Victor Valley High School - Joshua Tree Yearbook (Victorville, CA)

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it ,,f ,WM I gg , , 'ull' ll .jkf Ag, lvff ,, 1- l RAY MITCHELL, Pres. WAHNITA BOWEN, V-Pres. SELMA BARRY, Sec'y. MAIDIEAWEAVER, Treas. ELVERA NELSON, Advisor. 5 . I Q Q ci A-vig.-ff M771-i,,-'-9 tif., 4--Z,g,,v,1 ,cz ZV JLJ, T H E J u N I o i2 s -,,,,,,,,,,f L . . . . -1 -f--LL, lg Q This has been a very active year for the juniors. First we ' practiced enunciating and sawing the air in preparation for f our first dramatic production, The Arrival of Kitty, a three- act farce, in which clothes certainly did NOT make the man. Our paper came out in a profusely decorated Christmas edi- tion, and we really had our readers going trying to figure out a completion story by substituting the names of Sophs. And then our assembly, presenting the activities of the school in slow and rapid motion, elicited chuckles from the student body. And the crowning achievement of our year-the junior- Senior Prom-expressed to our friends, the Seniors, the sin- cere wish of our class, lt's been swell to be fellow students with you. As you leave VVUHS our thoughts will follow you. Good luckl x fl. fl Y! M bf, ,fl fJ i f Q ' - X S' ,ll Xl' VMEJX: Qty ty L fl ll ,lil rf! fly V x' J 0 X T . ' za . fl l ,J Q l V ,t M , of ,J .ln K. V, . N. ' xy ' 'N if

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0 ID I'I E . .Continued ladies. Kemper is a lawyer, as you know, and was in St. Louis for the same purpose I was-to get the low-down on the great capture. Rich and Idle Bob, who inherited all his money from his rich uncle, just came with Kemper to keep him company. I asked Kemper where his sister, jean, was, and he told me she was an assistant to his father in Los Angeles. He also mentioned Frank Rivers, who is in Hollywood -a movie star, maybe? I suppose you knew Martin Willson is a radio engineer for Station KFI, Los Angeles. Louise Arnold is Kemper's private secretary, and Kemper said she was certainly a good one, thanks to Miss NeIson's tireless efforts. I was in Utah, my old home state, on a visit last summer, and dropped in to see Watts Lewis and his wife, the former Maxine Nielson. They have a small chicken farm, and the cutest cottage! I suppose Victorville has grown quite a bit since I was there in '44, Has Ernie Adams worked up a good veterinary business? How does he get along with the dogs and horses? And does Bob Moline still have his drug store? l suppose Bud Peake still runs the vegetable department in Lawrence Swartzbaugh's grocery store. Is Ernie's brother, Lee, still in South America? They were expecting him home when I was there. So eccentric Ira Elmer is a hair stylist in Los Angeles! I always knew he would amount to something, the way he used to hang on to the Seniors' money when he was treasurer. l'm glad to hear the Reeds, Donald and Granville, are doing well on their farm in Lucerne. Of course, they're both married, aren't they? Meredith Miller, I hear, is night watchman at the L.A. Bureau of Power and Light substation. So Donald and Thelma Bunce finally decided to open that large club and dance hall in Wrightwood? I'm glad they're getting along so well. I hear jimmy Hewson is chief bouncer for them! It seems natural to think of james Rainey as being coach of the football team at Stanford University. I read all about him in the paper last fall. He must have a swell team. Have you heard Louis Torrez and his guitar over radio station XEMO in Tia juana, Mexico? Remember when he used to play his guitar for us in junior Assembly? Olga Robertson and her husband still run the dairy at Kansas City, at least they did the last time I was there. I surely hope to be able to come to Victorville again next year, and if you are still there l'm coming to see you. If ever you're in New York don't forget l'm working for the Star as a reporter, so look me up. lsn't it too bad about poor Brugge? He worked so hard learning to stutter for the Senior play he's never gotten over it. They tell me Bertha is serving as a war nurse in the recent outbreak in Chile. Well, that seems to be all the news I can rake up. My, the class has certainly scattered, hasn't it? Don't forget to write. Love, Virginia

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1 ff . BILLY VERNON, Pres. CHARLOTTE WALKER, V.-Pres. IEANNE C-ODSHALL, Sec'y. MARY DUNHAM, Treas. MARY BIGELOW, Advisor. g,,,5,:g ff, Qf 1' ff' - gf, if J , 1, iff' I I ,f 2 Q . Q52- 3 :- 4712 24 Tl-IE SOPI-IOMORES Say, you Frosh, you don't know what a really SWELL feeling is until you come back to high school your second year and initiate a bunch of green Freshmen. We did that little job up brown on September 20. Then on Friday, October 4, we staged a benefit dance to raise money for a regular dance to be given in November. The Seniors took us under their pro- tecting wings and entertained us at Campbell's on November l. Our harvest dance early in November was acclaimed unique by the student body. We racked our brains for a clever as- sembly idea-then we got it--television! The Sophomore Val- entine paper practically depleted Miss Bigelow's supply of red crayons. We wound up our social activities for the year with a skating party. The decorations were carried out in black and blue.