Widney High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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THE TIME MACHINE As any space cadet can tell you, no space ship is complete without a time machine. With it, you can go back through the centuries to see the age of the dinosaur, the building of the pyramids, or the first ancient trip to another galaky. Here-we'll show you: with a flick of the lever, we can go back seventeen or eighteen years to see how our senior space cadets looked as babies! Or-press the lever again, and we go to the future, to see what the Lancers are doing . . . . 'fhf f if if 1 +49

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POLLY RAMBO One cold night at 9:00 p.m., to be exact it was on February 19, 1940, one cold child weighted in at the Community Hospital in Reading, Pennsylavia. This baby's name just so happened to be Pauline Dorothy Rambo. Yep, that was mel Well, when I was two, I was still cold, so we decided to move to th-at never cold place called San Pedro, California. When I was three, my mother noticed something was wrong with me lno, not in my headlj so she took me to the hospital where they chose a name from the dictionary lspondylitisl and said I must have that. It means T. B. At the age of five, I attended kindergarten. I flunked sandbox, but they passed me anyway. I attended Harlan Shoemaker and then went on to Dana Jr. High, but then back again to good old Harlan Shoemaker where I graduated. I came to Widney and now after four short years I am again preparing to graduate. After school, I hope to go to Harbor Junior College. CARL E. BAILEY On August 27, 1938, the stork flew over a little country town called Romance, Arkansas, and left a good-looking blue eyed baby boy. After about a year and a half, my parents discovered a slight defect in me. It was cerebral palsy. On August 7,'1951, I arrived in Bellgardens, California. The following September I was enrolled in Pacific Blvd. School. After I graduated from there, I came to Widney. After graduation, I am planning to get a iob and maybe continue my education. FAYE POTTS My name is Faye Potts and I was born on a Monday morning at 2:30 a.m. on November 20, 1938, in Dallas, Texas. I am the fifth child of a family of 7 chil- dren. At the age of 2, I was very ill with rheumatic fever. We left for California in 1949 and I started to go to school at the age of 5. I attended Lincoln Grammar School, Willowbrook Junior High, and Centennial Senior High until we moved to Los Angeles and then I attended Los Angeles High School until October, 1956. From October to November I was in the hospital because of another attack of rheumatic fever. On February 4, 1957, I started coming to Widney. I would like to express my appreciation to all the teachers at Widney for all the kindness they have shown me. JIMMIE LEE ABLES On May 9, 1938, in General Hospital, a little boy weighed in at 2 pounds 13 ounces. I, Jimmie Lee Ables, was that little boy. I had to spend fifty-two days in an incubator because I was so small. When I was about eight months old, the doctors decided that I had C. P. Nothing eventful happened until I was eight years old, at which time I was attending the Spastic School. Then a fall from the top of a slide at school put me in the hospital with an infected knee. I was there eight months during which time I learned to walk with canes and the doctors decided I should have regular schooling. So, I then went to Pacific Blvd. School and from there to Widney High, where l've spent three happy years. My ambition is to be a public speaker or disc iockey.

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CLASS PROPHECY The scene is your video-telescreen .... you lounge comfortably in your suspended comfor-couch, gaz- ing at the tri-dimensional, full stereophonic color,-four-way set, waiting for your favorite program to come on .... you wait for that familiar, beloved voice to fall on your ears, that well-known face to swim into your vision .... it's almost timel Therel It's coming now .... Good evening, friends. This is your host, Jimmy Ables, bringing you another peek into the lives of others around the globe on your favorite show, People to People or Contemptuous File. All people have problems, and now, more than ever, it's the fad to see a consulting psychologist. Our guest tonight is one of the best. We are in the offices of the world's most famous personality in this field, Miss Polly Rambo, D.C., D.O.P.E., and P.S.E. ll don't know what they mean either, but they sound goodJ Today we are going to delve into the secret files of this famous psychologist to see what is troubling some of the great people in the news today . . . well, now, this looks interesting . . . OOPPS, uuuhhh, hello, there, ladies. Uhhhh, we were iust .... uhhh . .glancing through the .... iust looking at .... Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce Miss Rambo's secretaries. This is Miss Faye Potts, girl-type singer in her off hours, and Miss Esperanza Saucedo, a famous ex-beauty queen, who handle the office routines. Oh, is it all right to look around? Well, thank you, ladies .... heh heh heh.. . . one never knows, does one, folksl Well, then .... these files l was about to rifle .... uhhh . . glance through, the Terry Electro-Selecto No-Work Filing system, are manufactured by the Terry Electric Company, owned by boy-type manufact- urer, millionaire, playboy, electronics expert Jimmy Terry. Maybe we should peek into his file .... I'lI bet it would be shockingl lChuckle.J Oh, here is a really dandy one .... on the man who built and designed this unique building we are standing in. He is the genius of the build on air school of thought, Edward C. Edwards. This is, as you know, the first building of this type, entirely unsupported by anything but air. This architectural idea came from further development of the Pathagarien Theory Ui which Edwards understood and explained obove and beyond the call of duty to his fellow students way back in Geometry 2. Let's iust see what his file has to say about ....... WOWI Uhhhhh .... ladies and gentlemen, let's get on to other matters. Mr. Edwards' lovely wife and children-raiser, the former Miss DiAnn Blackett, was undoubtedly a great inspiration to this genius, for they have five lovely children. The mosaic on the front wall, which you no doubt noticed, was done by Paris Gantt. His file states he underwent treatment by Miss Rambo, for a long time, based on his confusion due to always believing he was named for his birthplace, Little Rock, Arkansas. Oh .... here is Miss Rambo now. Welcome to People to People Polly . . . we are just enioying your office. Won't you tell our friends in the audience about some of your interesting cases? I'd love to, Jimmy dear. Have you heard about the seven-year study I did on that wonderful Spanish writer, Roger Cole? What a dear boy. I met him on on Ganymede near the planet Jupiter one summer vaca- tion, and you can't be-LIEVE what problems that man hadl Everyone knows he is the world-famous creator of those darling stories for Mushy Magazine, but it seems he wanted to do science fiction or some such thing. Imaginelllt took a lot of time, but I finally cured him of that nonsense. l got him interested in romance between spaceships and he is doing beautifully, now. Say, that really is interesting, Polly. Where is he these days? Well, to be truthful, he is taking a long rest tour in the Andromeda Galaxy. He was always a bit odd after my treatments. Anyone else? Well, there was that sweet old darling man, Carl Bailey, the television expert who invented our won- derful tri-dimensional color recievers. He had a strange fixation, dating back to his school days . . . it seems that on every other Friday, his right arm used to go round and round and round in a mod circle. He claimed it was due to some work he used to do on a mimeo machine, but I knew it was really a basic relapse to crap games he used to get into, and shaking non-existant dice. Then there were those two nurses .... let me see . . . their names were Jennie Mota and Frances Wil- helm. Really a strange case. They insisted I was ill .... mentally, you understand. They positively hounded me night and day with tranquilizer pills ...... Why, here they are now. Hello dears .... oh, is it time to go? I'll come along quietly . . You don't have to hold my arm so tightly, dear . . .Goodby, Jimmy . . . it was so nice of you to.. .come. . .over...to. . . lSlamJ Well, folks, there goes little old ...... excuse me, I mean . . .dear old . . . darn it, she's got me doing it. There goes Miss Polly Rambo, our famous psychologist.. It has been wonderful visiting in her office and very enlightening. We found some dandy material in her files for future shows, provided we can get it past the censors. Thanks for visiting with us. This is Jimmy Ables, saying Goodnight from People to People.