Westville High School - Janus Yearbook (Westville, IL)

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 trr P 13. Nelle McDowell: 1. Rubber heels to Miss Zika. 2. Ability to read magazines in the Assembly to the Freshmen. 3. Dancing ability to “Steff” Myers. 14. Helen Paciukiewicz: 1. Musical ability to Mildred Hensley. 2. Perfect complexion to anyone who can wield a powder puff as well as she. 3. All handkerchiefs purloined from her during classes to “Weinies,” “Baker” and “Doctor.” 15. Frank Passis: 1. Knowledge on all subjects to Roy Jessup. 2. Manly form to Ed Konieczka. 3. Football scars to Joe Pickering. 16. Petronella Uraskv: 1. Sunny manner to Vytant Murieko. 2. Ability to solve Physics problems to the next year’s class. 3. Quietness to “Baker.” Witness this instrument was signed, acknowledged and declared on oath by said Class of 1923 to be their last will and testament in our presence and was subscribed to by us. Nellie McDonald, ’23. ,-t , c CLASS PROPHECY OF 1923 “I wonder where all of our class is now? Remember, we had an even number of girls—twelve, I think, and only three boys!” “Yes, I have an idea! Here in Chicago is a famous Crystal Gazer. Let’s go to see him! I know the street where his studio is, but not his exact address. We can look for it. We’ll ask him about our class. Are you willing?” “Pm ready. Let’s go!” Six years have passed since the class of nineteen hundred twenty-three graduated from Westville Township High School. The classmen are scattered all over. It happens on this particular day that two girls of this same class wonder where their other classmates are and what they are doing. An idea suggested by one of them is being fulfilled. “How can I be of service to you today, young ladies?” asked the noted Crystal Gazer when the girls presented themselves at the studio. Twenty-four

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4. Frank Czapski. 1. Ability to “vamp” the girls to Victor Stanevich. 2. Handsomeness to anyone who will do it justice. 3. Dancing steps to Helen Delaney. 4. English themes to Susie Simon. 5. Grace Gillison: 1. Love of “Math” to Vera Wilson. 2. Giggling in classes to Ethel Stevens. 3. Ability at tossing the ball to the next year’s Physical Training class. (5. Hazel Harris: 1. Graceful carriage to Mildred Gladkowski. 2. Vamping eyes to be used on any but Andy to Amelia Orlea. 3. Perfect marcel waves to Julia Columbus. 7. Faye Hughes: 1. Place of cheer leader to Louis Barnas. 2. Assembly chair to anyone who promises to remove surplus paper, gum, etc. 3. Powder compact to Stella Redulis. 8. Lucy Kulekowskis: 1. Reserved and studious manner to Rosa Slazas. 2. Place on the honor roll to Jackie Sneyd. 9. Blanche Lete: 1. Love of argument to Wesley Hickman. 2. Wonderful eyelashes to Vera Wilson. 3. Innocence to Josie Matthews, never to be used on George. 10. Ruby Le Count: 1. “Gym” suit to Theresa Giacone. 2. General helpfulness to “Todd.” 3. Stoutness to Johannah Possalt. 11. Ray Lucas: 1. Ability to avoid studies and classes to “Baker.” 2. Ability to obtain excuses from the office to Vera Wilson. 3. Dancing steps to “T. K.” 4. Ability as card shark at “Frankies” to anyone who can ac- complish it as well as himself. 12. Nellie McDonald: 1. Surplus fat to anyone who needs it more than she. 2. Bobbed hair to Ethel Stevens. 3. Ability as typist to Josie Matthews. 4. Gum found on her desk to Mary Kelly. Twenty-three

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“We should like to know about our High School class of nineteen hundred twenty-three.” “Come this way and I’ll do my utmost to be satisfactory. If you will be seated before the crystal so that you can see into it easily, we shall see what we shall see! Pray, whom would you like to see first?” “Mildred Boyd, if you please.” The Crystal Gazer went through a series of mystic motions over the globe. “Hazel, look! I see Mildred. Doesn’t she look happy? Who is that man coming into the room? Why, it’s Buck! What is that squirming around on the floor?” “It is a future football star!” “Whom will you see next?” interrupted the Crystal Gazer. “Anna Bendick.” “Now we aie in a city. What a lovely apartment! Do you see that young lady sitting at the writing desk? That’s Anna. I thought she would be a teacher, sure, but evidently she is not. See that man, a stranger, coming toward her? She hears him, and, looking up, smiles. He looks over her shoulder at what she is doing. Hasn’t he a ‘possessing air’ about him? That means she’s married!” “Who is this woman wearing an apron and sunbonnet? She’s calling someone. Now I see her face. It’s Ruby Le Count, and the man in the chicken yard is Charles Bauser. I always thought there ought to be a wedding, for their names have been linked all through High School.” “Here’s another woman; oh, a nurse. Now, whoever “hath desireth to be a nurse? Faye Hughes! I suppose she chose nursing because the uniform would become her.” “I know this place. It’s Hegeler. Who should still live in Hegeler?” “Why, Czapski, of course!” “Yes. At the Hegeler Zinc Plant! How busy he is. Now he’s leaving. What a ‘peach’ of a car! See that sign. It says Frank is president of the Hegeler Zinc Plant. Now nice!” “I see a woman again. She’s talking before an audience. It must be interesting. Everyone is all attention. I wonder who she is and what her topic is? It’s Grace and there on the wall is the announcement Grace Gilli-son will give a lecture on ‘Evils of Jazz.’ Goodness! Grace is a reformer!” “Here’s another young lady, and she is in a large department store. It’s Lucy Kulekowskis. She’s entering an office. It’s her own. How business-like she is. She must be someone important.” “I wonder where Nellie McDonald is?” “Look, and you’ll see! She’s dancing, not alone, and before an audi- Twentv-five