Los Gatos High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Los Gatos, CA)

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Professor D. F. Godfrey, teacher of English stori At a private school for maidens fair, There he teaches and there does wear Fashionable clothes and silk socks fine. jovial and pleasing, but never gives a nine. He's got a good cook, good eats, you bet, And is thinking deep of marriage yet. Ethel Colbath, in her envelope filling Says the movies are certainly thrilling. She has the leading part in Julia Maud. A thrilling play of sea and land. She jumps from a cliff one thousand feet high, And then in the end she doesn't die. This comes from Paris Hotel de Onna. It's from Lucile, the world's Prima Donna. She can hit high X with a note so clear It'll carry ten miles, or pretty near. When she sings one song or a pretty lore, She pulls enough money for a year or more. She's happy and well as she always has been, And if she comes over she may drop in. ' This letter in envelope big and alarming Is from Evangeline, ever so charming. In a long black gown and with awesome mien, She honors the bench in the Court Supreme. For just decisions she's made quite a name, And far and wide has spread her fame. Here's a letter, if my eyes don't fail From Elsie, reporter for the Los Gatos Mail, A sample paper in which I hear es vital Los Gatos has four hundred sunny days in a year. The moon there shines in many bright ways, Perhaps they mistake some nights for the days. Lynda has had her letter typwritten. She keeps a place for things that are smitteng A hospital grand of the latest style, Steam-heated rooms, hot water all the while. Pretty bedrooms, every thing neatg Flowers at your head and at your feet, Flowers at your feet and at your head, COnly that is just when you are deadj, That a Los Gatos girl a nurse has become Should, as you know, be kept very mum. But of course in Mexico there may be Use for such things, not in Los Gatos,-see! This pretty letter in a pink envelope Must be from some one who can't elope. It's Edna Brown, no relation to John, The physical director best in town. She swings the husky dum bells and the club To the merry little tune of rub a dub a dubg She directs the pupils in an elementary school, 1 24

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To do and to act better than their biggers. He's doing a splendid and pleasing work, Is pastor and preacher of a little Scotch kirk. Pernilla Nelson has written in a hurried way, She's very especially busy today. There's the washing and cleaning and the cooking of course But she's harnessed up electricity better than Mors Sewing machine, dishwasher, stove and bucket Make her the best house-wife in Nantucket. Everything's run by electricity, Still is the height of simplicity. She still prefers the old-fashioned broom, Along with her children and second bridegroom. Leslie and Dwight, the always inseparable, Have made an invention indeed quite terrible. They've gone together on this infernal affair In which the poor victim sits in a chair, Then Leslie, the patient does hypnotize, Next comes the nation's great surprise 3- Connected with wires to the chair is a mirror fThen Dwight moves over a little bit nearerj Behold! across the wired mirror, quite plain Pass the workings of a hypnotized brain. So you see it is really the best of inventions, And therefore is used at hypnotic conventions, The name of this thing's in no catechism: Mes-thot-hyp-mer-noterism. This next letter is from Miss Elinor, In which she says what she saidbefore. She is the girl who never had measles, And now is working among pallettes and easles. With pencils and powders oils and brushes She paints people's faces and also bull rushes. An artist in picturing dancers on toes, Perfect resemblances from feet to their nose. Romilda says I'd be afraid to face her 'When she's all dressed up as an auto racer. Her car is a make of her own invention, And the speed she makes she won't even mention She's got so many cups, prizes and medals She melts them together and puts on her pedals It makes it easier to turn the corners, p Prevents all skidding and saves many mourners. She's won more races than the rest put together Is happy and well in all sorts of weather. This is from Wilma, and to use slang, She is the Queen of the potato gang. Forty thousand bushels of big large spuds, And just when they vanished like bubbles and suds She's the richest person in the whole Texas state. Says she may be up this year, but a little late. Darwin's envelope is headed with the title 23

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Always quiet, undisturbed, dignified and cool. Edvige Cerruti, the fickle, jolly Miss, Is a living image of happy foolish bliss, Since she got so very low in her High School grade, The saying goes well, The less the better said. Master or Mistress, whichever you like best, Of Latin, German, French, Swedish and the rest. The only living specimen now alive With a title of Professor with affixes five. Nellie Mann, as her name implies, Is like a man who always flies. Nothing like the regular adaption, But a peculiar thing of her own contraption. She rises straight up in the air In weather bad or weather fair. She's a record breaker of some note, But very modest when she wrote. This little envelope is very, very small. It doesn't represent the sender at all. A modest young maiden, slightly frail, Not whom you may think, but Helen Fail. A splendid and flashing society Miss, Wears a watch on her ankle, not on her wrist. Who many and many a time has said No. To the numerous suitors who after her go, S0 you see she yet has a chance very fine, To make a good choice from the promising line. This one looks very neat and trim. It's all in poetry, from Mary Zim. For she has become Shakespeare's rival. And caused in poetry a great revival. High in the Sierras she has her home, And there writes jingles and tales of Rome. And epics and sonnets and epitaphs, Produced the world over on phonographs, Not least but last or last not least Is a figure upon which our eyes may feast, A fashion designer with Parisian fixtures, Yellow and pink or any such mixtures, For figures slender, small as toys, Then for others with avoirdupois. Side skirts, finger bows, all hyfolootin' VVho could it be but our friend Virna Hooton? This ends the list except for you and me, They know what we are and so do we: So let's ring off and go out to lunch. We'll drink to ourselves and then to the bunch. CAROLYN HUGHES DWIGHT RUGH 25