McMinnville High School - McMinnvillan Yearbook (McMinnville, OR)

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 3»2?e » i 5 Senior Class Prophecy After years of absence from dear old McMinnville, bow good it seems to return from the great wastes of my Australian sheep ranch to the companionship of those old schoolmates, long dear to my memories. How strange the walks of life they tread upon from those I have fancied in my fond imagination. (For with the exception of Leon Beal, my chief herdsman. I have heard nothing of them these long years past.) Being hungry. I walked into the Tourist Cafe and what to my wandering eyes should appear but Clair Sitton. chief cook and bottle washer thereunto. And when ordering my corned beef and cabbage who should wait upon me but my old friend Ruth Powell, of former fame as a chorus girl, but who, owing to rheumatism in her left heel, was forced to forsake her career. Having completed my meal I wandered up to the high school to drink in old familiar scenes. L.o and behold! beside the historic building 1 saw a great edifice with the letters inscribed above the portals. GYMNASIUM! Although I wished to see the inside. I passed on and entered the high school. Happening in Mr. Bump's former room I saw Lucille Davis teaching the dear students how to write chemical heirogriphics. She. however, took off enough time to tell me that John Stallings was expected to graduate the next year. Leaving the high school and attracted by the sound of a band I went up to the main street and saw that there was a circus parade in progress. Riding on a donkey was Pete Barnes, clown. He was overjoyed to see me. but said that he enjoyed acting natural. He also said that Hildegarde Henderson was in the side show as the fat lady and that George Smith was also in the business billed as the only human smokestack in existence.” Tiring of the noise of the circus I went for a walk and met LaVerne Finley. I asked her what Archie was doing and she replied: ' He’s up in Winachee growing sea food.” What?” says I. “Yes,” she replied, he's growing crabapples.” I saw George Massey sweeping the street in front of the mansion of Paul Carmichael. a noted physician. Stopping to talk with George I found that Lawrence Hostetler had become president of the St. Joseph First National Bank. Randal Pine was trying to graft strawberries on to a sugar beet with a milkweed stem so he could market strawberries, sugar and cream without bothering about growing them separately. Much of his advice was gained from Robert Simonson, who was teaching agriculture at the high school. Robert Morrison had taken up the ministry and Donald Pugh was a missionary to the South Sea Islanders. Leon Redmond was practicing hitting windmills as he was intending to star in the new picture, Don Quinxote.” Mary Bollen was running for state representative from Yamhill county. She reformed after divorcing her tenth husband and has resolved to marry no more. Mabel Sawtelle and Oney Williams were running a home for helpless bachelors. Olivia Margeson. Verna Smith and Viola Zulawinske were looking for three other basketball players to form a team with which to challenge the team from the Old People’s Home. Vera Altimus was cashier for the aforesaid First National Bank of St. Joseph. Mr. Vernon Beard and wife (nee Esther Larson) made a fortune in selling secondhand gum and are now spending the summers at the beach. Irwin Wisecarver was running an educated sheep ranch in Eastern Oregon. Velma was a good housewife and milked the cows and chickens for Bus. Jay Bixler had been chosen as chief bat boy for the Linfield baseball team. Edna Breeding was traveling the country helping the girls organize S. P. I. D. Clubs. (Society for the Prevention of Illegal Dates.) Nineteen '©(! « K

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QwTfdlt SENIOR SONG (Tune—“The End of a Perfect Day.”) When we come to the end of four perfect years. That we have spent in Mac High. And our hearts are sad as we have to part, And to Mac High say goodbye. Did you ever think what these years have meant, To us who are leaving you. And we say goodbye to dear Mac High, And to friends both old and new. Well, this is the end of four perfect years, And the last of this journey, too. And we think of the joys that we have had. And the things we used to do. For memory has painted these High School days With pictures that never die. And now we wish to say to Mac and to Mac High friends GOODBYE. ■flit CLASS MOTTO From life’s school into the school of life. Mower Rosebuds Color - - . Old Rose and Gold

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 •■K55S I Lillian Paul had been taking lessons in reversing the directions of cars and had succeeded in turning them around one in ten times without hitting both ditches. Alta Brown had been trying for the national typing championship. Her latest speed was 110 words (per hour). Maxine Cameron and Hazel McDonald have organized a home for underclassmen. Annabel Clements and Elizabeth Davidson are field representatives for the Marguerite Doak. who has changed her name, is collecting statistics on the average number of dates per week each high school girl has. Warren Dunn is directing the latest comedy. “Wandering Willies.” Clarence Simerly recently won a hog-calling contest. Philip Fletcher is running a taxi. Ruth H. (use your own judgment as to what the H. means) is keeping house. Alfred Eborall is up in Alaska milking frozen cows and selling the ice cream to the Eskimos. Opal Helm is directing Sousa's band. Marjory Hewitt is writing advice to the love lorn in the Oregon Journal. Gene Inskeep is the chief soloist for a leading chorus. Bill Lambert and Herbert Zehring have joined the marines and are seeing the world through a porthole. Jessie Cruickshank has been using classified advertisements to get herself a husband. Evelyn Dupea has become an old maid (by preference—daya understand!). Lois Inskeep has become private secretary to John Kirsch, attorney at law. Rowena Latimer is the county health nurse. Anthony Phelps is selling stock in a proposition of putting a frame around young trees so they will grow flat and save sawing them into boards. John Sauter is still running around. He says that he is a woman-hater, but he loves the girls. Genevieve Toney is running a hot dog stand on the highway. Elizabeth Watkins is writing popular songs. Alice Sitton may graduate in a couple of years if the high school burns. Marguerite Reider has become a classical dancer. Lois Sanford has gained much notoriety because of her numerous jilted lovers. Learning that all had found such hectic careers. I decided to go back to Australia to my sheep ranch, where the only dumb animals had four legs, so I bid George goodbye and hopped into my private aeroplane and waved farewell to McMinnville. S. P. C. A. Twenty