Dinuba High School - Delphic Echoes Yearbook (Dinuba, CA)

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1932 DELPHIC ECHOES half interest in the business. When I went out I bumped into a young woman who had lost her pet dog. I remembered her as one girl who hoarded her money and worked away her youth as an usherette. She was Martha Parnell. She told me that she had just established a three story home for disabled cats, parrots and dogs. On my way West I stopped in Chi- cago and on going to one of the studios, I found my old classmate, Harold Wilhelm. Duke is posing for magazine advertisements. In Chicago I also found Mary Ruth Locke. Mary Ruth poses' for Mr. Branner's Winnie Winkle section of the funnies. I went to a ball game one afternoon and found Yale Casler pitching for the Chicago Cubs. Ellen Carlson was also at the game, and she told me all about how at last she has found her dream man. I got the information from a de- pendable person that Evelyn Dewhirst and Addie Ditman have lost all their faith in men. They have sworn to each other never to marry. Going on to San Francisco I found that Donald White was the head of a large church there. He said his clos- est competitor was Aimee Semple Mc- Pherson Hutton. Walking dovsm the street in Oakland I noticed a sign Wooley's Blacksmith Shop. This sounded familiar so I stopped at the door. I expected to see a Miss Ilene I knew there, but instead I found a Mrs. Reginald Wooley, form- erly Miss Myrtle Goertz. Reg. and Myrtle seemed perfectly happy, how- ever. I knew that our vice principal of 32 Mr. Pettit was the head of one of the city schools. When paying him a visit I found that his private secre- tary was Alma Gunther. She was eat- ing a nice fat doughnut. Said Mr. Martin had sold it to her. I looked this Mr. Martin up and found he was the old Luther Martin I had known in school. He is getting along fine and how! As I walked down the street one day I saw a sign Light Waves. I went in and found Margaret Ball, who now runs the largest Beauty saloon in Scolland. In Ireland I found May Guthrie. May, as you know, has taken Clara Bow's place in the movie,world. She was in Ireland on a publicity tour. She told me that Ray Hicks, our blonde hero and bad boy, has again won the national sharpshooting cham- pionship. Going on to Germany I found Wilma Heimbach. Wilma is now Mrs. Leslie Miner, but uses her maiden name on the stage. She is the world's most renowned prima donna. And now comes the surprise of sur- prises! While in Germany I was given the honor of visiting the Kaiser, and when I went to shake hands with him imagine my astonishment to find he was Egon Hofer. The Kaiser put on a little entertain- ment for me while I was there and who should I find to be his best man but Bernard Ensign. I remembered him as the fellow who was always in demand for all school programs and such, be- cause of that natural wit. A clan of dwarfs performed for us and I thought' I recognized the leader and trainer. The Kaiser told me it was a Mr. Joe Floyd. In China I found John and Maurice Mathis. The Mathis brothers have a great factory where they make all the little stamps that say Imported from Japan. They have made mil- lions selling these to American novelty shops. While here I also heard that Ed- ward Oh has joined the army of retired. His life work has been to iso- late the germs that make crickets sick. He told me that Jock Orr is now the

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ar Q DELPHlC ECHOES 1932 that his head manager was Miss Rice. Aubrey said that Helen had her way in managing except for one thing. He refused to let the serving girls wear bandana dresses. After resting a while, I went to the office of my old friend Jude Hughes who has made millions designing dresses with slender lines for stout women. Gladys Boghosian is work- ing for Miss Hughes. Jude told me that Bonnie, Burum had shown much promise both in sports and the musical world. She was a member of the team that won the Davis Cup match. By the way, Erwin Hofer has re- tired as a successful musician. Leaving Paris I went to England, where in a small town, I found Mrs. Leonard Vose, who will be remembered as Eunice Andrews. She was at the height of her glory teaching in a small country school. Leonard Vose is just a farmer trying to keep up with his school teaching spouse, Eunice. 1 happened to buy a London Times as I got off my train and found that it was edited by John Kidwell and Stanley Campbell. Some paper it was! In it I read the surprising fact that Vernon Martin was understudy of European scientists. They are trying to find out why it is that no amount of attention from the world's most beautiful women affect his emotions. I turned to the society page and found that Virginia Olson was hostess to a great number of friends at her country home. She recently an- nounced her engagement to the Crown Prince of Sweden. In London I also found James Chick. James was there as a represenative of the Wrigley Chewing Gum Com- pany. He was running a school for teaching the Englishmen to chew gum correctly. While in London I visited a theater, and who should I find starring in Old Shoes for Sale, but Phyllis Franzke. I later learned she was taking the place of Marie Dressler in Paramount. A friend took me to the races in the afternoon, and I was indeed surprised to find that the champion speed king was Ernest Oliver. I went to see him after the races, and he told me that our classmate, Rolland Gulley, was the people's candidate for congress, He is runinng on the platform of the S. P. depot at present. In Italy I found Bob Eaton with his traveling Wild West Show. Bob said he had made a big hit in Italy, for they had taken him for a descend- ant of the Romans. Bob's chief musi- cian was Lewis Mitchell. And by the way, Lucile Foth is also in Italy but no one knows where. Lu- cile became famous overnight as a newspaper woman, and modest girl that she is, could not stand the popu- larity and has been hiding ever since. However, my friend Geneva Steves is even a greater newspaper woman. She is working for the New York Times, and recently got a by-line and a raise on her scoop story of the Fairbank murder. Lois Crump is also on the New York Times as feature editor. She got the job through Kathleen Morris, her personal friend. Cornella Gillen and Peggy Green have become famous since writing the Scotch National Anthem Let the rest of the World Go Buy. Oh, I forgot to say I met Brad- ford Brooks on the boat coming back. He worked for the company. He has shown much promise as chief port hole closer. I went into a little dress shop in New York, and found my tall willowy friend, Helen Watrous modeling the dresses. She just recently won a beauty contest sponsored by the Car- rot and Red Tomato company. In the exclusive make-up store next door I found Marie Wipf. She is a demonstrator for the Max Factors Company and just recently bought a

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,. . f . . DELPHIC ECHOES 1932 star player of the Tokio baseball nine. He plays the position of left out. Way down in the very darkest part of Africa I found Jack Morris, who is doing wonderful work among the blacks. He has converted them into using a sort of bleaching cream. Do you all remember Harold Van- dagriif? Poor old Vandy is in a terrible state. He lost his voice while working as Barnum and Baileys chief barker. The side show has a blonde completely tatooed. He was talking so fast he swallowed his tongue and has never been the same since. Oh, yes, the manager of the show was the former Louise Burum. You might have known we'd find Vandy there. When I got back to New York I dis- covered Lawrence Vose on his way to Paris. He wou1dn't say exactly why he was going there but didn't I men- tion beforehand that Helen Rice was in Paris? Well? I met Elmer Henkel, the little boy of the green Ford in Luther's shoppe. He's a big newspaper man, now and drives a Blue Streak. He owns and edits the Dinuba Semi Daily. We stopped in Fresno for lunch at the Californian. There I met Mr. W. N. Davis Jr., who was on his way to Dinuba to take his father's place as City Superintendent of Schools. We stopped at Fresno State to visit. Mr. W. N. Davis wanted to visit his friend, the president of the college. When he introduced me I was sur- prised to hear the name Dr. Gerald Freeman. I was very glad to meet my former classmate and his wife. Mrs. Freeman will be remembered as Opal Dial. After staying for dinner at their apartment we started home. I surely was glad to be home once again, but as I read over my very interesting diary I found that a few of my class- mates were not yet accounted for. I started on my quest for information and found that Harold McBride, the former K.0.S. of the yellow Ford had been employed by the state to arrest all people who swiped signs, especially high school students. The great club, Keeper of Signs will soon be a thing of the past. I went to the school and found Jun- ior Finley still taking a P. G. I don't think Ernestine Burum is out of school yet, either. I wondered how the property room had turned out that the public speak- ing class had started, so I went over to see. The custodian was Floyd Ran- dolph who had just returned from Europe, also. He had made a trip to England to secure the 832,000 cos- tumes for the English Club's annual play Hamlit. He told me all the scenery and art fixtures were being made by the art classes of which Miss Onella Russell is instructor. The former Dorothy Marquis is a wonderful housekeeper, but she com- plains about all the dirt her plumber husband brings in. By the way the husband is Phillip Baumbach who has taken over the Stanton Plumbing Sup- ply company. I forgot to tell you about another classmate who is also an instructor in Dinuba Hi. That is Wanda Lank- ford, head of the Girls' Gym depart- ment. Stanley Perry is now running his famous self-service station. He says about the only thing nice about it is that the people have to Wait on them- selves. Farmer Nellis Robinson is nearly broken hearted. She left him after he built her a home on Tater Hill. If anyone sees a cow with blue stripes, please let Bill know. One of Bill's other cows got into a vineyard owned by George and Nish Noroian, and died. Both are still trying to raise good grapes for a June market. Written-Helen E. Rice, Louise Bu- rum and George Noroian.