Bethel High School - Beacon Yearbook (Bethel, MO)

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While we are down St. Louis way, we might as well step into the offices of the Mersman Accounting Company and have our income tax figured so we won't be indebted to the U. S. Government. During the past seven years Gerald Mer sman, president of the Mer sman Accounting Company and a graduate of B. H. S. in 1953, and his employees have never made an error. A right good record, I'd say: but remember, even a crystal ball can be wrong. As a hobby, Mr. Mersman has invented an automatic foot-washing machine that operates at the touch of a button. To further enhance the operation of this invention, he has patented an invisible soap. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Goings, owners of the famous G Bar G ranch in Texas, and their fifteen children are home for an extended visit. Mrs. Goings, the former Rosa Lee Redmon, and her husband, are very fond of children. Their family has won newspaper fame because of its multiple births, three sets of triplets, and three sets of twins. The names of the last set of twins, Earl and Pearl, are especially interesting to people of this community, Earl, being named for her former superintendent, Mr. Earl Bauerrichter, and Pearl for her former bus driver, Pearl Pflum. Mrs. Goings can't understand the worldwide interest in her family. She refuses to be perturbed by having her picture in numerous news- papers and magazines from coast to coast. Lorene Lear, who for the last ten years has been a commerce teacher in New York Central High School, has left on a three months trip to Europe- There are rumors of a romantic attachment underlying this trip. There is a story cir- culating that on her return Miss Lear plans to establish a branch of her well known Cozy Corner Cafes in Bethel. Her management policies will tolerate no undignified conduct by anyone. It seems as though Martha Ann Bonnell, recently divorced from Marvin Smith, has received the award for Best Editor of l973. Miss Bonnell is now managing editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch in St. Louis- This gay young di- vorcee is frequently seen in the company of Enos Slaughter, a Cardinal executive. Next we see John Jones of near Bethel, Missouri, being awarded the prize for the best corn grower in the United States. We must not forget his wife, the former Rosemary Peak, also a graduate of 1953, who has helped him win his corn-growing title- She has been very busy keeping their four children from cutting down John's prize winning corn with toy corn knives. Just look at this! Mrs. Grant, the former Bonnie Carter, now the wife of Admiral John Grant, sailed for Europe on the passenger liner, The United States, where she will join her husband who is in command of the U. N. forces serving in Europe and Asia. Margaret Elaine Bower is acting secretary for her husband, Jerry Trenhaile, who owns a Ford Auto Plant in Detroit, Michigan. Their son, Leroy, is eight.

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Orlando Dennis, better known as Brother, has been managing the Globe Trotters for six years. Mrs. Dennis, the former Erma Jean Parsons, is busily managing their five boys. Brother hopes to tour the country with a team composed of his sons when they are a little older. A famous man once said that a rolling stone gathers no moss. Two of the B. H- S. graduates of 1953, Mary Alice White and Barbara Wiseman, are proving this statement to be incorrect. They are very busy selling Keystone house trailers for the Keystone Manufacturing Company of New York City, New York. The girls meet a lot of handsome unmarried men. They are supplied with the latest fashions in clothing from the best Parisian 'and' American shops. The company says that these pretty models and the new Cadillacs they are furnished each year, help to stimulate the sales of Keystone Trailers. Professor Future Time and his crystal ball now leave the airlanes andbid you one and all, good evening. G--....