Butler High School - Tropaeum Yearbook (Butler, IN)

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while he was dining the orchestra leader announced the arrival of the beautiful Alice Lower, who had just won the title of Miss Universe of 1957. In the course of the conversation I told Hal about a trip I had taken the summer before. While I was in Chicago to transact some business, I stopped over for a couple of days. During my stay I procured a ticket for Ima June Moughler's radio show, One Woman's Family, sponsored by the Crudential Life Insurance Company. Coming out of the studio, I ran into Phyllis McKean and Hulda Norrick who are doing very well as radio script writers. They told me that Margaret Alwood is one of the more famous Hollywood dress designers. Then, since they observed that I looked rather faint and hungry, they recommended that I eat at The Baron House. It is owned and operated by Irene Baron and is one of the famous res- taurants in downtown Chicago. Irene employs Geraldine Casebere, the renowned dietician, whose diets are exemplified in the Baron cuisine. I might add that I have never eaten a more delicious meal-in a restaurant. Upon boarding the train for Colorado Springs I discovered that my com- partment was next to that of Lee Canpenter. Lee is an executive of the New York Central Railroad. He told me that he was going out west to attend a meeting for the purpose of attempting a merger of the New York Central and Santa Fe Railroads. He said that the night before he had at- tended a basketball game at the Chicago Stadium between the Chicago Ameri- can Gears and the world champion Zollner Pistons. He had been very pleased to see Elvin Lee Griffin starring as guard for the Pistons. Since I wanted to see the sights after I had arrived at Colorado Springs, I boarded one of Jake Keesler's sight-seeing busses. This bus went to Pike's Peak and gave me some very thrilling experiences. Then I proceeded on to Denver. Deciding that I needed some sweets, I stopped into a confectionary shop owned and operated by Mary Love. While I was walking down the street, enjoying the delicious candy I had just bought, and paying no attention to where I was going, I ran squarely into another old classmate of mine, Clarence Chum Harter. Chum told me he was traveling to New York to present to the United Nations Assembly his revolutionary idea for peace, Get Chummy the Harter Way. His idea is now used all over the world. He told me, also, that while he was in New York he was going to pay a visit to Kendall Wilson who was an executive in the Standard Oil Company. For diversion that evening I attended the premiere showing of Now and Forever starring Phyllis Hoover. Since it was the premiere showing of the picture, Phyllis was there in person. Also attending was Herbert Slentz, now famous as a lecturer on Farm Management. Reporting the show was Eileen Culler, the prominent society editor of the Denver Times. After Hal had departed, I sat looking into the fire and realized how much had passed in the short ten years and wondered what the future would bring to my old classmates off '47, -Jim Torrrbow. . -16-1

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The Shape oi Things To Come . While I was sitting beside the cheery fire in my old home in Butler on one of those cold, blustery nights so characteristic of mid-winter, my thoughts gradually drifted to my old schoolmates. I arose from my chair walked over to the book case, and took down my old annual, published by the Class of '47. Perusing through the book, I saw all of my old classmates as they were then. I know that in the passing of the years all of them have changed, some more than others. It has been my pleasure to meet some of them during the intervening years. The others I have often wondered about. Several are still residents of Butler. Reynold Johnson is now doing very well in the old established firm of Johnson and Son, Morticians. Armand Sicard is president of the internationally known Butler Company. Bill Schimpf is now chief engineer of the new Douglas Aircraft Division which was just built in Butler. And Marceline Robbins is head of the recently completed Butler Memorial Hospital. In the area surrounding Butler live the nationally famous Three Mus- keteers of the Soil, Lyle Call, Frank Walters, and Russell Lyon, Jr. Pur- due again, for their tenth consecutive year, has picked their farms as the Ideal Farms of the Year. Ralph Jennings was runner-up in this contest. And another famous Butlerite, living near Auburn, is Wendell David. He is a prosperous potato grower, and they say he is now worth 2,000,000 bushels of potatoes. While I was still leafing through my annual, there was a knock at my door. Before I could answer it, in walked Hal Sudborough, my old friend and classmate. I had seen him only twice in the ten years since we gradu- ated. When he saw my annual, he mentioned that he had seen many of our old classmates on his travels with his orchestra. He said he had come to Butler for a rest after a tour of the United States with his famous orchestra. He said that while he was in New York he had met Roselyn Thiel, a world renowned actress, who is starring in the current Broadway hit, Her Father's Secret. He also had seen the fabulous Alice Knox, who is said to have broken the hearts of men from New York to Paris and back again. Her escort, believe it or not, was Harry Van Wye. He had just divorced his eighth wife and was in close compeition for the title of The Divorce King!! Hearing that he was in New York, Violet Provines and Melva Gunsen- houser fthe former Violet Keller and Melva Provinesb, who now own and operate the elite 450 Club, invited him to dinner one night. Hal said that

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We Glcrdly Leolve . . We, the Seniors of Butler High School, being of sound mind and dis- posing memory, do hereby make, publish and declare this to be our last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills here- tofore made by us at any time. All our worldly estate, and all the property, real, personal, or mixed of which we shall die seized or possessed, or to which we are entitled at the time of our decease, we devise, bequeath, and dispose of in the manner following. As a class: We give and bequeath to our teachers all our unfinished lessons and badly render recitationsg we also will to them peaceful nights and undis- turbed slumbers, for no longer will they have to worry over our exams, no longer will our grades disappoint them, no longer will they have to listen to our supplications. Rest will be theirs, a long well-earned rest from arduous toil. To the perplexed Juniors, we give our trained and balanced minds, and our superb dignity. To the proud Sophomores, we give the remains of the Junior-Senior Banquet. To the struggling Freshmen, we give the privilege of removing and masticating all chewing gum that may be found on or under our desks. Individually: I, Margaret Alwood, will my quiet ways and studious manner in school to Linda Harding. I. Lyle Call, will my place in the English Class which I have part of the time, to anybody who wants it. I, Geraldine Casebere, will my ability to get to school late to any coming Senior who likes to sleep as well as I. I, Lee Carpenter, will my bench sitting ability to anybody who wants splinters. We, Eileen Culler and Irene Baron, will our ability to stay out of the halls to any coming senior who likes to sit in Library as well as we do. flt makes the teachers so happyj. I, Wendell David, will my shy ways of breaking training rules to Ed Gengnagel. I, Elvin Lee Griffin, will my good grades and my shy ways of getting out of Library to George Oberlin. I, Clarence Harter, will my ability to stay home nights to Donna Jo Jennings. QNow you can catch up on your sleep, Donnaj. I, Phyllis Hoover, will my ability to forget and misplace things to any- one who feels he needs a compensation. I, Ralph Jennings, will my ability to go steady to Donnie Mullet. .-17.. I