Fullerton Union High School - Pleiades Yearbook (Fullerton, CA)

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It was in the year 1945 that I was sitting by the fire, idly turn- ing the pages of a magazine which I had just purchased, when sud- denly my eye caught the announcement: Professors Lutschg and Watson invent wonderful wireless telescope and telephone combined, the rays of M ' hieh may be projected to any part of the globe. I was greatly pleased at the success of my former schoolmates, and the next morning I hastened to their laboratories to congratulate them. They were greatly elated over their discovery, and Watson asked if I would like to have the honor of being the first outsider to see the wonders their telescope revealed. I assented eagerly, and he led me to an adjoining room, where the instrument had been in- stalled. He motioned me to a chair in front of what was apparently a panel of frosted glass. Before this stood a cabinet, which contained numerous levers, switches, and dials. Watson seated himself before this cabinet, and turning to me, he asked, Is there anybody in particular whom you would like to see? Yes, I replied, excitedly, I should like to see what all of my former classmates are doing. He turned to the cabinet and pulled one of the levers. The room grew dark, and I sat breathless on the edge of my chair. A faint light appeared behind the glass panel. It grew steadily brighter, and presently there appeared upon the screen a scene on a busy down- town corner in New York. The traffic officer in the middle of the street was Ed Daly, who was just then trying to halt an automobile bearing the sign: VOTE FOR KNIGHT FOR MAYOR. On the corner was a millinery shop with a sign bearing the names of Eva Madsen and Susan Walker. The next scene was an assembly in the F. U. H. S. auditorium. Music instructor Wildermuth was teaching the student body a new song, with Eugenia Banks successfully holding down Miss Shep- ardson ' s place at the piano. Presently Principal Corcoran arose to present the speaker of the day, Myron West, the ex-Governor of Cal- ifornia. Then the scene commenced to shift rapidly from place to place. We passed from the home of Nathan Morse, the oil king, to George Meiser ' s ranch, then to the Elder Hotel, a popular beach resort, where Lucy Kraemer, Nita Krohn, Edith Burnett, and Florence Durkee were taking a vacation from their business in Los Angeles. In the court at Santa Ana, Harold Stabler was being tried by Judge Dressel for speeding. The scene again changed to a busy downtown street, where from the point of vantage of a soap box Harry Shipkey Avas addressing a twenty-nine

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Minnie Yaeger Oh, Mint Hobby: Playing Snapshot Bill. Fullerton. Girls ' Baseball, ' 20, ' 21. Girls ' Basketball, ' 20, ' 21. Weekly Pleiades, ' 19, ' 21. Josh Editor, Annual Pleiades, ' 21. Class Song Leader, ' 18. Class President, ' 19. Class Vice-President, ' 20. Pep Committee, ' 20, ' 21. Manners and Modes, ' 18. May Fete, ' 18. Spanish Fiesta, ' 19. Dress Rehearsal of Hamlet, ' 20. Told in a Chinese Garden, ' 20. Albert Yorba Yorha Hobby: Spending week-ends in Po- mona. Yorba. Nominating Committee, ' 21. Football, ' 20, ' 21. Basketball, ' 20, ' 21. Baseball, ' 19, ' 20, ' 21. Mildred Yorba Midge Hobby : Making a success of things, pi n ppirhi 3 Girls ' League Cabinet, ' 20, ' 21. Girls ' Baseball, ' 20, ' 21. Girls ' Basketball, Captain, ' 20, ' 21. Weekly Pleiades, ' 21. Organization Editor, Annual Pleia- des, ' 20. Editor-in-Chief, Annual Pleiades, ' 21. Pep Committee, ' 21. Girls ' League Athletic Manager, ' 21. Secretary Student Body, ' 20, Sec- ond Semester. Spanish Play, ' 18. Class Vice-President, ' 21. © viJ Cv o twenty-eight

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large crowd on the evils of the cigarette. One of the interested on- lookers was Lillis Johnston. A fire engine came clanging down the street and stopped in front of the McLellan and Peacock Dry Goods Store, but upon investiga- tion it was found that the alarm had been a false one. In the crowd which was attracted by the arrival of the fire en- gine we saw Herman Kraft and Lloyd Scharr, both of whom were happily ( ?) married. On the uptown car we heard Imo Cratty, president of one of the foremost women ' s clubs, telling her assistant, Esther Stubbs, that Geraldine Kraemer and Mary Healey were going to Africa as mis- sionaries. In Pershing Square, before a large assemblage of such influen- tial people as Ruth Dowling, Lura Gulp, Stanley Berkey, and William Kroeger, Jack Fahs and Talbot Bielefeldt were debating on the ques- tion, Resolved, That cleaning spark plugs on Sunday should be made unlawful. From there the scene changed to the Yaeger and Goldie flying field, where Minnie Yaeger, the dare-devil aviatrix, was giving an exhibition flight for Doris Shaw, Verda Harlow, and a few other of her wealthy society friends. Suddenly on the other side of the field we heard a crash, and on looking we saw Percy Scott crawling out from the wreckage of what had once been an airplane, with which he had tried to land on a moving motor truck. Herman Kenney, of the Fullerton Daily Sun, came rushing up to interview Scott and said that possibly Editor Mildred Yorba would promote him if he made a good story of the accident. Our attention was then directed to an Arctic exploring party, headed by Boyd Welin and made up of Clem McCulloch, Herbert Klotzly, and William Sanchez. Coming back to Fullerton, we saw Shakespeare ' s Merchant of Venice being put on by the Fullerton Community Players. Frankie Mae Taylor played the part of Portia, and her maid, Nerissa, was played by Dollie Stone. Owing to the lack of male characters Shylock was played by Letty Smith. While we were sitting there enjoying the play, Dorothy Randall, the president of the Third National Bank, came in to call on Mrs. Lutschg, and we persuaded her to stay and watch the screen with us. She asked to see how Ina Sargent was coming along in the presi- dential election. Immediately the interior of an office appeared on the screen. It was a riot of confusion, with typewriters clattering and people rush- ing back and forth. Esther Ender came hurrying in and said to her typist at the first desk, whom we recognized as Beatrice Batehman: thirty