Torrance High School - Torch Yearbook (Torrance, CA)

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Tor ThaT sorT oT liTe and has devoTed her all To The SalvaTion Army, where she carries a bell and wears a long black skirT. As soon as The guesTs have all arrived, a servanT, The ex-Mr. Joe Kalina, enTers and announces ThaT dinner is served in The Blue Room. Dinner is deTained a Tew seconds while Richard Miller Takes Time To puT on his shoes which he has leTT lying in The middle oT The Tloor oT The guesT room he is sharing wiTh RoberT Long, who, by The way. is a greaT iournalisT Tor The New York Times. BuT once aT The Table, There is no sTopping The guesTs. Everyone Tells oT his success in liTe and The progress he has made since graduaTing Trom high school. Carl Andrews sTaTes ThaT he has recenTly reTired Trom col- lecTing garbage. He really doesn'T know whaT To do wiTh hirnselT, and iT iT weren'T Tor his devoTed wiTe, a blonde, he is cerTain he would go crazyl William Walker owns a large chain oT burlesque shows all over The counTry. He TeaTures such worldwide aTTracTions as The SmiTh Twins, Ermanell and Annabell, and Their balloon dance, Much embarrassed, Norman Hudson asks To be excused Trom The Table. IT seems he has a nighT paper rouTe now and musT peddle his papers, reunion or noT. All The varnps such as EThel Gavin, Acla Briggs, and Thelma Hauck, are making eyes aT our own li+TIe Johnny Disario, The I96O RoberT Taylor OT The silver screen. Jim Parks reporTs ThaT he is now a TirsT class plumber, having sTudied The Trade nineTeen years. Joe Bay has really goTTen someplace since graduaTing. He is now a Tobacco aucTioneer in ATlanTa, Georgia. He has Turned down many oTTers oT conTracTs Trom all greaT movie direcTors, so greaT is his love Tor his aucTioneeringl A slighT inTerrupTion comes wiTh The enTrance oT a Telegraph boy, Carl Hanni. The Telegram expresses The regreT oT MarTha George and Eunice KorTT, who are unable To aTTend This reunion. IT seems The U. S. Navy has Temporarily moved To China. ConsequenTly, boTh MarTha and Eunice are in China. The Tour class sponsors, Misses Mills, Shearer, Chase, and E. Jones, are very proud oT our class, because iT conTains so many Tamous and prominenT people. Bob Tolson is The mayor oT Chicago, Ill., and a very successTul one aT ThaT. He has been re-elecTed Tor TourTeen consecuTive years now. DoroThy Jean Craig is anoTher cause Tor pride. She has worked up To TirsT secreTary To EinsTein. Max CoasT is The auThor oT .a besT seller, The PerTecT GenTleman. Peggy Olson has been promoTed To head ianiTress aT Jack KenT's lnsane Asylum, where Merle McHenry, Jane Chandler, and Frank Carr are paTienTs. They all goT ThaT way over Too many hearT breaks. Joe Miles has Turned Gone But Not Forgotten

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Glass Trophecy lT is l96'O, a lovely spring aTTernoon, aT The WhiTe House, WashingTon, D. C. Three loud knocks aT The main door announce ThaT The biggesT aTTair oT The year is abouT To begin. IT is The reunion oT The Torrance High classes, Summer '38 and WinTer '39, All is in readiness. lnviTaTions have been senT a monTh in advance by The presidenT oT The UniTed STaTes, Wilbur Franklin. Head buTler Harry Bell, gaThering all his poise and digniTy, responds immediaTely To The now deaTening pounds on The door. The TirsT guesT proves To be none oTher Than Henry PupkoTT, who is a Tamous collecTor oT buTTer- Tlies in SouTh ATrica. Behind him is his TaiThTul Traveling companion, Johnny Gandsey, loaded To The very brim wiTh umbrellas, buTTerTly neTs, and Toy ballons. ATTer shaking The digniTied buTler's hand Tully Ten minuTes, our early guesT asks, When do we eaT? The same old Henry! The nexT group oT guesTs are Earl Lock, Mary Ann McElTresh, John McDonald, and Geneve EvereTT. Earl is a sTunT Tlyer, and John is a reTired Track sTar Trom The lasT Three Olympics. The sound oT squeaking V8 brakes brings The whole WeTTy Goodman Swing Band, direcTed by none oTher Than WeTTy Leech and his swing whisTle. WeTTy is employing such celebriTies as Genevieve Krupa Lealrherman aT The drums and Margie TilTon Maloy, wiTh her golden voice, aT The mike. Tommy Wilkes, in cords and shirT sleeves, comes Truckin' in righT aTTer WeTTy. Tommy is now shining shoes aT The pool hall in LomiTa. Singing aT The Top oT her soprano voice, Lorain Hill enTers, via The window near The easT balcony Trellis. Miss Hill is Tops in The opera world, buT sTill loves To go back To her childhood. Le Nora Schroeder, who is accompanying her, is now co-capTain wiTh Virginia SmiTh oT The Girl ScouTs oT America. We go now To The recepTion room where The gracious EirsT Lady, Elaine WhiTT, is pouring Tea Tor all The lady guesTs. She chaTs merrily wiTh Marcella Crook, Eunice Gull, and Lorraine Miles, socieTy maTrons Trom Beverly Hills. Donna McCuTchen is There also, sad eyed in her liTTle black bonneT. ATTer divorcing Two seamen, one banker, an orchesTra leader, and a Tamous Jewish Tailor, Donna has decided ThaT she wasn'T meanT Gone But N ot Forgotten

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poIiTician and has recenTly been appoinTed SecreTary oT The Treasurer. Ted Tanouye and Minori Sueda are Japanese represenTaTives To America. They have as Their very capable secreTary, Tomiye Nagayama. By The way, aII Through dinner The guesTs have been served by Tony Moine and Alcira Nakamura, TaiThTul servanTs aT The WhiTe House. In The evening The guesTs dance in The Grand Ballroom. IT is made doubly enioy- able wiTh music Trom WeTTy Goodmans band, and deIighTTul reTreshmenTs prepared by none oTher Than chieT cheT, Bob Silces and his assisTanT, PaTTy PosT. PaTTy, by The way, sTill Tinds her Thursday nighT OTT quiTe Thrilling, since Ralph 6iIberT has opened his Kosher MeaT ProducTs Company righT in WashingTon. He is in parTnership wiTh Harvey Abramson. The dance is opened, of course, wiTh a grand march, led by Wilbur and Elaine wiTh Louis Murray and Doris Kresse immedia+ely behind Them. Louis is sTill cleaning cuspidors, and Doris' Tinances are always IcepT low from buying so many season TicIceTs Tor Bill WaIIcer's burlesque shows. The march is ended wiTh Hugh Allen and BeTTy WrighT lasT in line. Hugh is running a nighT spoT in Las Vegas, where he specializes in hamburgers. The TirsT dance is a wal+z, and Ray RichharT and MarTha Holme malce quiTe an inTeresTing sighT doing The big apple To waITz Time. Feruccio Rossi and Inez NicoleTTi also ioin Them. Feruccio is Mussolini's righT hand man and Inez has every reason To be proud oT him. As The evening goes on, we Tind various groups oT old Triends Tallcing over old Times. FirsT we see Helen SmiTh laughing uproariously over a silly liTTle iolce ThaT WaI+er Marek has iusT Told her. Helen is Tree. whiTe and ThirTy-nine! WiTh Them is Virginia Crandell . . . Virginia is now a blonde and s+ilI blushes over TriTIes, as in her school days. SiTTing in a corner lcniTTing, we come upon Irene WaTIcins, Eva Mize, Doris Phipps, and Mary Moore. These girls have managed To s+aIl Their many admirers oTT all These years and are sTill single. We Ioolc up iusT in Time To see Mariorie WarThan and Reggie Treloar sTill holding hands behind a palm Tree in The garden. My, oh my, iT musT be conTagious! Lee KirlcpaTriclc and Georgina TiTTany are doing likewise. In The middle oT The hall we sTumble inTo Norma SeemaTTer and LesTer STanIeyl Norma iusT can'T geT away Trom direcTing TraTTic. She goT so used To iT in high school, she decided To go inTo iT on a larger scale. She is now a Tloorwallcer aT BuIIocIc's Wilshire. LesTer is conducTing The Gone But Not Forgotten