Edmonds High School - Echo Yearbook (Edmonds, WA)

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 Class Prophecy Entering Edmonds’ beautiful, world-famous Chinatown, June 1, 1944, two members of the class of '34 proceeded to look for the renowned magi- cal, miniature palace of Wong Fu Singhai, who had upset Oriental tradi- tions and invented many wonderful machines to better the progress of the nation. The one in which we were interested was his most recent invention, the Singhaiascrope, which focused on certain parts of a map of the world revealing actual acquaintances of the person operating the machine and what they were doing. We became intensely interested and immediately started focusing the machine on various parts of the world. We thought we would start right in our own metropolis, Edmonds, and see if we could locate some of the members of our own class of '34. Sure enough, there is Delila Ballou, who is a dietitian and Eleanore Cook who is happily married, and look who's walking down the street! Gordon Elof- son, who remains a bachelor, having proved his fidelity to at least five girls. We see Jim Ferguson, official button-pusher in the palace of Wong Fu Singhai. Steve Yost operates an extensive suburban transportation system; and as we expected, there are Murl Little and Harold Nelson, married, of course, and the proud parents of triplets. Sylvester Quinn owns and operates Edmonds' largest theatre. Locating no one else in our home town, we’ll try Seattle, a suburb of Edmonds. Ah! there we see Dorothea Hagemann and Dorothy Deming, joint proprietresses of a beauty parlor. Evelyn Mitchell is riding instructor in an academy owned by Lloyd Maneval. And we see Sproule McGinness, the present Gable of Hollywood, traveling incognito, to get away from the glamor of the screen, and running a push cart on First Avenue just for the fun of it. Erma Weller sells flowers in a florist shop. What the—! Why, there’s Walt Gard, who croons nightly over KJR. Focusing the machine on various parts of the world, particularly Europe and Asia, we find Jimmy Salter following in Lenin's footsteps in Russia. Eunice Kelley is also in Russia, but is a page in Russia's new capital build- ing, the largest in the world. In Great Britain we find Pearl McGinness as private secretary to the Duke of Wellington. Down in Constantinople we find May Allen as an acrobatic dancer. 'Way out in Borneo is Ray Barclay, a missionary to the natives. And Walt Chase has picked Vienna as an ideal place to be a gigolo. Art Duston raises peanuts in Guam. Lucille Fran- ciscus designs dresses in Paris. Frank Miller is American ambassador to France and Gladys Pennock is a Red Cross nurse in Abyssinia. Don Reid is warden and keeper in a Berlin home for the feeble-minded and insane. We see Violet Rowlett is a manicurist in Hongkong. And up in the Swiss Alps we find Evelyn Schimmel on her fifth honeymoon. Elaine Snodgrass has complete control of Scotland Yards and on her force we find Bob Rodgers and Art Plenneveaux. On peering into Dan Steen’s home, we find him serving as model for his wife to alter her new dress. Going back to the United States and trying New York we find Ed- monds well represented with Duane Patterson belonging to the new royal family of Broadway.” Winifred Burfitt has just written a best seller entitled “Pioneer Life in Edmonds. Howard Womer is the third vice- president in the firm of Hipplewater, Epstein and O Brien, and as lion nineteen

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Victoria Janet bestows her troubles in managing the operetta on next year's manager. Jack Jamison leaves, having proved he was a successful advertising manager for the annual. Maureen McClellan, adorable little miss, left in February to graduate from Kent High School. Lorena Swift bequeaths her peaches and cream complexion to Martha Louise Bliss. Doreen Cosman leaves her charming personality to Alex Stewart. Art Duston bequeaths his “anti-tall prescription” to Alfred Flint. Eileen Elliott leaves wondering where the time all went. Walt Gard, the handsome brute, wills his ma-a-a-r-rvelous physique to George Sleater. To Einstein we bequeath the very special privilege of figuring out George Hagemann’s theory on the fourth dimension. To Lewis Hitchcock is willed Alice Howell's A’s each six weeks, know- ing he could use them. Violette Peterson, one of the four stripers, gives her extra athletic credits to Lorraine Wilcox. Frank Miller leaves his ability to keep quiet and out of class arguments to Curt Birge. Article 8 Katherine Brent leaves her curly red hair to Mary Elizabeth Davis. John Hanson leaves his collection of sweaters to anyone needing the extra warmth. Melvin Yost bequeaths his unique laugh to Mary Evans, even if she doesn't need it. Violet Rowlett leaves her baby talk to Eddie Allen. Dorothy Wigen bequeaths her senior play lead to Dorothy Crow. Elaine Snodgrass leaves, having acquired the most girl athletic awards of anyone in E. H. S. Irma Bohnert also left at the half year. Article 9 Ernest Savory leaves his razor blades to be added to the collection of “Things Little Used. Violet Wise leaves her ability as a carpenter to Grayce Beltz. Gail Leonard leaves with the ambition of becoming a doctor. Evelyn Schimmel leaves her beautiful hair to Emelie Harries. Howard Wamsley leaves with a sigh of relief. Dorothy Rundle leaves her soprano voice to the whole glee club. Steve Yost bequeaths anything he forgot to take with him to anyone who can find it. Harold Nelson leaves his little tin Lizzie for Mai Stenson, hoping that it will never play any pranks on Mai after the training it’s had from him. Article 10 Thereupon, having duly executed our last Will and Testament, we do sadly and solemnly sign and seal the foregoing instrument and publish and declare the same to be our last Will and Testament in witness thereof. CLASS OF '34, Maxine Nelson, Executrix. eighteen

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 tamer with Barnum and Bailey is Albert Carlson. Helen Larsen is model for the Palmolive Complexion Soap advertisements. As manager of the New York Giants is Ernie Nilsen with Howard Wamsley as his star pitcher. Violet Wise is a modiste on Fifth Avenue. Herb Bellingham is starring in musical comedy. In Chicago we find Marguerite Gorsuch and Dorothy Rundle traveling with the Metropolitan Opera Company. Jack Jamison is a horse doctor. Annette Larson is a cartoonist for the Literary Digest. Burdette Morse is a piano tuner in a school for the deaf and Richard Emerson is Chicago's prosecuting attorney. In San Francisco we find our old pal Hugo Anderson, who is an inter- nationally famous hockey player and (ah me!) as yet a bachelor. Victoria Janet is air hostess on Willard Olson's model air transport system. Maureen McClellan is an interior decorator of considerable repute. In the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra we find Norbert Rendler at first horn. Also in Philadelphia, Violette Peterson is breaking women's world athletic records just another Babe Didrickson. Art editor of a widely read magazine is lone Abel. She has as her talented assistants Doreen Cosman and Katherine Brent. Eileen Elliott is dean of women at Harvard (?) College. Virginia Moy is living in a secluded spot in Maine! In Beverly Hills we locate Peggy Wagner as governess to the small son of D rena Swift. Henry Torkelson is the warden at Sing Sing. Lecturing on women's rights we see Dorothy Wigen in Pittsburgh. Hitch-hiking and making a living as traveling sales- man, we locate Melvin Yost on the road between Pittsburgh and Toronto, where we find Irma Bohnert as an athletic coach in the Toronto University. In other places throughout the United States we find other members of the class of '34 trying to do their bit for the betterment (?) of American civilization. Betty Wilcox flies with her own plane from her home in Beverly Hills to her work on the Hollywood film set. In Florida is Helen Johnson, a teacher in a girls' camp. Ralph Hildebrand is the proud pilot of a modern airliner in Atlanta. Gail Leonard is a famous physician and taking the place of the Mayo brothers in Minnesota. In Portland and happily married is Alice Howell. George Hagemann is a student of tech- nocracy in Kansas City. Doug Gillies calls trains in Central Station, St. Louis. Bob Franciscus is a chicken farmer in Peoria. Wilmer Anderson supervises the government mint in Washington, D. C. Violet Astell operates a tea room in New Orleans. Three erstwhile men were located in Reno. They are: Kenny Wick- strom, who is swimming instructor for the Old Maids’ Club; John Hanson who turns out to be a regular heartbreaker, having married and divorced three wives; and Bob Hamilton, who just figured prominently in an aliena- tion of affections suit. In Alaska we find Doug Reid teaching Spanish to the Eskimos and Maxine Nelson operating her portable Palm Beach for the Eskimos’ recrea- tion. Newman Conklin sells hot dogs in the thickly populated country of Antarctica. In darkest Africa we locate Ernie Savory surveying oases in the Sahara and Rickey Ballinger is big-game hunting in the Belgian Congo. On Mars we see Billy Ballou with Buck Rogers, still dreaming as was always his wont. twenty