Balboa High School - Galleon Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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roller skating, the light of ' MARGARET GASS . . . 'Peggy . . . history is the bane of her existence . . . her life . . . another beauty operator . . . and a blonde at that . . . a comely and cute one . . . to be sure. PAUL GILLOGLEY . . . Gill . . . hopes to be a bookkeeper . . . is a fisher- man . . . he lends a melodic note to gatherings . . . sang in the Boys' Chorus . . . wants to be a fancy jvigger . . . prospects arent so bright . . . the freckles on his nose are, however. MARYE GOGGIN . . . Sis . . . she's going to step from rags to riches . . . not that she's in rags, now . . . she dresses very becom- ingly . . . but money seems to be her inspiration . . . wonder if her seven long terms of class collectorship have made her so . . . she has beautiful curly hair . . . and dances divinely. LIBBY GRATCH. . . Bill . . . a calm, quiet girl . . . in life's busy whirl . . . with a future clearly before her . . . she's going to do unto others what they can not do for themselves . . . her life will be the life of her people . . . her goal, socia service work. PATRICIA GREENLY . . . Pat . . . let's rally 'round the camp fire . . . with Pat as leader of the clan . . . so long as there are no boy- friends around to bother her . . . or street cars to run for . . . s'1e'll be eaceful . . . she questions her am- bition . . . probably a sew- ing teacher, some day. ROBERT OUILES . . . Bob . . . could it be the green-eyed monster that at- tacks im when he sees handsome romeos around . . . follows a formula of his own making . . . yell leading ability plus tumb- ling training . . . plus a grand physique . . . added together make our yell leader . . . he's a chemist at heart. ALFRED HALLER . . . Hal . . . a man's best friend is his dog . . . even though he describes himself as looking like a Mac truck . .b . it has been said: down with capitalism . . . Hal believes this fact . . . plans to be a capitalist . . . and own a couple of new cars. HAROLD HANSEN . . . Hans . . . swing it . . . get-into the rhythm . . . just saying that to tantalize Hans . . . he despises swing music . . . and calls the acquiring of scholastic honors mere pipe dreams . . . nothing wrong with his feet . . . he goes or hiking in a big way . . . a good example is bet- ter than good advice . . . stake him for champ scaler. Page twenty HELEN GEHRMANN . . . Hel . . . she doesn't doubt your word...it's only a passing expression and habit with her when she says, Why, do you mean rt? . . . has every hope in the world to be a good comptometer operator . . . that good adds emphasis to the fact that she is earnest in her expectation. VINCENT GIULI . . . Beans . . . there is no greater love . . . than his ove for him . . . a very handsome young man . . . he says . . . a well built swashbuckling Buccaneer... he says . . . oh, well, we won't be mean . . . he has a good appearance . . . and yearns to make something of himself . . . a mechanical engineer. ffl-IRISTEAN GOODWIN . . . Chris . . . she's dif- ferent . . . doesn't like movies . . . delights in good books . . . looking into her face, one could see a per- son who would forever be bubbling over with optim- ism . . . she's quiet . . . her nursing career should be successful. NORMAN GRAY . . . Es- quire , . . and well might he be called that . . . always is he arrayed in clothes that are precisely correct . . . his hair is exactly waved . . . his mouth shaped always in- to an alluring smile . . . can't see him as a forest ranger . . . that's what he says he is going to be. PAUL GREGOIRE . . . Greg . . . if his senior sweater didn't have his name on it . . . we'd doubt that it was his . . . he's the smallest graduate . . , won- der how he keeps on his hobby . . . it's horseback riding . . . maybe hobby horse . . . Atlas was a mere ninety-eight pounds . . . look at him now and be cheered. ANITA HAGENAH . . . Nei . . . raring to sell . . . and this is one time when the floorwalker is a friend of hers . . . wonder if that flashy smile of hers will enhance the customers and make them buy . . . guess she'll sell riding hab- its . . . she's interested in horses. FRANK HANLEY . . . Frank . . . to all . . . and friendly, too . . . an Irishman . . . and proud of it . . . takes shorthand dic- tation like a veteran . . . and has more friends than any other student . . . be- cause of his good natured- ness . . . and earnest regard for the welfare of others. MURIEI. I-IANSEN . . . Mimi . . . one of the well known well-knowns at Balboa . . . and small won- der . . . who wouldn't know a girl with such an adorable nose . . . twinkling green eyes . . . and a smi e so peasinr . . . popular and accompgished . . . as ob- served by her fan mail . . . from numerous colleges . . Santa Clara most often. u-1 D ..1 an ul: LD Z 4 M O O I-1 cu CE VJ Z O Q- 2 sri IE U I-1 I LD 'D O Gd CD O. O I-1 V' in C11 I-1 VJ. 2 -c I-I-I i- at I-T-I u cn o cn 1- I 0 I-U B i- III U r-I I-I-I I 1- CLIFFORD GILBRIDE . . . CliH'f . . . the little fel- low with the big, big way about him . . . he and the R. O. T. C. go hand in hand . . . everything he accomplished in Balboa took place in that unit . . . quite an honor to be his friend. VASCO GIUSTI . . . Joost . . . reverie in brown . . . that is . . . he's forever day dreaming . . . and his coloring is brown . . . eyes, hair, and wears brown sweaters . . . likes machine shop . . . and why not I. he's going to be a machinist. ESTHER GRAFFIGNA . . . Est . . . the girl who would trade her brown eyes for a few inches . . . col- lects theater stubs . . . chil- dren's tickets . . . wants to be a stenographer . . . but not for a lecturer . . . despises lectures . . . only he must be under six feet. KENNETH GREEN . . . Ken . . . just an old cow- hand . . . from the shooting gallery . . . has no ambition . . . except to retire, maybe, on a government Pension . . . and live com ortably ever after . . . we'd describe him as being extremely ab- sent-minded . . . you have to follow him around to make him do anything. VIRGINIA GRIMES . . . Ginger . . . it's her am- bition to be auditioned . . . she hopes her voice won't knock them dead . . . just give her a contract . . . other than this she seems to have no idea what she wants . . . doesn't even know if she wants to sing . . . but she'll say to you, no kidding. LORRAINE HALL . . . Lolly . . . one day will be a fair mentor . . . today she is a pretty lass . . . with big blue eyes and fluffy hair . . . her students had better not talk baby talk to her . . . she is vehement in her dislike for it . . . not horse- back riding, however. LILLIAN HANLON . . . Lil . . . maybe she means to practice vocal lessons while dressing her client's hair . . . leastways, she wants to be a singer . . . and intends to be a hairdresser . . . ho-de-ho . . . sounds a trifle balmy . . . maybe it can be done . . . and if worse comes to worse, she still can dance. DICK HARRIS . . . Dick- ie . . . the wind is blow- ing . . . the snow is snow- ing . . . but it doesn't affect this fellow . . . he's all wrapped up in life's little happinesses . . . and blithely unaware of pitfalls , . . the only thing that injures his serenity is a shrill and nasal voice . . . he likes them soft and low pitched . . . action is in his veins.

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TOM EMERY . . . Em . . . one of those blustering bags of wind . . . not yet . . . if we know our Tom . . . but it may come to ass that he will eventually Eea golitician . . . heaven for- id . . . he's an awful girl teaser, too . . . and those checked pants of his just get you. LOUISE ERICKSON . . . Lou . . . now here is something stranger than fic- tion . . . this girl dislikes geolple who walk on the ac of their shoes . . . she must be looking at them from a very acute angle . . . or perhaps it's her artistic temperament . . . she's go- ing to be a dancing teacher. BEATRICE FAGUNDES . . . Bea . . . her 'pet ambition is to be a pro es- sional dishwasher . . . oh, yeah . . . it takes all her energy to do the supper dishes . . . how she does loathe doing dishes . . . she'd much rather go to the theater . . . or even do homework. JUDITH FELZER . . . 'Judy . . . the budding flower of fascinating woman- hood . . . gratifxes the eyes by her pleasing smile . . . and most amicable nature . . . who in the world wouldn't want her as secre- tary . . . or partner in a tennis match. MARGARET FINIGAN. . . Marge . . . any fellow over six foot tall suits her fancy . . . waffles and hot cakes hold no place of honor . . . she loathes them . . . another contingent cosmet- ologist. . . one never knows, does one. EARL FITZGERALD . . . Fuzzey . . . tall, slender, blond . . . and pretty, too . . . that is this young lad's description . . . he and schoo don't mix . . . school and everything to go with it ...stayaway...yet... he's going to college. WILLIAM FOLEY . . . Irish . . . just because he sold Jinx tickets . . . thinks he'll be a high pres- sure salesman . . . over six feet tall . . . maybe that is why he considers himself not hard to look at . . . the distance, you know . . . he is fervently against geom- etry . . . and rooting for a certain Kay. JEAN FRICKEY . . . Jef . . . a higher practical edu- cation is er goal . . . with her perseverance and efforts toward advancement . . . surely, even the school of hard knocks offers exper- ience . . . the most practical of education . . . me odrama has no place in her world . . . but movies . . . give her more . . . she'll be seen often upon road to success. WAYNE ENOCHSON . . . Swede . . . what's yours is his and what's his is his own . . . and what he says and wants is for him to know . . . and you to find out . . . sounds like a con- trary creature . . . he's just kidding . . . really most affable . . . and well liked. HELENE ESPOSTO . . . Espos . . . this fair dam- sel believes the coiffure is the thingc . . . she ,arranges her dar locks differently every day . . . homework bores her . . . she also has an odd way about her . . . but she doesn't bite . . . and she's going to be a milliner . . . come what may. ARMAND EALCONI . . . Ace . . . what a model lad . . . likes ever thing in common . . . dislikes no- thing in garticular . . . sort ofa stu y in brown . . . brown hair . . . brown eyes . . . very nice, too . V. -. aspires to become a civil engineer . . . we hope he's civil already. ROB T FER ' I . . ob . m olate a . . . he d tes o . . . mus av a fanc ic C a your f ture 0 ...hisishco r .. how his s ust'gape whe ls thlt one on the . 4 ' FISI R es ial en 0 A. . h - .- f p' a Q. . A s 'Q P. .-1 . - 0 -dp h c ,i near f . i es to g aring o n ' ' ' s . . . gan l w, you know . , , s ' . . . h 5 history is pet hate. , KATHLEEN FITZGIBBON . . . Kay . . . serene, quiet miss . . . who wants only the friendship of others . . . and she offers her friendship . . . as a sort of trade . . . she doesn't plan to continue her education but she'll not wile awaY her time . . . she'll work. GERALD FOYE . . . Young Foyen . . . wants to iight, girs . . . he says he's handsome . . . blue eyes . . . black hair . . . oh, me . . . not particular as to what he likes or dis- likes . . . it's all the same to him . . . he's musical . . and mother is hisbest friend. ALTON GALLAGI-IER . Coaloil . . . disdains anything to do with higher education . . . seems as though getting out of hifgh school was enough goal or him . . . likes mechanical drawing . I. . and is a part of school life . . . wonder of wonders . . . lost time is never found...this is where his car comes in handy . . . now, now, don't be modest. BETTY ERFURTH . . . 'fLou . . . must be able to sing . . . warbled in the Girls' Chorus . . . collects stamps when all else for- sakes her . . . wants to travel . -. . and not on a street car, either . . . her mother must be a wonder . . . she's Bet- ty's best friend. YIRQINIA EVERTON . . . Gin ' . . t. small in size only . . . in other words, her hopes and ideals are great and far reaching , . , sees herself as a private sec- retary . . . occupying a po. sitlon of envy , , , not the usual secretarial position, either . . . something stu- pendous. YOLANDA FAMBRINI . . . Yoll1e . , . wears her chestnut hair short and Curly. . . the better to frame hF1' lg brown eyes . . . she likes shows and . , , we wonder, could his name be Mickey.. . . or isn't there something in the air . . . she's very definite . . . going to work in an office. WILLIAM FIGARI . . . ,'F1gs -. . . says his smile is convincing . . . we ho it convinces those whom if sentences to detentions . . . Judge Figari hasn't a heart of steel, but one of old . . . a greater little baicet- ball player and all-around good fellow couldn't be ound. VICTOR FISICARO . . . Peanuts . . . a thin, lightweight bundle of pep . . .dislikes English . . . but wide awake in auto shop . . , and physical ed . . . some day he hopes to build a bridge . . . now he doesn't even play it. YOLANDA FLORES . . . Yoh . . . beautiful, com- posed, and an entirely leas- ing person . . . her lblack glossy hair shines . . . her rilliant brown eyes glow . . . her smiling features are ever lifted in friendly greet- ing . . . she's one in a mil- lion . . . so Norman thinks. MARY FRANZONE . . . Babe . . . won't wash dishes . . . don't make her . . . but she does 'ust the same . . . it's a habit now . . . she's a big hel to everyone . . . always willing to lend a hand . . . over and above all else. HELEN GALLATIN . . . Irish . . . here is some- thing of interest . . . her ambition and intent is to be a window decoration . . . she couldn't possible mean decorator, could she . oh,-verily, verily . . . in addition to this she collects junk . . . and has pretty hazel brown eyes . . . such a person, . . I. there-is little competition rn originality. Page nineteen

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BERNICE HARRISON . . . Bern''masmallbeautywith blue eyes . . . loves to dance . . . and is quite adept at maintaining her equilibrium on a horse . . . ambition is to help others . . . to be beautiful . . . started prac- ticing on herself . . . a wizard. NWILLIAM HEALY . . . Wild Bill . . . ambition . . . has he any . . . unless he calls the desire to be a gigolo an ambition . . . he's to be credited on his hand- someness, nevertheless . . . also his adeptness at fixing autos . . . rattle traps. JOSEPH HIDZICK . . . Bun . . . because he's such a good head, he does- n't mind friends calling him such a silly name as Bun . . . thinks it's cute . . . fact is . . . he can take any- thing but getting up early in the morning . . . if he in- tends to be a mortician . , . he won't have to get up . . . he'lI be kept up. GEORGE HOFFMAN . . . Flash ...another trackster ...they all seem to be flashy . . .this one excels . . . with his yellow ties and colored shirts . . . whee . . . his ambition . , . in keeping somewhat with the ties . . . no more blondes . . . in the future or at present . . . one must have jilted him. JOHN HOGAN . . . Bal- dy . . . in great hei hts of laughter . . . or embar- rassment . . . a very con- spicuous vein stands out in the center of Johnny's fore- head . . . the topic of bas- ketball is ever on the tip of his tongue . . . to be a critic is his life long ambition . . . got a lot of ractice during the basketball season . . . watching the opposing team from the bench. EDWIN HOOPER . . . Ed . , , has been taken in hook, line, and sinker by othce machines . . . wants to make them talk some day . . . in order to keep with his prophesying . H. . girls, girls, and more girls . . . money, money, and more money . . . he'll have to be a very good op- erator. STANLEY HURWITT . . . Bunny . . . like the little boy who washes his doggy on a scrubbing board . . . funny . . . at least the mu- sic department thinks he's funny . . . he eats, drinks, and sleeps music . . . no wonder he's a trifle funny . . . oh, well. RUTH JENSSEN . . . maybe it's Ruthie . . . but who knows . , . she likes sweets . , . particular- ly boys . . . dislikes con- certed people . . . particu- larly boys . . . has a right to designate her likes and dislikes . . . hasn't she rosy cheeks and dimples? . . . yes sir . . . those who strive for success are seldom re- iected. I-1 rn 4 O CQ Q v-I D O U U1 I-Y-I I-4 D4 O I-1 U r-1 ? LL. O LD Z ni I-' cn 'C I-1 cn ff. O U Z DG I-Il I-1 cn I-Ll B cn r-1 'SE I-1 Z O 2 ffl u-1 I-' VJ VJ u-1 EL' U Lu I I-1 VIOLA HASS . . . Vi . . . her ambition began young in life . . . to have a good time, was it . . . and is it . . . grey-eyed and dim- pled , . . she sets hearts throbbing. . .even in school . . . though she dislikes school in general . . . teach- ers are O.K. though . . . some of them. LENA HECI-IENLEITNER . . . Lean . . . can you beat it . . . here's a girl who makes a hobby of oing to bed early . . . and iliking it . . . hostile toward con- ceited people . . . most everything suits her tine . . . aspires to be a legal stenog- rapher. ROBERT HIGGINS . . . Cowboy . . . give him a horse, says he . . . needs one by looks of the contraption 0 his which he calls a car . . . ranch minded . . . even has a pony ride place at the beach . . . every third time around is his free ride . . . more fun. RALPH HOFFMAN . . . Hoff . . . he may be called a card by his friends . . . we'd say he was the whole deck . . . a wiseacre of great ability . . . doesn't like wall flowers . . . or snobby girls . . . maybe that is why he's going in for mat- rimony . . . his wife cer- tainly won't snub him. THERESA I-IOLDENERH. Tree . . . must have run into a door in her more ten- der years . . . her pug nose has that appearance . . . she's comptometer machine conscious . . . hopes to op- erate one on leaving school . . . more power to her. DORIS HOXYIELL . . . Dot . . . a great asset is a beautiful handwriting . . . she has it . . . with no ef- fort at all . . . like a piece of art . . . must eat wheat- ies . . . chuck full of vim and vigor . . . refuses to be out talked . . . so just listen to her . . . and you will be liked. ROSEMARIE JELINEK . .. Rosie . . . five feet five of free speech for the fair sex . . . broke the ice . . . ran for Student Association president...but fell throu h . . . now she's bitten by the stamp collecting bug... hope she doesn't attack it with such vengeance as she did the rights of woman- kind. ALBERT JOHNSON . . . Al . . . may some day be called Doc . . . dancing, football, and girls hold his attention . . . mostly girls . . . his one horseback ride left a lasting impression . . . he loves it . . . what . . . the impression? . . . oh, yeah . . . among the many already acquired virtues . . . has within him great facul- ty for arguing. THERESA J-IAYIQLS . . . 'fl-?rry +.'. . the transla- ti for Theresa is carrying ears of corn . . . we don't see an! gorn . . . but we do see a lnnde . .x. withaale- lectable lue eyes 'and a lovely po lexion . . . any- howfall she hopes for is to graduate . . . then to beauty school . . . not again. CLAUDE HELWIG . . . Red ...old funny grin... right this way . . . if you're not afraid of being dazzled by red hair . . . and a pair of long lashed hazel eyes . , . quite a card . . . lets his girl practice her beauty culture on him . . . but he- certainly can do sport write-UPS perfectly. ROY HILMOE . . . Flash . . . nickname plus running ability make him out to be quite a trackster . . . mar- velous that so much run- ning hasn't worn out his vocal chords . . . he does sing . . . but he doesn't run on his throat, remember. FRANK HOGAN . . . Red . . . his hair has just the cutest waves and ripples in it . . . and as he walks along . . . as serious as can be . . . he looks as though the world is weighing him down with its worries . . . that's just his attitude . . . when with friends he is jol- ly and full of good humor. ROSALIE HOLMES . . . Ro-Ro . . . has very admirable ambitions . . . a future, loving housekeeper . . . with her sunny tem- perament . . . always happy and forever smiling . . . can'timagine anything more fortunate than having Ros- alie keep house for a person . . . only how will she keep up that becoming coat of tan. 'MARY I-IURLEY . . . Joe Editor . . . wants to give to the World what she hopes it won't give back to her-help . . . there's one too many little helpers around to suit Mary . . . does very inane things for a hobby . . . writes articles which no one ever reads . . . and tries experiments with human nature that do no good. EMMONS JENSEN . . . Speed . . . another red head . . . oing to start a fraternity fir red-headed brothers . . . only he never gets around to it . . . why must there be such people . . . he asks . . . such people who borrow things.. .espe- cially his homework. ALLAN JOHNSON . . . Al . . . must feel sorry for the laundry . . . always wears dirty cords . . . what must the washing machine think of him . . . and the girls, too . . . dogs get him . . . they are his best friends . . . they won't tell him . . . about his cords . . . a help- ful su gestion is better than helpfui silence...Allan, con- tinue on the road to success. Page lwenly-one