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

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The scene has shifted to New York, and I see a crowd milling around a tall skyscraper. This is the Convention 'for the Prevention of the Ifllection of Alice Jackson as the First Woman President of the United States. Her staunch supporters are Juanita Jensen, striving hard to become her private secre- tary, Dorothy Walston, ghost writer of the Honorable Miss Jackson's speeches, Ruth Horter, who is the ghost behind the ghost writer, and Betty Lewis, who arranges all the details pertaining to campaign traveling. Margaret Haw, crusading newspaperwoman, has contributed much of her time and talent to the writing of fiery editorials for the cause. They are hav. ing a heated discussion with a group of lobbyists who will sup- port 'Little Eva' for certain concessions. I see Gordon Graham, pleading frantically with her to support his well-known pro. posal known as Prohibition of Labor Bill. Burritt Wright has higher aims, and is insisting that she endorse a bill subsidizing a National Theatre which will star him alone. John Trett wants her support of the Bill Forbidding Teachers to Give Grades of Less than 'A,' and,Martin Wempe insists his system of reducing exercises be made compulsory in all schools, and demands all the royalties for originating the plan. Walter Sims is proclaiming loudly that from his own experience of energy wasted by ex. cessive talking, he has conceived the idea of harnessing the waterfalls of words wasted in Congress and converting the energy into electricity to light the dome of the capitol, thus re- ducing the government budget. Martha Cornwell is trying to make herself heard above the babel of words, but it is quite impossible. Noone knows what the other is saying anyway, and I doubt that it matt-ers.. Charles Gornell, chairman of the committee of lobbyists, is politely sitting in a corner. Just a block away, doctors Martha Andrade and Allan Greenlee are discussing a weighty problem: is the fore foot or the hind foot of a mosquito the most useful? If not, why not? This is a meeting of the Medical Society, and lending several interested ears are dental nurse Perle Tuttle, her associates Jean Hall, Mary Shepherd, and Janet Callender. Other nurses dis- cussing the question of how to hold the patient's hand while taking his pulse, are Margaret Comins, Ethel De-enev. Pat CMercedesJ Arrieta, Lucille Dugan, Marjorie Weigold and Catherine Atkinson. Back in Panama I see a bridge, an exact replica of the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, reaching' from Panama mainland to Coiba. It was designed by construction engineers who'bear the names George Campbell. Maurice Brown, and Dan Kilev, who still doesn't remember whether or not he put the decimal point

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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.

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in the right place, but trusts his Irish luck. This is the gala dedication of the Bridge of Sighs, which Was appropriately ole. dicated to John Latimer, a fellow engineer. Present to make a speech is Bud Hammond, a prosperous businessman. Rival en- gineers, John McGuire, Arthur Luse, and William Worley, Whose own bridge collapsed 'the first day, are present, and hopeful. Rodney Higginbotham, teleradio announ-cer, is on hand with an eloquent speech. I suppose it's eloquent-he's talking so fast no one can understand him. The fortune teller paused a moment, and We asked breath- lessly, Is that all? Wait! she said. We Waited. '4Oh, now I see the students reading their ZONIAN, and Margaret Kuhn is running from a mob. I Wonder why. '?i3 ?..1Fi , A. ,..4...!. ..4A......L...s.