Lake Stevens High School - Pilchuck Yearbook (Lake Stevens, WA)

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Harvey Ekrem who was elected president last election by the new Shuffle Party. I see chalk and erasers flying about the room. Oh,there’s Blanche Moyer teaching her anall pupils how to get A in English. I hear dancing feet and then the roar of applause as Marie Meyer and Ruth Wiley take their bow as the latest tap dancing team on Broadway. I see that Chester Meyers has opened a five and ten cent store in Reno, Nevada and Leslie Whitford is the floor walker. Why is it that my feet want to dance. Oh, it is very clear, Carl Nelson is the leader of a great dance orchestra, 'Tickle Toes• and is idolized by the young people. My globe reveals that Floyd Nourse has perfected a, new brand of potatoes, a marvelous spud that obviates the necessity of paring knives, by growing without skins. I see a large department store. It is filled with beauti- ful clothes for women, and in the blaze of lights, I read the name of 'pitchford, the Y oman's Cloth- ier : Cold buttons shine and there behind them with chest proudly thrown out is Ray Garrett Admiral of the Pacific Fleet. I see he is quite a lady killer, also. And, oh, Dorothy Eergwall is now hailed cl s the champion mountain climber in the world. She made the record of scaling 1ft. Everest in five hours. She didn't disclose, however, that she was wearing a new kind of belt which made her lighter and she could go faster. This belt was made by that famous inventor, Fred Miller, who has his offices and factory in what used to be called the Lake Stevens High School. The gjobc revenlS Gladys Johnson's name on a patent medi- cine advertisement stating that by the use of the marvelous Reduco she has accomplished the remarkable feat of losing exact- ly three and one-fourth pounds. A trolley car comes into view, which is owned and operated by Kenneth Krogh, which makes regular trips. Oh, its running into a new streamlined Rolls Royce driven oy Ella Jane Burns who married the town constable Paul Skucy. Kenneth is in for a round of scolding as Paul Skucy always shows his authority in cases whei'e the defendant is smaller than he. Large headlines in the pa- per show where Bill Barnes has just caught the largest salmon ever found in the Pilchuck River. It weighed two pounds and was one foot long. Billy has become the leading authority on salmon in .the country and spends his time on the river banks fishing and ing—mostly thinking. Edwin McUurray's future appears before me as the mayor of Lake Stevens and here is some gossip, he has taken up beauty culture as a side line and has opened up a shop in town. I see Florence Carlson has become the loading dietitian in the General Hospital in Everett. She is gaining the confidence of the doctors as she .has only killed seven patients within this last year by her diets. There is Jim Marsh, the head chef in the new Waldorf Astoria. He has 100 assistant chefs and is especially noted for his wonderful receipes of cream pies. Ah ha I I see a bush--why it's hair, and look who's under it! Norman Matson. He's cer- tainly living up to his reputa- tion of being the poet laureate of England.

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FRCPHFCY r ■ c Ow It was midnight, the witch- ing hour. High in the henvena hung the noon, its rays casting fantastic lights through the to.ll fir tress that swayed in the gloor.i. Two girls wound their way up the slopes of. pilchuck toward the hone of The . itch of the Stilla- guanish . The witch's hut shrouded in the deepest gloon, was an object of mystery even in the daytime, and at night it took on .an .aspect fearful to behold. Trembling with every step they tool: and throwing furtive glances here and there, the girls slowly approached the door. As if anticipating their -'.rrival the door slowly opened and a voice rising in swift crescendo from a moan to a shriek demanded, Who is it that seeks ’The Witch of the Stillaguamish’ at this hour of the night? With their teeth and knees beating a rival tattoo, the girls managed to stammer out. Two of the girls from the 1936 class desire to know the future of their classmates. V h.at you ask is- difficult to ascertain, responded the with, as a student from Lake Stevens is liable to become any- thing, but I shall consult my crystal sphere. Now listen care- fully to all I shall reveal. As the girls seated them- selves in the dim light, the witch waved her hand over a dully gleaming globe, and an unearthly radiance illumin-ted the small hut. The witch seemed to be in a trance and suddenly exclaimed, What do I see? I see needles and pins. 'That do they foreshadow? Oh yes, I understand Adeline Loth is dressmaker for the sensational actress Pauline Sltucy, who has just completed her latest pic- ture, Babies InEonnets . The globe now seems filled with flying papers. I hear the words ’Point of Order, Mr. Chair- man,’ and in the midst of the disturbance I see Senators Prank Carr and Ronald Jaclcson trying tc put a filibuster through Con- gress . A horse and buggy is rac- ing swiftly around the tr-ck. Between runs, Jin Matzcnauer’s face comes into view. He is the champion in the final buggy races held at Granite Palls, 1950. ’.That do I hear. Oh, it is Helen Shaler making her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Her wonderful voice is making everyone sit up and listen. I see babies, Hazel Loop, who has resigned from her po- sition as head nurse at Budding hospital, is now the proud moth- er of the new set of quintuplets which is the talk cf the country. My globe becomes dark, clouds cf dust seem to obscure all things from sight. Now faintly I see an ancient Pord delivery driven by Clarence Pet- erson for the Wilund Bros, grocery. It also see a genial butcher in the shape of Paul Backstron whose shop is up the street from the Wiklund Bros, store. I see Leona Mears has been widowed three tines and divorced twice. Both the president of Mexico and the Kind of England are paying her alimony. I hear the click of a typewriter as Ellen Krcgh writes the private correspondence of

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their Here is a parade, and it 't. lead by Bertha Sayre I She is the chairman of the National Women’s Democratic Convention, they are having a demonstration, campaign- ing for their nominee for the next election against Harvey Ek- rem. This nominee, in whom they all have confidence, is none other than Mary Elizabeth Cock- burn. Last but not least, over here wrapped in sables is Ernes- tine Walker. She married a multi-millionaire and is having the time of her life flying back and forth across the Atlantic in her own plane. As the witch uttered these last words the light suddenly died out. Gasping, the witch fell to the floor, clutching wildly in the darkness. With screams of terror, the girls rushed from the hut and plunged down the narrow path, while from the distance could still be heard the demoniacal laughter of The Witch of the Stillaguanish. SENIOR FLAY Dollars to Doughnuts a farce in three acts was scheduled to be presented on Friday October 8 but as the curtains were bout to rise the lights went out dur- ing the wind storm. Since it was impossible to give a play without lights, the date was postponed until the following Wednesday October 13. The cast arranged a theater 'party and -ftent to see Shipmates Forever . With a well-chosen cast and fascinating plot, Mr. Julvey dir- ected it with fine supervision. Mrs. Boland (Henrietta) an attractive but flighty wife of Janes Boland,. Mary Lib Cockburn. Janes Boland, a wealthy bus- iness man, Harvey Ekren. Chester, Garret i, s on--Ray George Hobbes, in love with Ca.rolinc, Chet Meyer. Helen C.ary, Chester’s girl friend, Ruth Wiley. Flossis Hill, Mrs. Boland’s sister, a sporty spinster, Ernes- tine Walker. The Reverend Samuel Figgot, a minister, Carl Nelson. Hortense, another daughter of the Bolands hone from Art Sch- ool, Flore o C, .risen. Fringe 6 rgei Danilov, in love wit) Hortense, Frank Carr. Jin Marsh wo.s the stage man- ager and the Senior Girls were the make-up committee. TORCH HONOR SOCIETY A special assembly was held Friday afternoon, March 13, for the purpose of awarding pins to the members of the Torch Honor Society. Mr. Tenby opened the assem- bly and Hazel Loop gave a short talk on the object of the Torch Honor Society and how to earn the pins. The students who received the one-bar pin were Geraldine Brook3, Marie Fintz, Oleda Grinde Helen Krcgh, Harold Lindstron, Marion' Loth, Nellie lloyer, Ruth Nelson, Lillian Nelson, Gladys Sampson, Eva Skyta, Elmer Tastad and Orville Matson. These who received the two- brr pins were Leona Kirby, Jean- rotte Nourse and Jeannette Evan- scn. Those Seniors who received the Torch pins were Mary E. Cock- burn, Gladys Johnson, Ellen Krogh Jim Marsh, Jin Matzenauer, Hazel Loop, Ed. McKurray, Leona Hears, Blanche Moyer a.nd Florence Carl- son. Mr. Bancroft is the advisor