Marlborough High School - Sundial Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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C21 THE MAIQLBQIQQUQH DIAIQY CQ h i laugh all the time at school, you know, not to mention Mignon Woide- mann. But I hear she's having a hard time laughing off a fat husband, a farm, three pigs, a cow, and ten children. Jayne: My dear, how sad! Who would have thought she'd have gone so far! Or that Katie McCartney would have taken over Du Brock's old horses. Not to mention Edwine Montague's leading an orchestra in a transcontinental airplane. However, most of the class has proved a credit to the school. For instance, Katherine Bronson, Janet McIntyre, Eleanor Jess, and Willa Jordan have just been chosen for the Davis Cup team. And Mary Rogers and Virginia Staples are going across with them to prepare for the Olympic Games. Mary is doing weight-lifting, and Staples made a new record in putting the shot-100 feet. 'Mez And you've heard that Dee Winzeler has made a great suc- cess of her boarding school? fSpeaking rapidly, and sort of breathlesslyf. Yes, it took her ten years to graduate from Marlborough, and by that time she had become so used to boarding schools that she started one of her own-just to keep from being lonely. She got some good teachers- Elmora Macomber teaches how to hang on to the end of a rope by your teeth, Barbara Cruickshank-you know what a stickler she used to be for getting a good grade in Study Habits-well, Eugenia looked all over the United States for her and finally found her underneath one of those mechanical sun-tanning machines. Then Eugenia put her in charge of Study Hall. Betty Miles has classes in 'How to Write Rimes About Your Teachers, and Make 'Em Ask for More.' By the way, she has just fin- ished a book of Nonsense Verse on My Dear Teachers of Old Marl- borough, True Blue I Am to You.' Only Ura Louise Welch, who pub- lished it fshe has taken over the Police Gazette Company, changed the 'True Blue' to 'True Violet' as being more appropriate. Alma Lloyd, at this point is being sued for the caricatures she drew to illustrate the book.', Jayne sighs. Me: Did you say something? fsharplyj. Jayne: Who, me? Of course not! fasidej I couldn't if I tried. Me: fStares suspiciously at her for a minute, then relapses into silence, looking straight ahead. But Hnally breaks out withjz I must say! Imagine Anne Pinckham and Virginia Chamberlain being chorus girls! Our President! fsobsj. Our good old President! Jayne: Don't look at them. They're going off now, anyway. And here comes the news, with a number by a famous concert pianist. I won- E671

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CU-3 THE MAIQLBQIQQUGH DIAIQV C-65 i I der who it can be. Why, Mary Swartz! What a shock! I mean, what a pleasant surprise! Me: There's Janan Loetscher, the new Governess of the State. By the way, I voted for Margaret Kinney and Jean Mustard for Represen- tatives. I think they both have a lot of common sense, and I know they have oratorical ability. Jayne: Say! Neither of them has oratorical ability like Barbara Albertson's! Mark my words, she'll be Speaker of the House in a couple of years. Me: Yes, I distinctly remember the poise she displayed when she gave her oration in our English class years ago. fExcitedlyJ, Oh, where are my glasses? I can,t believe it's true! Yes, it is! 'Kitty Denlay, famous Hawaiian beach-comber, also world's champion diver for nickels and dimes.' There she is. Thatls Kitty Alden. And those awful looking chil- dren in nothing but sun-bonnets must be hers. And what wild company she's keeping. Look at that snaky Hula dancer. Why, it's Lucia Ray- mond! Would't Miss Blake be depressed? Jayne: She'd also be shocked to see Helene Goodell trying to break the tree-sitting record. But I always thought Helene would make a swell tree-sitter. Me: Well, at any rate, our class had two members that would be credits to any school. Louise Thomson and Doris Hass, poor people, they certainly were martyrs to the cause. Imagine anyone's having courage enough to go out and teach table manners to the South Sea Islanders. But they didn't know that one of the choicest dishes was lady, parboiled. Although I guess they had the satisfaction of knowing their pupils handled their carving knives in the approved manner. Jayne: And they also had the satisfaction of knowing that Orian Smith laid them to rest. Orian, you know, married the Reverend Mr. Jones, and after his death she took over his business, I hear she has made a great success of it. fLooking at the picture again., People always said that such dignity should grace a pulpit. Me: There are Mary Pike and Vernette Ripley. Jayne fexcitedlyJ: Where?,' Me: There, behind that sort of large man. Pike is covered up with ice-picks, or is it axes? Rip is pulling that old lady up over the cliff. Jayne: Why, I didn't know they took pack trips up the Alps. How long has this been going on? E691