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

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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.

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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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The sky is filled with traffic nowadays. Remember how we used to travel? Now the low rate of speed is 150 miles an hour for Juanita Roe and her family in their airplane. They will soon need a trailer for those kids. And speaking of trailers, Dorothy Swart is keeping house in an airplane trailer-house for an avia- tion-advertiser in southern California. Back in the States again, we find Mary Ellen (Wagner) and Bill Ethridge and their five children who are living in New Mexico. Bill owns half interest in an air line down there In Southern California, we find Donna Mae Porhman living with Roy in a little white cottage with a white picket fence around it. Those two darling children you see in the front yard are Maxine and LeRay. How we do travel nowadays! There goes Lily Higgins and her husband in their new Plymouth. They want to see all the forty eight states before they are through. The pretty little farmerette on the cover of the 1954 August issue o: Life Magazine is Ruth Fisher. Quiet, dreamy-eyed Barbara Bean is an artist's model in Portland. Matt Svetich is playing for the Thursday night dances with the Hayseed Hotshots. Mildred Hadden now keeps the men looking her way, as she is the cover girl for the American Magazine. In Las Vegas, Nevada, Mary Ellen Hendrickson is proving successful in being a good wife to a Lieutenant and is raising her own bomber crew. Hardworking Mary Wallace is living in La Grande and has a family of four. Next we go to Ocean Park, pleasure resort out of Los Angeles, where we find Bobby Crawford. Yes, his dream has come true, but what is this? It can't be—but it is! He is proud owner of a hamburger stand. That lovely California sunshine we hear so much about must have magnetic powers, for here we also find Mable Williams, a competent accountant. The circus is in town! Brightly colored flags flying over grey tents, prancing horses, and roar- ing animals, announce its opening and here is Eleanor Wilson in one of Ringling Brothers' famous sideshows. A beautiful marriage is flowering in California and the blushing bride is Virginia Spray. And speaking of families, Natalie Greene is washing dishes and scrubbing floors for one in Cali- fornia. She spends her free time learning to fly an airplane. That handsome, blonde, Casanova, Irving Watson, is seen strolling down a busy street in a busy city, but the girls aren't too busy to look his way. Jessie Nelson is spending her winter at Laguna Beach'and has entered another competition as to who can get the smoothest tan. By viewing Everett Dalton through the television machine we can still classify him as a wolf on the loose. The script When I Was Young called for Betty Grable at the age of 25. Without surprise we see Juanita Westenskow as her stand-in. Louise Ferhman is the quiet girl with the pleasant voice that asks number please” in the Bell telephone company in New Jersey, New Jersey. From the cobwebs, Nina Kopp takes her violin and fiddles for the members at the Country Club in Frankfort, Kentucky, while they stuff themselves on ham, eggs, and biscuits after a brisk, morn- ing ride. It is late and, as we have looked up all our former classmtaes, Charles turns off the switch and the picture fades from view. Thanks to the television machine, we have had a memorable picture of our friends of 44.