Santa Ana High School - Ariel Yearbook (Santa Ana, CA)

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Jpropl) CY of tl)e (Tlass of ' 1$! WAS on my way to an ' i8 B class reunion, and was feeling exuberantly happy at tlie prospect of seeing- all my old class- mates again, after twenty years, when the train stopped short. At first, 1 was nut at all alarmed, but as an hour passed, and still we (hil nut g(i un, I liegan to get worried. The conductor Idld me that a meteor, in falling, had torn up the track ahead of us, and that we would probably l)e delayed for at least five hours. I was not surprised at the cause of our delaw because during the last two or three years, tailing meteors had very often been the origin of great destruction. Hut 1 knew that 1 would have to give up all hope of attending the Alumni recei)tion in front ( f I ' oly High. I tried to take this disappuiiitmeiU phil(is(i])hica]ly. 1 considered how much ha])pier 1 wmild be to see my classmates after tins much prolonged alisence. ft Wdiddn ' t work! 1 knew that I wnuld willingly forego the extra gratification for the pleasure of meeting them at that very instant. So, feeling nidre woebegone than ever, when seven o ' clock came, 1 sat look- ■ng at the stars. .Mthough it was an exceptionally clear night, very tew were visible. The modern astronomers had ])redicted a shortage of stars in the neai future, and this prophecy was very nearly fulfilled. I thought of our descendants -—I always had pitied them anyway, but now doubly so — and how desolate it would be on the porches for the future young people. The moon, of course, would do her best to help out, but she shines only part of each month. Suddenly the heavens were ablaze with light. Effulgent stars ap|K ' ared one by one. until they stretched across the sky. At first I was dazzled, lint then I gave a start ! Yes! It was truly an immense, res|)lendent ' i8 I! that I a shining above my head. 1 watched it all night, and as it disappeared in the .gray dawn of morning. I still seemed to see m - class mimerals glittering there. When we at last pulled into Santa Ana, I surprised myself by only half expecting to see my classmates meet me at the depot. No one was there ; so I took the aeroplane street service and got ofif at Fourth and Main. Everything was changed. The buildings now stretched up to the sky ; the air hummed with the sound of motors; the people seemed numberless. I bought a paper from a clamorous newsboy and went to a hotel to engage my room. This done, I sat down and read my paper. The first article told in big headlines that the class of ' i8 B had disappeared mysteriously the night before. I read no farther, for then I knew! I understood the meaninsi ' of the new stars and tiie numerals in the Page Nineteen

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skv. The Powers That Be. realizing that there must be more stars, had chosen niv cla-;smates to ilkiminate the heavens, as they had brightened the earth by their Hves. r.itter thoughts came into my mind. Why had I been left? Why couldn ' t 1 shine with them? For a long time I sat there, rebellious, defiant, questioning. .Suddenh ' 1 knew that my destiny was not to be theirs, but that my work must also be done. -Mv task was to publish to the world the careers of my classmates. I began to work at once. I delved into old magazines, I traveled to all corners of the globe, I toiled without ceasing, in order to find the record of each member of this illustrious class. This is my report : Harold Albright won great renown as a pianist. He was the direct cause of Paderewski ' s abandoning his concert tours. Grace Haynes and Edna Copeland compiled a Dictionary for the I ' .usy P.u iness Man in 7,000,000 pages. . bill to compel all bachelcirs of twenty-five years antl over to wash their dishes after each meal or pay a fine of $2.98 for violation thereof, was brougiit up in the Senate by Olive Noble and Mabel Ozment, and. due to their inthienc ' j. was passed by a nine-tenths majority. Waldo Wehrly was a very capal)le chairman of the lunacy commission in Hong Kong, China. Nellie Wardlow was a lady barber in the Canal Zone. X ' iolet Wiesseman was the expounder of projective inspirational transcend- entalism in the theoretical psychology class in the . silomar Kindergarten. Ednnuul West spent his time and oratorical ability in attempting to have the Whittier State Sch(xil transferreil to Watts. Dorothy Hendrie was a medium of great fa me and ability. liill Tavlor discovered that the Huntington Beach Brick Factory was out of use and, by his business instinct, made a very flourishing sauerkraut fac- tory, where he put up the Hotchkiss brand, h ' rances Zeibach was his commercial agent. Muriel Wright was a special officer detailed to catch jack rabbits. She used her former talent for running through the halls to great advantage, as her method was to chase the rabbit until it became exhausted, than catch it by sprink- ling fresh salt on its tail. Paul Jones was the proprietor of a farm, where he raised a cross between an aster and a horse radish. Otis Chappell made himself famo l by perfecting the art of camouflage. While in France, he met John Cozail. who had won the ' ictoria Cross and coimt- less other medals. P;iSf TwenlJ '