King City Joint Union High School - Mustang Yearbook (King City, CA)

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Class Prophecy Frank Morton, Peter Weaver, and Joe Nunez, the three musketeers who have con- tr-ol of an ice cream cone monoply in Alaska, spoke- the other night over the new broadcasting station at Bitterwater, owned and operated by Gerald De Alvarez, of their boyhood training. Clarence Schmidt, who has overcome his habit of swallowing his pen while talking, is the chief announcer of Mr. De Alvarez's station. Both have made Bitterwater famous with an automobile factory which makes Spirits of Bitterwaterf' Many of the girls are teachers now. Elda Nicola and Angelina Biaggi are teaching at the Arroyo Seco Grammar School and are, as ever, inseparable. Jewel Lynn is teaching how to be late to class and get by with it in our old Alma Mater. It is the most popular subject given at K. C. Hi. Genevieve Garner has taken up domestic science. Howard Pelucca was recently elected mayor of Soledad, thereby fulfilling his longing for that position. He was almost defeated by Hazel Wiley, the Amazon leader, but he won by one vote due to the electioneering of Pauline Pisonii, who made so many stump speeches that the people voted fgor Hloward to keep her quiet. He has apf pointed Elbert Hutchens chief of police in that cityg Elbert also wished to settle down in Soledad, the quiet city. ll Edward O'Connor and Walter Gillett are famous financiers in London. They used to be self-conscious and quiet, but now they say that silence is golden, as they are both multi-millionaires. The London Tattler has been recently printing their names with those of Edna Sands and Anita Weferling, heads of an affiliated nurses school in Liverpool. I haven't heard just how it all turned out. Clara and Jessie, who returned from Mars last week in their Chevrolet airplane, are living in Parkfield to be near Paso Robles. Ben Pierce, chief printer off the Los Angeles Examiner, and I, the star reporter, are going tio interview them in a few days to get the details of the trip, which they are saving exclusively for us. Do you ever see any of the faculty members that were in K. C. Hi when we were there? Have you heard from Miss Knapp? I received a letter from her last week from Berne, Switzerland, where she is resting from her duties teaching typing at the German Commercial School in Berlin. On her return she is to be promoted to head, of the department. Isn't that fine? I hope I haven't bored you with this long letter, but the Class of 1930 certainly exemplified the phrase All is not gold that glitters. Sincerely, Vera J essen.

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Class Prophecy Los Angeles, Calif., June 12, 1945. Dear Mrs. Patterson: As -it is exactly fifteen years since the Class of 1930 graduated from K. C. Hi, I thought it would interest you, who entered the high school as a faculty member the same -year the Class of '30 did, to know what the members of that class are doing. Although I have heard a great deal of the old crowd, it is six years 'since I have seen any of them except Opal and Vesta who live in Salinas. Vesta is manager of the new ten thousand dollar Espindola store there and is very much attached to her work. Opal is a leading society matron in that city and entertains lavishly at her home. Her hus- band is president of the Monterey County Bank of Salinas. Many of the bunch have gone on the stage rand into the movies. The other day when I was in San Francisco I went to the Fox Theatre to see Lover's Delight :and who do you suppose was in the cast? Jack, Phyllis, Jennie, and Mayme. Much to my surprise and joy, they all appeared in person in the prologue and are just the same as ever. Jack was a hero, of course, who was always in the depths of despair because of the fickleness of the flint, Phyllis. Mayme was the patient young girl who waited hopelessly for her fiancee, Lack, to return to her, and was very much discouraged at the attempts of her meddlesome mother, Jennie, to bring them together. It was very good, Mrs. Patterson, and if you get a chance, be sure and see it. After the show, we all went to offee Dan's, and Phyllis told me that Pauline Martinus and Gordon Plaskett are with Florenz Ziegfeld in New York. They are world famous for their comedy act due to the invention of George Anderson who perfected a machine which transfers the follies in sound and color scenes ,all over the world. It is something like the old fashioned radio. Leonor is the director of the Broadway orchestra which has taken fame from Paul Whiteman. Jennie said they -are simply wonderful. Remember Ethel Vlfilmot and Virginia Brownlee. They have been in Paris taking treatments from the famous reducing doctor, Francis McConnell. It is ia wonderful method invented by the doctor, with no physical exertion attached to it. Isn't it just like him? Ethel returned cd to King City last month, but Virginia says Pine Canyon is too slow for her after seeing Paris. Stubbie Mansfield and Bob Vasquez graduated eventually from Nevada Uni- versity and are working on a plan for a school which offers only athletics and study periods, and from all appearances, it looks as if it will be ia success. Harold Record, the famous runner, is financing the idea with the suggestion that they put couches in all the rooms, for sleepy students. Who would ever have dreamed that those three would someday be furthering education?

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Class Will In View of the betterment of school spirit , we, the class of nineteen hundred and thirty, do hereby publish four last will and testament. I, Virginia Brownlee, do hereby will my long hair to Curt Harnisch, seeing that he needs it. I ask that he put it up as nicely as I have in the past. ' I, Leonor Hickey do hereby will my red hair and numerous freckles to George Beck. I hope he can find room for a few more. I, Jack Hamilton, do will my nickname Fishffoot to the next slow footed individual. I, Vera Jessen, do hereby will my protractor to the pupil who takes Geometry because he has to. I, Jewel Lynn, do hereby will my naturally kinky hair to Francis Eckerich hop- ing that she will gain as much notoriety as I have. ' I, Pauline Martinus, do hereby will my coquettish manner of speech to a Juninr, as I feel he can only have one more year to stand boobing . I, Frank Morton, do hereby will my red woolens to any freshman who wants them. - I, Francis McConnell do hereby will my girlish figure to Adam Eckerich hoping that he can become the class sergeant-at-arms. I, Howard Mansfield, do hereby will my mustache to Malcolm Douglas, advising him not to wait to grow one. I Harold Record, do hereby will my manly ways to Wyland Stanley, knowing 9 that he will use it on the girls . I, Mayme Smith, do hereby will my love for Chemistry to the senior who needs a science for graduation. I, Peter Weaver, do will my seat in the English 4 class to the nut who is looking for a pipe . I, Bob Vasques, do will my ability to flirt to Eleanor King, although I know she doesn't need it. - I, Clarence Schmidt, do hereby will my place in the Bitterwater bus to Ione Oswald in order that she may not get bored during the ride. N I, Gordon Plaskett, do hereby will all of my absence excuses to Mr. Warner, al- though I think he has enough, trouble over the regular ones. ' I, Edna Sands, do hereby will' my ability to misunderstand Mrs. Williams to Mr. Williams, I hope he gets by as well as I have. I, Hazel Wiley, do hereby will my quiet ways to Dayle Gould. I, Anita Weferling, do hereby will my folk dancing ability to Charlotte Rose. I, Joe Nunez, do hereby will all the broken hurdles to Coach Huebel. I, Elbert Hutchens, do hereby will my title the Greenfield Sheik to Vincent Stackhouse, as he is too meek.