Union High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Union, OR)

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 Glass Prophecy The class of 1939 was blessed this year with the presence of a very famous man, who. after much coaxing, has decided to help us with a glance into the future to see what our individual class members will Ik doing in 1959. This distinguished artist is none other than “Prince Ali Meldrum. The one, the only, and of course the original. He has with him that priceless gem. his crystal ball. Wait a minute. Ah, yes! The ball is becoming clear and in it we can see Inyond the slightest doubt, our old friend, Johnny Haynes, coaching the New York Yanks. Right l esidc him is Reggie, acting as official manager. Now as we gaze into the ball, it seems almost unbelievable to see our sturent lxjdy president. David Baum, out in the middle of a field hoeing corn, (jetting back again to the city, we find one of our most beloved students, who has gone far in manly arts. Ahem! Meade Ballard is now very busy working at Miami Beach, judging beautiful girls. Again the crystal ball takes 11s on a wild jaunt across the- continent to the beautiful forests of the Rockies; glancing a little closer into the ball, we see a group of men. They are none other than a new division of the Civilian Conservation Corps, namely: Franklin Terrall, Boots Rode, Marvin Fager, Neal Van Ilousen, Floyd Van Order and Robert Wells. Next, we find ourselves being ushered into the editor’s office of the Police Gazette and are flabbergasted to find Bernice Kinsey sitting behind this mahogany “hunk of furniture, more commonly called a desk, t’pon asking a few questions we learn that sales have increased 29% since Bernice took over the job. As most of you probably expected, Patty and Morris are married, and have a nice wood hauling business of their own. Looking at married couples, the crystal ball takes us into the home of another happily married twosome, and they are: Albert (Big Boy) Fager and our little mountain girl friend, Dorthea Parson. The Prince tells us that Virginia Anderson hasn’t as yet outgrown her bashfulness from the opposite sex. therefore she is an old maid and will be unless she accepts Charles Castor’s 37th proposal. The scene in the crystal ball changes to a drug store in Los Angeles where Carl Moulton is the head pharmacist with Elgin Childers as his right hand gal. The scene changes in this dratted” ball are coming so fast now that I'm getting dizzy watching it; however, when it does clear up, it really is worth looking into. Ah! Now we’re back in that little town of Union where we find Gordon Coles, the editor of the Eastern Oregon Republican, writing a scandalous editorial about the newly elected mayor, Emil Mulvehill. This next revelation of the future was really a shock to me; it is Lulumae Wiglesworth and Vivian Williamson doing a hulu hulu dance on the Major Bowe’s traveling unit. They are really very good but they give all the credit to their teacher, Mr. Leo (Jitterbug) Hansen. Going from the stage to the wide open spaces, the wonderous crystal ball discloses the Lcdridge Dude Ranch with Bob as its efficient proprietor and manager. He has with him on the ranch. Mary Hutchinson, who is the perfect hostess. Also, we musn’t forget that trick riding specialist. Betty Rae McDonald, the only girl in the United States who can do a tap routine on the saddle of a horse while it is prancing. As we pass from the dude ranch to an old tumbled down shack in the desert, we look in. to find our beloved friend and classmate, Maxine Irons, working out some of the details of Einstein’s theory. Again changing the scene, we move east, very rapidly of course, to New York and are just in time to see Melba Johansen making her debute as an assistant to Irving Berlin. While in the East, we visited the museum of natural history where we find James Withycombe talking to himself and saying something to us in Indian lingo. His official title is “Indian Interpreter”, but there are no Indians, so what? To leave the U. S. for a moment, we go to Hawaii where we were very surprised and at the same time rather jealous of our former classmate, Herbert Hoyt, who is the bouncer in a Hawaiian night club. Can you imagine Herby being so cruel to the fair sex? We couldn’t. Now back in the good old United States and we go directly to a hospital to sec one of the nurses, who we learned was Virginia Sager. She is doing remarkably well; in the same hospital. Thelma Lange is tht dietitian and is now working on a new diet for Norma Erwin, who has lost weight since we knew her. In this same hospital we find Vera Allen is the head of the maternity ward. The Ward-McClellan Beauty Shoppe in Union, is the latest resort of tin Stitch and Chatter Club, and is of course operated and managed by Verla and Erlene. Ye gods! What was that? Tin crystal ball just blew up. The last thing I could see was Bernice Wilde, so I guess that explains why. Oi, your old friend the Prince, is becoming very ill from the shock so will have to say goodbye.” See you in 1959------- 15

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La fit Will and Testanutvl (Continued) I. Bernice Kinsey, do will and bequeath my ability to fall in love to Mr. Clausen. I, Melba Johansen, do will and bequeath my piano and saxaphone to Charlotte Adkins. 1, Betty Rae McDonald, do will and bequeath my man liking figure to Lorrene Morn. 1, Douglas Meldrum, do will and bequeath my “apple polish” to Jimmie Dean. I. Carl Moulton, do will and bequeath my beard to Adelbert Hoyt. 1. Emil Mulvehill. do will and l equeath my athletic ability to Louis Shelton. I, Dorothea Parson, do will and bequeath mv wood-cutter boy friend to Elizabeth Kibby. I, Virginia Sager, do will and bequeath Franklin Terrall to the PWA. I. Boots Rode, do will and bequeath my ability to skip school to Harold Hall. I, Franklin Terrall. do will and bequeath my mathematics to Clinton Cosner. I. Robert Wells, do will and bequeath my height to Frank Orton. I. Erlene McClellan, do will and bequeath my manual training debt to Beverly Lay. I. Bob Ledridge, do will and bequeath my ability to sleep in class to Eleanor Richards. I. Bernice Wilde, do will and bequeath my “giggle” to Lloyd Edvalson. 1, James Withycoml e, do will and bequeath my back tracks to Charles Rusty” Dawson. 1, Lulumae Wigglesworth, do will and bequeath my dancing ability to Barbara Gallc. I, Morris West, do will and bequeath my Ford to Sherman Hawkins. I. Verla Ward, do will and bequeath my carrots to Tommy Lloyd, f, Floyd Van Order, do will and bequeath my bashfulness to Robert Pike. I. Neal Van Housen. do will and bequeath my extra make-up slips to Mr. King. I, Thelma Lange, do will and bequeath Francis Waggener to Betty Smith. I, Herbert Hoyt, do will and bequeath my false teeth to Lewis Ingram. I, Norma Erwin, do will and bequeath my ability to get to school on time to La Vaughn Bur ford. I, Vivian Williamson, do will and bequeath my southern accent to Donald Edvalson. hi Witness Whereof, the said Senior class, the party of the first part, has caused its common and corporate seal to l e affixed to these presents. Dated this eighteenth (18) day of May in year of our Lord. One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-Nine. (SEAL) (Signed) THE SENIOR CLASS Witnesses: Bernice Wilde, Leo Hansen

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