Clay City High School - Claytonian Yearbook (Clay City, IL)

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Bill Mcllvain began working in the oil field as soon as school was out. He worked on the pipe line for about two years and after that was given a job as a “ruff-neck.” Guida Miller studied abroad for several years and then returned to the United States to become the world’s leading novelist and short story writer. Her many novels have won her great fame. Roger Olson has now opened “Flash Olson’s Studio” in New York and we hear he is doing well with the assistance of his brother-in-law, Mack Henderson. Marie Patridge attended the Sanford Brown Business college and is now employed as a stenographer in the Clay City Community High School office. Earl Payne, regardless of his marriage to Doris Coulter, is still a delivery boy at Murvin Bros. We hope he isn’t still as forgetful as he was in high school. Arthur Phillips, after studying abroad, returned to this country and is now employed as a bookkeeper for the National Supply Company. Virginia Powell continued her school work, specializing in chemistry, and we now see her name among other great scientists in the world. Junior Roberts attended a teacher’s college and is now teaching in a high school in southern Illinois. We hear he is quite a success. Meryl Rogers jumped from high school to the Big Leagues in New York. He receives a salary of $500,000 yearly and has given the leagues many swell ideas which were his very own. Joyce Sapp now operates the Midget Restaurant in Sailor Springs where she serves delicious steak dinners along with short orders. She also has a dance floor in the back of the restaurant. Florence Schofield married an oil magnate and is now living in Texas. In her spare time, besides taking care of her ten children, she writes short stories. Rawleigh Schofield started to study law but decided all of a sudden that he wanted to be an orchestra leader. He is now leader of the world’s famous orchestra, “Little Sir Rawleigh’s Orchestra.” Kathryn Stanford took up the study of medicine and after receiving her degree she opened on office in Paris where she and her husband. Dr. Harrison, are now living. Marie Weber decided she wanted to stay on the farm. She now operates her own dairy farm where she has 1000 cows.

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John Knox Duff told me that regardless of the future he had planned, Betty Jo had hooked him during leap year and he now spends many disgusting days on the pig ranch. George Erwin had gone to a religious college in Missouri and is now the Baptist preacher in Clay City. He says that he now regrets all the swearing he did in school and is sorry that he played hooky so much. Daphanese Evans left Clay City and joined a circus where she became a famous tap dancer. She spends her leisure time training animals. Samuel Frank became a traveling salesman but he lost many sales because he failed to remember all the good points Mr. Wheatley had given him in Salesmanship class. Leonard Haines went to Hollywood and when Clark Gable died; Leonard took Gable’s place. His first picture was “My Twelfth Wife,” in which Martha Raye played opposite him. Wesley Harry had attended an aviator’s school in Indiana and became one of the most famous stunt fliers in the world. Helen Henry, after two years of courtship with Gill Hosselton, finally “got hitched” and is now living on a large farm south of Clay City. Helen does all the farming while Gill lays in the shade. Bessie Lois Holman was left alone and thought she was to be an old maid, but after ten years of loneliness, Norman returned from Texas and soon there was one less old maid and old bachelor in the country. Orneal Hilderbrand, after graduation, became the Janitor at the Clay City Community High School. From the day he threw the chalk and had to clean up the room he decided he liked this work. Charles Hohlbauch and Orpha Lee were married as soon as she graduated from high school. They made their home in New York where Charles became a taxi driver for gangsters. Leon Holman went abroad to study medicine, but he was offered a job as a teacher, which he accepted. He has never been home since. Harold Holmes decided he liked history so well, so he took up a postgraduate course of history only. After he was finished with the course, he and “Peggy” were married and settled down on his father’s farm where they watched the oil checks roll in. Gene Hubbartt was sent to St. Louis to take charge of a jarge Kroger store, the store covers a whole block, so Gene is kept quite busy. Ninetta Lutz went to South America to be a missionary, but because of tne huge snakes and other wild animals, she returned to Clay City where she is now superintendent of the Methodist church.

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CLAYTONIAN Eugene White studied exploration by air and has made many useful scientific discoveries, which he wishes he had known in Chemistry and Physics class in high school. Zota Koontz won a beauty contest and was awarded a free trip to Hollywood. While she was there she received a long term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and has appeared in many pictures. Charles Whittaker studied psychology and finally went to the Hawaiian Islands. Here he made a study of the girls to see why they are so much more beautiful than most American girls. Bill Smith studied civil engineering after his graduation from high school and soon became an employee of the Pure Oil company. Because of his alert mind and his economic operations he was chosen as superintendent of the company. Well, after my twelfth husband and I had finished our quarrel, I decided to help myself to some of the gorgeous jewels in the cave. Just as I was ready to fill my purse with the gems, along came an officer. He saw what I was doing and he grabbed me and began to shake me. Just then I awoke to find Officer Shannon in the act of trying to awaken me to present me with a ticket for parking beside a fire hydrant. When I learned that all this was a dream, I was very disappointed. Just the same, we may find all these students doing such things some day, so don’t be surprised what you hear. —Norma Weiler