Orcas Island High School - Viking Yearbook (Eastsound, WA)

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HOWGY 9V91'Yb0dYJ Pm Clulte glad to be here today, and to see thlg fine gym which I am proud to say, was partly due to a trenendous prof1t whlch I made on my cattle last year Not that beef 18 so hxgh, but I taught some of the cr1tters a cute lxttle dance, and they made 550,023 a week on Q T V Program In C050 YOU don't recoqmze me under rms wana Walla suntan, I am B111 Johngton Thank you Bxll--next speaker How do you do everyone, I am, 1n case the years have changed me, Jerome Boyd Pence I trust that you have heard of my pol1t1cal success,1n C039 YOU d0Yl'Y QS! the paper, I'll refresh your memory Upon graduanon from college as class Valedlctorxan, havxng majored 1n Agrlculturo ond Economxc Problems, I worked for two years 1n washxngton Then I became Secretory of Agr1culture,wh1ch ns qulte an honor, but sxnce my term in that off1ce as up, I have been appo1nted Ambassador to Austrxa of course Idontt SPSOK Gefmfh but I have 0 VSYY 900d xnterpreter My plane leaves tomorrow mormng Next speaker Just a nunute untxl the applause dxes away My theyare really whoopxna 1t up They really llked that last speaker, no wonder, he Just grabbed a basketball, mde a basket, and turned a back flxp for Job Same old Jerry Pence Gm' here 13 Irene Dundurs,the only gxrl to graduate mn 1952 Doesn't she look neat? Ladies and Gentleman, fellow graduates of 1952, to make brxef of my accompl xshments 1n the past ten years I got a Job mn the Seattle offlce of Trans World Axrltnes where Igot sever0l promotxons, then I was transferred to the New York off1ce and promoted to the positxon of Execut we Secretary My Job ts very xnterest ma, and I nught add, that due to my xnfluence, the stewardesses are now wearing a lovely shade of broum I also desxgned the1r ed suxts and dresses, but so far I have turned them dcwm, as I am muchtoo busy By the way, xf you get to New York, I suggest that you don't nuss tm show that producer Bob Schaefer xs xntroducxng on Broadway mybe Bob wxll tell us somethxng about xt 'I'here IB a sl xght pause, whale Irene takes her seat and Bob comes for ward Durxng th1s pause we shall gaze around at the flowers and some of the fxxtures an th1s buxldxng The stage, of course is banked wxth flowers wonder what they d1d w1th sane of the rel 1cs from the old gym say for stance the plywood set, whxch had autographs of all the characters who had played an school plays whxch dated clear back to 1940 Here is Bob Hello, everyone Just so that the newspapers can Get It right, I'11 state that my professxonal none IS Roberto Greatxo, but we will not Sfdrld 011 ceremony, simply address ne as...ohu no, 1 haven't forgotten that play yet' Anyway, the tq1ont scout who offered me a contract after he saw my perfor nance as 'Brxsky Br1scoe , sa1d I ms a natural for the stage: 90 I hopped the next Greyhound for New York and have been there ever sxnce Why' here ms Jerry Parker We couldn'tm1stake h1m,ev9n with the wexqhf he has qnned He 13 walklng slowly across the stage, doesn't Seem YO D9 U1 any hurry He xs probably decxdxng what to say lndxes, Gentlenen, and fellow alunnx of 1952 Thflf V05 U 9005 start: here comes the next sentence Th1s Parker certa1nlY 150 mn of dellbsfmof' In the past ten years, cons xderable PTOQTGSS T105 taken Place with the O P A L 1n fact, I am about to take over as manager You have no doubt heard that the salt water dam whxch I desxqned and manned Of C019 POUR has produced so nuch electncxty, that Bonnevmlle ms trY1n9 to WY W blue' punts and patents to keep from bemg TH!! 0111 Of business .. . o o Q ' ' ' .sn u ' un J 0 ll . , . . , O . ' l . J l I . . 1' . . . . . uniforns. Hattie Carnegie's salon has been asking me to design some tailor- 'U cl ' ' . . . . . . . ',, 4 . . V . . ' . I ' ' ' , in- ' . . . . . . A . . , . . . me ' ' ga Q ' ' . I . C I . ' . ' 0 . ' ll

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NMY appointment G3 new m0nQQer is so certain that there is a crew of men out rn the new office, right now, installing a hanmock But enough about ne- here is Louis Waldorf to tell about hrs lotogt dranntrc success ' quite :'::LlrkedYfE':,be-7321.1 t How do you do, ladres and gentlemen I'm reall Onlghfrond 0330 to PHY In G plug for the show that I'm d01n0 In New York BY the way I have to catch the 5 o'clock plane tlrrs evenrng, rn order to get home for drnner and my show If you would lrke you FUY S99 lf ON Yh9 ABC HPYWOTK t0n1QhY Your portable sets shoukdbe able to prck rt up Ton1ght's story rs a reproductron of Lost Weekend, butthls 13 one that happened on Cxcos Island Lours smrles bows, and goes back to hrs charr to nuke room for the next alunmus, or Jrm Resch HI, GVGTYOHG It's the sane bashful Jrm. Gee doesn't he look neeat that classy surt The gray harr at hrs temples certarnly doesn't detract ffm 7115 f1PP9Grance He rs about to say a few words and few rs rrght rf we know Jrm I'm told that I am expected to talk about myself, so here rt rs ul He draws a deep breath J FITS! NGVIDC offended GOHCIHG school, after hrgh school graduatron,I went to Hollywood where I was promptly spotted by a talent scout, whom I promptly turned down, because there d1dn't seem to be much future for me as garbage collector,not wrth those garbage drsposal unrts that they qrve away wrth every can of soup No,I really felt that the day ofthe garbage collec tor was comrng to a close I audrtroned for T V and was promptly grven a Job Thrs Job, however wasn't dancrng or actrng, and not even srnqrng They needed someone to mo e sets But at last my day came I shall never orget rt The star came rnto focus on the screen rn mrllrons of homes Just then, what should happen? You tell me, I had to frgure out a good one for myself, and qurck too. I won't say how rt happened but the star drsap- peared and there I was, rn frort of the camera what was I to do? well, thrs rs what I drd I started dancrng Frrst a solo, and then rnstead of the adrago number that was schedu1ed,I grabbed the frrst good lookrng broom I saw and w th frrm resolve, began to dance the novelty dance that nuke me K At thrs pornt, lrm looks rather pale, and one of hrs frrends leads hrm back to hrs charr It's the frrst trme he has sard that nuch n years How do you do everyone ' who could thrs bel Why Harold Pleas How are you dorng these days? He can't hear us from the audrence, so we shall just have to wart for nrm to speak Thrs new gym rs really somethrng, rsn't rt' IPUUSGJ I W131 SOYYNUY these post ten years have been gurte eventful for all of us I have done qurte well rn certarn establ rshment whrch I bought In OIYNPIG I Gm 0150 in the state legrslature so rt nukes rt qurte nrce I also have G hand In the management of Mrrdrona Inn durrng the tourrst season 'Now that Mrke rs about to strangle because no one has let hrm talk, I'll srt down before he turns blue How do you do everyone N Mrke assumes the posture that frts hrs blue, nedal-draped unrform Look at those stars. I thrnk he has somethrnq 9159 to say r enlrsted rn the Arr Corps,shortly after I graduated from hrgh school qnd bgqnn trqgnrng I drd so well, that after a dozen or so Pfomotlonsr was q1ven the rank of Supreme Commander o the G QT0 PJ the WAP do very well at nnrching,athletrcs II teach thentcnP10Y bcsketbolll and therr rndrvrdual Jobs rn offrces supP1Y Centers, etc This QYN 13 T903 the Q I H S team next 'al , f WAP As u the grrls rn ly okay I'd lrke to arrange a gone or two wrth untrl then, 1t's goodbye so that I can get everyone aboard my plane, and get back to the base ' The orchestra plays a recessronal march, a e stage, shake hands wrth old frrendsr and HGV, Gnd nuke Plans for another re' unron rn 1972 S99 YOU th9T9 , . . I J ' I ' , 1 ' ' on ,, . . ' J 1 . . ' J u N . . . J I I r i ' and Dr. Potter's Dog Food famous. r , J . . . . ' ' , . . . I J I ' - Y . . , . - ' A ' J ' - '- . ' K g c 0 I 0 4 I . . J 1 ' ' nd th '52 alumni leave the

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