Bensenville Community High School - Highlights Yearbook (Bensenville, IL)

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PROPHECY The year l962. Just ten years since the class of '52 graduated with top honors from dear old Benny High . Let's look in on some of our old classmates. So first we will goto the Opera House. I hear it rumored that some friends of mine will be there. Picking up the phone, I ask my most dependable chauffeur, Chuck Burnadt, to bring my limousine around front. We are offl Aswe pull up in front of the Opera House, the door is opened by Keith Neuman. What a surprise to see Keith as a doorman, but he says he likes his work and it's very easy. Sounds like Keith, doesn't it? At the door my ticket is taken by Jim Kallas, and I am stunned to see Bill Steg- meier, made head usher in three short years, come to escort me to my box. Standing by that drinking fountain over there, isn't that Lowell Palm? Of course it isl I run over and enthusiastically pump his arm. He tells me that he is here tosee a friend of his sing. I ask him how life has been treating him and he tells me he owns a famous coast to coast flo- rist shop. I bid him good-bye and enter my box iust as the performance begins. I am astonished to see Harold Cook take the director's stand amidst the plaudits of the crowd, and conduct the first number in a finished style. After this oration given him by the throng dies down, he introduces the guest singer, Marilyn Eliason . Next Mary Ann Schoen doesa special drum solo. The following num- ber features Richard Fisk, Gerald Hampton, Richard Youse and Richard Laud as the Benny- high Quartet. The showsadly comes to an end as Janice Ellmore sweetly sings that haunting melody, The Halls of Ivy. I rush back stage to greet Cynthia Guss, Jane Siadek, Warren Leubking and Roy Kleven, all of whom I had recognized as members of the orchestra. Feel- ing a hand on my shoulder, I wheel around Gnd amstartled tosee John Velco and Gor- don Voss. They both tell me excitedly that they love their work of managing the stage properties. On my way out I run into Ken Wilke and Ralph Olsen who have lingered awhile to dis- cuss old times. Ken says he is now the star sports writer on the New York News Cast and Ralph is down from -hmegfin Wiscogn on business. This business, he informs me, is the designing of the Greater Empire State Build- mg. I jump into my car and in no time at all we are at that very famous Copa Club, owned by none other than our own Marlyn Merholtz. He gives me a hearty slap on the back fsame old Marlynl, and the best table in the house. He saysl have arrived there just in time to see the big show. At this instant emcee Dan Silianoff comes out and starts the showrolling. Good old Danl A blast of trumpets and a roll of drums is heard, and out step Mary Ann Kuhn, Joann Knapp, Shirley Carlquist, Margaret Thalin, Marrianne Topp, and Delores Vuglar in a lively can-can . The spot light is then turned on Teresa Cuatrecasas, that famous South American rhumba dancer. The next act is that hilarious comedy team of radio and T.V., Egly and Shymkewich, who leave the audience in stitches! Now Carol Steging steps into the spot light to sing a haunting tune of the day. Marlyn tells me that Carol is up from her mansion in Tennessee to do o special show for him. A the show comes to a close, Dan is back to tell us that we now can dance for the rest of the evening to the music of Walter Koch with his singing trumpet and orchestra.