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

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Dorotliy Whipple was a society queen in (ireenville, until her recent ele- vation. Rohert ( ierwing demonstrated en his bike ' ' the way to overcome friction, by going so fast that he left it behind him in the dust. Dee Chase, a prominent farmer, was the first to make the discovery that music aids plants to grow. Me did this by going to the band concerts every ' ed.nesday night, and measuring the leaves of the plants before and after each ninnber. He found that the growth varies as the square of the distance and the rapidity of the music. Luelnia Neff was the editor of X ' anity Fair. Dorothy Jones, under the Frenchy name Arabella Simpkins, designed all the dresses for its pages. Harold Spaulding was the President of (Jxford University, where he did a splendid work in discovering the origin of fleas. ■ Cassius I ' aul insured his tongue for five million dollars. His favorite oration was on this subject : Queening, Its Use and . buse. Helen Kemmer, with ' alesca Rost and Fern Schlink, established a home in the South Sea Islands for destitute poets wounded in conflict with cruel editors. Mildred I ' ennet worked sixteen hours a day in the slums of Tustin, until her health failed. Then she went to Tahiti to study sociological conditions and to recuperate. Arden Ta Ior Ixiught out the t ' asino at Monte Carlo, where he made an immense fortune. Blossom Ward was an aviatrix of great note. She made the tri|i across the continent in ten minutes. Jennie Pollard was the chanfifeur of the President of Mexico. I ler onl - complamt about her job was that her employer changed |)ersonalities too fre- (lucntly. Mavme Armstrong and .Aida May .Sharpless wrote all the |)ojiular nnisic hits in 1928, 1929, and 1930. Ralpii La Rue and Carl Winans had tried for ten years to find the highest point in South Africa by using the North Star as a benchmark. They did not succeed ! However, their industry deserves recognition. Christine Watson, Mary Jo Grubb, and Margaret Lyon joined the Merry Bachelors ' P.urlesque Co. They did their stunts three times dailv on Broad- wav. Each one of them paid $100,000 per year as an income tax. Stillman Jenks, who used to be well known for his abilit ' to ask questions, was employed by the Govenmient to make a new Questionnaire each year for all the men between the ages of twelve and sixty. Millicent Long and Kathleen Owens went as missionaries to ( iennany. They Twent ' -

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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 '

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converted the Kaiser, the sdii of tlie faniuiis Wilhehii, as well as many of his subjects. David Smiley was the editor of the New York Sun. and under his man- agement the circulation of the paper increased wonderfully. He made Donald Jerome sporting editor. Lillian Martin, Alyrtle Law, and Laura Sevaly became world renowned movie stars. Their histrionic talent has delighted all civilized peoples. Alildred Severance and irgil Deaver, working together, discovered a fluid, which, if apjilied copion.sly to the head every night for a period of seven years, is guaranteed to luake curly hair permanently straight. Orlyn Robertson had a durian ranch in Southern C ' alifurnia, which brought him in a goodly fortune. Ivalph Chappell was an instructor in Latin in ' era IIendrickson s Select School for Young Ladies in Idaho. Phyllis Steidinger, Anita Preble, and Marie Martin were floor walkers in Woolworth ' s Los Angeles Department Stores. They were all renowned for their extreme courtesy to gentlemen. Albert Thorman left a Bolivian wife to mourn him. Their domestic life had been especially enjoyable. He used to plow the ground and sow the wheat, while she washed the tlishes and milked the cows. Marian Buckley, a ])romiiient Colonel ' s wife, toured the United States, lec- turing on Why Soldiers Need Knee Caps. Taylor X ' anderlip invented the lloating summer residences which are now so popular. The favorite amusement is to go flying in a cloud, supported by the vacuum made by a fly wheel in an airship above. Ruth Ilicko.x was a rich did maid, who left tured away in the beehives countless millions in one dollar bills. After her disaiijjearance, a fourth ddulile cousin claimed them. Catherine Beswick wrote a com])letc History of the I ' jnployed in one- half volume. Alonzo Lopez explored the United States and discovered the city of Chicago, which had been lost for several years, so he asserted. Vera Joplin and Lena Jones w ' ere political bosses of the Fresh .Air party. Their slogan was Back to Nature. ' Harley Marshall made the world ' s record by circling the glo be in a canoe in four years and ten seconds, not counting the portages across continents. Lois Tavlor was a Sunday School teacher of such great earnestness, that all her pupils died at a very tender age. She taught the Primany department. Atleta Merigold and R.-dph Cole were married two years after their gradna- Page Twenty- two