Santa Clara High School - Tocsin Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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I5 fr'Cl!'T?llN. SC! Well---well-fand we have Chizuko Mitome as the Japanese screen's favorite actress, now starring in, 'Why Girls Leave Home.' Listen to the theme song! And here is Shizuye Ogata, Dean of Women in Watanabi College in Tokyo. Good Night! Music! Ah! Elsie Silva, and a singer from the New York Opera Co., which has successfully produced and allftalking version of 'The jury System Should be Abolishedf Why all the noise? Oh! New York is heralding the return of a great hero, Eh? Why it's Carl Palmer! The American Good Will Aviator, and I believe he's just completed a Right. Look! itls Phil Sheehy. I can tell it by his curly hair, and innocent look. So he's a mining engineer in South America. Chewing gum as usual. k'And here's Melvin Renquist. He's running for Mayor of Alvisof' Tony laughed Qlots of noisej His issue is Annex San Jose. Ah! Rex Dunipace! Tony reads from the screen, Mr. Dunipace is being hailed as a great scientist, having just proved Einstein's Theory is wrong. Here we have-fheavensfifs lvladeline Camestro cofstarring with Earl Rick' man in the Long and Short of It , a modern comedy by George Fuller, and he's America's best known writer of farce! !'Wheeee, from Tony findicating surprise, Victoria lnnis, a teacher of Engf lish at the new University of Santa Clara! 'Alf it isn't Alvin Azeveda-fand coaching the Harvard University Football Team! k'Ofooooo 'two minutes to play and down the field comes the diminutive little quarterback, a U. C. man, Quickefthere-gosh he tied the score! He's---wh--why its Frizbee! He always tied the score! L'Look, a new Ford is parked in front of a filling station. Why the proprietor is Herbert Richards. Say the owner of that Fordfby gum---is XVilliam Schoenf berger who is a traveling salesman for Peet's. H'm how fitting! There's a billboard advertising 'How to Reduce' by Thelma Grosskurth, one of America's 'health authors! A tennis matchfNVightman Cup lvlatchfe and there's Helen Wills defending her title against Mae Hamer. 'WVe're in a theatre and the picture is 'ln a New York Cabaret after Midnightf starring Jess Walls and Mildred Keir. Goshf it was directed by Tony Silva who also wrote it. That music! Oh boy! A chorus girl revue, why there's Dorothy Walls! L'H'rn, murmured Tony, as Bill reeled cut a picture of a girl explaining to a class on the merits of vitamins and the emphatic need of minerals, 'gif it isn't Lois Brooks! L'Listen, cried Tony, as music came out of the machine, Oh, why it's Elena Cipolla singing, now a Metropolitan Opera Singer, portraying the part of 'Aida' Splendid. i221

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l5 fv SlTl?Hx. SU SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY H'm, muttered the irate man in the Patent Office at Washington D. C., who happened to he none other than Tony Teixeira, H'm! as he scattered papers right and left. Where did I lay that thing? Darn it all. Pressing one of the numerous huttons on his desk, Say , he hawled to the sleepy office hoy, where did you put that letter asking for a patent on that machine? L'What machine? responded the office hoy. Say, raved Tony spluttering madly, yfyou know perfectly well there has hfheen nothing concerning any machine here except this one, THE one! Ah!,' as light broke on the office hoy. fLet's hope it didn't hurt himj and he neatly whipped a letter from the inside of Tony's coat and walked out. January 8, 1955 Patent Office, Washington, D. C. Dear Tony: I may still call you dear? Say old man, I want a patent on a machineg I've named it L'Thingamahoh for want of something hetter. I'm coming up to give you a look at it. Have a screen ready. Hopefully, Bill Walden. P. S. It's a moviefmachine, old top, in case you don't know. B. W. Just like old Bill to invent something. And Tony was off in a reverie ahout his school mates of years hack. He was rudely awakened hy a pat that made his hrains rattle. My wife! was his first agonizing thought. But he soon was reassured as he gazed into the hrownfvisaged face of Bill Walden. Well I'11 he, said Tony weakly, as he stared at the now older, taller, and thinf ner Bill Walden. After a few hours of talk hreaking the previous record held hy women---Tony expressed his wild desire to see Bill's machine, and Bill had a wilder desire to show it. flvlayhe that accounts for the pictures that came out of the machine., He may have gotten the dialsfwheels-Y freelsfnsomething mixed. Any way as Bill ground away-at the handle of the machinefpictures depicting the careers of these two men's fellowfstudents of 1930 were thrown on the screen, including all the sounds needed. Why there's Otto Petersen, and he's working at a desk. Why great heavens, he can't he4he isffeditor of the Agnew Daily and now one of A1nerica's largest papers. And Tony, clapped his hands together childlike and giggled delightedly, as he had heen wont to do whenever a teacher assigned a lesson concerning thisfe thatfrand the-hut why hring that up now of all times. Who did it? 'iAnd what's this? A Japanese basketball team and training for All Japanese honors. lxly gosh its coach is none other than Francis Higuchilv fill

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l5 fr-Clffgnx. calf! I think it's Elbert Eaton, said Tony hesitatingly, IVIy, my the dear fellow is a Grammar Professor. How perfect! Yes, said Bill, I do believe Elbert is trying to write a book on Why Ain't Should be Universally Accepted as Correct. Tliere's little Ollie Pierce! Good heavens, a puppeteer! Look he's finishing one of his puppet plays, They both watch breathlessly. 'iWho would have thought Ollie could aspire that high. He's a second Perry Dilly! Ah, This from Tony, as the familiar click of a typewriter reached his ears. Why it's Elizabeth Gray. But why all the photographers? Oh she has just won the National Championship for speed in typing, an' swered Bill. Farm lands, said Tony wonderingly, Whose are they? Why look! and a girl clad in overalls and a straw hat turned and faced their way. It's Rosaline Ligouri, And farming in Agnew too. H'm! Always thought she'd do something for humanity. Why there's Thelma Snyder. This from Tony. That timid little thing, what is she doing? An airplane landed and Thelma climbed in, Great heavens, an aviaf trix! Well of all things! Anything does happen! i'Ah! an art gallery. VV'ell-fsay isn't that an exquisite painting? Wonder who did it? Why Olga Olsen! Great Scott, so she's the artist. Well if it isn't Mary Louise Sutton, said Tony. Wherever did she acquire that French accent? he ended dazedly, as Mary Louise rattled og in Erench to her three little pupils. Ali, a Erench tutoress! !'You will not leave here until everything is cleared up, came a voice from the machine, and Ruth Ricke's picture came into view in the role of cooking teacher. She's had good background, remarked Tony knowinglyfi Look at that man! Why it's Alfred Gorostordoy busily engrossed in explain' ing the boundaries of Patagonia to his pupils. Vv'ell, well, and if it isn't the Alviso Grammar School! Why who is that tall, stoopfshouldered fellow coming into Mr. Gorostordoy's class? said Tony. My goodness, how he's mumbling about Debits, credits, profit and loss. Ah, solution, it's Michziel Kielyf' Isn't that clever little house on wheels? from Bill, as a house and lake came into view. It's the vagabond's house. Great guns, it's Beryl Hoskin!-f Her dream came true. L'Why this is London! There is a big warehouse, like the ones that Dickens has described in his stories. The bookkeeper is roundfshouldered from stooping so much. Ah! There goes the whistle. The man is getting upfand4-it's Me1'le Hart' zellf' U Why here we are in China! Here come two men pulling a loaded truck of tinware. One's loafing on the job. Why the men are George Souza and Gabriel Rocha. The lazy one would be Gabriel. INT