Oakland Technical High School - Talisman Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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store devoted to the hair goods businesss. Over the door is the name of T. Mooney. Farther up the street, | come to a large bank and office build- ing containing the Schwartz Security Bank. The list of tenants in its offices contains the names of Grant Du Bois, broker, Marcus Crocker, head of the Crocker Matrimonial Agency, and Harold Weeks, the archi- tect. Part of the ground floor is occupied by the offices and agency of Carl Riegelman, the famous traveler, and head of the “Riegelman Tours for Tired Teachers.” Next door is the Reid Drug Company of which Kenneth Reid is the head. I pass from the business district now and seem to be getting into the Auto Row. I come to a magnificent building, and, in large letters over the ground floor I see the title, “Complex Motor Co., Guy Calden, local distributer.” Gazing through the plate-glass windows of the spa- cious agency I see Mr. Calden himself explaining the superiority of the Complex Car to Ross Mack, the president of the Mack Music Company. A few blocks below there is a beautiful park and here a large crowd is gathered, listening to Vernon Ferry’s Band. After passing to the manu- facturing district I see the Chevrolet Automobile factory where Francis Weaver is chief engineer and Fritz Schuler his assistant. Across the way is the Harley Davidson motorcycle factory of which Robert Fones is chief engineer.” The seer rubs his hand over his eyes once or twice. “The vision is growing rather disconnected and vague,” he says. “I seem to see the United States Army with Major-General Bryan Shid- ler in command, also Walter Welch, head of the wireless department of both the Army and Navy. I am getting rather confused. I seem to be in the tropics, in Guatemala. | find the name of a great mining engineer here, Vernon Taylor. The vision now takes me back to our own coun- try again and | see a prosperous looking farm. The owner, Francis Coyle, is standing on the wide veranda of the house talking to Walter Bolles, a tramp who has applied for work on this farm. He seems—ah! The vision has faded. I can reveal nothing further to you, my friends. LESLIE EAGAR. WALTER BOLLES.

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society woman. In the column of a daily paper is the wedding announce- ment of Alice Buteau, written by Rosalie Cogorno, society editor. I see again in Oakland—Katherin Mills and Ethel Pryor in their remarkable ballet offering at the Macdonough, and Hazel Nisbet and her family in the audience. Now I see Oakland Technical High School where three of your class are teaching—they are Bernice Arnold. Ruth Morton, and Adelaide Harlow who is the head of the domestic arts. He gazes thoughtfully into his crystal, then continues: Now appear before me the former boy graduates.” “I see a great institution of learning. It is Harvard University. I see two learned professors engaged in deep consultation. One is Prof. Skinner, the other, Prof. Connitt. The scene shifts. It is the stage of a high class vaudeville theater. I see a young man named Nelson, billed as the greatest since Paderewski, giving a piano recital. The cur- tain falls. It rises again and I see the great Shakespearian actor Walde- mar Neilsen, next on the program. He presents a few scenes from his most famous successes. Again the curtain falls and an entirely different setting takes form. It is the political world, and immediately the name of Herbert Garcia comes before me. He is one of the most powerful men in the country, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. I move across the Atlantic and I find the name of Russell Lindgren, American ambassador to Sweden. I come back to our own State and I see the name of Mayor Sam Phillips of Sacramento. Now I seem to be wandering among athletic luminaries. I see “Bob” Hutchison making a reputation for himself and club as athletic director of the Oakland Y. M. C. A. I find the name of Milton Earley prominent among the sporting writers of the land. He writes for the Hearst papers and seems to be busily engaged in giving publicity and attention to “Knockout” Jessen, the young lightweight champion. And now I see other well known names in the journalistic field. I see James Cleary as editor of the Kansas City Star, which is owned and managed by Milton Bulkley. Going farther east I find Charles Horton as the cartoonist of the New York American. And serving not only these, but all of the im- portant newspapers in the United States is a great firm, the International Film Service, of which Samuel Herman is the head. Once more the scene changes and I am in the business section of this city. I pass by a huge department store which bears the name of Louis Lesser and Company. Next door is an immense grocery store, the largest and finest in the West, and only one of the many stores of R. S. McDon- ald and Company. Next to this is a smaller, but very well equipped

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