Corona High School - Coronal Yearbook (Corona, CA)

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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

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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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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY HEN the class of ’31 entered high school as freshmen we were a bit quaky. We had the idea that we could not come up to the standards set by the other classes. That was just a freshman’s inferiority complex. In about two weeks the freshmen began to show signs of having a bunch of students that was to be envied. In class “C” foothall the freshmen helped to make a successful team. The frosh on the team were: Bob Shank, David Prentis, Lawrence Kendrick, Herbert Smith, Kenneth Overholt, and George Fink. Monte Nutter and George Fink were prominent in basketball. Virginia Lloyd made the school hockey team. Vivian Peeler and Merle Fisk won their class numerals in their first year of debating. The track honors for interscholastic competition went to the freshmen girls. As sophomores we kept on making a place for ourselves and setting new standards for the sophomore classes that would follow in our steps. Foothall season found Wilson Briggs and Herbert Smith on the school heavy- weight team. Our boys constituted the major part of the Lightweight team. We, as sophomores, showed our originality in putting on our rally stunt. Orville Veach, Lawrence Kendrick and Herbert Smith made the school tennis team. We put on a play for Lemonville entitled, “A Case of Suspension.” Those taking parts were Jeannette Toolen, Betty Webster, Virginia Roberts, Mildred Brockman, Kenneth Overholt, Robert Shank, Monte Nutter, Allan Haines, Carol Cunningham and Dale McCue. Evalyn Roberds placed second in Forensic that year. Carol Cunningham and Wilson Briggs had minor leads in the operetta, “The Belle of Barcelona.” There were many sophomores in the chorus. During the third year at high school we tripled our activities and we had many members of our class participating in both scholastic and athletic work. The junior girls’ basketball team won the interclass championship and tied with the frosh for the champion team in hockey. Junior boys couldn t resist the football season. Wilson Briggs, Herbert Smith, Bob Simpson, Weldon McPherson and Wilford Guffey were among the Heavyweights who played. Monte Nutter and Bob Shank honored the junior class hy earning the privilege of participating in the Southern California track meet. Jeannette Toolen, Carol Cunningham and Wilson Briggs had leads in the operetta, “The Lady of the Terrace.” Seniors! at last! Three years of climbing and at the end we became a de- pendable group of seniors. We chose Los Angeles County Playgrounds as our destination on ditch day. The class play was “The Patsy,” with Harriette Hall taking the title role, supported by Jeannette, Carol, Albert, Helen, Allan Monte Earl and Louis. The girls won the interclass tennis championship. Our debate team came out with high honors in the interclass debates. The Co u n t and the Co-ed,” the operetta for 1931, had a majority of seniors taking major leads. They were Winifred Sutter, Patricia Creech, Evalyn Roberds Wilson Briggs, Mary Sullivant, Madeline Clark, Vivian Peeler, Irma Lytle and Eloise Gist as accompanist. On the boys’ heavyweig ht basketball team, Herbert Smith Chapin and Palmer Wattenberger upheld the honor of our class. ’ George Fink, A1 • — Mildred Brockman. eighteen