Oakville High School - Tillicum Yearbook (Oakville, WA)

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she's assisting her husband in the gasoline trade at the Cosmopolis airport. Elsie Pearson is still fond of night life. I see her out to a dinner party given by the owner of a. plumbing firm in Tacoma for whom she is the private secretary. Rumors are about that there is to be a wedding. Salt Lake City is becoming one of the largest cities in the United States under the guardianship of Mayor Arthur G. Hampson. Arthur has joined the Mormon church and some people believe that h-e has more than one wife. CI wouldn't doubt it, he was always fond of the girls at O. H. SJ. Helmer Anderson is owner of the largest potato farm in 'Washington He believes in scientific management and the results are wonderful. 'The domestic science students at O. H. S. are under the stern hand of Ethel Gibson. CI hope she can keep them from eating the supplies and doubling every recipe.J Gertrude Ray has been very successful with her poultry farm on Fords Prairie and her correspondence is so large that her shorthand she learned in O. H. S. is a great help. Lila' Kocher and Leona Tolefson are now touring the world on a Vaudeville circuit under the name Glides and Slides? Marie Criswell is living in Seattle. The Rose Marie Beauty Parlor, owned by her, is fa-mous for its excellent 25c haircuts. Another Senior of 1928 is in the aeroplane business. Dora Roetter is manager and owner of a factory in Seattle. And last but not least is Hazel Norma-n, who has entered the field of Real Estate at the North Pole. To-day she sold three igloos and two log houses. ' After paying the required fee and discussing times since graduation with Ralph, I left for my hotel. I continued visiting India and other wonders of the East, leaving for home after nine months of glorious vacation. -RUTH BLECHSCHMIDT '28, Helen Damitio: i'Mother, come here, I am afraid that I have the oiectric current connected wrong, the radio is covered with frost and the ice box is singing. Mr. Murphy in civics class: What kind of tories are thickly scattered throughout the Northern States?l' Leona thoughtlessly: i'Fac-tories. Page 13

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CD37 6211 yr SENIOR PROPI-IECY The work of a dining room manager in one of the largest hotels in the Vniled States, the Ritz Carlton, is very arduous, hence I was very much pleased when I received a vacation of one year. One of my greatest wishes was to visit India, so now my chance was here. After ma-king hurried preparations I left on one of the fastest aeroplanes at two o'clock in the afternoon. The pilot, by the way, was one of my old classmates. Ilene Morkert, who seemed to fill her position of pilot very efficiently because of always being up in the air most of the time at school. Among the passengers was Mabel Price, the great naturalist. She was going to India to look for new species of flowers. That evening I turned on the dial of the radio in the plane and station WOOF New York came in loud and clear. I listened for severa-l minutes getting more disgustcd cach minute until the announcer said, f'Helen Damitio, the world's foremost soprano, will now render a selection. Helen has certainly flonc wonders with her voice. I hardly recognized it. I turned off the radio and then climbed into my berth. In the morning when I awoke I was nearing my destination. Upon landing at Lucknow, I got off and Went to a hotel, which I made my stopping place for several days. One day while visiting a historic place, I expressed a desire to my guide to see the famous magic crystal for which Lucknow is becoming more famous each day. This crystal has the power of showing the doings of any person in any part of the world. Here at last was a chance to find out about my classmates whom I had not seen for fifteen years since graduation in 1928. My guide, anxious to serve, showed me the way to a large temple, which was highly ornamented in the mann-er of the East. I was conducted into a room entirely black except for the shining crystal on an ebony table. The man in charge was a very mysterious sort of a person dressed in black, and I was greatly surprised to find tha-t he was none other than Ralph Armstrong. You want to know something about your classmates, he said. First I will tell you about those on this continent. Nellie Kilmer is devoting her life as a missionary in Northern Tibet. I see Edgar Ea-ster dr-essed in Chauffeur's regalia, driving the town car of His Imperial Highness, the Emperor of Japan. Robert Cummings is at present on his way to Stanley Falls, Africa, where he is building a large dam for an electric system. Robert is one of the most promising civil engineers of the day. Evelyn Pearson is professor of music at Cornell University. She is being assisted by Mrs. Freeman Theriault, nee Naomi Austin, who has become a composer of great ability. Verna Lemmon spent five years at tra-ining for 'a social service nurs-e in the little town of Olympia and now Page 12

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CDW5211 0 . ' ' ' E-wi 5 Qi' JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY ln the fall of '27 eleven girls and boys enrolled as Juniors in the Oakville High School. Dora Gibson left us at the middle of the year. We were well represented in all school activities: in basket ba-ll by Harold Clodius, Richard Ross, Leonard Shull, Harold Lemmon, Oscar Blechschmidt, Jewell Erekson, Alice Anderson, Audrey Blechschmidt, Corressa Shull, and Margaret Thompson: in baseball by Emil Carlson, Gordon Theriault, Richard Ross a-nd Leonard Shull: Edna McMaster and Corressa Shull in Debate. We elected as our officers, Gordon Theriault, President: Edna McMaster, Vice-President: Katherine Ba-ker, Secretary: Audrey Blechschmidt, Treasurer: Dora Gibson, Board of Control and Mrs. Olsen as Class Advisor. In November the class presented the annual Junior Carnival, which was pronounced a decided success,-likewise the Junior Play, f'Looking for Mary Jane which was given the second of March. A little later in the year we gave the annual Junior-Senior banquet. Class Yell We are winning now, We are winning fine, We will win forever, Class of '29. Class Motto Class Flower Class C010rS Able and Willing Pink Rose Blue and Gold -Audrey Blechschmidt '29, Page 14