Madera Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Madera, CA)

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SENIOR CASS PROPHECY Tired but contented, | was glad to rest and meditate on the beauties which surrounded me. | had journeyed far to see the Al- hambra; in fact, it alone had attracted me to Spain. ‘The coloring, the detail, the vista beyond, the village just a step down the road, and a lone traveller made my picture complete. The traveller, slowly mounting the slope on the lean burro, re- minded me for all the world of “The End of the Trail.” As | sat pondering, my attention was again attracted to the stranger. ‘There seemed to be something familiar—I knew it could only be a resemblance—but at last, to my surprise and astonishment, “Bone s” Bareroft approached me with an old-time greeting. Seeiny her reminded me of Kd Schroeder, so [| inquired about him. ed, it seems, has become keeper of a light-house. Between us, we have kept in touch with the Class of ’27. Roberta Wills is the world’s famous woman aviatrix. “Tat” MeNally, having won the presidential campaign of 1950, is living in the White House. Marjorie Itanaga is playing Madame Butterfly at the Metro- politan Opera House. Robert Smallie has taken John Gilbert’s place on the screen. [lis next picture, directed by Boone Bryant, will be “Business is Business.” His leading lady is Vive La France, alias Krma Stapp, Bryant's latest protegee. “Choppy” Wootten is the inventor of the mortorcycle which travels at a speed of 200 miles an hour. “Cactus” Radley Boring is the mascot of the Coyotes, Ed having taken Babe Ruth’s place in the world of sports. Countess FIsbeth, Count Van Bud (Mitch) and family are peace- fully living in their castle on the Rhine. Jess Markle, having won the 440 at the Olympic games, is re- turning to America to become Bebe Daniels’ leading man. len Townsend is Mother Superior of Ramona convent. “Durd” Hope is a chorus man in “Monkey Biznuz,” starring Kdna Wallace Hopper and Milburn Vright. Irene Critchfield, who is the buyer for Tighe’s, takes trips to New York monthly in her airplane. Merrill Huntoon is now manager of a chain of Petty Sot's wholesale and retail grocery stores. ITorence Murray, head of the Madera zoo, and Bernice Mehrman, curate of the Madera museum, are going abroad for more specimens 2 Aas

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SENIOR B The Senior B Class has been as active this year as any other class in the school. Sports, dramaties, scholarship, social events—in fact, it has participated im all M. U. Hl. S. activities. In football, basketball, baseball, tennis and track, the IV B’s are prominent. It really takes a number of good players to enable a class to come out second in an interclass track meet, as this class did. Thekla Parnett and Fillmore Koenig surprised the audience in their interpretations of the leading roles in the Junior play of 1926, “The Youngest.” Another dramatic event of the year wa s the annual operetta, “The Bo’sn’s Bride,” directed by Miss Virginia Short. Fill- more Koenig, Stanley Warburton and Opal Knox represented the Senior B class in this production. The Junior A party in the autumn was very successful, but the Junior-Senior prom, given in June by the Junior A’s and the Senior B's was even more successful. Another field has been attempted by the Senior B’s, which shows that their talents are by no means limited. Three members of this class were represented on the interscholastic debating team. Isn't this a remarkable showing ?

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Howard Critchfield is head forest ranger of the Yosemite national park. On one of Madera’s rubberneck busses Gerald King is motorman, Clarence Boles, conductor and La Verne Lathem, spieler, announcing’ daily the ancestral home of our president. George Garabedian is keeper of the old people’s home, where Kenneth Mathews brings his chorus girls to perform occasionally. Stanley Murray is world-ret nowned as a criminal lawyer. Genevieve Gordon has become a famous orator of the day. Her subject is “Women First, Last and Always.” Euclid Ford is a detective in Scotland Yard. Lloyd and Bea I isher Webb are planning an expedition for colo- nization of Mars. Lucile Bryant, Corine ‘Tompkins and Edna Grattone were sen- tenced to ten years in Folsom for being leaders of the Women’s Rights Party. Boosters tell of the cleanliness of Madera’s streets. I‘his, it seems, is due to the unlinuted faithfulness of Evelyn Tessier, captain of the street sweeping brigade, and Genevieve Loveland, head of the broom brigade. elizabeth Scott is the head of the United States mints. The greatest surprise was when “Bones” told me that Margaret Bertozzi, Ethel Kingston, and Idella Michaelson were in Barnes’ circus troupe. Margaret is a bareback rider and Ethel and Idella trapeze performers. Our brillant little Lela Butler has established an institution for the homeless dogs and stray canaries. Grace Bartmann is a second Painless Parker, extracting ten teeth at once. Winnifred Leonard and Evelyn Erickson have a studio in Green- wich Village where they do all illustrations for the Arrow Collar ads. ‘And, now, what have you done with your life, Aud?” asked “Bones”. So I told her how | left my husband, home and children too, to run away with a necktie salesman, and realizing my error, I had left him and had come here, no husband, no home, and now no traveling salesman. ‘There seems to be more truth than poetry in the saying, “Life is just one fool thing after another—Love is two fool things after each other.” —By Audrey Kirby September 23—Block M Society organized