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

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ON April 24, the Junior Class held a dance in the new gym. The dance had been well planned and was pronounced a huge success,Committee chairmen were Canteen, Camille Albert, Tickets, Raymond Ruffino, Decorations, Hisako Oka, Entertainment, Frances Gee, Publicity, Jane Vincent. Boys prominent in sports were tennis, John Clague, Earle Dorrance, Golf, John Burns, Warner Keeley, swimming, Roy Hattori, Pearson Menoher, Willard Brown, track, Rupert Kendall, Tadashi Oda, Tommy George, football, Raymond lsakson, Ernest Scully, Joe lvladdalena, John Lazzarino, basketball, Warner Keeley, John Burr.s, Harry Sanders, Tabashi Oda, Ray l-lattori, Joe lvladdalena, Rubert Kendall, Junior girls who were members of the Junior Basketball team were Captain, Yvonne Roumiguiere, Betty Kremel, Gladys lmwalle, Juanita Elagg, Camille Albert. Sub- stitutes, Barbara Bell, Eleanor Butts, and Hisako Oka. Junior members of the California Scholastic Federation were June Heidrick, Evelyn Manning, and Rupert Kendall. Student Body Office holders were Warner Keeley, Director of Boys' Activities, Juanita Flagg, Director of Girls' Activities, Raymond Ruffino, Assistant Treasurer, and Tommy George, Yell Leader. Juanita Flagg - - - President John Clague Vice-president Jane Vincent - - Secretary Harry Sanders lst Semester Treasurer Raymond Ruffino ------ 2nd Semester Treasurer Tommy George - ------ Yell Leader G, Watson, Miss E. J. Smith, E. Peifer, lvliss Helen Goold - - Advisers CLASS OF '37

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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!

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CLASS OF '38 First Semester Second Semester Al Cornish - President - Al Cornish Betty Beaumont - Viccfpresident Y Betty Beaumont Spencer Kerne - Secretary - Spencer Kern LeRoy Marney Whips Le Roy Marney Paul Cusenza - - - Paul Cusenza Sherwood Barstad - F YOU Leodm -- - Sherwood Barstad Miss Hoffman, Miss Anne Norwood, Mr H, Youngrnan, Mr. H. Holman - Advisers IN the social functions of the school, the Sophomores shared with the upper classmen the responsibility of entertaining the incoming Freshmen at the Freshmen Reception. They also cooperated with the Freshmen Class in presenting Shorty Miller and His Wyoming Night Hawks at an assembly honoring the Juniors and Seniors. The class has been active in sports. One of the most outstanding athletes in the school is Kenneth Martin. Other Sophomore boys who have distinguished theme selves in sports are Don Selby, diving, Tommy Phillips, swimming and tumbling, Bud Brownell and Harvey Breaux, golf, Peter Cardinalli, Alfred Foster, and Hiro Sakurada, track, Paul Cusenza and Casey Kawamoto, football, To the California Scholarship Federation the Sophomore class has contributed eleven members, Katherine Beaton, Bud Brownell, Barbara Hassis, Helen Dashbach, Antoinette Gay, Spencer Kern, Robert McMenamin, Evelyn Manning, Don Selby, Jacquelin Raiter, and Carmel Martin.