Monterey High School - El Susurro Yearbook (Monterey, CA)

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llfll Susurro Sperm s Yes, indeed, I am almost as old as Monterey High' School. It doesn,t seem possible, but I have watched thirty-nine graduating classes set forth into the world. I am still pretty sharp though. I can even remember as clearly as if it were yesterday the day that I was named. It began when the late Miss Susan Gregory and her English class were on a picnic by the reservoir. The wind was whispering through the pine trees. All of a sudden Miss Gregory jumped up and said, Let's call our yearbook El Susurro, which means the whispering of the pines. There I was all ready to begin my existence. But wait just a minute. I can't say I was the first yearbook at M.U.H.S. I had an older relative called the Junior Journal dedicated to Blanche Bixby. He came out in 1905, and was put out by the juniors because they were the oldest class in the school. The first commencement was not held at Monterey until 1906. Now let us get back to my own life. I thought I belonged to the elite in those days with my thirty some odd pages. I was full of poetry, on almost every other page there was a poem written by Myron Oliver. You know Mr. Oliver, he owns the Curio Shop across from the Customs House. Athletics was given only one of my pages because there were very few students and very few games. I do remember telling about a track meet back in 1910. M.U.H.S., then only M.H.S., entered only one candidate, and his shoe came off shortly after he started the half mile. In 1910, there were two issues of me, and the one at the end of the year was given over exclusively to seniors. Only one of my pages was needed for senior pictures, since the aver- age number of graduates was seven or eight. I carried the senior history, will, prophecy, colors and class poem. I had advertisements too, because even in those days the staff had to have money al- though I only cost about one hundred dollars to publish. I can remember some of the stores that advertised in me for the first time. They were Charmak's Clothes Store, now Char- mak and Chandler's, Sparolini's Grocery, now Vining's, the Palace Drug Company, and Holman's Department Store. Even some of the doctors, the late Dr. W. L. Teaby, Dr. H. N. Yates, and many others, advertised in my pages. I have come a long way since those first years, and I have finally grown into the beauti- ful book you see before you today. 2 .a.4...............-..,.... ....-

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