Chester High School - Summit Yearbook (Chester, IL)

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THE SUMMIT, 1936 When we stopped at the next airport who should come barging in but Mary Ruppert and Iune Hirte. 'We were most surprised to see Frank Ebert following them. After our hilarious greetings Mary told us that she had finally realized her life-long ambition, she had married a tall blond man. Then Frank told us about his latest expedition to Alaska. lune was very enthusiastic about the murder case she had been sent to cover. After we had discussed expedi- tions, murders, etc., our conversations assumed a lighter tone. In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Mary and her husband had seen Bernadine Lynch do her famous toe dance. When we arrived at the lodge we were greeted by Leora Wolff, a re- nowned orator, and Ellouise Farrell, a champion debater. We were all agree- ably impressed by the interior decorating of the lodge by Elvira Knipping. Albert told us he had seen Edwin Siedler, who is manager of the Rocky Theatre in Roxiefeller Center in New York. There he had seen a mural paint- ing by Dorothy Decker in which she pictured Myron Hamilton and Burnell Ad- ams, the leading politicians of the day. Ellouise came hurrying over to us and showed us Herby Meyer's comic section in which the featured caricature of the week was of his wife, the former Marie Paulus. We were then hailed by Phillis Smith, a rising social worker who is following in the footsteps of Iane Addams. Here comes Ruth Zangf' interrupted Leora. She is now tutoring Iohn lacob Astor Vl. Gang, it is our pleasure to congratulate Virginia Saak and Iune Kirk who have just won trophies in skiing and skating at the Olympics! We were told that Edith Welton owns a delicatessen in Seattle, Washing- ton, and that Elza Dudenbostel is her most efficient bookkeeper. When Rosalie Fiene Vieregge, wife of the director of Elmer's Kitchen Cabi- net Band, and Edna Harmsen, a radio comedienne said to be the second Gracie Allen, arrived, they had astounding news to tell. Byron Boyington had invented a high explosive Z-Sl with which he had almost blown his newly married wife, Marjorie Beare, to bits. Ruth Meyer, prima donna of grand opera, sang a selection Fluerette. Leora told us that Berwyn Brooke is now the main topic of all Fern Colvis' conversation. Gladys Douglas is a waitress at Hotel Statler in St. Louis, and Louris McDonald has made a wreck of Alice McConkey who practiced Louris' dietetic principles. Max Bradley has just finished engineering the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river at Chester, so that Dorothy Wittenlorink won't have to wait until another winter like '36 to find a cheap way to Perryville. Eileen ended our reunion by playing one of her own piano compositions, Whispers at Twilight. lust as we were finishing our fond good-byes, we heard Berwyn Brooke's orchestra playing an ode to our past school days, fol- lowed by a finale in memory of Chester High School. Myrtle Tudor, Eileen Plog. Page l7

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TI-IE SUMMIT, 1936 PROPI-IECY CF CLASS OF 1936 Eileen and l, dignified bachelor girls feeling like sweet sixteen, curls and all, were on our way to Lake Tahoe, Nevada, for a class reunion. We were to be guests of Frances Marauardt now known to millions of movie fans as Lady Lovely. Climbing aboard the queen of the air, the Magic Butterfly, we were greeted by the pilot Thurston Taggart, six and a half feet of shyness. The air hostess, Roberta Leonard, brought us a cocktail mixed by that master of bartenders, Robert Sweany. We were ceriainly glad to chat with her about all' our old school-mates. She told us that Ruth Easterly and Ruth Craig are the right and left hand nurses of the famous surgeon, Dr. Albert Louis Iuergens. She also added that he lost a lot of prestige by marrying his former scrub-woman, Lillian DeBousse. Anyway, it shows he married her for her own sweet self. While Roberta went about her duties, I glanced through a magazine edited by Carlyle I-Ioffman. I exclaimed, Eileen, do you remember Nancy Ruth Taylor and those poems she wrote in English class? Well, here's one of her poems. We certainly didn't know she would be a famous poetess, did we? As I resumed my reading l was aroused by Eileen's exclamation, Look, here's a picture of Alvin Cowell, football coach at Alabama Tech. Iohn Man- sker and Beuel Allison are entering the auto races at lndianapolisg I bet they'll make the dust fly. Looking through the New York Tribune we were startled to find a column written by Carrie Bell, entitled Advice to the Lovelornf' One of the letters was a query from C. E. Earney, Do yo'll think gals fall for ma' southe'n ac- cent? Carrie Davis answered, Maybe, down in Alabam'. As We turned on the radio we heard the conclusion of a speech by the Secretary of Agriculture, Adolph Bieckenberg. Delworth I-lertich then advised all the farmers to haul their hogs to market in a Ford truck. Following this announcement, Berwyn Brooke and his orchestra blared forth the latest men- ace, The Twitter and the Litter of the Birds, crooned by Mary Lou Wolter. When Roberta joined us again I asked her where she had purchased her smart uniform. Oh, this is from Frances Lee I-lagler's exclusive dress shop. You should see it! We decided to stop there on our way back to New York. Among other things we found out that Dorothy Bostwick would be unable to attend the reunion. She was too busy studying Art As Roberta had been telling us most of the news we decided to tell her what we knew. I told her that we had attended the Westminster Kennel Club show in New York. The dachshund who won the prize was from Charles Depew's Kennels, and the owner, a well-known socialite of New York, Marguerite Hamm. Bagew I6

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