La Grande High School - Mimir Yearbook (La Grande, OR)

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Page 24 MIMIK □ 1933 Alma Howard and George Wilcox constitute a, theatrical team that is making a big hit in Summerville. Virginia Singer is a hostess on the Transcontinental Air Lines. Jack Bates has become one of America’s most distinguished poets, but is placer mining near Baker to make a living. Clifford Briggs has a sandwich and milkshake shop on Broadway. (Of course you know the Broadway we mean.) Fearing another world war, Dortha McCoury has taken to knitting socks. While watching a dancing marathon, we were agreeably surprised to find Claude Whiteside and Catharine Edwards going strong. One of our contemporary authors is George Berry, who has just published a volumn of nursery rhymes dedicated to the inmates of a New York home for the feeble-minded. The Antarctic Circle is again being disturbed by explorers, none other than Dorothea Wood and Gerald Waite. Hazel Crawford is applying for a patent on her latest invention, cement fly-traps. • Donna KofTord is running an elevator in Meier and Franks new store. No reports have been received of John Towery since he walked into the spider’s parlor and it turned out to lx? a Webb. The skating rink is now a profitable business, since its proprietors are Verda Feuvrhelm and Onzie Edwards. Lola Hawk and Edwin Alexander are campaigning in jails throughout the country for the uplift of the Great Society. A fine grade of Mexican steers is being raised by Georgia Daniels and Buford Moore in their pent-house on the capitol building at Mexico City. Edward Rostock, editor of the confidential column of the Dingville Daily re- ports that business is improving, now that the depression is over. Dorothy Walker is employed in the office at Commerce High, Portland. Merwin Jordan and Arnold Inseth are joint owners of a dairy farm. All the dairy maids have gone on a strike for higher wages and shorter hours. Norvin Woodell is a promising young bond salesman. Every class must have one, and that of ’33 is no exception. Fern Broomfield is teaching the eighth grade in Enterprise. Warren Lyell is truant officer of the Enterprise schools. Olga Hanson and Nebraska Thompson are selling form-fitting hot water bottles. Louise Bunch is the typing instructor in McMinnville High. Sarah Draper is sole owner and operator of a silk hosiery shop on Fifth Avenue. Gertrude Conrad and Harold Zurbrick have built up a good trade for the wild strawberries they cultivate on their farm east of town. Marie Silk and Homer Case are feeling quite at home in an Alaskan lighthouse. At a recent ping-pong tournament, the championship cup was won by Gene Blokland. A new mountain climbing record has been established by Mary Cook and Wil- bur Blokland. They reached the snow line on Mt. Everest. Margaret Davy and Nolan Braden are said to lx? putting out a high-grade horse- feather pillow for the Sacajawea Hotel. Margaret Austin has applied to a prominent matrimonial bureau for a wealthy bachelor over ninety years of age. Trying to break the cross-country roller skating record, Lucille Henry and Wesley Smith have just departed from St. Louis on their way west. Clyde Krogh and Dannis Miller, incorporated in a general merchandise store, report that a new shipment of weather-proof barbed wire has just arrived. “What happened to Bill?’’ I asked, after I had read our futures. “Oh!” exclaimed Horton, “he got acquainted with a new blonde in 1943 and just as soon as we got back here in 1933, he went off and left me for the blonde. I am just waiting around to see what he has to say when he gets back.”

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MIMIR □ 1933 Page 23 and Pat Kennedy were the participants. Dan Cupid was an interested onlooker. Randall Enberg is an insurance salesman and Roy Quint is a Fuller brush man. Roy will soon be knocking at your door. Donald Culp has taken Hollywood by storm, and will next appear as Mitzie Green’s leading man. Sylvia Johnson is designing hats and gowns for a French firm. Marian Nelson is a leader in the Y. W. C. A. movement. Her offices—Seattle. An independent football team has been organized with Robert Baker as cap- tain. Among others, his championship eleven includes Percy Munsell, Dohl Stoop, Howard Owsley, Melvin Roe, Carl Amos, and Owen Munhall. Lee Clay, waterboy. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Karnes are. now managing the Rhea farm near John Day. Mrs. Karnes was formerly Mary Lou Rhea. Aletha Bowlus is costume director and property manager for a famous group of players. No doubt, she appreciates her training in “Christmasse Revels.” Madeline and Vivian Gallagher, known as The Gallagher Twins” are appear- ing nightly in a well-konwn Broadway theatre. Le Vonne Niedarer is the owner and manager f a popular beauty shop in Port- land. Max Baxter is proprietor of a barber shop in connection with it. Melvina Miller has been elected president of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Everyone extends her heartiest congratulations. Mildred Patten has gained fame in the teaching profession. She has a fashion- able kindergarten of her own in St . Louis. Dunn Herr is piloting a rocket mail plane between New York and San Fran- cisco. Harold Hilary is a forest ranger in a national forest in western Montana. Merle Carbine recently took the civil service examination and has been ap- pointed postmaster in his home town. Jeanne French gave up a successful career as a shorthand instructor for wed- ded bliss with David Hiatt, employed as yell king in Mrs. Hays’ ideal school. We have had no official information, but suspect that Fred Bceman is sergeant-at-arms. Robert Zweifel is a most successful civil engineer. He is at present working on a large South American project. Evelyn Masten is the dean of women in an eastern college. Her office staff is composed of Klma Ratzlaff, Reba and Delda Gray. Garth Cress is the trapeze artist in the Barnum and Bailey circus. Mae Rose is associated with the Gregg Shorthand Company. She presides over the San Francisco branch of their offices. Lucille Thacker is enjoying a round-the-world cruise as a traveling compan- ion of two elderly spinster ladies. Herman Goodwin, according to latest reports, is an Alaskan trapper. For what? We’re not sure, but it is rumored that his traps are set for an Alaskan school ma’am. Walter Berger is the commander of a fleet of submarines. He was recently promoted to that position. Wanda Berry is a famous nurse, and instructor in U. of O. medical school. Jim Chandler has lately been rivaling Einstein for prominence. Howard Lyman is still in the home town, married and driving a bakery truck. Clayton Fox is a successful farmer of the Grande Ronde valley and has been known to take many valuable prizes on his pure bred stock. Donn Geddes, scout executive, states that on a recent hike with one of Ins troops he saw Orval Sailer repairing a flat on a Ford. In the car was Clarice Taylor and on the back was displayed a Just Married” sign. Don Ezra Mahoney, a street-car conductor in New York City, reports that on passing Hyde Park the other day he heard a familiar voice, and was surprised to find Burke Inlow mounted on a soap box. delivering an oration on Oregon”. Helen Fallow and Winifred Scott are touring America lecturing in the inter- ests of the movement granting pensions to retired redheads. James Ingerson was last heard of skiing in the Olympics at Lake Placid. Freeman Kimmell, as we expected, attended the Annapolis Naval Academy. He is at present a commander in the United States Navy. Jule Weagel is art editor for an outstanding publication. Dale Standley is advertising agent for the same periodical. Donn Hannefield, for the past several years has been associated with the Los Angeles Athletic Club, and hopes to establish a new record for the hurdles. George Denny is director and manager of an unusual dance band. Among hi» musicians are Lawrence Fillmore, Grace Scully, Maelizabeth Cooper, Robert Long, and Milton Smith. Clara Norris is reported to have had a successful career as the living skeleton for Al G. Barnes anti Ringling combined circuses. Wallace Kaapcke and Don Johnson are reported to lu- running a matrimonial bureau; and finding places for the Reno-vated” is a specialty.

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