Center High School - Mirror Yearbook (Center, MO)

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PROPHECY Madame Zourgo-Noni has gone into her trance, the crystal IS CLOUDING. UADAME SIGHS AND PASSES HER HAfID OVER IT. AhJ •'£ ARE TO KNOW THE FATE. OF OUT SENIORS. BETTY JANE CH iSHAM is NOW ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN MANIKINS IN St. Louis1 smartest dress shop. Lehenbauer was too long A NAME SO SHE KEPT THE ORfGINAL. THE WALDMEIERS, LIVING IN A LITTLE RED HOUSE IN THE STICKS HAVE QUITE A TIME GETTING OVER THE MUDDY ROADS. MRS. STAYS HOME TO CARE FOR THE LITTLE REDS AND MR. STAYS HOME FOR HE HAS FOUND (TO HIS SORROW) THAT SUNDAY SHOES SQUEAK WHEN HE TIPTOES IN LATE AT NIGHT. AS FOR POOR RALPH, HE WANTS SO MUCH TO MARRY HIS SWEET LITTLE VIRGINIA, BUT HER DADDY WON’T ALLOW IT. PERHAPS, THOUGH, ELOPEMENTS ARE INHERITED AND ALL WILL BE SOLVED. J. R. CAMPBELL, MEMBER OF THE NAVY, BRAGS OF HIS CONQUESTS. —THE HULA GAL FROM HAWAII, THE MADEMOISELLE FROM FRANCE, THE DASHING SENORITA AND THE FARM GAL OF THE U. S. A. THE FARM HAS HIM WORRIED—HE'S OUT OF PRACTICE Atf) THE COWS WON’T LIKE IT. EDWARD COOK, FAMOUS AS A LADIES' HAIR CRESSER, BLUSHINGLY AGREES WHEN THE CUSTOMERS ADMIRE H|S OWN BEAUTIFUL WAVE YHICH HE CARES FCR SO TENDERLY. IT IS A GRAND DAY, MARCH |6, 1951, WHEN GEN. DALLAS OSTERHCUT RETURNS TO HIS LOVELY WIFE, THE FORMER MISS MARJORIE VHlTE, AFTER AN ABSENCE OF EIGHT YE RS SPENT IN AUSTRALIA. THE General gave a talk yesterday about the beauty cf that CONTINENT. HE REPORTS MANY PRETTY GIRLS BUT NONE SO FAIR AS the American lassies. Gen Osterhout gives full credit for HITLER'S DEMISE TO HIS OWN 22 AUTOMATIC. IT'S HIS FAVORITE Tall-Tale. Flash from Hollywood —Mr. E. E. HICKER90N has just ARRIVED, HAVING SIGNED A CONTRACT TO PLAY WITH BUD ABBOTT, ONE OF THE WORLD’S BEST COMEDIANS. VELMA ARDREY, hired by the St. Louis Railroad, is lending a helping hand during the war emergency. (Wasn’t she seen, SWEAT RUNNING FROM HER BROW, PULLING THE TRAIN TO ITS DESTINATION?) AT LAST THE RIVER BOTTOM MUD HAS COME TO GOOD USE, FOR THE BLOND-HEADED YAGER TWINS ARE QUITE EXPERT AT MAKING PIES. BOB IS HUMMING AS HE COI.CS IN FROM THE FIELDS TO LUCILLE ANO THE KIDDIES , THE ONLY BLOT ON THAT HAPPINESS BEING A MEMORY CF HIS PART IN THE WAR. WAYNE HUSE, WHO SIGNED UP SOON AFTER GRADUATION FROM CHS, IS NOW THE PROUD OWNER OF TWO DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDALS. IT IS HIS OPINION, AS A BACHELOR, THAT VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF life. Still the same old Pistol. DON RHOCES, FAMOUS INVENTOR OF THE STAY-AWAKE-ON-A-DATE DEVICE, IS NOW PERFECTING A YOUTHFUL HUSHER-UPER . IT SEEMS Doris asked for both inventions. LAVERNE GRIFFIN, who long ago followed Goodie in the SHOE FACTORY AT HANNIBAL, HAS NOW BECOME AN INSPECTOR. A YU ISPERED WARNING PRECEDES HER COMING FOR THE WORKERS FE R HER Y ATCHFUL EYES.

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THE ATTRACTIVE AUTHOR OF HOW TO GET ALONG WITH THE NURSES , NONE OTHER THAN OUR OWN HAZEL DOWELL, HAS JUST RETURNED FROM THE Veterans hospital where she spoke to a group of recouperating soldiers. Since the speech, however, she has almost decided to become a nurse herself. THE reason is obvious. RUTH IE WAITING VERY IMPATIENTLY FOR JUNIOR TO BE RELEASED FROM THE ARMY HAS FINALLY OBTAINED A JOB AS SECRETARY. HE IS NOW BUSILY TEACHING HER EMPLOYER HER IDEAS OF THE PERFECT BOSS BUT FINDS IT STRICTLY UP-HILL WORK. A BIG, BURLY FELLOW COMES SWINGING ALONG TOWARD US—YES, it is BIRNEY LOWE, JR. minus his appendix. Such vim, such vigor, Such Vitality. At Arthur Murray’s School of the Dance we fino JIM WATERMAN, WELL KNOWN FOR HIS STYLE AND POLISH ON THE D WCE FLOOR. BETWEEN LESSON ENGAGEMENTS HE IS TO BE SEEN POSING FOR ADS, SUCH AS Vhat the Well-dressed man 9hould year . Mrs. Jack white (formerly miss OORTHY STUART of Center) HAS RETURNED FROM A VISIT TO HER HUSBAND. MILITARY LIFE AGREED WITH HIM AND MRS. WhlTE IS NOW CONTEMPLATING JOINING HER OFFICER-HUSBAND AT THIS NEW LOCATION. YES, THAT IS THE INFORMATION BOOTH IN UNION STATION ANO IF YOU NOTICE CAREFULLY, YOU’LL SEE MARJORIE NUTTER AT THE WINDOW SHE’S WORKING YJHILE WAITING FOR HER OVN BOMBARDIER. V E NOW NOTICE OUR OLD-MARRI EDS CLUB. ALL CHARTER MEMBERS ARE PRESENT—UJCILLE SHULSE, LOIS CCMDEN, AND ROSA LENA HART. It ISN’T POSSIBLE FOR THEM TO GET TOGETHER VERY OFTEN BUT WHEN THEY DO.....A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING IS DISCUSSED, ALL THE WAY FROM THE DAYS AT CENTER HIGH TO THE PRICE THE LAST ROOSTER BROUGHT WHEN DALE TOOK IT TO MARKET. Madame Zourgo-Noni awakes with a start. Grudgingly, vie CROSS HER PALM WITH SILVER AS WE RECALL THAT SHE IS FIRST COUSIN TO THE FORTUNE TELLER CONSULTED BY MR. LOVYE. a, vr ,r , t LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF SENIOR CLASS Loren Walpmeier leaves his rat tail comb and pocket mirror to Jack Couch; his freckles to Billy Shannon and his fondness for study halls to Bill carter. Bob yager wills his ability to tell tall tales about what took place during summer vacation to Johnny Doyle. I, Dallas Qsterhout, the saio party of the first part do BEQUEATH TO THE SAID P.RTIES OF THE SECOND PART, MY OWNINGS, HOLDINGS ANO CLAIMS: TO CHARLES WORM AN, THE ABILITY TO pick a VfciTE girl; To Warren Cook, my seat on the Madisonville Express; To Pat gruger, my share of Mr. Gottmam’s corney jokes. Ruthie Kohler wills to Betty Jane Stolse her job of reminding BETTY LEE EACH DAY TO BE CAREFUL OF HER FINGERNAILS WHILE picking up cobs. Remember, Betty lee? Lucille McClintock Shulse—the backache I get from typing RATIONING SERIAL NUMBERS TO BETTY JANE SHULSE. SPEAKING AS A MARRIED WOMAN OF LONG STANDING, THOUGHTS OF BARNEY AND TYPING MUSTN’T MIX.