East Grand Rapids High School - Interlochen Yearbook (East Grand Rapids, MI)

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A KISSI Oh you s1lly boy I was only chew1ng my gum w1th emphasxs Some of the th1ngs you say remxnd me of the hero 1n Margaret O Br1en s last novel 1 dont suppose you ve read THE VIL LAGE CHESTNUT though All you do 1S read the even1ng paper for some of Ruoffs pol1t1cal controvers1es I w1sh you d branch 1nto poetry Oh take Alxce Blerce for mstance SKIPPING BARE FOOT THROUGH THE CINDERS cer ta1nly br1ngs out a wealth of feehng And Betty Perkms yust captured me w1th SING SLOW SWEET HARRIET Elward Cam pau and Charles Kaekel have spent nearly a decade rewr1t1ng Shakespeare but of course that wont be f1n1shed for another ten years D1d I tell you about the funny thmg that happened last n1ght 1n our own cafeterla? Iean Lmsey the head wartress poured some plaster of pans on a cus tomers r1ce pudd1ng It certa1nly put some cl1nkers 1n the poor fellow and they had to carry h1m upsta1rs He Was a l1ttle del1r1ous and sa1d Dor1s Cook would never have treated me th1s way In self defence Iean says Franc1s Colhns always orders asparagus so he can leave a t1p but Franc1s can afford to spend cause hes made scads of money wr1t1ng for TRUE STORY Oh d1d I show you the funny tele gram I took down? Here Ill read 1t Its addressed to Ruth W1ll1ams Manager of The Kenyon Kraft Kred1t Koncern Dear Ducky Wucky Ow IS my 1ttle Lovey Dovey today Stop As oo a dreat b1g KISS for Popsy Wopsy? I dont recogmze the s1gnature and I can t understand a word of 1t It s 1n code all rxght Do you th1nk I should tell Mmlch about lt? If you come to the conventlon dont m1ss that e1ght o clock broadcast Or1mal Chervenka IS play1ng over the URA net work for B1lly Hllls H1ll B1ll1es and they are hav1ng Cather1ne Kroone for Burba s Barn Owles But you better come a l1ttle earl1er and hear the elect1on speeches WE WANT MOORE IS Roys campalgn slogan for sher1ff And was I thr1lled last n1ght when Barbara Longf1eld news commentator o u t I 1l'1 e d the glgantlc Wagner Plan S C H O O L BEGINS AT FORTYI Iosephme Iones of the KAY PAGE AND BOOK REVIEWERS says at th1s rate the world w1ll become a blaaer and better place to l1ve Hey d1d you read about the Boston Enghsh Club s g1v1ng a Sklt IH the broad castmg stud1o? Some of the actors were a bxt frlghtened so the d1rector certa1nly had h1s hands full One of the announcers sa1d Dont Brackett when Frances be gan to clutch the m1crophone But they f1n1shed well and I was soon I1sten1ng to Rankm Mart1n M1ller the T R I P L E T H R E A T Everyone thtnks they re a scream They come only on Saturdays at the same t1me as Ieany Fntz and her Iew s harp And say Chffy there was some rumor around that Ioan IS a BALLYHOO art1st but 1t s not all Frohne because Genev1eve BIQGIOW helps too I get all the gosstp workmg 1n a hotel th1s way and I lust have to tell someone Mur1el McCloud one of the ma1ds here says B111 G1ngr1ch has become an economy expert He made h1s factory a fmancxal success by employ1ng bltnd people on the n1ght sh1ft Of course the whole factory has to work 1n the dark but G1ngr1ch saves on the electrxc b1lls Why dont you th1nk of th1ngs l1ke that? And the furnace man says Beatnce Gauth1er and Rose Sam TICK the Coal Dust Tw1ns are actually wonder why Harry Southwlck 1S go1ng to Tah1t1? They say he s 1ust as pol1shed as ever but Why shouldnt he be own mg that b1g shoe black1ng factory and all? Mr Wh1tt1er was tell1ng me about It I suppose you know he models for a b1g department store and hed seen Wesley H1ll recently too Wes always wanted to be a sold1er of fortune so he hnally went back to teach school at East Grand Raplds Chff when you come over ton1ght drop 1n and see how Iune Ienney 1S Now now you dont have to get angry lust because she works 1n a candy store And please dont come so early aga1n Hello hellol I bel1eve he s hung up on me Do you suppose I could have sa1d someth1ng wrong? Wtth th1s the operator sh1fted her wad of gum swung around on her stool and gazed up w1th a wounded doe expres S1OI'1 I was about to del1ver my bombard ment of compla1nt when someth1ng 1n those eyes s1lenced my tw1tch1ng tongue Why of all th1ngs arent you Barbara Dunham? I gasped IA K HESS 7 1 1 . v I ' I I . He should write Corning to dance Very townh I I . C

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Eventually For the third t1 e in five minutes I banged down the telephone receiver Ill learn why they dont connect me I roared as I slammed my door and bolted toward tne elevator Here again no one answered my ring so as a last resort I followed the ragged stair carpet down 1nto the lobby No one would ever think the Marken dorf IS a first rate hotel I gasped while racmg to beat a fellow guest to the wail mg list Trembling with rage I centered my gaze upon the telephone operator whose pretty black head was 1erk1ng squirrel like over her switchboard puzzle She left me quite unnoticed so interested was she in her conversation and whats more Clifford L I-Iallgren she cooed Ive won another big strawberry soda because you didnt call me up before noon again no honey I aint really angry but a girl doesnt like to be left flat this way Dont forget that I can find other SWGGIISS not quarrel Of course I love you best And now 1ust listen to this news Old Senator N1nd finally left us after all these years We know he wont come back because Mr Markendorf found him col lapsed at the bottom of that N1nd story drain pipe Karl was terribly mad and said a lot of things about people who dont pay their bills I-Ie told us that hotel managers werent created for the welfare of Congress Now what do you suppose he meant? Say an old frlend of ours dropped in yesterday You re m e m b e r Elisabeth Bottle Well ever since that trial shes been speaking on the Redpath Chataqua I didnt get a chance to talk to her but Phyllis Squires the hat check girl said L1zz1es subyect is REALITY IN TI'lE DRAMA B1ll M1n1ch the house detective saw her drive up and sa1d she was with Bob Kelly that big butter and egg man You know Minich 1sn t very busy I never knew what he did w1th his spare time until yesterday when he showed me a wire brush he had made from all the ha1rp1ns collected during his high school career It certainly was clever and I told him to show the thing to Mr Menees that new clerk I remember Tom s mother always brushed his ha1r till the poor Why Not? kid wished he hadn t any Boy thats one fella whos certainly realized his child hood ambltion Whats that? Well maybe it s because Im sorta chewing my fingernails Ill try to talk louder Yes Oh Id love to go We could eat at Cooks kitchen and end up at Boschmas Showhouse lean Mcltfullen IS playing with Bob Chamberlain 1n DARKNESS Oh you have? Well then we could go to the Em porlum and see Mary Klesner in LIBERTY EQUALITY AND FRATERNITY Is that okey doke7 Say I hear that we wont be dancing to Bob Schouten any more H certainly had a swell orchestra until they found a v1ctro1a 1n the bass drum I sup pose Nancy Mulnix will soon get a Job singing in some other club now Boy people are certainly coming from parts unknown lust to see this INTER NATIONAL CONVENTION OF MORTI CIANS I ll bet half of our old senior class will urn up before this thing IS over Bob Macfarlane IS here and admitted that saw him demonstrating his art work last night in a news reel It seems he s been creating co1ffeurs for some Parisian beauty parlor Bob Ienklns came here yesterday too looking for Lyman Shields I-Ie sa1d something about gett1ng even w1th a barber with palsy We talked a while and was he surprised to hear Betty Clark mlxes paints for that color blind artistl Oh say Bob Preston and Ed Wepman were around the other day They made an over n1ght m 1 l l 1 o n manufacturing toothp1cks from the salvaged ends of burned matches But Iack Loeks our mop and broom man says th a t B o b Finch deserves all the credit for the idea I guess he made them some kind of ma Chine that works like a pencil sharpener Anyway Bob still has to work with Corinne VanOosten in the Live and Dead Pet Shop By the way do you remember our old practical 1oker Bob Degenaar7 They tell me that hes lust been fired again this time for putting ha1r tonic in his com pany s shaving cream At this point there was a long interval in the conversation but the operator was too absorbed to notice my frantic ges tures for attention Then followed another tiring eplsode upon a grand scale I I l l - I I I I I I - I I I - ' ' ' - ' . e ' . . . Oh - I I I ' , L , who'll take me to church . . . Now let's he has finally chosen his occupation. I I - I - I ' ' I I - - I ' ' . Y I I -

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