Jennings High School - Jen Echo Yearbook (Jennings, MO)

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much to do for the remainder of the morning, so I decided to take it easy and listen to the radio. Anyway, it was almost 10:00 a.m. when the 'Wheel Deal Variety Shown came on the air. I'm particularly interested in this program because mamr old Jennings graduates who have become stars are pres- ent. Yes, it's a musical variety show sponsored by Wunderle School Supplies Company. Who's the owner? Yes, that's right, MARY ELLEN WUNDERLE herself. As for the show, BOB GOUGH is Master of Ceremonies, with announcer BOB SIMMONS lmy, is he good on those singing commercialsl. The high-lights are the 'Rio Trio and BOB DILL, comedian. Besides the humorous Jokes of Bob, the trio is really good. well, why shouldn't it be? It is composed of MARGARET HAPPE. GINEVIEVE OSTEBHAGEN, and GILIJHIJA STOCKTON. Just about the time the show was really getting good, swak, wham bang, squeek?', the radio went on the blink. Immediately I rushed to the phone and called the radio repair man. Well, the repair man was pretty busy, but promised to be there as soon as possible. By this time, I really had the ole' Jennings spirit and decided to thumb through my old yearbooks. My, how odd we looked back then. Yes, I thought to myself, this is going to be a grand afternoon. Finally, after a long wait. the radio repairman arrived and commenced to pry into nw defective set. I really didn't take a good look at him 'til the radio was again playing properly. Was I surprised to find the vacuum tube genius to be 'none other than NORMAN ROSEKRANS. We talked a while and I found that he was going to the reunion also. Norman had to hustle on to another Job so that he would be able to get the afternoon off. It seemed that I had nothing to do 'til late afternoon, so I decided to eat dinner early and go to the ball park. It had been quite a while since I had seen a ball game. A little later, I found nwself driving along the avenue, when all of e. sudden a motorcycle policeman pulled me over to the curb. It seems that there was a drive on for drivers' licenses and I ,just happened to be one of those people who appear suspicious. At any rate, I did have nv driver's license. I was really surprised to find the cop to be none other than JIM JOHNSON, of all people. Yith a brief rag-chew. he scooted off, and I con- tinued my Journey. Everything went well until it came time to park. Wow! There were cars everywhere. Finally, I came upon a spacious parking lot, which ended my worries. Along with that, the lot belonged to GLEN SCANLOH and ANTHOIT SALAHONI, who were doing s. great business. Yell, with a little effort, I finally became seated in the park. Today the Cards were playing Chicago. Upon receiving a score card, I just about fell out of the grand- stand. Just look at the lineup: BARR! SGATIZZI. second base: RICHARD GOTSCH, left field: DON ELLEBBROCIC, first base: BOB VOSBHINK, 3rd base: BUD! HUELLER, short stop: DALE WARMAHN, right field: IRA MOSES, catcher. and last but not least. EDDIE GIIIEKH, pitching. The manager, by the way. is BOB BUIIK. AL WEHZHIYER and BOB WEBER are co-owners of the club at the present time. As usual, the 'Carden are in first place by about ten pmes, and also as usual. today's game was s. pushover. Following the game the fellows and I rode over to the Plaza together. You would think they would be discussing baseball. but instead. the prime point of conversation seemed to be GLEN KAMMERER. Glenn had been playing pro football for the Rams. What a year Glenn has had, a really enviable record. Well, about this time, we pulled up in front of the Plaza. 25

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C155 l 0l0 QC? Jima 6 . 1959 Dear Diary: Well, what a day this has been. Yes, indeed, today has been the most exciting one since the last decade. It seems that it all started like this: I awoke this morning and started out with the usual process of eating breakfast, and then bang , it took me by storm! his was J day. How could I have forgotten? It was exactly ten years to the day that our great png from Jennings had its farewell parting. How sad that was--the depar- ture of the ls9'ers . As I sat eating those delicious 'Hangs Corn Flakesu fmadeby the DONALD DINNER Corn Oompanyi. I just wondered what nost of the old buddies were do- ing. Gee. I thought. wouldn't it bs grand if we could all hold a class re- union? W. how I would like to see some of the old faces. While sitting there, toying with the idea, the telephone rang. Guess who it happened to be. Fate was really with us today. It was none other than the wealthy MEREDITH MAC GLURG calling from his penthouse apartment atop the Plaza. The whole thirty-first floorwas his, and today was our day of celebration. Mac was throwing a reunion party in the afternoon, and he demanded that I be there. Naturally. I was as excited as a small child and agreed. It had been years since I had seen times for quite a while. I found out quite pals, especially the ones who had moved out Robert Powers sold out to GENE BLANKENSHIP. business. and he is certainly making headway there have been a few additions to the Powers Mac, and we talked over old a bit as to some of the old of town. For instance. John Gene always had a head for with his models. By the way. or should I say Blankenship models. His latest sensations are none other than BETTY BUIBKS. DORIS ELLIOTT. ETHEL FLYNN. ABLYNE STERBA. and LOIS GOWLES. Boy! What a lineup. Incidentally. Dr. RAY HOWELL and Dr. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, famous New York surgeons. have their main offices in the Blankenship Building. Mac also informed me that they all were flying down from New York and would 'be here in time for the party. Speaking of flying. guess what two 49'ers are in charge of TVA and Western now. Believe it or not, they are DENNIS LANNIGAB and ALDON STEVENS. The trouble is that the two airlines are com- peting quite heavily, and their personal Business Warn doesn't make them the best of friends. Oh, well. at least they will be friends this after- noon. Well. I was getting about ready to give Mac a temporary good-bye when he mentioned the new spearhead in politics. It seems that there is a new third party out campaigning--it is called the Female Party. Their aim is to win the election in 1960. But that's not all. Look who the leaders are: LORETTA NAGEL, PEGGY MC GOURTY, and GERALDINE NIEL. Their candidate for president is none other than JOYCE MEYER. Incidentally. HORMA BLANKENSHIP is her campaign manager. That was about all Mac knew, so we bid each other farewell until later. My, what a group this Jennings class has turned out to be. I didn't have 24

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Hy, what a wonderful sigat was that 31st floor. Mac was really at his best when he decorated the place. He even hadanorchestra present. It was the current popular orchestra. too: DAN PORTER andhis Fireballs , No kid- ding, they are really good. After all though, look at the accompanying talent. There's PETE RUESSLE with the drums, LOUIS LAUNRARDT at the piano. and on the vocal we have JOAN SLADE, ZBENNITA J IMMERSON, ILAINE KASTEN. and TERRY KELLER. A feature attraction to the show is JIM G-ABRISON, star tap- dancer. Boy! can that fellow move. Yes, indeed, this certainly turned out to be a very enjoyable after- noon. My. how people can change. Anyway, they're all a very laugable bunch. I was sorry to hear that a few could not attend. VIINIFRED NOLEN and LORRAINE KERSTING are in Paris at the Art Show and could not possibly get there in time. At any rate they sent a cablegram saying hello and stating that they were sorry they could not attend. VIVIAN HUSEMADN and her husband are spending a week in Havana. DON CLINE, EDDIE BOWMAN, and FRED STEINMIMZ are at the auto-mechanics convention in Liverpool. These three fellows. as you know. are prominent dealers of racing cars here in the United States. DELORES TOM, JOY MOELLER. and CAROL CASE, famous home economists, are attending the food fair at Winnepeg. We were all sorry to hear that they could not be present, but we were glad to know that they were doing quite nicely. My, it takes forever and ever to get to see everyone. DEAN CIHAGLIA and his staff of EDDIE LAWRENCE. BOB CASEY. and DALE BURGSTEAD were on hand taking pictures of the exciting event. They work as photographic reporters for the Post-Dispatch. f A wonderful dinner was served after a little dancing and nmixing with friendsn. What delicious food! Well, why shouldn't it be? Chef LESTER SPAETE prepared the food. As you know. Les is known as the best cook in the Central United States. Well, of all the pleasant surprises: IONETTE GOEDECKE, JACKIE ROZBIBS, and DORIS BRUNS, so I found out, are top mnagers of the Famous Barr stores. MARGARET WUENSCHEL, EVELU POHLMAN. and PAULINE FARMER are private secretaries for Famous Barr. Wow! it looks as if Jennings has taken over. Speaking of taking over, I was surprised to find that ROSE MARIE DUSSOLD and DABLENE EDELEN now own the E-lite Beauty Shoppe . the most prominent in the St. Louis area. It seemed as if I had seenjust about everyone, when who walked up but MARILYN GILSTRAP, EVERETT IBOYER. JAMES KUNSTEL, RICHARD WILLIE. They had planned a hunting trip to South Africa and asked ii' I'd care to come along. GENE ROWTON, owner and chief tech- nician of XSD-TV, was going along with a portable transmitter to keep in contact with the United States. I did not particularly cherish the expedi- tion and politely said, no . ' I was sure that by this time I hadseen everyone there. It was getting late, and gradually the ole' school pals drifted back into the weary world to carry on their tasks as usual. On my trip back home, I sat and thought how wonderful an experience this had been. IU! What a grand bunch these Jennings people are. tit