Dallas High School - Dragon Yearbook (Dallas, OR)

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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

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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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H o i Name Appearance Paul Bollman Lucile Chapin Lucia Chapin Wendall DeHaven Roberta Elliott Young and innocent Like Lucia Like Aucile Mild and yet he satisfies Robust Beatrice Embroe Shrinking violet Carolyn Ellis • Laurence Fletcher Just a butterfly caught in the rain Rustic ■ Engelbert Gerlinger Stupendous Virgil Grant Supor-collogiatc Betty Harcombo Brazen Delbert hunter ' • V . . «? » • eat but not gaudy • li: Shy Juvenile . . , Ava Harris • ‘ Robert Hayter . v Betty Jelinek Garland Kestler Frank Klievcr • ’ Has possibilities .. Dashing Just dainty Robert Le Fors Puny but potent Dorothy Minnich worried Laura Marsh Virginia Penner Angelic Abbreviated Ambition r o Scope Favorite Pastime Playing around Walking in Jser sleep Going after Lucile Reading Elinor Glyn's Novels Tearing up tho tcwr. Arranging things Heavy thinking Ironically discussing women Bullying the little Chaps Katy Squelching tho sonior boys Selling hotwater bottles to sea divers Giggling Handicapping him lf for social activities Doing guard duty Football Wearing swoot poa corsago Evading designing females Using slang Flitting hithor and yon Sotting up exercises To be brazen and never blush To have and to hold To wear her clothes backward To own a nightclub in New York To invent 4awheel brakes for wheelbarrows To convert the woman-hater (Bob Le Fors) To lose all superfluous woight To have IT To preach tho gospel to the heathen To discover self-soiling groceries To be a co-cd To be a handy man To overcome blushing To be a man To own a flypaper factory To graduate To bo a too dancor To roign on a desert island To be first lady of tho land To be an acrobat To bo Fat Lady in Barnum Bailey's Circus D. H. S. PERISCOPE