Bushnell High School - Replica Yearbook (Bushnell, IL)

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October 17. 1967 New York City. N. YJ Dear Sweet Pea, Got your letter the other day and was glad to hear about all the old gang. Since then I have looked up several other members of our class who are living here in town. J ack Promisson and his family are visiting the Bob Ogle's now. Jack told me they'd eaten in thirty different resturants while they'd been here. Eldon Cadwalader is working in the custom's office as a French interpreter. Some peo- ple seem to think we're headed for war with France, but l don't know ........... . I went for a walk down by the waterfront the other day and saw Gladys Morse sitting on a bench looking out to sea. I guess she's still waiting for her sailor to come home. George Sperry's Orchestra is now playing at the Stork Club. Mary Frances Temple is his vocalist. She's having one last fling before settling down as a doctor's wife. QDr. Fitch, you know Q Lois Sheckler has a little flower shop where she's keeping the home fires burning till the fleet gets in. Ruth Stockdale is the switchboard operator atthe Waldorf Astoria and she tells me all the gossip about Dolores Huffman who lives there. You know Dolores designs all those 'maurice' dresses. They say she's going to marry Zeke Statler if she can get his mind off the Stock Market long enough. I expect you've heard Ruth Rittenhouse on the Information Please Program. She's the only one who has never been wrong once! ! ! ! Pat VanSyckel is a star reporter on the Times and her first book 'Class of '46 based on all our lives is coming out soon. Margaret DeRenzy, now known as Rita LeMoco, has returned from her European tour and is now doing her famous glitterworm dance at the El Caballero. Louise Hensley is a model at Macey's Qbasementj and Lila Jean Hutchins works there too as a shopper. She really enjoys her job-spending other people's money. By the way, I hear that Mable Burton has a new establishment that's all the rage. She calls it the Tiny Tots Tidy Didy Service She had a hard time making ends meet at first, but she's made quite a few changes by now, and with the help of her able assistant, Evelyn Pieper she's back in the running again. Prof. George Merritt, B.S.P., H.D.L.S.M.F.T., alias The Beard, is now running a book keeping correspondence school. Max Quigley has taken ballet under the stage name of Valderernere Spitoonski. Max is now playing the leading role in 'The Blue Fairie. Well, that just about catches me up on the news for now. Don't forget to write. - Petunia 'Z' . 1 Iv,

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September 31, 1967 Cicero, Illinois Dear Petuna, Gee kid, I simply had to write you and tell you about my visit to good old Bushnell. The old town sure has changed a lot. I saw a lot of the old gang around. You remember how Norman Hickenbottom was going to be a minister? Well. of all things, he's now a Major--in the Salvation Army. I said, Well, well, Norman, You're look- ing fine. He said, Thank you, and God Bless you. I couldn't resist going to the show when I saw that Shirley DeRenzy was playing the lead in the revival of the old picture, Forever Amber. I enjoyed the picture very much.all except the parts Dave McDonald got upside down on the screen. Dave says he thinks he has about learned how to run the projector and he is going to begin learning how to operate the popcorn machine next week. By the way, I saw Dave Ogle and he asked me if I would look in the stores in Cicero and see if I couldn't please find him an all-conference emblem for his letter sweater. He and his wife--Joan Smith--are charging 25 cents a person to see their mo- del home. Q5 cents extra to see the Duncan Fhyfe dining rocm set., Oh yes, Nancy Standifird rushed up to me on the street and told me all about her re- sort in Wisconsin. It sure sounded wonderful. Saturday nite, I went up to the Bushnell Recreation Center to a square dance. Gale Leighty was calling the dances. I was almost run over by Margie Litchfield trying to make the ll o'clock deadline. On her fortieth birthday she gets to stay out till 11:30. I'm wearing my hair in a new style now. I had it done at Sarah Miller's Beauty Sal- lon, and haven't been able to undo it since. Barbara Lovell is her assistant and specializes in exotic hairdos. Q'l'hat's what I gotj I ran into Kate Oblander, who was also home on vacation. She looks much the same, except for her nose--shes been writing a gossip column, you know. I went up to Margaret Everly's apartment and walked in to find Margaret looking out of the window with a pair of binoculars. I couldn't figure it out until someone told me that Gene Douglas lived across the street. lWon't that girl ever give up?l Bebe Ann Zimmerman is now living with Rosa Lee and Bob Williamson while Rosy digs up a new husband for Bebe. You surely read in the papers about her third husband com- mitting suicide. They say he was driven comp'etely out of his mind, as I can well imagine. By the way, have you seen those new sign boards advertising Dr. Everly's toothpaste with the picture of Martha Madison and that old familiar smile? I knew she'd get some at- tention with that sometime. V I met Dorothy QRusslerj Rhodes up town with her five little boys lall red-headsl and she told me that John Bonnett had organized a groupe of lady wrestlers. The star of his show is Dorris Ann Hoyle and Kieth Kimler is still working as John's handy man. I visited the old school one day while I was there and found Rosalie Foster teaching Physics and Chemistrp and doing refearch work with Miss Warfel Naomi Stockdale was also there teaching typing and shorthand. I guess Miss Knowlton finally gave up. I was lucky in having Fhyllis Gorke a corrpanion on my trip back. She was on her way to Reno for another divorce from Calvin. ' You know ihey've been married three times. I guess that's all the news for now kid. Write soon. Sweet Pea P. S. Dick Bayless was the engineer on the train on my way home. Ain't it sur- prising how people end up? l

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John Bonnett Transferred from Prairie City 3, Football 4, Cho- rus 3, Don't Take My Penny 3, Science Club 3, Jr. Rotarion 4 Dick Bayless Dick Transferred from Abingdon 3, Chorus 3, 4, Band 3, Sing For Your Supper 4 1 . Eldon Cadwalader Transferred from Cuba 2, F. F. A. 1, 2, 3, Don't Take My Penny 3 Mable Burton Sally Transferred from Brooklyn 2, Home Ec. 2 A . Hcadi! K