Citrus Union High School - La Palma Yearbook (Glendora, CA)

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PROLOGUE TO CLASS WILL Time: Late afternoon, 1999. Place: Near Citrus Union. Scene: Living room of modern home. Characters: Mr. Hayden the Thirdg Mrs. Haydeng Marian, daughter 3 Floyd Jack, song group of young peopleg Old Bill, the San Gabriel hermit. Marion- Mother, when is Daddy coming? I want to use the airplane. Mother- He ought to be here soon. Let's see Clocking at her finger watchj, it's 5 o'clock. Listen, I believe I hear him now. CBuzz is heard outside.D Marian Clooks out of windowl- Yes, there he is now. fFootsteps are heard outside. Marian gets her cap, goggles and coat and leaves as Dad' enters.j Mother-- Hello, dear. CShe notices joy on his face.J What's so amusing? Did anything unusual happen today? Dad- WelI,.I should say so. You never couTd imagine. tHe takes off his wraps and gets a roll of. paper from his brief case.J Make a guess. I wonder how near you could get to it. It's some- thing that I found. Mother-- Is it that book you lost last month Or-no, it couldn't be a lot of money? Dad'- Ha, ha, you're away, off. It's a will! Mother- A willl Why, I don't understand. How eould you find a will? , Dad- Listen, do you remember that old diary of my granddad's, the one with F. S. Hayden in gold letters on the cover? One he had when he was principal of Citrus? Don't you remember that senior class he wrote so much about? He seemed to think, if you can judge from his diary, that it was the best class that Citrus ever had. Mother- We used to get that book out and read it the first year yoii were principal, so you'd feel that you were following your grandfather's ideas. He had been so successful. Of course, I remember that class he mentioned so often. Why, it was the first class ever to get the Freshman Baseball cham- pionship. The class had a fine bunch of athletes. Uack enters, whistling.J Jack- Who had' some good athletes? Dad- Yes, and they had some good debating and dramatic material, foo. You remember granddad's mentioning that Carl Wright, who won the alumni oratorical contest when he was only a sophomore? And Billy Stott, who won it when he was a junior? Jack- Who is this that you're talking about? Mother- We are talking about the famous class of '27 that was always doing something originial. They gave the school a gift each year, too-but all of this happened before you were born. Dad- Well, they certainly did an original thing when they hid their will. In was a great mystery at the time. It's about as much a mystery now as it was then. I don't lmow that we have gained much by finding it, because I can't read a word of it. CThey all crowd around the piaperj Jack- Say, Dad, in English Lit. 0-ne day the teacher said something about an ancient way of writing. The people had what was known as an alphabet. It had 26 letters in it, and the words were spelled out with the letters. Dad- Now, I do remember. It's funny that even a principal couldn't remember that: but our shorthand method of writing today is so much easier that we don't even bother to study old classics written in the clumsy penmanship of those days. I don't know how we will ever get. this translated. I believe that. there are no books about this old writing. Ifeople used it when they didn't have type- writers and printing presses. Let's see. VVe'll have to get this translsated in some way. Mother- How about Old Bil1 ? He must be at least one hundred years old. Do you suppose he oould read this ? Dad- I doubt if he can even write his name. We might try to ge! him, anyway. Do you know where he lives, Jack? ,Tack- Up near San Gabriel Lake. He comes to town about every six months for provisions. If we only knew when he came down! 1Noise heard outside. Marian and' a group of young people enter the roomj Marian- Oh, Mother! Old Bill's in town. By the looks, he must be getting provisions for the next two years. . Dad, Mother and Jack- Old Bill! Dad- Well, of all things! Jack, go quickly to see if he will comel to read this. Uack leavesb Dad- While Jack is gone, I'll tell you how I happened' to find this. All- Yes, do. Dad- Well, you remember that fake fireplace in the Citrus library? We've been talking for some time about making it a real fireplace so that we could use it. Today, the workmen came and started to tear the tiles out. Behind one of them they found a bronze box containing the will.. You never would have suspected that the tile had' been removed. Whoever did it, certainly did al neat Job. fEnter Jack and Old Bill.J Dad- Right this way, Mr. Bill. Can you read this? . Bill- Oh, how well I rccollect thisl VVhy, it's bin ages' since I've saw this sorta writing. Where did you come across it, anyhow? Dad- It's a class will, the famous class of '27. It mysteriously disappeared and' was not found until today. I Bill- This am the old Zaner script that I uain't saw nigh onto seventy years. This modem writing gits my goat. I can't read them funny lines and curves what the people uses nowadays. How you km express words with those funny shorthand signs is beyond my power of calculatin'. Dad- Read it to us, Bill. h ?i1l7 Wal, I'll do my best. CStarts to read, falteringly, the legacies from the seventy members of t e cass. XVILMA VVRIGHT, OPAL GOODSON. Tfwenty-one

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