Corona High School - Coronal Yearbook (Corona, CA)

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CLASS PROPHECY DON ' T believe a word of it!” I said, as I read the story of the Lotus Eaters. “Imagine! eating a lotus flower and then sleeping for years.” I pondered over the story for some time. Then, being of the experimental type, having been in Mr. Vaile’s chemistry and physics class, I decided to try it. After a great effort I ob- tained one flower from the plant and scornfully began to eat it. To my great surprise, I immediately felt drowsy and soon I was lost in the oblivion of sleep. I awoke with a start to find that I had been asleep for fifteen years. I was greatly surprised at the changes which had taken place. Corona ' s population ex- ceeded that of Los Angeles, I was told. Not an automobile was in sight. Airplanes only were used for transportation. I searched in vain for my old classmates. Finally after going into a beauty parlor to get my hair finger waved, I came across Roberta Ely and Berle Robinson, classmates in the make-up class. I hurriedly asked them about the fate of the rest of the class, and they shamefully answered that they had made no effort to keep track of them. Roberta informed me, however, that Allan Haines, now a famous inventor had perfected a “radiospectograph tellitometer” which was con- trary to all laws of science, and a development of the “electromagnograph spygno- meter” he worked sot hard on all the while in high school. Perhaps if I went to him, Roberta said, I would be able to locate my former companions. I hurried over to Allan’s laboratory and secured his aid. After skillfully manipulating the numerous controls, the wizard finally got in touch with George Fink and Bob Shank. They were stranded, penniless, in Australia, where they had gone on a pleasure trip. While there, however, George had developed a severe case of color blindness, as he tried to reach the moon in his huge rocket plane and was wearing 500 watt ties. Doctor Shank feared his case was incurable. The next fact revealed to us was that. Helen Walker was acting as chief soloist in the Salvation Army and was trying in vain to convert her former chum, Marjorie Carlson, now an entertainer at the Chapultepec theatre. We next found that Pee Wee Clark was “Just a Gigolo” at Harriette Hall and Jeannette Toolen’s school of dancing and dramatics. Alma Conlee and Earl Martin, I was amazed to learn, were each serving a ten-year sentence in Sing Sing for stealing pennies out of the wishing well at the Huntington library. Card Cunningham was acting as private secretary to Louis Curtis who was selling Austin Airplanes to aspiring aviators. Harry Johnson was one of his first enthusiastic customers. Vivian Peeler was debating against Ghandi and trying to prove that India was not yet ready for self government. Raymond Zbranek was now an eminent “buggologist” while Frances Spencer was acting as an able assistant and director. We were next surprised to hear that the beautiful romance of Wilson Briggs and Eloise Gist Briggs was shattered as they both impatiently waited for a divorce in Reno. Mary Sullivant was named as the lady in the case. Helen Henneuse was now editor of the Lewisville Gazette and Mildred Brock- man was acting as her society editor. Ada Ashcroft was drawing cartoons for this peppy paper patterned after our old Ko-Hi-Nur. Phyllis Hill had invented a red haired traffic cop system, the idea being to hire only red heads” for traffic cops and then merely having them put on green caps for “go,” and having their red heads exposed for stop. sixteen

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HENSON, EARL DAVIS, VERLA E. Entered from Pomona 29 Commercial Club 30 Camera Club 31 Hi Jinks 30 KNOLL, HELEN IRENE Forensic 28, 30 (Manager) Debate 30, 31 Track 29 Senior Play Sec. Stamp and Coin Club 31 “To strive, to seek, to find, but not to yield.” PAYNTER, VIOLA Commercial Club 30, 31 Basehall 28, 29, 30 Volleyball 28, 30, 31 Track 28, 29, 30, 31 Horseshoe 30 JOHNSON, HARRY M. Lemonville 28 Track 30, 31 Basketball, 30, 31 Debate 28, 29, 30, 31 Writers’ Club 31 fifteen

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Kennie Overholt had just received his M. A. L. degree (mechanic at last). Irma Lytle and Margaret Fitch were running an orphan asylum in Chicago while Winifred Sutter was teaching young girls at Lloydsboro Seminary how to enter a room gracefully and leave with equal poise. In short she “finished” them. Madeline Clark had just completed a book entitled, “Advice to the Modem Generation.” The book was published and highly praised by John Brownell. Monte Nutter was starring in “Famous Last Words” at Harper’s new theatre. Herbert Smith was the owner of a huge model alfalfa farm and Orville Veach acting as foreman. As we watched the two talking over their agricultural problems, Eugene Mickle drove up in a huge truck to get vegetables to sell on the streets. Katherine England was teaching English at dear old C. H. S. and Helen Knoll was speaking on “Women vs. Men for Presidency.” As usual she was stand- ing up for her rights. Verla Davis, Mary Threlkeld, Ruby Glimp and Beryl Dalton made up the famous “Roamers Quartette” and sang over radio station A-G-O-N-Y. Edna Mae Thomas was displaying her latest canvas at the famous art exhibit and Opal Ruth was professor of history at U. S. C. A1 Chapin had become a great actor since his marionette show proved to he such an unsurpassed entertainment to such infants as Frank Atzet, Frances Culp and John Pensivy. I found Joy Baker wasting time in fruitless efforts to invent a paper stretch- er in order to aid Palmer Wattenberger, who, while writing a book in a temporary period of financial embarrassment, ran out of paper. Wilford Guffey was trying to persuade Patricia Creech, who was the first woman to become President of U. S. A., that our unemployment crisis was due to over-speculation. Earl Henson and Viola Paynter were partners in the “Always Late” Plumbing Corporation. Lyle Hatton owned a huge millinery store in Prado and had as his chief designer the well known Aline Cates. Astounded at this marvelous invention of Allan’s and the progress of my classmates, with the exception of a few less fortunate ones, I spent the remainder of a small sum of money which I had in obtaining another lotus flower. I did not fit in this new atmosphere and my companions were so scattered I had little to live for. Again that old feeling of drowsiness comes upon me at the first taste of the fatal flower. — Evalyn Roberds. seventeen