Greenville High School - Hi Life Yearbook (Greenville, MI)

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purchased farms, and Wayne Parr is busy building their new barns and pig pens. I.indy Kerns is arriving at his wedding an hour late, per usual. Howard Jensen is frantically looking up and down Lafayette for Lindy’s Ford. Kenny Miller is advertising his milk from “uncontented cows.” Joyce Blanding and Jack Decker arc trying to design a milk bottle which can be consumed (save the bother of collecting them again.) Rose Mary Steffes, Meredith Hansen, and Delores Brown are nurses in a home run by Shirley Nickerson, for feeble-minded Congressmen. Some of our classmates have achieved national fame. Leslie Roell has just been chosen “Miss Career Girl of 1958.“ Joyce Fisher is designing dresses which keep Marcia Lewis “the best-dressed woman in America.” Mary Jean Ward is slumping the experts on Information Please with the question, “Who edited the Encyclopedia Britannica?” Susie Kraft is on her way to winning the National Typing Award. Betty Petersen is the publicity agent for Pat Bullard, who is being featured as the only woman in the world who can hang by her eye lashes and do hog-calls at the same time! Bob Losingcr has just kayoed Moose-face McQuirk and is being proclaimed the Champion of Squattor’s Gulley. Howard Foster is riding Water Bucket to fame and fortune at Saratoga. Ivagean Soss is “Mrs. Guess Who” on the “Take It or We’ll Give It to You Program.” Quite a few are making names for themselves in politics. “Jake Howell is telling the U. N. Council how to function. Dave Svoboda is a diplomat, getting the State Department into all kinds of trouble. Ed Commee is the local “protector of the masses” in Podunk. If we would travel around the U. S., we would meet some more of the Class of ’48. Christine Snyder is passing out gum on Pilot Dick Vanderlip’s stratoliner which flies for the One Wing’s Low Airline Company. Delores Ehlcrt is out “where the buffalo roam” on her ranch. Jerry Bower is driving a Big Rig for the Mason-Dixon Truck Line. Catherine Richie is a traffic cop on the corner of Hollywood and Vine. Milly Taylor is running a chain of Super Markets. Beverly Kintz is chief reference clerk in the Congressional Library. June Denting is lecturing at Yale on How I Got Rid of My Inhibitions.” Arlene Sharlow is taking a world cruise on a luxury liner piloted by Captain Philip Conner, who is trying to figure out what he is doing on Flat River. Bob Johnson has his own dairy farm in Wisconsin. Eileen 'Fucker is smiling out at us from the cover of Business Week Magazine. Shirley Hansen is physical education coach at Northwestern. (Boys, that is?) Don Lincoln and Warren Kelly are still fighting it out for the title of the nation’s number one “disc jockey.” Jim Nord is standing in Times Square selling some wonderful Yellow Jacket pencils! Larry Slank-er is illustrating for the Police Gazette. Louis Smith, Berdie Bow, Dan Dibble, and Terry Highfield are running to football fame for the Grand Rapids’ Mortician and Welldrivers Tech. Their coach is none other than Bob Phillips. Kit Filgas is head of a factory which manufactures only size 3 shoes. 'Fhe Class of ’48 boasts of some individualists, too. Jack Tillapaugh is selling electric razors to bearded ladies. Bob Dodds is dreaming up new characters for the Dick Tracy comic strip. Phyllis Hoy has devised a way to shorten shorthand. Bob Jorgensen is selling sun hats to Eskimos. Bruce Wilson is graduating from a Buick to a Ford. My goodness! Look who's riding around with him — Ruth Opland. Dick Schenden is the only second story man, (window washer, that is), who doesn’t need a ladder. Sneezy Snyder is a manufacturer of the new No-Blo-Thru Kleenex. Ernie Bennett is teaching her husband how to bake an angel-food cake. Want to know what Hi and I are doing? We’re still the guardian angels of the Class of '48. 23

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CLASS PROPHECY The year is 1958. It is one of those beautiful “Indian Summer afternoons. Hi and I are silting on the front porch thinking about our former school days and our old friends, the class of ”48. Perhaps you have wondered what has become of them. too. Want to hear? Good! We’d love to tell you. Many of our classmates are still in Greenville. Mayor Martin Packard is still making speeches on why parking meters should be installed in Highlield’s. Bruce Merren is repainting the white line on Washington Street. Hi. you’d better go tell him that the line goes down the middle of the street, not across! Look at the new businesses on Main Street. June Storrs is running a laundry which has the unique feature of returning the clothes clean. Russell Harper and Herbert Peterman are running the Last Hope Financial Agency. Their slogan is, You may get to us, but never past us! Margaret Orr is the switch-board operator for Roy Arntz’ Super Drug Store. Donna-mac Ewart is proprietress of the Ewart Dog Kennels. Each dog is guaranteed to bark in waltz tempo. Bonnie Hatch is a stenographer for the firm of Hansen, Larsen, Jensen, and Rabins-kowitchsky. Ron Fuller is drumming up business for Duane Muns’ Unemployment Agency. Virginia Hansen is the proprietress of the Leaky Gasket Garage. Ida Mae Steffes is running the Re-Tread Beauty Shoppe. Greenville now boasts of a lady blacksmith, too—Shirley Alysworth. Jim Petersen has set up a detective agency. His latest case was tracking down a dangerous window soaper! Pat Cook is a mortician for the Last Stop Funeral Home. Just outside of town, Roger Sharpe and his Texas Plowboys arc playing at the Cotton Ball Casino. Quite a few of our former classmates arc still concerned with their good old Alma Mater, G. H. S. Leona Hansen is revising the Civics book for Mr. Robinson. Dick Smith is selling alarm clocks to wake up first hour session. Pluma Ridgway is a singing school bus driver. Diane Grosvenor is busy dreaming up crazy designs for ties for Mr. Swanton. Jerry Cory is telling some of his former teachers about the advantages of the Cory Insulated Toupees. Professor Dan Bauman is giving Sid a 50-problem assignment in Calculus. We run into some of our other classmates around Greenville. Burt Staffen is suing a Cocker Spaniel in court for breaking up his Cass Street Flea circus. Dorothy King is teaching her little charges the 3 R’s at Fairplains School. Floyd Heimbecker and John Snyder have just 22

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1. Phyllis is a Lux girl 9. Ginny 18. Warm, Boys? 2. Nursemaid 10. Bathing l eauty 19. Dot 3. Mental Giant II. Captain Smith 20. Legs 4. Muscles Dihhle 12. Man of Distinction 21. It’s Pasteurized 5. She's asking for it 13. Roy. the White Coats are coming! 22. Marsh 6. Tarzan 14. Sneezy 23. Formal dance? 7. Eileen 15. I.cs 24. Nicky 8. Shirt, the Flirt 16. The Big Wheel 25. Prize Hams 17. kurly Kit Greenville Floral Co. — 401-419 W. Williams St. 24