Vernonia High School - Memolog Yearbook (Vernonia, OR)

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She has fulfilled her lifelong ambition and has become the twentieth wife of Tommy Manville. They tell me the last one even lasted 59 seconds, Robert Falconer is foreman of the Vernonia-Banks Road Construction Company, He is working for the state repairing the road he burned up during his senior year. Melvin Snook is running stiff competition with Frank Sinatra, Those Bow ties of Melvin's really lay those teen-agers in the aisles. Dorothy Rose seems to be doing a fine job of combining two occupations,, First, she is married to Draino Greenwood and has a moderate family of ten lit Lie girls. Second, she is head saleswoman for a leading diaper manufacturing company. Never one to be outdone, Loren Dodge and Snooks Tisdale are mar-« ried and living in Texas where they have plenty of room for their own eleven man football team. Dick Wagner,lived up to our expectations and became a star basketball player and is now coach of V. i , S. Jack Buell has become a great poet, and is well known for that lovely verse, Oh, darling your teeth look so white, hock them and let's go out tonight, which always brings a tear to each and every eye. Mary Coyle is living in Montana and is owner of one of the largest ranches in the United States, Owen East is employed as foreman o f this ranch and we hear she really orders him around. Our sweet lit.le Hilder Sundquist is pushing Gene Krupa right off his pedestal. ytyf but she can swing those sticks around and make the sweetest music. She gets paid $1,000 a night, which isn't bad for a beginner. Sammy Davis has made wonderful progress with his greatest ambition. He owns a string of service stations from Birkenfeld to Hollywood. He is kept quite busy hopping from one place to another trying to get Hilder to give up her career. Have you heard about Betty DeHart? I forget what she calls herself now, but you probably know her as the Hubba, Hubba girl. She dyed her hair black and put cn a sarong and-------well 1 She is moving Dorothy Lamour right out of pictures. She is really quite a sensation in Hollywood, Jack Riley is playing the leading role in Lost Weekend and in his spare time, is employed at Joe's Flapjack Inn. A gob popped up and swept Jean McDonald off her feet. They eloped and are now living at Seaside raising little waves'. Our ex-student body prexy, Ralph Keasey, turned out to be a kleptomaniac and got a life sentence. We always wondered what happened to our skip-day money„ Mary Pat Caton is kept quite busy as chief bouncer at the Cherokee Club in Portlando Dorothy Ann Hogberg is the only casualty on our list. She tried very hard to be a singer, but one night at the Diamond Horseshoe she blew a lung while singing Oh Johnny. Now the only other thing she can do is to take one of the jobs offered her by R„ K. 0., Mc G. M., and Universal. Isn't it a shame, and our record was so good. This brings to a close our 15 minute broadcast of outstanding personalities in the news.