Clatskanie High School - Tiger Yearbook (Clatskanie, OR)

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has Senior Class Prophesy T T T The newspaper concern in which I was: employed as foreign correspondent sent me to, Africa to get stories on the adven- turous daring of society girls, who were making expeditions into this jungle land in Search of heretofore uncapturc. beasts. Upon reaching Africa I met my old C. H. S. pal, Flcrence Fcrd. We certainly enjoyed this meeting and immediately we began talking of old times. Every time I turned the conversa- tion toward other '26 graduates she would look very mysteri- ous and say, We will see. The 11ext morning we started out through the misty morn- ing air in her new Ford aeoroplanej' for which she was agent. She had promised me the surprise of my life. Soon she pointed cut a view resembling a college campus. She said it was the Council of the Spots! The biggest edi- fice bore the letters C. H. S. and Florence explained that these people were out here training the wild beasts, tigers be- ing their specialty. The door opened, I was: surprised when Ancy Carlson ex- tended her hand and gave me a cordial invitation to take in the sights. She was as courteous and as perfect a hostess as in the old days at C. H. S. She told me that I would find all my old classmates: here. By now I had prepared myself for any surprise, hut, I must say, I lost my composure as upon entering a beautiful ball room I saw Nell Anderson and Myrtle Robinson teaching the Tigers an.d their Cubs to dance. The Charleston was now old-fashioned and t.his new dance was called the Whippocr- Will. Esther Potter was at the piano playing some very jazzy music. I found Prof. 'George Erickson, teaching the jungle friends The Art of Lobbying, and Pclitics as a Profession. He always was extremely fond of governmental affairs in C. H. S. Betty Stockwell informed me concerning her new invention which slhe claimed would preserve one's teeth throughout one's normal life. She was using the cubs' teeth in her experimenta- tion. I had my doubts as to the outcome of this trial due to the well-known fact that the Tiger's teeth are unusually hard in the first place. Esther Lumijarve, that demure maiden, was at the head of the choir in the Bambo church and how sweet and tender her voice did sound. We found Walter Mustola, with a fishing rcd, beside a stream. He was inventing a hookless fishing rod for the

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be is Alta Byers does leave to Lynda Seppala her vivacious dis- position. Esther Potter endows upon Isabelle Simmons her dimples and winsrome smile. Edith Ivy wills her permanent marcel Cnotj to Hilda Heath. Leonard Edgerton with his last breath bequeaths to Donald Fluihrer his musician's temperament. Marie Salmi hereby slowly but surely wills to Carl White her Charleston ability. Mildred McClernon leaves to Gertrude Warren her long golden tresses. Domthy Zillman gleefully gives to Donna Erickson her lack of tact. Evelyn Holmlan bestows upon Phyllis Jenks her odds and ends of makeup. Clarence Miller leaves to Norman Vanhlurn his oratorical ability. Esther Kinnonen endows Louise Fogel with her vocabulary of beautiful words as an aid in writing themes. Charles Niske regretfully leaves to Henry Niemela his crowning glory of auburn locks. Calvin Birkenfeld wills to Knowlton Hall his balloon trous- ers. Ina Leafpoint wishes that Ellen Sirnio be given her temerity. George Anderson leaves his bashfulness to Fred Morris. Ellen Oberg bestows her tuneful speeches upon Jerome Puzey. George Erickslon is departing with his blonde curls and wish- es them to be given to Henry Zimmerdahl. Myrtle Robinson bequeaths her innocent eyes to Edward Ryiding. We. the Class cf 1926, do declare the foregoing to be our last Will and Testament. In Witness dWhereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty-eighth day of May, 1926. QSEALJ

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has Tigers, who it is known possess a fear complex on fish hooks. .Walter hinted that the fish failed to bite because of the racket the Ford-aeroplane created so we went to the Men's Clothing Store, of which Calvin Birkenfeld was manager and Leonard E-dgerton was employed as head model for men's ready-to-wear. But we found Leonard playing a piano while Calvin was parading before a mirror with a gentleman cub, watching the gracefulness of the young ciuib in the new fashioned suit. In an adjoining room I found Edith Ivy, now typing at the rate of 367 wonds per minute. She loyally proclaimed her blue ribbon, won at a county championship contest during her days at C. H. S., to be her inspiration. Marie Koberstein was the artist as we always had expected. She was doing some beautiful work on Tiger portraits. Mildred McClernon had still refused to bob her hair and was becom-ing famous by claiming that she was the only girl in the jungle with long tressesl. Esther Kinnonen was editor of the daily newspaper called The Beastmeatf' She was writing an editorial entitled The Afdvance-ment of Tigers in Civilization. At a very miodern beauty shop I found Dorothy Zillman as manicurist and Ina Leafpoint, the lady barber. Clarence Miller was occupying the barber chair and he told me that he had utterly failed in elo-cution since George Anderson had be- come his comlpetitor. He was chef of the Jungle Jug Cafe, of which Evelyn Holman was proprietrcss. Alta Byers was librarian at the home of the king and queen, Mr. and Mrs. Tiger. Order was kept here very nicely as the cubs wene very polite. We found Lulu Johnson, the king's bookkeeeper, working out the king's inc-ome tax. As we entered the jungle court house I heard the case of trial that was waging. I was astonished beyond words! Sylvia Yoss was suing Charles Nisiki for his attitude of superiority in the Clatskanie High School annual of 1926. I recalled that Sylva s picture was on the lower row and Charles' on the upper. Ellen Oberg, the defendant's lawyer, told me that the case had been pending many years. I left my old schoolmates with a feeling of depression. As I stood in the station, the echoes of Florence Ford's Ford- aeroplanen still resounding through the rejected African town. I made a resolution that I would often visit my old pals and take interest in their work. The newspaper did not relate stories' of the daring Qfmiofv girls-but instead the pages were glaring with headlines- telling of the wonderful achievements of the Class of '26, -Marie Salmi.