Montebello High School - Golden Key Yearbook (Montebello, CA)

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miliar. Upon closer inspection, he proved to be NYillian1 Milloy and was selling the strings from a pile of old tennis racquets for uke strings. He was having a terrible time trying to keep john Martz from swiping some of the strings to tie up his golf knickers. Suddenly our attention was diverted by a man dashing out of a building. He was pursued by a man and woman in white uniforms. It proved to be George Hayashi, now famous as the president of a large airplane corpora- tion, running away from the painless dentist, Gerald West, and his assistant, Edna Snowden. XYhen we reached home, Leona, true to her promise, told me what had befallen our old classmates. Jimmie Claybourn and Mary Lee Pyle are making a great success as hostesses in a night club. They allow nothing stronger than pink lemonade to be served. They have an immense chorus of Moonkist Beauties , among them jean Delmore, Helen Stolp, Mercedes Uribe and Margaret Ziegler. Lennard Edstrom and Ilill Slaney are among the great designers. They have designed a new type of false teeth which are very extraordinary. The wearer aims his mouth and presses in on his jaws: the teeth spring out and grab whatever the wearer desires. The patent, however, is still pending. Iola Curran and Elsie llilloy are the only two remaining contestants in a ''nag-your-husband'' marathon sponsored by Shirley Richards. I saw by the home paper that Boyd XYhite is making a name for himself as a second Luther Burbank. He has grafted sweet peas to onions, and now the onions are all colored and smell very sweet. and the sweet peas are much stronger. NYe wondered if they were as good as certain onions we relished in the halls of M. H. S. way back in 1930. Frank Nelson and Hugh Shelley. two of our leading criminal lawyers, are having a terrible fight trying to settle the latest eternal triangle, involv- ing Arline XYebber, Billy King and George Schenk. judge XYilliam Zaima has a terrible time keeping the two lawyers from fighting. Vernon Borden. XYinifred Stienstra and Pauline XYade are running an ultra-modern Monte Carlo, to which only members of the teaching profes- sion are admitted. Kiyomi Takata has proved himself a great mathematician. He has just published a book containing a complete set of logarithm tables. Frank Kuwahara has perfected a new jiu-jitsu hold which has made him the new jiu-jitsu champion. Some of our classmates are touring the east as the champion professional women's football team. Charles Kemp has surely made a name for himself coaching these girls. Captain Evelyn McCann is ably assisted by Ida Childs. Inez Green, Yoshiko Ogata, Gladys DeNoma and Jane Canzoneri. Paul Yates and NYayne Lear travel with the team as perfume and powder puff carriers between halves. Johnnie Sanchez has at last reached the height of his ambitions. He's Page Twenty-six

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TVVENTY-FIVE YEARS I-IENCE I had just flown over from New York to do some shopping in Paris, and when I had landed my airplane on top of one of the buildings and descended, I observed a beautiful blonde regarding me intently. Her face was quite familiar, but I could not place her. Finally she came over to me and said. Don't you recognize me? At the sound of her voice I started. 'AYhy, Leona Strayhorn, but- , Ssh! Hydrogen peroxide. Isn't it marvelous?'l I assented mutely. IYe decided to go shopping together, and while passing along the boulevard we noticed a most charming dress shop. On entering. we found the proprietor to be none other than jack Cunningham. His latest creation was frocks made of calico, and because ,lack was selling these dresses, the ladies were wild about the At noon we had lunch waiting for our order, we looked quite familiar and p Pack and Agnes Hagan. XY in . in no e which had a name as long as Madame, ees zaire any theeng into the face of Dale Haas. TUV an adorable little tea room. lYhile we were ticed that several members of the orchestra ed to be Mary Prado. Setsuko Bessho, Mary had been served and were eating something the menu, when I heard someone say, Ah. else I can do for you? I turned and gazed XYhen Dale recognized me, he dropped his cute little French accent and told me that the Americans preferred French proprietors to Americans. so that explained his Frenchiness. He asked for some interesting news about Edrie XYillebrandt and Francis Cannon. I told him that Francis had become President, had granted independence to the Filipinos and increased the tariff on oil which is flowing most plentifully in our own wells. Under his administration, the farmer at last has gained relief. The Statue of Liberty's nose had begun to peel, so Edrie and Mar- jory Kiefer had been given the honor of repainting it. After lunch we strolled on, taking in the sights. On one of the corners we found Paul Behnke making an honest living as a blind beggar. lYe heard some music and followed the sound to see what it was. It proved to be the Salvation Army, led by Captain Robert Karnes. The band was composed of Alex Orozco, playing the jew's-harp, Marcelina Uribe, the saxophone. and Grover Hill. the sousaphone. On the opposite corner was a peanut vender who proved to be Don llallamore. He was bribing the crowd which followed the Salvation Army with peanuts. After these interesting two hours, Leona suggested that I go home with her and she would tell me what she knew of our other former com- rades. On the way home we noticed a group of people gathered around a soap-box orator who was crying savagely, 'tDown with the Government! On to Russia! Looking closer, we recognized Mava McGee: she had always been very radical. Near one of the busy boulevards we saw a man who looked very fa- Pa ge Twenty- Eve

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