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

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s 'Wt CLASS PROPHESY CHARLOTTE OLMSTED For years at the approach of the graduatron season Senrors have begun to wonder what members of therr class would be dorng rn the future I have been no exceptron srnce I too have pondered long over the prospectrve careers of each mdrvrdual rn the class of 41 In fact I thought so much about the subject that one evenrng as I lay back rn a soft, easy charr concentratrng on thoughts of my frrends there suddenly appeared before me a funny lrttle old man wrth twrnklrng eyes and a crooked mrschrevous grrn He looked lrke a dwarf from Grrmms Farry Tales He sur pnsed me so much that I was speechless for a moment When I Enally found my vorce I asked who he was In a wee trnklrng vorce he answered that he was the dwarf of the future and was gomg to foretell the future of my class mates Then he pulled from hrs tmy pocket a book The Movre of the Future I began to take hrm serrously as he handed me the book and told me I mrght look at rts contents Currously I opened rt and glanced at the first page There appeared a regular movrng prcture The figures were qurte small but as I looked closer I saw to my amazement that they were those of Homer Drebler and Roy Beuschlem Homer and Roy were great orators They were grvrng speeches agamst the draftrng of boys between the ages of ten and fourteen the burnrng questron of the trme As the scenes contmued to change I saw rn successron the other members of my class Harpo Harold Har ner and Don Barley had crashed mto movmg prctures Harpo was the modern Borrs Karloff' and Don was the new Brng Crosby I thrnk Don rs much nrcer lookrng though dont you grrls7 Carol Cook was a famous srnger and had been travelrng over the entrre country grvrng concerts The men were so entranced by her beauty and vorce that hundreds of drvorces had resulted causrng Russell Loesell and Audrey Beadle partners rn law to work overtrme Joe Brrtton was now on the legrtrmate stage starrrng rn that famous productron 'You Cant Take It Along Ioan Coleman was hrs manager rn more way than one Vera Beck Dona jean Grrfhn and Mary Holdrrdge were makrng good use of therr unbreakable glass rollrng prns Warren Oakes and Gerald Holly had turned out to be rnventors Together they had rnvented an arrplane wrth a reverse control whrch could stop strll rn mrd arr Therr latest efforts were bent toward rnventrng stop lrghts and stop srgnals for use rn arr trafllc Good luck boys' Merna Pat rck was now the leadrng telephone operator rn the country She has set a new style by srngrng rn her low alto vorce Num ber please Betty McKrllen had just broken the worlds record for fast talkrng by utterrng erght hundred twenty words per mrnute The former record was seven hundred srxty joe Samonelt Brll Kruse and james Grapp were full fledged flyers Brll and James were rnstructors at Ann Arbor arrport turnrng loop the loops rn therr spare trme Joe was grounded for two weeks because he flew too low over the crty causrng a scare among the people for fear hed hrt a burldrng and crack up Shrrley Brrggs was the oomph grrl Ann Sherrdan the second There rs a resemblance dont you thrnk7 Nancy Alford Charlotte Mosher Marjorre Roehm and Paulrne Shackelford were full fledged nurses They were very successful because therr quretness rn srck rooms was very soothrng Nelson Watlrng was the star salesman for Klrpper Klapper Klop shoes He was such a successful salesman that many corporatrons were beggrng hrm to work for them Mary Battelle and Ann Grll were noted musrcal artrsts Mary wrth her cello and Ann wrth her vrolm Mary had lately achreved great fame by playrng The Wrllram Tell Overture rn the key of H flat Ann was rn France where she had been playrng for some trme The French people were so enthralled by her playrng that they absolutely re fused to allow her to return home Drck Hall Ray Clark and Stanley Marken were behrnd bars not the krnd of whrch you are thrnkrng however Drck was a clerk rn the bank of Ypsrlanrr part of hrs trme was spent advrsrng Mr Best on sound rnvestments Ray was a postal clerk for Uncle Sam lrckrng postal stamps for pretty grrls and Stanley was trcket seller at the depot tryrng hard not to look cross eyed when lookrng through the bars john Leabu Margre O Key Helen Spears and jean Watlrng had formed a mrdget colony They were wrth the Curtrss and Gleason Crrcus owned by R-oger Curtrss and Oren Gleason Roger played for the srdeshow and Oren was the dare devrl prlot Both were qurte sensatronal X , S la. 4 J, , J r 9 - a . , . . tr an . . . . , , r . , . . . . . . . .I e n . , , r - - rn - n . . . , - . , , , . 4 - A tt w 1 ' ' - - - - ts. n rr - 1 ,. . ,, .... . . ' 1 r v ' - 1 r r - . .. . . . ,, , ,, 1 y . .. .- , r . . , . Y. . . . I . . , - rr 1- 1 1 - . . Q . . . . 4 r r - , . . . , , . . ' . A . tr n V - - v . u - v - ' f . , , . - rr . 1- , . . . U . . n . . . . f , 1 1 - 1 - - 1 s . , . . , r r , - tt - - -1 . - ' 1

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ws, gl Recently the all xmportant draft b1ll was passed Th1s meant that all of the men physlcally able between the ages of twenty one and thxrty five would be conscrrpted for a year of mlhtary servxce In thexr eyes they would be asked to pay a prlce for the blessnngs of freedom Immedxately there began a heated dxs cussxon by the public They complamed that Selectrve Servlce would be takmg a year out of thexr llves In truth however thls IS not a sacnfice but rather a prlvllege Lyle M Spencer tells the facts when he says ln Februarys Readers Dxgest of thls year The truth 15 that the average draftee IS gomg to go back to c1v1l l1fe better equxpped to earn a Ilvxng than he was when hrs number came up because Select1ve Servlce rs feedxng clothmg housmg and paymg hlm to spend a year rn the world s largest trade school Another great sacrlfice we are havmg to face at thls t1me IS the tax s1tua t1on Besrdes the heavy taxes we have already many more are belng levled on general taxes are bemg mcreased m every department In answer to this problem I say that 1f we are gomg to mamtam our freedom and perpetuate our present good government we must pay for lt m the form of taxes At thxs t1me we must wxllmgly contrlbute all that IS necessary to keep us free We must lend supphes to England and rf necessary we must enter the war ourselves In the end I bel1eve that we wxll be the wmners of thrs war Th1s statement IS supported by an art1cle appearmg xn a recent edxtlon of the Current H1story whxch states as follows But wrth few exceptxons Amencan experts agree that when thxs nat1ons arms productlon mach1nery really gets roll1ng xts output will be tremendous They agree that Hrtler and hrs assoclates wxll be beaten 1n the end and that th1s output of Amencan mdustry whether or not lt IS ever used m1l1tar1ly by the Umted States Army and Navy wxll determine the outcome In short they agree that Amerlca wxll wm thxs war At present we are not dolng all rn our power to mamtam our freedom We must co operate w1th each other VV'e must vxork so that when our work IS done we can nghtfully say that we dxd our part 1n bulldmg a great natron whxch by our own sacxfices and endeavors remams free X41 E Q C! H' r. . . . . . . 5 Q Y , . . . . Q . , . . . . . A .. . i . i . . ' all forms of merchandlse. The mcome tax exemptxon has been lowered and, ln Y ' 3 ' I 1 I I . . ,, . . . U 9 1 , M . A . . , . r I I I , . 1 U 1

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Bob Gaudy was a research chemrst He was persevenng rn the development of a bean whrch when planted would grow ready made steenng wheels Jack Suggrtt Wrllram Haberer and Fred Wadke had garned popular acclarm by swrmmrng the Amazon Rrver George Berklrch and Vance McDonald were mrllron dollar play boys They had made therr fortunes by holdrng beauty contests for blondes Dora Eaton was tourrng the country wrth a vaudevrlle show Besrdes berng therr star vocalrst Dora sat rn the audrence dunng part of the show and laughed at all the jokes Her laugh was so srncere and drfferent that the crowds would go mto hystencs laughrng at her Robert Magee had hrs own Super DeLuxe cookrng school where at thrs trme he was teachrng housewrves how not to burn the toast Im sure that many a husband has thanked Bob for hrs help errme Wrngard Margaret Drxon and Gwen Randall had marrred nch husbands who had all dred unfortu nately leavrng therr wrdows wrth mrllrons to spend they drvrde therr trme between New York Bermuda Europe and Hawarr Alexrne Fox and lean Johnston were strll debatrng upon the subject of whrch one would go steady the longest Alexrne strll had a lead on jean Hurry and catch up jean Robert Hutchrnson was tourrng the country as Blackrock the Magrcran wrth Catherrne Barnaber as hrs assrstant She was puzzled as to where thmgs drsappeared When she asked Blackrock he drdnt know Its a mystery to me he sard Jack Abbey and Forest Begole were runnrng a hllrng statron They were sellrng Blue Bunko Gas As an adver trsement jack had hrs 26 Chevrolet on exhrbrt showrng rts state of preservatron whrch he attrrbuted to the fact that he had always used the aforementroned Blue Bunko Mary Lourse Trautwetter Marran Wolter and Ioan Wrlcox were runnrng a boardrng house They were eter nally experrmentrng wrth new recrpes Therr newest drsh was shoe strrng potatoes whrch could be used erther as food or as shoe laces Most people preferred them for shoe laces however Derwood Hagen and Raymond Krngston owned the Krngwood Pop Corporatron Even Pop lrkes our pop rs therr slogan Patrrcra Pro rs therr head stenographer Although Pat had wanted to be a model she was at least a model secretary Marran Grarchen and Bernrce Flanagan worked rn the ofEce for the firm that makes strtchy stretchy Corsets Cors ets good rs therr motto Davrd Gransden and Ted Crossman were radro announcers Dave announced for the Hr O Sterlrng serral whrch starred Stanton Dusbrber as the Lonesome Stranger and Lucky Leslre Coleman as Tronto Ted announced for the modern dance orchestra whrch was drrected by Clarence Srmon It was called The Sparklrng Rhythms of Clarence Dramonds and hrs Orchestra Anna Grosshans was rn the flower busrness Her specraltres were tuseys and panlrps lfWrllram Smrth had mvented a new devrce namely a gum chewer for all school chrldren to say nothmg of hrmse Bob Norton had hrs own orchestra The Sophrstoluttens The maestro and hrs gang were favontes at the Ann Arbor Garden Club loe Hatch was runnrng a machrne shop where he made du funnres that tum a do gadget whrch goes on a do hrckre that goes rn a do dadget Catherrne Oakes and Bob McClure were followrng rn the footsteps of De Vrncr Recently they had parnted the Bmprre State Burldrng fa prcture of coursej Don Brothers and Thomas Harner owned busrnesses of therr own Don was rn the rnsurance busrness where he sold Crashum Smashum but dont Mashum rnsurance Tom was a barber Hrs shop was called The Scalpum Shop Ruth Brown and Nora Collrns were prrvate secretarres for detectrves Snoop Snrtch and Snatch MBFIOD Cook was runnrng a woodwork shop where he had an order for srx cradles from Papa Mrone Ellen DeVee was a beauty operator at Wrggy Srsters Beauty Shoppe Shrrley Tucker and Faye Lynn were rnstructors of flyrng at Crty Arrport rn Detrort They were not having much success however srnce there was so much drsturbance from therr good lookrng puprls lNot grrls ertherj d k Eunrce Ashton and Marran Johnson were runnrng a roadsrde stand where they sold 2 ft long hot dogs and soft rrn s Geraldrne Frye and Adelle Campbell were nrnnmg the Songster Sewrng Machrne Company Dorothy Freeman and Earthleane Foley were both rn busrness Dorothy had a bakery called the Paste ry Shop Earthleane was a model rn one of New Yorks smartest shops C f Samuel Clark and james Wrllrams were professronal food tasters for that smart restaurant called The Bat More a e Gerald Power was rovrng the seven seas Of course everyone knows the old sayrng A grrl rn every port Well - 1 9 ' . i 9 ' - Q . .4 u . . . . . , . J . , , , 1 s 1 I . , . . . M . . ,, . . . . . n o - . . . Q rt 1 an ' 1 - n . . . . ,, ,, , . ., .. . . . . . . . a 1 - rr n a - ' . , . - rr - - n rr - H . . , , , . rr vs - - ' . . - rr . . ,, , . - tr as rr n - , . . ,, , . . ,, a v n ' - u - - -1 - . 1 , ' a ' . l , . rs Q u - - rs ' ,, v v - - . . . . . .. . ,, n v - ss - - 1 an a 1 ' - , . - . as as . . . . U N - 1 ' . - s . . . U - n ' . ., . . N ' Y 1 .