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

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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

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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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surgeon, Fiorina Beeson, and lo and behold, she has developed a case of fluttering heart for a doctor. Nurse Jean Abel's dreams were realized, for there she stands in Ward 16, holding her favorite patient's hand. Carnegie Hall is drawing a large crowd tonight—so huge that there isn't even standing room. The attraction is the famous pianist, Beverly Decker. One of the most notable concert groups is the Metrolagrandian, now on tour. Some of the feature attractions are vocal soloist, Ruby Pyle and a 200-piece orchestra, in which Naomi Creasman is violin soloist. P° y°U remember Ruby McClure, the girl who couldn't find a boy-friend that didn't play with the Solid Senders? Well, if we look close we'll find her directing her own swing band. Ah, there she is, but wait! What is this? Can the men playing the trombine, the drums, and the piano be the Olson twins and Jim Courtney? New York harbor. Waiting at the dock, as usual, is Nina Proffitt. Won't that fleet ever come in? We ve all heard of Dupont and have wondered who was responsible for the work they have accomplished in the past 10 years. Well, our question is answered as we look in the television machine, for here we see Arlene Marsh working vigorously as head stenographer. Bright lights, gaiety, heart breaks, success—this is Broadway. And here we see Dorthea Coal- well waltzing her way to fame. It is a great moment for a great artist and her audience as we watch Laura Lee McLain unveil her masterpiece in the New York Museum of National Art. Ellery Herron is the featured soloist in the New York Philharmonic orchestra, and just think, we used to hear him for nothing. Now we turn to Washington, D. C., and midst the hustle and bustle of the crowds we spy Lucille Ross on her way to work. She is secretary to the Secretary of the Treasury. white house looms before us and, although we expected it, we are a little awed to find Jean Rode secretary to Congressman John Bean. Between sessions John spends his time being a yardbirdin the army, even though the war is over. And now, down Palm Beach way where palm trees sway, we find David Nelson, the retired millionaire, just relaxing. We also see Marietta Keller splashing the water of the Atlantic Ocean and enjoying that warm sunsnine of Miami Beach while she is on her vacation from her job as a private secretary. Down south in New Orleans lying under a palm tree resides Eddie Stonebreader, owner of a big sugar plantation—a mint julip in one hand, a blonde in the other. The Hawaiian Islands is our next go l but on our way we must pass over the Ozark Mountains and here we see Fred Burgess playing Hairless Joe. Also in our path is the Pacific Ocean and who should be skimming the waves but June Hoover on a pleasure cruise. Now the Hawaiian Islands: Tom Garrison has moved here and has a place similar to that of Earl Carrol's Variety of 10 years ago. Guatemala! A long jump, but to us only the turn of a dial. It is here, we understand, that Miss Betty Erbe wrote her famous book. How to Enter Matrimony or Man Trap, which will be illustrated by the author. The evening is passing away quickly so we can't linger. Giving the dial a turn, we find ourselves in China. Kenny Waldroff's modern version of an airport has at last come true, for here he is in Peking, running an air transport and entertaining his passengers enroute by playing his clarinet for them. Several miles north we come to a place on an island that, ten years ago, was known as Tokyo. And here, beneath a blossoming cherry tree, we find Bob Suydam playing the Overture of 1812 on his tuba. Remember the oboe player, Marjorie Chandler, in the band of 44 ? She now lives way across the oceans in India where she earns her bread and butter by charming snakes. Admiral E. R. Snider is the owner of a small but busy tugline operating out of Cairo, Egypt. Scanning the sky with the television machine, we see Alan Mills soaring through the blue. We hear that he is attempting to finish the flight that Amelia Earhart started.