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

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s E A B R E E Z E get some good material for his book. He told Charles Smith his plan and together they worked it out. As long as it was the year of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the celebrated May Festival in Seaside and the World’s Fair in Portland, they decided to include all the classes and hold an alumni reunion. Accordingly the aid of each class presi¬ dent was enlisted. In order that everyone should hear what everyone else was do¬ ing, Dewey asked that each one answer to roll call with a sketch of his life since graduation. Of course, some names were changed, but each responded to the one we knew in the good, old days. Prepare for some surprises and 1 will tell you briefly what the members of the class are doing. Emily is assisting her husband, Professor Nikolaevich Zatovaski, in his vocal studio in New York. Every golf player will soon lie singing the praises of George Ben¬ son. His fame and fortune is made. Last week a New York firm se¬ cured the right to manufacture the whistling golf ball, which George has just patented. He gave each of us a sample. It whistles for about ten minutes after it is struck. Ruth Benson’s duties as nurse at a hospital in Arizona kept her from attending. 1 hope none of us will ever need tin assistance of Charles Cart¬ wright. He is a prominent criminal lawyer in Chicago, and LaYerne Johnson is his private secretary. Your letter was read when your turn came. No one was sur¬ prised to learn of your success in psychology. “It sounds just like Loris,” they said. I told them my little story next. The shock came when a communication from Orville Gaskill was read. He wrote that the church in Tampa, Florida, of which he is pastor, was holding revival meetings and he felt it was his duty to stay there. Orville a minister! That was the last thing in the world 1 had expected, and from the exclamations of surprise 1 think the rest felt the same about it. Joint Hagmeier followed in his father’s footsteps. He is a heart specialist. Me said he saw so many “heart afflications” during his hiyh school days that he thought the business would be good. He has a -ood location, Los Angeles, (so near Hollywood). Fred Boot leggei Harshberger is the very efficient sheriff of Clatsop county, s stand no chance in this part of the country. Sarah, k red «

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S E A B R E i: Z 1 I, Jack Walch, my “snipes” to “Gap” Powell. I, John Hagmeier, my shaving equipment to Henry Goetze. lf Dewey Baker, my slangy themes to Avery Adams. ], Bino Lukkarinen, my mail jongg set to Perry McTavish. I, Lester Raw, my permanent wave equipment to Saretta Jen kinson. . 1, George Benson, my janitor job to someone more capable. I, Fred Harshberger, my Herculean stature to James Ellis. I, Elliott Hurd, my mustache to Leonard Newell. [ Richard Scliroeder, my bad habits to Laurence Kiik. L Hyde Welsh, my Buick to somebody else. (Class Itngihfru Seaside, Oregon, May 5, 1940. Dear Loris: I know you are anxious to hear all the news of our reunion as I won’t see you for a month. I am writing you a brief outline. The de¬ tails can be told later. Needless to say, the meeting was a success. The plans were care¬ fully laid and everything went beautifully. It was wonderful to see so many of the old faces again. There were many strange ones, too, because the alumni of the last few years were, of course, unknown to most of us. The class of 1926 was well represented, with both old and “new members.” The number has increased quite a bit, as th en¬ closed snaps will show. Every class had a special session for its members and their fam¬ ilies. Ours was held at Charles Smith’s summer home. It was “some meeting!” Charles Cartwright, our former president, presided as was proper. He had difficulty in bringing the meting to order for everyone was chattering like monkeys. He gave the welcome address and told us that it was through Dewey Baker’s and Charles Smith’s ef¬ forts that the alumni reunion was held, and then ho asked Dewey to tell us more about it. Dewey said that he was writing o book which he intended to call “High School Days.” It occurred to him that if he could get a group of his classmates together and talk over old times he would perhaps £0

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told us, was in Egypt screening her play, “In the Shadow of the Pyramids.” Jane Hall allied herself with the anti-tobacco league and is dili¬ gently working in its behalf. Beneita Hay is one of the officers of the Humane Society in San Francisco. It seems that she was disappointed in love and took up Ibis work to keep her mind off her misfortune. A letter was read from another of our ministers, but this time not a “sky pilot.” Elliott Hurd is minister to Spain. “See what Spanish did for me,” he wrote. Dorothy Johnson and Irma Poole have been teaching in Nome, Alaska, for three years. They traveled around the world together and have decided that with the exception of Seaside, Alaska is the ideal place to live. Myrtle Johnson gives the Round-up spectators a few thrills every year and is now considering an offer to take a leading part in a western play that is to be filmed soon. The center of attraction in the evening was Willard Livermore, who is traveling on a musical circuit. He is a genius as a “one man hand.” Just think, he plays fifty instruments at once! Mary Nimmo wrote a letter saying that she was sorry that she could not he with us, because her husband, a Montana cattle man, got kicked by one of his cows and is now in bed, suffering from a broken leg and three cracked ribs. No one knows where Lester Raw is. The last that was heard of him was about six years ago. He was going to the South Sea islands as a missionary. 1 suppose he found life so interesting there that he has forgotten the rest of the world. Grace Ruthrauff is married and lives in Astoria. Her husband is in the plumbing business in that city. Avis Seines has won fame as a great surgeon. She has per¬ formed some of the most wonderful operations. She and John had a fine chat about their patients. Richard Schroeder wrote that he owns a large chicken ranch in Washington. You remember that “chickens” always did appeal to him. Dewey was not able to locate Marjorie Stafford, but Avis saw her six months ago in Boston. She is married to a professor of