Westville High School - Janus Yearbook (Westville, IL)

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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

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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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ence. She must be a professional danseuse now.” Here’s also a young lady who means business. What a lovely room! Helen Paciukiewicz! She’s busy writing. Here comes a man. No wonder! Oh! Goodness! It’s Harold Lloyd!” “Circus! ‘Come and see the tallest man in the world!’ That’s what the sign says. What has a circus to do with our class? I see the light! There, under the ‘Big Top’! ‘Fastman,’ Frank Passis, the tallest man in the world! Can you beat that! “Here’s a speed maniac? Now whose talent ran in that direction? He won! If you please, it’s Raymond Lucas. What’s the big idea? A rival of Tommy Milton, the speed king. The magic crystal before them became blank. “Pardon me for interrupting your pleasure, but I have an appointment, and if you call again you may see the remainder of your classmates,” interrupted the Crystal Gazer. “Thank you! Yes, I think we’ll come again. How time flies!” Several days later Petra and Hazel received letters from two classmates whom they had not seen in the crystal, but we learn of their whereabouts from the following conversation between these two classmates. “So Bertha Boyd is taking a course in Domestic Science now. I wouldn’t be surprised if she is preparing for a plunge in matrimony,” remarked Petra. “Yes? And, remember, Blanche Lete always did like to sew and embroider on pretty dainty things? She was always tetter than I in Miss Zika’s sewing class. Well, she’s the owner of a modiste shop now on Fifth Avenue, New York! When we stop in New York we’ll take time to visit her, yes?” “Surely.” As you know by now, the girls who visited the Crystal Gazer were Hazel Harris and Petronella Urasky. These two girls had visited Chicago before they started to tour the United States, stopping to visit friends and relatives of the Harrises in West Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina. They had been teaching and this trip is the result of a little thrift practiced by them. Petronella Urasky, ’23. Twenty-six