Dallas High School - Dragon Yearbook (Dallas, OR)

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1 . H. S. PERISCOPE Ava Harris and Gladys Plummer have achieved statc-wido fane as they arc the only vomer, members of the state legislature in Oregon. I understand that Gladys has been mentioned as a candidate for Governor in the next election. Betty Jalinck has gradually workod up to the position of assistant pencil sharponcr for the social secretary to the President's wife, and hopes to achieve her ambition before she reaches the wheelchair stago. Naomi Thomas is still following, the sea, that is, she seems to bo deeply interested in the sea, although she has spent very little time sailing. Engelbert Gorlingor i3 in Mexico,and has just finished waging an unsuccessful war against the organized government. Dorothy Minnich is in the employ of a typewriter manufacturing concern, giving speed demonstrations throughout the county. Virginia Pennor is leading an aerial expedition to the South Pole to look for the remains of the famous Commander Byrd expedition of cuito a number of years ago. Perhaps you have read about Roberta Elliott swimming the English Channel last week and brooking all previous records. She received quite an ovation both hero and in Mew York on. her return. Robert Lc Eors is a prominent minister in New York,but he was in difficulty with the ciders last year when he was accused of playing the stock market. He must bo a wonderful minister, because he is the first one I ever heard of with money enough to do that. ° is indeed distressing to find that I am at the bottom of the list and must tell you that two of our most prominent classmates are in the toils of the law. Paul Bollman is being hold in ?.!ichigan for soiling incorrectly labeled patent medicines m nis medicine show,and Betty Harcombe is serving a sentence in a Most Virginia penitentiary for a series of blond flapper holdups. 1929 uBHHHft

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D. H. S. PERISCOPE Some years ago, while I w s touring Europe I stopped at Monte Carlo. I spent several evenin's at gambling in the Casino, and although I lost heavily I still look back on that week with pleasure, for it was on my last nic-ht there that I met Jonn Schmidt. He was holding a v00d position Jflere as assistant to the owner. Although I have looked for him on subsequent occasions he seems to nave disappeared and I have not seen him since. Dorothy and Orpha Singleterrv are both prominent in educational circles. Dorothv is an in-structor of music and art at Stanford' University ?allf°rnoa’ 5lld 0r?ha is Dea.n of Women at some college in South Dakota. Catherine Sibley is married to a wealthv meat-packer and her home is here, but since she 'spends W hn 6ratin Florida» her summers in Canada’, and her husband s money for new clothes in Paris in tne spring and fall, I do not see her often. t „ this Morning received a letter from Laura Marsh. She and Lucille Patterson are both re?orters ?? a s-rdne-7» Australia,dail newS-writes d their W°rk 3 2reat deal ' Laura fluinor,0 .8 Siinner has taken the place of Texas 3®oadwa-' and operates a chain of ni»ht hi?bf i?».iU2?r0US-CJtiea,CaP0l;m Ellis is raakinr a ni v, c,s tne star of her night club revues. Richard Webb is in Washington,D.C. where his 2 t y+?£'S«made him one of the most famous Sneakers of the House of Representatives in modern time. . Garland Kestler and Alton Strayer have a pav-n,, business here in town. Their rates are 34 .50 a quart, 3 4 funeral or hospital bills paid if it poisons you. lao+ ,?f40hfpin,Jwins» Lucia a:ld Lucille, have at birLhfS1 26 111 !0 bitioa. One of them has ? a $ed har hair and I ut on weight so that thevno longer look so much alike, though even now I don't know wmch is blond and which is brunette since I never could tell them apart in D.K.S.

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Ii rill'MMI). II. s. PERISCOPE And, although it is not necessary, just for tho sake of furnishin;; you with a complete list, I will say that shortly after I was ;;radu2ted from college I married a wealthy heiress, and althou h she still handles the family purse, and she is so r.enerous that life is .ettinp; monotonous, and if I could figure out any way to make her pay me alimon ', I tnink I'd ret a divorce. Well, Frank, I yuess that iu't about finishes our list of classmates, so I think that will be all for the present. The wife and I ere plnnniny to run out to Oregon next summer and if we do we will certainly drop in on you for a visit. Tell the wife and kids hello from their Uncle Laurie . I hope Junior is convalescing after hi3 illness and will soon be 'ble to be about ayain. Yours sincerely, Laurence B. Fletcher. —H— 1929 M——m