Minooka High School - M DI AN Yearbook (Minooka, IL)

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CHANNEL I2 BACKSTAGE DIARY June 1, 1973 DEAR DIARY: I decided the other day to find out what had happened to all of the old gang so today I flew into Chicago. I immediately called on my old friend Barbara Montgomery who is the star of TV's Home Economics show, The Food's the Thing. In private life, Barb is Mrs. Dale Williamson and Mommie to five bright-eyed youngsters. Dale Williamson seems to be doing quite well as the leader of f'Willy's Moon Music Boys on a weekly TV show. I asked whether there was anyone else in Chicago that I could contact, and Dale told me that Herb Davis is currently co-starred in the stage show at the Woods Theater with his wife, who accompanies him. She isn't one of the old gang but is quite nice, so they say. I, then, remembered that Herb had been quite the erooner and has thousands of teen-agers at his heels wherever he goes. He told me, when I called him, that Roy Carlson is a very successful pilot of a jet racer and has just won an international race in France and would be back in Chicago in a few hours. Roy, I hear, is still a bachelor, though he has been seen with several young ladies recently. We all went to see Dale's program tonight and who do you suppose is his featured singer? Why, Dixie Campbell! She seemed quite pleased when I asked her if she was in contact with any of the rest of the gang and mentioned Gene Ervin who is currently at Rockefeller Center with a world premier of his latest movie for Supreme Pictures. I found out why she was pleased, they are engaged and are planning a simple wedding in August. We decided, that night, that it would be fun to have a reunion on the eighth. We each de- cided to notify someone else. As we pooled our information some of the facts became very im- portant to the reunion. For instance, La Verne Hiller's Hotel Ritz in Minooka would be an ideal spot to hold the reunion and Norma Ericksonlf Beauty Palace Salon in the hotel would be an ideal place for us girls to get all prettied up. La Verne seemed quite excited and said that his wife, our old friend Doris Locher, would certainly have the place ready for us when we came in on the seventh. Norma told us to call her husband, George Duvall, at the stockyards and he would come right down. We did, and we soon learned that he was a stock buver for Swift 8: Co. We all called our friends, and we will know what has happened to them next week. I called mv husband. Clinton Hulbert, who is managing editor of Life Magazine, and he said he'd bring a photographer and give us a spread if I would write the story. As if I didn't have enough to do, writing a daily column for the News Syndicate, but I agreed. And so 'to sleep! June 7, 1973 I arrived in Minooka bright and early this morning and noticed how the town has grown. There is a monstrous factory north of Minooka with a sign, Kurtz Aircraft, Inc., and I wondered if it were jack Kurtz. Just as I drove past the gate a limousine roared out with jack at the wheel. I met him several minutes later, in the lounge of the Hotel Ritz. He was talking very rapidly with George McCoy. I waved and they came over and explained that it was jack's factory and that George owned the lion's share of Lipps 99. He said the girls were all upstairs. When I got there I found Ann Knudson, Mary Lawson, Barbara Montgomery William- son and Doris Locher Hiller. I soon found out that I must add McCoy to Ann's name and Montgomery to Mary's. Ann was very busy being a wife and mother, she told me, and had left the two children at their grandmothe'r's. Mary and Dick Montgomery are busy following professions. Mary is the head of the WAC's, and Dick is a major in the Marines. When we came down for dinner, we found added to our list: Severn Dorre, now head of the Democratic Party, Professor Roger Dollinger of the University of Illinois, a historian who has written several text books, and Paul Green- wood, the pilot of the first rocket to the moon, who is now preparing t0 take off for Mars soon. Paul has just fiown in with Roy Carlson last night. Now everyone is here but Arlene Necker, Harvey Schmidt, and Charlie Sing and no one will tell me anything about them. When I went down for breakfast this morning Arlene and Harvey were here. They are Mr. and Mrs. now, and have their own careers. Arlene is the manager of Walgreen's in the Pentagon Building, and Harvey took over the F. B. I. when Edgar Hoover resigned. Charlie Sing arrived shortly before lunch in one of his Padillac cars. They say he has six, one for every girl friend. He has quite a little property around here and in Kansas and is, at present. feeding three thousand cattle for mar- ket and show. We had a huge dinner and sat about talking for hours while Dale's band played. Nearly every married couple has at least two children and all of the bachelors are on the ragged edge of matrimony. We girls will win out in the end! It was a wonderful week-end. and we all took off for our various homes happy, and full of memories and promises to meet again next vear. Now to write the storv for the magazine. I think I will call it . . . The Minooka '53's Meet Again. Good night, MARILYN HEITMANN

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C.. i i . 'Sz'i 'Q i5i ig 5 L sei' Q 70. .4 -'Q S lid .5 1 my l. Swede. 2. Sev. 3. Barb. 4. Arlene. 5. Norm. 6. Clint. 7. Gene. 8. Ann. 9. Herb. 10. Doris. ll. Charlie. 12. Dixie. lil. Coy. 14. Harv. l5. George. 16. Willie, 17. Paul. l8. Mare. lg. Duck. 20. jack. 21. Dick. 22. Mary. Our four years have been very eventful and exciting. 'l'he friends, the games, the parties all contributed to make our years at school memorable ones. Our first two years were fairly routine except for the fact that we could sit and watch the new high school under construction during our Sophomore year. All our watching was rewarded when we moved in- to the new building in our junior year. It was an ex- citing beginning for an extraordinary year. This was the year we worked for our prom. It was made more interesting because of the purchase of the new popcorn machine, because of the new gym in which to sell our popcorn, candy, and pop and because we had a con- ference tournament which made our class much richer. This was the year of our first play, and the first play on the new stage. All of these things were minor com- pared to the main event of the yeargour Junior- Senior Banquet and Promenade. This brought another first: the first prom in the gym. Let us remember the fun we had on our Senior Skip Day. Our Senior year was climaxed by the grad- uation exercises which meant we were leaving M. C. H. S. and stepping forth into thc unknown future and the secrets which it will reveal to us. Good luck, Minooka High! We'll be thinking of everyone there in thc years to come.

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M-DI-AN POLL AWARDS Most Representative Student By popular vote of the student body and the faculty Arlene Necker and Charles Sing were chosen as the Most Representative Students of the Senior Class. Both Arlene and Charles have been leaders in school activities, citizenship, and sports and have achieved scholastic standing which merits their reward of this honor. It is our pleasure to congratulate them. Woman's Club Awards The award presented annually by the Woman's Club of Minooka was given to Marilyn Heitmann and Charles Sing for the highest scholastic average for their four years of high school work. Congratulations, Marilyn and Charles. American Legion Award Honor, Courage, Leadership, Scholarship, Com- panionship, Character, and Service are the qualities considered by the Senior Class and the faculty in voting for the American Legion Award. This award was presented to Marilyn Heitmann and Charles Sing by Post 1188. We are happy to congratulate them for receiving this recognition. D. A. R. Award Our school is proud to be presented with a D. A. R. Award from the Alida C. Bliss Chapter of Grundy County. Congratulations, Ann Knudson, for your qualifications of Dependability, Leadership, Service, and Patriotism which the Senior Class and the faculty considered in selecting you for this honor, X 5' U L , ..... Y' , . A . xi i x 5 17 54 M i Hx. 1 X Shar KW vii' A ...5e!,,,,f,,,,- Q li-'-giisilgs 1 f0gu .fA,a,gj. N Z... . 'A teas. Ss: + ' sig- : . e' U 331.1 - .H ., , . ,sw ,ef .. 'ilft me .1 'Q K wg 'SPF' f'3Xi3iTQ 1. r. si-li' e , . g, ff rms.-gK..., aft ,sir-ff?1f',w ' , l to f it Si fi' ' Qi tt' - . N53