Muskegon Heights High School - Oaks Yearbook (Muskegon Heights, MI)

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--Y - D Nllruif If I 'Xxx 1 7' l ' V1 'Tiff HRYRIAQ Y -J Z .771 'lu 9 '- ,BALASE A Sf? I 1 2 l it 'tw-' Ei well known tennis star: Don Runyan, an up and coming young forester: and Evelyn Barding, an Olympic swimmer. After breakfast I decided to go to some beauty parlor in preparation for my return trip tomorrow. I looked in the tele- phone directory for the names of some of the shops and was astonished to find many of my former friends in this occupa- tion. There was Phyllis Carey, Mary Miller, and Mary Cirner. I forgot all about my intentions to go to a beauty parlor when I became interested in the telephone directory. I found many persons I knew. Let's see, there was George Dickinson, a pros- perous advertising man: Robert Hoekenga, who runs a gas sta- tion: the firm of Marjorie Keedle, Robert Neuman and Art Pierce, who are all well known and distinguished commercial artists. I had a little more time before my appointment to go to the P.T.A. so I decided, for curiosity's sake, to go down to the mar- riage license bureau, and look over the list of licenses to see if there was anyone there whom I knew. I found I knew nine of the newly married persons. There was Ruth Erickson, Gloria Iohnson, Beatrice Mosher, lean Stafford, Lorraine Swarthout, Kathleen Wilson, Elsie Remwolt, Eleanor Ritz, and Vivienne Walters. I had lunch and then I met my escort. We attended the P.T.A. meeting where I met the Heights teachers. I was sur- prised to see that many of the former students were now teachers. For instance, there was, Margaret Barrett, a history teacher: lean Hedgecock, an English teacher: Rachel Hiltner, who was now principal of the school: Ioycelyn Fosdick, a typ- ing teacher: and Herman Radakovitz, the gym teacher. They had a very nice program consisting of two violin solos, by the well known violinist, Marcella Kubilins, and talks by Dawn Kirpatrick, a recently returned missionary: and Donna Kocher and Robert Campsmith, Scout executives. Oh, I almost forgot! I met Lillian Anderson, the promising young novelist. We came home in a taxi driven by Louis McCormack. As we drove down the street, a tire suddenly blew out and the car swerved off the street hitting the car in front of us. No one was seriously injured. My escort said he'd call Boyd Auto Sales managed by Bob McCaleb, and have them send out a couple of mechanics to get the car. The mechanics were Dick Zimmer and lack Shillinger, who, by the way, was one who specialized in the fixing of broken mufflers. My escort insisted on taking me to the hospital inasmuch as I had a few cuts on my head. After the chief doctor, Burton Ostling, had treated me, he offered to take me through the hospital. Again I was

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by the firm of Eldon Kelley and Delbert Blaha. The painting of the building was being done by William Seng. We then went to the fire department where I was surprised to meet Sherwood Wagner, the fire chief. Other firemen were Leo Dean, Hugo Van Noordwyk, Robert Aue, and Max Ryefield. I decided I wanted to have lunch, so we went to a restaurant owned and operated by Angelina Pappan and her partner, Felix Petrongelli. The chef there was Marjorie Davies: Iulia Elko and Marian I onas were the waitresses. Finishing the lunch, we decided to go on a little shopping tour. We visited Sam La Porter's clothing store, where Edwin McClary was the floor manager. We went to the C. and P. store, one of the many chain stores owned by Paul Iohnson. The clerk was Dorand Porter. We visited two other smaller stores owned by Steve Matuz and Susan Hulka. I wanted some baked goods so I went to the Tidy bakery, owned and operated by Ann Hradsky. While going down the street, I noticed several signs hanging in front of the buildings. One was Don Iohnson, Dentist : another was Lawrence Schmuker's Pharmacy : two others were: Ioe Szuc's Shoe Shop, and Geneva Vandervelde's Portrait Studio. I noticed a very attractive bracelet in one of the windows of a jewelry store and so I went in to find out what the price was. I was very surprised to meet Carl Benson, the owner of the store. After purchasing my bracelet, my escort took me to a small tea shop, which was run by one oi my older acquaintances, Carolyn Chesney. Next door was a dress shop, owned and operated by Miriam Lillie. My last stop was at a very attractive candy shop. I was greeted by Donna Pike, a dear friend of mine in earlier years. Although she was the owner of such a shop, she was still leaving sweets off her diet list. I am too tired to write any more, so I'm going to retire. Good-night. Thursday, April 27, 1945 Dear Diary: I awakened early this morning and was visited by Dick Lorenz, the local undertaker. He suggested that we visit the P.T.A. of the Heights Schools this afternoon. While eating my breakfast, I looked at the morning edition of the Heights paper and was surprised to read about many of my old acquaintances. There were articles about Chuck Marecek, who was playing on the Detroit Tigers' baseball team: Ellen Campbell, the world's best woman basketball player: Ierry Hornik, a professional football player: George Rudd, a 6- 1 .Z QS I 2 -+ Q V: ff ' I Q. .if E Gfvf 4, LJ , , -SQ. S 505' . A t kv ' db nt I if f .UWM Ez 'lx 3 31' 0 '41, Ri. , 5 Q .. N 2,9 Gt I W if fi, f..1. --

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surprised to find many nurses whom I knew. I met Rosemary Benjamin, Elizabeth Ochs, and Lois Souffrou. I returned to my hotel where Iim Fairres, an old friend of mine who was engaged in the real estate business, was wait- ing for me. He said he had planned to take me to a city council meeting tonight. His competitors in this business were Wilfred Fortier, Erwin Moon, and Lester Matthews. ' The meeting was set for 8:00, we just had time to have din- ner. There was an enormous crowd attending the meeting. It seems that the farmers' association was there, trying to get some kind of farm bill passed. Upon looking around I saw many farmers with whom I used to go to school: there were Bernard DeYoung, a celery farmer: Chester Puehler and Ivan Zona, commercial farmers: and Wallace Young, a gentleman farmer. Some of the farmers' Wives were there. Let's see if I can remember. There was Alice Czerniak, Olga Kovarcik, Agnes Kandalec, Irene Gardner, and Betty Gibson. While I've had a very nice time, dear diary, I am getting so lonesome for that husband of mine. I can hardly wait to go home tomorrow! Good-night. Friday, April 28, 1945 Dear Diary: I am writing this on the train on my way home. I sent a telegram to my husband before leaving the Heights, telling him that I would be home by 5:00. I was surprised to see that Maxine Tufts was the telegraph operator. I had such a won- derful send-off this morning. It seemed as though every one came to the station. There were many of the girls whom I went to school with who belonged to a Secretary's Union who were there. There were Grace Eden, Evelyn Laban, Marilyn Simp- son, Eileen Stockli, and Doris Scott. Of course there were others there to see me off, for instance there was Edward Naperalsky, the well known aviator: Arlo Norton, the foreman of the Norge: and then of course many of the people I had already met. It's been swell going back but I can hardly wait to get back to my husband. I'1l have to stop writing for the train is slowing down, and I can see him on the platform, waiting for me. THE END Q N., ' Fl AIEOEN 6 10 I as ,o 3' . ff' f! -f FFS l 5 aj J I .J- .. , 4 1 Nga. 0 A . l JTIN6 1 , gp . V- '.-- 1.1 -'7 'it fl wma A may ff . . - E H321-:r, g:Sragfac:a-. .if a1,::tg'.'2-45: . . rf 'fgfsl fifglffvlic Q47 ff gg f X