Albany Union High School - Whirlwind Yearbook (Albany, OR)

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□: ] □ Senior Class Prophecy ()NE DAY last summer as I was bending over the limp form of a middle- aged man, who had been brought into my hospital in New York because of a fall received while working on a skyscraper, I tried to recall when I had seen that face before. But all I could see was one swollen black eye that would be closed for many days, and a square, stubborn chin that needed shaving. For all that, the poor fellow looked familiar. As I was meditating, who should walk in but the former Louise Clark with twelve children tagging behind! She immediately claimed as her husband that poor man. who, she said, was Erv in Ehrlich. She asked me whether he would die. If he were going to expire, she wanted to start immediately to collect his insurance but he lived, and she was obliged to stop the court procedure. On the next day I was called to Springfield. Illinois, on a life or death mission. I packed my emergency kit in a hurry, and caught the first train. Who do you suppose my porter was? It was John Carnegie, all blackened up like Andy. When he recognised me, he begged me not to expose him, for. he said, it was the only job he could get. Next morning I w as much surprised to have my former classmate, Mary Cozad, come into my berth and announce breakfast. I was so glad to meet her again that I forgot about my breakfast, and instead we talked about the happy days that we had spent together in good old A.H.S. in Albany, Oregon. When the whistle blew I left the train and made my w'ay to the address telegraphed to me. Imagine my surprise! Who should open the door, but Louis Dickson. He was now a thin, bent-over man with grey whiskers and “specs” perched on his nose. The good man broke into tears as he begged me to save his cat which had a stomachache. The poor kitty was the only friend he had left in the world. After I had made hiscat comfortable, he told me his sad story. He had never married because no one would have him except his cat w'hich still follow-ed him faithfully. As I was in Springfield, I decided to look about a little before I went back to New York. I w as w alking down a crowded boulevard when I heard a commotion behind me. I turned in time to see a bewhiskered old farmer 20

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□ I IRENE MULLER Commercial “I don’t say much, but who knows what I think.” Girls’ League 1.2,3,4 Shorthand Club 3.4. FRED NEUMAN Industrial “Oh, how I hate to get up in the morn- ing.” B.A.A. 2, 3, 4. Rifle Club 4. JOE NOBLE Industrial “I’m the boy who put the bunk in Bunk- er Hill.” Entered from Corvallis 4. Band 4. MERTHEL PLACE General “And she has hair of a golden hue. And what she says is al.vays true.” Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4. Shorthand Club 4. Literary Explorers 4. CLIFTON PLAGMANN General “There is honesty and good fellowship in thee.” F.F.A. 1. 2, 3, 4. B.A.A. 4. M.E.N. 1. LAWRENCE PLAGMANN General “A good natured boy is always in style.” F.F.A. 1,2, 3. Debate4. M.E.N. 1. ARLIE ODENBORG General “She loves a good time and is well capable of doing her part toward making one.’’ Literary Explorers 3, 4. Latin Club 3. Pianist of Band and Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4. LORAINE RICHARDS General “Graciousness is better than greatness.” Home Ec. 2, 3, 4. Girls’ League 1, 2, 3, 4. LENARD ROBERTSON General “Many an inch of his skin he’s pee!ed. Fighting for us on the footKall fie'd.” Class President 1, 2, 3 Student Body President 4. Hi-Y 2, 3, 4. Honor Society 3,4. B.A A. 2,3.4. Spanish Club 3, 4. STANLEY RORINSON General “Life is short, and so am I.” Entered from Jefferson 3. PEARL SANDERSON General “This is the face that launched a thou- sand ships and burned the walls of Troy.” Shorthand Club 1, 2, 3. Girls’ league 1, 2, 3, 4. EVELYN SCHMIDT General “There was a little girl, and she had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead.” Entered from Kamiak, Idaho 2. Band 2, 3, 4 Home Ec. 2, 3. Literary Explorers 4. Latin 2,3,4. G A.A. 2, 3. Dramatics 2. JUNE SCHMIDT General “Nothing lovelier to be found in woman than to study household good.” Home Ec. 2, 3, 4; Pres. 3. Orchestra 3, 4. Literary Explorers 4. BYRON SCOTT General “A sociable fellow, albeit silent at times.” Entered from Tangent 3. Latin Club 3, 4. B. A. A. 4. JANE SCOTT General “The girl with freckles on her nose gen- erally has sunshine in her heart.” Honor Society 3,4. Quill and Scroll 3; Pres. 4. Literary Explorers 4. Spanish Club 2; Vice Pres. 3, 4. Girls’ League 2, Sec.-Treas. 3. Annual Staff Business Mgr. 3, Manuscript Ed. 4. DORIS SLIGER General “She would rather talk to him than to angels.” Home Ec. 3, 4. Glee Club 2. Girls’ League ], 2, 3, 4. CATHERINE SMITH General “Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it.” Subscription Manager 4 Paper Staff 3, 4. Quill and Scroll 3, 4. Literary Explorers 4. G.A.A 1,2.3, 4. Annual Staff 4. Girls’ League 1, 2. 3, 4. ESTON SMITH General Because a man says nothing is no sign he has nothing to say.” B.A.A. 2,3 Latin Club 3. Literary Explor- ers 4. EUGENE SMITH Genera! “The world knows nothing of its greatest men.” Honor Society 4. Treas. B.A.A. 4. Lit- erary Explorers 4. Annual Staff 4. ALDA SPEER General “What men dare, I dare.” Entered from Salem 3. Home Ec. Club 3. G.A.A. 3, 4. Girls' League 3, 4. EARL THOMAS General “I argue for the sake of argument.” B.A.A 2, 3. 4. RUTH THOMAS General “Honor comes to honor's due, for to friend and school she’s true.” Girls’ League 1, 2, 3, 4. Shorthand Club 4 SHIRLEY THOMAS General “A compound of importance and fun.” Spanish Club Pres. 3. Honor Society 3, 4; Pres. 4. Quill and Scroll 3, 4. Literary- Explorers 4. G.A.A. 1,2,3. Annual Staff Photograph Ed. 3, Ed.-in-chief 4. VIOLET THOMAS General “Kind, steadfast, and true.” Home Ec. 2, 3. Girls' League 1, 2, 3, 4. (Please turn to page eighty-one) 1-

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sitting- astride a donkey, which had decided to take its noon nap, regardless of the traffic. I drew closer and found the farmer to be none other than Ralph Walker. He removed the corn-cob pipe from his mouth and told me how “the missus,” Isabelle Ackerman, and he had “hit the world together.” He described their cozy little nook, about ten miles away, where “Izzy” and the pigs and chickens were waiting for him and their mode of trans- portation, Annabelle. When “Annabelle” awoke from her nap, she and Ralph leisurely wended their way through the city. I entered an old-fashioned store down the street, just from curiosity. I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw Jane Scott standing on a table before hundreds of envious-eyed people. She was holding aloft shining trinkets, and with her pleasant smile and ready words she was auctioning them off. Alta Haley was handing the articles to Jane. These two pretty girls were spending their spinsterhood days working in their little shop in Springfield. It made me wonder where their school sweethearts were. Since it was time for me to return to New York, I bought a ticket and boarded a train. As I v as speeding through the country, I caught a glimpse of a group of workmen. As they turned to watch the train, I rec- ognized Jack Looney, the foreman. When he noticed that his men were not working, he kicked the mud-smeared biggest one of the bunch. By the cry that followed I knew the victim to be Lenard Robertson. Ah my, what hopes we used to have for him. 'I hank goodness, it was not a prison gang! When I arrived at my hospital in New York, whom should I find waiting there but the smashed-up remains of Don Morris. When the train, of which he was engineer, would not go faster, he had hooked it to a fast- flying airplane overhead. The hospital was the result. I’ve often thought it best that the hard-working teachers at A.H.S. could not see us as we are today, for in the good old days, they used to dream that one of us would be President of the United States!