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

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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.

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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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NONENTITIES Laughing children- Men and Women of tomorrow- Face the future eagerly. But a little While And they too Will be beaten under- Or Will they stand against the violence And steady driving of the forces Tending to stifle them? Some-ah yes- Those possessing courage 1 And a Will to do, Others not so strong Win drift with the msssss, And become nonentities- A. V. S.