West Linn High School - Green and Gold Yearbook (West Linn, OR)

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it I fi 'X ' 'fha-fe. 'i il 5 if if d - ttf l l l t ,, Marion Vlaltos runs the soft drink stand while Margaret Gary ad- vertises the Black Bottom Circus. The two sleuths john and lN'illiam Stricklin keep the circus free from pick-pockets. They seem to cover so much ground at one time-l wonder why-it wouldn't have anything to do with their feet would it? Some people always continue the same work after they get out of school as they did when they went to school. This is the way with lien Vinson, he is now water hoy for the elephants. He always has to watch out because he is afraid the elephants might think he is an ant and step on him. Emma Matile is not with the circus any more and her name seems to he changed. I don't know why hut l'll let you guess. too. Kenneth Peter- son has also followed in Emma's footsteps. Wesley McNeil runs the calliope for the merry-go-round. Ile has sold his Ford and has taken up this so that he won't get lonesome. The jugglers. Irene Elliot. Lucille Foster. Oren Hughes and Paul Petit. add much entertainment as also do the clowns Richard Leisman. Clifford Smith and Mary Merrick. Virgil Ohling, the midget must have shrunk in the twenty years that have passed since I saw him. One of the chief side show attractions is Rohert -lost the wild man from Borneo. First time l knew hirth-places moved. I wonder where that music is coming from? l'l'hy from the hand lead hy Ed Howell. The players are Cecil Guhser, .-Xlvin Hulse. Pearl Baker, Rose Gerkman. Eileen Groupe and Norma Ivins. Ray Shockley seems to like to sell lialloons hetter than anything else. Greta Matzen. who once was the artist editor for the Green and Gold at lYest Linn, still continues in that line, she is now the tatooed lady. Peanuts! Peanuts! Five cents a hag. :Xnyhody want a sack of pea- nuts? It seems that Howard Skinner's practice as a yell leader has come in handy, Meredith Rittenhouse and Glena liauersfeld seem to glory in wrap- ping snakes around their arms and necks. They are the snake charniers. Far he it from me. Mason MacLean is the lion tamer while -Iohn Roe does much the same tricks with the tigers. I'll het Elmer Moser has hlisters in his mouth and not from telling lies either. He is the world famous fire eater. lewis Stahlnecker and Beatrice llerford are the tight rope walkers. Eudora lVoodworth Ends great pleasure in sliding down the wire with an umhrella over her head. They had hetter keep their halance or else watch out. Ralph Yoting leads the elephants while Dorothy Young and Essie Macllonald find riding the elephants' hacks more to their liking. Louise Sievers seems to he using' a camouflage for some reason or other. VVe're not supposed to know the truth for she is the hearded lady of the circus. The minstrels are Margaret Evans. Mildred Legler. Marie Morrison and Alhertha Swauger. Lola Stahe and Helen Swenson ran the novelty stand. Mildred Yeager and Eleanor Valley sell candy cotton. 'l he Siamese twins are Agnes and Gladys XYilkin. They seem to have added a little more to their title since I last knew them. They fool the people now hut they can't fool us from VVest Linn high school. lhznvt. 'I't'RNsa '35. l 23 l

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f I f' G gg, e Ill fi i X J lz il f al flww-Qil' M Prophesy of Class of 1935 It was N55 and l had lived on Mars for twenty years. One clay I got rather lonesome so I set up my telescope and looked down on Earth to see if I couldnt lind some of my old classmates. Much to my disappointment it was night on Earth and I couldn't see a thing. Iiut all of a sudden I saw a bright spot so I adjusted my telescope to make it more clear. .Xhl it was a circus all lighted up. There was the name on the sign above the entrance lialcomb and Barnes. I'roprietors. Well, well and there was Gerald .Xdams taking tickets with Virginia Davis as his assistant. I connected my Plana- phone tnewest invention used for talking between planetsj with Gerald to see if he could tell me about the rest of my schoolmates. Ile told me that they were all working for the Black Bottom Circus. Charles Sheron and his well-known pal Karl Iiahle are Twist and Untwist the world famous contortionists. I'll bet they could maneuver the ball through the line if they were playing football at good old lYest Linn now. Evelyn Yeomans, Vernon Boecknian. lVilma Seitz and Paul Snapp give the crowd all the thrills. they are, the trapeze performers. The Bow Wows, in the olden days they were called barkers, are Ken- neth Iilliott, star basketball player for X'Vest l.inn. Gus Meyers. and Rae Marsh the football heroes. The man who can take it as they used to say is Ralph Ford one of the main side show attractions. He sits still. can you imagine it, while 100,000 volts of electricity are shot through him. I think he was born thirty years too late, they used to shoot only 25.000 volts through them. Maxine Laub and Sadie Ryser are running the hot dog stand. Their ambition always was to sell hot dogs but they wanted to sell them to the fishermen on the river not to circus spectators. I guess it is better though for half of your ambition to- come true if not all. One ol the greatest attractions at the circus is the noted fan dancer. Esther Lange. XVe also have another famous dancer here. Maxine Parker. the hula dancer. Now you wonder why you have to shove and push to get into the circus tent. . . We also have the three glasses of the circus, Florence de Neui, Amy Ilegar. and Dorothy Snyder, better known as the Tumblers. The ventriloquist. Randal Oaks delights in asking Nellie Hughes questions. She is supposed to be the dummy who sits on his knee and answers them. Belle Brown. the equestrienne. and her five horse-back riders are Dorothy Ann Duncan. Verne Steiner. Elmer Vick. Anna Volpp and Mar- jorie Chapman. These also are employed by the circus. Mostly women are found in this side show. They all want to find out who will be their handsome Romeo. I,ucille Draper, the now called future teller never lacks anything to do. It seems that times never change with regard to this business at a circus. One of these days I'm afraid that Queen Helen will be no more. Her greatest delight is to put her head into a Tiger's mouth. at least it is sup- posed to be her delight. Don't let lVayne XVisham have your hat if he asks for it when you go into his tent or you might find anything in it from soup to catsup. He is the man who does all the little disappearing acts. Go see the great ma- gician. I 22 I

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