Avon High School - Boomerang Yearbook (Avon, IL)

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PROPHECY Chicago, Illinois February 3, 1958 Dear Martha, I am hoping that you will remember me and the rest of the class of 1950 as you read this letter. While scanning through the library at the Chicago Heights High School, where I am teaching, I happened to discover the book, “My Life as a Nurse, by Martha Davis. Remembering the name, I quickly turned to the notes on the author and finding your address decided to write to you and tell you of our classmates. Joann Reuter, you remember how she always liked to draw pictures, is the art director of the Art Institute here in Chicago. In the past few years she has received notable awards on several of her best paintings. Her latest and most famous painting is “Memories of Shady Rest.’ Sensabaugh and Blount, “the inseparables”, are now in charge of the Peoria Livestock Market at Peoria. Illinois. They have made several improve- ments there; among them is an escalator loading chute. Rosalie and Clarice are now happily married. Clarice finally made her choice about the “Chevies”, and now a family of five. Rosalie is busy raising a family of egg-candlers for the Nichols Poultry and Egg Company, now managed by Marilyn Nichols. Tom Williamson is busy carrying the English language to the people of the Belgian Congo, and he (so I’ve heard) married one of the Congo girls there. I al- ways did think he was a little queer from the time he said his greatest ambition was to play Lady Macbeth. I haven’t heard much about Carol Lee, but the last I heard she was teaching freshman English and commercial subjects at Abingdon High School. That's where her greatest interest is you know. Marilyn Sorrells and Eloise Salisbury are secretaries at Marshall Field and Company here in Chicago. I think they were attached to that store from the time they saw it on our senior class trip. Gosh, remember all the fun we had on that trip? I think I shall always re- member that as a grand finale of my school days at Avon High. Well, to continue with our classmates— Paul McVay is working as an aero- nautical engineer at Municipal Airport in New York City. I haven’t heard whether or not he got married but they say he has lost his job several times because of being late. That always was a bad habit with him. Mary Parker was the proprietor of a restaurant somewhere near Avon the last I heard. The next time I go home I think I’ll try to pay a visit to her restaurant and find out if she’s learned to make milk shakes yet. If you ever come to Chicago be sure to come and see me, and we’ll discuss old times. Your friend and classmate. Frances.

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