Oroville Union High School - Nugget Yearbook (Oroville, CA)

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Fieda Dunbar is girl’s athletic coach in the same school. Harold Strang is also teaching science there. Kenneth Gillispie owns a very modern dairy in the same city. (Here I recalled that he had received some training in that line while in high school.) Arleen Dent has a photography studio in Oakland. Her assistant is Bernice Beddoe. Carol Jacques and Ruth Chambers have a beauty salon in Oak-End. Leland Meisner is their specialist in charge of the permanent waving. William McCutcheon is in Los Angeles, and is a very promising engineer. He has Allen Mace. Frank Hoover, and Allen Grace in his crew. John Gaskins is president of a famous school for young ladies in New York. Rosemary Sadowski is his private secretary. Chan Wahso is studying art in New York, and has as his special model, Lorraine Fry, who is becoming famous as the “Magazine cover girl.” I gasped at her next prophecy. “Ernest Dryden is in San Francisco and is one of the biggest politicians there. (Isn’t it strange how people change? He was such a quiet person in school.) Margaret Gray, Bernice McBride, and Helen Wallace are in the motion picture studios of Hollywood. Helen Salzman is in the studios at New York. She has as her leading man. Guv Thorne. Thelma Moseley is in vaudeville doing a swimming and diving act in a glass tank. Evelyn Edwards is teaching kindergarten in Thermalito. Mary Wall is also teaching there. Margie Coombe is teaching Domestic Science in the new Thermalito High School, and Norbert Halpenny is boys’ athletic coach there. Golda Rosenberg is manager of the new Marysville Elite which her mother has opened. Virginia Rowe and Fredda Burt are salesladies in the shop. Myra Pigg has returned to Poplar Bluff, Missouri, where she is teaching English in the high school. Leo Weber has the Packard agency in Chico, and Margaret Martin is his private secretary. Marguerite Chase is the governess of the United States’ Presidents’ grandchildren.” With this, she gathered up the photographs, handed them to me. and indicated that the hearing was over. I departed with a high heart, satisfied with her report, and enthusiastic over the fate held in store for each of my classmates.

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Senior Futures Vi:h a photograph of each graduating Senior, I visited a fortune teller in a gypsy encampment which was situated just across the river. 1 was anx ous to i now what Fate held in store for each of my classmates, end knew that this lady was an excllcnt character reader. I entered her tent, trembling with uncertainty, and handed her the package containing the photographs. She spread them out on a small sable use 1 for such purposes, mumbling as she arranged them. Th. signatures had all been affixed, so that I would not have to interrupt her by giving the names of the subjects. She began to talk, speaking in the best of cultivated voices. “I see Oroville ten years from today. It is greatly changed and improved, many of the improvements being accredited to these students, i There is a new hospital, which is under the supervision of Louise Smullin. Christine Snow, Dora Hoover, Mabel Ward and Winm-fred Turner are nurses in the establishment. The physician in charge is Kelsey Vail. William Sweet is president of the Chamber of Commerce. Arleigb Hislop is a bachelor. He and Truman Gould own a service station. ('1 course, Truman and Gladys Landers are Mr. and Mrs. I Were is a new theater, too, of which Robert Rutherford is manager. Esther Adkins is the organist, and Melvin French is the conductor of the symphony orchestra. Charles Levulett is Uncle Charlie, who tells the little children bedtime stories over the new radio station. “Johnny” Pool’s name makes numerous apoearances on the sporting pages. He’s a distingushed football coach at U. C. Crystal Ba'xter is teaching English in the Oroville High School. A new high school which was designed by Chan Chack is now under construction. The work is being done by George Howard and Co. Wilda McClung is editor of the Oroville Daily and ElsL Bates and Bryce Phillips are staff artists. The head reporter is Ella Rosenberg. Lorraine Ring and Mae Boring have an exclusive tea shoope. Here she stopped and arranged the n«xt group of nhotographs. Her following revelations led me from one side of the world to another, and all over the United States. “Robert Petersime is in Arabia as a missionary. His private sec-retaiy is Frances Bokmann. Margaret Fry is the organist of a large theater in New York. Nellie Anne Smith has a studio in New York, also, where she gives vocal lessons. Dorothea Meyer and Bettie Erwin are teaching in an exclusive ’ ind-riarten on the North Side of Chicago. Ca olio Munson is teaching Spanish in a high school at Sacramento.

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Senior Will In the City of Orovillc, in the Ccunty of Butte, in the State of California, we, the graduating class of June, 1928, being of sound and discosing mind and acting under no duress, menace, fraud or undue influence of any person whomsoever, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be cur last Will and Testament in the manner, that is to say: First: We do hereby name, constitute and appoint Miss Freida Beik, executrix of this last Will and Testament. Second: We, the aforesaid Senior Class, do hereby make the following bequests: To the Juniors we leave our faculty for provoking Miss Beik, and any detention which may have gone unserved by us. To the Sophomores we leave our habits of punctuality, with the hope that they improve with age. To the Freshmen, we leave the traditional dignity of Seniors, and may they add to it in the coming years! Individually, we bequeath the following: I, Esther Adkins, with a sigh of relief, do leave my ability to play “The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” to Dot Herrin. I, Elsie Bates, as a generous gesture, will all my boy friends to Helene Enslow. I, Crystal Baxter, do leave my ability to roll my eyes to Ernestine Graves. I, Bernice Beddoe, bestow upon Mildred Churchman my boisterous disposition. I, Frances Bokmann, with the greatest of pleasure, bequeath a few extra to Dot Uren. I, Mae Boring, will my ability to make an automobile get up the hill in high to Norman Bills. I, Fredda Burt, leave my seat in the Senior Room to Blanche Bateman. I, Ruth Chambers, leave my habits of punctuality to Ben Heirs. I, Chan Chack, will my place on the tennis court to Johnnie Too. I, Chan Wahso, leave all my worn out paint brushes and pencil stubs to Jeanne Bumgarner. I, Marguerite Chase, leave my heart-breaking abilities to Winnifred Fry. I, Margie Coombe, leave my studious nature to Veola Meyer. I, Arleen Dent, having a few to spare, leave a few extra pounds to Peggy McMillen. I, Ernest Dryden, leave my blushing comolex to whomsoever will enjoy it more than I have.