Myrtle Point High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Myrtle Point, OR)

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MYRTLE POINT. OREGON = prophecy Dr. Elese Kaye Bumgartern, 882 Burwood Avenue, Melbourne, Australia. Dear Elese: Paris, Franee May 20, 1937 Do you realize that ten years ago today we were graduating from Myrtle Point Union High School? It seems that it was only yesterday we were receiving lectures from Professor Linn for chasing ghosts or marking on the walls in that dear old school building. Mrs. Waldo Hartley is visiting with me for the summer. Of course you remember Clarena and no doubt are as astonished as I was to hear that she and Waldo are married. To think of how fond she was of Norman and then to jilt him for his own brother. Waldo is a prominent broker and he and his wife are making their home in New York. Prepare yourself for a series of shocks for I have lots of information on the old bunch. Clarena knew just “oodles” about them. Du Fay is running for governor of New York and it is quite certain he will be successful. I always knew Du Fay would do something great. Ardath is private secretary to Henry Ford. He is getting very old and childish and has taken such a fancy to Ardath that he pays her enormous wages ar.d she lives like a woman of means should. I was so surprised to hear that Elmer and Verna were married. They are the most successful dancing team in the lime light of today. Shocks! Zelia eloped with a good-for-nothing shiek. I feel so sorry for her for they say he has never worked and that Zelia has to make the living for them both. She is singing in the Green Mill at Portland. Zelia was always so quiet and reserved so I can’t understand how she happened to fall so completely for a man of that kind. Hub and Bernice are living on a lovely farm just south of Portland. They seem to be as crazy over each other as they were when they were kids. Hazel, who as you know is here in Paris, is still single on account of her disappointing love affair. You remember Count Crankcase committed suicide because of her many admirers. She owns the Elite Shoppe, a very exclusive shop on Fourth street. Rev. Hulet is pastor of a prominent church in Seattle, where he is very esteemed and loved by all. He has married a Seattle girl who is Page Nineteen

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UNION HIGH SCHOOL I. Elbert Schroeder, will my photo to the school as an example of a great man. I, Ena Christensen, will my willingness to oblige Miss Frazier, to Audrey Hamilton, in hopes it will be of use to her in the Commercial Room. I, Clarena Nelson, will the responsibility of caring for the little Hartleys left in school, to my sister Maxine. I, Dacie Sperry, will my love for gym to Irma Handerson. I, Edyth Schroeder, will my cherished seat in American History to anyone wishing it. I, Kenneth Porterfield, will my ability to inform Mr. Linn as to the whereabouts of missing delegates, to any one feeling capable of the responsibility. I, Mildred Russell, will my Rolls Royce to anyone who will promise to transfer the Frosh girls to all school activities. I, Ardath Dodson, will my ability to row a rowboat, to Opal Southmayd. I, Isabelle Bryant, will my ability to collect class dues to anyone financially embarrassed. I, Verna Barklow, will my position as the school’s angel child, to Vera McCulloch. I, Hilda Fredenburg, will my surplus face powder, paint and lipstick to Virginia Smith. I, Stanley Furman, will the responsibility of keeping the girls well supplied with life-savers and chewing-gum, to Truman Hartley. I, Katy Furman, leave my fondness for the opposite sex, to Elma Russell. I, Orlin Lett, leave that part of my dignity which I can spare, to be divided among certain members of the Sophomore class. Signed and sealed this 20th day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty seven, in our presence. Class of 1927, Witnesses: L. H. Pearce. Tom Guerin. -:o:- Page Eighteen

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UNION hu;h school quite a butterfly and it is thought that Bill is very unhappy. While I am speaking of preachers I might add that our old friend Crystal Guerin, has a wonderful tabernacle in Los Angeles and converts hundreds at each service. She is said to be even greater than Aimee McPherson. Dear Frances joined a nunnery after breaking hundreds of hearts. I will not say much about her as you two were great friends and I know you feel very badly about her unhappy life. I was really sorry to learn that Hilda gave her engagement ring back to Rodney and married Elbert Schroeder and I think Hilda and Rodney were much better suited for Elbert was always fickle. I do hope he stays with her for she is of a loving nature and it would probably mean the death of her to have him untrue. Elbert is an undertaker in Greenland and his wife is one of the leading society women of that place. Katie is head of the English department in the high school from which we graduated. The old school now has an enrollment of over 800. Elton Aasen owns the largest logging camp in the Northwest and has a monopoly on all white cedar. Bill McLennan is now making use of his great salesmanship ability. He has worked up a very profitable business selling snow shoes to the natives in the Hawaiian Islands. He always was a wonder. Ena owns a large ranch in Texas and is still looking for her bow-legged, freckle-faced red-headed cowboy. Most likelv you remember the incident at Corvallis when she first fell for a man of that description. She has great faith in finding him some day. Dacie has given up her study of music just on the eve of becoming famous and she and Ellis are on their honeymoon in Ala-ka. After seven years in the Senate, Ellis has just succeeded in having his code of aeronautic traffic laws, passed by Congress. Our old classmate, vain and vanity stricken Margaret Luttrell, is a traveling salesman for toilet articles and beauty lotions. Kenneth Porterfield is a designer of women’s wearing apparel. He posses as a French Duke and of course this title brings him the trade of many notable people. Faye is doing research work in Africa, for Washington University. It seems she is cut out for this work for they say she has an instinct which leads her to the places where things of value may be unearthed. Adeline has become a famous movie star. She was on the stage for sometime but upon receiving a wonderful offer from Paramount, she signed a contract with them calling for wages of $5,000 a week. Thev say she’s wonderful in her latest picture, “The Dancing Doll.” Page Twenty