McMinnville High School - McMinnvillan Yearbook (McMinnville, OR)

Page 26 text:

 •■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

Page 25 text:

 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

Page 27 text:

 ------- Senior Class Will We, the senior class of twenty-seven, being about to leave this sphere in full possession of a sound mind, memory and understanding, do make and publish this our last will and testament.hereby revoking and making void all former wills by us at any time heretofore made. And first we do direct that our funeral services shall be conducted by our friends and well-wishers, the faculty, only enjoining that the funeral be carried on with all the dignity and pomp our situation in High School demands. As to such estates as it has pleased the fates and our own strong arms to give us, we dispose of the same as follows, viz: Item: We give and bequeath to the school board restful nights and peaceful dreams. We promise them a rest from our petitions for a gymnasium. Item: To the faculty, who have deceived us into thinking we were smart unto the final examinations come, we leave the right to continue such tactics. We know they would do it anyway, but will probably succeed even better with the good will of our class. Item: We do solemnly submit unto the class of twenty-eight, of McMinnville High School, the right to assume the name and responsibilities of Seniors!” We also leave to them the right to go on a ‘‘flunk day.” Item: To the class of twenty-nine we leave undying hope that they will carry on the good work for the school that twenty-seven has made such a noble start toward. Item: We, the seniors, on the subjoined classmen the following as entailed private estates. I. Lawrence Hostetler, leave my presidency of the senior class to Robert Frerichs. To my wee brother I, John Sauter, leave my enormous cud of gum. To Ruth Beal I, Mary Bollen, leave my love for certain Linfield boys. I. Philip Fletcher, give and bequeath to George Weeks my ability to consume large and frequent quantities of “fire-water.” To Fred Paul I, Alfred Eborall. leave my feminine deplumance. Unto Leo Fletcher I. Don Pugh, leave my reputation as a speed demon. To Carl Kauffman I, Archie Finley, leave my toil-worn, tear-stained text books, including my much enjoyed “Whizz Bang.” To Milton Crimmons I, Leon Redmond, leave my nymth-like figure. Unto Ogden Cameron I. George Massey, leave my huge proportions. I, Pete Barnes, relinquish all claims and give my football poweress to “Smiles” Knapp. To the sophomore class I. Randal Pine, leave my ability to sit at all student body meetings and never say a word. Unto Dorothy Kimball I. Ruth Powell, bequeath my winning ways. I, Gene Inskeep. leave my graceful athletic form to Arthur ‘Canterbury, but not my Rowena. To Dorothy Fisher I. Alice Sitton. leave my ability as an accomplished soprano. Unto Bruce Walker I. Raemer Schreiber. leave my abaility as editor of the paper. In witness whereof we, the class of twenty-seven, the testators, have to this our will set our hand and seal this nineteenth day of May, Anno Dominie, one hundred and twenty-seven. CLASS OF '27. Twenty-one 3ll-----