La Jolla High School - Viking Yearbook (La Jolla, CA)

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Then came Fred Norris, marine engineer, And Carl Walden in his ritzy hotel. Bets McCulloch, executive in a big store, lAt a mere hundred thousand a yearl: Then the glass showed a lab, and surrounded by ore We saw metallurgist Wheeler appear. Came tiny Bill Gordon and Ralph Shorty Fite As the hits ot the great midget show, The unholy trio was still on the loose- Vollmer, D'Vincent, Cornell. l saw stars on the screen so resplendent in green Lipstick made by Eva Gutierrez: Debutantes looking gay, in striking array From A. l-linds's the shop where good wear is g Gene Lott on a ranch in the wild woolly west: Jerry Stevens tlying over the Pole, Janet riding boomers at Waikiki shores: Bambalere running over the goal. A brace ot stenographers passed in review- Robertson, Martin, Howard, Fernstrom, and Stone. Then the glass blazed with tlowers ot vividest hue, As landscapist Lockner was shown. The Blankenships' car, still the same blue and white, Came careening with France at the wheel, Then, Chuck Owen, the nomad, on a trip to Japan, And Helen Caldwell, social worker ot zeal: Goldsmith reporting tor the New York Tribune, For which cameraman Milton took snaps: And Nurse Billy Mason combating disease, And hunter Hibbard preparing his traps. Air hostesses Jackson and Marsh then appeared In a celluloid plane made by Garty. Jocklyn Bennett, Carolyn Butler, and Marjorie Bolas Were giving a newlyweds' party. MacDonnell and Creelman, l-leckelman, and Drummond Passed by with their rackets and balls: And then Cleo Smiley, John Milne-the stars, Taking a hundred and three curtain calls. Came a vision ot carrots and spinach and peas The tools ot the dietitian's trade, As Jane Davidson measured calories out And called vitamins in to her aid. Mary Jo Murray was revealed in a school, Teaching where once she was taught, And Shizu Yamashita catching tish in a pool With a rod that Tom Liddiard had wrought. O'Neil appeared writing mysteries weird, Which Alan Delane read with glee. M. Christensen was shown in a shop ot her own, Giving permanents and manicures tree. Betore my wondering gaze the whole class had appeared And now at the tirst rays ot dawn The last vision taded, and l rose in a daze, As Chandu took his globe and was gone. T enty tour

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CLASS DIQDIDI-lf CHANDU raised his hand, a weird cry issued torth: ln his globe was an unearthly glow. Za Future is come, said Chandu, look in here, You shall see all za triends zat you know. Trembling l gazed: in the ball there appeared Dietitian Bates making menus galore ln a hospital kitchen designed with great skill By Ken Bostick, my classmate ot yore. The tirst vision passed, then l saw a blue sky And Pilot Jensen a-looping-the-loop. As l watched her in awe, a meteor whizzed by- Don Lapham out atter a scoopl Then came Bobbie Barrett a-blowing his horn For the worshipping crowds standing nigh, While craftsman Bob Gillan was looking torlorn With nothing to whittle nearby. There was June Clark, who was telling a joke, And Lou Jean, the ballet-dancing girl: Anci one Pravel Brown, ambitious no end, Who'd worked hard and retired at nineteen: The All-American players with Bill Rice on the end, And Myrleen making clothes tor the queen. Dhea Jones grown up tall, Lucille Birse and Yvonne Wh-o were tormally dressed tor a ball: While Ruth Strachan, Mary Peavy, Lucille Kidney and Pat Wore green sweaters tamiliar to all. There were billboards by Hatch, advertising a match That burned with a tri-colored tlame, And a hospital bright where Anne D. worked all night As a nurse tor the sick and the lame. Then appeared Larry Fisher and one Janet Lewis, Bob Martin and Harriet Dunn, Advertising specialists making caricatures And having a barrel ot fun. And at home with a gavel, there was President Rice, In the seat held by Roosevelt betore: Planning receptions tor Admiral Leal, The genius who ended the war. Next l saw Delphy Ryan and Genevieve Senn Assisting a dentist ot tame, And Peggy Jennings, a consul in tar-ott Brazil, Whose work had won world-wide acclaim. Towny Cromwell, ot Forest Reserve, Was admiring a tire set by Ware on a spree, While George Hall showed Don Budge how to serve. Robeson, Allen, and l-lawkins were perched on a tence, Very happy not doing a thing. Then the poor crystal shook as an explosion occurred- Rowland Johnson, the Chemistry King! A little red schoolhouse was next to appear With Betty Ravenscrott ringing her bell. Y Twenty-three

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