Piedmont High School - Clan O Log Yearbook (Piedmont, CA)

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4 -EQLAN-O-LOG SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY U HE banquet opened as the Reverend Wintford Saint arose. It was the occasion of the 2oth anniversary marking the graduation of the class of 1924 from Piedmont High School. Although few of the members of the class were able to be present, the families of those who were gathered together made a sizeable crowd. The scene was the old familiar cafeteria and the calendars in the pockets of the substantial citizens were turned to the year 1944. Former fellow classmates, said Wintford, this evening endeavor to put yourselves back in the dusty atmosphere of the crowded halls and classrooms of Piedmont High School in the year of 1924. Fill your minds with reminiscences for this is a reunion banquet. We are interested tonight especially in the fate of our former friends and comrades, for this reason I will call on members of the class to relate to us whatever information they have gathered in the years gone by concerning our classmates. Before I do this, however, I wish to say that since our graduation Piedmont has been forced to build four new high schools, but our Alma Mater has continued to forge ahead despite this competition under the capable leadership of Frank Brown, the principal. And it should be with a feeling of pride that we gather here tonight to celebrate the an- niversary of our graduation from this school. I will now call on Senator Rioss Brown of California who will speak on the subject of Former Classmates. When Ross faced the class, a calm like the eternal silence of the old assemblies settled down over the cafe, It has been my fortune, narrated Ross, to look up some of the records of the members of the senior class of 1924. Living as I do in the bay region, I have been able to gather the following information concerning members of the class who have remained in this vicinity. As most of you know, Charles Porter Evans has recently been appointed president of the University of California. Margaret Quinn is the wife of the warden at San Quentin. While around the prison she frequently sees Harold Corbin who is serving a long term for talking to the con- ductor on a Piedmont street car. The conductor happened to be Bob Chapman. Marguerite Healy, who is a waitress on one of the ferry boats crossing the bay to Sausalito, frequently runs in to visit her old chum, Margaret. Allen'Dow has just received, the contract for the third junior High School building to be built since the original one was constructed just below this building. George Lavenson is now the head' of the largest department store in the West. Hazel Jochem, now Mrs. John Buell, is leading a life on the ocean wave. Her husband, Captain Buell, is one of the leading mariners on the Pacific. Harriet Kelley and jean Davis are running a florist shop in San Francisco. On a trip over to Contra Costa county the other day I happened to notice jim Elliott, Carsten Schmidt, and Lloyd Ludlow, working in a gang repairing the highway. Gene Sheffield, who is living at his studio, is considered to be one of the best California artists. His most famous work is a painting of himself. Mary Sherman, Alice Green, and Mary Baker are working as clerks in Lavenson's depart- ment store. Lloyd Donant has recently received publicity by starting a goat farm on Goat Island. Marian Martens, Gene Farrell, and Charlotte Palmore are all society leaders in the bay region. Weldon Smith has followed the career of an industrious grave digger and- just at this moment there was an interruption as Harry Brock, who was sitting at the speakers' table, arose and held up his hand for attention. Brock said, Pardon me, Brown, but I think that you have left outsomething very important. You have forgotten to mention me. Fellow graduates of Piedmont High School, recall to your ,L . Ag, iJ?'i'A N :STI i 44' , 'QQ ' ', ' ' TTT - . - f v .'T7T I'1'v-V 1-1 v as ,.,. -1... C-fer.-. 26

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73'gf:rgiif':.s1r.'5ifr'i', QLAN-0-LQC, PHA She said that after her graduation she had gone to the World Sport Carnival as woman champion of the United States in the javelin and discus events and had captured second place in the discus. She said Margaret Edwards came home with the honor of holding first place in both events. Wylie Zingel, the next speaker, claimed he had floated across the English Chan- nel. This feat was considered probable by the crowd and Wylie received a big ovation when he seated himself. Walter Johnson raised himself on his crutches to explain that he had fallen off the roof of his farm house in Arizona. He said that he and his sons were niaking a good living raising cactus for the Mexican government. Bill Lowden arose in a dignified manner. Everyone expected something important, for Lowden had recently been elected Mayor of Hayward. He merely said, however, that the class might be interested to know that jim Tyson was holding the office oi justice of the Peace and was proving very efficient. The Chairman interrupted at this time to say that the remaining part of the pro- gram, consisting of moving pictures and radio selections, would be held upstairs. In the auditorium Mr. Saint announced that there would be one or two selections over the radio before the pictures would be shown. He explained that through the courtesy of our friend Albert Paulsmeier, who is head janitor of the largest radio supply house in America, it was possible for the class to listen in. The Magnavox soon started coughing, and a voice was heard saying, I am pleased to present to you this evening a man who will give a short talk on how to turn out a high school yearbook without offending the student body or faculty. I introduce to you, Westley Wetmore, the leading authority on etiquette in the United States. Westley's long tiresome speech was followed by a solo sung by Marjorie Moore, whose golden voice had gained world- wide attention. just at the moment this part of the program was completed, the audi- torium was darkened and the title Interesting Events Throughout the World was flashed on the screen. The first scene showed Senator Florence Pitt in the act of de- livering her New York speech that took the civilized world by storm. The subject was, Why Men Should Be Deprived of Their Vote. Among the celebrities sitting on the speakers' platform with Senator Pitt were two other prominent figures: Dick Kelley, inventor of Women First, the campaign slogan of the Suffragettesg and Ralph Shrader, president of the Suffering Gents, a party that had recently been gaining widespread support of the men. The scene again shifted, this time to Paris to one of the fashionable women's shops. A fashion show was evidently in progress for numerous models were passing before the lens of the camera. Among them was recognized Esther Desmond. Later, as the cam- era was turned around upon the spectators and patrons, we recognized: Elsie Lewis, the noted writer, who is on a tour of Europe gathering material for her next novel: Isa- belle Burrell, one of the most famous of the artist colony in Europe, whose pen and ink portraits are creating a sensation in the ranks of societyg Madame Ruth Lawrence Dupres, who has changed her residence from Piedmont to Paris and who is known to be one of the social leaders of the foreign metropolis. Once again the setting changed, this time to a famous racing resort in England. The great international race was being held and as the camera swept the multitude we were able to pick out certain celebrities from the crowd. Every one in the class was, of course, extremely interested in seeing Florence Davis, who had married, as was known, the Prince of Wales, and since the death of George V and the ascension of the Prince to the throne had become Queen of England. Among the other celebrities attending were Cora Majors Wellington, the wife of England's Prime Minister, Lord Welling- ton, Ruth Richardson, author and playwright, who has been one of the brightest lights in the literary colony of the island empire, George Olmsted, a peanut venderg and rffl i X, il fi P , ri A fi ti FJ rf it s it 'Q ew it lim li la 1 vi fi ii by .J I-Pl l P, 'x V EQ 9 ri X, 1 ,Q Fe wgfffdfffffff V - f he W H w,w+'f1g ? 'A1.'T' in fi Q:-,I'CX,5Q:-.Y Qui- 2sQf,x..X-.2-',b1,X,1-ex Yak- - - . I. -' . 21 . ' i 'XB' Jai- ,.-. 28