Torrance High School - Torch Yearbook (Torrance, CA)

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WALTER CARPENTER Uma Walt Entered from Hurley High School '27: Stray Cats '28: Spanish Club '28: Science Club '28 Much learning doth make me mad. EDWARD PRICE Eddie Lelawala '27g Pickles '26: Come Out of the Kitchen '?.5: Business Manager T.N.T. '25 '26: . Schumann Society '2'T. Never be it said of him that man is fickle. .' sf SENIOR GLASS PROPHECY '28 N a lovely spring afternoon in 1935 Mr. Louis Cramer, president of the alumni association of Torrance High School, had just completed this plans for attending the International Undertakers' Convention when his private Secretary, Maxine Brown, entered his office and announced that there was a young woman waiting to speak to him. . , Close behind him followed a tall, slender woman of the dark vampish type. I ,I Louis jumped to his feet. Why, it can't be Nellie Middleton, my old school chum from Torrance High? Then he stopped short as he noticed the anxious look on her face, What can I do for you? Are you in trouble? I should say so. Here my third husband has just decided, on the spur of the moment, to lose his entire fortune and pass from this world. Now I have to make the arrangements for his funeral. ' Too bad, consoled Louis, won't you sit down? And when she was seated, I didn't see you at the last alumni meeting. Nearly all theothers were there, but I don't believe you've kept in very close touch with your old friends. l Oh! Tell me about them. exclaimed Nellie. Of course, if you are interested at this time -Louis began doubtfully. Certainly, such a time as this is the only time I'll ever talk to you, said Nellie impatiently. Well, at the meeting last month we elected officers for the coming year. Vivian Beckwith is the treasurer and she doubtless obtained the position because of her ex' perience in handling the funds of our Senior Class. She has been employed as model by a famous artist for the past seven years and she has preserved her figure and youth' ful appearance until she is absolutely a knockout! The secretary is Marion Vieths. She can write shorthand SOO words a minute and is working as a public stenographer. They say she is very much in demand. The faculty thought if she was tied by some cord to her Alma Mater she would give up some of her wild ways. The vicefpresident is to be Dick Danton who is now working in a mattress factory as a 'tester', an ideal job for one who needs sleep as badly as he does. Frances Haynes and Rose Paige were there too, but they spent almost the entire day givmg advice on married life so I didn't find out much about them. Nineteen

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ALVA RICHHART Richie Entered from Los Vegas. Nevada '27 Football '28: Aggie Club '28: Senior Basketball '28g Varsity '28 He may do something sensational yet. ROBINETE SEE Bobbie Stage Crew '26: Dramatics '26: G.A.A. '28: A.S.B. Store '26g Spanish Club '27 '28: Editor T.N.T. '28: Torch Staff '28: Class Secretary '28g President Scholarship '28: Property Manager Senior Play '28. Sheet doth indeed show some sparks that are like wi . DORIS SPOON Spoony Glee Club '25 '26: Pickles '26: Scholarship '25 '26 '27 '28g Treasurer Scholarship Society '28: Vol- leyball '27g Spanish Club '28g Torch Staff '28g T.N.T. Staff '28 Her ways are ways of pleasantnes.s JACK TIDLAND jackie Aviation Club '28: Interclass baseball '28g Inter- class basketball '2S. Comb down his hair. Lookl Lookl It stands upright. MARGARET TIFFANY Marg ' Glee Club '25 '26g Pickles '26: Spanish Club '28: Torch Staff '27 '28g T.N.T. Editor '28: Basketball '28p Scholarship Society '26 '27 '28. Be good and you'll he happy, but you'l1 miss a lot of fun. KEITH TINSLEY 'l'innie Council '26 '2'7: President Aggie Club '26 '27 '28g Commissioner Athletics '27g Stock Judging '27 '28g Fruit Judging '27 '28: Football '27, Attends strictly to his own business but no one has- ever been able to find out what it is. BEN TOWNSEND Bennie T. Club '28g Varsity Club '28: Scholarship '27: President of Class '27: President Student Body '27g Vice-President '28: Athletics '25 '26 '27 '28. If your studies interfere with athletics, sluff your studies. MARION VIBTHS Vie:zy Glee Club '25 '26 '27 '28: Operettas '25 '26 '271 Am I Intrudingu '26: Secretary Student Body '27: Store Manager '27 '2S: Scholarship '25 '26 '2S: Torch Staff '26. Good temper. like a sunny day, sheds brightness over everything, HENRY WALKER Hendry Valkef' Tightwad '27: Science Club '26g Street Sweepers' Club '27. Woke up one morning and found himself asleep. LOIS ZUVBR Dutch Pickles '25: Glee Club '26 '27' 28: Bah '26: May .festival '26 '2'7: T.N.T. Staff '2'7g Athletics '26 '28: Glee Club Play '28. A serious and learned nature! Oh-Yes ? Ei ghteien

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Ladeen Banks graduated from Ernest Belcher's School of Dancing and is now the most popular dancer in France. She dances in the largest salon in Monte Carlo. Needless to say she wasn't at the meeting, but I learned all about her from Marie Evans who is known as the best dressed woman in the world. She had a special meet' ing of the women- present and explained to them what clothes had to do with have - L 1 mg -It. Winnifred Nickerson is helping her husband raise bees in the Mojave Desert, but she manages to get down to alumni meetings once a year. l'Mildred Raymond and Doris Spoon have a lovely little art shop in Hollywood. Doris draws portraits as a result of her practice in English classes during her senior year. She is certainly making a success of it. Mildred is doing art needlefwork for the 'Elite' of 'moviedomf She was offered a start in pictures but chose an artisic career instead. L'Margaret Tiffany is editor of the Los Angeles Examiner and each year publishes her famous 'April Fool Issuef i Marjorie Ott plays every Thursday night over radio station KNX where Har' wood Clark is chief announcer. She certainly charms her audiences with her musical speaking selections. Mr. Clark is thinking of removing her from the program as she takes the interest away from his jokes. What about Kieth Tinsley and Alva Richhart? asked Nellie fwho is always most interested in men, as Louis paused for breath. Let's see-Kieth Tinsley is head of Oregon Agricultural College, but each year he returns to Torrance Hi to speak at the Arbor Day exercises. Alva is one of the wealthiest farmers in the West and has given several large donations to improve the agricultural department of his Alma Mater. De De Barnard-but of course you've heard about her being elected Miss America for this year. She was twice Miss California in the National Contest. Marie Boyd is teaching ballroom dancing to the newly rich of Los Angeles and Hollywood, and is one of the wealthiest women of the world. 'LLois Zuver has certainly scored high. She graduated from a large dramatic school and is now playing in New York. She takes no engagements except for characf ter parts and is one of the biggest hits on Broadway this year. Russell King is in the movies now and what a villain he is! He makes all the feminine hearts flutter when he starts his Caveman stuff! 'LHenry Walker and Ben Townsend are both teaching at Harvard. Henry is a professor of German and Ben spends his time teaching freshman history. Remember how he used to love it? Harry Mintun has, perhaps, gained the most fame among the members of our illustrous class of '28. He invented a light mctal armor for football players and has literally 'rolled in gold'. And Robinette See, I see her quite often. She is the head of the Titian Crphan's Home to which she admits none but redfhaired children. She said the poor dears needed motherly love more than those not so handicapped at birth as she was. Walter Carpenter is the one lawyer our class produced. He handles all the important cases for the state. Olive McKenzie is president of Wome11's Clubs' Associations of California and has been one of the foremost workers in the 'men to the home and women to business' movements. Twenty