McFarland High School - Recuerdos Yearbook (McFarland, CA)

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FEATU R E S-VVhy VVe Laugh In spite of studies and the Cougar Cry and football and Honor Society and debate, we End lots of time to enjoy our school and ourselves. Perhaps it's because of our activity, rather than in spite of it, that we haven't let the depression affect our spirits. Or maybe we just don't know any better. At all events the following pages accurately reiiect a sizable portion of our school life. Do you remember?

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HICUIIZDUS L14-4-L-I-L 44-LA. SENIOR PROPHECY Thelma found a kitty cat. She heard it say meow, but she thought it said, Oh, Maw! And so she took it in her home. Meow followed meow, until today Miss Moore has the largest retreat in the United States for poor defense- less kitties. Margie and Paulita, in the remote days of their high school life, were forced to walk home from an automobile ride in the country. As a result, they admin- :stered unto each other a solemn oath that they would never marry. Koleta has for years managed Xill's Drug Store, but, lo, it couldn't hold her. For she is now the business manager and star trombone player of the Gsborn Dance Orchestra. Gene Swan is happily married to a neat little brown-eyed fiapper, and together they are living on a small farm in the foothills of the Mojave desert, where they are raising earthworms and frogs for the biology department of the Kern County High S: hools. Earl Higginbotham, President of the student body of McFarland High School in 1933, has disgraced his class by beipg the owner of the largest brewery and gambling house in the lfnited States, located at Famosa. He tells us that after he has succeeded in taking all the people's money he will declare himself President of the United States. :Xt the request of his fiancee, George Alexander spent many years culti- vating a natural wave-and then she didn't like it. He gave up the idea of marrying a movie actress and has taken up professional football as a life career. Are you disappointed in love? Have you any matrimonial difficulties? lf you have, write to Mr. Ralph Shick in his second-story office in the League of Nations Building, Geneva. Mr. Shick a specialist in the art of mending broken hearts. Clarence will make some girl a lite husband, said his mother, but he will never set the world on tire. Imagine her disappointment. Today Dr. Robinson, the successor to Dr. Albert Einstein, addressed a learned assembly in Ava, Missouri, on his famous theory. After three hours of lecturing he was horrified to find both of his listeners wrapped in peaceful slumber. In 1033 Glen Crockett's picture appeared in the McFarland High School annual. The annual came to Hollywood and landed right in the studio of Cecil De Mille. Crockett is a movie actor and at present is illuminating the lives of scores of American girls and women with his irresistable red hair. After vainly trying to decide between his two great loves, George Perry comes to the conclusion that women are not worth the worry and is living his life in seclusion at a Benedictine cloister in the Swiss Alps. 1401