Central High School - Centralia Yearbook (Bay City, MI)

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lanuary Class Prophecy 1956 TIME passes, and ten years have gone by since the january class of 1936, famous for its beauty and brilliancy, bade farewell to Central's halls. How bright seemed their prospects! How assured their hopes of happiness! But now after this decade of years, listen to the sad tale of what really happened! Marty Legatz is in the Pontiac State Hospital. The poor boy lost his mind through overwork. Marie Brancheau has become famous by inventing a way to grow three-quarters of an inch in ten years. Clifford Dodge, Howard Hill, Tom Shawl, and Robert Wackerle have joined the men in gray-at jackson Prison. Glen Corbin, Anthony Forgash, Jack La Fear, Elton MacDonald, and Martin Wieland have joined the men in black and blue-They got married. Norma Chevalier now has a steady job grinding hamburg in Fangerls johnson Street store. Herman Boutell is taking Miss-Bothe's place teaching English VIII. George Long is teaching Civics in Miss Palmeris place with Harry Hamilton as assistant errand runner. Tom Hutton is still the same sweet Tom-timid, bashful and modest. George De Courcey and Ruth Anderson are apache dancers in the Washington Midnight Show. W Marjorie Henry has joined the intelligensia. She is giving lectures to j.C. stu- dents on Technocracy-Cause and Effect. Frank jennison and Hannah Ball married because they had so much in common. She loved him and so did he. Beatrice Colson, Helene Gebessler, Mildred Goss, Ruth King, Margaret Moul- ton, and Ruth Richardson are modeling in Waltheris Basement Store. Helen Stevens has perfected a new three-day diet guaranteed to lose at least three ounces. George Ward tried to end it all the other day when he woke up to find that he couldn't speak above a whisper. He immediately jumped from the twelfth floor to the ground. Fortunately, no great damage was done-he landed on his head. . Dorothy Moeller and Gertrude Gonyaw have entered a convent. Dan Defoe is in France where he is shocking even the liberal Frenchmen with his goings on. He is known as the Playboy of Gay Pareef' Joyce Laverty is on the radio over station R.A.H. at Oshkosh. She's known as the purity girl. Lucille St. Pierre has at last realized her ambition to travel--she went to Detroit. Bill Alberts is busy telling Wilda Dodge, his wife, and all the little Bills and Wildas how he wowed 'em in Physics. Hugh Patenge is now selling wear-proof shoes to '4soleless hitch-hikers. William Gabbe is becoming rich selling a SO percent solution of gasoline at the regular price. Whitney Kalmbaugh has just finished a new book called How to Get Along With School Teachers. Lucy See, Maxine Haynes, and Mildred Griffith are taking the place of the dummies in Wendland's show windows. Dorothy Noble is one of the most radical of the soap box orators. Lillian Sautter, now an accomplished chemist, is trying to find a substitute for Hfizz water. Eleanor Comer is a prima donna selling music at Woolworth's Dime Store. Howard Kraska, t'Man Mountain Dean II, trained by Lucille Emerson, has won Bay City's Amateur Wrestling Championship. Howard Nelson is editing a column in the Kawkawlin Recorder. 122-

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Ruth Behrens is now brew mistress at the Phoenix Brewery with Tom Stevenson as her chief taster. Alene Wood is saving shoe leather by living at the church. Leonard Krygier is now a female impersonator-P.S. He fools everybody! Ruth Mary Fowley has just edited her book 'iHow To Play Bridge. Grace Williams is scrub woman at the State Theatre. Dorothy Gustin is now a critic, telling the staff of the Kawkawlin Gazette where to put its commas. The four Werners-Violet, Arthur, Carl, and Harold-are now popular enter- tainers over station P.H.U. Betty Bonnell and Bud Peterson were the stars in the play, The Villain Comes Homef' which has just finished a four-day run in Unionville. Herman Robertson was the villain. Florence Thorson is a kindergarten teacher at a reformatory. Alvina Van Auken is married to a radio trouble man. Robert Pittsley is head manicurist in Frances Salmon's beauty salon. Harold Phillips is coach of Bay City's Croquet team. They've broken all records by not winning a game in ten years! Dick Woodman, Warren Guillet, Donald Wirth, and John Wolf are linesmen for the Wireless Telegraph Company. jane Robertson has been trying for years to perfect an adjustable mop handle. Donald Patrick is the athletic instructor at Sing Sing. Dale Russel plays hymns in church while Charlotte Doan leads the choir. Pamela Robertson has Bobbie Birchard forever and ever. Dorothy Roth-nee Waldron-is taking care of the family finances. Bud Vallez is still trying to get through Notre Dame. Julia Dean is private secretary to the president-Leonard Schramn. Carol Zube has at last established that Old Maid's Home she was always talking about with Viola Phillips as chief assistant. Gertrude Lentz is in Metropolitan Opera--she's head seamstress. Edith Hartley, Virginia Sarjent, Betty Kirchner, and Olive Trudeau are wait- resses at the Wimpy Hotel. Geraldine Northcott is now reviving the Charleston at the Pinched Slipper. Clifford Mader is still trying to make his speed in Typing Il. Atwood Martin is running a pawn shop on Saginaw Street. Gordon Ramsey is a tester for the Sims Mattress Company. Alice Magidson does aesthetic dancing at the Armory. Joseph Auer swam from Munger to Bay City in thirty days. Alvina Dresden teaches chiefly unraveling in a knitting school. Pauline Van Haaren is her father's chief truck driver. Don Beauvais, Myrle King,'Raymond Borucki, and Virgil Whyte are seeing the world through a port hole on the good ship Headin' For Trouble. Dorothy Bigford is publisher of the magazine Jokes For Old and Young. Peggy Smart is a housewife trying to make hash of yesterdayls leftovers. Dorothy Streeter and Aileen Stringer are lifeguards at Paraleon. Dave Greshaw is the new manager of Dempster's Smoke House. Katharine Keyes is washing dishes down at the Greasy Spoon. Beatrice Packard, Margery Sherman, Ann Arhutick, and Ann Sullivan are lick- ing the labels to put on the tin cans at Beutel's Canning Factory. Irving Anthony is the new M.G.M. Tarzan with Sarafae Lazarus as his mate. Earl Loessel is now playing the harp in the 'fHotsy Totsy Tea Room. Eldon Kohn, a retired milkman, has opened a home for contented cows. Frank Handy is in great demand by physical culture magazines. Signed RUTH ANDERSON NIARIE BRANCHEAU HERMAN BAUTEL HFLENE GEBESSLER HowARn NELSON DONALD PATRICK GFRTRUDE LENTZ ROBERT PITTSLEY DOROTHY GUSTIN