Corona High School - Coronal Yearbook (Corona, CA)

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SENIOR PROPHECY June, 1940 Unkind Fate! How it upsets all our plans! The fate of the class of ’30 is enough to make the most hard-hearted person weep bitter tears. Algy Unruh and Paul Farmer, those gallant souls are emptying garbage cans in a London slum. Cedric McNutt and Art Mickel are chimney sweepers in Prado — Art, who always wanted to be a preacher! Carl Herkelrath and Frankie Morrell both intended to be hangmen; but the rope was destined for their own necks, and now they rest in peace. (?) The independent Lois Adams is now industriously wheeling a baby carriage and is giving instructions to her new chambermaid, Mildred Phillips. There is a little door in a little office in Honolulu; and on this door is printed “Robles and Lytle, Dealers in Grass Skirts”. Bertha Otteni is employed as a model. Three persons in the class of ’30 were exceptionally lucky. Charlotte Fraser, Art Thorpe, and Leonard Pate are catching bumble bees in Africa and selling the furs at a great profit. Tovel Slaten is playing the violin in the Great Norco Orchestra, and Helen Ply- mate is his very famous accompanist. Dick Zilioli is in West Point. He has high hopes of winning the next Avar single- handed. Dick always wanted to be an undertaker. Perhaps some sweet day his hopes will be fulfilled. Marion Hay and Lawrence Brown waged a bitter political battle over the presi- dency of France; but women always have their way. Lawrence is back at his home in the mountains, operating a still. Lucille Bond has just obtained a divorce from her fifth husband, Harold Busier. Husbands are a habit with Lucy. Jack Cunningham and Lawrence Hanna are striving to obtain a place for the United States in the World Court. Perhaps where others have not succeeded, they may succeed. Robert Ewing and Mary Brusso decided to go to China to help the poor little Chinese children; but since their departure, no word has been heard from them. Joe Hatton is still working at the shoe store. Not much chance for advancement, but you can’t depend on rumor! Elizabeth Campbell, Mary Clark, Nedine Fletcher, and Esther Rehmke are all in the United States Legislature. They are trying to pass a law to remove men from Congress and deny them the right to vote. Margaret Welch and Ruby Tomer are matrons in a home for orphans — Pity the orphans! Grace Hemma and Ruth Turner have joined the circus as fat ladies. Pearl Lewis and Margaret Baker have joined Ziegfield’s Chorus. How they make the masculine hearts flutter! sixteen

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY G RANDPA,” said Jack III, “tell ’bout your high school, ’bout your class ” “Well, son,” said Jack I, “that was a long time ago. We certainly were scared when the upper-classmen made fun of us, but we soon got over our fears and showed we were full of pep. Rally Night came early in the year our class putting on a mock wedding with June Berg as bride and Fleet Harrison as groom. “As sophomores we lost no opportunity to share in school activities. Football found Felix, Lawrence Hanna, and Clifford on the heavyweight team. Helen won first prize in the local and honorable mention in the national Butterick Dressmaking Contest. Seven sophomores were in the Honor Society. “In our junior year, Margaret Welch won first place in the Forensic with her essay, ‘Artists and Engineers.’ In interclass the junior boys placed first. The girls contributed largely to the school teams. Helen further honored the class by being selected as lead in ‘The Belle of Barcelona’. The crowning triumph of this year was the Junior-Senior Banquet, a huge success. The dinner served at the American Legion Home was followed by a theater party at the Fox Riverside. l Then, my boy came our last year in high school — our senior year, the happiest, yet the saddest of the four. We chartered a truck and went to the Valley of the Falls, Ditch Day — such a gay and carefree bunch! Yells were given and songs sung until every one was weak with fun and excitement. “Our senior play, ‘The Arrival of Kitty’, was a great success, with Thelma as Kitty; Lois as Jane; and Algy as Bob, sweetheart of Jane and impersonator of Kitty. Chester Lytle as William Winkler, an elderly beau; Leonard Pate as Benjamin Moore, a disappointed suitor; Betty Webster as Aunt Jane, a high-strung lady in search of a husband — all proved most amusing. On May 15, the seniors gave for the student body a play entitled ‘How the Story Grew’. “Oh, yes, 1 almost forgot Lemonville, ‘The Lady of the Terrace’. Jack Cunning- ham was a howling success as the Irish servant; Elizabeth Campbell as the beautiful American girl, and Mildred Phillips in the title rol e added charm.” “Our class, Jack, was the first to be graduated from any place other than the high school. We held our commencement exercises in the Corona Theater, in the heart of each senior a sincere wish for the success of Corona High.” Grandpa stared at the dancing flames in the big fireplace, a smile of reminiscent pleasure on his face. “Those were the days, the good old days,” he murmured. “Ah Jack, just wait till you’re a senior. You’ll know then something of the joys your grandparents experienced. Jove! I can hear it yet, our class yell in assembly • S-E-N- I-O-R-S! Are we seniors? Well, I guess!’ ” Jack III woke with a convulsive start as his mother came to take him off to bed. Jack I smiled sheepishly at his daughter-in-law. “That’s all, son. Try to make your class proud of you.” fifteen

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Jose Yepez has become President of Mexico! (Remember the Civics reception?) Ernest Harper and Charles Iselin have good positions in a Los Angeles depart- ment store, picking fleas off the Teddy Bears. Dale McCue is teaching a class in “The Art of Making Love”. Leslie Harper has a job entertaining the fishes. His favorite selection is “A Life on the Ocean Wave”. On a certain street in Norco there is a store with a sign which reads “Clifford Stark Company, Junk Dealers”, Edythe Walker is employed as secretary. Glen James is an office boy for the Los Angeles Times. Poor Glen always hoped to be an editor at least. Lila Roe, Lucille Powers, and Otis Ruth are in China nursing the ferocious inva- lid, Ching-Won-Chu. The brave girls! Thelma Thatcher is secretary to Violet Page, world’s amatuer typing champion. Virginia Paxton is on the Girls’ All-American Baseball Team. Practice makes perfect. Hazel Lillibridge is cook for the President of the United States. Hazel has pro- gressed rapidly. Since Marion has become President of France, poor Marie Hay is very sad. She is trying to drown her sorrow by entering into the wild, bad life of gay Paree! Mr. Hancock is still doing very nicely, thank you, under the able management of his charming wife. Betty Webster is telling Bug-house Fables during the children’s hour over station bunk Last but very far from least, Miss Stewart was found still classifying “bugs”, this time of the variety known as “genus homo”, located in various state institutions, her favorite studies and specimens being found at Patton. A VALEDICTORY ADDRESS “Honorable Faculty, Most Worthy Students, and Friends: “On this, my last occasion to be with you, I should like to say a few words to prove that my stay in your midst has not been in vain, and also to give you a most important message. “In promulgating your esoteric cogitations or articulating your superficial senti- mentalities, beware of platudinous ponderosity, eschew all conglomerations of flatu- lent garrulity, suggestive or apparent. “In other words, speak plainly, clearly, and briefly. Don’t put on airs. Say what you mean and mean what you say; and don’t use big words. Mary Bender seventeen