Jefferson High School - Spectrum Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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M JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECT CTRUM JAN. 1940 SPECTRUM JAN. 1940 SPECTRUM JAN. 1940 SPECTRUM JAN. 1940 S M JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECT Eunice Jewell, two lady policemen from New York City. Since their installation stop lights have been abolished on their corners. Also introduced were Dug Fabian, de- signer of prefabricated bird houses: Stanley Wyss, who has raised the biggest hog ever known: and Melvin Buescher, the man with the three stomachs (we always won- dered why he ate so much). Marian Avery, Wilma Richard and Dorothy Bethge, known as the Three Musketeers of the Canadian Mounted Police, told how they always got their man. Virginia Redfield announced that she had introduced a new kind of welfare worker. She worked at home for the welfare of her husband, Walter Sullivan. It was nearing eight o'clock, so I turned my dial to WHOM for Walter Hinchell's news flashes, sponsored by Marian Parcher's Beauty Aids. Hash! I was just informed that Ed Vistica, president of the National Electric Company, is going to ill-Yuma-nate that illustrious Broadway comedienne, Eileen Man- ning. Norma Poland and Hank Burns are going steady again. They announced plans for their wedding in a few years. Since Lester Anderson was seen out with a mysterious blonde, his wife (the former Arvilla Kelly) is taking a six weeks' vacation in Reno. What two well-known co-dictators of Turkey, whose initials are Foord Minnick and Dick Turner, are turning in their harems on next year's models? Mr. and Mrs. Ned Seiberts, nee Solveig Storkersen. and family are planning a trip to Sweden next month. Mary Lou Landry and Bob Gilson believe in long engagements. Wedding bells are just beginning to 'peel.' Ladies and gentlemen, we have just received a special flash that Dick Sprague, recently appointed to succeed J. Edgar Hoover, has just captured 'Two Gun' Dave Powers and his East Side mob. Since I couldn't miss Erick Burmester's program (even if I'd wanted to), I hastily tuned in station WOW. The velvety voice of Jim Foley came to me over the air waves, advertising for Ray Ameele's restaurant. Any time you are in one of our larger cities, he was saying, come in for Ameele. Jerry Covey and his All-Girl Orchestra accompanied the Hansen Hillbilly Har- monists, composed of .Evelyn, Eleanor and Lucille, in a swing tune. Erick then introduced Ralph Davis, protege of Frank Buck, who had just returned from a hunting expedition in South Africa. One of the things he has brought back alive is his wife, Nancy Weeks.

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iCTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 K SPECTRUM JAN. 1940 SPECTRUM JAN. 1940 SPECTRUM JAN. 1940 SPECTRUM JAN. ICTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 June, 1939, Class Prophecy One blustery afternoon in late March of 1959, as I sat in my easy chair by my radio and television set, I mused at the changes that had come into my life in the twenty years since I had graduated from Jefferson. It was a long distance from Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon, to my home in Jeffville, New York. I was curious to know how far from home my classmates had wandered. Idly I turned the dial of my radio to the local station, WHAM. To my surprise the announcer, Carl Sundborg, was just giving a commercial for the sponsor, George Brustad's Concentrated Soup Pills. He introduced the four singing waiters, Kenneth Landon, Dan Mills, Don Mason, and Dan Luft, who sing for the customer's amazement. Margery Williams' band, to which Bob Stephensen, Willie Schacher, Bob Schiede- man and Kneeland Stranahan belong, played The Black 'n Blues by Herbert Pattison. As this program was signing off the air I turned to station WHY for the children’s hour, conducted by Constance Magwood, author of Mother Magwood's Stories for Itty-Bitty-Kiddies. This was sponsored by Allen Parker's Perfect Perambulators. Since the opening of the new race track in Jollywood was scheduled for that day, I rapidly turned to the ABC network. The track was being opened by Bob Robertson and was named Santa Juanita Race Track in honor of Bob's wife, nee Juanita Johnson. The announcer was none other than the dynamic Ed Clapperton. In the course of the afternoon many celebrities were introduced on the air. Among them were Irene Fitch, who recently starred in Drene ; Virginia Preble, hailed as the second Sonja Henie; Charlotte Reynolds, star of The Last Laugh ; Betty Korinek and Larry Jones, who made their debut together in Carmen last month; and Hedy La Moe, who, when we knew her, was Marjorie Moe. (Oh, those eyes!) I suddenly remembered that a goodwill broadcast between nations had been an- nounced for that afternoon. I quickly tuned in station WILL. Alvan Francis, news commentator, first introduced the speakers from the continent. Albert Pollard, French prime minister, conveyed the good will of the French people to the people of the United States. Tom Clarey, dictator of Dashia, expressed the hope that there would always be peace between the United States and Dashia. Then, as part of the program in the United States, speakers representing different classes of people in the United States were introduced to give their views. First there was Al Sorensen, minister of Green Pastures Congregational Church in New York City; second, Eugene (Slippery) Sly and Eileen Pesek, internationally known news correspondents; third, Ralph Bottolfson, president of Bankrupt National Bank; and last, Ralph Locke, professor of history at Harvard University and author of many history textbooks (he evidently makes history now, instead of studying it). As the afternoon merged into evening I turned to station WE for one of my favorite programs, We the Mob. sponsored by Philip Davis' Dainty Dills. Edwin Mitts, master of ceremonies, began the program by introducing Luella Haskell and

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1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUj JAN. 1940 SPECTRUM JAN. 1940 SPECTRUM JAN. 1940 SPECTRUM JAN. 1940 SPECTRI 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JUNE 1939 SPECTRUM JU Ray Weston, golf dud, explained that the reason he was going to Siam was the fact that the King of Siam was the only person he could beat. One of the foremost features of the program was Glen Butenschoen, father of the modern Baby Snooks, who spanked Snooks for skipping school. Being an ardent lover of Hawaiian music, I turned to the ABC network again for the broadcast sponsored by the Lorene Wooton Whistle Company. This program is conducted from the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu. Jack Patton, who is also looking for a Garbo, is taking the place of Stokowski. Pat Simmons sang A Lei to Leilani, while Irene Ostby did the Dance of the Clinging Vine. Among the many celebrities introduced were Lester Hall, the prominent motion picture producer, and his wife, the ex-Maxine Fox, who are honeymooning; David Koch and his bride-to-be, Julia Howlett, who have been after a sun tan; and Janet Rieg, renowned as head of the National Women’s Escort Bureau for Lonesome Men. It was growing quite late, so I turned off my radio and television set and sat to ponder over what I had just seen and heard. I thought of many things; how many miles my classmates had traveled, and how much fame they had acquired. How things have changed in these last twenty years! Yet, I knew as I saw their faces and heard their voices once more, how little my classmates themselves had really changed. They were and are still the same old friends I had known at Jefferson. ALBERT POLLARD IRENE FITCH EUNICE TAYLOR JANET RIEG GEORGE BRUSTAD