Bement High School - BIM Yearbook (Bement, IL)

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SENIOR SCENES IN '51 ers of home economics at the University of Hawaii. Beulah and Mary Gisinger are proprietors of “The Two Sisters Dress Shop” in Milmine. Marjorie Lamb is a dress buyer for Marshall Fields. She has just returned from the Comer-ford-Curfman establishment, where she left a large order with Wyvonne and Leola. Bill Fleming, well-known Broadway director, is cheerfully re-reading the write-ups of his latest hit. “Nicotine Highway . The creative genius of Floyd Larimore, inventor, has reached a new pinnacle with his modernized belfry for people to have bats in. SENIOR PLAY One of the popular activities of Senior Week which is anticipated both by the class and by the public is the Class Play. This year the group presented “Oh. Professor”, a three-act comedy. Michael Pemberton, fleeing from Fifi, a French beauty, lands in an academy for young ladies. It’s such a grand hide-out, that he induces the new professor to swap places with him. There follows a riot of amusing complications until the final curtain when all identities are disclosed to everyone’s satisfaction. The cast was as follows: Jake, the school janitor Eugene Wright Miss Frederica, assistant to the dean.......... .................................Mary Gisinger Dr. Aristotle, the dean Ralph Clark Michael Pemberton, returning from Paris ........ Bill Hendrix Professor Percival Courtwright. in need of fun Fred Evans Jimmy Anderson, in need of a friend Bill Fleming Patricia Patterson, also returning from Paris ................................ Peggy Moery Mille. Fifi. belonging to Paris Barbara Camp Students Fluff............................Mildred Marker Bertha Lois Jean Ryan Jean Kathryn ProbUS Belle............................ Betty Turney Fifteen

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SENIOR SCENES IN '51 As we gaze into the crystal ball, we make some startling discoveries. We see Evelyn Lamkin, a successful dress designer in New York City. She is calling her sister. Helen, and who do you suppose is the telephone operator? None other than Maxine Appelt. Helen is a secretary to Paul Morgan, the nation’s best known G-Man. We clearly see that ace mechanic, Dode Clark, reading an article, “My Trials and Troubles in High School”, by Leo Earl Poundstone in the magazine “Miss Fortune”, edited by Harb Camp. On the back is a picture of Fred Evans, who is a tobacco auctioneer. There is a testimonial in which he says, “I have chewed Chestnut Chewing Tobacco since I was a freshman in high school, and since I have become an auctioneer. I see that the Chestnut Company buys only the best and blackest tobacco possible”. The scene changes to San Francisco where James Aid. a hard-boiled truant officer, is mercilessly dragging two would-be vacationers to school, and giving them a lecture about what happened to a little boy he once knew who “played hookey”. Now we are in Texas where Carl Fay is the owner of a Dude” ranch. Herb Schuh is foreman, and we see him sitting on the corral rail, surrounded by beautiful girls. Switching back to California, we see our old classmate. Hetty Adams, who is now a movie star known as Hedy La Adams. Hedy is using a new kind of make-up that has been blended and introduced by the noted chemist, Eugene Wallace. In Bement, the “old home town”, we visit the new Wilmer Foran Memorial hospital. Wilmer, after making his fortune by inventing an electric milker that would walk to the barn by itself, endowed the struggling hospital with a gift of $150,000. Doctor W. Wade Hendrix smilingly greets us and shows us through the hospital. We visit two of our 1041 classmates, Kate Probus and Delores Shantz, who are both suffering from broken legs as a result of a fall in a jitterbug session. Their two efficient nurses, Mary Shepherd and Doris Lamb, keep them quite contented by telling them jokes. Mildred Marker has had the honor of being the first woman President of the United States. She was recently elected on the La Ma Hot Cha ticket which advocates a one-hour day and an eight-day week. Her social secretary is Martha Lane, looking as young as ever and still claiming that she is as young as ever. We see twin houses in those twin cities, St. Paul and Minneapolis, and there are the Leib twins, just going out with their twin husbands, Clara with Jerry, Clarice with Terry. Some setup! Into view now comes Captain Eugene Wright of the U. S. Navy, talking to Don Romack, the technical adviser of the Romack Airplane Corporation. We see a bill on one of the hangars advertising the coming of Phil Spitalny’s all-girl orchestra, featuring Lois Jean Ryan and her Silver Trum pet. In New York City. Dorothy Petersen is a well-known scout troop organizer. Peggy Moery and Hetty Turney are co-editors of “Advice to the Lovelorn in the New York Times. Richard Warren is a United States Senator and has just set a new record by talking for 43 days, 17 hours, 15 minutes and 23 seconds without relinquishing the floor to anyone else. Hob Scott is head basketball coach at Southern California University. As we see him, he is telling his players how Bement went to the Sectional Tournament back in 1941. Inza Forcum and Virginia Lux are both teach- Fourteen

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SENIOR WHO'S WHO Most Scholarly Barbara Camp William Hendrix Most Musical Barbara Camp William Fleming Most Athletic Betty Adams Wilmer Foran Most Popular Mildred Marker William Hendrix Most Witty Kathryn Probus Earl Poundstone Most Attractive Mildred Marker William Fleming Most All-Around Barbara Camp William Hendrix Best Dressed Mildred Marker William Fleming Most Bashful Evelyn Lamkin Wilmer Foran Best Dancer Betty Adams William Fleming Biggest Cut-up Delores Shantz Earl Poundstone Martha Lane deserves a place in our Who’s Who for her record of perfect attendance during her whole high school career. Peggy Moery was the girl chosen by the faculty to receive the D.A.R. award for dependability, leadership, patriotism, character, scholarship, and personality. Barbara Camp WTilliam Hendrix William Fleming THE BIG TEN (Scholastically) Inza Forcum Peggy Moery Martha Lane Kathryn Probus Virginia Lux Mildred Marker Eugene Wallace Sixteen