Dwight Township High School - Rudder Yearbook (Dwight, IL)

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P 1 New York City May 24, 1048 DEAR Miss PIUNTIQR, lt's been tive years since that memorable day when I graduated from dear old llwight High, and l imagine that you will be rather surprised to hear from me. A great deal of water has passed under the bridge since then, but surpris- ingly enough l've been able to keep in contact with nearly all of my former classmates. l thought perhaps you might be interested in hearing something about them. I am also sending you a picture album which I made after I returned from South America a year ago. As you probably remember, l attended the XVorld Reconstruction Confer- ence at Reo de Janeiro as a correspondent from the New York llemld-Tiiizcx. Another famous foreign correspondent tincidentally a former classmatel, Elea- nor Hayes, attended the conference with me. Un the first page of the album is a picture of the C'ur'iliIn'a, the famous South American liner which has broken all speed records with its super Diesel engines. especially designed by the 1945 Nobel Prize winner, Gilbert Kamm. I under- stand he now has a new assistant who graduated with me in 1943. Ray Cassady is his name. 'llhe events of that trip are still quite vivid in my mind, and I've been able to recall a great many of them after re-reading the diary which I kept at that time. VVhen we boarded the tiarihbcu, Eleanor and l were escorted to our cabin by none other than the head steward, Elmer Wfeber. Ile informed us, much to our delight, that lfrank l'rindiville and Glen Thomas were petty officers on the ship, and that ,Ioe Ruder was in command. So we resolved to see them after we finished unpacking our luggage. We not only found them, but we also saw three former Ransom girls, Ruth NVright, Helen Hagi, and yluanita Ewing, who were on their wav to lluenos Aires to open a beauty' shop with all the latest equipment. Helen said that Ray Carty, who has built up a good business in air- conditioning in lluenos Aires, was going to be in charge of the installation of the air-conditioning system in their shop. 'l'he rest of our trip was rather uneventful. llisembarking at Rio de Janeiro, Eleanor suggested that we do a little sight- seeing after we established our residence at one of the best hotels in Rio, the CContinued on Page Seventy-twoj Page I mlm rn

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