Lafayette Junior High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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THE FORTYKNINERS WILLIE MAE NICKS Over the dusty trails, through the underbrush came the Forty-Niner to the gold rush. With rifles in hands and picks at their sides. They wander guideless, far and wide gut many took chances and met their a e Long before they reached the famous Golden Gates. A9's Tribute To Lafayette By Joan Earl To you our dear Old Lafayette, We raise our banner high, We shall Ne'er forget you dear, school until the day we die. 'If' By Josephine Lankford If you can fill the unforgiving nomen with sixty seconds worth of distance run yours is theearth and every thing thats in lt, and what is more you be a man my son. Hind your speech a little less it may admire your future. Roses aro Bed By John Earl Roses are red, Violets are Blue School begins with the mornmg dew. Farwell, To Lafayette By Donnalea Alfonso Farwell my fellow friends of Lafay- ette Jr. Hi. May you have the fun in high school that you've had in the day's gone may your teacher be as pleasant and friends be just as grand, as the on- e's you had in this the finest in the land. As you resume your studies, tho,the school near or far,Y0UT thoughts will stray to Lafayette no matter where you are. You can't forget the things you've done no matter how you try, For tho- - ughts of pleasanttries remain until the day you die,

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A9 PROPHECY Have you ever thought what will happen to the mighty and powerful A9's who are graduating this Winter, '49? Let's take a peek into the futu e. While cruising down Hollywood near Vine in our 1962 Cadillac, DeLuxe, whom do we see but ou old cousin, Madam Stegall, who is just returning from Paris, France, where she went for her health. After parking our car, we stroll down Hollywood Blvd. towards the Brown Derby. While crossing the street, we see three New York Yankees, IreneGradY, Willie M. Nicks and Ruby Jordan who have fin- ally hit bigtime Professional Baseball. Just as we enter the Brown Derby, we are approached by one in complete disguise wearing dark glasses, none other than Jewell Poole, who announces proudly that she is receiving alimony from her ex-husband, George Bates. As we look around the place of sumptuous refection, we notice the star of the evening is beauteous Josephine Lankford, famous ballet dan- cer, who looks as if she has been crying. When asked why she crys, Josephine explains that her marriage to Daniel Lawson is on the rocks and they are heading for the divorce mill. Leaving the Derby, we head up Vine where we run into Sammy Clark, selling pagers. It seems he couldn't finish college, so he dropped studies to sell papers at Hollywood and Vine. nMore money in it,n he says. When we look through one of his papers, we see that the well-known pitcher of the Brook- lyn Dodgers and his beloved wife Margie Victorian have purchased a two billion dollar club house for teen-agers only, where famous can- can dancers appear nitely. These sensational performers are: Jeanne Rayfbrd, Thirsta Gay, Sylvia Gaines, Maria Cruz, Lucy Cruz, Mary Pitts, Martha Gomez and Celia Banks, who all are directed by that noted Tep- sichorean from Tokio, Sayeko Watanabe. Down at the bottom of the page we find a very interesting article which says Ronald Sibley is re- tiring from football at SC because of a broken toe-nail. Further down the street we meet John Earl and Callie Lou Cobb, busily engaged in snall talk. We chat awhile, and then we notice a small figure approaching us slowly but surely. Yes, it's Cleve- land Mitchell, and he's selling pencils. We then pass by Grauman's Chinese and take notice of Barbara Walker, who has just promoted herself to head usher there. Her husband, Mr. Kincaid, owns the theatre. We see some of the other ushers namely Tommielee Nest, Herdioine Heard, Margaret Herron, Willie H. Franklin, Barbara Adams, Margo Cerdand and Cora Jackson. Reaching our car, we then hop in to drive along by the famous penthouse of Gloria alcala. Among her guests, there are Freddie Estrada, Henry Rodriquez, Joe Rodriquez, Arthur Garcia, Alban Chinn, and Earl Wong. They are discussing the good old times at Lafayette. Nhile leaving the penthouse, we particularly observe the drooping figure of Hubert Tesilla, still at Lafayette, and still Ed1tor-1n- Chief of the sensational Sentinel. By Margie Victorian and Josephine Lankford

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