Corona High School - Coronal Yearbook (Corona, CA)

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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

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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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JUNIOR CLASS A S freshmen, members of the class of 1931 participated in very few activities. We had representatives on the lightweight and pee-wee squads in basketball and football, however; and our debating team won the interclass championship. As sophomores, we placed more men on the teams. A large part of the chorus of the operetta, “1 he Belle of Barcelona”, were sophomores. Carol Cunningham and Wilson Briggs had minor leads. Now, we of the class of 1931 are juniors. We started at the first of the year to surpass the records that we made as sophomores and freshmen. Our rally stunt was marionette show featuring “The Three Bears”. Then came football. Wilson Briggs, Herbert Srmth, Bob Simpson, Weldon McPherson, and Wilfred Guffy all made the heavy-weight team. Basketball found many of the boys on all three teams. In track, Monte Nutter and Robert Shank had the privilege of representing our school at the Southern California track-meet. Phyllis Hil! was girls’ tennis captain. Helen Knoll managed debating; and she and Vivian Peeler, Harriette Hall, and Pierce Harwell were on the school debating team. Harriette Hall and Monte Nutter are the school yell-leaders. Jeanette Toolen, Carol Cunningham, and Wilson Broggs have leads in the school operetta, “The Lady of the Terrace”. Marjorie Carlson, Vivian Peeler, and Pierce Harwell have made quite a name for themselves starring in dramatic class productions. Three of our class, Marjorie Carlson, Phyllis Hill, and Carol Cunning- ham, are Girls’ League officers. This year’s class officers are— President : Orville Veach Vice Pres.: John Brownell Secretary: Carol Cunningham Treasurers Roberta Ely — Mildred Brockman eighteen