Orland High School - El Trojan Yearbook (Orland, CA)

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Hearing a disturbance outside, we peeked through the window to see Phoebe Bowlen and Mary Cragor arguing over how to hang up the washing. Phoebe, being an authority on the subject, won out but not before the duet was made a quartette by the arrival of Reynardine Christian and Ray Lyon. Just then His Honor the Mayor was amiounced. He was escorted by his bodyguards, those supermen, Richard Brouse and Willard Wilson. The mayor apologized for the delay of Tommy Kalb, the Frank Sinatra of Whambo, because the crooner was getting a new permanent from the Toni twins, Dorma Samuelson and Frances Smith. That house was just teeming with talent. The famous band leader, QQ Reece, was teaching Virginia Vereschagin on the big Steinway how to play piano in ten easy lessons so that she could accompany Yvome Yearian, voted the torch singer of the year. Down the hall was a really touching scene: Kenneth James, Mr. America of 1960, taking drama lessons from Rosalie Basman, Charm School director. A sudden delighted scream drew us to the window again. Admiring throngs stood around the mayor's new car, a Rolls Royce, delivered by the company's agents, Gary True and George Smith. After a few days on the island, we sensed that all was not well. War was declared by neighboring despots, Marvin Forbes and Jimmy Thomasson. They had bought a new type of machine glm that was designed to smell out the inhabitants of Bambo Whambo. One whiff -- and Whambo, Bambinoesl They had given the inventor, Frankie Lauck, Sl00,000 for his marvelous device, but rumor had it that the money had mysteriously disappeared. Could it have been the notorious bandit, Qi. Kayser, who had spirited it away? That was one problem that kept the chief of police, Gary Martin, quiet -- for a time. That same evening, James McLean, a newspaper reporter who also printed student body cards for pin money, strangled on his own words -- he used such big ones. However with the aid of a dictionary, Dr, E Young and her trusty staff, Neale Sivesind, Bob Moranda, Sue, Cunningham, and Don Severs, the literary world did not lose one of its brilliant young writers. But in the midst of all the uproar, a hero appeared. Gary Peck, the community barber, saved the islanders from extinction. He sneaked over to the neighboring island, spiked the super machine gun with a razor blade, and accompanied by manicurists -- Eileen Snyder and Bethel McCauley, presented the disabled gun to the city fathers. Peggy Welch, well-knownartist, designed a fitting monument for it. After all the excitement had subsided, Joyce Glenn 1152 caused another flurry by stealing the blueprints of the gun from Frankie and burning them. The last we saw of the inventor was the time that Ili Levet was trying to interest him in a hope chest guaranteed moth-proof, thief-proof, and hope-proof. A day or so before our visit was ended, who should come breezing in but Barbara Taylor, the famous movie director, to obtain local color for her latest picture, starring those tough hombres, Rodney Lane and Leon Embrey. The title of this super-colossal epic was to be ------- . Oh, isn't thata shame! My crystal ball has clouded over, our Guardian Angel has honked hi horns, and that's all there is, there isn't any more. S

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anion Uanophecgf As I wipe the dust from my crystal ball, Iwonder what's in store for my classmates and me. Ah ------ ! It is clearer now, and I see the face of an angel. Why -- that's strange! This angel has horns. Oh well. What's that you're saying? You say you have a little forecast about the Senior Class of 1950. Well, go right ahead. We'll listen. I am the Guardian Angel of your class. It is now the year 1970. Five years ago some of the present seniors and I were making a world tour. We were approaching the strange island of Bambo Whambo. We were hours late because Captain Rey Jonnson had been going around in circles -- as usual -- until the first mate, that mental glam Enias -IQ Schneider, came to our rescue. As we skipped down the gang plank, Frankie Dutra, the jolly little cabin boy, waved us a cheerful farewell. While walking along the cobbled streets, we ran smack into a stripped down Sarbageitruck, emblazoned with the names 'Gates and Piazzo, Collectors De Luxe'. They seemed to be having a little trouble trying to get one of the containers on the truck, but after they, ably assisted by Melvin Alves, pulled L52 Rulon out, they had no more trouble. Just then another tantalizing aroma tickled our nostrils. We tracked it down around a corner where we found Darlene Hutchins teaching Neal Oglesby how to make cupcakes. lFor better or worse 'PJ Now don't get the idea that Darlene and Neal owned the bakery shop, for no one in Bambo Whambo ovmed anything. Close by we discovered that champion of baby-sitters, Clifford Thomas, fast at work.1 The islanders had just held an election. The mayor was none other than Ernest Boracci Esq. Because we met him just outside his mansion, he invited us in. The trip through left us literally breathless. tHe didn't make those long runs for nothing, back in '49.l Once again on the cobbled street we found two snake -charmers, Wes Hancock and Ady Stokes, using their charms on two girls, Frances Louderback and Bernice Westfield, M. G. M. stars, on vacation. Further along on a huge lawn, we spotted Shirley Ashcroft teaching the baby ducks how to waddle. Just then one of us remembered that LaVon Nichols had a big house on the island -- one about the size and shape of the local Purity Store. We inquired the way from two snappy looking policemen who were dead ringers for Frankie Aletto and Tommy Brown. After ringing the doorbell for an hour, the butler, Tommy Zuniga, directed us in his usual dignified way to the reception hall. While waiting, we were enterta ed with a piano solo, Long, Long Ago, by LaVon herself. There in another room was the parlor maid, Carol Lathrop, having quite a time making Eunice Norby and Doris Prichard work while she sat munching on a piece of hardtack that she had swiped from the cook, Irene Jorgensen. Amid a great clatter and bang came the milkman famed for lifting ten cases of milk with his left hand and, on the other hand, talking to two cuties, Mariljg-1 Johnson and Carolg Smith. Of course, our Samson was none other than Don Frailey.

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UN OR The class of '51 had a successful year. From the first day of school until the last, they demonstrated the school spirit that a successful class needs. The junior skit Life Is So Dull was a side-splitting comedy that was highly entertaining to the audience. Those in the cast were: Marjorie Koenig -- Gail Prentice Beatrice LaPointe -- Daffy Debbs Lora Lee McAfee -- Teddy Prentice Roger Schofield -- Beany Prentice David McLean -- Henry Dribble Wayne Gravelle and Margaret Beller were the juniors' choices for the king and queen of the yearbook dance. The Junior Prom, a big social event for the juniors, was held in December just before Christmas. The theme was Winter Jubilee . This was carried out in blue and silver. Mrs. Velasquez, Miss Guilford, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Ellsworth have been our faithful advisors. Whenever the class needed any kind of assistance, they were right there to lend a hand . FIRST ROW, left to right: Bob Hunt, Dennis Joksch, Bill Netto, Manuel Porras, Larry Jacobson, Charles Ondricek, Melvin Roush, Don Long, Ronald Layman, Jim Canadas. SECOND ROW: Lois Anne Tracy, Betty Shaw, Marles Varner, Beverly Peterson, Alice Bostrom, Peggy Johnson, Barbara Yandall, Elvira Johnson, Beatrice LaPointe, Lora Lee McAfee, Dorothy Schroeder, Crystal Sealy, Mary Lou Abshire, Louise Moore, Margaret Beller, Roberta Southard, Juanita Blair, Norma Mayer, Shirley Howard, Beverly Piper. THIRD ROW: Miss Margaret Guilford- advisor, Elsie de la Cruz, Florence Hogan, June Broderson, Leota Simmons, Bonnie Rector, Janice Askeland, Gail Nichols, Phyllis Green, Margie Koenig, Patti Tapp, Evelyn James, Wanda Benson, Joan Cleek, Genevieve Holt, Mary Louise Thomas, Bessie Roman, Tressie Hibdon, Mary Daniels, Rosalie VanAlstine, Mr. Verner Anderson-advisor. FOURTH ROW: Thomas Birch, Milton Romer, Daryl Gleason, Walt Hicks, Bill Beller, Wayne Gravelle, Merin Newman, Calvin Lynn, Donald Keene, Robin Russell, Johnny Vereschagin, Roger Schofield, Wayne Morgan, Leonard Brown, Glenn Rowe, George Oreggia, Jess Bequette, Edward Peterson.