Central High School - Hi Lites Yearbook (Camp Point, IL)

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CAROL BISS is now drumming with the Wacs as they perform in Honolulu. SHARON Bl FCHER is now the head twirling instructor of the Pigmies near I kga Kuga Snang A Wanga Beach. BARBARA CARNES has replaced Molly Goldberg on the TV show Life with the Goldbergs.” RONOLD CONOVER Just opened a new super-market in the thriving metropolis of Coatsburg. SANDRA DURFEE, who is famous for wearing leotards, has just invented an entirely new kind of leotards made of mink, called “Slinkv-Minky-Long-Leos.” MARIAN EBER has replaced Miss Damrow as librarian and Professor of Latin at Central. MERLIN EILERS has taken over the management of the Chicago Stock Yards. NORMAN EILERS is now Mr. Wibble Wobble of the Childrens Hour. BETTY EMBREE has Invented a new permanent called Cuddley Duddley. ROBERT FLESNER is now operating a large farm near Golden. ROSEMARY FRESE now designs bathing suits for Esther Williams. JOLENE GRONEWOLD now owns an Arthur Murray dance studio near Chatton. CAROLE HARKNESS with her husband Bob, are now living in their new home near Pea Ridge, where Bob is a baseball star. DELBERT HASCHEMEYER has recently been elected to the position of Executive Vice-President of the Village Board of Golden. CAROLYN HILKER. due to Gracie Allen’s retirement, has become George Burn’s new wife, in the George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. JOHN HOPSON. is now playing professional basketball, after finishing a great season at Kellerville University. He has replaced Bob Cousy. JUDY HUFNAGEL is now the interior decorator of the Cadillac Division of General Motors. LARRY HUGHES is now head janitor at the LaPrairie School. CAROLYN HUSEMANN has replaced Marv Harvey on the Popeye Show. WAYNE HUSTON is now the head baseball coach at Central, where he had a brilliant high school career. JOHN JIBBEN is now chief chemist for Moorman Manufacturing Co. KAREN KAEHLERT is now teaching bookkeeping at the Gem City Business College. DARRELL KNORR now has a wrecker service since he erected a crane and hoist on his jeep. SHARON KNOX has taken over Liberace’s television show. DALE KOONTZ now holds a very responsible position with the Morton Hybrids Company that his father-in-law secured for him. DAVE LAW is Executive Secretary of the Camp Point Water Works Department. CLARENCE LAWLER is the chief trampoline instructor at the University of South Africa. He says the natives are very good on the Tramp. CHARLES LAWLESS has juse received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has replaced Mr. Hamilton in the Central Math Department. BOB LEENERTS has taken over the management of Meyer’s Billiards in Golden. MARVIN MARTIN is now the Principal of Central High, and in the summer months he takes care of his 5,000 herefords on his 30,000 acre ranch near Coatsburg. SHELBA MASON now designs ink bottles for the Carter Ink Company. DONNA MC GARTLAND is now the cigarette girl at the Brown Derby in Columbus. ROSA LEA MEADERS is now the master of ceremonies of the Huckleberry Hound, she is a recent transfer from the Mickey Mouse Club where she w'as head of Mouseketeer Personnel. KENNETH MILLER has a large chicken ranch near Chatton. LYLE MORGAN is now' a stock car driver and was recently featured on the “Crack Up of the Week”. ZONA MYERS joined the WACs and is now' head of the Motorpool. ROBERT NALL now owns an enormous sugar plantation in Cuba. WILLIAM OBERLING, his Honor, has recently been elected mayor of the city of Columbus.

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In the fall of 1955, seventy-three green freshmen entered the halls of the newly built high-sehool. Central. They were: Mabel Alberts, Bob Baird, Jackie Barron. Jim Brinkman. Jerry Brink-man, Edna Bubb, Carol Buss. Sharon Butcher. Linda Cady. Edward Curless. Curtiss Davis. Janet Leenerts, Garry DeWitt. Bonnie Disselhorst. Sandra Durfee. Marion Eber, Norman Eilers, Merlin Eilers. Betty Embree, Robert Flesner, Rosemary Frese. Carole Harkness, Dennis Hendricks. Larry Herren, Carolyn Milker. John Hopson, Judy Huf-nagel. Carolyn Husemann. Wayne Huston. John Jibben. Sherry Jones, John Kestner. Darrell Knorr, Sharon Knox, Dale Koontz, Dave Law. Bob Leenerts. Shirley McCullev, Donna McGart-land, Paige McGartland, Marvin Martin. Shelba Mason. Marianne Mayfield, Rosa Lea Meaders. Kenneth Miller. Bob Nall. Bill Oberling. Larrv Oenning. Ruby Parn. Betty Paxton, Bob Paxton. Harriet Powell. Judy Rankin. Barbara Robbins. Larry Roland. Donna Leenerts. Carol Saathoff. Carmilitia Saylor. Bill Schafer, Barbara Schoene. Rose Sherman. Jack Shelton. Joyce Shuster, Barbara Simpson. Marcia Swope. Jean Vancil. Sandra Viar. Deanna Weisheit, Gary Winget. Dick W'in-field. Charles Lawless, Walter Bowman, Robert Tournear. Clarence Lawler, Barbara Kindhart. Kent Vollbracht, and Jack Wilson. The class sponsors for the year were: Mrs. Hufnagel and Mrs. Blentlinger. In the fall of 1956, the doors of Central were again opened to its students. This year our Sophomore class lost Garry DeWitt, Larry Herren. Shirley McCulley. Paige McGartland, Judy Rankin, and Larry Roland, but we gained Elaine Adams. Delbert Haschemeyer, Lyle Morgan. Jo Ann Russell, Jerry Wiley, and Patricia Davis. Our class sponsor was Mrs. Wickliffe. In the fall of 1957, we again entered the halls of Central, but this time as Jolly Juniors. Our class was sorry to report that we had lost the following classmates: Jo Ann Russellfi Elaine Adams. Mabel Alberts, Walter Bowmon, Edward Curless. Curtiss Davis, Patricia Davis, Janet Leenerts. Barbara Robbins, Robert Tournear, and Dick Winfield but we gained Sharon Coggeshall. Larr Hughes. Karen Kaehlert. Zona Myers, Kendall Keithley and Darrel Wood through the course of the year. Miss Buss and Mr. Parker were our sponsors. Returning in 1958 as sophisticated seniors we lost Kendall Keithley. Bonnie Disselhorst transferred to Quincy. During the last semester we lost Linda Cady, John Kestner. Barbara Schoene, and Donna Leenerts. We elected Gary Winget, President; Charles Lawless. Vice-President; Carolyn Hilker. Secretary; Deanna Weisheit. Treasurer; Rosa Lea Meaders. Reporter: and Norman Eilers,- Student Council. The senior sponsors were Mrs. Hufnagel. Mr. Hamilton. Mr. March, and Mr. Pacatte. The years activities consisted of taking senior pictures, ordering invitations, and preparing for graduation. We were guests at the Central High School Gym for the Junior and Senior prom. On our senior trip we spent two days at the Ozarks. Baccalaureate and Commencement exercises were held in the Central Gymnasium. Class History Jolene Gronewold. Class Prophecy Just as I awakened from my sleep in the Columbus State Park. I had a strange vision appear to me. I. strange as it may seem, thought about those who were in the Senior Class of 1959 of Central High School. Some of the following things could come true, but for the most part, we sincerely hope that they do not. BOBBY BAIRD had just signed a contract with the Pea Ridge Boys for 81,000,000. He is their No 1 Batboy. JACKIE BARRON is now the star soprano in the Metropolitan Opera. In the Summer she sings “The Star Spangled Banner” at Pea Ridge for the baseball games. JUDY BOOTH, with her husband. Bill Knight, are now living in the jungle with Sheena's pet chimp. JERRY BRINKMAN is now president of the Buick Division of the General Motors Corporation. JIM BRINKMAN took leave from the New York Knickerbockers to drive an F. S. Truck. EDNA BUBB is now a hair designer at Max Factors in New York. DAVE’S STANDARD SERVICE SERVICE Clayton, Illinois SEELEY FUNERAL HOME Clayton, Illinois

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LARRY OENNING has just returned from Payson where he went with the Olympic team. We understand he took first place in the wet noodle run, and second in the tomato throw'. RLBY PARN operates the hat-check at her husband’s establishment called “Carlos Club.” BETTY PAXTON just got a job at Macy’s at the bargain counter. She got her start at Block and Kuhl’s. ROBERT PAXTON now has a mink ranch in Golden. I hear he is making millions. HARRIET POWELL now has a job as one of Joey Chitwood’s Daredevils. CAROL SAATHOFF is now Captain of the Police Force of La Prairie. CARMELITIA SAYLOR has replaced Polly Bergen as the Pepsi Cola Girl. WILLIAM SCHAFER now works for Martin Chevrolet Company as he and his father are such good Chevrolet people. ROSE SHERMAN just went to Africa with a group of Boy Scouts led by Bernie. her husband. JOYCE SHUSTER is now raising guinea pigs on a huge farm near Coatsburg. BARBARA SIMPSON now runs an Old Man’s Home on East 32nd Street in La-Prairie. MARCIA SWOPE is now head of the Social Security Department and has a large office in Washington, D.C. JEAN VANCIL now has a horse ranch near Clayton, Illinois. SANDRA VIAR is now w'orking in the Conover Super Market in Coatsburg. KENT VOLLBRACHT has a new job, training alligators for the Big Top. DEANNA WEISHEIT now runs a Tiny-Tot Store in Clayton for all the tiny tots. JERRY WI EY now operates a junk yard because he has so many cars which look like they need to be junked. JACK WILSON is now raising mules in Missouri. GARY WINGET has just signed a contract with Metropolitan Opera for $20,000 a year. DARRELL WOOD has been promoted to alley cleaner at the Strike and Spare Lanes in Camp Point, where he set pins for many years. After a while, the vision disappeared, I arose from the bench on which I was sitting, and merrily journeyed on my way around the park looking for money enough to buy today’s paper. — Roger Lueders and Allen Jacobs Class Will We, the members of the Senior Class of Central High School, County of Adams. State of Illinois, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills made by us in the past. L Bob Baird, being of sound mind (?) this day of Feb. 19 do hereby will and bequeath my sense of humor in basketball to Bill Knight (he needs it) and my hook shot to my brother, John. I. Jackie Barron, hereby will and bequeath my membership in the F.B.I. to Lynn Galloway and my marimba to Gloria Bain so she too can pester Mr. Harris. I, Judy Ann Booth, will and bequeath to Coach Elbe. Bill’s undivided concentration on sports for one year, my wild P.E. classes to Janet Ihnen, and my over supply of Brownie points to Linda Viar and Bonnie Hopson. I, James Brinkman, will my ability to run to lunch to Ronnie Huntley and my ability to make things in shop to Joe Barnhill, if he ever comes to school. I, Jerry Brinkman, will my worn out gym shoes to John Hibbert and my ability to behave in study hall to Donley Schlueter. I. Edna Mae Bubb, will my locker to Sherry Schulte and Darlene Freese. I, Carol Buss, do hereby will and bequeath my faithful old Chevy and F.B.I. membership to my sister Shirley and my ability to be good in Chemistry class to Sharon Ihnen. I. Sharon Butcher, will my membership in the F.B.I. to Donna Hendricks, my cheerleading uniform to Pat Rigor, and my O.P. book to Jane Sherrick.