Big Sandy High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Big Sandy, MT)

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Margaret sets the pace for the well-dressed women of America and England. After Miami, it was Washington, D.C., to chat a few minutes with Congresswoman MARDELLA REICHELT, the Republican representative, about her new plan to put Big Sandy on the map. At the present time she is trying to introduce a bill to establish a carrier pigeon base at Big Sandy. Of course this measure is causing a great deal of debate. From Washington it was merely a few minutes to New York to see VIOLET LANIK and ERMA MAE BUCHHOLZ. These two girls share an apartment. Erma is a dietitian in the Astor Hotel, and recently discovered a secret formula to keep the scum off cocoa. She expects to retire soon on the profit derived from this discovery and travel in Europe. Violet has a radio program of her own on which she gives fashion notes and radiates all of her personality over the air. Her programs are later translated and sent into seven different countries, so Erma will not be lonely while journeying around except Erma cannot understand any other language. Now I leave the U.S.A. and journey to Africa, the Darkland. I landed in Egypt and proceeded to Cairo where I found ETHEL RANDALL swimming in the Nile. Ethel is a roving reporter and brings news of the African animals to all the children of America. She recently wrote a book called Rambling Randy. She was trying out an experiment to see what kind of animals she could attract. The only one I saw was a wolf in an Egyptian soldier's uniform, (a regular wolf in sheik's clothing!) While in Africa, I flew down to Leopoldsville where WALTER MONSON is a Lieutenant Colonel in charge of the Dinosaur Division. His dinosaurs are used to carry troops into the jungles. These dinosaurs are quite the modern discovery. Australia was a stop to visit DELORES GOECKS. Delores married the old boy-friend and is helping run their fur farm. They have started crossing chinchillas with kangaroos to make fur coats with pockets. Quite a successful little business venture. Ah, and now back home again. I ran over to Hollywood to see EDDIE POKORNY, the modern Clark Gable complete with mustache (sure its dyed, but don't tell anybody.) Eddie is starring in a picture named Elegant Eddie in which he's up to all of his tricks of making with the eyes and complimenting all the slick chicks . For relaxation, I rode over to Long Beach for a swim in the ocean. And there was JOE QUINN, a lifeguard. Every two hours he parades down the sands to show off that magnificent walk and swagger of his. A few days prior to meeting him, I had 19

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as to make that tour in reverse or rather San Francisco to Peking via Lisbon, Portugal for the novelty of it. It was really all quite confusing. (Before I really get started, may I say that if there is any similarity between this and a regular airline flight, it is purely coincidental.) Maggie and I discussed old times for awhile and then she mentioned that MURIEL LUND was teaching in Alaska. So to Alaska I went in my little private plane, to see what Muriel had to say. Muriel said that she had just finished teaching the Eskimos a new form of Pig-latin. This next semester her pupils are going to rewrite the English language and revise Webster's Dictionary. So off again. The next stop, Big Sandy, to revisit the place of our secondary learning. There to my great surprise was BOBBIE GREEN. Bobbie had decided on a musical career upon graduation, but life was too sharp . Bob became flat broke and returned back to Big Sandy to measure time selling toothpaste in an accordion -pleated tube. Bob mentioned that he heard CLINTON HAGEN was in Denver. So, on to Denver, where Clem has at last claimed fame for that voice of his. Listen every Friday evening to hear Clem on his Wild Western Dramatization of Cowboy Stories doing the woeful ballads. His forlorn renditions bring tears to your eyes. While in the neighborhood, I dropped over to see EDDIE NYGARD at New Orleans. Eddie has a fleet of motor boats on the Mississippi River. Once a month he stages a race in which several of the more enthusiastic population participate. Nothing exciting, other than a few wrecks, ever happen, so Eddie plans for a race across the Pacific Ocean. Oh, by the way, I hear Eddie had quite a time at the Mardi gras last season. Odd, isn't it, what bits of information one can pick up while traveling around? LEONA SANFORD I located in Dayton, Ohio. She is running a hamburger stand with Barnum Bailey's Circus in the day time, (her hamburger a la Leona is famous) and is the tight-rope walker in the evening show. Leona had had a card from BLANCHE, or rather Sergeant, Riley. It seems that Blanche had joined the WACs upon graduation and was doing drill work in a WAC center in Memphis. After visiting with Blanche awhile, I could still hear her hup-2-3-4 as I took off for Miami. Miami is one of the resorts that MARGARET COLE calls home for a few days while vacationing. Maggie married a titled multi- millionaire Englishman and was trying to make up her mind about a new spring outfit when I arrived. After going through all the dress shops she settled on one made of lacquered spider webs, sequins, and ostrich feathers, and gold lam ?. Lady 18

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read in the newspapers of his saving a Pekinese puppy of Lana Turner's. Quite the hero. As for me, this tour was almost too much. I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I think I'll settle down in the Rockies and raise flowers in a rock garden. BLAZED TRAILS 1945 --Mernie Wright LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, The Senior Class of the Big Sandy High School, of the city of Big Sandy, county of Chouteau, and state of Montana, being of sound mind and memory, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking any will or wills heretofore made by us. FIRST: We direct that all our just debts and graduation expenses be fully paid and satisfied, as soon as convenient. SECOND: We give, devise, and bequeath unto the Juniors our sneak day. ( For Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall , as it did on our sneak day). THIRD: We give, devise, and bequeath unto the Sophomores --nothing as we haven't anything they would be interested in (or have we?) FOURTH: To the Freshmen we leave the remembrance of initiation to help them when they have reached the glorious realms of seniorism. FIFTH: To Erwin, our janitor, we leave the memory of our smiling faces--and devilish pranks. SIXTH: To the school we leave the memory of our bobby socks, page-boy bobs, and the traditional cars, cords, ? , ?,. Also our ability to concentrate on all the things we shouldn't and the unused portion of our intelligence (which is plenty). If you don't want it, save it, because we may want it back some day. SEVENTH: To the faculty we leave our procrastination, prevarication, and pernicious perseverance for our assignments. They will be in safe-keeping so the other students will have to use their ingenuity to find new methods of evasion. We each individually would also like our say. 20 EIGHTH: