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Janesville High School

The Phoenix 1927

--Seniors--

Class of June 1927

Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin

Graduate

Notes

ANDERSON, Earl
If pleasure comes he'll always enjoy it,
If trouble arises he knows how to destroy it.
Student Cabinet (2); Track (3, 4); Boys' Glee Club (4); Phoenix (4)
ARNOLD, Emmet
I am not in the roll of common men.
Stock Judging (2, 3); Phoenix (4)
ATHON, Josephine
I have lived and loved.
Band (2, 3, 4); Girl Reserves (2, 3, 4); Spanish Club (3); High School Orchestra (4)
ATWOOD, Dorothy
Not guilty of a single thing, except perhaps studying.
Dramatic Club (4); Glee Club (2); Blue-J (3, 4)
BALIS, Donald
Donald is always willing to lend
He gains much friendship in the end.
BARKER, Frances
A pretty, lovable, little girl.
Girl Reserves (2, 3, 4)
BARKLEY, Mary
Mary's athletic and very active,
Lively, peppy, and very attractive.
Band (3, 4); Basketball (2, 3, 4); Baseball (3); Volleyball (3, 4); G.A.A. (3, 4); Spanish Club (3); Squad Leader (3, 4)
BARLASS, Agnes
A handful of fun is better than a bushel of learning.
Band (2, 3, 4); Gym Leader (3, 4); Orchestra (4); Spanish Club (3); Basketball (3, 4); Baseball (2, 3, 4); Volleyball (3, 4); G.A.A. (3, 4); Class Secretary (2); Blue-J (4)
BARLASS, Harold
Harold is a handsome boy,
His dancing and his wavy hair
To ladies is a perfect joy.
Football (3, 4); Basketball (2, 3, 4); Class Basketball (2, 3); Baseball (2); Band (2, 3)
BEERS, Griffith
A willing worker
Never a shirker;
Always on time
Saves every dime.
Swimming Team (2); Blue-J (4); Orchestra (4)
BERN, Lillian
Not too large and not too small, but sweet and loved by all.
Grace Dodge Club (3, 4); Commercial Club (4); Blue-J Staff (4)
BIER, Leo
He always does what he sets out to do.
BIERKNESS, Edmund
He may be blonde, but he isn't fickle.
Band (2, 3, 4); Blue-J (2); Advisory Basketball (4)
BOSTWICK, Edna
Sober but not serious - quiet but not idle.
Commercial Club (4)
BUCKINGHAM, Marjorie
If you are wise, she says
You'll make the most of every day.
Blue-J (2, 3); Phoenix (3); Dramatic Club (3, 4)
BURROWS, Ruth
A modest, merry, methodical maiden.
French Club (2); Girl Reserves (3, 4)
BUSH, Roland
When it comes to drawing maps
To him we lift our caps.
"Oh for a ride on that 'motor-bike,'"
Cry the little boys who hike.
CALDOW, Kathryn
I have lived - I have yet to love.
Girl Reserves (2, 3, 4); Gym Leader (2, 3, 4); Latin Club (2); G.A.A. (3, 4); Blue-J (3, 4); Student Cabinet (4); Volleyball (4); Swimming Club (3)
CHAMBERLAIN, Genevieve
We may be as good as we please if we please to be good.
Dramatic Club (3, 4)
CHASE, Elizabeth
A grain of mirth beneath her air of dignity.
Latin Club (2); Glee Club (2, 3, 4); Spanish Club (3); Student Cabinet (3); Blue-J (3, 4); Class Secretary (4); Volleyball (4)
CLEMONS, Ila
Amind of your own is worth four of those of your friends.
G.A.A.; Baseball (2, 3); Volleyball (2, 3, 4); Glee Club (2); Spanish Club (3, 4); Gym Leader (3, 4); Girl Reserves (3)
COHEN, Lillian
When she will talk - ye gods! how she will talk.
Glee Club (2); Latin Club (2); Student Cabinet (2); Dramatic Club (3, 4); Blue-J (4); Phoenix (4)
CONNELL, Margaret
Of all glad words of tongue or pen
The gladest of these, 'Let's dance again.'
Gym Leader (2, 3, 4); Baseball (2, 3); Basketball (2, 3, 4); Volleyball (2, 3); Band (2, 3, 4); G.A.A. (3, 4)
CULLEN, Robert
A true appreciation of the traits handed down by his Scottish ancestors.
Band (2, 3, 4); Hi-Y (3, 4); Class Treasurer (4); President Senior Cabinet (4)
CULLEN, Ruth
A face demure, but oh, those eyes.
Latin Club (2); French Club (3); Glee Club (4)
CUNNINGHAM, Mildred
She's a wizard with her books.
Basketball (2, 3); Baseball (2); Volleyball (3); Chemistry Club (3); Dramatic Club (3)
DAHLBERG, Margaret
Would that there were more like her.
Spanish Club (3); Blue-J Staff (4)
DAVIS, Raymond
He is wise who doth talk but little.
Advisory Basketball (3, 4)
DECKER, Everett Industrious, cheerful and kind.
DECKER, Harold
H'mn, I don't believe I can recall just now.
Stock-judging (3, 4); Band (2)
DELANEY, James
Our "Darb" leads an easy life
Always free from care and strife.
Football (2, 3, 4); Basketball (3, 4); Baseball (3, 4); Class Baseball (2); Class Basketball (2)
DILLON, Marlene
Oh well, all Seniors can't be tall.
Spanish Club (3)
DIXON, Chester
In vain for faults of his we pry
His nature is quiet, reserved and shy.
DOCKHORN, Wayne
I am great in words,
If not in deeds.
Mathematics Club (3); Latin Club (2); Band (2, 3, 4); Hi-Y Club (3, 4); Orchestra (4); Phoenix Assistant Editor (4); Glee Club (4)
DONAGAN, Mary
I love the boys - not!
Commercial Club (3, 4)
DONAGAN, Robert
Let's smile and be jolly
To worry is folly.
DOOLEY, Donald
Women may guess my deepest thoughts, because I haven't any.
Band (2, 3, 4)
EAGEN, Frances
And her tongue ran on and on.
Grace Dodge Club (3, 4); Commercial Club (4)
ESSER, Mildred
A winning way, a friendly smile,
In all, a girl who is worthwhile.
Latin Club (2); Secretary of Class (3); Student Cabinet (3); Dramatic Club (3, 4); Phoenix Staff (4); Blue-J Staff (4)
FIGOR, Marian
She kept her counsel and went her way.
Commercial Club (4)
FIGOR, Thomas
Here's to one who's sly enough to escape a lady's web.
FRANK, Ann
A quiet maiden, intent on her work,
We know her duty, she will not shirk.
Latin Club (2)
FREDENDALL, Gordon
Responsible for the maintenance of the equilibrium of the universe.
Mathematics Club (2, 3); Latin Club (2, 3); Hi-Y Club (4); Phoenix (4); Mercury Editor (3)
FREESE, Edward
Life is a pleasant institution
Let us take it as it comes.
FREESE, Fred
I bother no one and no one bothers me.
FRIIS, Rosemarie
Her heart is as sunny as her hair.
Latin Club (2); French Club (3, 4); Commercial Club (3, 4)
GAFFEY, Charlotte
So pretty, so young - she can't live long - single.
Student Cabinet (4); Commercial Club (4)
GALBRAITH, Gordon
His honest heart is filled with manly kindness.
GAULKE, Nora
Oh say, did you see,
That young man look at me -
Glee Club (2, 3); Student Cabinet (4); Girl Reserves (2, 3, 4); Phoenix Staff (4); Latin Club (2)
GEORGE, Lois
I am just what I seem to be.
Glee Club (3); Dramatic Club (3, 4); Girl Reserves (4)
GESTELAND, Lester
They say a joke is a very serious thing. His wit is not that of others, but his own.
Blue-J (3, 4); Phoenix (4); Student Cabinet (4)
GILBERTSON, Alice
As merry as the day is long.
Girl Reserves (2, 3); Spanish Club (3); Orchestra (4)
GLEASON, Vera
And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true.
Glee Club (2, 3, 4); Orchestra (2, 3, 4); Grace Dodge (3, 4); Latin Club (2); Phoenix (4); Band (3)
GOETHE, Lawrence
For he's a jolly good fellow.
Football (3); Mgr. Basketball (4)
GOWER, Genevieve
Mirth in her eyes, and grace in every step.
Girl Reserves (3); Latin Club (2); Glee Club (3); Dramatic Club (4)
GRAVES, Dorothy
She is fair, if we may judge her.
Band (2, 3, 4)
GRISWOLD, Gwendolyn
Yours is the charm of calm good sense.
Band (2, 3, 4)
HAGAR, Muriel
A lovely woman nobly planned
To love, to labor, and command.
French Club (2); Glee Club (3)
HAIN, Bernice
She poses, talks, and posing talks again.
Latin Club (2); Glee Club (2, 3, 4); Dramatic Club (3, 4); French Club (3, 4)
HAMILTON, Manuel
To him the teacher's art is given,
He wonders, "Are there schools in heaven -"
Class Basketball (3, 4); Triangle Hi-Y (2); Class Basketball (3, 4); Blue-J Manager (1926), Editor (1927)
HANRAHAN, Arthur
He keeps his honesty and truth,
His independent tongue and pen.
Class President (2, 4); Hi-Y Club (2, 3, 4); President Hi-Y (3); Student Cabinet (2, 3); Cabinet President (4); Advisory Group Basketball (2, 4); Football (3); Basketball (3); Oratorical Contest (3); French Club (3); Phoenix Staff (4)
HANSON, Mildred
Better to ask than go astray.
Commercial Club (3); Dramatic Club (4)
HARKER, Donald
I sat and gazed, but saw not.
Latin Club (2); Hi-Y Club (2, 3, 4); Blue-J (3); Phoenix (4)
HEFFERNON, Virginia
All the boys, they smile at me,
When comin' thru' the hall.
Latin Club (2)
HEMMING, George
He says he's such a little speck,
The girls won't notice him, by heck!
HEMMINGWAY, Hugh
What's the use of hurrying -
Father Time is growin old slowly.
Hi-Y Club (2, 3); President Hi-Y (4); Latin Club (2); Debating Team (3); Blue-J Staff (3, 4); Glee Club (3); Phoenix (4); Vice-President Cabinet (4)
HENKE, Fred
Girls may come and girls may go,
But I go on forever.
Phoenix (4)
HIELD, Ethelyn
We were made to be glad, not to be sad.
Glee Club (3, 4); French Club (3)
HILTON, Meta
As you liek her.
Band (2, 3, 4); Spanish Club (3); Orchestra (4)
HOWARD, Marjorie
Happy am I, from care I'm free
Why aren't they all contented like me?
Student Cabinet (2); Grace Dodge (4); Glee Club (4); Commercial Club (4)
HOWELL, Robert
He comes from the country far
In his little Ford touring car
He always tends strictly to work
And none have ever known him to shirk.
Latin Club (2); Hi-Y Club (3)
HUGGETT, Alice The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
JENSEN, Doris
Women delights me not,
I want men.
French Club (2); Student Cabinet (3); Dramatic Club (2, 3, 4); Phoenix (4)
JEROME, Alvin
A lion among the ladies is a dreadful thing.
Student Cabinet (4); Phoenix (4)
JERSILD, Beatrice
Dignity and grace are two of the things which she possesses.
Commercial Club (3, 4)
JORSCH, Helene
If music hath charms to soothe the savage beast,
Helen need fear no spinsterhood.
KAUFFMAN, Katherine
Her matchless frankness we adore
The frankest girl forevermore.
Dramatic Club (3); Spanish Club (3)
KERL, Leslie
A quiet fellow with little to say.
Fand (2, 3, 4)
KERSTEN, Helen
True blue to all, is she.
Commercial Club (3, 4)
KNIPSHIELD, Hazel
For she's a quiet little lass.
KNOPES, Harry
Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.
Publicity Committee (4)
KNUTSON, Paul
Life is what you make it,
The world is how you take it.
Advisory Basketball (3, 4); Blue-J (4); Student Cabinet (4)
KOEPNICK, Laura
The world's no longer if we worry
Life's no longer if we hurry.
Student Cabinet (4)
KUEHN, Marjorie
I'm resolved to grow fat and look young till forty.
LAMB, Ella
Thy modesty is a candle to thy merit.
Phoenix Staff (4)
LEE, Gladys
Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Dance and I'll dance too.
Phoenix Staff (4)
LINDUS, Adrian
Be your own self, and leave custom to those who need it.
LITNEY, Dale
Ready and true in every need,
Such men they say, are friends indeed.
Football (2, 3, 4); Basketball (2, 3, 4); Baseball (2, 3, 4); Phoenix Staff (3, 4)
LOERKE, Lucille
That cool possession of herself.
Glee Club (2, 3, 4); Commercial Club
LOKKEN, Mildred
Her manners are gentle, her friends many.
Commercial Club (4); Glee Club (4)
LORENTZEN, Arthur
One of our football stars - at least he's always out every night.
Basketball (2, 3, 4); Football (2, 3, 4); Baseball (2, 3); Track (2, 3, 4)
LOWTH, Jean
Liked by many, appreciated by all.
Girl Reserves (3, 4)
LUCHSINGER, Nicholas All the world's a stage and I do my part by cutting up.
LYKE, Anges Men interest me no more.
MacMULLEN, Dorothy
Full of wit, full of fun
Does she greet everyone.
Latin Club (2, 3); Baseball (3); Volleyball (3, 4); Squad Leader (3, 4); Orchestra (4); Phoenix (4)
MacMULLEN, Louise
She's won the people's favor with her tuneful serenades.
Glee Club (2, 3, 4); Phoenix (4)
MAHONEY, Margaret
Mighty sweet, mighty wise,
The fun just twinkles in her eyes.
Latin Club (2, 3); Student Cabinet (4)
MATTHEWS, Burtin
No lazy, but just doesn't feel like working.
Glee Club (3)
MAWHINNEY, Esther
Modest, and simple, and sweet, the very type of Priscilla.
Girl Reserves (2, 3); Grace Dodge (4); Glee Club (2, 3, 4); Dramatic Club (4); Spanish Club (3, 4); Volleyball (4); Declamatory Contest (4)
McGOWAN, Virginia
In the class room or in the hall
A pleasant smile she has for all.
Glee Club (3, 4); Dramatic Club (3, 4)
McGUIRE, Lillian
She's as fond of dates as an Arab.
Glee Club (2, 3, 4); Dramatic Club (3, 4)
MELAN, Emil By saying nothing one may pass for wise.
MILLER, Bernice
Her pet ambition is going fishing, a good looking man to catch on her hook.
Commercial Club (4); Glee Club (4)
MIRIPOLSKI, Elizabeth
An open hearted maiden.
Basketball (2, 3, 4); Commercial Club (3, 4)
MOHNS, Doane
He's not much for study,
But he seems to get by.
Glee Club (4)
MOHNS, Mabel
She's backward about coming forward.
Glee Club (4)
MOORE, Arthur
He looks like an angel, and acts like one too,
But we never can tell what an angel will do.
Band (2); Hi-Y (3); Phoenix (3); Blue-J (4); Glee Club (4)
MORK, Arthur
All things come to him who waits.
Agriculture Club (3); Glee Club (4)
MORSTADT, Frank
He's a good boy but he'd make a better bad one.
Band (2, 3, 4)
MURPHY, Suzanne
Her circle of friendship will ever grow
For she's the kind of girl that it's nice to know.
NAESER, Charles
Here's a man both modest and rare
For the opposite sex he gives not a care.
French Club (2); Blue-J (3, 4); Phoenix (3, 4); Vice-President Hi-Y (4)
NICHOLSON, Mary
Quick and unobtrusive in her ways.
Commercial Club (3, 4); Grace Dodge Club (4)
NICKEL, Norbert
If good qualities are measured in height, he has plenty.
Band (3); Baseball (3)
NICKOL, Walter
Football's not the only game I play,
You'll see me play the game of love some day.
Football (2, 3, 4); Basketball (2, 3, 4); Track (4)
OESTREICH, Cecelia
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Glee Club (3, 4); French Club (3, 4); Girl Reserves (2, 3, 4)
O'LEARY, Helen Nothing is more useful than silence.
O'LEARY, Veronica
A friendly maiden from top to toe.
Glee Club (4)
OLSON, Agnes The happiest women, like the happiest nations, leave no history.
OSTERHUS, Kathryn She looks bashful, but she's not.
PAGE, Joseph
All the ladies fall for me
I have such a pleasing physiognomy.
Blue-J (3, 4); Track (3, 4)
PODEWELL, Carmen
She has a smile that wins her many friends.
Girl Reserves (2, 3, 4); Commercial Club (3, 4); Baseball (2); Glee Club (4)
POPE, Leslie
What's a make-up card or two in my young life?
RABYOR, Dorothy
She has a unique affection
She is called a sensible girl.
Glee Club (3); Orchestra (3)
REILLY, Mary A joyful heart, a smiling face.
ROACH, Joseph
For what I will, I will, and there I end.
Spanish Club (3, 4); Blue-J (3, 4)
ROESLING, Harriett
Let the world glide by, I'll move not an inch.
Volleyball (2, 3, 4); Basketball (2, 3); Baseball (2, 3); Squad Leader (2, 3, 4)
SARASY, Eva Racine
When sweetness beams from lovely featues
The gods may call us lucky creatures.
Phoenix Editor (4); Phoenix Staff (3); Glee Club (3); Girl Reserves (2, 3, 4); Latin Club (2); Class Treasurer (2); Gym Leader (2)
SCHOENROCK, Alfred
He's a good pal both in school and out.
Orchestra; Glee Club; Latin Club
SCHWEGLER, Walter
If there's a girl in the case, I'm intersted.
Band, Swimming (2, 3, 4); Student Cabinet (4); Blue-J (4)
SHEEHAN, Martin
Irish and proud of it - Begorrah!
Football (3, 4)
SHEEHAN, Paul
Three things shine - the sun, the moon, and my hair.
Football (3, 4); Basketball
SINCOX, Alma
Her perfect manners, charm and grace
Will win her friends in every place.
Girl Reserves (2, 3, 4); Glee Club (2, 3); Blue-J (3); Commercial Club (4); Phoenix Staff (4); Vice-Rep. Student Cabinet (4)
SKELLEY, Chester
The trust I have is in my innocence.
Student Cabinet; Agriculture Club
SMITH, Thomas
A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the best of men.
Spanish Club; Blue-J Staff
SNYDER, Virginia
A busy woman to affairs
Who brightens other people's cares.
Blue-J (2, 3); Student Cabinet (2, 3); Vice-Pres. Student Cabinet (3); Basketball (4)
STEINER, Sylvia
Her hair is golden, her eyes are blue,
All a symbol that she is true.
Glee Club (2, 3, 4); Girl Reserves (2, 3, 4); Orchestra (4); Blue-J (4); Phoenix (4); Student Cabinet (4); Latin Club (2, 3, 4); Dramatic Club (4)
STENDEL, Helen
Serenely moving on her way.
Commercial Club (3, 4)
SULLIVAN, Agnes
A human Declaration of Independence -
French Club (2); Glee Club (2, 3); Dramatic Club (2, 3, 4); Phoenix (4); Commercial Club (4)
SULLIVAN, Catherine
Short and sweet.
French Club (2); Commercial Club (3, 4); Glee Club (4)
SUMMERS, Edward
Independence now and forever, Amen.
Blue-J (2, 3); Bus. Mgr. (3); Phoenix Bus. Mgr. (4); Spanish Club (4)
TARVER, Maude
One who knows what it is to do right,
And does it.
Spanish Club (2); Basketball (3)
TEAL, Henry
Wisely I say, "I am a bachelor."
Student Cabinet; Mathematics Club
THOMAS, Vyla
The wild west is not too wild for me.
Dramatic Club (2); Baseball (2, 3); Basketball (2); Glee Club (3); Commercial Club (3); G.A.A. (3); Volleyball (2, 3); Track (2, 3)
TRACY, Russell
Good men are mighty, mighty scarce.
Football (4); Track; Baseball; Advisory Group; Basketball
VIALL, Marian
Good and square
Tall and fair,
Lucky girl
With wavy hair.
VINEY, Roland
Oh! Why should life all labor be?
Band (2, 3, 4); Orchestra (2, 4); Class Pres (2); Student Cabinet (2); Blue-J (3)
WALDON, Frances
She is modest and shy
And good - oh my!
Latin Club (2)
WALLACE, Mildred
Tho Mildred hasn't much to say,
She'll say that she's here anyway.
French Club (3, 4)
WARD, Clarence
And leaning back, he yawned and fell asleep.
Class Pres. (3); Football (2, 3, 4); Basketball (4); Track (2, 3); Baseball (2, 3, 4); Agriculture Club (2)
WHIFFEN, John
Greater men than I might have lived, but I doubt it.
Financial Mgr. B.A.A. (2, 3, 4); Latin Club (2); Blue-J (3); Student Cabinet (4); Mathematics Club (3)
WHITTIER, John
I am fond of the company of ladies.
Band (2, 3, 4); Financial Mgr. B.A.A. (2, 3, 4)
WILEY, Hattie
Of all the people under the sun,
I am sure I love but one.
WIXOM, Gordon
Handsome men are rare.
Agriculture Club (3); Band (2); Student Cabinet (2)
WYLAM, Kathryne
A girl of remarkable kind
A truer friend you'll never find.
Girl Reserves (2, 3, 4); Commercial Club (3, 4); French Club (3, 4); Blue-J (3, 4); Phoenix (4)
YUENGST, Phillip Great are the fruits of labor.
ZABEL, Leona
A good disposition is more valuable than gold.
Commercial Club (3, 4)

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