Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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(2) all employed in the Heinz factory at Pittsburgh; Pearl is in the office. Margaret is a recipe inventor and tester, and Dorothy is a pickle inspector. Helen Law and Mary Champion are models at Macy’s in New York, and Pat Verstine is that store's Paris buyer. Doris Visingard and Marjorie Brady hold positions with Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh. June Thrush works in a cosmetic factory in Jersey City. I la Perrin works for Simon and Schuster, reading incoming manuscripts to see if they are worthy of publication. Miriam Emery illustrates children’s books, while Forrest Hughey makes those catchy sketches for “Esquire.’’ Sara Gilmore is a dress designer for “Harper’s Bazaar. Keith Vandervort holds the place in the hearts of America once occupied by Edgar Guest. Jacque Arthurs now runs a sweethearts’ correspondence school in New York City. Margaret Rhoades is librarian in Carnegie Library. Pittsburgh. Florence Fetzer and Gwenda Ingersoll are clerks in the Boston Y. W. C. A. Pearl and Verba Work are “working’’ their way through Penn State. George Inman is a traveling salesman in newly-developed Alaska. In the sports world are Arthur Brenneman. bull-fighter: Daryl Cable, who plays pro football with the Pittsburgh Pirates; and Dale Gilbert and Glenn Lindemuth. who play ball for the New York Yankees and the Giants, respectively. Web Boozer caddies and sells gum at the Pinecrest club house. In the professional world. Lois Reitz is a surgeon at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Ray Zitzelberger. Helen Winkelman. and Dick Prenatt have established a field laboratory to study paper pulp at Sheffield. Pa. Also in the chemical world is Earle Thompson, industrial chemist with the DuPonts, and Paul McFadden. an agricultural chemist at Penn State. The latter makes many experiments on Ernest Caldwell’s farm near Hazen. Rufus Hetrick has made some valuable observations with the new 200-inch telescope at the Mount Palomar observatory. Following up aviation is Lilburn Glover, who aids the pilots as weather observer at Newark airport. There also we find Test Pilot Ed Johns tap-dancing in a hangar when off duty. Near Newark. Bill Morrison has opened a monument works, adjacent to his undertaking establishment and doctor's office. (Bill is near the airport. Pat Wonderling is a TWA stewardess. Draw your own conclusions.) At New York City. I found Ed Smail. president of the Coca Cola company. I also located Jim Munro, the Park Avenue playboy who made a fortune on the horses. In the same city are Zoe Moore, who inherited a fortune from an old spinster and lives on a Long Island estate, and Dale Shields, contented with employment once a year as a department store Santa Claus. In the Empire City. Ronald Uplinger keeps the zoo animals contented and makes them feel at home. Betty Bennett plays for the Salvation Army, and Dorothy Nolph is a missionary to India. Howard Wood lives in Canada where he has extensive lumber interests, and Ronald Mauk is a mine superintendent in South America. Dick Swab and Gene Wallace are guides for visiting fishers to the Canadian woods. Fenton Jones operates a profitable fishing establishment in Tampa. Florida, with his cousin. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones. (Yesiree!) Betty Moore manages exclusive Scottie kennels near New York, while Mary Hivick owns a Wyoming sheep ranch. Harriet and Lucille Swineford. and Helen Schaeffer are florists in Atlantic City. On the marriage list. Craig Brosius and Ruth Bullers. who were married four years ago. live in Cleveland and employ Hazel Shields as the nurse of their five-month-old twins. Rodger and Jane Cooley Quick live in Philadelphia, while Joe and Marie Brosius Himes reside in Cincinnati. Evelyn Swartz is the housekeeper in the Tom Mix home in California, and reports say they will be married in June. Eva King has met her Adam in St. Paul. Minnesota.

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Bureau of Missing Persons Washington, D. C. Office of the Secretary , February 1 1, 1949. Mr. John E. Biery, Supervising Principal, Brookville High School, Brookville, Penna. My Dear Mr. Biery:— In reply to your letter of the 5th, I have been able to glean for you the following information from the Social Security and Civil Service records, as well as the files of this bureau, to which I have access here in Washington. 1 enclose a list of addresses with remarks. As I understand it, you want to locate all the members of the class of '39, that you may invite them to be present at the dedication of the new auditorium, the gift of Allen P. Kahn, multi-millionaire Broadway producer, and social science columnist for the New York Times.” The first field 1 investigated was the entertainment field. I found that Martha Frazier and Connie Osborne appear regularly with the Boston symphony orchestra, and are heard frequently in piano duets on the Magic Key. Dave Duncan has taken the place of Johnnie on the Phillip Morris program, while Sherwood St. Clair occupies Don Wilson's former place on Jack Benny's show. On the Columbia networks, is Esther George, who now appears on Lady Esther's Serenade.” Ted Arthurs and Roland and Ronald Corbett play for Tommy Dorsey. Patty Mayes doesn't see much of her husband, who runs the Grand Central Station news stand, because she is so busy with her all-girl orchestra. Helen Summerville is her business manager. Gilbert Shilling conducts a question bee over WHJB. Greensburg. every Thursday morning at 8:30. Bill McIntyre, who croons for M. G. M., still sees Dave Hepler. an extra at Warner Brothers. Hollywood gossip says Dave sees a lot of Martha Wiley, of 20th Century-Fox. Gordon Rockey. Martha's publicity man, has built her up to a brunette Alice Faye. Bo Sandt is playing Scarlet O'Hara for the fifth year in the Broadway version of Gone With the Wind.” Virginia DeMotte has been in Italy for three years studying music. In Hollywood again, Floyd Evans has replaced a Ritz brother who recently quit the famous movie laugh trio. Quite a few members of the class have entered the education field. Ruth Jones is running a Pittsburgh business college, Nell Clark is dean of women at Smith, and Nell Frazier teaches speech at Goucher. Two years ago Dale Stahlman assumed the presidency of Vassar, and seems quite satisfied to retain the post. Estella Berkhouse and Ruth Mitchell teach French and Latin respectively in the Pittsburgh schools. Gene Foulks, very much experienced in History IV. has become a teacher of that subject in Weedville High School. Jim Sibley, as you know, teaches some of your third and fourth year math classes, as well as being B. H. S. basketball coach. Jack Thompson has taken the position left vacant at Pitt by Jock Sutherland, ten years ago, and has produced championship teams for three years now. Mary Ferraro is chief telephone operator in Wichita, Kansas, and Aldine Murray in Richmond. Virginia. Also employed by the telephone company is Ronald Kennedy, who is a lineman in California. Edmond Sellers works at the Niagara Falls power plant. Eugene Grubbs is head mechanic at the Chevrolet plant in Detroit. Pearl Carberry, Dorothy Ogorchock, and Margaret Shannon are

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O) Of course there are a number of former students who are still in Brookville and surrounding communities. Zelmar Slimak owns a dairy and raises contented cows. Kay Benninger is still working out at Barnes Station, playing Eeny Meeny Miny Moe. In Brookville. Ronald Sprague is a carpenter, and Harry Burns is an engineer with the Shawmut. Grace McAninch, Doris Vallimont. and Betty Smith work at the glove factory, while Estella Kelso and Margaret Magill work in the Meadville zipper factory. Mary Reitz is employed at the Reynoldsville silk mill. Jane Anderson is a waitress in Isaly's dairy store at Titusville, and Mary and Phalista Irvine manage “Candyland in DuBois. Helen Clover. Betty Siar. and Bonnie Sibley are running the Cook Forest Inn. Charles Battaglia runs the Brockway macaroni factory, and employs Helen Humphreys as private secretary. The new manager of the Columbia Theater is Merle Oakes, who employs Jane Smith as ticket-seller. Virginia Miller is a hairdresser, with Florence Korb as her stylist. Dick McManigle runs a barber shop, and Don Law is burgess of Coder. Beatrice Minich is now working in the post office. The Hon. James Case, Esq., is Reynoldsville's capable and efficient dog-catcher, Stewart Williamson is directing a safe driving campaign in Port Barnett, Henry Brehm has broken Sir Malcolm Campbell's record without a special car, and Karl Bierly has been moved to the happy position of editor of the “Jeffersonian Democrat. Darrell Hetrick is one of the county commissioners. Even now, Betty Matthews and Ethel McCracken are employed in the headquarters of the “Keith Sebring for County Treasurer campaign. Duane Stewart is Congressman from your district, and has in his employ Ruth Stewart and Helen Peterson as secretaries. Eva Frye is the national president of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the American Legion, and Imogene Markle is national head of the Girl Scouts of America. Right now. looking over my shoulder is Junior Scott. Washington G-Man and an old friend whom 1 frequently see. In closing, I would express the hope that your rheumatism, which you mentioned, has by this time left you. My regards to Mr. Ewing, and the hope that he will soon recover from his attack of lumbago. Kindly remember us to the rest of the faculty. Naturally, I shall make every effort to be in Brookville myself on the evening of April 29th for the service, and shall enjoy meeting again my old friends and the class of '39. Very truly yours, FRANK H. THOMPSON FHT-cbk enc. address list. • • • Senior Directory Name Usually Found Wants to Be Probably Will Be Jane Anderson In the Library Ideal Wife Librarian Fred Arthurs Blushing Strong Man Henpecked Jacque Arthurs Criticizing Chorus Girl Chore Girl Charles Battaglia Flirting Millionaire Tramp Betty Bennett At Home Singer Cook Kathryn Benninger In the Halls Aviatrix Heartbroken Estella Berkhouse Driving Teacher Telephone Operator Karl Bierly Arguing Shakespeare II Printer Webster Boozer Running Painter Floorwalker Marjorie Brady Reading Virgil Latin Teacher Cooking Teacher Henry Brehm Late Heap Big Here Street Cleaner Arthur Brenncman Chasing Girls Pugilist Bossed Craig Brosius Good Humored Admiral Glass Blower