Bethany High School - Reverie Yearbook (Bethany, IL)

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THE REVERIE As I fly over the west end of Bethany, who should I see but our former basketball star. Bill Morris. He runs a crew of carpenters. Bill is known as a fast man with a hammer - - one look at his mangled fingers will testify to that. Leroy Tinnea is in charge of the biggest oil corporation in the U. S. Naturally, he does all the bookkeeping. Leroy says he has a lot of night work to do, but he still finds time for the flock of females that are continually begging him to take them out to dinner. Marjorie Bartimus has her own beauty salon in Prairie Home, and has won several prizes with her creations. Who models her hairdos? Why, Marjorie, of course! It's quite a sight to see her running madly about shampooing, cutting, dyeing, and making her poor customers miserable by viciously sticking them with bobby pins. It just goes to show what some people will do for beauty's sake! Doris Keown is a world famous soprano currently singing in the Metropolitan Opera. Her high notes have been known to shatter glass blocks away! She and her auto-mechanic husband have quite a flock of little sopranos and mechanics, but she seems to be having no trouble with that old career-versus-marriage story. Glen Little is working like mad!?? He has a 400-acre farm but has employed three hired men to do the heavy work. Glen must have gotten lazy in his old age, for he certainly was never like that in school! He has acquired ennumerable im- plements and a large herd of cattle. Like most men he has succumbed to the wiles of a woman, and his most prized possessions are his wife and small boys. Perhaps you've noticed the truck with LITTLE AND SONS sailing about town. Maxine Wagemann is leading a fast life as society editor for the Chicago Tribune. She has been engaged several times but the big event still hasn t taken place. Her job is an enviable one, for she comes in contact with many notables and attends the seasons' biggest social functions. Maxine doesn't have much time to write her friends at home, but a few of them are always welcome in her big apartment. BETHANY HIGH SCHOOL-1951

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THE REVERIE CLASS PROPHECY Time: 1965 Place: A jet plane whizzing over the U. S. Here it is 1965 already. The fifteen years since I graduated with the class of 1951 have flown almost as swiftly as my plane is flying now. Why I remember - - - - but I haven't time to tell about my experiences. Let's see what has hap- pened to the rest of the class since they left B. H. S. John LaCost, who as a high school boy was very shy, has progressed a long way. He now spends a lot of time making speeches and entertaining friends in his huge apartment. Yes, you've guessed it. He is a widely known chemist and has made some world-shaking discoveries. The cattleman in the West that you've heard so much about, is none other than our own Myron Cribbet. He claims he's rolling in money but has to pay the government plenty! Cribbet has settled down in Arizona and has a wife and six boys. Instead of tearing up a car when he wants to let off steam, like he used to do in school, he now’ spends lost weekends at the Silver Dollar Bar in Podunk Station. James Tipsw’ord, a great daredevil driver, is making the gals swoon, and keeps them wondering if he will live long enough to marry one of them. He can t seem to make up his mind, and enjoys playing the field just like he used to do. In the course of his work he drives through a solid w all of ice, leaps through fire, and performs many other death-defying feats. ‘It's not the thrill or the reknown, but that green folding stuff that I risk my neck for, says Luke. The girl w’e all remember as Maxine Marshall, is working very hard. As head of an advertising company in New’ York, and her husband as a commercial artist, they are becoming quite prosperous. Their w’ork has been in some of the country's best known magazines; perhaps you've seen it. They have two children, twins, who visit their grandparents in Bethany quite frequently. Darlene Dick, who we all knew would be a success, is doing just that as a housewife. She is kept very busy taking care of her seven children and helping her husband run their business known as Floreys' Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co. BETHANY HIGH SCHOOL-1951

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THE REVERIE Phyllis McReynolds is now in Washington, D. C., working as secretary to the President of the United States. She is so busy writing campaign speeches and censoring the President s letters, that there has been no time lor romance; so she is still unmarried. It is rumored, however, that she has set her cap lor the Presi- dent, himsell! Evelyn Liilico, the hardest working girl in our class, is still working hard. She is superintendent ol an orphanage and supervising the activitites ol all those children really keeps her hopping. The children are always rosy cheeked and lull ol pep, and there is a great demand lor adoption ol her cherubs. Glen Austin, who we always knew had no particular musical talent, is singing baritone with his Ozark Mountain Boys. His stage name is now Calhoun, a carry- over Irom his school days. The boys are always a hit when they sing That Good Ol' Mountain Dew, which, incidently, is now second on the hit parade. Glen is still a woman hater and has emerged unscathed Irom the clutches ol many a lemale. The homelolks don't hear Irom him very olten and he seldom gets home, but, (girls please note), brother Charlie is still available. II you've read the papers or listened to the radio lately, you've undoubtedly heard ol that Hying ace who has been streaking about the world chasing llying saucers. Herb is stationed somewhere in Siberia and is Hying his own F-80, the Leapin' Lena. I don't think it's necessary to mention the last name ol the Bethany boy, lor he never let anyone lorget him. Well, that's all ol the graduating class ol '51. Many have married and others have taken a prolession, but all seem to have succeeded in this old world ol love and war. I ve been so busy Hying around linding out what my old classmates are doing that I haven't had time to do much ol anything else. No sooner do I see some place ahead, than because ol the high speed ol my jet, it’s behind me. I guess I 11 never be in one place long enough to make history. Better be Hying on now, so long BETHANY HIGH SCHOOL-1951