Effingham High School - Signet Yearbook (Effingham, IL)

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lass Prophecy Jane Sipes Sunset Boulevard Hollywood, California May 14, 1986 Dear Janet, I have just returned to California from a visit to our hometown, Effingham, Illinois. It is surprising how much I learned about our high school graduating class of '66, Who do you think I met and talked to in the beauty shop? Carol Chamberlain Kinkelaar who is living in St. Louis with Danny and their 10 blonde headed brats. She informed me of the drastic changes in the faculty at E, H, S, Bob Weaver is the new agriculture teacherg Jackie Banning is the head gymnastics in- structorg Greg Conrad is the golf coachg Ron Goodwin is taking up where coach Gil Jones left offg Susan Sutton is the typing teacher, Myra Percival has a special poetry courseg and Bob Tieffel and Richard Ei- dent are the D, E, and D, O, instructors. The most enjoyable class is that of Professor Owen Williams which is Pre-College Sex. The Effingham Junior College has hired Linda Nelson as the head P, E, in- structor, Perry Colclasure as a math instructor, and Joe Carr as the brilliant physics teacher, While sitting under the hair dryer, I began reading the magazine, I was shocked to read that Sam Devore and Jennifer Hastings have bought all the Arthur and Kathryn Murray Dance Studios. Next month, Sandy Bloemker is beginning her debut in the broadway play, The Boys 84 I. Three whole pages were devoted to Knob Rentfrow modeling clothes for tall girls. The last page was a huge picture of Noel Potts winning the National Surfer's Championship. Ruth Soltwedel, professor of agriculture at the U. of I. , just walked in with the news that Johnson's funeral home, owned by Judy, has finally sold out to David Mills' funeral home. Tex and Kay Loy have been made managers of the Shell Oil Company. Glenn Lewis, who plays his hot trumpet at the Crystal Bar, has just cut a record I'M IN LOVE WITH BRENDA, He predicts it to be a best seller. Upon leaving the beauty shop, I turned in on N-E-E-T, the radio news program conducted by Mike Cooper, Gerald Fagan's recently constructed supermarket, the Big F, is opening in one week. Bob Beck- ler, Glen Campbell, and John Althoff, tri-owners of the Oasis were forced to close down their business for serving minors. A local resident, Terry Croft, has just been named Mr. Universe. Tonya Goen Bergfeld is obtaining ownership of an egg farm. Judy Heuerman and Barb Steele have completed their book How to Make a Good Conversation. Mary Blom and Sandy Winter have finally finished painting the ceiling of the world's largest discotheque on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Pam Jennings was just elected the first woman mayor of Heartville, While shopping in Fig Star, owned by Bobby Newton and managed by Mike Meitzner, I ran into our good friend Debbie Manuel who just returned from her honeymoon on Spencer's Mountain. Again, I discovered more information about our former classmates. Wanda Babbs, due to financial conditions is driving a 1936 Ford rather than her 1986 Cadillac, Sandy Triplett and Roger Sechrest traveled to France where they have replaced Margot and Jacques Farre in the French films, Joanne Bushue Byers is the Vice President of Byers' Accounting Firm, Carol Bahrns Hoeffliger lives on a farm with Roger. Terry Ashley has opened a Marshall Fields store with Debby Robertson and Karen Brewer as head clerks. Barbara and Charles Nelson have a prosperous, little business with Stevens' Antenna, Before leaving Fig Star, I noticed a new cake on the shelf discovered by Ruth Meyers, Linda Wendt, Marilyn Utz, and Vicki Holl- man, in the test kitchens of Betty Flop. Were you surprised to hear that Roy Rogers met a girl named Dale Evans and started a new TV series? Dennis Marxmann, Tom Townsend, and Larry Tonn are tri-owners of the largest farm in the State of Illinois. Sharon Leturno Bailey and Vicki Brooks Phillips have joined the WAVES. Judi Rush Miller works for the State Highway Department. Carolyn Hetzel and Gwen Payne have finally opened their

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PATRICH MICHAEL wills his seat in physics so that one could watch the P, E, softball games to any junior who is sportsminded. DELBERT MORGAN wills Mr. Richard's symbolic logic problems and his methods of working them to any junior who plans to take rhetoric, LYNN MOODY wills her right to be lazy and to goof off in the library to Vicki Pulliam. BOB NEWTON wills his ability to stay away from the opposite sex to Debby Shaw. DONNA NIPPE wills her hour and a half lunches to Alan Reed. JOHN OSMAN wills his rejected daily reports in rhetoric and his unwashed P, E, shorts to Marc Smith. GWEN PAYNE wills to any junior who will work hard her place on Signet staff as Classes Editor MYRA ANN PERCIVAL wills the translated stories of Latin II and the entertainment of the E, H, S, band to Debby Hayes. VICKI PHILLIPS wills her membership in D, E, class to Dee Phillips. DEBBY RICHESON wills all the fun she had at parties during her senior year to Al Reed. JUDY RICKETTS wills a seat on Mr. Martins bus to Betty Jean Clough. DEBORAH ROBERTSON wills her thought about Mr. Conrad's sentence structures to Diana Ash. ROGER SECHREST wills all the P, E, towels that he borrowed but never returned to Larry Buhrman, LYDIA SIGAFUS wills her vast symbolic logic to Brenda Van Dyke and hopes that she understands it as well as she did. TERRY SLIFER wills her E on her first transcript notebook to Kathy Lidy. RUTH SOLTWEDEL and DON STUCKEY will their lack of ability to get money for the Signet from Mr, Dietrich to next year's editors. BILL STARR wills his moldy moldy trombone mute to Dale Davenport, DON STEELY wills his third hour goof-off period in the Student Council office to Pam Arney. JOHN TOLCH wills his holey tennis shoes to Bob Miller. KELLY TUCKER wills Bertrum Richards to all the juniors taking rhetoric, MARY JO WEST wills the characters of Arsenic and Old Lace, her directing ability, and lack of acting ability to Pam Sowers and Susan K. Loy. RONNIE WEST wills all his troubles with Dinx over girl watching to Jerry Nelson. CRAIN WILLIAMS wills his good feelings with Coach Deterding to Steve Klosterman and Gale Lister, DONNA YEAKEL wills her ability to overhaul a typewriter and piece it back together to anyone with lots of scoth tape. SHIRLEY ZIGLER wills her ability to get out of P, E, to create some smoke to Becky Evans. MR, VOYLES wills the reputation of the class of 66.

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fabulous bookstore, the Hetzel-Payne Corner, Audrine Bennet and Lynn Moody hold regular seances with James Parks, Ron Williams, Dave Wilson, John Tolch, and Ron West. They are trying to persuade Tom Tipsword, owner of Tippy's Tavern, to join them. I heard that Mason, Illinois, is a blooming little town. Joe Bushue is the mayor with Vicki Bushue as his secretary. Linda Hays and Patrick Michael own a ioint partnership in their men and women's clothing store with Sharon Mason as the bookkeeper. Judy Pasquele manages the Mason Drive-ln. Rick Welch, owner of Welch's Wine Company, is having a difficult time keeping his product in stock. Dave Landers operates a rifle shop. Steve Kaiser's and Paul Huntington's Edgewood Drag-O Way burned down the other day. This will be disheartening news to Linda Percival Poland who will not be able to drag her 86 Vette. I almost forgot to tell you about the main attraction of Effingham 's night life. The multi-millionaires Tom Britton and Dirk Anderson have converted the court house into a swingin' nightclub, Much of its success goes to J. C. Marshall's and Bill Whitehouse's band, The Bald Five, and to Bill Krueger, who manages the gambling floor. Credit is also due to Tony Matlock, the bouncer. Have you encountered any more of our classmates lately? Write soon and tell me what's going on in the windy city, Always, Jane Janet Wilhelms Lakeshore Drive Chicago, Illinois June 1, 1986 Dear Jane , On receiving your letter, I realized how little I have heard from some of my friends back home. Times have certainly changed. I was pleased to hear the accurate account of our classmates you have seen and heard from, I am equally sure that you will enjoy hearing of the ones I have had contact with. The doorbell rang the other dayg When I went to the door, Arvil Bass was standing there. He is a Boy Scout executive selling cookies. While conversing with him, Larry Ford drove by. Did you know that he is competing with A. J. Foyt at the Indianapolis '500? Several of our classmates are now famous. Remember Mike Askew? He lost 120 pounds and since he was unable to play football, he took up tiddeley winks and is now Worldfs Champion. Randy Brunet is a 6'10 all pro center of the Boston Celtics. Janice Beebe and Willis Inman are vocalists in the St. Louis Muni Opera, The TV series, The Young Marrieds is becoming more popular here since Mary Jo and Kelly Tucker have replaced Annerose and Steve Geibel. Don Steely's new book How to Become Mature in Ten Easy Lessons has hit the newstands. Linda Brummer has made a new record LITTLE BRUMMER GIRL. Lenny and Larry Lane are the new stars of the Doublemint commercial. Also, Dannie Connally and Ken James star in the 'Brillcreme commercial--Ken's the one who comes out of the tube. Have you seen the movie, The Group? It is tremendous, I was really amazed to see the lead parts played so well by Candace Moeller, Jean Conour, Roberta Evans, Lydia Sigafus, Cheryl Barton, and Terry Slifer. They all displayed outstanding talent. That reminds meg Jack Conour received his PhD. from Vassar in that new course, twinology. The latest gossip in and around Chicago is the resignation of Pat Fitzsimmons as head coach at Minne- sota, Rumor has him going to Newton, Illinois, And, believe it or not, Bob Griffin was refused residen- cy here due to his attitude. He thinks using an anesthetic is busy work. Garret and Susan Wagner opened a school for gifted children--theirs! I talked to Susan only the other day. She visited in Cham- paign and had seen Patsy Soltwedel, Donna Yeakel, Karen Bingman, and Ann Brown. They had all just