Woodward High School - Saga Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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EPIDEMICS There is no use in talking, something always seems a-balking When ive try to run our school upon a schedule. It 's one thing or another that is ever bound to smother All our optimistic hopes just something dreadful. The flu: you will remember, by the middle of December. Just three years ago. had hit us quite a wallop. Eight Weeks of idle waiting, soo11 became most aggravating As we wished to see our methods new develop. Since then. bug. germ or bacilli, found in Mary. Tom or lVillie, Our attendance has kept sometimes below normalg Diptheria. small-pox fever. tonsilitis, measles, never Seem to tire of feasting on us beings carnal. An epidemic now. though.. is beginning to itself show Through the machinations of one, Danny Cupidg Seven of our lady teachers he's directing toward the preachers, Caring little for his actions. wise or stupid. Departments all will suffer from the acts of this young duifer- General Science. Latin. Business Forms and Spanish, English. French and History. and the Shorthand mystery- Does he hope our whole fine faculty to banish? We should hardly have objected. if he simply had selected Just a few men teachers as a faint relief. True. of them there are not many who have side-stepped matrimony William E.. Charles. Daniel and our Chief. You see, when girls get married. they quite frequently are carried Right away to homes of comfort and of bliss: But men may choose their wives and stay with us all their lives, VVhich would leave our teaching force just as it is. 110

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IF IT VVERE TRUE IMAGINE: Rollie Boldt forgetting to smile. Don. Corbett getting an HA. Mike Davis Ending his handkerchief. Frank Fisher keeping quiet at a Senior meeting Mark Harmeyer k11owing his chemistry. Marshall Matzinger being a salesman. Mr. La Rue missing a tardiness. Mr. Sterling cracking a joke. Melvin Mortimer in a hurry. Fred Osgood owning a country store. VVillmarth Paine missing a basket. Joe Sayles with his mouth shut. Big Bill without Helell. Eva Bloom with yellow cu1'ls. Helen B-i without Big Bill. Zoe Dunphy being quiet. Alberta Leake noisy. The Schenks without each other. Ruth Smith having a fellow. Mr. XVilliams married. John Albright tall. Roman Bialecki having an indoor team. Bern Cousino on time. Dana Fearing in hed at 9 o'elock. Paul Fearing mad at Harry. Charles Gainer with some other girl. Earl Feltman not hanging around the office. Charles Green unprepared. Mr. Sprague without a joke. Marion Millhouse without those dreamy eyes. Miss Vye a cook for Joe. Dick Miller without his paint and brush. Harold Shapiro a doctor. Hank Hein a chiropractor. Don VVrigley not stuttering. Harry Stapleton 011 time to fourth hour class. No tests in June. No lessons to get. Sixteen A's a year. No pep in Tech. 109

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