Athens Community High School - Athenian Yearbook (Athens, IL)

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Irene Foraen has hit the bright lights as a singer. She has received a year's contracta t one of the spots in Cnicago. Anna Mae Freligh, who acted as our prophet, hasn't dropped the profession entirely. She is now writing biographies, that is in her spare time. Her real job is working in an Army Air Force control tower. With a puff of smoke, Madame Free-Lee vanished and I found myself alone. Abruptly I was again ushered from the room into tne noisy streets of San Francisco. Say I Have I been dreaming? EDITORS' NOTE As a final effort, we wish to express our appreciation to all those who assisted us in making this Athenian. We gratefully acknowledge Joe Soboul as our staff artist. He did the job well. To our advisors, Mr. Berner and Mrs. Cruzan----we thank you. To ail the readers---we sincerely hope you enjoy this book. As you turn these pages several years from now, we hope you will catch a glimpse of the school days during the term of 1944-45. (Signed) LaVerne Bush Anna Mae Freligh 7

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CLASS PROPHECY I, La Verne Bush, was ushered into a dark, quiet room where Madame Free-Lee was seated gazing into an exotic crys- tal ball. The mysteries of the graduating class of 19 5 were to be unraveled to reveal tneir future within the next ten years. Madame spoke: To start the ball rolling, Jeanette Brown nas married former pfc. Albert Stott and nas cnarming twin sons wno are now five years old. And you. LaVerne, wno married Melvin Kinnaman, wno was anotner soldier, lives next door. You and Jeanette are partners in a beauty snop. The Wasilewski brothers. Gene and Alex, the former basket ball stars of AChS, nave reacned tneir goals as full-fledged Admirals of tne U. S. wavy. Tneir wives are living togetner in a swanky Fifth Avenue home. Gene Cordell is an owner of a large tobacco plantation in the Soutn. Ralph Kornack is his top foreman. Both are nappily married with large families. Vivian Henderson, who took a business course after fin- ishing scnool, is now tne secretary of a charming red-haired gentleman who is manager of H. B. Wilson Co. After graduating from the Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Helen Young is now a successful private nurse. Bernice Williams, a Home Economic specialist, is now married and living on an experimental farm in California. Jim Kopp has reached the height of nis ambition and is now basketball coach at wotre Dame. Imogene Tobias is at it again. This is her third trip to Reno. And once again she says For Keeps. Carol Gustavson is really serving ner country as a feminine member of the F. 3. I. We're sure she is a good one. This will take lots of concentration. Yes, there it is. Jack Wagner did marry tne blonde welder. While she welds, ne minds tne children. Second only to Earhart, Maxine Noel is occupied with her stunt flying. Kenneth Stone, honorably discnargedlhom tne service as a successful engineer, is manager of rebuilding the Golden Gate. Yes, and he married the red-haired girl. 6

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ANNA MAE FRELIGH Butch Gee Whir Chorua 1. Librarian 1, 2, 3, 4. Athenian Editor. LAVERNE BUSH Bush That's for sure. Transferred from Virginia High. Home Ec. Club 3, 4. Class Officer 3. Chorua 4. Jr. Play. Librarian 3. Athenian Editor. JACK WAGNER Stupie Don't do today what you can put off until to- morrow. Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4. Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4. Track 2. Student Council 1, 2,3,4. Gas Bag 2, 3, 4. Band 1, 2, 3, 4. Jr. Play. Athenian Business Mgr. GENE CORDELL Corky '•Veil, what do you expect me to do about it? FFA 1, 2, 3, 4. Class Officer 2, 3, 4. Student Council 2, 3, 4. Gas Bag 4. Jr. Play. Athenian Business Mgr. JEANETTE BROWN Shorty You'ro not Just akiddln HomeEc. Club 1, 2, 3, 4. GAA 1. Class Officer 1, 2, 3, 4. Student Council 4. Gas Bag 3, 4. Chorus 4. Jr. Play Librarian 1, 2, 3, 4. Honor Night Queen. Athenian Humor Editor. GENE VfASILEWSKI Hunk I don't know so much about that. FFA 1, 2, 3, 4. Basketball 1, 2, Baseball 1, 2, 3 Track 1, 2, 4. Class Officer 1, Athenian Sports 3, 4. , 4. 2, 3, 4. Editor. CAROL GUSTAVSON Gus Judas Priest. Home Ec. Club 1, 2. GAA 1, 2. Student Council 4. Gas Bag 1, 2, 3, 4. Chorus 1, 2. Jr. Play. Honor Night Maid-of-Honor. Athenian Literary Editor. ALEX WASILEWSKI Cutter You botchle. FFA 3, 4. Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4. Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4. Track 1, 4. Class Officer 1, 2. Jr. Play. Student Council 2, 3, 4. Gas Bag 2, 3, 4. Athenian Sports Editor.