Bethany High School - Reverie Yearbook (Bethany, IL)

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TIH E E EVE EIIE CLASS PROPHECY X (Continued) I asked her if she knew anything about Juanita Carlyle and she told me that Juanita was back home at Bethany, still with her mother. Juanita does many nice things for the poor people around Bethany. Besides that she has an orphans’ home of her own for poor homeless children. She cares for about one hundred children at the home. Harold Sill is a young man that has surprised many people as well as himself, I guess. He is married, has eight kids and is he ever hen-pecked. He used to con- sider himself quite the dashing young knight, but those days are gone forever. He farms the ground that his father used to own. Darlene Marshall is working at the office of the largest skating rink in Lovington, Illinois. Lovington has grown by five hundred people since 1952, but even when it was still small it always seemed to have an odd attraction for her. Joann Gregory is hostess in a swanky restaurant on Fifth Avenue in New York City. She started out as a waitress and worked her way up. She wrote me and told me that she hadn’t met up with any rich Indians with oil wells yet, so she is still un- attached. Maybe she had better go out West to find one of those. It will probably increase her chances. Gene Tinnea, being among the nicer looking young men in our class, is now the most eligible young man about town. What town? Why Bethany, of course. He is judge of the beauty contest held there every year in the spring. He sure knows how to pick ’em too! After exchanging gossip about our old friends, I bid Mervin a good-bye so I could get back home in time to go to a new movie co-starring Ken Coventry and Pat Wheeler. The movie is called “The Love I Left Behind Me.” Do you suppose they might have left someone behind? BETHANY HIGH SCHOOL-1952

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TIME IP IE vein lie CLASS PROPHECY (Continued) Bob Boyer is responsible for the increase in the population of Prairie Home by an even six. He met his wife while on a winter vacation trip to Florida. He has con- siderable wealth, which he acquired by having struck oil on his three hundred acre farm. David Wimmer now plays a cornet in Hairy James’ band. He told me that Dave Fitzgibbons had brought Marian Moore, who now goes by the name of “Fifi,” to dinner at the Stork Club several times when he was playing there. Dave Fitz is manager of the Country Gentleman Tobacco Company. “Fifi” owns a ladies French style shop. Her original hats and gowns bring quite a price. She and Dave seem to like each other; maybe they will settle down together some day, but right now Marian is having too good a time to settle down. Helen Carlyle is the recent inventor of a new shorthand method. Here’s hoping it is easier than the one she and I had when we were together in Miss Guthrie’s eighth hour shorthand class. It can be learned by anyone in just a few days, says Helen. Mervin told me that he had read in the paper last week where Bill Puyear had won the football game for the Navy in the game between Army and Navy. He scored a touchdown in the last ten seconds to win the game thirteen to twelve in favor of Navy. Bill still comes out of a game with his nose all skinned up like he used to when we were in high school. Beverly Lacy is a happily married woman who takes great pride in her husband and two small daughters. For a while after graduating Beverly worked in an office as a secretary to the vice-president of a small company. Now she and her husband and family live on a farm near Arthur, Illinois. Janet Harchous, being a rather quiet girl does not care to combine marriage and career. Her husband is County Superintendent of schools in Moultrie County. Moultrie County schools no longer have semester tests like we had to take when we were in school. Mervin also informed me that Ollie Carlyle was there on the circus grounds. He took me over to her booth to see her. She was the fortune teller there on the grounds. She says there’s nothing to telling persons’ fortunes; just make a good guess and most of the people will go home satisfied. BETHANY HIGH SCHOOL-1952

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TIHIE REVERIE SENIOR HISTORY ■s? Let’s see—it’s just four years since we were Freshmen. It seems like only yesterday. I remember so clearly our first day of High School. There were twenty- seven in our class who graduated together from the grade school. There were eight new members from other schools. At the first of the year we elected class officers. They were: President, Bob Boyer; Vice-President, Bill Puyear; Secretary, Mary Martha Ward; and Treasurer, Kenny Coventry; Sponsor Mr. Schmitt. Student Council members were Earl Heckler and Mary Martha Ward. As the custom was, the Sophomores gave us a welcoming party which was a weiner roast and a hay ride. We returned the party with a hamburger fry and a treasure hunt. Had anyone visited our fair school on December one of that year they would have been surprised at the appearance of the freshmen, for on this day as a part of our initiation of the girls wore long underwear and the boys wore burlap bags. These were accompanied, of course, with plenty of lipstick and a few other incidentals. Several of our class members had important positions. On the football team were Bill Bland, Bill Puyear, Mervin Warren, Bob Boyer, David Wimmer, and Jim Wheeler. Bill Bland and Jack Wheeler were on the basketball team and Gene Tinnea was the manager. Isabelle Freeland and Becky Walton were cheerleaders from our class and Devereux Powell was Majorette. Annual representatives were Phyllis Oathout and Bill Bland. Our Sophomore year we gained three members. They were Nora Utsler, Joann Gregory and Harold Sill. We lost Ken Coventry and Devereux Powell which made our total thirty-six. Class officers that year were: President, Bill Bland; Vice-President, Jack Wheeler; Secretary, Mai'y Martha Ward; Treasurer. David Wimmer; and Sponsor, Mr. Mahan. Student Council members were Phyllis Oathout and Earl Heckler. Isabelle Freeland and Becky Walton were cheerleaders. Sophomore majorettes were Beverly Goetz and Joyce Malone. Boys on the football team that year were the same as the freshman year ex- cepting Jim Wheeler plus Lyle Heustis, Marion Windell, Harold Sill, Dean Taylor and Jack Wheeler. Gene Tinnea was manager. The boys on the basketball team were Bill Bland, Jack Wheeler, Harold Sill, Gene Tinnea, Dean Taylor, Dave Wimmer, and Marion Windell who was manager. Members of our class who were on the annual staff were Marna Queen, Bob Boyer and Earl Heckler. As juniors we were very busy. We gained Ken Coventry back but we lost Velma Jean Tinnea who had come in at the middle of the sophomore year. Velma Jean continued her studies at home. The junior class officers were: President, Isabelle Freeland; Vice-President, Mer- vin Warren; Secretary, Marna Queen; Treasurer, Earl Heckler; Sponsor, Miss Mosby. Student Council members were again Phyllis Oathout and Earl Heckler plus Isabelle Freeland. Cheerleaders were Pat Wheeler and Joyce Malone. Majorettes were Beverly Goetz and Joan Pritts. BETHANY HIGH SCHOOL-1952