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

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CLASS PROPHECY Laughter, bright lights, and pretty clothes are the dominant factors at Charles Snyder's white marble mansion in Los Angeles on this cold evening of December 22, 1954. We have arrived early for Charlie s birthday party so we watch the other guests enter in all their finery and soon renew old acquaintances. Being the owner of Snyder's Snuggies Co., Ducky has many friends with whom we are not familiar but there are a few faces that we recognize from ten years ago. They are our former classmates of '44, when we were graduated from that little red brick school building.in La Grande. Now they are spread all over the world. We must stop reminiscing now, for a familiar figure just drawled her way into the living room. It is none other than that cute little blonde, Roberta Jordahl, who is posing for lingerie advertisements at Snider's Snuggies Co. Employed under the same firm is Hazel Trollinger. She is Charlie's private secretary. The photographic engineer and editor of the Men's Monthly Magazine from Ohio, Steve Kinzel, is also here glorying in his latest invention. From Hollywood is the Gremlin Glasses model, Bonnie Hesse, displaying a new pair. Orpha Berry is here at the party. She is a secretary in Warner Brothers' Studio in Hollywood and seems to have a hankering for a screen test. Bemeva Chadwick is another '44 alumna. She has a contract with M. G. M. and is giving Jane Withers some stiff competition. Walt Disney is getting old and feeble but one of his main stay decorators, Margaret McLean, helps him along and keeps him informed on modem developments in his field. The most exciting moment is here at last and Steve presents Charles with a little present. From the yards of pretty string and paper emerges the gift, and before us shines Steve's latest invention— a world television machine. Acting like a kid at Christmas time, Charles eagerly experiments with the switches and dials. The machine begins to hum and the little white screen blurs, then clears, and before us lies a familiar scene. Why, it's La Grande! someone whispers excitedly. Oddly enough, the red brick building pic- tured on the screen is the high school from which we were graduated ten years ago. The picture of the school immediately brings back all those memories that were entering our minds earlier in the evening and everyone is in favor of checking up on our classmates. The dial is turned and the school vanishes. In its place is a little home with a large backyard and a peaceful little family. Here Golden is teaching a little red-haired Yeske to operate a helicopter and Norma looks on proudly. Again we turn the dial and our scene is shifted to the Carter farm. Iris Mae seems to be doing well, instructing girls how to stay single in her Old Maids' Seminary. This is where June Carpenter should be instead of sitting on her parents' front porch, still wondering if she will always be an old maid. Her example should work wonders for Iris. George Tiss, after studying at Harvard for eight years, is now a professor at La Grande's Harvard on the hill. La Grande is still the scene. Jerry Bingner, owner of Joel's Grocery, still has Morehead than brains. We now look at the farms in the Grande Ronde valley and on one we see Richard Taylor batching, and seeming to enjoy it, but we wonder . . . Farther north, near Elgin, Angela Donohue is spading her garden. A few miles from town we find the residence of that famous rancher, Jerry Cook; but who hasn't heard of him? Cook's beef is of world-wide fame. Incidentally, he is also Island City's gun-toting constable. Those beautiful Blue Mountains are a view we can't afford to miss before returning to La Grande's center. Even here we find an alumnus and this one is LeRoy Bushman, one of the best hunters of the day, on the claim that he has staked out for himself. The walls of his cabin are filled with deer-homs, guns, and other hunters' trophies. We now look down the main drag of La Grande. There are several thriving businessmen here. Dick (Sloppy) Farris has taken over Ager's Photography Shop. Bob Goss, taking time off from trying to defrost the North Pole, has taken on a new partnership with some one by the name of Smith. We can't see what kind of a partnership it is but we know Smith from way back. Howard not only is in business with Bob but is also good sports-headline material as a star basketball player on the Tiger Grads' team, composed of La Grande townsmen.

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GIRLS’ LEAGUE EXEC. COMMITTEE The members of the Girls' League Executive Com- mittee, put into office by vote, led the girls in school activities such as parties, dances. Mothers' Teas, com- piling of a Service Roll, All-Girls' Assembly, and junior Red Cross work. TIGER KNIGHTS The Tiger Knights is a service organization of L. H. S. composed of boys who take tickets and guard the gates at functions given by the L. H. S. students.

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Although Beth Kofford is still trying to get a man, she is doing a nice job as secretary for La Grande s District Attorney, Jim Torrence. Let’s return to the school. Don Kilby has come back to L. H. S. He finds he can catch up on his sleep better in a Social Problems class. This year's graduation class is unusually large and it is of special interest to us, for this is the memorable year that our friend Dallas Johnston has at last passed senior English. He will celebratfe his victory by flying to Japan on a vacation. La Grande High is being brilliantly supervised by the principal, Reva Fulp. It is only in La Grande that we would find Dorothy Betts Muilenburg and she has finally attained the amazing goal of ten children, including four pairs of twins. Here, too, we find Jack Riley who is resting up before starting his annual trip across the country. Being a hobo in these days proves very profitable by the looks of his estate, where he resides with his blonde wife during the winter months. Marjorie Mallory's prophecy of herself seems to have come true, for she now has a nice little home in the nice little town of La Grande. She is slaving for some brute of a man—‘but oooh—what a man! Coach Benny Ward and his Tiger Basketball team have finally beat Baker, and not only that, they have just completed winning the all-world's game. The list exhausted of those who ' settled in their own home town, we move the dial. Island City is nearest and here we find Merwyn Smith in the trucking business with his two brothers. Truckin' right on down the avenue, that boy is. Fifty-six miles west we come to Pendleton. Those are nice looking horses Orvan Malone has for the Pendleton Round-Up in the fall. We hear he is hoping to be bronc busting champ this year. We find only two alumni in Portland. Here is a man who really knows how to handle a baseball team. It is Richard Hawes at the Lincoln High School. And remember Norman See, the Sleepy Time Boy back in old L. H. S.? Well, he is now in Portland giving lessons on how to overcome insomnia. Tonight in a little church near Everett, Washington, we find Reverend Warren Carlson holding the first annual inter-church conference. We travel eastward to Idaho. And look at that gal dig. Ten years of married life and work on her farm hasn't changed Rosemary Chandler Hill. And by the way—those are real Idaho spuds she's hoeing. Salt Lake City! We always thought it hard to take dictation while sitting on the boss's knee but Donna Red seems to be doing all right—and is that man dictating! Still in the northwest, we pause long enough near The Dalles to see Del Nora Harper. She used to be a soda jerk at the Super Cream but now she is tied down to a rangy Texan cowboy. She and Slim run a dude ranch. Sounds like fun. Way up in North Dakota on a desolate cat farm with her double-barreled shot gun on her knee is Beverly Shorb. Three men have been killed for trespassing on her property. Could be that she is a man-hater. Another little family is tucked away in the state of Wisconsin and the little housewife is none other than the former Irene Swart. Mary Ruckman is in the grand city of Chicago, very much content and very much married. Lila Lloyd has climbed up the newspaper staff from reporter to editor of the Chicago Tribune. No wonder, for that girl writes a wicked hand. Featured flutist of Phil Spitalny’s all girls' orchestra is none other than Lois Hill who filled the same position for the band of '44. A third party in Illinois, and strangely enough, is Doris Burleigh. She is living on a ranch with an adjoining oil well. Lots of kids, lots of pigs, and, by the way, the last name is Brubaker. Virginia limp-as-a-rag Finley has her own night club in Chicago. She also does her own dancing. Just a miniature of Vera Zozina. In New York we find Howell's Hospital, founded by our own Mary Jane Howell. Her staff contains many famous names. First is the brilliant neural surgeon. Dr. Jacqueline Wiese; she has just hit on the idea that a closer examination of the mind could be given if the head were removed from the body. She hasn't quite decided how the two are to be rejoined. Here, too, we find the world-renowned heart