Arvada High School - Redskin Yearbook (Arvada, CO)

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go that evening for dinner at the Trocftdero. What a surprize it was to then to find Frank Tomsic, whom they had left in Arvada six weeks ago, now instructing young movie stars in the most intricate and advanced dance steps. He is featuring the Leyden Rumba. Frank invited them to go with him the next day to see the sights of Hoilywood.They accepted readily and were ready at 10:00 the next morning. On the M. G. I', lot they found Norma Smith and Didio Lujan putting the finishing touches on their latest and best picture, The Life of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire . Incidentally costumes for this picture were designed by Bette Dickerson, Hollywood’s favorite designer, At Grauman’s Chinese, Warner Brothers’ Each Night I Live v as to have its premier showing that evening. The lead is taken by that popular star and matinee idol Paul Peterson. Pete got his start in the theater as an ambitious chemistry student interested in a substitute for dynamite in the great play presented by the Senior Class of 1940 Spring Fever . A great deal of advertising was being done for The Ice P’ollies of 1950 ; which would be released in six months. The star of this picture, Ruth Golightly, had just finished a 52 bell movie, I Ditched School. While in Hollywood, Frank took our friends to the home of Deanna Durbin where they visited Johnny Petroff, who is head life guard for Deanna’s private swimming pool. Johnny has the pleasure of teaching Deanna's beautiful friends how to swim and also of rescuing the unlucky ones who don't swim. While strolling along Hollywood 3oulevard, they noticed a sign reading, Longneck-er Studios . The name being familiar, caused them to investigate and consequently to find Letty Walt Disney ‘ Longnocker working on her latest picture, The Ten Little Redskins , 3ureto be a hit; Letty told them that another classmate,liartin Stanger,was in Nome, Alaska, hard at work in his chemical laboratory perfecting his plans for-a refrigeration system for the Eskimos. For the next day our friends planned a short jaunt to Catalina Island. Upon leaving Long Beach, they were amazed to find Ray Lind-esay, a former Navy man, Captain of the Catalina Excursion boat. The trailblazers left late in the afternoon to keep a dinner engagement at Betty Whyman's Dude Rancho, just the right place for the eccentric and rich. Another guest v as Vera Good who was writing many No. 1 hits for the Jitter 'nd Jive young-stors.Bob when resting picked up a newspaper. The headlines read MICKEY ROONEY DIVORCED . Reading on, he found that Helen Parrish had just received her final decree. She had charged non-support—Hickey only makes $5000 a week.There are rumors that Helen plans another matrimonal adventure. She has been seen frequently with Jackie Cooper. Upon arriving at the Arvada Airport, out on Hackberry Hill a group of friends v ere waiting to welcome the travelers home. Among them were Mrs. Ilona Beck, voted by the Arvada Chamber of Commerce as the ideal housewife of 1950, and Mrs. Vadna Fullerton, another Arvada housev ife. These married ladies came to the air port with Jimmy Dunlap The Fuller Brush Han who had been trying to sell his v aros to each of them. Roger Norris, The Cat and Canary 'specialist of Arvada and Suburbs v as on hand also. He dashed off, however, v hen the United Air Line Transport cane in, for he v as meeting Nary Lorene Stott, v ho had been vacationing in Monte Carlo. Also on this

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and found another trailblazer with Ernie Jump,picking out a diamond. Neva and Ernie are to be married early in the fall. After n good nights rest at the Hotel New Yorker,the three flying trailblazers climbed into the cabin of their plane. Nothing but the best would do for them, so they engaged Ozzie Osbaugh, an ace flyer, to pilot the plane on this nonstop' flight from New York to London. Arriving in London at dinner time, the foursome stopped at the Savoy for dinner, where they danced to the Jitter 'nd Jive rhythm of Jack Joseph and his Young -sters. Margaret White, Jack's pianist, made famous that popular song Schoen My Baby Home. The Reunion1s next stop was Paris where the girls, naturally being interested in clothes, v ished to see the latest fashions and were directed to the studios of Adrian , where they saw Gerry McWhorter modeling his latest creations of 1950 over television. Gerry had just heard from Donn Exline who had recently returned to Russia to continue his study of Communism. Another short trip took the Reunion to Rome where its passengers had a short chat with Dorothy Starr in her spacious studio. Dorothy is studying art under the great grandson of Leonardo di Vinci. The plane was prepared for a long trip,as the course was pointed toward Africa. The 1950 Olympics which were being held in Egypt were of great interest to our travelers since- Arvada was well represented by Ernest Green, the famous skier, and the fleet-footed Harold Jaegar. It was quite novel seeing Ernest skiing on the sand, and of course Harold v on the mile. Here the travelers also met Dorothy Bennett, the well-known archeologist, who was making a study of the pyramids. Fortunately the group reached Honbasa, Africa,just in time to greet Charles Bring 'em Back Alive Richter before he embarked for the United States with 100 specimens,many of them animals which had never before been seen by man. The next stop of the Reunion was at Calcutta,India. Betty, Bob, Ozzie and Katie had a very pleasant time in Calcutta visiting Bobbie Owen, who was getting material for her new book, Raisins of Mirth . With the trailblazers came the good news to Bobbie that hor last novel, Of Cats and Women , had been chosen as the 1949 Pulitzer Prize novel. Despite the hazardous weather the Reunion with the crack pilotj Ozzie, at the controls made a record breaking trip across the water, landing safely, late one afternoon in Los Angles after completing a six weeks' tour in foreign countries. Glad to get their feet on solid ground again, the flying four checked in at the Ambassador hotel for a little rest. ''gain the girls' minds turned to thought of style and beauty. Immediately they visited Mary's Salon in the Ambassador. They found that Mary was none other than Ilary Tometich,formerly of Arvada, now famous for her new type of permanent wave which has gone over big with the masculine customers. Nothing else v ould do but that the foursome should

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plane were Wayne Grover,basketball coach at Colorado Woman's College and Clark Hambley, head coach at Colorado Kinos who were returning from a Sport's Convention which was held in St. Louis. Upon driving into downtown Arvada, they noticed the following changes. Kenny Hutchinson had just moved into his modern feed store. In the same block, Jack Peters factory had opened and had put on the market Jack's new Invention Reclining Chairs for Sleepy Students . Charlotte Susal, his private secretary, was seen going down the street. Farther down, on opposite sides of the street, they saw two rival creameries, Paul Anderson's Arvada Creamery and Dairy and Bill Larson's Dairy and Creamery. Friendly rivalry exits between'these two. As the weary travelers were going by George's drug store, they saw Dick Bernatis, the big Leyden G. Kan, hot on the trail of a blonde. Right behind him was Smoozie Lewis, player-coach for the Phillip'.s Oilers. The Reunion had finished a record breaking trip. It's passengers had seen nearly all of the members of the Class of 1940 . They all agreed it had been a very happy and eventful adventure and 'that the membors of the Class of 1940 were still making history. A UTOGRAPHS