Whitmer High School - Oracle Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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THE ORACLE Mary Beals is an energetic newspaper reporter. Raymond Davis is a confirmed bachelor. Lewis Gillette and Russell Holzscheiter own a dude, ranch out in Nevada. Harold Vischer is a motorcycle cop, strictly enforcing the speed laws. Harold has married Iris Kaser. Dorothy Davis and Vivian Dawdy, who were always and forever powder- ing their noses, are both working in a flour mill. DeNell Meyers and Catherine Baus, both of whom wanted to bemission- aries and live out in the wilds of Africa and convert the heathens, are living in the heart of New York City. Virginia Pugsley has become a beauty expert, her specialty is face lifting. Alda Bodette has married a midget only three feet high. Mary Roberts is a fancy skater. John Wagner, always a whiz in chemistry, is jerking sodas in a drug store. Margie Brown is working in the Akron factory with Frances. Margie is making rubber stamps. Paul Crosby is an Arctic explorer. Alice Ranville and Evelyn Mortemore have become popular radio singers. Robert Bender and Robert Thornton, who always wanted to be great political bosses, have finally gotten a start in politics-as street cleaners. Helen Bucklew has won the women's championship for an endurance flight. Parker Corbett is an undertaker. Henrietta Harvey has succeeded Clara Bow as the It girl of the movies. Charles Blacklidge is working for a fish hatchery catching wild snails. Frieda Brown has become a soap box lecturer. Jessie Jacobs is the elevator girl in a hospital. Richard Yost is justice of the Peace. Milton Westland is master of ceremonies at the Paramount. Gilbert Bobzean is a flat foot cop. Nellie Curson is a bookkeeper for a certain excavating contractor. Margaret Kuster is the time-keeper in a factory. She never misses a day, nor is she ever late. Lillian Roberdeaux is playing the part of fat lady in a circus. Myrtle Brown and George Mallett, true to all our expectations, have married, Myrtle is a fortune teller and George is an Egyptologist. Alma Stephans is the owner and the manager of a minstrel show. Delbert Robison and Williain Thomsen have opened a detective agency. Page Nineteen

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THE ORACLE Oh! What a noise! Solon turned over with a yawn. Again! What could that noise be? Solon raised up on his feathery pillow to see Eunexus standing in the door. What's the trouble? asked Solon. Your majesty, did you not request to be called early for the trip to your friend, the Oracle of Delphi? Oh, yes, he exclaimed, and hurriedly got out of bed. Eunexus brought his robe and slippers and Solon went to the dining hall for breakfast. Solon told him that he.would call him as soon as he had finished. Eunexus ordered the carriage to be ready, and proceeded to get the King's robe ready for wear. Solon soon called for Eunexus with the excuse that he was not hungry. The servant knew, however, that he was very anxious to see his friend. ,They made themselves ready for the long journey. It took them about two hours to reach the Oracle's house, but the King was not worrying about the fatigue of the journey, for he wanted very much to see his friend. The doorman asked Solon if the Oracle was expecting him. He answered to the affirmative and was permitted to enter. Solon and Eunexus found the Oracle of Delphi seated at a large table in his huge library, laughing uproariously. Solon was astonished, but became frightened as he stood for a moment and watched his good friend. Quickly he rushed over to him and seized him saying, My good friend, what's wrong? The Oracle of Delphi turned around quickly and saw that it was Solon. I have just been looking at the queerest and funniest thing that I have ever seen. Solon looked at the table and saw that the Oracle had just been gazing into a crystal. What is it, he asked. It's the prophecy for the class of 1952, of Whitmer High School. Shall I tell you what is to be seen? The Oracle began: Frances Atwell, the girl who was always chewing gum in school, is work- ing in a rubber factory in Akron, Ohio. Raymond Brown and Wilson Keeler have a business of their own-they are piano movers. Helen jablonski is a telephone operator falasj on the foreign exchange. Alice Tassell is testing scales at the Toledo Scales Factory. Bernard Wilson is an organ grinder. Margie Taylor is an old maid, and Marge Weidinger is a farmerette. Albert Morette had studied to be a lawyer for eight years, only to lose his voice the day after being admitted to the bar.' Carl Neuendorf, whose highest ambition was to be an aviator, belongs to a submarine crew. Page Eighteen

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THE ORACLE Doris Mock has won first prize as the best dairymaid at the World's Fair. Roy Melber is the ribbon clerk in XVoolworth's Five and Ten-Cent Store in Toledo. C john Bonawit is a mountain climber, he is the first man to climb Mount Everest. Robert Davies has succeeded Mr. Lincke as math. teacher at dear old Whitmer. Helen Shatelrow is a member of the Civil Service Commission. Adeline Warrington, who was always entering beauty contests, has a position posing for a cartoonist. Clifford Welever, our football star, has a job at Notre Dame making hundred yard runs down the gridiron-behind the lawnmower. Solon burst out in laughter when the Oracle has completed his reading and had turned around to join him. Fate surely played some queer tricks on those people, but I suppose they are all succeeding in whatever they are doing. Solon replied with a laugh and bid the Oracle a fond farewell, forgetting the many questions he had come to ask. ALDA BODETTE 32 ROBERT THORNTON SZ CLASS HISTORY Early in the fall of 1928 the present Senior Class began their high school life proper. At that time the class was composed of ninety boys and girls, all eager for a higher education, and most of them were willing to work and to work hard for it. Leah Jones was chosen the president of the Freshman Class. She proved to be a very capable and industrious leader. During the sophomore year many of the fellows held important positions on our athletic teams. A sophomore play and several successful parties were given, but best of all, Whitmer's place in County scholarship contests arose. Under the leadership of Charles Blacklidge, we passed a very interesting year. DeNell Meyers was our president the third year. Be an Optimist and the junior-Senior banquet, given in honor of the graduation class, were out- standing attractions. The ball room was decorated in oriental style with pyramids and sphinx to make it realistic. Now, in our Senior year, we have exceptional confidence in our leader, Harold Vischer. For the last four years we have worked together, played together, studied together, and perhaps even sorrowed together. The class has dwindled to almost sixty, but the spirit we had when we were freshmen still prevails. We are on the threshold of a new life. The world is expecting the best that we have. We are willing, even anxious to go on. -DENE LL MEYERS. Page Twenty