Meridian High School - Mana Ha Sa Yearbook (Meridian, ID)

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Senior Class Prophecy It was on July 15, 1950, the day had been dark and dreary with the rain descending in a torrential downpour and here I was in my automobile, stranded miles from my destination, New York City. My vacation had turned out to be far from what I had hoped. There had been rain every day. With nothing to do but to wait for the rain to cease so that I could see my way clearly, I turned on the radio. Very soon there came to my ears the voice I well knew, that of N. B. C.'s famous radio announcer, Warne Schaap, who was just then introducing the internationally known crystal-gazer, Zabriskie, who had lived while a young man at Meridian, Idaho. He had been known then as Stewart Clelen. I thought and thought where I had heard that name before, and finally memories of my high school days came to mind, and I recognized the name as that of one of my classmates. While I was reminiscing, Zabriskie had announced his program, and I soon heard that on this initial program Messieur Zabriskic was going to tell what his classmates of the graduating class of 19440, all Whom he had not seen since, had been doing for the past ten years. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. As we open our program we see Leonard Brown, who did such a fine job of playing the drums in the M. H. S. band, now directing a swing band with the winter's engagement at the Waldorf-Astoria. Robert DuVal1 is Leonard's A-1 saxaphone player. Amy Jossis, that little blonde Swedish girl, has just received the good news that she has won the Miss America, 1950, contest. James Davidson is working out his new Zephyr on the salt bed at Salt Lake in preparation for his next try at breaking the previous world's record. Our former student body president, Jimmie Robison, has just signed a new con- tract with the New York Yankees. His wife, the former Althea Everitt, is pianist for the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Ruth Davis is a capable stewardess with the United Air Lines operating between San Francisco and the Hawaiian Islands. We see that she stops off quite regularly at Santa Catalina where Dan Compton is working as manager of the branch ofiiee of the Dole Pineapple Company. Mrs. Warren Hill is teaching ballroom dancing at her home in Los Angeles. We see Olive Forkner signing a contract with the Technicolor Film Co. for the lead in Glamour Girl, written by Harry Robertson, the noted playwright. He and his wife, Betty, and their small daughter live in Pasadena. At Wimbledon, England, we see that Carol Gregory has just won the Wimbledon tennis loving cup for the third consecutive year. Now we see Kathryn Lower who will soon graduate from a special course at the Mayo Clinic, and already has been given a position in that same institution. In San Diego, Charles Howell and Alvin Jordan are training for U. S. Govern- ment service-Alvin with the Marines, and Charles in the airplane division of the Army. We knew that Romeo Ray Newman would succeed. He's playing professional basketball with a team that is touring the U. S. Also winning games, we see. Barbara Miller is guest soloist in the Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra. She is on a personal appearance tour of North America before going to Europe. Margaret Beery is employed as an artist's model by the firm of Musgrove and Dick, artists, inc., Hollywood, California. This remarkable company has painted many of the moving picture sets. Mrs. Austin Knox is living in a quiet little town in Dakota with her husband and their twin boys. Glenn Baird, who used to disagree with Mr. Jeffries on historical matters, is teaching history in his Alma Mater, M. H. S. Working out in Madison Square Garden is Jake McNeff, world's featherweight boxing champion. ,. CContinued on Next Pagej 13

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PAULINE SMITH Pauline Santa Ana, Calif., 1 Nampa 2-3 A woman of few words doesn't have to take back so many of them. Bzssu: TEETER Giggles Hayword, Oklahoma. I 2 Mr, Muyffet, make those kids be quiet. ELIZABETH WOLF!-: Lizzy Chorus 1 Orchestra 1-2-3 Band 1-2-3 Girl Reserves 3-4 Annual Stall' 4 Honor Girl BETTY J ANE TAGGART Janice Chorus 1 Girl Reserves 3-4. Girl Reserve Secretary Honor Girl How do you know! DONALD WATSON Don Baseball 3-4 ' M Club 4- Come on, let's go io Chemistry. ROBERT ZANCKER flB0bU Caldwell 1-2-3 Why worry about tomor- row when it'll be here just the same? There's no future in it. Senior Class Flower - - American Beauty Rose Senior Class Colors ------ Red and Silver Senior Class Motto - The stair to success is the one We are climbing 4

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SENIOR CLASS PRCPI-IECY iljontinuedj At the Hotel Astor Supper Club we see Jeanne Chriswisser entertaining. She has become a radio torch singer. The nice part about it is that it pays well. Well, well, do you see that! Ivan Brink, the valedictorian of 19410, is now a suc- cessor to Max Jordan, and has become a well-known foreign correspondent for NBC. Edward and Frank Nourse have united in partnership and are managers of a motor repair shop. Mrs. Max McFarland, the former Carole Moody, is vacationing in Florida with her saxaphone-playing husband. Mayme Ellen Bales and LaVerne Bodine, who went together during high school, are now working together as secretaries in the state house. Also in Boise, Idaho, we see the reception room of a doctor with Edith McAnulty as receptionist, and the words Dr, Earl Hill, Physician and Surgeon, written on the door. Bessie Haskin is preparing herself for the swimming contest of the Interna- tional Olympics to be held in berlin, Germany, where she will represent the U. S. In Chicago, Harlan Davis has at last found the best way to see all of the great stage productions he wants to, and he no longer has to skip school to do so. He manages the Chicago Trocadero. Jack Compton has gone a long way in athletics since we last knew him in Meri- dian. He is football coach at Texas A. and M. Speaking of athletics, Roy Bishop, who could always do a remarkable job of ad libbing, is sports announcer for the Columbia network. Dorothy Jakomeit has at last realized her ambition-that of being a librarian. We see that she is working in the Carnegie Library in Seattle, Washington. Bill Kauphusman is in New York City on a buying trip of men's wearing ap- parel for Meier and Frank's in Portland, Oregon. Well, what do you know? Bob Zancker has turned over a new leaf and found a job. He's with the F. B. I. Just another J. Edgar Hoover. In a luxuriously furnished women's apparel shop in Paris, we see Pauline Smith and Bessie Teter both vigorously at work on their latest designs of twentieth cen- tury clothing. Our class boasts one literary personage, Lamar Green, becoming known for his work in poetry. His newest contribution to that Held is My Last Love . Mrs. Dean Mayes is making her home in Vancouver, B. C., where her husband is an auditor for the government. We see Senor John Navarro at work directing the duties of his rancheros on his large cattle ranch in southwestern Texas. Ray McPherson is managing a barber shop in his home town, Meridian, Idaho, and Merna Powell is managing Ray. Herbert Link has gone scientific and now he's collecting rare flies for the Smith- sonian Institute. Mrs. Clare Sandy still disagrees with the old adage, A woman's place is in the home . Alice is playing center on a professional girls' basketball team. Jean Fisher is teaching the first-graders in Meridian grade school. A worthy position, and we wish her the best of luck. David Howland, we see, is game warden in Yellowstone Park. The newest beauty parlor on Fifth Avenue, New York City, is operated by none other than Nellie Davidson. David Perry is a successful banker at Eagle, Idaho. In the DuPont laboratory We see Louise Marks at work perfecting a new serum for the prevention of hiccoughs. And last but not least Donald Watson is making good as an electrical engineer. Announcer Schaap informs us that the time has come when my program is over, so I'll say Au revoir I I had been so intensely interested that I forgot to realize that the rain had almost stopped and the sun was beginning to shine for the first time that day. So I must be on my way. 14