Yale High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Yale, MI)

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CLASS OF ’38 STATISTICS • Most popular boys Marvin Chandler, Allen Boughner Most popular girl Rita Miller Prettiest girl Lois Middleton Handsomest . boy Eldon Palmateer Laziest Charles Radloff Meekest Marian Shaw Social highlight Helen Halsey Most versatile Helen Graves Best athlete Allen Boughner Slowest jack Colden Most likely to succeed Ken Kook Class optimist Dom a Hall b Class pessimist Rawland Clemens Best natured Thelma Beal Brightest Ken Kook Wittiest Tom Mullaney Biggest bluffer Tom Mullaney Class dude Jack Colden Worst grind Morton Clark Class giggler Remelda Gerlach Shortest Jennie Wixson Tallest Russel Maplethorpe A ewcomer Eleanor Durski Scrappiest couple Rita Miller and Allen Boughner 21

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CLASS PROPHECY ( Continued ) about two blocks from the newspaper office. She knew quite a bit of news. She told me that Phyllis Meharg is a telephone operator for Major Bowes’ suc- cessor, Major Green, Lucille Carless is a dancing teacher with a class of thirty children, Margaret Armstrong is married to a Los Angeles banker, quite well- to-do, and Elsie Bybee is Tyrone Power’s secretary, who must be up in years by now. She also said that Alvin Shaw and Faye Norris are living on orange plantations not far from Hollywood. I went to see them both. Alvin has quite a place. Faye lives in a cosy little house too. Of course her name isn’t Norris anymore but I can’t remember it. The last day that I was there, when I was roaming around the lots, watching them shoot scenes, I came across Kenneth Kook who was one of the photographers. Anne: Since I had all the time I wanted to take, I started toward Massa- chusetts. Naturally, my first spot of interest was Harvard University, where I attended for two years. On my inspection of the college I found that Morton Clark had a position there as professor, and that Al Boughner was head coach. I witnessed one of the games his team played, and it was spectacular. When I went to one of the classes there was Marion Shaw, now be-spectacled, and grinding away for dear life. What surprised me most, though, was that Ev- erett Shaw made his home in Massachusetts, and turned out to be the inventor of a more efficient printing-room cleaner.” Leaving this section, I headed South, encountering nothing of interest until my arrival at a hotel in Florida where I met with Jennie Wixon who holds a position as stenographer to a busi- ness man. On my way homeward I made a stop at Memphis, Tennessee, and there I heard so much about Eleanor Durski and her latest book, Wings of an Angel,” that I made it a point to speak to her privately. She is now a writer as well as a contented housewife. Before reaching home in Chicago, my last stop was in Springfield. A friend of mine was a witness at a trial and I was interested in the case. As I entered the court the trial had already begun and I nearly fainted when I saw that Anna Conroy was the lawyer for the defendant. And so my tour ended, and I am indeed happy to be back in dear old Chicago. Lois: Yes, I am too, but I must go now. I want to listen to the radio. Har- old Rector and his Gang will be on in about two minutes. I never thought he’d be an orchestra leader, did you? They say he’s quite a ladies’ man, too. -Lois Middleton Anne Jerlecki 20

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THE CLASS WILL Ladies and Gentlemen, Board of Education, Superintendent, Teachers and Friends: Upon behalf of our client, the Class of 1938, of Yale High School, of the City of Yale, State of Michigan, U. S. A., we have called you together upon this solemn and serious occasion, to listen to her last will and to receive from her dying hand, the few gifts she has to bestow in her last agonies. Owing to the flighty condition of her brain, and the unusual disturbance in its grey matter, she begs us to state for her that she may quite possibly have been mistaken in her inventory; but such things as she thinks she has, she here- by gives into your possession, praying that you will accept them as a sacred trust from one who has gone before. Listen, then, one and all, while I read the document, as duly drawn up and sworn to: To the dear Faculty, I, the lass of 1938, leave all my power of seeing through a stone wall, that power which, in the time past has made my course in life so spectacular, and the lack of which has brought my career to an ig- nominious failure. Kenneth Kook leaves his wee wee number 12 shoes to Loetta Burton. Leonard Meharg with tears leaves Rex Heideman about three feet and five inches to make him up in the world. lean Sparling wills her efficient ability as Fditor-in-Chief to Mr. Double- Dip” Main. Marian Shaw wills her love and charm to that blushing little minister’s daughter, Eleanor Remein. Clarence Fair and Eldon Palmateer will their golden singing ability to Charles Winkler. Anne Conroy wills her sophisticated ways to that very sophisticated Jun- ior, Emily Sosnowski. Thelma Beal leaves her rubber gum and steel jaws to Elizabeth Moore, so help her. George Graves wills his flat feet to Beverly Dodds. Treasure Groat and Irene Hilliker bequeath their knowledge of traffic jams in the great metropolis of Melvin to two very traffic-minded back-seat drivers of the Junior class, Imogene Tenniswood and Thelma Harmer. James Old wills his F. F. A. pin, which carries honor, degree, and no work to Gerald Zinzo. Viola Young leaves her speaking ability with all strings attached to that great orator, Leola Brown. Donna Hall wills her red hair to Warren Sparling to comb and to brush. Harold Rector bequeaths his art of love-making, which is the one and only Rector method to Anne Furlong. Beatrice Ryder bequeaths her talkativeness and quiet ways to our quiet little Junior, Mary Weymouth. (Continued on next page) 22