Whatcom High School - Kulshan Yearbook (Bellingham, WA)

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Scene: Gates oT P:ii;i(Iise. Time: 1944. Chahactichs: SI. Pclcr and the four f iiardiaiis of the ehiss of ' 24 of Whatcom Iligli Scliool. St. Peter (yellinj; al 1st Ant el) : Hey, Rastus! It ' s about lime to he sending in our orders to Sears Hoel)Uek for the har])s the class of ' 24 of Whatcom Hif h will need. We want lo know how many are goinf the other way. How did your re|)orls turn out? I hope you didn ' t have as hard a time locating Ihein now as they used to have when they ditched classes. By the way, what are the prospects of the Honorable Don Marquis? 1st Angel: Decide for yourself. He is still playing center on the Normal football team, after llunking in every subject the last 18 years. He has gotten sweet on one of the teachers there. Miss Stallings, by name, who has followed him up in his career, after her loving exper- iences with him in public speaking. St. Peter: Well, that ' s a good start. What about the rest of the class? 1st Angel: Well, Audrey Bendsil and Anne and Arlene Carter have formed a society for the suppression of dancing in high schools, and with Doris Deeter as their manager, they have toured Nooksack, Everson and Ferndale, lecturing for their cause. Their ambition is to go to Blaine to finish up their tour with a grand llourish. Ed Anderson has been doing extensive research work in Rome. His aspiration is to determine whether (Caesar was sitting or standing when he said Give me liberty or give me death! He is assisted in this great enterprise by Helen Deets whose love of Latin has carried her to great heights. Lindalee Miller and Mildred Strandberg have broken all previous airplane records by flying from Bellingham to Marietta in ten hours. The only way they accomplished this marvelous feat was by hiring a Ford to tow them. By the way, 1 noticed an ad the other day for the Alberta McLeod ballet, whose personnel consists of Sarah Adriim, Sarah Einarson, Flor- ence McDonald, Alice Selby, Ella Brokaw, Emma Brown, and Lois Gallenger. They are performing in the Chicago t)pera House after a successful season in Timbuctoo. Kenneth .lackson, incidentally, has written a novel entitled What Divorce Has Meant to Me. This book is quite the rage of the season and is especially popular with all the sub-debs, who are fascinated by the charms of the author. John Fitzgerald and Kay O ' Reilly are making a world tour debat- ing the question : Resolved, That all Irishmen are liars. Florence Pascoe, meanwhile has v.ritten a poem of 2000 cantos, named Miss Graham, as 1 Remember Her. Twenty lour

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This time we surprised the Not-A-Sho fans by putting on the best fashion show in the northwest. Our class officers were: Edward McWhinney, Florian Culver, Helen Lochead and Harriett Wiedman. Freda Slater was elected captain of the girls ' basketball team and Frances Berolski and Laura I5ull were on the team also. Earl Henuni and Leslie Orr were on the track team. This was the year of the terrible final examinations; one a day in each subject for a whole week. I slill tremble to think of it. Our dramatic ability which later became famous in the school first came to light when Evelyn Hagen was chosen as one of What- com ' s representatives to the Shakespearean contest at the I ' niversity of Washington. When we became Juniors we started to make a name for our- selves in earnest. We gave The Family Album ' ' for the Xot-a-Sho while a number of our prominent young gentlemen posed as bathing beauties in the sirle show. Jack ' hite drew much attention to the baby show by riding around the halls in a coaster wagon. We elected Max Barlow, president : Helen Lochead, vice-presi- dent; Evelyn Hagen, secretary; and Edward Hyde, treasurer. Our promising young actors and actresses first showed what they could do with a real play l)y giving Come Out of the Kitchen. In basketl)all v.e had five girls on the team, Irene Davidson, Eleanor Grifiith, Freda Slater, Laura Bull, and Edna Mae Hill. Frances Berolski was captain of the girls ' baseball team and Edna Mae Hill. Birdie McLeod, Freda Slater, Jessie Kirby, and Laura Bull all helped to make the season a successful one. We surely had a monopoly on athletic girls. The boys did well too. Bus Frank, Dizzy Keener and Glenn Gil)i)s played on the state championship football team; George Gordon, basketljall; Bob Gregory, baseball; and Earl Hemmi and Leslie Orr were out for track again. About the first of June that long-looked forward to event the Junior-Senior picnic, took place. We started merrily for Birch Bay, Friday morning, with the Freshmen and Sophomores watching us wistfully from the windows. The day proved to be rather moist for sitting around the beach but we nuule the best of it and had a fine time just liie same. The neighlioring hot-dog stands did a thriving business. We took advantage of the great excitement over Tutankhamen to put on a King Tut stunt at the Not-a-Sho. The atmosphere was distinctly Egyptian with Ralph Hennes singing Yes, We Have No Bananas. When preparations for the Senior i la ' , The Gipsy Trail were begun, so much talent was discovered that Mr. Chichester decided to put it on two nights with entirely ditl ' erent casts. We also helped to give debate a good start as a school activity. Three members of the team were seniors and tliey certainlj ' could talk ! The great man broke olf with a laugh. Well, I haven ' t told you much about myself, have I? But now you see why the class of ' 24 is the only one for me. Katherine Hughes ' 24. Twenty-three

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St. Peter: Which reminds me. I am seriously considering Earl Hemmi as my successor. For this business is beginning to get on my nerves. His record in track at Whatcom has proved him a fast man, which (lualification my successor needs must have. 2nd Angel: As for .lack White, he and Cliflord Loomis have con- solidated as advertisements for the Reduce-by-Rolling Machine Com- pany. They represent the before and after effects, needless to say. Donna Lehmann has patented a new device by which she can carry on telephone conversations with six young men at once. Bob Bettner, after studying sewing for the last ten years, prepara- tory to becoming a dressmaker, has suffered a nervous break-down and will not be able to resume his profession for several years. This is a great loss to the community, as he always specialized in the latest Paris styles. Leonardeen Miller has reached the height of her career as a pianist for she is at present playing the electric jjlayer-piano at the Dream Theater. She enjoys this greatly as it calls for fully six hours of prac- tising a day. Whatcom has developed several talented movie actors and actress- es, among whom are: Vernon Hansen, a second .Jackie Coogan; Verna Hess, another Mary Pickford: .Mildred Gerfin, a Nazimova; Homer Benefield, a third Rudolph Valentino, and, last but not least. Myrtle Pierce, who is Baby Peggj ' s nearest rival. Harriett Wiedman, contrary to her inclinations in high school, has become a tyi)ical old maid and may be seen every day taking her constitutional, accompanied by her pet poodle, named ' Anhur. As for Ben Markovitz, he and the Glazers — Sam and David have become prosperous lawyers under the careful instruction of Mr. Smith. They have won many important cases, the most interesting of which was ' that of Frances Thompson vs. Dr. Kill Me Quick, a beauty special- ist, who had dyed her eyebrows green instead of purple as she had or- dered, for you remember, Pete, colored eyebrows are a fad at present. I am sorry to say that Frances lost the case, because the jury was bribed by the doctor. Florian Culver and her husband Leslie Orr are living peacefully on the Indian Reservation on their skunk farm, which although it does not bring large dividends, supplies them with heavenly odors. After being courted for ten years. Philomena Hynes has at length refused Bob Gregory, but he still ' lives in hopes and when they join us here on high, there may be a different end to the wooing. St. Peter: Il ' m — let ' s hope so, he ought to have some reward for being so faithful. 3rd Angel: Well, as for Bill Roberts, I prophecy a bad end, and he will surely finish up by going the other way, for he has been acting as nurse maid to Mr. Keeran ' s grand-daughter. So, you see the kind of company he has been keeping. Roy Ivie and Florence Smith, having mutual acquaintances in the world of chemistry, are devoting their honeymoon to the search for dry water. So far the nearest they have come to it is thi- discoN ' ery ol dry sand. Twenty-five