Trona High School - Telescope Yearbook (Trona, CA)

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Sllllllll BETTY NIEMEYER- BeHy Slate Staff, Annual Staff, Chccrlcadcr. JOHN GARCIA-f Johnny Private lfirst Class, U. Marine Corps, Varsity Club, Football '44g now in Sai- pan but will soon be on his way to Chinn. CLYDE BU RTONn- Clyde Stage Art.

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Sllll PAT MARSH- Puddles G. A. A., Physics Club, Dramatics ,46, Cheerleader, Lions Club Speech Award. EDWARD DOWNS- Eddy Assistant Stage Manager. BARBARA BISHOP-- Bisl1 G. A. A. Treasurer, Slate '45, '46, A nunl Staff.

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444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 24 14444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 It was a beautiful summer's day in the Capitol and Harry Steger, one-time presi- dent of the Senior Class of 1946 and now Senator from Missouri, was b r o w s i n g through his library at the Capitol. This was just the sort of day that we graduated on back in '46 in good old Trona. Golly we sure had fun back in those days. When I think of all of the kids and of all the different ways they have gone in life, it sure brings back memories. Why I re- memberf' he said tzhuckling, when we were ALL Senators in our yearbook. Think of that! Some of them had gone to Trona all their lives, others, just as much a part of the class, had come later. Let's see here, I think I have some old annuals showing when they all came. Oh yes, here they are! Seven old salts started out the class way back in '35, with a starting line-up of artist and would-be editor, Valerie Anne Gale, 'never dreaming that they would someday be football heroes,' Rupert Black- mun and Paul Haughton, 'ham' Gloria Mc- Nabola, lanky Wesley Colony, and two of the 'roundestf curly-haired brothers around those parts, Frank and Johnny G a r c i a. What a crew! Ah yes, those were the days, Kindergarten. Then in the first grade that cute little blond Patsy Dorward from Washington, to fascinate all of them with her Scottish dances. It seems they all went along pretty good with no mishaps except that Wes Colony went out for three years to military academy, returning in the sixth grade with new students Betty Niemeyer and Clyde Burton from Johannesburg and Inyokern respectively. The next year-ah yes-I arrived. It wasn't much of a change from Inyokern in respect to scenery, but I soon became 'one of the gang,' tearing up the old school- house with the rest of them. Un fact the next year they had to build a new 0ne.j Cute Barbara Bishop came that year too, from Lake Hughes, to add to the fun. Glo Mc went out this year to St. Bernar- dine's, coming back in the seventh. No new students came during the seventh grade. The next year, eighth grade, we moved to the new 'green schoolhouse' and it took about the whole year to get settled. Then the ninth grade was livened up with the arrival of two of the slickesr chicks we had seen in a long time, little Mary Hurlpcker from Minnesota and songbird Lois Wilson from Lancaster, and a very shy boy fwe thoughtj, Eddy Downs from Inyokern. Then when we were 'Sophs' two more of our feminine members joined our ranks, the girls being green-eyed Jo Porter, an- other songstress fof the long line of sing- ing Portersj from Inyokern also, and artis- tic Gloria Cavazos from Nuevo Leon, Mex- ico. Johnny and Frank spent this year in Los Angeles, and Wes Colony became a farmer for a year over in Kernville. All three of them returned to Trona in their Junior year. The next year, our Junior year, is the one we'll never forget. That was the year of our 'Great Prom,' and also that was the year that we had the largest class that we had ever had, having forty members. Although the great majority of the new students left after the year was out, four of the swellest kids, ever, stayed with us: George Law, star athlete, from Wash- ington, D. C., Lee Stoiser, future fur trapper, from O-hio, Fred Smith, the next year's Student Body president, from Lone Pine, and golden-haired Liz Richmond, who arrived in February from Pasadena, but who was better known as 'Arizonaf This year ,johnny Garcia left school to join the Marines. In our Senior year, we were joined by vivacious Pat Marsh, and the tall, dark, track star, John Lakes. This completed our graduating class of 1946 . . . What a class!', 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiitiiiitittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii