Ypsilanti High School - Ypsi Dixit Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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-EYFEI DIXITY' ' Class Prophecy As Forescvu by JOHN DOUGLAS MACKENZH-2 I've often heard tell that dreams come true. I'ni not at all sure, but if they do, The class leaving Y psi High in nineteen thirty Shall become famous by nineteen forty. In the shower before we went for a swim, A challenge was offered to beat me in. I ran for the board and took a jump, :Xt the top of the dive the ceiling did bump. But as I came down, I uttered a groan, For the pool was empty, as dry as a bone. It was an age before I came to, And a lot of experiences I went through. Some don't believe me 3 they don't think they're' true. But here is my story: I'll tell it to you. NVhen I awoke, I felt I was falling. I opened my eyes in a plane that was stalling. Looking at the pilot, whom should I see Hut Bernard Baer, as calm as could be. Near me were passengers 'mongst whom I could see Roger Parish and his wife. I-Ie called her Katie. I noticed a radio and happened to hear .X championship iight, topping Fairbanks' career, .-Xnd as I listened, the announcer turned out To be Raymond Horton, without a doubt. He told of the notables who then were presentg Some of the names were both familiar and pleasant. Le,Cureux, Le Clair, and Squiers, it appears, Are known o'er the world as The Three Musketeers. Max Crane in the Olympics has rung I-Ie is present with his great manager, Kenneth Dundou. Many more notables mentioned he, Including Kersey, Bronson, and Lee. Orville, it seems, had grown quite stout: It took both of these girls to push him about. Twenty-Nine -----...... I9 30 -

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-EYPEI DIXITE- Hass unt Gertrude Green. Dey vos keeping dem some chickens, de hens unt de roosters, unt Johnny toled me dot dey got lots oof eggs from dem sometimes de hens. Vell, Izzy, ven ve come der next year pack as Juniors, ve got new officers some more, unt dey vos Raymond Horton for der President, unt Kenneth Dun- don for der Vice-President, unt Joe VVhite for der Treasureer, unt James Borst for der Secretary. Unt vot you dink, Izzy, ve took us dis year der first place by der poys baseball, und by der track, und by der girls basketball, unt den Edith Squiers, de Paradize found gel. come foid unt took her der first place by der oration. Ve vos as proud unt as pleased as ve could be over dis, ven Max Crane goes der State Track Meet to, unt takes him der 440 state championship. I don't knew vot dot is. Maybe he jumped dot high or somedings, but, Izzy, I don't see how he could do it. Near der end oil' der year ve decided to put us a play on, vunt ve chose der play Come out off der Kitchen. Oh, Izzy, I vish you could haf seen it. You'd haf died mit me for laughing. Mrs. Montgomery vos der director off der ding, Don Sias vos der Faculty adviser, unt der players vot played der play ver Edith Squiers, unt Helen Le Cureux, unt Jack MacKenzie, unt George Adams, unt Dick Skinner, unt Lillian Britton, unt Emily Le Clair, unt Clark Vliright, unt Dick Smith, unt Bob Holding, unt Helen Staebler. You know, Izzy, everdime I dink me of jack MacKenzie kissing Edith Squiers it make me dink off poor old mother ven I caught her mit der iceman. Unt dot make me dink by some dink vitch I vanted me to toled you some dime ago. Don't eifer get married, Izzy. It only means drouble some more, unt if you don't believe me just ask Johnny Skelt, and Bob Holding. A leetle vile after der play, Bob Johnston, unt Johnnie Haas, unt Bernard Baer got uneasy unt said dey wanted for to dance, so ve got us a I-Hop up, unt my but dot vos some party. By der news paper I read dot it vos a ferry prilliant affair, but I dink me der lights ver nice unt dim. Mr. Land dought so too. Vell to climax der hole season ve vent us to Island Lake mit der idea oof hating a swim. Nudding out oof der ordinary happened dere but, Izzy, I donit see how Max Crane put so many ham sandvitches down him. Ven ve come der school back der last year ve vos put under der ving oi Miss Hardy, unt ve vos seniors. Dis time ve haf Raymond Horton by der Presi- dent some more, unt Helen Simas by der Treasurer, unt Lillian' Britton by der Treasurer, unt Dick Skinner by der Secretary. Ve von us some more oof dei interclass spordings, unt took der second place by der oration mit Edith Squiers some more, unt altogedder ve vos ferry busy. Ve picked us der senior fad unt ve all looked ferry nice in der red unt der vite, but I pidy der poor bunch if dey efer vent on a picnic unt got in a pasture mit a coupla bulls in it. Vell, Izzy, der four years in High School iss over, but dere is von ding dot I never vant you to contradict me on, unt I always vant you to remember, unt dot is dot der Ninedeen Dirdy Class off der Ypsilanti High School iss der pest class vot efer gradumated. Vell, bye, bye, Izzy. Your Fadder, ROGER PARISH. Twenty-Eight wail

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-EYPEI DIXIT-lf: Thirty While I listened to this program with pleasure. Bernard gave us an extra ride for good measure. But finally he gunned the ship and away he flew To an airport both magnificent and new. As I alighted a sign took my eye, Advising Markham's love pills to try. A large red sign appeared on the right, Helen Staebler's cookies are easy to bite. Away to the left was a sign that did dance. Go to Skinner and Mitchel for corduroy pants. I was glad to find out that these old friends of mine Had really settled down to stick to one line. A news urchin sold me a paper just then. The headlines told of a second King Ben. VVith eagerness then I the colum-ns did readg Don VVeir was the king of this colony, indeed. Reading farther within the paper, The newlyweds are Kroh, Hornbeck. and Baker. Turning to the death list, believe it or not, Dignan died from work--boy, that's hot! The sports' page came before me in my dreams. There was Coach Batterson's prediction of the college football teams. ' Stirring in my dreams, my mind did buzz and wanderg Of the nurses, Bird and Britton, the patients are growing fonder. I saw Evelyn Lyke going steady with her man. He had traded his big Buick for a little Ford sedan. Mildred Hughes is being courted. everybody knows: A dashing hero wants her to be his VVild Irish Rose. As the world's champion diver I visioned Kasmer Zeck. I Harry F rentner fell in love and he was married then. by heck! Miss Margaret Stadtmiller was still so very charming, The sales she made in real estate were really quite alarming. Poupard and Haas a firm have consolidated. For knowing how to make farming pay quite highly they are rated. Trowbridge and Vivian are loyal to dear old Ypsi I-Iighg They returned as teachers. as such they'll live and die. -1-1930 -..L.'-....... -