West High School - Westerner Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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'dine iBrupbecp of the Qilass of 1921 Do you believe in fairies? No? Well, neither did I until a certain summer afternoon. I was lying under a tree watching the clouds float through the sky when, idly picking a blade of grass, I began to chew it. Now I know how Alice in VVonder- land felt when she ate the left-hand mushroom, for I felt myself grow small, smaller, smallest. The tree under which I was lying faded from my sight, it was so far away that the blades of grass seemed like trees. While meditating upon my strange environment I heard a familiar voice and turned to behold Tilford Hinkle, dressed in white with two broad wings extending over his shoulders. To my amazed query he answered, Why, I am of the official street-cleaners of Fairyland in which you are now living. Ben Bussell, Ned Carpenter, George Cook and Albert Childress are associated with me in this work, so valuable to civilization. Another member of our Union is Arnold Wolfe, who is a chimney sweep. Would you like to go through Fairyland? To m affirmative answer, he replied, 'f ust a minute and I'll call a Guide? Y s In answer to his Whistle a fairy in brown came flying through the trees, I mean grasses, and who should it be but Donald Perkey Seldon? When I saw Don l im- mediately asked where Vera was and he said he had just left her singing to the accom- paniment of a blue-bell. Her chief occupation, he said, was still to be the t'Nickie of the community. VVithout more ado we started off through Fairyland. I was first conducted to the candy and ice-cream district. At the border of the district we passed a tall striped- candy policeman who looked familiar and behold it was Leo Regan. I was so sweet that they made me candy, was his explanation. We walked on and found Cecil Ellis, Joe Connelly, Mary Plank, Violet -Riedl, Ernest Shears, and Gladys Williams bobsledding on mountains of ice-cream, the sleds being chocolates. We passed the Gingerbread house where Violet Leeling, Charles Brannan, Ruth Shank and Claude Bennett were lined up receiving gingerbread from Vera Bryce, as Mother Goose, I guess. From the Gingerbread house it was a short walk to a lake where Shelton Streater, Carl Gustafson, Harlow Hungerford, and Harold Eno were swimming in lemonade. Passing on into a deep wood, I saw a gleam of red and a little red fairy arguing with a woodtick. This fairy was writing with a stick HK. Wade '21. Helen Castillerra looked on in disgust. Said she, They banished Kenneth from court because he argued so, and now I can't concentrate. The whole kingdom resounds with his voice. From a shady nook we heard the sound of whirring and found Alice Bonney, Lydiamae Everett, Margaret Hoover, and Viola McBurney spinning cloth from cob- webs. Edna Anderson was supervising the work and she told us their work was the best in the kingdom. 29

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John Young Johnnie l ooth:1ll '21. Athlet- ic Association 143. WPUSUPI' 123. Annual I-lonrrl '2l. 'll'iHy, liiirly ll u :I full of fun. u ynoll frirnrl and u lruc unc. ',i 1'.-1'2ll'flb0lIiSl. Ernest Johnson Swede Athletic Association 143. Spanish Club '21. 'il xlumrk 'in E-nylisli mul Spanish. tau, Of nthcrs like him. 1wu'I1 fiwul Im! ferr. Occ.-'l' :i l k i u g to Fine in Spanish. .Iohn Madden f'UlUI1l'I Webster '20. Custer Vlivlmc Urowloot Athletic Association. linn 1:23. Athletic Yo mlm self fair Associ:1I,i0n 133. Tis fully 10 lu' wise. Occ.-'l':1lkiug. hair. br 17101111111- ful. Occ.-l'l'rying to re- duce. Carl Gustafson HGUSN Custulian 133, Ath- l e ti c Association 143, Second Lieut. C at cl e t s '20, Prom Committee '20, Span- ish Club '21. f'Confusion lmrc has made his master- piece. Occ.-Arguing with Miss Hyde. Vnrl Lind imc-li Athletic Association 143, t':1sl'uli:1u 443. Public Speaking Uluh '21, Caulets 123. Loaf and thc world louis with. jIj01l,, Gwriml mul you yrivzzl alone. Occ.--H n s n't got any. Shelton Strezlter Athletic Association. I-li-Y, Cadets 12 3. First Sergeant Vu- dets '20. 'Q-l mun's ll mm: fm' rr' fluff. Occ- 1' :I g i n g 1-hippy. 28 Viola Mcliurncy Athletic Association Y.W.C.A. g33, Big Sister l23. Treas- urer Y.W.C.A. '21, 123, Cnstalian 133. Domestic Art Club '21, 'fl-l'7m crzvziqicers tlicc shall find a stub- bornifocf' Occ.-T r y i n g to write poems.

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Don said, There are some of the best artists in Fairyland except for the Frost fairies. pointing to Fern Stadler and Carrie Scott, who were busily painting a honey- suckle. And who are the frost fairies? I inquired. Well, there are a great many, but among them are Stephen LaCroix and Russell Whitaker, he answered. 4'-Iohn Young paints butterfly wings. We finally came to a farming district. I found that Crawford May owned a large ranch of one square foot. He had Jimmie Solan, james Flood, and Burl Mc- Colm punching cattle, while he employed Helen Armstrong, Geraldine Beery, Lila Pierce, and Marguerite Smith as dairymaids. Needless to say, they were an asset to the ranch. ' It brought sorrow to my heart to see a convict gang working the roads and to find that Graham Susman was convicted of stealing honey from a bee, George Rehm, for the attempted kidnaping of a rich heiress, Margaret Casey, and that Ernest Soderstrom was held in connection with a Bolshevik plot to dynamite the capitol. We found Ralph Cordingly and Robert Utsinger, both famous engineers, swing- ing a straw bridge across the largest river in the kingdom, the Amazon, two inches wide. At last, we reached the capitol. We immediately went up to the House of Parliament where King I-Iarold Scheele and his advisors ruled the kingdom wisely and well. In royal purple and ermine, he consulted with the first lord of Foreign Af- fairs Sidney Andersong first lord of Discord, Herman Fine, first lady of Correspon- dence, Frances McDonald, first lord of exchequer, Stewart Waltong on the subject of a higher tariff on dew. From this private council we went to the house of lords in Parliament. Second lady of Exchequer, Bessie Holmes, backed by the suffragette element among whom were Mildred Anderson, Martha Ruehle and Hilma Nelson, was delivering an oration on the question of changing the National bank from a daffodil to the foot of the rain- bow. The suffragette party was again represented by Rose Agren, Vera Evans, Edith Beach, and Lucille Hart who were in the House of Commons arguing that the frost fairies ought to have brown ladders instead of green. Rose was just concluding a wonderful speech by the clause, This measure would be more artistic and as for me, give me art or give me oblivion. From the house of Parliament we rode in a rose petal limousine driven by Oscar Blade to the place where a banquet was to be held. Don Giacomozzi was chef while Sallie Shepherd and Ella Nissen acted as scullery maids. The butler, Rufus Gor- don, assisted by Harold Hambly and Chester Evans carried the golden dishes to and from the kitchen. During the repast the court fool, Oliver Snider once known as Texas, frolicked about until the janitor, Lester Herrick appeared to report that the outdoor theatre was ready for the evening performance. ' We passed out to the enormous theatre which was about six inches long and in the boxes I saw many old friends. Olive Ashenfelter Wore a lovely necklace of per- fectly matched dewdrops. In the horse-shoe circle we recognized Mary McOsker, 30