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

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He was a prune dehydrator, taking the moisture out of the prunes and putting wrinkles in. On a street car Charles Martin, a tin-foil saver-upper was reading in a newspaper about the latest adventures of Kent Clark, play boy, explorer, yachts- man, big-game hunter and man-about-town, Elson Benedict had grown a moustache, dyed his hair, and was profitably running a face lifting establishment Luther Ogawu turned out to be a chimney sweep. Bob Davis won the gratitude of millions with his patented seedless raspberries. George Higuchi was sand-papering tooth-picks Howard Erickson was a bottle-washer, a very fussy one. He wouldn't touch any but cut glass, Nate Harrell painted flag- poles and little brother Bobby got very dizzy watching him. ' Marjorie Hastings was doubling in the movie thrillers as a screamer. Bryant Gay was writing poetic ads for a large soup concern headed by Eugene Has and William Lehman. Bobby De Yoe was organizing an expedition of eminent archeologists for the purpose of searching for the arms of the Venus de Milo. In the party were l-laiold Stigers, Emery La Vallee and Myron Kerner. Flossie Lockwood was sculpturing doves to put on tombstones. Frank Trotter was tinting marshmallows pink and blue in the Goody-Goody Bon Bon Factory, of which Harry Turner was the president, Gordon Bain had a badge in his lapel and a note of authority in his voice from being a floor walker all these years, Frank Parga was seeking a use for peach fuzz. Doug Howard and Don Thorpe owned a chain of mortuaries all over the state. Betty Adamson was coaching a team of professional women football players. Dorothy Wayman was a star of the team. Roselyn Bridler was singing hymns in a band led by Delos Bagby. Barbara Brown was demonstrating cosmetics in the basement of a large department store. Jean Hollingsworth was selling vegetables an the next floor. Charles iBeetle Browl Cipperley was chasing tennis balls in the championship matches. Fornie Murray was superintendent of the ditch diggers on a government project Helen Oka designed clothes exclusively for Pearl Wheat, who was playing her xylophone solos before the crowned heads of Europe. Ray Smith was experimenting with monkey-glands to save mankind from old age. Irene Fuller and Vadim Sounitza had won ninetyeseven prizes for marathon dancing. They planned to retire when they reached the hundred mark. Frank Lucido and Jo Garcia were running a close second. Vincent Dorney was a soap box orator, speaking on anything from household hints to the evils of child labor. Lucille King and Harold Ball continued their legislative activities by holding seats in the California Legislature. Earl Brown started a national fad training horned toads and running them in steeplechases. Alasl lt was the fate of Betty Boucher to become a spinster with nine cats, a parrot and a little road-side stand where she sold homefmade jams and jellies.

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SENIOR PROPHECY THE Monterey High School Student Body assembled during the advisory period on June l7, l936, to celebrate Class Day. Juanita Flagg, Junior Class president, opened the meeting with the following words, Are there any announcements? After a pause she went on, lf not I will turn the meeting over fog-lpwgrd ygn, Deren, who ,has planned the program for today. Van Deren was dless-ed in Thelfraditionalfcostume of the seer, with a white turban wound around his head. After gazing into the crystal ball, he said, With your co- operation I will go into a trance, Then we shall see visions telling of the future of the members of the class of l936. May we have absolute quiet, please. The students sensed that something unusual was about to occur. They regarded the magician with tense expectancy. His arms were outstretched and his face raised heavenward. His face, drained of the last vestige of color, was expressionless and death-like. A mist had come creeping into the room, thunder crashed and an opening appeaier.! in the center of the room. We shall now see what lies in the future foi the class of l936, said the magician from his trance, and the students watched, fascinated, as miraculous visions began to unfold. They suddenly found themselves observing events and conditions of l966. In the troop ofa traveling road show they saw Jean Stewart selling pain eradicator- guaranteed a sure cure for athlete's foot, dandruff, fallen arches, and hangnails. Dr Harlan Wilder, B. A., PhD., etc., plus a long beard was president of the Wilder School of Tonsorial Arts. Ima Loyd, as his secretary, was practiced on by the students and got all her haircuts free. Warren Sides, John Stocker, and Harold Leveaue were about to receive their diplomas. Peter Girard was putting his mathematical mind to work counting sheep for insomnia sufferers. Jean Crossman, looking rather decrepit, was an Apple Annie on Ocean Avenue. Joe Hurl had become an expert knitter and was giving lessons for five cents an hour. Lois Phillips was running a day nursery, Bill Habgood was cracking hard-boiled eggs for potato salad in a delicatessen. Phillip MacDougal had made his fortune with a chemical he had discovered which removed the offensive odor from cabbages, iit also removed the tostel. Clarence Castro was seen in the act of winning the tid- rleldey winks championship of the universe. Jean Spence was bending the most artistic pretzels. There were more rumblings from time to time and occasionally Van Deren groaned, but the scenes appeared with amazing rapidity and clearness. Mary Ann Harrington was next shown in her official capacity as matron at Tehachapi. Patricia Hall was singing torch songs in a local hot-spot . Bill Hohnemann was getting along too,

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Dorothy Rose, a screen star, became noted for her outbursts of temperament. She killed three of her directors by throwing chairs at them. Don Clickard had gone from class-cutting to glass-cutting. Corinne Gerst was driving a truck. She had a small bean-sprout farm and trans- ported the grown ones to Hishoto Miyamoto's tea-shop where Nobuko Higashi and her Cherry Blossoms, Yasuko Suyama, Narae Tani, Umeko Tanaka, Mary Hiroga, and Koyomi Tanaka, were featured in the floor show. Harry Manaka and Harumi Owashi were bouncers there. Kay Takeoka and Masomi Higashi were giving ex- hibitions of jiu-jitsu matches. Hector Siler was making iewelry out of old tin cans. Pat Selbicky was a paper hanger and she had grown so tall she didn't need a ladder. Helen Westrup? You'd never guess. Helen was writing a book, How to Stay Happy Though Married . She had been married three times and had written one chapter. Ella Polston's giggle had made her the highest priced stooge on the air. Lena Roscelli was running her famous Resthome for Restless Relatives. Juanita Rotteveel, Margaret Benech, Katheryn Ferrante, and Louise Cardinalli were seen tatting on the verandah while Marie De Amaral and Lydia Mason hovered about with a thermometer and a box of pills. Peter Delfino was a cookie cutter in Wilma Waldorf's Wafer Works. Marie Norton was the foremost woman athlete in the world. She held records in swimming, track, and ping pong. June Vanoni, Marie Madsen, Grace Phillips, and Nellie Ostoroff were all officers of the three M society. lMonterey's Mad Manhatersl. Marjorie Lockwood was peeling onions in Viola Layton's hot dog stand. Grace Flory had made quite a business of removing moths from fur coats, rugs and whatever else moths live in. She had hired Aleen Jacks and Violet Hooton to become assistants. Meckenstock and MiIlington's Marvelous Mouse Menace had proved so effective that rodents were practically extinct. Robert R. Davis was a door-to-door necktie sales- man. Nancy Giamona and Irma Gavazza were G-women. Stanley Clay was a hair tonic manufacturer. Billy Chin had become a matinee idol in Shanghai and Edwin Low was his press agent and manager. John Coustette invented a pocket size boxelike stringless bull fiddle which sounded like a harmonica. Jean Crouch and Vera Benson had a rattlesnake farm in con- nection with Jack Collins' snake canning industry. Salvatore Catania was poking the holes in Swiss Cheese. Beulah Beach was licking stamps in a post office. LeRoy Henry was a champion midget automobile racer. As for May Hobson, the last heard of her was that she was in the hospital, badly in need of a blood transfusion. The content of printer's ink in her veins was so great that only H. L. Menken's blood could be used-eand he was out of town. Such is life!