The ORACLE
1920
Lansing High School Yearbook
SENIORS
| NAME | A.K.A | QUOTE | ORGANIZATIONS |
| Donald Davis | Don | "A worthy gentleman - Valiant as a lion and wondrous affable." | President '20, Secretary of Oracle Board, House of Representatives, Junior Ex. |
| Mildred Kinney | - | "Most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty." | Vice President '20, Senior Banquet Committee, Junior Ex., Euripidean |
| Gertrude Rosecrans | Jack | "So cool, so calm, so bright." | Secretary '20, Junior Hop Committee, Junior Ex., Euripidean |
Radcliffe Fulton |
- | "Friends may betray, authorities may tyrannize and the wicked may triumph, but it cannot touch him." | Treasurer '20, President '17, Debating '19, '20, Banquet Committees '19, '20. |
| Clarissa Anderson | - | "I believe in gettin' as much good outer life as I kin-and I've got a happy feelin' in me most of the time." | Assistant Zodiac Editor, Associate Editor Oracle, Vice-President '18, Secretary '19, Adelphic |
| Lloyd G.Avery | - | "No man ever spoke more neatly, more precisely, more weighty; or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered." | Assistant Editor of Oracle, Business Manager Zodiac '20, Senior Banquet Committee, Business Manager Junior Ex. |
| Evangeline Allen | - | "Noise is waste. The silent sun is mightier than the whirlwind." | - |
| Ruth Arbaugh | - | "A merry dancer." | Euphronian |
| Chester Baker | - | "A gentleman who loves to hear himself talk." | Debating Team '19, '20; Speaker House of Rep, Chairman Junior Picnic Com., Senior Play Com. |
| Elizabeth C. Bartholomew | - | "To know her is to love her- And love but her forever, For nature made her what she is, And never made another." | Vice-President '17, Zodiac Staff '18, Oracle Board '20, President Euphronian '20 |
| Dorothy Barrett | Dot | "Nothing can constitute good-breeding which has not good nature for its foundation." | Williamston H.S. three years |
| Harold George Bauerle | - | "A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy." | Junior Ex., Orchestra '19, '20, Glee Club '20, Bath H.S. two years |
| Gertrude Barnes | - | "More have repented of speech than of silence." | - |
| Glenn Baker | - | "A soldier - Fit to stand by Caesar." | - |
| Lester E. Bendykson | Ben | "To be a well favored man is a gift of fortune." | - |
| Belva E. Berg | Bobby | "Pretty and witty." | - |
| Kenneth Black | - | "I'd had rather hear a brazen candlestick turned, Or a dry wheel grate on an axel tree, And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry." | Treasurer '19, Advertising Manager Oracle, Sophomore banquet Committee, Junior Ex. |
| Christine Bludeau | Chris | "Young girls have SUCH spirits!" | - |
| Emerel Brown | - | "The foolishest of the foolish are those who try to be the least foolish." | - |
| Beatrice Bowman | Bee | "You may trust in me. I am not at all changeable and I am not unreasonable." | - |
| Ruth Bowdish | - | "Only the young die good." | Junior Ex., Glee Club |
| Robert P. Briggs | Bob | "The worst fault you have is to be in love." | Ass't. Adv. Manager Zodiac '18, Advertising Manager Zodiac '19, Senior Class Play Committee, Cliosophic |
| Irene Bowser | - | "The stars do not shout; they only shine." | Zodiac Staff '20, Euphronian |
| Janet Boyce | Jan | "To praise her, were To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw perfume on the violet, To smoothe the ice, to add another hue to the rainbow." |
Euphronian |
| Wilmot Buckingham | Buck | "A lawn tennis mind cannot understand a football soul." | Football '18, '19, Baseball '19, 20 |
| Rob't. Allen Burhans | Bob | "An eye like Mars- to threaten and command." | Decoration Committee '16, Junior Ex., Ass't Adv. Manager Oracle, First Lieut. Military Training |
| Charlotte M. Brownson | - | "There is no time like the pleasant." | - |
| Rhena G. Brokaw | - | "If I can't do anything else to help along, I smile." | Chorus and Glee Club |
| Theodore Burdick | Ted | "What mighty ills have not been done by woman? Who was it betrayed the capitol? A woman! Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman! Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy in ashes? Woman! Woman! Destructive, damnable, deceitful Woman! | Football '17, '18 Junior Ex. Committee |
| Pamela Brown | Pam | "Her soul was like a star and dwelt apart." | Three years in East Lansing H.S., Frasoris |
| Vance L. Bullen | Vancie or Bill |
"She outstrips all praise." | Freshman year in Fowlerville H.S. |
| Earl Budd | Earlie | "Smile! Smile! Smile!" | Yell Master Class '20, Senior Banquet, Leader of Band, Folly Day |
| Wilma Chamberlain | Billy | "Self-possession is the greatest possession of all." | - |
| Herbert J. Calhoun | Skirts | "A blush is beautiful - but often inconvenient." | - |
| June Calahan | - | "Like a sweet, melodious bird she sings- Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear." | Assistant Art Editor Zodiac '18, Chairman Junior Ex. Committee, Glee Club, Adelphic |
| Ruth Christopher | Rufus | "Here's a smile to those who love me, And a sigh to those who hate And whatever sky's above me- Here's a heart for any fate." |
Chairman Soph. Decorating Com., Class Pin Committee '19, Junior Ex. |
| Alberta Clark | - | "More yellow was her hair than the flower of the broom, And her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave." | Vive President '18, Junior Ex. Committee, Senior Hop Committee |
| Lelia I. Coleman | Lee | "We've but a little while to stay upon this whirling sphere, so let's look up and be gay the little while we are here." | - |
| Kenneth Lester Canniff | - | "On their own merits modest men are dumb." | Senior Decorating Committee |
| E. Elaine Clise | Red or Torchy | "I do not know of any way so sure of making others happy as being so myself." | 1 year Chesaning H.S. 1 year Owosso H.S. |
| Trevor L. Christie | Ted | "One capable of observation, acute in remark, prompt, active, calm, intrepid." | Debating '20, Class Baseball '19, Class Basketball '20, One and 1/2 years Fresno H.S., Fresno, Calif. |
| Marian Cook | - | "An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves." | Three years in Mason H.S. |
| Margaret E. Collins | - | "A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market." | - |
| Floris H. Colvin | - | "Kindness is a language the dumb can speak,and deaf can hear and understand." | 2 years Grand Rapids central H.S., 1 year at Muskegon H.S. |
| Alice Corbett | Allie | "Why should life all labor be?" | Adelphic |
| Roy Clifford | - | "He was both high and low; both rich and poor; both young and old." | - |
| Mae Louise Cox | Coppie | "Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society." | Three years at Mason H.S. |
| Maxine E. Corliss | - | "My attachments are strong and never weaken." | Junior Ex., Invitation Committee, Euripidean |
| Alice Cook | Cooky | "Pleasant company always accepted." | - |
| Lena M. Cook | - | "I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species." | - |
| Maye Crawford | - | "Whatever else you are in life - be agreeable." | Chorus, Military Training |
| Carl Cross | - | "Young, sound, and impudent." | Folly Day Committee |
| Ellen Draper | - | "A merry heart and true." | |
| Frances Ann Dodd | - | "A coquette is a woman without any heart who makes a fool of a man without any head." | Junior Ex., Class Pin Committee, Cap and Gown Committee |
| Elinor P. Daferner | - | "Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you." | Class Motto Committee, Junior Ex. Com., Chairman Senior Invitation Com. |
| Vivian Daniels | - | "Good humor is the health of the soul." | - |
| Carl George Egeler | Shrimp Jr. | "Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, As if he mocked himself, and scorned his spirit That could be moved to smile at anything." |
Sophomore Picnic Committee. Junior Picnic Committee, Folly Day Committee, Junior Ex. |
| Thomas B. Eldred | Tom | "The best thing in him is his complexion." | Junior Ex. |
| Lawrence E. Emerson | Larry | "What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other." | 3 years East Lansing H.S., One semester in Manual Training H.S. indianapolis, Ind. |
| Zera K. Esler | Bud | "A good fellow - Always ready to make himself generally useful." | Second Team Football '18, Class track, Basket Ball, Indoor Baseball |
| Esther Felzke | - | "I deliver my words not by numbers but by weight." | - |
| Helen Ferguson | - | "I am young and earnest; and energy and determination have done wonders many a time." | - |
| Beatrice Grace Fish | Bee | "Unaffected and sincere." | - |
| Christine V. Frappier | John | "Men were deceivers ever." | Orchestra, Glee Club |
| Gladys Franks | Franks | "Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done." | Junior Ex, Class Day Committee |
| Donald Graham | Don | "Love is like a dizziness, It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness." |
Associate Editor Oracle, President '19, Football '16, '17, '18, '19; basket Ball '17, '18, '19, '20 |
| Ernest Gerke | - | "But little noise is made by those who do much." | Football '19 |
| Rolene Green | - | "The proper study of mankind is man." | Junior Ex. |
| Dorothy E. Gardner |
Dicky | "She is a favorite with everyone here- and deserves to be." | Invitation Committee |
| Robert K. Gordon | Bob | "The glass of fashion and the mold of form." | - |
| Frances Graham | - | "Always thoughtful, kind, untroubled." | 1 year in Arthur Hill H.S. Saginaw |
| Myrtle Geisenhaver | - | "Be not simply good, be good for something." | 2 years in Dimondale H.S. |
| Helen German | Spooky | "Still I am learning." | Cliosophic |
| Marjorie Gitchell | - | "A woman who observes and reflects in a most uncommon manner." | 2 years Evart H.S., Glee Club |
| Mark Ivan Hammond | - | "Mirth, with thee I mean to live." | 1 year in Detroit, Junior Ex. |
| Donald C. Hansen | Don | "An adventurous spirit." | Football '18, Track '20, Junior Ex., Senior Decorating Committe |
| Kathryne Hart | Katy | "I chatter, chatter as I go." | - |
| Walter Hall | Dick | "Born to speak all mirth and no matter." | Basket Ball '20 |
| Edna L. Hawley | Eddie | "A good disposition is more valuable than gold." | - |
| Richard Harb | Dick | "Idle weeds are fast in growth." | Glee Club |
| Lauren Hewett | Bud | "That rarest of all things- A constant man." | Senior Banquet Committee, Frasoris, Baseball '20 |
| Mabel E. Hart | Mabs | "So kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition." | - |
| Arthur S. Hetchler | Art | "A gentleman of great courage, good understanding - but invincible modesty." | Chorus, Class Day Committee |
| Martha R. Hoag | Bill | "So perfect and so peerless." | Glee Club |
| Gladys Hoff | Glad or Hoffy | "The all seeing sun never saw her match since first the world begun." | Editor-in-chief Oracle, Debating '19, Zodiac Staff '19, Chairman Senior Play Committee |
| Harold House | Housie | "To be heard rather then to be seen." | - |
| Alfred E. Howell | Al | "I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch and I WILL BE HEARD! | Debating '20, Business Manager Oracle, Junior Ex. Committee, Treasurer House of Rep. |
| Harold A. Hunter | Tug | "The face is a bulletin board, on which is advertised what is going on inside of us." | - |
| Dorothy Hubbard | Pat | "Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky." |
Oracle Board, Senior Hop Committee, 3 years Mt. Pleasant H.S. |
| Ruth Hyde | Ruthie | "Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk." | Secretary Cliosophic '19, Vice President Cliosophic '20 |
| Charles Hutt | Huttie | "I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed
and won- To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration." |
2 years Dimondale H.S., Junior Ex., Baseball '19 |
| Frances Jenkins | Fan or Frank | "Wise and slow; they stumble that run fast." | 1 year Williamston H.S., 1 semester Pontiac H.S. |
| Ivah Jane Jessup | Ivy Jane | "My glory is to subdue men." | - |
| Emil A. Kerkaw | - | "Whoever invented rules and formulas anyway?" | Baseball |
| Bliss Keeler | - | "He uses his folly as a stalking-horse And under the presentation of that he shoots his wit." |
Junior ex., Zodiac Representative '16, '17 |
| Harry George Kipke | Kip | "His name is great in mouths of wisest censure." | Football '16, '17, '18, '19 Basket Ball '18, '19, '20 Baseball '17, '19, '20 Track '17, '18 |
| Helen Kirby | - | "Was never eye did see that face Was never ear did hear that tongue Was never mind did mind her grace That ever thot the journey long; But eyes and earls and every thot Were with her sweet perfections caught." |
Secretary Board of Control, Zodiac Staff, President of Frasoris, Junior Hop Committee |
| Gordon B. Kittell | Pete | "Work may come and work may go- But I'll remain unemployed." | - |
| Waldemar A. Koessel | Wally | "Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was." |
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| Elizabeth Krieger | - | "Never bold - so still and quiet, that her motion blushes at itself." | - |
| Harry R. Kull | - | "A man that fortune's buffets and rewards, has taken with equal thanks." | - |
| Paul Lawrason | Slim | "Full many a lady have I eyed with best regard." | Ass't. Adv. Manager Oracle, Glee Club |
| Dorothy Bowers Larson | - | "She's a most exquisite lady- A most fresh and delicate creature." | Sophomore Banquet Committee, Junior Ex., Senior Play Committee |
| Rena Lewis | - | "Gentle and sweet to all who see her." | Glee Club, Euripidean |
| Gearldine Agnes Lundy | - | "I am as constant as the Northern Star of whose fixed and lasting qualities there is no fellow in the firmament." | Secretary '18, Junior Ex., Junior and Senior Decorating Committee, Adelphic |
| George O. Lundberg |
- | "A man who acts like a man." | - |
| Helen F. LeGear | Al or Lee | "She is pretty to walk with And witty to talk with And pleasant too, think on." |
3 years Central H.S. Mansfield Ohio, Senior Folly Day Committee |
| Winifred Landon | Win | "Whatever else you are in life- be agreeable." | Euripidean |
| Theda Longcor | - | "There is such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay." |
1 year at Ludington H.S. |
| W. Rankin Lewis | - | "A man of whom Lansing High School is justly proud." | Football |
| Dorothy MacLaughlin | Dot | "If there are men in whom folly has never appeared it is because they have never ben closely examined." | Chairman Senior Folly Day Com., Junior Ex., Oracle Board, Zodiac Staff |
| Paul Maier | - | "Go slow and easy if you want to get along with me." | - |
| Mabel Mahler | Molly | "She's created of every creature's best." | Debating '19, Junior Ex., President Adelphic '19, Zodiac Staff |
| Rosswell Matthew | Mike | "Tis the mind that makes the body rich." | 2 years in Holt High School |
| Berenice McDonel | Mac | "A wonder in her azure that fascinates." | - |
| Cecil B. Marble | Nodey | "Blessings on thee, little man." | 2 years in Bannister H.S. |
| Merna B. McDonald | - | "There is a little of the melancholy in me." | Onondaga H.S., Burdette H.S. |
| Marian McKim | - | "I do nothing carelessly or in a hurry." | Chorus, Adelphic |
| Dan D. McCulough | Mc or Dana | "The knave is handsome, young and has all those requisites in him that green maids look after." | Chairman Senior Hop Com., Junior Ex., President Frasoris |
| Mary McKinley | - | "To be great is to be misunderstood." | Euphronian, Chairman of Cap and Gown Com. |
| Edwin G. McLean |
Eddy or Mac | "He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat- it ever changes with the next block." | Junior Ex., Frasoris, Senior Class day Play |
| Lawrence Arthur McKee | - | "With all his faults he is an admirable man." | 1 year Kalamazoo Central H.S., 2 years Ostego H.S. |
| Ila Izora McKinnon | - | "Nothing would keep her at home if there were friends to serve or comfort outdoors." | 3 years at Flushing H.S. |
| Donald Merritt | Don | "Firm of words, Speaking of deeds and deedless in his tongue." |
Chorus |
| Roma Minore | - | "A beauty wrought out from within" | Euphronian |
| Golda Morford | - | "Wearing throughout all this tract of years the white flower of a blameless life." | Chorus, Euphronian |
| Vannette L. Meehan | Van | "A woman's heart like the moon is always changing, but there is always a man in it." | 3 years Battle Creek H.S., Folly Day Committee |
| Alton Henry Murdick | Al | "Of untarnished honor; loyal and chivalrous." | Junior Ex., President Cliosophic, President Industrial Course, Senior Commencement Com. |
| Elgin Edwin Narrin | Narrin | "My mind is my kingdom" | Boy's Prize Army Essay Contest '20, House of representatives, 1 year in Michigan's smallest High School, Excelsior Township, Kalkaska County |
| Clair Neller | - | "Forever foremost in ranks of fun." | Glee Club, Football |
| R. Leone Oakley | Loney | "It's the songs ye sing an' the smiles ye wear Thats a-makin the sunshine everywhere." |
Junior Ex., Chorus, Glee Club, Euphronian |
| Geraldine Owen | Joe | "Woman thy name is curiosity." | Euripidean |
| Erban Paxton | - | "One still strong man in a blatant land." | 3 years Grover H.S. Ohio |
| Harold Palmiter | Shorty | "Where is there any author in the world that teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?" | Saranac High School 3 years |
| Florence R. Peets | Peggy | "A quiet tongue shows a wise head." | - |
| Rayburn G. Peterman | Dick | "Shadow of annoyance never came near me." | 3 years at Crystal H.S. |
| Marjorie E. Pennell | - | "Why care for grammar as long as we are good?" | - |
| Beamon J. Potter | - | "He doesn't say very much- But when he starts to speak You'd be surprised." |
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| Pauline Post | Pill | "There is a language in her eye, her cheek, her lips- nay, her foot speaks." | Art Editor Oracle, Junior Ex., Vice President '19, Folly Day Committee |
| Ronald J. Preston | Slim | "Sae truth his heart, sae smooth his speech." | Zodiac Staff '20, Glee Club, Track Captain '20 |
| Edith Pregulman | Edel | "Where the river is the deepest it runs the quietest." | - |
| Cecil E. Rawden | Rawden | "Disguise our bondage as we will 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still." |
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| Frederick Jack Raymond | - | "he has a shape to win grace, though he has no wit." | Vice President Frasoris '18 |
| Mabel Richmond | - | "Youth comes but once in a lifetime." | Chorus |
| Leslie Robinson (male) |
Joe | "A flow of words is no proof of wisdom." | Chorus. Glee Club, Cliosophic |
| Alice Marie Raider | Al | "A woman fair and stately." | - |
| Frances Rogers | Frankie | "Nature never framed a woman's heart of purer stuff." | Secretary Class '16-'17, St. Louis High School, Chairman Class Play, Washington D.C., Girls Basket Ball, Washington D.C., Class Day Committee Chairman |
| Lee Rosenbush (male) |
Rosey | "The word 'impossible' is not in my dictionary." | Chorus |
| Ruth L. Rogers | - | "All the men in the world would not make me loose one hour." | - |
| Cleo S. Roberts | - | "With mirth and laughter I while away my hours." |
Chorus |
| Harold William Sack | - | "Stiff in opinions." | Chorus |
| Ethel Marie Smith | - | "Success in life consists of doing common things uncommonly well." | 2 1/2 years Ovid High school |
| Clare E. Slaughter | - | "The mildest of men." | - |
| Orville Sponsler | - | "Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great." | - |
| Martha L. Starring | Mart | "She hath a cheery lip, bonnie eye, a passing, pleasing tongue." | Cliosophic |
| Florence Marie Strudley | - | "I'd rather hear a dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me." | Chorus |
| Gerald R. Starling | - | "Give me leave to speak my mind." | 2 years at Wacousta Zodiac Representative |
| Helen Stoll | - | "A woman's love is false." | Junior Ex., Chorus, Glee Club |
| Marie Swigart | Heke | "Good breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least." | Chorus |
| Hazel Thompson | - | "A cheerful painstaking merry spirit." | - |
| Dorothy L. Towle | Dot | "Handsome is as handsome does, but it saves a lot of trouble to be born good-looking." | Junior Ex., Senior Folly day Committee, Commencement decorating Committee, Euphronian |
| Leslie Tornblom | Let | "An amiable boy of very good abilities." | Junior Ex. Committee, Junior Ex., Cliosophic |
| Ruby E. Twitchell | Rube | "This world belongs to the energetic." | Chorus |
| Harold Underhill | Undy | "I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on, educe the man." | Vocational department's article for Oracle '20 |
| Maize A. Vanderbeck | Mickie | "Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean." |
Dimondale H.S. 2 years |
| Edward VanDervoort | Ed | "Why will men worry themselves so?" | Football |
| Ruth VanWinkle | Rip | "My true love hath my heart and I have his." | Class Secretary '17, Junior Ex., Class Picnic Committee '18, Class Day Play Committee |
| Bernadine Warner | Beno | "I cannot love, I am too young." | Sophomore Banquet Committee, Frasoris |
| Stanley E. Wall | Stub | "His face- the map of truth, honor and loyalty" | 19 months in France, 2 1/2 years Holland H.S., Received "R" in Football '19, Baseball All-Fresh '13 |
| Nellie E. Weidenhamer | - | "Genius is intensive labor." | 2 years at Perry High School |
| Gladys Wieland | - | "Deeper, deeper, let us toil In the mines of knowledge." |
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| Edwin D. White | - | "If everyone was as reasonable as I,what a heaven this earth would be." | 2 years Grand Ledge H.S. 1 year Charlotte H.S., Orchestra, Band |
| Mary Wilson | Tom | "Nothing great was ever accomplished without enthusiasm." | Class Secretary '18-'19, Editor in Chief Zodiac '19-'20, Chairman Soph Picnic Committee Pres. '20 Adelphic |
| Gerald Wicks | Jerry | "I can be obstinate enough with men if need be, but women can twist me around their fingers at will." | Football '17 '18, Junior Ex. |
| Ellsworth Willis | Willy | "Like some young cypress- Tall and dark and straight." |
Junior Ex. Committee |
| Frank Wileden | - | "Richest in saving common sense, And, as the greatest only are In his simplicity, sublime." |
1 year at Ortonville H.S. |
| Lawrence Winegar | - | "A man who can find comfort and occupation in his books." | - |
| Dorothy Jane Yates | Dot | "As merry as the day is long." | 2 years Olivet H.S. 1 year Eaton Rapids H.S. Chorus |
| Leila M. Young | - | "A lady fresh and fair." | School-marm Folly Day Chorus, Glee Club |
| Mildred Katherine Yunker | - | "Be gone, dull care, Thou and I shall never agree." |
Chorus |
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