he is big and fat! No, I never got a chance to speak to him. And you've heard of that famous hair-dresser in Chicago? Well, she and Margaret L. of our class are one and the same. Yes, and that famous cartoonist for 'Punch', the one who signs the name of 'Piffie'. I was introduced to her ffor it's a womanj and found out that she was 'Pete' Beyer, of '18. Strange, isn't it? We all thought she'd have a home of her own soon, and here she is, an old maid, drawing cartoons for a magazine. This is sure a queer world, isn't it? Say, exclaims Kern, I just saw across the street another one of our fellows, 'Doc' Murphy. Yes, he's a doctor now. Lives in Denver, and has a family. Yes, the same one he had when in high school. And you've seen that famous 'Vamp' of the Peerless Moving Picture Co., that brunette, you know? Well, that's Orpha Jean. And that other 'Vamp' with the same company is Helen M. You know the quotation we had about her: 'With her roguish eyes', etc. Well, it's pretty true, I guess. But you must have been pretty busy if you haven't met some more of our famous classmates. Come to think of it, I have. You remem- ber 'Beany' Rausch. Always wanted to be president of something. Well, he became the president of some Reform League and they tried to prosecute our Hrm once. Ha! Ha! No, they didn't win. In fact, I turned the case on them and got them all convicted of perjury. His assistants were a couple of fellows named Behrens and Siegloff. The latter was a detect- ive. They all got ten years and a big fine. At Anamosa, I think. There was also a woman's reform league that tried to land me, too, but didn't succeed. Their leader was a woman by the name of Harmon. and she had some help- ers by the names of Schaffer and Barber. Here the conversation turned to music, as the band across the street began to play. Talking of your bands and orchestras, that one that is led by O. Byram, the long-haired brother of Monsieur Harold Byram, the fam- ous cornetist, is the best I've heard in years, said Schluter. I wonder if they could be the same Byram brothers that were in our class, and if that Mlle. Bodeker. their pianist, is the Clesine of the same class? They are the same, and their baritone player is Maurine L., of our bunch. Well, well we sure do have famous class- mates. Who is that whiskered farmer over 'here-the one with the red-haired wife? She has been jawing him for the last ten minutes. That's another member of our class, Sam Whitney. Same girl, too, that he had when in high school. And that tall, lanky fellow is Fritz Hennings. He is working for George Hoffman the inventor. That's the same Hoff- man that was in our class. And that little, short fellow over there in that big car, the one with the checked suit on, that's Hicks, manag- er of the motorcycle factory. But there's the man I've got an appointment with-Harold Gruben. He is another of our '18's, you know. Come on, we'll go out and see him. The two rise and leave hotel. M. F. S.