Cloverdale Union High School - Spectator Yearbook (Cloverdale, CA)

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endure this iack of attention on the part of her husband, for she knows he is devoting himself to a cause that will bring lasting fame to both of them. All her present inconvenience and suffering is completely swallowed up in the thought of the wonderful days that will come when they are quintillionaires. She has already drawn plans for ten won¬ derful palaces that she will erect in different parts of the universe. One of them is on Mars, another on the Sun, and a third on the North Star. She hopes to have a class reunion in 1971 in the most magnifi¬ cent one, which is located on Venus. She has already made a contract with Mercury to provide for our transportation. She is to pay him two billion dollars for coming to the earth and gathering up six of us with our families and to convey us to the most beautiful of all heavenly bodies. In a year or two from now she will have the arrange¬ ments so complete that she can send us definite invitations. In the meantime, I know that you are glad to get this advance hint, for the anticipation of this trip and visit will surely he most pleasant to all of us. What a grand time we will have planning the preparations for such a wonderful visit. Just think! We will be approaching our sev¬ entieth year then, but Marjorie and Paul assure us tliat this palace will contain a fountain of youth that will bring us back to the prime of life.” ‘‘Do you think we shall ever want to come back to earth?” “That is a question I cannot answer, Louise, I am so completely overcome with the prospect of it all, that I shall need days to recover my usual composure.”

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she comes. How dainty are lier actions. How sweet is her voice! As spon as the play was ended I sent her my card. Instead of sending her manager to find me, she herself came right on with the messenger. She was still in her stage costume. A great mass of kinky curls fell over her shoulders and her sweet black eyes looked gt me in amazement. She told me that she had gone on the stage soon after graduating, and liked jt very much. I persuaded her to come home with me for the night, so we found our way to the touring car I had just purchased. “Listen Joe! I saw Paul about a month ago in Minnesota and he fold me that Bill had purchased a goat farm in Switzerland. He loves the Alps. Do you know that he has invented’ a Basket Plane! It is a wire contrivance resembling a clothes basket, which, by the aid ot wheels runs along two heavy wires about three feet apart. A small pngine run by electricity forces it up hill. With this he travels back and forth from the mountain-top ranch to his villa down in the valley. It is simply grand to live above the clouds whenever you choose to do so. He finished college 1925, went to Davis and was later appointed president of the American Farmer’s Association. He became terri¬ bly interested in domestic animals and determined to own a farm of- his own.” “Wiry is Bill a farmer! I always pictured him as destined to become a great historian, or philosopher of some sort. And yet, as you say, he probably lives buch higher than he should ever have been able to do had he chosen one of those professions.” We had now arrived at my home. We both slipped into the house quietly, for the family was asleep. Here we sat talking over old times till the glow of morning lighted the east. “What has become of Marjorie and Paul!” I asked. “Marjorie is now in Minnesota. Thwarted in love at an early gge, she decided to take elocufion at Comsfocck College of Oratory in Evanston. After years of a successful career, at last her heart had been struck by Cupid’s dart. The ideal of her dreams was no less a person than the President of the International Association of Inventors, Paul Weage. Her husband was so engrossed in his business that, like the Edison of our school days, he had forgotten the possession of such a charming creature as a wife and led an ever-struggling life in an at¬ tempt to prefect his latest scheme, a lieatless incubator. When he suc¬ ceeds and puts it on the market his fortune will be made forever. Oil is so expensive that any device that can dispense with the need of heat in some degree will be invaluable. Marjorie says that she is glad to

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Juniors f To me this seems the ideal stage of high school life, for then you are no longer what is termed as a lower classman, neither are you a Senior. A Senior feels his superiority entirely too much and he is too near the end of the good old High School days. A Junior is just right, at least in his own opinion, even though the following year he generally changes his mind. By the time most high school students have become Juniors they begin to have some appreciation of the ne¬ cessity of having a high ambition and of working hard in order to ac¬ complish it. Certainly a class never had better or higher ambitions than the class of ’21. I believe most of their ambitions were planned even when the members were only Freshmen. Our ' class is composed of ingenuity, resolution and determination. Pep, though the smallest word, is the biggest factor. In other words, it is Our middle name. We study hard, have a lot of fun and are popu¬ lar all at the same time—a thing which some people think is impos¬ sible. Our class is small, but why should we care! Consider the quality and not the quantity. At least it is good what there is of it, so we think we have a right to feel proud. We have five members, one boy and four girls. I believe the boy will be a great statesman, or else a famous orator, if he continues to be as good in that line as he now is. One Junior girl is working hard to become a nurse, and another, an actress. Both are quite determined in spite of urgent persuasions of some of their friends. The two remaining girls are deeply interested in be¬ coming school teachers and they are planning their future work with great care. We can only hope that we will be as successful in our life work as we have been in our school work, and that the deeds of the class of 21 will be a source of pride and gratification to all who are interested in Cloverdale and its schools.