Helena High School - Vigilante Yearbook (Helena, MT)

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Class Prophecy Richland Hotel Cleveland, Ohio May 25, 1969 As I was strolling through the lobby of the hotel, which is managed by Kermit Kruse, I heard Kermit and Ched Kabalin, district manager of Western Union, talking about the class of 44 . I stopped to hear what they were saying. A reunion banquet? When? Tonight, in Helena. Didn't you see it in the paper? Here, I'll show it to you. Looking over his shoulder, I read, On May 25, 1969 a reunion banquet of the Class of 44 of Helena High School will be held at 7 p. m. in the Vigilante Hotel in Helena, Montana. All members of the class are to be present if possible. I immedi- ately decided that I, Jonathan P. Snoop, inquiring reporter for the Class of 44 , should attend. So I called a Black and Blue cab to take me to the airport. This cab company, owned by Harry Joslin and Robert Ring, is so called because of the condition of the passengers after their ride. I reached the airport just in time, and as we took off, I noticed that all the other passengers were members of my class on their way to the reunion. Eimalee Lane and Dona Cloo-ten are nurses in charge of osteopathic and surgical wards, respectively, at Mayo's clinic. Florence Turner and Shirley Reynolds are popular radio script writers. Warren Totten is a Representative in the House for the state of Kentuckyg and Dick Hohn is president of the Chewy Chew gum factory. We landed in Helena around dinner time and went straight to the banquet. The hotel Vigilante where the banquet was held is the largest in Helena and is owned by Richard Volk. As we entered the banquet hall we were greeted by a wel- coming committee made up of Joe Mazuranich, who is well known for his book The History of the Trojan War , Lois Strom, dietitian at U.S.S. Carrollg Jack McLaughlin, Jack Moore, and Kenneth Orton, all of whom are United States Senators representing Montana, Wyoming, and Kansas respectively. As I walked around the banquet hall, I met Mary Ellen Horne and Irene Hewitt. Mary Ellen holds the world's record in typing. She told me that Dorothy Hall was the personal secretary to the president of the Du Pont Company. Irene told us she is a blues singer in the Blue Tavern, New York City. We admired the beautiful decora- tions which were made by Marilyn Smith. who is noted for her distinctive ideas in interior decorating. Grace Taylor, now a professor of psychology at Mills College, came up and we looked at the cleverly designed placecards which were made by Claire Julian. Claire designs cards for the Scattergood Will Card Company, whose slogan is Scatter Good Will tPoor little Williej. We had been requested to register and state our present occupation. Since I had not done so, I now made my way to the desk. I met Hans Trankle. Remembering his interest in chemistry I was not surprised to lea1'n that he was head chemist of the research laboratory at the General Electric Company. We noted with interest the following names on the register: Frances Cable-Librarian at Great Falls Public Library Helen Bond-Model for Vogue-New York City Bob Austin-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court-Helena, Montana Clarence Mergenthaler-Manager of American Smelting and Refining Company Barbara Vinacke-Radio announcer KNX Los Angeles-Los Angeles. Calif. Luella Smigaj-Candy tester for the Societie Candy Company-Salt Lake Mickey Sanders-4Head of the agency to obtain dates for Hi school girls Norma Nyland-Secretary to president of the Mike Horse Mine Jim Brinker-Mining engineer in Nome, Alaska Mary Reagan-Air line hostess for American Airways-South Bend, Indiana Bob Tennyson-U. S. Marshall-San Francisco, California Midge Norris-District salesman for the C Yourself as Other's C U Mirror Com- pany-Denver Melodie Cusson-Actress-New York City, New York Martha Celar-Riveter at Lockheed Elsie Beniger-Originator of next year's haircut, the Leap Year Bob Clifford Kracher-Forest Ranger at Yellowstone National Park. Then the toastmaster, Curtis Brown, asked us to find our places. While I was look- ing for mine I saw E.unice Grieb, advertising manager for LEGS, a sportsman's magazine. Finally I found my place. On my left was Joe Winfield and on my right Katherine Foote. Joe is the coach of that famous Midget Team of Clancy, Montana. I wonder if it is Joe's good coaching or just a good team. Katherine Foote, or Lieu- tenant Foote of the Women's Army Corps, told me that she was in charge of the truck

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uniform to Joan DeWolf. Raymond Cumming and Jack Moore give Jim Brutch and Dick Regan the permission to shoot spitballs. Mary Lou Frey leaves her better half, Warren Kropp, in the care of the Junior class. To Verla McCarthy, Marilyn Smith gives her incredible dignity and poise. Joe Winfield gives Frank Gonzalez the privil- ege of making all the speeches. Phil Williams gives Patty Kind six more inches height so next year she can be a big girl. Don Peterson wills that greatest of all haxir tonics to Frank Stermitz. Dorothy Wickersheim leaves her sophistication to Margaret Kleve. SEVENTH ITEM: Joyce Meale and Mike Stump leave school as the ideal couple. Geraldine McCarthy and Irene Petek will their bashfulness to Dave Munger and Betty DeKay. To Frank Sandru, Ched Kabalin leaves his scholastic ability. Richard Volk, Dale Sutton, Nellie Martello, and Norma Nyland give the janitors the privilege of contributing all overshoes, papers, and other scrap they've left behind to the scrap drive. Charles Rusek leaves that noted hair tonic, which aids in growth of mustaches, to Bob Callaghan. Helen Bond wills her flag-twirler uniform to Jane Cheadle. Lulu Fulton gives the privilege of making the signs for all school dances, parties, sales, etc., to anyone willing to undertake it. Peg Hanley gives her strut as a majorette to Rosalie Coleman. To Minna Miller, Bob Tennyson wills his ability to sleep anywhere, anyplace, anytime. Roberta Lewis and Emalee Lane leave the school walking on clouds. Joan Rummel gives her cheerful disposition to Sara Jane Forgy. EIGHTH ITEM: Kathryn Martin leaves her pleasing personality to Norma Jean Burris. Dotty King and Dolly Liedle leave their profiles to Mary Powers and Betty Lee Odom. Bob Turner wills Mrs. Hawkes a package of Dentyne gum. Mickey Sanders and Bob Radley leave the privilege of arousing the office to Beezie Jones. Dorothy Hall wills to the scrap drive what is left of her typewriter. Dan Schofield leaves his brains to Joan Kirk. Nina Murfitt gives a little of her explosive pep to each and every one in the school. George Langdorf leaves his muscles to Kent DeVore. Claire Julian wills her popularity with the teachers to Barbara Green. Patsy Jester gives her dimples to Clara Jean Samson. NINTH ITEM: Mae Watts, Beatrice Heisey, and Lois Strom will their black hair to Peggy Bold, Patsy Beaupre, and Carol Knudson, in case they ever want to become brunettes. Mouriel Bottomly leaves her high and fancy f?J dives to Barbara Sanford. Ire11e Hewitt leaves her tall blond good looks to Donna Mason. To Frank Tobin, George DeWolf gives his place on the football team. Valencia Kabalin leaves her ability in basketball to Florence Galloway. Katherine Foote leaves everyone to follow in her footsteps in the search for knowledge. Joy Bowden leaves the floor of the chemistry room heaped with broken test tubes, funnels, beakers, etc. Dick Hohn, Clarence Merganthaler, and Frank Smith will their reserved seats on the East Helena bus to Helen Hammerstrom and Lois Hunter. Bev Thompson leaves to join Bob Hilger. Frances Cable and Joan Allen leave their little sisters, Lucille and Betty, to carry on the family name. Irene Wong wills her place on the Powder Puff football team to any person able to stand up under the strain. Betty Bridges leaves the school echoing with cheers for the team. Gwen Clark wills her long eye lashes to Bob Bonnes. Jim Brinker leaves his dancing shoes to anyone who can follow in his footsteps. Irene Bompart wills her tap shoes to Mary Tuttle. TENTH ITEM: Clara Bean leaves Mrs. Fisher some peace and quiet for a change. Ted Schuele wills his beard to anyone who can duplicate it. Jeanne Roddy and Shirley Reynolds leave school with a sigh of relief. Janis McMahon and Dona Clooten leave their status as the perfect two-some to Joyce and Shirley Nelson. Ed Johnson leaves his brother Buzz to carry on. Bev Lyman wills her long hair to Mary Lou Dineen. Clarice Darfler and Betty Brockway will their places in the band to Fred Houston and Glenn Decker. Mary Reagan leaves with a will to live and learn. Hans Trankle wills his brain to anyone who can figure out how he can be so smart. Sylvia Miller, Thelma Smith, and Luella Smigaj leave school with happy memories. Lyle Pederson gives his singing lead to Jack Plantenburg. Grace Taylor and Mary Ellen Wetzstein give their grades to anyone who can use them. Helen Mayer and Barbara Whiteaker leave their tubes of lipstick to Betty and Byllie Hart. Barbara Vinacke wills her post in the library to Cora Lee Stump. Reta Rae Melugin leaves her happy smile to Polly Holmes. Fred Strandberg leaves his place at the airport to any air-minded student. Florence Turner wills her quiet ways to Elaine Brinton. Joe Mazuranich leaves school in a well-known jalopy. Rose Ann Talseth wills all interest in the Navy to the Waves. Betty Brewer leaves school with the knowledge that where there is a will there is a way. Warren Einstein Totten leaves school to solve the theory of the fourth dimension. Roy Millegan, Knight of Silence, wills his title to Glenn Gregor. Audrey Wendel leaves her position as Authoress-in-Chief of the 'Class Prophecy, Class Will, and Class History to the unlucky junior who fills this position next year. ELEVENTH ITEM: We, the Class of 44, wish to leave with the faculty of Helena High School our sincere thanks for the help and cooperation they have given us all through our high school years. We want them to know how much we appreci- ate it. IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto subscribed our names and fixed our seals the twenty-fifth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-four. AUDREY WENDEL, JOY BOWDEN.

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drivers at Fort Douglas, Utah. Sitting across from me was Geraldine McCarthy, who said she was now a buyer for the American Fur Company. The talking subsided when our speaker, Vivian Heiser, rose to open the reunion. Viv is the head nurse on the U.S.S. Mercy, just returned from the Solomons. She wel- comed everyone and said she was proud of the success of the class of 44 . She then introduced Curtis Brown who is in charge of the United States Zoo for unintelligent monkeys and intellectual apes. Curtis proposed a toast to the class of 1944. After the toast Viv made a short talk. She thanked the decorations committee for doing such beautiful work and the program committee for arranging the lovely pro- gram which would follow. Laughingly, she thanked Alice Brown for preparing such a suitable menu for us since Alice is the dietitian for convalescent dogs and might have gotten her menus mixed. After this she introduced Joe Buley as the acting secretary for this reunion. Joe is a mining engineer in Chile. Viv then requested that we answer the roll call by giving our occupations and those of absent members whom we know. Joe began the roll call with the name of Bruce Anderson. Bruce is a junk dealer and he informed us that Raymond Cumming and Robert Downs are dog catchers, spe- cializing in French Poodles and Dachshunds, in Kalamazoo. Bruce added that Mary Lou Frey won a fifty thousand dollar R0ver's Fleas Soap contest and is now living in leisure in the South. ' Alyce Bevan's name was the next to be read. She said that Joyce Meale, Kay Guthrie, Robert Turner, and herself were owners of the Wee Toddlers Toy Company. The others regretted that they could not attend. She stated that Peg Hanley, Shirley Hibarger, Delores Johnson, Beverly Thompson, and Beverly Lyman are modeling for Mademoiselle Valorie Wordal's La Vieille Chatte Magasin, New York City. Joe then called on Charles Bradham who is the president of the So That's Whe1'e My Mule Went glue factory. He said Joan Rummel was now the wife of an R.A.F. pilot and they are residing in London. She met him while ferrying bombers during World War II. Irene Bompart was next. She said that she was superintendent of the High Hooters School of Dancing and also that Clara Bean, Audrey Boone, and Betty Brewer are chief petty officers in the W.A.C.S. and are stationed at the San Diego Naval Base. Viv then asked Joe to read the cablegrams received from those members not present. I-Ianyang, China. We regret that we are unable to be present at this reunion. Our work as teachers in the American mission here retains us. Sincerely, Dorothy Loranz, Grace Bausch, Dorothy Knudsonf' V New York City, New York. Sorry we cannot be present. Our duties as censors of the overseas mail of the W.A.C.S. keeps us here in New York. Long live the class of 44 .--Rose Ann Talseth, Nellie Martello, and Lola Kitts. Budapest, Hungary. Sorry I am not present but am collecting information for my hook Folk Life in Hungary. Good luck to everyone. Helen Mayer. Lampang, Thailand. My work as principal of this missionary school keeps me from attending the reunion. Ted Schuelef' Then Joe continued the roll call with Dick Baker's name. He stated that he was running the Seam Shoppe in which he paints the seams on artificial stockings. He said Jerry Pippy had been recently elected pin up boy by the K W W-Kaiser's Women Workers-and also that Frank Smith, Fred Strandberg, and Dale Sutton are the proprietors of the S.S.S. Restaurant. Their motto is Service, Savings, and Spaghetf' Next, Marilyn Biffle said she was now manufacturing the Straight From the Shoulder Chemistry Aprons which have made her famous. Mouriel Bottomly had written her that she was now conducting a boarding school for girls in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Joe 'then called upon Sig Berg. Ole Carlson, Don Thompson, and Sig, after twenty- five years in the Army Air Corps, were still Shavetails. He added that Dan Schofield and Bob Radley are well known F.B.I. agents. Joy Bowden answered that she was owner, financier, secretary, manager, book- keeper, and chief dishwasher of the Help Yourself restaurant and wonders why she doesn't make any money. Elaine Hammerstrom is a movie actress playing under the name of Brunhilde Boondocker. Mrs. Lindstrom, formerly Betty Bridges, said she was driving the truck for the How Sweet You Are Flower Shop. The roll call was interrupted long enough for the program. Bud Burke's Band played several numbers. Bud and Connie Eckhardt are the only original members left in the band. The twin sons of Mrs. Alibabba, the former Lucie Bell Fall, did sev- eral tap dances. While the band was playing, I glanced at the advertisements on the menu and recognized some of the advertisers as Ed, Bill, Mike and Donald, as former classmates. They have the McHugh and Hartzog Rigor Mortis Funeral Home and the Stump and Peterson Lumber Company. Another ad read Get your black market meat at Young's Slaughterhouse, owner R. D. Young.