Biggs High School - Rice Blade Yearbook (Biggs, CA)

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tContinuedJ- I, Russell Baker, bequeath my dog tMajorJ to the high school. Change your mascot, Biggs. I, Marvin Lundberg, will to Dennis Lindberg my ability to catch friends. Take a tip from an old timer and leave them alone. I, Callie Fawns, will my flirting ability to Iune Van Dyke. Carry on, Iune. I, Anna Ryan, bequeath my size 3'f2 shoe to Mr. Evers. If the shoe fits, wear it. I, Mae Morgan, leave to Eldora Durfee my Champion spark plug. I, Elizabeth Wellman, bequeath to whoever wants it, my ability to truck in my gym suit. I, Edlo White, will my pretty hair bows to Helen Lantz. I, Thomas Carlson, leave my ability to love all girls quietly to Marvin Smith. I, Vonnie Hammer, will my life-membership in the C. S. F. to Iack Lindley. PROPHECY FOR THE CLASS GF '39 TEN YEARS FROM NOW As I was passing through my old home town, Biggs, the other day on a freight car I decided to stop to see what my classmates were doing. I first went to the high school where I found Beth As- kew teaching home economics and Elizabeth Wellman teaching algebra. Next I went to the principal's office and to my surprise I found Bill Gray sitting in the principal's chair. We sat and chewed the fat for some time and I found that Doris Brewer was married and raising a family. While we were sitting there, a young woman came in that I thought I should know. I asked Principal Gray about her and I found she was my old friend Doris Nelson, now his secretary. As I roamed around the cam- pus, I ran into Ole Grell who was there to see Mr. Hillman about his pigs that had swede fever. I went into the gym and found Bill Thebeck remodeling the stage. I asked him about Dorothy and he said she had been mar- ried twice and was in Reno at the present time. She was think- ing of a permanent residence there. I walked to the funrace room and found Marvin Lundberg was the janitor of Biggs High. He really wanted to be an electrical engineer. I walked on up town to an old store that used to be Prydes, but Mae Morgan and her husband had bought it and I stopped to chat with Mae. She is now married and busy watching Happy Iunior. We walked across the street to a beauty salon and found Lois Nelson and Lorraine Wangberg doing very good business. In the window of the shop I saw a poster that said 'Tom Kadowaki and his orchestra would be Palm Grove the next Saturday night. I went to the grocery store and saw that iokey, old George Mc- Lean. He had put on much weight. He said that his wife fed him too well. I walked along Main Street and found quite a few new buildings. One was a large brick hospital that a young doctor by the name of Norman Lofgren had established for crippled chil- dren. He married a young nurse whose name used to be Betty Allen and they are having a fine time because they both love children. I walked into the hospital and found .Maxine Teel and

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Dartha Dreyer who used to be old pals still clinging together. They are both chief nurses there at the the Well-Bones hospital. Also there nursing was Corlyss Peterson, but she doesn't get far be- cause she is too busy with her new husband, Roy Grell who is an electrical engineer. I then went to the basement of the hospital and found Bill Hi- ett feeding the furnace. Being a hobo was hard on his con- science. I talked with him for quite a while because, as usual, he likes to chew the fat. He said that Earnest Evans was a captain on a navy ship and that Bob Reid was cleaning gutters in the Bronx. He said George Lantzberger had joined the navy and was still popular with the girls. I walked into the pool hall named Come and Get It , run by my old classmate, Leslie Hammer. I found Russel Baker and Bob Sizelove playing cards. Russel had had his leg shot off in the war of 1942 and couldn't work. If Russel didn't work, then Bob would- n't. Leslie tells me that Vonnie is a school teacher up in the moun- tains and is still a man-hater. I then went over to the warehouse and saw Tommy Carlson waiting to have his rice tested. He said that his wife, Gertrude Killingsworth who really wanted to be a nurse was now nursing their two children. I walked to the office of the warehouse and saw a woman whom I recognized by her red hair, bending over the books and files. It was Calley Fawns. She said she went to Business College for two years. I went toward Richvale and found a new shop. It was The Smart Iitterbug Shoppe run by Rose Olmstead, and her old pal Edlo White was designing all the clothes. I went on a little further where I found an experiment station. To my surprise I found Kenjiro Kadowaki owned it. He said that the dredger had dug up his garden in Rio Bonito and he was now trying to discover a scientific way to grow vegentables. He told me he had married Annabelle Nakashima after a courtship of two weeks and she was now in the city studying art. I went back to Biggs and I was about to get on the train, I saw Marvin Lundberg there. He said he had quit his job as janitor at the school and was going to hop a freight with me. We stopped in Gridley and found an office named Super- Sleuth , a woman's detective agency. Anna Rya was the G Woman behind the bars - I mean desk. She told me that Evelyn Anderson had married a forest ranger and was drawing mount- ain scenes. I boarded the train again and had an accident somewhere in Los Angeles. I woke up in the hospital with a blonde nurse stand- ing over me that I didn't know. The next day I was in better shape and recognized my nurse as Gladys Switzer. We talked of our classmates of 39 and laughed over the times we skipped classes and put tacks in our dear teachers' chairs. Someday we hope our class will have a reunion.