Grass Valley High School - Stray Leaves Yearbook (Grass Valley, CA)

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Cas? of Characfers Jeff Ramble BOB VROMAN ToodIes IRIS BENNALLACK Beffy BABE OSTROM Owen ALLAN MCMAI-IAN SeIina BEVERLY BARTON JInny MERRILY ALLEN CI'wes+er WILLIAM MARTIN SaIIy Lou JEAN I-IUGI-IES and MARJORIE IVEY Minerva RAIVIONA BAKER David Vance JOE MONETA Amos A+Icins BOB BROM LEY O'TooIe JOI-I N SANTAGA 32

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Don'l Keep Him Wailing lakes place in lhe home ol Owen Ramble, an oplimislic man ol lilly. l-lis lravel agency business is lar lrom booming. The worries are carried by his daughler, Belly, who, in addilion lo lrying lo keep house, hold a posilion and keep lhe irresponsible Ramble lamily in low, musl lool all bills lor lhings boughl by her lamily. Toodles, Belly's lifleen-year-old, boy crazy and somewhal on lhe plumpish side sisler, is ol Iillle help. Toodles lakes very seriously her newly-acquired hobby ol dieling. Toodles' molive in dieling is lo become lhin enough lhal Chesler, her brolher Jell's besl lriend, will wanl lo lake her oul. ln lhe lirsl place, Chesler is allergic lo work ol any descriplion. The only lhing lo which Chesler is nol allergic is Minerva, lhe dark-haired dish l'd like lo have wake me wilh a kiss. Jell, lhe olher member ol lhe crazy Ramble lamily, has a deep inleresl in pho- lography. l-lis real assislanl is Jinny, lhe good-scoul lype ol girl who is seriously inlere esled in Jell, bul who is slill regarded by him as his good lillle pal. All lhrown on lhe now iobless Belly are bills resulling lrom salislaclion ol Owen's love ol expensive lravel books, Aunl Selina's abilily lo accumulale many expensive lhings, Toodles' desire lor a scooler, volleyball and roller skales, and Jell's longing lor lhe camera. These are a lew ol lhe lrilles which keep Belly lrom marrying Dave Vance, a lailhlul young suilor now lired ol wailing lor Belly lo lhrow oll lhe yoke pul around her by her sellish lamily. Sally Low, a girl from lhe Soulh, annexes him when she enlers lhe Ramble home lo sell llower show lickels. Her lriend, Minerva, has bul one accomplish- menl-her giggle. She manages lo giggle her way inlo Chesler's hearl. Belly linally goes on a spree. She buys all lhe expensive lhings her lamily wanls bul charges lhem lo her lalher and Aunl Selina inslead ol lo herself. The blow is an el- leclive one which brings lhe Rambles lo lheir senses. Belly is lree lo marry Dave since lhe lickle Sally Lou has 'found new prey in Amos Alkins, a weallhy business man whom Belly had hoped would give her a iob. Jell, aller winning a pholography conlesl, de- cides his good pal Jinny is really lhe girl he loves. Much lo Toodles' delighl, Chesler decides lo lake her lo a movie. Owens has a new money-paying posilion as lravel lec- lurer, and even lhe lrivolous Aunl Selina decides she can cook a meal whelher or nol slars are lavorable lor such a process. As lhe slory ends, lhe relormed Rambles are giving Dave and Belly a real send-oll as lhey leave amid a shower ol rice.