Torrance High School - Torch Yearbook (Torrance, CA)

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putting on a bit of free entertainment. Ah-h-h! murmurs a voice in our ears, their dancing is like a poem! Well, it's the renowned poet, David Clark, especially famous for his odes to flowers, who is watching the dancers in this enthralled manner. Doesn't he look too sweet with that wreath of flowers hanging on his ear! The sweet lassie in the Salvation Army bonnet is our little goldilocks, Mildred McMullen, who. after divorcing three millionaires, two movie actors. and one prince, has decided that wealth and glamour are not for her, and is setting out to reform the world. The two distinguished-looking young women wearing the monocles and carrying the walking sticks are Ruth Granger, the new ambassador to Eng- land, and Margaret Condon, senator from California. They are discussing politics, in terms we can't even understand, with George Miura, who is the owner of a string of Japanese colleges. Good grief! What's Earl Smith doing standing on the dining room table on one foot with his arms outstretched? Why, posing for the paint- besmeared young lady, whom we now recognize as the distinguished painter. Wilma Whitney, and who has decided that Earl is the perfect model for her portrait of Cupid. A roaring louder than the rest of the New Year's noise brings everyone to the window in time to see our own homeroom teachers, Miss Mabee and Mrs. Bull, step out of a gyroplane that has landed on the roof garden. They tell us that they had lost .limmie's address, but the peculiar noises coming from this penthouse sounded so much like their old Senior homeroom that they found us easily. Back inside, we are all attracted by a strange device that Carroll Bender. Einstein's protege, has rigged up. Carroll asks us if we want to see the people on Mars. Of course, we all gather around while he pulls a switch and throws on the screen an image of one of the Martian cities. And of all people! Walk- ing down one of the main streets, and surrounded by a crowd of curious Mar- tians, we see Marshall Tappin, Ralph Montague, and William Hedrick, the stratosphere explorers. Do we hear the word footba1l ? No wonder! For some of Torrance High's famous athletes are holding a confab. Harold Watson, Torrance's famous fullback, has just returned from northern Alaska, where he's been teaching football to the Eskimos. Carl Paxman is now pitching for the big league, and writing books in the meantime on Why Baseball and Not Foot- ball ls the Great American Sport. Ted Adzovich, who has been traveling in Slavonia giving lecture courses on football, has returned to coach at T. H. S., now that Coach Donahue has been made head cocah of Loyola. Bert Hoffman, who has been coaching in Japan, gives sitting-up exercises over the radio on the side. Now that television has come in, he has thousands of ardent women listeners. Cletue McLean has deserted athletics to go into the movies, where he is fast becoming the heart throb of millions of girls. He slays' em with those blue eyes of his. Here, girls, are the owners of the shop you'd all like to rifle--Keith Coast and Hazel Briney, who have established the finest dressmaking houses in Paris, Keith designs clothes, and Hazel wears them, which combination seems to sell a lot of clothes. Their costumes are especially suited for Campfire Girls, who, with the Girl Scouts, are their biggest customers. This two-hundred pounder l27l

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CLASS PROPHECY S'35 It is the eve of the year 1950, and millions all over the world are cele- brating the coming of the new year. One of the most hilarious New Year's parties is going on in a smart Hollywood penthouse, where the Torrance High Class of Summer '35 is holding its reunion. Our host is none other than the well-known bachelor and man-about-town, whose name we see so often in the scandal col-yums coupled with names of wealthy widows, young divorcees, and lovely actresses. He is hobnobbing in the corner with our former little angel, lone Green, notorious night club hostess. Here are three old friends: Martha Greaves, the world-famous aviatrix, who recently made a non-stop flight around the world: Olive Belle Huber, society matron, and president of a dozen women's clubs: and Vee Kasper. Vee tells us that Hubert, who has made his millions from the pretzel business, will be late, for he is interviewing Jay Slover. who has invented a machine to twist 100.000 pretzels a minute. Raising a great hullabaloo in the corner is Hal Smith, now turned travel- ing evangelist, but still trying to revive his old heartbeat, Bettye Stevenson, who is running a sanitarium for broken-down gigilos. Among her patients are Wesley Brady, Al Stevens, Raymond Tucker, and John Selby. Who do you think has been graduated with this class to become the Great Adviser and tell presidents, dictators, and kings how to run their affairs? Why. Julian Isen. that learned-looking creature mumbling to himself in the corner. CWe might have guessed itll Of course, every class must have its circus performer, and here she is: Jean Volz, the daredevil trapeze artist, who proceeds to demonstrate her art on a chandelier. And, not to be outdone by Jeanie, frolicking little Roger Mc- Ginnis, our old prexy, leaps to another chandelier and, hanging by his toes, tells us that he is now a member of the Torrance Fire Department and the star tackle on the football team, which recently defeated the Narbonne Barbers, coached by Johnny Nady. We don't need to be told that Roger's better half is the former Miss Janet Mastri. Janet and Roger remind us that we haven't yet seen the inseparbales. but, peering behind a palm tree in the roof garden, we find them--Bud and Mary Anne-still holding hands. Do we hear music? Ah, yes! Those red-headed hot spots of radio, Waneta Mullen and Margaret Kibbe, who have left their domestic duties be- hind them to burn up the ether with their blues songs. Here's a juicy bit of gossip! Remember Elly Levy? It seems 'that while she was traveling in Arabia, she was kidnapped by a bandit sheik with whom she fell so violently in love that she decided to stay with him forever. Our big he-man, Guy Bartels, tells us that he is now doubling in the movies for Tarzan, and is considering a position as strong man with Barnum and Bailey, their former strong man, Jimmie Coil, having left to shoot lions in Africa. Gossiping in a contented little group are four happy matrons, Bea Riley, Mildred Lukes, Fern Wright, and Jane Burkett: and in another group, not quite so contented, are those gay divorcees, Reva Hinkle, Marie Smith, Joy Heglie. and Maycie George, fighting over that irresistible acme of masculinity, Bob Wertz, well-known Walteria business man. And who is this graceful couple tripping the light fantastic in the center of the room? Adjusting the old specs, and peering closer, we discover that they are those famous dancing partners, Betty Adams and Garland Johnson, l26l

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wearing the horn-rimmed spectacles is Jayne Traller, who conducts a column of advice to the lovelorn. She is now consulting with Dick Hatton, holder of the world's record for the 50-yard dash, about his latest love affair with Dorothy Melton, that torrid Spanish dancer from Hawaii . . . Dick fears he's losing his light-of-love to Harry Bond, now a prosperous Fresno milkman. lLove among the milk bottles! What could be sweeterlj Oh! Here's a late- comer. Our old friend Emil Woosley, who tells us he is now replacing Mrs. Boynton in the Torrance High attendance oflice, and has every student in school scared to death of him. Just now he's Writing a book, Ten Thousand Reasons Why Promptness Is Best. The same old Emil! SENIOR CLASS WILL We, the benevolent, colossal, magnanimous, and illustrious Summer Class of Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Five, realizing the disastrous loss which be- falls the School upon our departure, deem it wise to bequeath upon our Alma Mater lasting and impressionable gifts, and do hereby solemnly declare this our last will and testament, and so do bequeath the following: To our successors, the Senior B's, we leave our dignity. To our ever- beloved Alma Mater, Torrance High, We leave the beautiful memory of a perfect class. Betty Adams leaves her slow manner of speech to Marcella Sharp. To Tracy Grifhth, Ted Adzovich leaves his shy, bashful way in all public gatherings. Guy Bartels leaves his inimitable dancing ability to Ray Steidel. Carroll Bender bequeaths a hopeless jumble of radio diagrams to anyone who can make heads or tails of them. To Louie Zamperini and Aggie Lou Rippey, George Bradford and Mary Ann Taylor leave that ancient motto. True love never did run smoothly, knowing that they will then understand why they have their little quarrels. Hazel Briney leaves the library to Adeline Morisset. Roland Brown leaves that lady-killer smile to Madore. Jane Burkert leaves her demure ways to Ruth Barnard. David Clark leaves his copy of the Missing Link to Benny Smith. Keith Coast is so elated at getting out of school that he cannot decide what to leave. James Coil leaves his book, How to Be a Second Camera, to Talmadge Ulrich. Margaret Condon, ever willing to oblige, leaves her dignified manner to Eva Basile. Maycie George, her pleasant personality to Eugene Dunlop. Ruth Granger leaves her slow drawl to Doris Pullman. To any weak and suffering B'7, Iona Green leaves her astounding gift of sarcasm, to be used sparingly on superior upperclassmen. Jim Grubbs leaves a lock of his curly hair, which in all probability will be used as a penwiper by some ignorant B Freshman. l28l