Oakville High School - Tillicum Yearbook (Oakville, WA)

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4 Ili I lC:f',EjQ3 I V L Q slpafdkzf 'L Il V I- ' 4 fsilb b-V!-D :ul Lhnyilthi V- V L A J p: U. . I Q. ' , :,. , Dorothy took a business course and became confidential secretary to various business men, and at last set up in business for herself as a manufact- urer of prepared high school essays. As this iilled a growing demand she achieved much success. Harold Clodius had ambitions to be a scientist, but finding all the dis- coveries in which he was particularly interested already made, he had to content himself with a job as county farm agent. Marvin Butler was a great philanderer among the ladies. He passed lightly along the primrose path gaily smashing hearts-but at last fell a victim to a widow with 9 children. As the wife looked rather frail we saw Marvin doing all the housework in addition to his outside duties, Dora Gibson on her poultry farm successfully crossed the hummingbird with the ostrich and became the propagator of the f'humstrich , a bird with the size and appetite of the humming bird but producing an ostrich sized egg. The saddest fate of all I hate to record so have left it to the last. The most beautiful, most beloved, delightful, delicious, delectable Katie Baker, vainly coquetted through life, scorning every offer of companionship and my last vision of her was a lonely spinster acting as superintendent of a home for derelict cats, unloved and all alone. I cannot vouch that all l have related of this glimpse into the future will be authentic as about this time I saw myself in some desert place, presumably the Solomon Islands, as a missionary to the Cannibals. This view served to somewhat upset my faith in the reliability of Harold's machine. Just at this juncture a neon tube burnt out and although it was replaced we have been totally unable to reproduce any of the former results even with our utmost efforts and care. e-William Perry FANCY I am carried away on a beautiful ship, To a land of sunshine and flowers, Where beautiful fairies dance and sing, In the shadows of woodland bowersg To magic hammocks where the fairies swing, And spend their happy hours. -F. W. '31. Page I5

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W , :HF - l.IMg.i.,1Y YL I 1 PROPHECY Professor Harold Murray gave me a glimpse last night through his latest invention - the historoscope. As you know the scenes which took place on this earth a thousand years ago are only now being observed by the in- habitants of planets far enough distant that the light has taken a thousand years to travel. Beginning with this fact Professor Murray arranged a system- of coils and scientific instruments through which he could pick up light rays originating in any of the past thousand years. The machine thus reveals the activities of a thousand years past and becomes of incalculable aid to the historian. It has features not unlike the popular cinema which when viewed through a photographic lens reveals the activities of the past. We were watching with great interest the events of 1829 when something suddenly exploded with a sound like a pistol, the scanning disk began to rotate rapidly in the opposite direction and we presently realized that we must be gazing into the future instead of the past. Breathlessly we viewed the unfolding of the scene before us. Of the numerous events we saw I will now attempt to tell only of those which directly relate to the class. Gordon Theriault filled in the questionaire, What will be your vocation? The answeraThe pursuit of adventure. This vocation sounded very gallant and gleaming to the rest of us but after I had watched him beat his way home from China on a junk, be arrested and sentenced to be shot in Mexico and saved only through the intervention of a beautiful senorita, entombed in a Chinese punishment vault, escaping only by an earthquake, and sundry other adventures not so pleasant, it was good to see him settle down and become a plumbing contractor. Josephine Clark, having failed in her entrance examinations to the University couldn't qualify as a teacher, and having a decided aversion to all forms of useful labor, dedicated her life to politics. There she proved eminently successful. After the death of the present incumbent she fell heir to his office of King Governor of the state of Washington. She developed a great vetoing talent and was pointed out as a constructive governor. Essie Shull, whose versatility promised her a rich future in almost any- thing in which she became interested, devoted her talent to philanthropy and at least succeeded in putting the Lacey home on a sound basis. The famous cow-girl, Alice Anderson, was winning prizes at the various rodeos by her wonderful horsemanship and skill at bull dogging. Fred Dahl, whose oratorical talent was marked in his youth, held con- secutive positions as Chautauqua manager, radio announcer, and finally became a well known barker in a large circus. Edna, who signed up for the presidency, held the somewhat lesser offices of Justice of the Peace at Porter. We feel obliged as a class to give Edna the benefit of our wedding fees but feel that she transcends her right when she objects to our marrying inside the class, as it cuts her profits in half. Emil Carlson ran a beauty parlor in which he seemed to begin to do very good business until he inadvertantly gave Katie Bakers nose a permanent shine and lost all his profits in the resulting lawsuit. Tuffy Shull became a pugilist of great renown but before winning the championship became punch drunk and never fully recovering, turned his talents to poetry in which he became the competitor of Sandburg but decidedly outdistanced him. Oscar B. was early crossed in love and became a hard-boiled marine where he won many honors as all marines do. Page 14

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.TLLICLML SENIOR CLASS NVILL IVe the Senior Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Nine, of the Oakville Union High School, being of sound mind, character and disposing memory. despite four years of intensive cultivation, and not acting under duress, men- ace, fraud, or the undue influence of any person whomsoever, realizing the grief and desolation which our departure from this house of learning will cause to those poor unfortunates left behind, do hereby make, publish, and declare this our last will and testament, in the manner and form following: FIRST! To the faculty we bequeath the right to keep order. fYVhen ever they canl. To Mr. Murphy, we will another bunch of seniors as intelligent and won- derful as we. To Miss Acker, one ill book, entitled The Noble Lives of Seniors . To Miss Bestler, a lock for the supply cupboard guaranteed to keep out hungry students. To Mr. Hall, a squad with strict prohibition tendencies. To Miss Sealls, we bequeath a detective to hunt down all the missing library books. To Miss Mensch, we give the right to fuss with the underclass girls. To Mr. Evans, all the broken test tubes from Chemistry 4. To Mrs. Vaughan, an ancient history class that can pass a quiz without their books open. To Miss Rittman, all the worn out eighth grade readers. SECOND: To the members of the Junior class we leave to-wit: To Alfred Boyd, the right to be shiek of the school. To Pete Ames, the right to say Mme too any time, any place. To Dean Couch, a first class set of freckles to match his red hair To Harold Lemmon, a few more eighth grade girls to flirt with. To Keith Murphy, two warm days in January to go swimming in. To Frenchy Theriault, seven letters a week from Red. To Grace Bjorkgren, a few good quarrels. To Ella Clark, a good reducing preparation. To Alta. Everson, the right to be champ. basket ball player next year. To Bernice Irvin, some one to fight with now that Ole has turned over a new leaf. To Beatrice Irvin, one more year of happy school life. To Georgia Irvin, the right to play good basketball next year. To Ruth Norgard, a new shiek now that Rueben's gone. To Elve Wilson, the ability to make a good A. S. B. preside-rt. Page 16