University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Sandwiches. Having partaken of these delicious bits we flew over to South America. One of the Zeps being out of order we were forced to land on the wilds of the Brazilian coast. No sooner had we reached the ground than we were surrounded by a horde of giant women. The Amazons at first kept their distance but soon closed in, and we feared violence from them. This fear was not allayed when we saw them swing their heavy axes, which they had been using in cutting the giant trees of the forest. Suddenly they were called aside by their chief, who then approached us. Can you imagine our surprise when we discovered that she was Alice Gwaltney, renowned for her prowess in the Gymnasium Department of the Normal School? Nevertheless fear overtook us, and we hastened to depart. We were scarcely seated when we felt the machine rising, and on look- ing over the side of the car we beheld the brawny arms of the Amazons, speeding our departure. With a terrible boost we were off, heading for France. When we reached Paris we proceeded to visit the art quarters in hopes of seeing others among our former classmates, whose reputations had traveled over the seas. We were not disappointed, for as we were passing down the Rue de Rouge we had the good fortune to meet with Muriel Halstead as she was returning from the Palais des Artes, where she had been instructing a class in bill- board painting. She was overjoyed, as her latest production had just been hung in the Louvre, and proved the gathering place of critics from all parts of the world. The subject of this masterpiece was none other than Elva Nelson, who was appearing on the stage as Iphigenia. In Munich we found Helen Chute, endeavoring to reconstruct the one-time glory of German music, which had been so greatly retarded by the world war of 1914-17. Here she was conducting the Imperial Orchestra in the famous Beer Gardens of the Hoff- brau. After enjoying the music and partaking of refreshments in this delightful garden, we started on our short flight to Spain. We had soon passed over the Pyrenees, and, desiring to make a last stop before our trip across the Atlantic, we decided to de- scend near what we first thought to be a Spanish Convent. But, when we drew nearer, the noise and clatter were anything but in keeping with our idea of what a Spanish Convent should be. Hav- ing landed, however, we learned that we were in the midst of the Convent Gardens. Here we found a number of nuns, among whom Page Twenty-three

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The Call of the Third Decade— 1930 HE time for our departure was approaching. Elmer Richardson had completed his last test flight in his Velocitas Zeppelin and came soaring down upon the Aviation Field of the Normal School and grace- fully landed at the Aerial Depot. There was a smile of satisfaction and of contentment on his face be- cause his wonderful invention had proved success- ful, and the envious eyes of all Europe were turned toward it. In honor of his departure the entire military organization of the Normal School came out in full dress parade, led by the veteran general, Narcissa Sheets. The address of farewell was delivered by Francis Hickson, Head of the Department of Aviation, who eloquently wished us a safe trip through the skies. Soon, with the whir of wings, we rose away from the field and darted up into the sky, soaring farther and farther until we reached a height of fifteen thousand feet in the ethereal blue. The Zeppelin Aeroscope, which is the latest invention of A. P. E. Jaeger, en- abled us to see the earth from this great height as if but a mile away. Through this, in the early morning, we sighted a body of land which, on referring to Colliergraphs of the World, we knew to be the South Sea Islands. We were curious to view these at close range, so decided to descend. In going about the Islands we came upon a multitude of Hottentot babies out on the coral reefs, playing games. You may imagine our surprise when we found our good friend, Dorothy Day, playing the time-honored game of Is It? with the brown-skinned tots, whose ages ranged from ten days to two months. We enjoyed the morning with her and learned much of the latest method of primary education. However, it was necessary for us to be on our way, and we were soon headed for South America, but were forced to veer two points to the wind and drop down on Mt. Kilauea for gas. Here we found Dorothy Dean and her troupe of Hula Hula girls endeav- oring to appease the wrath of the volcano with the weird and fan- tastic notes of their ukeleles. From here we flew over to the Sandwich Islands, a famous stopping place for all airists. Long since had this place become famous because of the culinary arts of Irene Martin, who had chosen the place because of the name, for her latest experiments in Page TNventy-two

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there was one whom we quickly determined was the source of the noise — Peggy Wotton. It soon devolved that Peggy had talked so much that all the others had become dumb through lack of op- portunity to use their v oices. However, silence was not permitted us, as she asked more questions than we could answer, concerning her many friends at home. Our trip from Spain was uneventful, and we were soon back in New York. Having heard a great deal about the stock market of Wall Street, we made that one of the objects of our visit. Here we found that our former friend and fellow student. Marguerite Holdzkom, had become a Captain of Industry. It was understood that it was her keen wit and capable hand which pulled all the wires of Wall Street. She had built a great business in the manufacture of the dicto-writer, a machine which writes as spoken to. This business had grown to such proportions that her wealth far sur- passed that of Hettie Green of the decade previous. At last we left New York and turned our course far to the west. We were impatient to get back again to old scenes and friends. It was not long before we could see below us the cactus fields of Arizona. We turned on all our power and were traveling at our greatest speed when suddenly we were stopped by an aero- cop, Louise Johnson, who arrested us for exceeding the limit. After detaining us for half an hour, she directed us to report the following day to Department Ten. It happened that this depart- ment was presided over by Judge Lorraine Handyside (Mrs. Lewis Ayles). Know p i— i g the situation thor- oughly, the Judge met ., | out the severest sentence which had I M B been pronuounced in her court for years, I J H ris 6ly»we,the offend- ers, were to See Miss I H H Dunn immediately and excuse ourselves l could. I need not say N hI I that it was with woe- ful faces and trembl m RHJ I hearts that we made our way back to y aX ' ' B Aero Depot of the Normal School. We ICI! S9l I| I glad to be back after such an eventful B Sj trip, and our joy was clouded only by the fear of the dread judg- m e n t which awaited H us. JOCELYN LOFTUS Page T venty-four