Monterey High School - El Susurro Yearbook (Monterey, CA)

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' ff -.,- if' 'A, C J i l li -1-q flirxx ,li 'K LJ E 1. S U S U rx, R. O -. the Johns, Mather and Todd, formerly owners of the controlling stock, both tommon and preferred, in the U. S. Steel Corp., but at present, heavy holders of Blondes Preferred. Prof. S. Armstrong, doctor of psychology at Columbia, who has a course in which students read books but do not discuss them, is another of the Presi- dent's advisers. Prof. Armstrong, whose course, by the way, is one of the most popular at the university, believes that authors should never be pulled apart. Members of the Cabinet who have been President Norris's classmates are George jameson, Secretary of the Treasury, and Elmer Harris, Secretary of Commerce. From past experience the President knows that Mr. jameson can be relied upon to keep an iron grip on the country's finances. The President also knows from past experience that demand and supply are nothing new to Harris. Otsune Manaka, chief menu-arranger at the White House, has a special office all chromium-fitted and everything. She's really very proud of it, as who wouldn't be. She and Frances Jung work our perfectly beautiful menus that are symphonies in taste and color. But when the Chinese and Japanese Embassies are invited to a formal dinner at the White House-Ah! the meal that is planned then. It really is an occasion. The gentlemen of the Embassies in their tails and white ties and the ladies in stunning evening gowns make the event outstanding. A battery of press photographers, society reporters, and the like wait at the main entrance for hours just to get a glimpse of Haruo Esaki, Yoneo Gota, Howard Low, Tom Hayase, Tazuko Kawamoto, Mitsuyo Matsushita, and Ky and Archie Miyamoto walking from their long, sleek, shiny, black limousines up to the door of the White House. Phil Moran and Lewis Graxiola, Norris's two Secret Service men QSecret Service men, because if they're doing any service itls a secretj, are jealous. They want some of those marvelous meals themselves. We're not certain as to what will come of it, but they usually get what they want. Gut in California, Maxine Harbolt and Raymond Siino are running against each other for the office of senator. Maxine hopes she will get it, because she says she just loves to make nice long speeches. Mr, Siino is running for senator because he believes that his dignified appearance would blend rather well with a setting such as the White House and that one should always begin at the bottom and work up. He has his hopes. From reliable sources I have learned that Floyd Lynch is now a retired naval officer living in San Diego. I also learned that Tommy Ott is making a fortune running the six-day bicycle races in the same town. Still in the West and still in the vicinity of San Diego is Leon Chassagne, motion picture mogul. His ace camera-man, Marvin Morris, and his very 15

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1' . -'i ., M ii 1 Ql 1 it yi 1 ,jg 'af' ' 'H ff-..,.,, fhuik, C, E i. S U S U PN. Ps. N O SENICIQ DIQOD ECY Each member of the M.U.H.S. class of 1954 has among his most choice possessions a copy of the New York Tribune dated March 5th, 1953. Wfilliam Millis, managing editor of the Tribune at that time, used the inauguration of President Norris as an excuse for the writing of a signed article about the members of Norris's high school graduating class, Millis himself being one of them. This is the way the write-up appeared: Yesterday morning that rugged individualist, Kenneth Norris, was in- augurated as President of the United States, with Chief justice Emile Lippman administering the oath. Norris owes his rise from the bottom to that great scientist and mathe- matician, Prof. James Crumply, who at one time collaborated with a fellow scientist and mathematician in making a machine that would take dictation in shorthand and transcribe it in fifteen minutes, no matter how long the dic- tation was. Prof. Crumpley and Norris took economics together when they attended high school in California. Monterey was the town, and 1934 the year, at least that is what my secretary, Barbara Wlmite, said in one of those gigantic note- hooks of hers. At that time, Prof. Crumpley always so observant, noted the violence with which Norris voiced opposition to whatever subject was under discussion. Prof. Crumpley then went to work on an invention, and, after completing it, took Norris to New York with him. Once there, Prof. Crumpley installed his invention, which was a power transmitter with Norris standing in front of it. Then the two of them, would argue, and, if he were sufficiently aroused, one no from Norris would light all the lamps in New York City for fully fifteen minutes. Finally they were sued by the city, whose revenue from its own power plant was dropping off too rapidly for Mayor Vance Kindred's comfort. john Limper acted as prosecuting attorney and won the case. Thereafter, despite his defeat, Norris gained fame by holding various governmental offices and by other devices with which he is familiar. Vice-president Isabelle Quesada, the third woman ever to hold this po- sition, was seen in the crowd at the inaugural ceremony with the other two women vice-presidents who had preceded her, Jean Basham and Isabelle Breaux. The latter wastes the greater part of her time in Texas roping steers. Other than Arnold Chapman, the Brain Trust, advisers to the President, includes Louie Oleari, who spends much of his time at the ocean and who has a marked affinity for cypress trees such as those seen around Point Lobos, and 1-1

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. Q' f lr i, wg- Y .f l ll l pix -,L l I I 'Vx 1 E 1. S U S U rx. Pc. O competent script-girl, Pauline Moore, are now on location aiding in the pro- duction of Mary Rodriguez's new picture. Still in Southern California, at the California Institute of Technology, Charles Bauer, eminent astronomer, attracted much attention recently when he thought he had a telescope into which he could look and see around the world, because when he did look into it he saw himself looking himself in the eye. He was much amazed, but not for long. He soon became disgusted when he found that, instead of a lense, he had put a mirror in the darn thing. Farther north, in Monterey county, Dorthea Beckett has a little duck farm. Every morning except on Sunday, she drives into town in a battered Model T. delivering ducks and occasionally picking up high school students. Dorthea believes that one good turn deserves another. In another part of Monterey county, Carmel to be exact, Betsy Bosworth runs some stables for refined horses. I mean she has refined horses for people who want them, and lots of people do. They come from all over, even from the East-the people do. All of which reminds me that on Broadway we have for shining lights joan Tait, A-1 heckler, hired by producers Riordan and Riordan to heckle actors in plays produced by Gottlieb and Gottlieb, and vice versa, Charles Ellsburg, that sterling figure of the American stage, Phil Wzilker, villain ex- traordinary, Dorthea Vance and Ruth Edwards, heroines par excellence, and Lloyd Brown, playuh of pahts suthun, suh! In radio we are represented by Robert Beach, president of NBC, jack Manteufel, sound effects man in a large Eastern station, and Norman Steward, in whose orchestra Lois Schultz and Blanca Cano are the sensational piano duo. About to make their debut as radio singers are Eileen Di Paolo and Ruth I-Ieuring. The programs will begin as soon as their sponsors decide upon a suitable product to be advertised by Eileen and Ruth's singing. Mable Manteufel is director of physical education at Vassar. And believe you me, the girls are being physically educated, with Mabel spending her sum- mers pitching hay and heaving things to keep fit for her job. The scene of her labor is a farm in the Middle West which she rents from David McCafferty whenever she can. She rents the farm, not the Middle West. David is a big real estate man thereabouts, Speaking of farms, Edith Burgen, Myrtle McKim, and Floris Gray own and operate one of those new-fangled milk-cure places. You know what it's like. You go there and lie around all the time, eating nothing, just drinking milk. The place has become quite popular, what with all this dieting business and everything. But the cost of the milk consumed by the patrons is too great to give the three owners much profit. Mildred Von Protz, Lilybel Rosprim. and Sari Szody, bright girls all, realized this and are going to take advantage 1 6