Balboa High School - Zonian Yearbook (Balboa, Canal Zone Panama)

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In the foyer, selling tickets and smartly smacking her gum fchewing gumj is Lois Sasso. Brilliant celebrities, announced by Donald Fero, pause to speak into the telemike. Among th-em We find Alma Symonds, famous writer, Mary Fitzpatrick, scientist, who discovered the uitchykootchief' a germ carried by the common flea, Bob Rathgaber, head of the United States Society for Prevention of Poor Grammar, and his co-professor Ed Roth, Dennis Gilbert, one of the star pupils at the School for Leisure, Walter Friday, a comely looking doctor from Johns Hopkins. Oh, there's Fr-ed Middleton. He's an usher, but heis al. ways being fired for dancing when the music for the show starts. And there's Tom Foley, the star's director.. Jean Cole- man, famous singer, is in the audience. Now I see the business room of a large magazine publish. ing corporation, owned and managed by Mildred Rayburn. She is seated in a room marked 'Private,' seeking inspiration. Her office staff include.s the efficient Fran-ces Maguire, who, by vir- tue of her position as the best director in th-e Little Theatre, is now the drama editor of the magazine, Edith Wickran, editor of the saccharine fiction department, Carol Boggs, who main. tains a department M-en, and How to Marry Wealth , and Eleanor Dennis, who manages the section of 'Family Problems from Budget to Baby! Down in Panama, I see a. modern, well-kept building called 'Ye Olde Modiste Shoppe? Within its luxurious interior I see Muriel King describing the latest in spun platinum gowns to a group of fashionably dressed ladies. Without much difficulty, I can see Peggy Horter, the well known figure in naval society, Sarita Castel, known for her dramatic interpretations of people Who've been in 'the tropics too long, Betty Phillips, illustrator and art editor of the Panama Journal, and Jean Morgan, in. structor of swimming at the world's largest open-air pool near Bella Vista. In another room I see typists doing a rushing business, and among them. I see Virginia Preston, the world's fastest typist, Verna Price, an interpreter as well as typist, and Mary Foley, another rapid typist, I That scene has faded, but now I see the roof of what ap. pears to be the same building. An. autogiro, the only kind of airplane now in existence, is warming up. CTher-e's been a spell of cool weatherq All dressed up in hissuit of woven glass is pilot Robert Duvall who carries the latest styles from Panama. the center of style fashions, to all points north, west, south, and

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3 Club: fCUS, N . . FN L.s...L.NLs'-is , I lol. . aggincfgza N r , . s 'A l, , 1 1 IGHT 1 of the . Tai1s g Directed wn life, 3 Rb' I I CRYSTAL LIES Madame Predictofs shop was just large enough for two peo. ple to Squeeze into, to say nothing of the doughty Madame, seated before a small table on which reposed a small crystal ball. She fastened her beady bright eyes on her interlo-cutors' faces as they asked her, What does the future hold for our class ? 'The future will be pretty large to hold what I see in my infallible crystal, she said, after making a few passes at the thing, and muttering words that sounded strangely like, You'd better work this time, old crystal, or out you go ! I see a fog, but it's clearing. Ch, I see the floor in the SENATE. CIt needs sweepingj Um-and there's Dwight Shurtleff, the great Senator from Kansas. He's filibustering as usual but there's so much noise I can't tell what about. Then therels Bernard Keegan, the ex-actor, who is trying to get the floor. Albert Simka, the President of the Senate, has gone to sleep over his gavel. tHis neck will probably feel like the gavel went to sleep on him.j Ah, the ,scene has faded. . HI see a large banquet hall with a long table laid with the feast. One person only do I see--It's Stanley Whaler, President of the United States' Tall Story Club. It seems the other mem- bers dropped out when he became president. Too much com- petition! The scenes are coming quick and fast. Here's a large building, occupying five city blocks. It's Scotty Michaelson's School for Learning the Art of Leisure. It is packed with peo- le and poor 'Scotty is working so hard he has no time for prac. p A . ticing what he preaches. Incidentally, the building was de- signed by the eminent artist, Gene Clinchard, and has huge caria- tures designed of glass on the outer walls. 4'And now I see a theatre packed to capacity. The name announces that Corrigan's Colossal Theatre now presents in person that glamorous star of stage and screen, Phyllis Bue. b t ' t be sent all over the country via tele- chele. I-Ier eau y is o I , vision, an invention which has been made a household word by . 1. .t Sidney Randolph. In the front row S1tS her proud pub ICI y agent, Culbert Shedlock, and two rows be-hind him is the notori. ' ic Carl Hoffman who looks exceedingly glum because ous crit , . he can't, for the life of him, find anything wrong with her per. formance.

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east. Down in the shop again Q'Tis marvelous old crystallj I can see Mildred Seeley, the beautiful model, posing for third dimension pictures. Dorothy Dugas, designer of the gown, stands' by ready to help. A The fortune tell-er paused, wiped her brow, and held out her hand.. We dropped some coins in her palm, and satisfied, she resumed her crystal gazing. The athletic field has come into view. A bunch of stuffed cabbages-I mean stuffed shirts-are witnessing tryouts for the World Olympics, to be held in Cairo, Syrup-I mean Egypt. Helen van Clief is exhibiting much skill in throwing steel roll- ing pins, as is Muriel Moore. Louis Lipzinski, Bob Ridg-e, and Hernando Arroyo have already been put on the team to repre. sent Central America because of their proficiency in the art of dodging missiles, including rolling pins. At the pool. Al Wempe and Ira Solenberger are exhibiting such feats of swimming that their audience is held brainless-er-breathless. It fades. This time I see the broadcasting room of 'Ye Second Hande Chewing Gum Factory' in Panama, which is doing much to keep people from parking old gum in inconvenient places by providing receptacles for the purpose. The collected gum is then processed at the factory until it is better than new. This factory is owned by Toni Ramirez. Too bad you can't see it too, but of course it is my hidden power which enables me to see so accurately.. Roger Adams, Claude Anderson, Betty Comley, Betty Rath, Julia.Fernandez, and David Kelly CJesse James, Jr.J are presenting a skit via the teleradio. Tom Huff, public accountant seated in the audience. is trying to account for the fact that the troupe has been allowed to remain on the air. Edgar Lindo, owner of the station. is tearing his hair in the wings fnot bv the roots?j He should worry. for right after the skit comes- the violin impresario, Rosario Spinella, who is at present trying to hit flies with mothballs that came out of his violin case. David De La Pena, Alice Blanton, Esther Johnson, Sophie Seaburg. and Bienvenida Vila, who form a well known literary group, have fallen to playing tit-tat.toe.. I hear a sud- den scraping which frightened a few of the ladies. No fear! It was merely the world famed baritone. Joe Hachat, clearing his throat. Hisact comes after Rosario's. The navy must be in, for I see that austere naval officer Robert Glessner, bending his eagle eye on a wart adorning the neck of the person next to him. That swaggering soldi-er of fortune, who has published several books about his exploits, is none other than Allen Button.