Buchanan High School - Pines Yearbook (Buchanan, MI)

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- ---. i . T' av ..,, 'V ' ' ' 4-:5e9g5::24,g5:9a.-', zl- .v,-, -' if f In the maze of color charts, brushes, and paints, we see Geneva Troutfetter seated in her studio. She is now employed by Montgomery Ward 8: Company as wall paper and linoleum designer. Her designs now grace the walls and floors of some of our finest homes. She also does portraits in her off hours. At the start of the Army-Navy game this year. you could have seen a man smothered in a large bear skin coat on the fifty yard line. If you had pulled down the collar, you would have seen Ace Sports Reporter, Donald Blaney, of the Times. And who would have thought it! I find that the team of Maxy and Donney, super strong man and woman act de luxe, is none other than my two classmates, Max Penwell and Donna Belle DeWitt, respectively, who have commercialized their talents. Al-most any evening on the radio you can hear: Station W. D. M. C. now brings Lillias Peacock, storybook lady, with another adventure in the lives of Betty and Mary in Story Book Land These programs are sponsored by the Daisy Maid Coddled Egg Company and are broadcast on the N. B. C. hook up from coast to coast. - As the starting flag was flashed downward, tfhere was a tremendous roar. Forty-two high pow- ered cars dashed forward with Grey Best at the wheel of a light blue car. Grey didn't win at India.n- apolis this year, but he proved that the old Essex has the ZIP that will -bring him in first some day. A king in his own domain is John Heiermann. He is none other than Mrs. Horace Coverley's fthe billion-dollar widowj trusted chauffeur. No fears has Mrs. Coverley of an icy road with Johnny at the wheel. Margaret Richter is still writing admits for students but on a much larger scale. She is secre- tary to Dean Knoblauch of Stark Institute. With several thousand students one can see a reason for her having several expert admit writers under her. She writes only the first class admits. Goldie Leiter now has her name on a national product. It comes in pint and quart jars and bears the name, Goldie Leiter's Home Made Relish. As an advertising scheme she is sending a third Byrd expedition to the South Pole. Now Admiral Byrd will have to eat relish on his grapenuts. On the Flying W Ranch out in Wyoming, Mr. Howard Walker and Mrs. Opal Rough Walker are living a quiet life. Their home is situated among the hills and brooks of t'he great West. They deal with Swift 8: Company for their farm produce. The son of the Indiana and Michigan Electric Company executive has had a jolt. Electric power has become second to the sun's power, which is now being used in all our factories. Fred Riley, how- ever, still operates the power plant on the river when clouds cause a power shortage. Elouise Squier, under the professional name of Madam Nomorra, is looking into the future for her clients at five dollars a look. Not bad! As long as her system holds good we needn't worry about her success . Little did Mrs. Whitman realize how great her influence was on one member of our class of '35, This girl, Leona Kool, was so inspired that she has composed a history text which is used in all schools, including, of course, Buchanan. The name of the text is The Reign of Dictatorsf' Ruth Strunk has commercialized on the knowledge she gained while star gazing. She is using Uhat old 200 telescope now until her own 500 one is completed. Her new observatory will be on top of Tower Hill. Arden Richardson recently discovered oil on the farm that he inherited. The oil is coming in fine now, but he doesn't know how long it will last. He never was a hoarder, so don't be surprised if you see him blossoming out in new clothes and a new car soon. i'When tihe siren sounds, think of the Fire Chief. The Chief is not Ed Wynn, but Everett Deeds. Company No. 1 hasn't lost a building in thirteen years under the fine leadership of Big Chief Deeds. His comedy is also an attraction for all the little kiddies in front of the station during off hours. I found that Clarence Bradley, Foy being very dignified and keeping quiet, is now an Ambassador to the Canary Islands. The government thought he needed a little of the quiet music of the birds to create a pleasing disposition to deal with the Bonus Army. I see by the papers that someone recognized Walter Winchell digging ditches out in Oregon. Poor fellow. he didn't have a chance after Joyce Kolhlman got on the air. He never did have the knack for details that she has. Robert Willard is at the top of his kingdom. Bob owns his own theatre, and because he is his own boss and there is no one on earth who can fire him, he sings between every show. Vegstables are not allowed in the Willard Theatre. Don't blame me for what you shall have been doing fifteen years from now. I can't do anything about it. The best tfhing that I, Albert Webb. have done in these fifteen years is to get a job cleaning fish at a dollar a day I a dollar in this year of 1950 is worth only 33cJ. Remember, I am a minor and cannot be sued for slander. Seventeen

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iw iff' A sl. ' . i 1 . Q--Q .,.A . Q ,... ' .- F ' if df? - . CLASS PROPI-IECY Albert Webb Fifteen years, to the day, since the class of '35 graduated from Buchanan High School. It is 1950, and I live in a little Atlantic coast fishing town. I am the only one on the pier tonightg and as the clouds drift slowly across the moon above, they remind me of the time I spent in the library today. I found there the accomplishments of all my classmates in their volumes. It does not seem possible that the things the students intended to do then could have changed so. I never expected to find that Ray Juhl would claim membership in the only one man union in America. He is complete controller and does all the work for the Flag Pole Putter Uppers on Top of Tall Buildings Union. He travels from San Francisco to New York weekly to take care of his sky high business. September rye, 283 October corn, 52, July wheat, 86. I must have gotten into the wrong office. The next one down to the right is the managing editor's office. Margaret George is head of the Prairie Farmer Magazine, with weekly comments on the political situation as a new attraction. And here is Marguerite Babcock. Would you ever have believed it? She has become Amer- ica's Sweetheart Sensation of the Saxaphonef' Incidentally, she is the first girl to hold the honor of being a saxaphone attraction. The only two of the class to reach the stage are Alice Ruth and Shirley Howard. They are putting on quite a successful song and dance act around the country. Television has ruined the movies but these girls still hold their cvwn as popular entertainers. Audrey Wilcox is now working in the hospital that is the goal of every nurse in the world. The hospital bears the name of the Dewey Memorial Hospital, 'but it is the Naval Officers' Hospital at Washington, D. C. ' Frances DiGiacomo has gone high society. She managed to marry a Count fa real one, tool! His full name is Count Giovanni Dominick de Tagliere Pignatelli, but she calls him Ducky, If fate is good, they may succeed in getting an income with the title. Two 'books have recently been puiblished, Indian Legends and Histories of American Indians, by Pauline Topash. These books are meeting with immediate success in all parts of the country because of their interesting details of real Indian life. They are filling a great need, for up to this time little has been written about the true Indian. Feet on the desk, a derby on the hat rack, a box of El Ropo cigars on the desk, and Junior Morris back of the desk. He is now circulation manager of the Record and from his efforts they print five thousand papers weekly. The Latin phrase, Pax vobiscum, has made friends with all the natives she has met in her long journey into Africa. Beatrice Neal is now a. missionary in a small town in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. She finds the people there very interested in learning a few new ceremonial dance steps. Mary Jane Zerbe is a teacher, as everyone suspected she would be. She is teaching in the English department at Fairview High School.. In case some of the old students have forgotten the Morton children in the English exercise books, Mary Jane tells us that they are still attending classes there. Since the Ford plant went into bankruptcy, the old Ford show room has been used as the office building, bus station, and repair shop for the J. R. Bus Service. Junior Reinke recently announced the new schedule between Niles and Buchanan. Every hour on the hour until six p. m. After that my busses will run every fifteen minutes for the evening trade with Niles. From the twenty-second story of a down town building there come shrieks of pain. Police rush up the stairs to rescue the person, they break down the door and find Dr. Robert Strayer, the painless dentist, doing a little work extracting. The O. K. Bakery has established a reputation for itself by the astounding discovery of a recipe for soak-proof dunking doughnuts. Anna Yurkovic recently published her discovery in Good House- keeping Magazine, and the ingredients are as follows, if you want to make any: 2 cups flour, 3 eggs, 1 pound paraffin. Mayida Myers is one of the few students who stayed close to Buchanan. She is now a perma- nent partner in a lunch room on the Red Bud Trail. The shop is located where, as kids, the sand hills were. Only one man from Buchanan would be tough enough to carry a bullet proof vest and two auto- matics all day. No! he isn't a member of any gang, but the personal body guard to the president of the Chicago National Bank. A crook a. day is Claude Denno's diet at this new, thrill-a-minute job. A calm, sweetly serious face: a voice that contains just the right amount of condolence. It is Janet Kelley speaking over the telephone to the family of a deceased. She is gathering informa- tion for her column Obituary Bits for her paper, The Undertakers Daily Trade Journal. Number 628 Topinabee Road, Niles, Michigan. Why, this must be the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin I. Donley! I hear he has been doing quite well as president of the Ajax Utility Company. According to the census there are four in the family, not counting relatives. Sixteen

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