Seaside High School - Sea Breeze Yearbook (Seaside, OR)

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by partaking of a youth-reviving concoction prescribed by A1 DeWelt, and that they had learned the art of travelling from tree to tree like monkeys. Al, as a chemist, had won great fame on the earth. By this time the whole group had arrived, everyone talk¬ ing away at once, as in the old days. After telling them how 1 had come I insisted upon their telling me of their experiences, and how they had found this wonderful country. 1 heard the familiar voice of Len Hutchinson pipe up from the crowd: “I think Al Deceit and Bob Wascher know more about it than we do ourselves, so let them tell you.” Bob spoke up quickly, “Let Al do it.” “Ahem-um-um-ahem! Well,” said Al, “one day, as I was mixing up a chemical in my laboratory, a thick smoke arose from my cauldron, twisting and writhing until it took the ■shape of a man, who said, ‘I came here from an unknown source. My mission is to tell you to bring together the mem¬ bers of the Class of ’23, and to take them to a planet especial¬ ly reserved for them, where everlasting youth will be en¬ joyed. ’ “After this strange person had disappeared, 1 began searching for my classmates. I found Bob Wascher, who had become a great inventor, in New York. He told me he had a torpedo, which would shoot to Mars. This torpedo would con¬ tain people who would wish to live on that planet. 1 was de¬ lighted over his invention, and told him it was just what l needed to take the Class of ’23 to our planet. “Just then his pilot came up, a tall, lanky figure in an air¬ man’s suit. 1 was pleased to find that he was our old friend, Len Hutchinson. He was growing old and intended to aban¬ don aviation, so I easily induced him to go with us. He said that he had seen several of the grls, and that some were in Paris. “We started from New York, and twenty-four hours later we reached London, where we spent a few days in taking short trips about the city. On the outskirts, we stopped at a school- house, which looked a great deal like old Seaside High. A e went in and whom do you suppose we saw? Christine Lund- gren, “Mugs” Beckman' and “Winnie” Nimino, and all three of them were old-maid school teachers! lib would have thought that such should have been their fate? I told them of niv plan, to which they readily agreed, as they were getting well along in years, and wished to retire from teaching.

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(Hlass JJniyhrry T was the year of invention, it was the year of strange hap- 41 ixsnings, this year of 2009. Before L go on with my story, 1 will tell you where I am, and how I came here. ’Way back in the year of— I think it was 1923, anyway, it was the same year that “tlawkin’s Shockless Aviation Suit was invented; and which you all know was clearly described by Francis DeWelt. Some years after, 1 decided to try out this sliockless avia¬ tion suit. I was flying in my airoplane one day at an altitude of about seven miles. I told my meclianican to drive v hilt I would jump off and fall to earth, testing the flexibility of this wonderful device. At first I was somewhat afraid to make the attempt, but my mechanic told me that the sliockless avia¬ tion suit was thoroughly reliable. Being thus reasurred, I jumped off. Down, down, down, 1 went gathering speed every second — when Crash! 1 came to earth, the springs of the suit expanded, and away I shot into the air again. I travelled in space for eighty-two years until one day I finally struck solid ground. 1 opened the door in my suit, crawled out, and to my surprise, I saw a sign reading, “This planet reserved for the members of the 1923 class of S. U. II. S. “ .Just then 1 heard the noise of a cart approaching. On looking around I beheld a little fellow coming up on a Kiddie- Ivar, Ids long hair and beard streaming in the wind. In his hand he held a long spear, which he jabbed at me, crying, “Get out o’ here! I’ll kill yuli!” To my surprise, I recog¬ nized him to be my old friend “Kelly” Blake. I had quite a time quieting down his warlike attitude, but finally did so by convincing him of my good intentions, and by telling him who I was. He was glad to see me again after a separation of so many years, and asked me how I had happened upon this strange land. He said Fanny DeWelt had come ten years be¬ fore, and was now a hermit, eating raw animals and living- in caves. I was the last of the ( lass of ’23 to arrive upon this planet, so lit said he would call the rest of the members to¬ gether. He then began beating on a tom-tom, which was made of a hollow rock with a skin tightly stretched across the top. Soon l heard a rustling noise in the trees above me, and to my astonishment, “Mugs” Beckman, “Winnie” Nimmo and Katie Colley dropped lightly to the ground from a tree close b . they told me that they had been made young again

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“From London we went to Paris. In looking o ei the advertisements of the show to be held that night, I could hard¬ ly believe my eyes when I read that Anna Nordstrom, Katlnxn Hoag, Agnes Kondraski and Golda Grafton were billed for the evening’s entertainment. Golda was a prima donna, while Anna, Agnes and Kathryn were taking Paris by storm with their wonderful dancing. “I gained an interview with them, but had great difficul¬ ty in persuading them to leave their gay life and come witn us. “Oh, yes! 1 almost forgot to tell you of another member of our class. As I was entering the theatre I saw a tami iar face at the ticket window. It was Lois Stevens. She told me she sold tickets and kept the books of the concern. She also was ready to abandon work, and join our group. “Someone told me that Fd Blake was just completing a great electrical engineering job over in Italy, so I went there. While on my way I stopped at a beautiful little town, where I accidentally met Marguerite Tyberg, who was gathering ma¬ terial for the last of her novels. She accompanied me to Italy to meet ‘Kelly.’ We had no difficulty in finding him and per¬ suading him to go with us to the planet. “I left Marguerite and ‘Kelly,’ who were going to New York, while I continued on my way to Africa. Here I found just whom 1 was looking for, Agnes Anderson, Margaret Taitt and Katie Coffey, doing missionary work among the savages. They also promised to be in New York at the appointed time. “Now, one more problem confronted me, and that was convincing my brother Fanny that he must come with us. He said he was just at the turning point of Ids life; that although he was seventy years old, he fully intended to fall in love. As usual, arguing with Francis proved useless, so I was obliged to leave him. “Bob had his invention all equipped for the departure when we arrived. The members of the class were already iuere, except Francis, who refused to come, so we left earth with a bang, and in less time than it takes to tell this story, we reached our destination. . “T( 11 Years a8'° something queer happened as we were lying on a grassy spot, sunning ourselves. We saw a dark ob- .ieet drop from the sky, light upon the grass, and roll away a ™ hundred feet. We were all excite, 1 and ran to see what tins strange tlmig could be. To our astonishment, there was