North Kansas City High School - Purgold Yearbook (North Kansas City, MO)

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amioz Qian 061268 'za JACK MORTON OREN WILLIAMS MARY GIBSON President V Vice President Secretary IEANNE ALLEN ALBERT CARR ALVIN LEONARD Treasurer Sergeant at Arms Reporter OSCAR ANNIS N Club, Hi-Y BILL AVIS - DAVID ALLEN LOIS MARIE BAILEY N Club IEANNE ALLEN Pep Squad President, Girl Reserves, Girl Reserve Cab- inet, Masque and Gavel, Senior Class Treasurer, Owl SLafi, Owl Oueen Attendant, Senior Play, Homecoming Queen Attendant, Quill and Scroll. 21 Girl Reserves WALTER DEERE HI-Y

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Cgsmoz dfais glzofzfiaagtj Being a newspaper reporter, my profession naturally takes me to many parts of the coun- -try: therefore, I am very fortunate in meeting many of my high school chums. lust this morn- ing, March l5, 1952, I chanced to meet lean Allen looking very chic and smart in her new tweed suit. I was surprised to see that little key still around her neck, and then, not at all to my surprise, she informed me 1-hat she 'was now Mrs. Bill Kelley. I glanced across the street and saw a large advertisement of Burnidge Dislributing Company. Next door was the main office of the Evening Star published by Charles .Blythe and Bill Meadows with Pat Stock and Ruth Bell employed as reporters. Going on down the street, I could see Barbara DeniSO1'1 Spefikiflq at the Business Women's conference. Among those present were learlfirihllr Capps, head nurse at t'he General Hospital in Kansas Cityg Mary Gibson, chief bookkeeper and sec- 'retary of the Thompson Lumber Companyy and Payetta Burton, whose editorials appear in newsPCIP9FS Ci1'1Cl magazines throuqhout this country and others. Speaking of newspapers, I received a letter from Audley Campbell today who is a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. At lunch last week, I accidentally met two old friends. Yes, it's still the same. Dr. john Stroud Morton taking' his secretary-wife, Lou Thomas, to lunch at Do' land York's com- bination drive-in and filling station where Mabel, lean, and Frances I-Ioy are the carhops. Miracles never cease, especially when one of your most .intimate friends becomes the Vice- president of the United States. Imagine - Roy Reel! IncidenLally, Bill Brown and luUiOr Williams have become residents of the little, but big town of Liberty, Missouri. james Crock- ett has organized his own orchestra featuring Marcella Duffy at the drums and Beverly Benoit as tap dancer. Also, featured at the Metropolitan Opera is Bob Kardash who recently be- came business manager of a large synthetic rubber company in Chicago with Ruth Borgrnier as his private secretary. Selma Murry has given up all her business interests to become Mrs. Dick Peters. On a recent tour of the South, I had the privilege of visiting the largest pipe company in Alabama and whom should I meet but Mr. Oliver No'rnan, efficient owner. The very person I expected to be fitted for the position of private secretary for this firm was Helen Richards, recently seen with the up and coming radio Singer, Ned Vincent. The evening pa- per brought me the news that Naomi Brown is now the new president of the Army Wives Club. Other interesting items were: Marriage licenses - Mary I. Bidwell and Harold Stark: Charles Ryan and Betty I-Iainlineg Bob Evans and Wanda Myers: - Radio programs - Charlene Coomber and Norma Mollenhauer in an accordian recitalp Cooley Bigharn's lecture on the Prejudices Against the Negro. Ardis Burnidge has been recently appointed chief -advisor of the Girl Reserves of Kansas City, Missouri. Lloyd Stanley is filling the position of football coach at William lewell College. Richard Spickler seems Very pleased about his new job as advertising manager of the Kansas City Slar. Lucille Sparks can't seem to for- get that old flame of high school days, so she has given up her secgetarial ability to become a good wife to Iimmy Skeith. Corrine Smith, as you probably expected, is another typical American beauty. The class of '42 supplied the sports world with several professional foot- ball stars such as lim Shanks, Lloyd Elrod, johnny Estes, Oscar Annis, and last but not least, Albert Carr. Our future farmers turned out to be Kenneth Rogers, Delbert Hughes, Kenneth Hornback, and Vern Ballenger. Much to all of our amazement, Walter Deere has taken up the john Deere implement industry with cows as a side interest. Sylvia Cameron is general manager of the I. A. Peterson dime store with singing as her hobby. Bill Avis chose to be manager of the local A. St P. store. Martha lane Barnby is a new instructor in the com- mercial department in N. K. C. H. S. I haven't -heard much from Ierome Himmelberg, but my guess is t-hat he is another Tyrone Power. Who could be a more efficient bookkeeper for the K. C. Power ci Light Company than Eugene Haynes? Can't you just imagine Mary Alice Mayden as a psychology teacher? Well, she has taken Mrs. Lillian Miller's position who retired in '50. Doris Mclntyre is proving very satisfactory as a dancing instructor at the Ar- thur Murray studio in New York City. 'Things just wouldn't have -happened right if Marjorie Maloy hadn't become Mrs. Green. - after all these years. No one's day would be complete if they couldn't see Alvin Spot Leonard loafing at the corner drug store. Mid Iones is the proud owner of a largeydude ranch out west. Richard Ioyce and Bill Clark are two of his best cowhands. Lillian Cox recently won a beauty contest, and is now enjoying a trip around the world. So ends the class prophecy of '42 leaving with you your comments. 20

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VERN BALLEN GER RUTH A. BELL Buzz Stcrff, Girl Reserves Senior Play. Quill and Scroll lAMES BECKMAN MARY IANE BIDWELL Buzz Stuff, Student Defense Commiiiee ARVENE BERG Girl Reserves BERNICE BLYTHE l 22 MARTHA JANE BARNBY l. R. BENNETT Student Defense Cornmiiiee BEVERLY BENOIT Masque and Gavel, Girl Reserves COOLEY BIGHAM Hi-Y IRENE BLOGIN Art Club, G. A. A., Honor Club Girl Reserves, Girl Reserve Cabinet l AMES BOGUE Hi-Y