Anacortes High School - Rhododendron Yearbook (Anacortes, WA)

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RHODODENDRON 1934 £ Seniors 50 Years From Now - 1984 By Barbara Sackett “Endeavoring to lift the standards of the nation higher, to bring to the people the just government they deserve, I, Robert Melvin Newell, do pledge myself as president of these United States! As Mr. R. M. Newell finished the inaugural pledge in which the powers of the government were placed in his hands, he strode pom- pously from the inaugural platform accompanied by congressmen S. P. Bebich, B. Maticich, M. Lowder, and K. R. Burt, into his waiting airplane, where he seated himself beside his wife who was very charming in blue velvet designed by the famous modiste, Mme. Johan- na Raddatz, and the plane sailed away from the curb amidst the cheering of friends and countrymen, and proceeded down Washington Avenue to the White House. As the crowd dispersed, Mr. Melvin Williams, retired president of the Ess and Ess Steamship Company, accompanied by his wife, the former Dolores Premo, made their way down Madison Avenue, to Hotel Winthrop, managed by their old schoolmate, William Dexter. Entering the dining salon, where the rythmic strains of Maestro Jack Rauch’s augmented Melodians penetrated the air, they saw such familar faces as saxophonist Lloyd Hansen, while the light glistened on the hoary head of the aged pianist, Joe Dwelley. Conducted to their table by head waiter, David Wollertz, they were entertained by the celebrated dancer, Betty Wold, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon L. Wold. Miss Wold is following in the footsteps of her famous mother, the former Verna Wood. In the lobby of the spacious hotel, were on display, pictures by the contemporay artists, Eldon Davis and June Kerney .... In the adjoining shop window, a cosmetic display advertising the products of Madame Effie La Fleur .... Suddenly the quietness of the avenue was shattered by the clatter- ing of an ambulance piloted by Richard White as it swung around a corner. It was rushing to the scene of an accident in which M. William Anderson, famous chemist, was injured while testing one of his latest experiments. Nurses in attendance were Edna Baker and Ruby Savage .... Out at Washington College, where Delbert Boulton is still coaching, we meet Anthony Pirak, Jr., son of the well-known sportsman, An- thony Pirak. Eighteen

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WILLIAM ARTHUR Wl NGE—“Bill General Course; Future: Normal; HI A 4: Football I: Key Club 3-4. DAVID WOLLERTZ— Cub” General Course; Future: Travel: Football 3-4; Roys’ Club 1-2-3-4. VERNA WOOD— Casey” l angiiHge Course: Future; Cornish; Vive-Pres. of Class 2; Glee’ Club 3-4; Operetta 3: Peter Pops In” 4. IN MEMORIAM Barbara Pinneo ‘34 Nellie Larson ‘35 {Seventeen

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SENIORS Young Pirak is playing third base on the college nine. On the football squad is William Winge, Jr., Robert Redd., Jr., Lawrence Stankus, Jr., and also Harold Werner, Jr., and Jerry L. Mansfield, Jr. In Pinneo Hall, Professor Harold Anderson is found instructing his business administration students about depression; Doris Anderson and Veronica Jones Cartwright are instructors in dramatics. Farther along on the campus, a crowd was gathering on the steps of Jackson Hall. Closer investigation disclosed Robert A. Brooks, famed world traveler, thrilling a group of wide-eyed students, with the tale of how he brings 'em back alive ... . Down at the Home Economics department, the famous dietician, the former Bernice Dollie Dybbro, with her capable assistant, the former Kay Meade, is lecturing to a group of would-be homemakers. Also on the teaching staff of Washington College, one finds such old-remembered classmates as, Harry Gunn, Professor of French, Gordon Hall, Professor of Mathematics, Murl Miller, Professor of History; Prof. Miller's book, Life in 1934 has been attracting wide comment among the critics. Nick Petrish, retired Professor of Econ- omics, is submitting weekly articles to the Hit and Miss , a current magazine. On display in the University bookstore, one finds the celebrated volume, Anthony Reverse by Elizabeth Wellington England . . . . Returning from her archaeology expedition, where she has been digging among the Tombs of Egypt, the former Barbara Sackett is now digging potatoes on her farm in Avon, Washington .... Of interest to radio fans will be the broadcast Thursday afternoon, when Lawrence Seitz and his New York Symphony orchestra will be featured over N. B. C. Also on Thursday afternoon, Byron E. Norman, News Correspondent from Washington, D. C., will give a brief resume of the situation at the capital. On Thursday evening, Mrs. Maxcine Baxter Reidlinger, president of the National Women's Club, will face the “mike to speak to her women audience. On Friday morning, Don Kenoyer, National sports- man. will present his views on the coming Olympic games. Following Kenoyer’s broadcast, W. V. Wells, Jr., retired naval man, will speak from the capital, to a nation-wide audience .... Robert Palmer, who flew around the world in three days in 1940, has moved with Mrs. Palmer to his new Long Island estate .... Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Elliott, sailed Saturday for a world tour, in which they hope to visit Mrs. Hazel I. Sheppard in her villa at Cannes, France. Also while abroad, they will visit Eugene L. Gibbons, in his London office where he is overseeing and designing (Turn to page 481 Nineteen