Butler High School - Tropaeum Yearbook (Butler, IN)

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raopf-xeufvi ,erratic CLASS PROPHECY Dear Diary: May. 1960 I am delighted with 1ny new television set. It was made by the Oberlin Television Corporation of which Willard Oberlin is founder and president. I understand that some of the most improved features, including the smellevision attachment were perfected by Frank Lynn, also inventor of teletaste and teletouch. The agent was Scott Cook, the super-salesman. Anxious to try it out, I flicked the switch and beheld the third game of a crucial series in the Ladies National Baseball League. The victory of the Philadelphia Fillies over the Washington Senoritors was mainly due to the superb twirling of pitcher, Wilma Reinhart, while Mary Kepler kept the Senoritors in the ball game. Next came the usual afternoon deluge of sentimental dramas. I suf- fered through Betty Deck's Unrequited Love as interpreted by Helen Olds the great emotional actress. Following that I was the rapid beholder of the debate of the season be- tween the brilliant Rev. L. Wesley Pellett and the noted Dr. Darrell O. Miller. Ph. D., upon the highly controversial subject Practical Joking Should Be Made A Capital Offense. By this time the children were dropping in from school and taking off their parachutes, and I knew it was time for the adventure serials. Kenneth Jennings, Starring in f'Don Chislow of the Army offers an official badge of his Kahki Klub for two box tops for facsimiles thereofj from a carton of 'Zoo' animal crackers plus ten cents in stamps or coin tcoin preferredjf' At dinner time the news reports came along to spoil our appetites. I wish to remember the following excerpt from Ruth Thurber's rapid-fire comments. Quote! Flash! Biggest news of the day fexcluding the weatherj is the timely rescue of Rev. Donald Wischmeier, 'the missionary to the Martiansf from the kettle of some savages in the Crimson Canal district near the nega- tive pole of Mars. The hero was Bill Carpenter the space explorer who was rocketing back to his base camp on a satellite a few million miles away. Flash! Several leading feminine educators threw a bombshell into the Department of Education in Washington today by demanding that compul- sory college education be repealed. Those dissatisfied ladies include Jeannette Mutzfeld. instructor of differential calculus of Indiana University, Juanita Blackwell, professor of music, Indiana University: Eileen Carpenter, English, Radcliffg Betty Joy Hallett, physical education, Vassarg Jessie McCann, beauty culture. Northwestern Universityg Betty Rose Miller, economics, Duke, Lois Perry, Latin, Vanderbilt, and Deloris Rhoads, ethics, Leland Stanford Uni- versity. Madam Secretary, Elaine Cosper, admits she is astounded. Flash! I have information by the grapevine that Babs Banbury, the Page Twenty

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TROPAEUM lf!--4-O Gypsy Troubadourf' with Mary June Devitt, Hubert Shape, Donald Wisch- meier, Mary Kepler, and Wilma Blaker as part of the cast. Betty Rose Miller and Jeannette Mutzfeld were representatives at the District Geometry Contest and Jeannette carried her banners on to the State Contest. Mary June Devitt represented the Glee Club in a vocal solo at the District Vocal Contest. The most anticipated event of the voyage came when everyone be- came senors and senoritas at the Junior-Senior Reception in a drawing room which had been transformed into a replica of gay Mexico. The ship fairly came to an unhappy fate, so unexpected was the appears nee of the island that marked the close of three fourths of the journey. Everyone went ashore and joined in the annual party. Ample provisions were loaded on the Quest with eagerness as the crew prepared for the last quarter of its goal. The commanders were Mrs. McKrill and Mr. Parker. The others were: first mate, Wesley Pellett, second mate. Donald Wischmeierg writer of the logbook, Barbara Banburyg purser, Frank Lynn, and forty-four sailors. The first event was the Senior Play What Wright Leftv, starring Wilma Blaker and Wesley Pellett. The presentation of the operetta, L'Grand Old Switzerland , included Mary June Devitt, Donald Wischmeier, and Eileen Carpenter in the cast of players. Fourteen seniors were awarded Blue Triangle sweaters, three received Basketball sweaters. and nineteen received Band sweaters. Donald Wischmeier was elected Editor- in-Chief of the Tropaeum , a record of all events of the voyage. For skip day we stopped for a one-day tour of Chicago. At a sailor's cry of Theres land ahead! , everyone rushed on deck to get his first glimpse of the object of the Quests goal, the Land of Knowledge. It was a grand sight and as the ship approached shore, the bugles of a large band pealed forth a song of welcome. King Price and his royal procession were awaiting our arrival. As the Quest came to a halt, King Price came aboard to congratulate and wel- come us. He presented each of us with a gold medal in honor of our bravery and success. We have now reached the Land of Knowledge and it is for each of us to decide whether or not he will penetrate and explore it. -Eileen Carpenter. Page Nilzctccvz

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TROPAEUM l94f2 5 81 10 heiress, is secretly engaged to a prominent European nobleman. Flash! Comedienne Wilma Blaker has been summoned into a trafiic court for flying too slowly. Miss Blaker brands this an outrage and says she can prove she was doing well above the minimum of five hundred. HFlash! Treeva Houck has just been selected as Miss Universe for the tenth consecutive time, thus equalling a sort of record set by one Helen of Troy, a deb of several seasons ago. And speaking of winners, I have just received bulletins which say that the Nobel prize for chemistry goes to Naomi Oberlin for her work in measuring the eighth dimension, and the Pulitzer prize for journalism has been awarded to Thoris Culbertson, ace reporter of the Daily Grind, for her exposure of the Ghastly plot by the Venusians to lure the moon out of its orbit by use of magnetism. f'Flash! I am just reminded that a winner of another sort is Edith Mercer, whom the judges have just declared best in the husband calling contest. The next fifteen minutes were occupied by Reba Thiel's Style show. What Women Will Wear. She took the spectators on a televisic tour of Beatrice McCleery's Paradise Palace Salon which she highly recommends as the ideal place for women of fashion to shop. Everyone was breathless while time crept around to the Ralph Knox Variety Show. It is said that the government requires his sponsor to keep at least two specialists on hysterics in the studio audience when he is broadcast- ing. His orchestra conductor, John Osborne, and the Del Torrid Orchestra do not detract from the show while Dorothy Obendorf's rendition of the lyrics of Junior Houser are a definite asset. The national eye was next focused upon President Hugh Campbells portside chat from the decks of the cruiser Jitterbug. which he made following his arrival from a short vacation in the White House. The Met then staged a production of ll Odious by De Barchee, Starring Mlle. Maria DeVitti twhom we knew as Mary June Devittl. The Thasa Lota Hui Society presented its book of the week program in which socialite Mrs. Algernon Bilgewater tElsie Lyonj reviewed Fred Strock's latest novel Four Years of Day-dreamingf' We sought out the sporting event of the decade. namely the YVorld's Boxing Championship bout between the champion, Kid Killforjoy , and Morris Smith, the challenger. The turning point occurred in the tenth when Morrie maneuvered the referee into one of the champs haymakers thus im- pairing the official eyesight. After that things were easy for Morrie. Came midnight and the Witching Hour program featuring Ronald Miller and LaVersa Rohlof presenting The Blond Assassins through which we shivered intensely. We next tried that program which has become so popular for its yalugbip Page Twcurgl-Ozzc