Elgin High School - Husky Tracks Yearbook (Elgin, OR)

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0 KKH CH SK CHKKKKJ- HhKH H 0 KH KH CH that they Rave him a bonus of $100, not to send any more to them. Wayne Downing, that small 212 pound senior, is doing very well in downtown Elgin at the present. He has one of the largest gymnasiums in the United States and specializes in weight reducing exercises. He guarantees them to remove “Ex- cess Pounds , although he now weighs 212 instead of the former 212. minus guar- anteed reductions. Lawrence I»ng. another athlete of undisputed ability, owns a very large ranch on the brakes of the Minam. It is such a hard place to get to, that he specializes in Dudes instead of cattle and horses. He also has several hundred mountain goats but he says it is much more fun to herd Dudenes than a bunch of old goats. He al- ways was a second Beau Brummell with the women anyway. Billy “Dagwood Long, one of the funnier sides of life, is now a member of the famous Good man-S haw combined band. He seems to be getting along nicely and does a good bit of work in keeping the members of the band together. He has a» nice new uniform with brass buttons and gold braid all over it, at least her did when they were playing at the “Black Derby , Elgin's swankiest night club. Goodman says he is a very good chauffeur, but Shaw says he’s a little sjow. Bob Gent is now known, as “Speed King” Gent. He has won the six. day bike race four years in a row. This year he has a bad case of the gout and Will not l -‘! able to compete. We think, it. is a splinter from the last race, but his wife says it is love for her that keeps him out of the running. Lloyd McClune, who was a high school track man. beat the former world s re- cord for the mile last winter in Berlin. tThe war is over and they are having the Olympics in Berlin again . Of course he wanted to get in on the big dinner at the end of the course, so we see why he turned on the heat. Stewart Guthery, our ssnior cowboy from Wyoming, isn’t doing so wall this year,, since he moved back to Wyoming and started a school for cowgirls who appear m his world-famous vaudeville show. His second w’ife is suing him for a divorce, the complaint is of staying up too late at nights, and always demanding tomato juice for his 10:30 breakfast. Keith Fuller, who graduated from Oregon State, is now in London study- ing to be a minister. Next spring he is to go on a mission in Northern Siberia. As the Finns and Russians are still fighting there, a lot of good men will be needed to help convert captured Russians. Royce Moore, that tall thin lad of high school days, is now in New York on, the stage. From all reports, he seems to be so popular that the whole of the city’s 400 scream for more when the curtain drops on his act. We don’t know just which one he is. with all the make-up they use, but we think he is the villian.

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O H H O0 {H H 0 h000 KH aCK 0O0 O0000a0 ?0 H 0 K CH H 0 K O0 H H HK Ja en from the 1950 issue of 'feople in the | Iew$' Among the foremost people in the world today, are the 14 Seniors who gradu- ated from High School in the spring of 19 40. They have won world-wide renown in the difficult tasks they have undertaken. You all remember that chemically-minded student, don’t you? Well. Murl Poffenberger is now' a second Louis Pasteur in a chemical Lab., in New' York City. He has done much for humanity in the way of relieving their pocketbooks. when it comes to buying Anti-Freeze. He has perfected one that is so cheap that no more V-8’s of the late ‘30 and early ‘4 0 models freeze up in the winter. (They were cold, you know). Hetty Williams, the girl who w'as going to be a nurse, got a fine start in the Emergency Hospital, located at the corner of Second and Greenville Avenue. At the tlrst operation she attended, she fainted when the first slash was made, and it took a very good looking interne a whole hour to bring her out of It. They are happily married now’ and live in a small bungalow tw'o blocks away from the hospital. You will all rember Edith HtLllganth as a shy. coy and very charming creature, just a little bit inclined to be flirtatious. Don't be disturbed or shocked when I tell you that she has taken Ann Sheridan’s place In Hollywood as the “oomph” girl or 1950. She has also won great fame as a dancer. She appeared on Broadway just, a few w'eeks ago in the “Follies of 50”. Utvon Culver, that quiet farmer boy, surprised all of his friends and classmates when he married the debutante, Shirley Ann Woodward. You remember how fond “Bonnie” was of “Chocolate-Drops”?' Well, he is now a part of the great pla.it that produces the “finest candy that was ever built , according to him. H « is offi- cial taster, he ought to know. Glenn Ray. that famed high school athlete, has taken up coaching because of his former abilities, and success. He has been at Purdue and Yale for seven years altogether. He has had four U. S. champion teams. Three have entered he Olympics and have been acclaimed the best “Hog-Calling“ teams in the wor’il. Jimmy Hicks, who was never known to be awake in class and always out of school for some reason, is now w ll Icnow’n for his fishing ability. He writes es- says and short stories on fishing and sells them to magazines for enormous sums of money. The last one he sent in to a sports magazine was such a good “Fish Story

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•KH CHKH OCKKKKKK 0 K HKKKKKHXK ferocious friend, Tsabeir Giasson, fix the very capable hands of Jim Chandler, her talking, Jim, and you will be safe. Keep I, Jim Hicks, strong of mind and physically fit (even if Mr. Masterron doesn't believe the mind part) give my valued article and possession, my parking space, to Glenn Maxwell and Ida Reed. I et no one trespass on this ground or you will have to answer to Miss Wales, to whom I am leaving the care of it, to keep it clear of invaders so that Glenn and Ida will have the privacy at Chat certain stage. r. Murl Poffenberger, leave what I will not again need in High School, to Wald Wells—my studying ability. Of course I reaJize that you are already in goo(| train- ing by rending comic books and funny papers. And now my most beloved personat article goes to Janies Mitchell. It was given me this time last year by Fonzy Wilson and I now entrust ft in your hands. My hair--be sure and keep if. on end. Jim. i. Robert W. Gent (alias Tarzau)r award my superman strength to the already muscular Irene Bens had ter. Remember. Irene, to be faithful to the Atlas exercises. And now, fellow students. I tenderly bestow upon Eloine Evers, my heart. Ptoasr keep it beating. Elaine. I. Lawrence Long, resplenlsh June Parson's heart-breakfng tactics with my own. Keep them wrell oiled. June, and never take no for an answer. And now to Lo-rene Horn goes my scoring ability in basketball. Follow in my footsteps. Lorrene, and you will become an All-American Red Head. T. Lloyd McCIune, (commonly known as Rube), reave my boxing ab’Iitv to .Vae- dean Wiles. T also leave my track records, especially the one hundred yard dash, to Tom Barnes so that each may hold his own in the face of disaster. I. Keith Fuller, place in the safekeeping of OrvaL Trump and Fred Relief, Jewel Roll ns. I hope you fellows make a good a messenger boy and devoted a slave as I was. T. Wayne Dow ning, largest Senior of the class of 19 fO, give my stalwart figure, all two hundred and twelve pounds of me, to Betty Hug and Helen Hallgarth. May you be content and satisfied as I am, and please girts, no reducing. r. Royce Moore, leave my green Ford V-8 to Jew'ell Rollins and Beulah i mil J- Take care of it, gals, there’s many a leap year coming. I. Bill Long, leave my wonderful will to make wills to (hat bnTIiant basketball player, Joe Blackman. Mow, Joe, you may have a brain to go with yam Itrawm. And now, we of the Senior (Mass of 1940, leave Elgin High School, never aK«Ui to return as your classmates and students. This document has been properly witnessed by a trustworthy notaj'y public. vxxKyo x} Ks nio6 ya k c M c-c c-c d-c-d-iac-co -cc-dci-i; c