Watsonville High School - Manzanita Yearbook (Watsonville, CA)

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The Senior Prophecy Hello, Margaret Handshyn, greeted Arthur Hyde, as he strode into the office of a prominent magazine editor in New Orleans. XYell, if it isn't my old friend. Artie . she exclaimed. XYhat have you been doing these last ten years? Oh, l'm manager of the Pee Wee Bird Farm at Long Beach. lt loolis as if you are doing' well in business. Yes, .l'm editor of the 'Famous Characters of the XYorld', and .Niko Kusumoto is my assistant. This last edition of my magazine contains sev- eral of our old friends in the days of old XY. U. H. Arthur picked up the book and began examining it. XYell, if here isn't old -loc Lirosettif' he exclaimed. manager of the Eureka Star Film t'orporation. He has just finished producing his latest picture The Qld Soak From F-oakville , starring' lirnest ,Xrias and Madge 'l'homas. Ernie cer- tainly had the looks . And here are Dorothy and Yerna lfagleson, the famous tight-rope walkers in the Shagy Circus . said Margaret. lJon't you remember them. .Xrtie? l certainly do , responded .Xrthuix By the way, our student body president. .Xrthur Rodgers, is busily occupied bottling perfume at Moss l.anding '. Isabelle 'lirevethan is seen on Broadway as a star in the Black Bot- tom Revue . read Margaret. Look here , exclaimed .Xrthur, your old friend. Morley Bradley, has the championship for eating' more pork than any other person in Reno, Nevada. l'ork was his nickname at school, and he came honestly by it . Here is Ralph Mctiowan, a very distinguished bell-boy in the fam- ous 'Linger Longer Hotel' in Boston , replied Margaret. Next is Mildred Xlebh operating a 'l,aug'liing Gas' station in Corrali- UNH. And Bob Baker has become successful scraping' skies in Florida . Oh, say, exclaimed .Xrtie, lf here isn't lileanor Krough, owner of the 'llome for the Blind in Freedom' Here is Harold Bohnettw. added Margaret. a famous dehator in the llouse of Representatives . Edith Mack and Marv l.ucich have announced their intention of playing' off the XYatsonville championship game of tiddly winks at .-Xptos this summer . tt Next is Bernadine Moran, living on a desolate island, still trying' to figure out the difference between a mummy and a dummy . read Artie. and lfvlyne Bosworth is a missionary to the heathen in the Canary Islands. l.ook! Here is Lyle Bueliler, a chimney sweep in San juan. Helen lYalker is an agent for XVrigley's Spearmint gum in l.os .Xu- gclesn, responded Arthur. Remember when she offered a piece of chewing gum to Mr. MacQuiddy? Margaret Hay is keeping a home for blind moles in l'ajaro, and Margaret Silvey is blowing up balloons in Vl'oolworth's for the kiddies . .4 l':i'4i- 'l'u 1-nl Yelvn

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I, Dorothy Eagleson, do will my boisterous ways to Beth Freiermuth. I, Verna Eagleson, do will my affection for men to Helen Grieg. I. Isabelle Trevethan, do will my little book on How to Reduce to Estelle Walker. Hope you have better luck than I did, Estelle! I Bradley I I I I I Morley Bradley. do will my Seat on the Corralitos bus to Elliot . I-Ie sits there most of the time anyway. , Ralph McGowan. do will my good marks to Charley Henizer. , Robert Baker. do will my football uniform to Rex Raymond. Eleanor Krough, do will my complexion to Edith Hart. Edith Mack, do will my vocabulary to ,lack England. Marv Lucich, do will mv place in the Cafeteria force to Marie Tate. Dishwater won't hurt your hands, Marie! I, Evlyne Bosworth. do will my cute ways to Thomas Thwaits. Maybe you'll have better luck with the girls now. Tom! I, Lyle Buehler, do will my desire to be the school sheik to Claude Estill. I. Carl Dobler. do will mv ianitor's broom to Robert Flores. A little work w on't hurt you, Elees! I I, Gwendoline Taylor. do will my desire to debate to Glen Kshcraft. I, Ered Eredricks. do will my girlish ways to Evan Shelby. I Yiola Hackbarth, do will my place in the Scholarship Society to George Handshy. I Iienzi Shikuma, do will my dare-devil stunts to Richard Moore. I. Massake Shikuma. do will my ability to get through to jean S S Ilockabout. She needs it. ielma 'I' rnev cle vill ' sunnv smile to XYarner Davis. Your I, Tl u U, 1 y my . , grin will be perfect now, VYarnerl I, .-Xlice May Atkinson, do will all the bouquets I have received in Iligh School, to Lloyd XN'aters. I, Kenneth Lindgren, do will all the gray hairs I have acquired from being Business Manager of the Manzanita to the next business manager. I.R obert Redman, do will my Dodge Sedan to Eugene Gregerson. It has curtains, Gene! I, Bessie Hoover. do will my love for deep subjects to Robert Ash- craft. They really aren't hard. Bob! I, Hattie Dong, do will my ability to play tennis to Clayton Calkins. I. Cecil Rhodes, do will my ambition to be a movie actor to Charley Trafton. I, Isabel Dexter, do will all my demerits to Daniel Ready. I. Edna Peterson, do will my old fashioned ways to Ruby Beilby, They are just what you need. Ruby! I, Robert Thwaits, do will my Stacomb to Ida Knudson. I, Gertrude Storm, do will my stormy ways to XX'ilbur XYhiteman. I. Elva .-Xmidon. do will my lipstick to IYinona Roth. IX little more won't hurt you. NYinona! I, Marie IXIcElroy, do will my All-Star that I received in basketball to Evelyn Morehead. Don't wear it to school, Evelyn! I. Stephen Scurich, do will my -Iordan Play Boy to Bob .Xshcraft. It's a little better than your cut down, Bob! I, Charlotte -Ioy. do will 1ny excuses for being tardy to Amos Pasley. You'll have less demerits now, Monk! I, Josephine jones, do will my curly locks to Ralph Peterson. Maybe she'll like you better now, Ralph! I. Stanley King, do will my dimple to the entire board of Trustees. I. -Ioe Crosetti, do will my educated toe to -lack Baker. Page Twenty-one

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Behold! said Artie, 'flames Dalton has discovered a cure for the mumps. His cure is 'don't get them'. He always was a bright boy at school . lYell. if here isn't Carl Dobler running for president of Mexico . Helen jackson and Ruth Boline are taking life easily in Africa eating bananas: and Gwendoline Taylor is giving lectures to high school students on 'How I became what l am' . Fred Fredricks , added Arthur, is training fleas in Yiola Hack- barth's circus. Pauline liranich is making a hit in vaudeville singing. Charlie. My Boy' XYell. well , interrupted Artie. if here isn't Doris XYoolley, our old student body secretary, owner uf the famous Starks lnsane Asylum in Soquelu. Here are Kenji and Massarki Shikuma, famous daredevil actors, both jumping from parachutes at the amazing height of two feet . Hell, here's Eldon lloyt, a famous hypnotist. The women are his victims . And Muriel Rood is poundmistress in the large city of Castrovilleg and Stanley King is counting the holes in doughnuts in l'aris . read Mar- garet. And here are Ruth XYilson and XYalter -Ioy running a l'op Corn stand in the Hawaiian Gardens at Capitolan. Here is the announcement that Thelma Turney has swmn the great l'ajaro river in fourteen hours . exclaimed Margaret. Well, Alice May Atkinson is making false teeth for diseased snakes in Bolivia. Kenneth Lindgren is running a hospital for deformed ostriches , added Artie. And here is Clementine Nunes. manager of the Espindola Cash Mar- ket in Hollisteru. XVell. well, if Louis Lucich isn't the new king of Switzerland: and Robert Redman is a great artist in Chicago , Bessie Hoover. a popular radio fan, is fanning radios in London. -lust then Aiko Kusumoto rushed into the office with a paper in her hand. Here are some of the latest accomplishments of great people . she cried. lYell. well, if it isn't Aiko , greeted Arthur. Let me see your paper. Here is Hattie Dong. champion tennis player of the Sandwich Islands, and Alice Streig is teaching agriculture in Mills College . And here is Cecil Rhodes singing popular songs on the vaudeville. with Isabel Dexter accompanying him on the singing saw . l see Edna Peterson is teaching kindergarten in Santa Cruz and Robert Thwaits is assisting her by falling off the chairs to amuse the chil- dren . Gertrude Storm and lilva Ainidon are teaching folk dances in the various sororities at Stanford. and Marie Mcliflroy is occupying a permanent cell in San Quentin , read Margaret. Here are Stephen Scurich and VYalter XYilkinson running a home for henpecked husbands in Santa Cruz , replied Arthur. And Max XYeedon is stretching rubber necks in China? Charlotte joy and Josephine Jones are writing bedtime stories for the Children's Hour over the radio and joe Crosetti is coaching the Har- vard football team this yearn, said Margaret. Last, but not least . said Arthur sadly as he closed the book, is Lowell Cox. giving his famous lectures on 'How to be popular' Page 'l'wenty-tliri-i-