Galileo High School - Telescope Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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JUNE,1934 Charles Clover, Edward Callahan and Ernest Antrobus with them. We all ended up in the same business. It's very interesting. You ought to try it sometime. After we left jim, we spent a few hours between visiting the ruins, chatting with our friends, and by jotting down some ideas. We then paid our adieux to the expedition and started back to our hotel. This time I walked and was not sorry for it. The next day Margit stayed in bed-she would ride her camel! , Say, Margit, whom do you suppose I saw down at breakfast this morning? You guess. I'm tiredf, Eleanor Sansom, Eileen Wiechers and Eleanor Hart! The trio work on a maga- zine at home and are here for ideas for travel articles, fashions, sketches and anything else they find. Betty Ballord, Marion Jayne, Beverly Gregory and Beth Kind are here on a tour around the world, just for lack of something better to do. They're just here for today and then intend to go on to Cairo. They said to say hello to you and any other mutual acquaintances we meet. When Margit was once more able to walk, we resumed our sight-seeing tour. We found ourselves down on a terrace sipping a cooling drink while watching the endless procession in which East does meet West in person. We decided we wanted to visit an Egyptian farm-not one of those packs of mud over which water is poured, but a real farm. We were enthusiastic when our dragoman, Victor Williams, told us he had received an invitation for us to visit a rich gentleman farmer. Word was sent by a running Ethio- pian that we would arrive at four o'clock. We met Martha Hayes, Harriet De Goff, George Silverman, james Waggle and Lawrence Webber, who were also guests of the farmer. Here, indeed, we had found a farm in the midst of a desert, and a grand old chap for a host who played the part of a patriarch in elegant fashion. We approached great wheat fields and a large mud village which, we were informed, was where his six hundred helpers lived. We were escorted into the courtyard of the big residence, whereupon our host ushered us to an immense desk and showed us a large tourists' book and asked us to sign our names. Amused at his whim, Margit and I looked through it and to our surprise found many whom we knew. A few years back, Dorothy Angelinich, Florence Lamerdin, Mary Jessup, Louise Lagier and Matilda Shemano had been there. Written a few months later were the names of the Endo sisters, Hiro and Yoneg Dahlia Muramatsu, Mary Kusimine, Melvyn Friendly, Sergio Lucchesi and Milton Levi. Dated just last year we found the signatures of Wallace Ruggles, Louis Olsen, Edward Natalini, john Ghio, Charles Coleman, Howard Friedman, Willis Huson and George Martinelli. It was amusing to see the names of those people with their professions written after them. Some were just traveling, others merely studying medicine or law, etc. When we entered the courtyard, we saw our host squatting on a couch. He was dressed in European clothes but was wearing a large red turban. We were presented to him one by one. His sons, who were called in to be presented to us, prostrated themselves before him before we were recognized. We stayed over two hours and during that time there was a constant round of refreshments, ending with sage tea and sweet Egyptian brown bread. In relays, as we could stand the heat, we went out on the farm and observed things. We came back to the courtyard where our animals were brought for departure, and after a hearty handshake, the farmer told us he hoped we would come again. We thanked him and promised we would. The end ofseveral weeks in Egypt found us on our way to India. Here we were amused to see large elephants in the Ganges River contentedly spraying themselves in the muddy waters. Cows, the sacred animals, were wandering in and out of the houses eating what they pleased. Too, we found an interesting settlement just outside the village. Doctors jack Loupe and Robert Minner were trying to wipe out some of the disease in this infested country. They had constructed a large building resembling a hospital. Nurses Elsie Barbonotti, Mary Maglio, Deon Neely, Olive Orosco, Pauline Maninfior, Lena Massa, Carolyn Lazzaro, Doreen Fenton, Louise Gabrielli and Eva Foliotti were all very interested in their work. Internes Mervyn Wagenheim, Tully Simoni, Richard Vulte, I Page 291

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THE TELESCOPE Going to a fire or just naturally in a hurry? Why, hello there! I've been expecting you. I had to go to Peiping the other day and I met an old friend of ours who said you came over on the same boat with him. We saw Sanford Lowengart in Washington before we left and he said to be sure to look you up. We left Hongkong yesterday and we're going to Egypt tomorrow. we're going to Egypt tomorrow. Well, then, why can't you come and stay at the American Embassy House tonight? We'll be glad to do thatf, The three of us settled ourselves as best we could in sedan chairs, gave the signal, and were plunged into the city as one would descend into a mine or into a crystal maze. Before long, we approached a comfortable-looking house which was shaded by big trees and overlooked the great walled city across the muddy waters of the Pearl River. It so happened that that night there was a convention of delegates from other coun- tries, and from our table we were not surprised to see some whom we knew: Minoru Endo, Heroni Nakagaki and Henry Nakatani from Japan, William Lee from China and Anthony Cusimano and john Garibaldi from Italy, Yoke Chung Wong, Emile Waldt- enfel, and others we did not know. We thanked Raymond that night for his hospitality and left the next morning for Egy t. P What a noisy station! It's like a madhousef' Here, boy! Take these bags and put them on our train. We'd better follow him, Margit, or we're liable to end up in Alaska somewhere. Come on. Such trains! If we have curved spines and stiff necks tomorrow, don't blame me. Why, look whofs collecting tickets! Of all people-Charles Maguire! What are you doing so far away from the States? Oh, I'm just here for my own amusement. I have to do something to keep out of mischief. After endless explanations on both sides, we left him and made our way to the dining car. Much was our dismay to find we couldn't read the menu, but we closed our eyes and made a guess. It was not bad, though for the life of us we hadn't the slightest idea what we were eating. Arriving in Alexandria, we settled in the ever-present hotel. Next day, our guides, Joe Spiker and james Simonds, were very amused when we started off on camels to see the pyramids. Why you ev-bump-er got me to ri-bump-de-bump on one of-bump- these th-bump-ings, Margit Larson-bump, I can't bump see. I'll bump never get on an-bump-other one-bump. 'lIt is ki-bump-nd of bu-bump--mpy but we're almost th-bump-ere. Whew! Maybe these natives like their camels, but after this, I'll walk. To think I had to go through all that agony for a peek at an Egyptian costume in a pyramid that's on its last legs! We'll be lucky if we don't die from the sight of a mummy. I don't relish the idea. Do you? Well, when it has to be done, it has to, so keep still and let's get it over. O.K. You can lead the way, I'll followf' Look, Margit! If it isn't jim Kindt! Hello, jim. What are you doing so far from home? Oh, hello! Imagine seeing you here after all these years! I'm heading a scientific expedition here for the Scientists Club in New York. But may I ask you the same question? Never mind how we got here. We're here, and that's enough. Oh, look! Therels Frank Shawn and Pasquale Vozzo! Are they in your expedition, too? Yes. Youlll find several of your old friends from Galileo. joe Wildberger and Ben Brooks are down farther and they have Robert Wenzel, james Eaurot, Leonard Polley, I Page 281

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THE TELESCOPE Frank Tringale and Carl Sitzenstatter completed the force. We went to see them one day before we left for Russia. In Russia we met Vesley Wagner, who was traveling for the government. He told us that he was being stationed in Turkey to train men. He also said that Ian Ferguson, Elmer Schiro, George Chalmers, Bennett Raffin, Grayson Hinckley, George Moore and Philip Bush had been graduated from West Point several years before. Clarence La Rocca was stationed in Panama. Adolph Malatesta was in jugoslavia. Late the next afternoon, we boarded a train bound for Moscow. Crossing the border line we found Windsor Meales stranded in mid-air repairing an aerial for his broad- casting station. Silvio Massoletti, Richard Martinelli and Charles Luporini, his assistants, were valiantly trying to rescue him. Many were the tiny villages we passed through en route to our destination. We were able to stay there only overnight, so, making the most of our time, we went to a concert. There we found Alla Sviridoff, one of the greatest pianists of our country, giving a recital. Besides enjoying the music, we had ample time to jot down sketches. While in Moscow, we tried to read one of the papers. As far as we could under- stand, Elmo Candelo, George Clarke, jean Edwards and Ignatius Piazza were about to build their first bridge. Next morning, at dawn, we settled ourselves on a nonfstop train to Paris, where we expected to stay about a month before going back to the States. On arrival, we found Willa Lloyd and jane Doran waiting for us at the station. We had wired to them from our last stop. With a word of greeting, they bundled us off in Willa's car to her tiny house in the heart of Paris. Once there, she made us rest while she prepared dinner. This necessity over, we dressed for the theatre. They took great pride in taking us to one of the best, where we found that john Steinhart's production of Ralph Law's Travels was being shown. Among the finely-coiffeured heads and tuxedoed figures, we recognized Gertrude Bauer, Phyllis Bruce, joel Stein, Mary Metzger, Jean Nuber, Valerie Mitchell, Albert Anders, Harry Cush, james Ferguson, Edward Hurlbut, Signe Ashe, Norma Da Massa, jule Carpenter, Ethel Chorney, Dario Lodigiani, Maurice Lilot, Winfred Lee, George Monaghan, Walter Parry, Frances Woolley, Betty Lou Taylor, Tatiana Kotliaroff, Elena Sakovich, Alex Kotliaroff, Beryl Scott, Beverly Seares, Attilio Ronconi, Eugene Rege, Kathryn Wolfsohn, Lucille Tori and Donald O,Neil. After the theatre, we went to a small cafe on the Champs Elysee. This is so interesting. All we've seen in the past few months has been exciting, I must admit, but this is even more so. These quaint Bohemian cafes are so attractive. Oh look! There's Noreen Ames. She's over here studying law isnlt she? Yes, Shall we stop and see her on our way out?', Let's do. Shels so interesting. Hello, Noreen. How are you? Hello there! I haven't seen you for a long time. Come on and sit down. How have you been? just fine. I heard from Angelo Luisetti today. Hels now head basketball coach at the University of California, and Fred Neerman, Frank Passanisi, William Peiser and james Richardson are there with him. We saw a notice on our way down here that Yvonne West was coming to the Opera House to present her famous toe dancef, Vivian Parnigoni is editing a magazine of her own and has Janice Rosenthal, Roxanna Spencer, Virginia Stewart and Mildred Stone as her staff writers. Well, I think we'd better go now. We're a bit tired from our long journey. I hope we see you again before we leave. I hope so, too. Goodbyef' Next day found us in an exclusive dress shop. Very slyly we copied models as they were presented to us. We came mighty near being caught at it several times. Upon leaving, whom should we run into but Wilma Ostrander, who was buying dresses for Frances Piersonls shop in New York. She joined us for tea and we learned rr u I Page 301