Brimfield High School - Spectator Yearbook (Brimfield, IL)

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Immediately after leaving Verna, I started looking around to see if I could find anyone else of my acquaintance. From a distance I saw a beautiful girl with long golden hair almost to the middle of her back. I wondered who it could be. As she turned around I had to look twice before I could believe my eyes. Yes, it was Sara Bleichner. I immediately went to meet her and after coming closer, it seems she was even more lovely than I had remembered her. She told me all about her exciting life. It seems that Sara moved to Hollywood and became a hair stylist for the movie actors and actresses. She told me it was just too thrilling for words to be among the most talked about people. The most surprising thing I learned from her was, that among the most interesting people she knew was Dave Bryan. I was simply thrilled, because he was the most romantic actor in Hollywood. After I had told her that Dave was my favorite actor, she informed me that Dave Bryan's former name was Dave Sheets. The same Dave that I had attended Brimfield High with. This was shocking, but I realized that with Dave's a-bility as an actor in high school it wouldn't take him too long to be cone a star. In many cases time does change people. Take for instance Don 1 'helan. We all knew Don as a clever and bright student, but certainly we didn't expect him to become a writer. After completing his most successful book intitlcd The Trouble With People Is he decided that what this world needed was more charity. With this idea in mind, he donated his time and efforts by compiling a Whelan Dictionary and giving one free to everyone who asked. He considered this real charity because be realized he couldn't sell the dictionary's anyway. There was another member of our class who moved away to seek his fortunes elsewhere. This as you will probably remember v as Bill Birdsell. He departed from our class just a few months before graduation. We could see that Bill really had a head on his big broad shoulders, and when he found out that his head fitted a footbal.i helmet, he became the greatest star of football. People still talk about his most spectacular play when Army, his home team, played against Navy. Bill ran eight yards in the last few seconds of play to score a touchdown and defeat Navy. No one discovered the hidden talents of Eleanor

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Darrell Ebbing established fame when he became the head of an Atomic Bomb Research Laboratory in California. He started as a young scientist inventing such things as plastic typing paper. After this came his big chance. He discovered more about the Atomic Bomb and because of this knowledge, he became president of the new Atomic Research Lab in Calif. As I recall, it was about two years after I entered these golden gates that I met Jack Powers. During our deep conversation, I learned that Jack became a fabulous night club owner in Palm Beach, Florida. Before this he tried running a few hamburger stands, but he was not successful. He called this new club The Black Shadow Inn. It was modern, complete with delicious dinners, and had floor shows for entertainment. Jack mentioned something about a Gerry Lee. This reminded me of Gerry Tosh so I asked Jack if he knew what became of Gerry. This is when I got my surprise, Why don t you know said Jack, Gerry Lee is Gerry Tosh. She changed her name a bit and bleached her hair blonde and she soon became the leading lady in the show. She said that since her husband made the army his career, she decided to get a job. She began in the chorus line as a review girl and later became the leading lady. Further on in my conversation with Jack, he told me that he offered Wayne Coon a job as manager of the club. Since they were school pals, Jack thought Wayne would like this. However, Wayne refused the offer and instead of being a manager, he became the proprietor of a medium size movie theater. This made Wayne very theatrical minded. His wife, Barbara, already owned a theatre and after building one of his own. Wayne got the idea of having at least one in every state. I was sorry to hear that this plan was never completed, I I was just overwhelmed with joy when I happened to pass by the entrance and saw Verna Bayslngar I had seen Verna only once while on earth. She became a school teacher. She went to college and received her masters degree in Bookkeeping. She was very successful as a teacher, and taught prize winning bookkeeping students. Being a teacher might be the basis for her happy life. Verna met a young Math teacher while teaching at Elmwood High, and like most teachers, they fell deeply in love and lived a very happy life together.

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Wagner while ’n high school., but hardly a year after leaving she started singing with a band in Chicago. Her greatest ambition was to be an Opera Singer. Working hard and slowly climbing, she reached the height of her success. She was magnificient. Writters and directors were constantly begging her to take the leading role in their operas. One evening after one of her performances I was battling through the crowd when I happen to see Senator Gerald Schmitt. I immediately went over to see him and find out how he was getting along in Politics. He told me it was quite an interesting life. Gerald wasn’t nearly as shy as he used to be, and by now he was well acquainted with giving speeches. Also he said, I’m thinking of running for President next year. Tell me Betty, he continued, what brings you here tonight? This wasn’t a hard explanation for me to give. I had always been interested in music and when I wasn’t busy playing at a Concert or on television I liked to see an opera. You certainly are famous for playing the piano commented Jerry. It really is a great thrill for me I replied, and I never dreamed the name Betty Maher would ever be put in lights surrounding the music world. Oh dear, I've taken up so much time remenecing through the past. It simply has been great fun renew ing the life of my fellow classmates, and to,isn’t it simply marvelous the way the class of 1951 has progressed through the years while on earth? Now that all our troubles have vanished and we have all met here in heaven it will be a happy reunion. Maybe Dick vail show up soon and, oh, here he comes now. Hey Dick, come this way, through the gate, just follow me. I am certainly glad to see you Dick and now that you are here this makes oqr group complete. After years of ceaseless toil, once again, the class of ’51 comes home.