Clayton High School - Clamo Yearbook (Clayton, MO)

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The Cloiss of '39 in 1950 Ahern: Sells washing machines from door to door. Ashley: Drives a fire engine. Barron: Defeated Alice Marble yesterday. Blackstad: Teaches course in feminine psychol- ogy at Dartmouth. Blumenau: New Supreme Court justice. Bourgeois: Garlic taster for Garavelli's. Brandenburger: Travels by thumb and foot. Brown, D.: Introduced six-handed contract bridge Brown, N.: First woman to dye her hair orange and blue. Browning: Drugstore cowboy. Burris: National barn dance champion. Busch: Overland truck driver. Caldwell: Caldwell's sure-fire freckle remover. Combs: Trains canaries to sing opera. Craig: Gondolier in Forest Park. Darnton: l-lorse doctor, lkill 'em or cure 'eml. Davis: Piano tuner. Dawidoff: Writes thrillers for True Story. Deane: Curls all gonewihair all gonel. Deggendorf: Sells toothpaste and sun-tan lamps. DeHaven: Speed typist, ZOO words per minute. Delhouse: Coast to coast roller-skater. Doty: Still haunts Snyder. Drochelman: Man of leisure, sponsors plaid tuxedos. Dunford: Settled to quiet life on butter and egg farm. Eggers: Millionaire yachtsman, owns pink polo coat. Epperson: Doing something with the sixth dim- ension. Epstein: City editor, l-leys' Pride and Joy. Forrestal: Cherry pie-baking champion. Friedman, J.: Still talking to Sam on the phone. Friedman, R.: lust sold l-ledy Lamarr three new iceboxes. Frier: Still trying to remember third sentence in public speaking. Frommer: Leader of the Wrong-Side-Out Shirts. Fullgrafz Researching for anti-mump toxin. Garven: Dissected radio in '42, still tangled up in mess. Geantil: Makes crazy quilts. PgT ly gli Giese: Strings tennis racquets. Gleitman: Coaches for dear old Cl-l.S. Glick: Parachute jumper. Glik: Foully slain by B. J. on last day of school. Goldberg: Still making up physics experiments. Goldblum: Miss California, '48. Grodsky: U. S. Ambassador to North Pole, last heard of in '42 Guenther: Sitting on top of mountain in Peru. Hackmann, A.: Hollywood star, has fur lined pool filled with champagne. Hackmann, C.: Blows tuba in Salvation Army band. Hanson: Cream puff manufacturer. Harrison: Fell out of window taking pictures for Annual. Harvey: Official fraternity bubble-dancer. Heller: Moved to Fiji Islands to forget Student Council. Herpel: Leader of movement to clean up elec- tions. Herscovitz: Still trying to grow. Higgins: Taking prolonged P.G. course, still hunting Box Poppa. Hilton: Still on banana and milk diet, A Hirth: Efficient office wife . Hoffman: Still writing journalism assignments. Kannengiszer: Still sawing planks backstage somewhere. Kingsbury: Famous follies fan dancer. Kosky: Rhumba dancer truffles and alll. Lambert: Writes sports for Globe. Lamison: Used gas to eradicate C.l'l.S. termitesg eradicated teachers instead. Lander: Goldfish swallower, record: 467. Langtry: Playing in Phff'ft with the Breeze . Laventhalz Worked up from Capulet to Romeo. Law: Still trying to date M. W. Leon: Runs merry-go-round at Coney Island. Levin: Archeologist, restoring Clayton. Lichtig: Keeps shelter for stray camels. LiIl: Great concert pianist, plays four pianos at once. Litzinger: Still sweeping up broken bottles down at Rolla. Lowenhaupt: Strangled while eating spaghetti. Lynch: Tight rope walker. McNamara: Buried under ruins of fifth car. Macon: Grows orchids in her back yard.

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Helen Wolff leaves her folk-dancing tech- nique to Miss Cameron for demonstrative purposes. Bebe Bernie and Nancy dash off to Rolla along with Eggers and Litz. Tot Harvey leaves all her C's to Norma Hayes. Dottie Blackstad leaves her powder blue sweaters to Susie because they go so well with her complexion. Dimple and Jerry leave their little girl charm to Golda Kopelowitz and Betty Rae Schwartzman. Ann Purnell leaves the CLAMO to Claude, Frances, and Arline, advising them to fight it out among themselves. Jerry Grodsky leaves his baritone warblings to anyone who aspires to be a bathtub canary. Barbara Goldberg leaves with the solemn avowal that she is not the Box Pop, never was the Box Pop, and, furthermore, at no time cherished intentions of writing that column,- Along with this bequest, June Stumpe leaves that mysterious column to her successor with the advice to find a fall guy at the beginning of the year and let him suffer the consequences until he has a few blocks head-start. Clarence and Alice leave the school Hack- mann-less for the first time in years. Jim Browning leaves Margaret, but promises to come back to see her everyday-another corridor cowboy. Kenny Weiss leaves Artie to watch Helen for him. Leonard Kannengiszer, Bob McNamara, Dick Stout, and Harry Upchurch leave the Dramatic Guild minus some valuable technicians. Kedric Lynch leaves with a tuba delicately draped about his neck. Carol Taylor leaves in a rush. lGuess why?l Paul Reitz and Gene Craig leave their insipid jokes to Arnold Powell. T Class W111 Wesley Schoelch leaves the corner in Mr. Cummings' room vacant for the first time in years. Jean Giese and Helen Herscovitz leave the school still wondering which one is the tinier. Wolcott leaves her semi-Petty drawings on the locker room floors, walls, and ceilings, as she dashes off to see a man about some electrical appliances. Lillian Barron leaves her English recitations and hurries off before they can catch up with her. Harris Vickroy leaves the girls alone. tYeah?l Harriet Goldblum leaves, but not through the front door, because she is superstitious about such things. Wackman leaves in his Oldsmobile-still stifling a yawn. Herpel leaves but threatens to come back at the slightest intimation that: l. The S.G.A. is not functioning properly. 2, The sophs are acting up. 3. The cheerleaders have laryngitis. 4. Mr. Zenge has abolished tests. 5. Anyone claims that '39 was not the best of them all. Jack Ziercher leaves his textbooks to the Maritzes. Wurst leaves Mr. Cretcher fond memories. Owen Taylor slings his bat and heads for the big leagues. Mary Lou releases the clutch and dashes off to New Haven. Bog Eggers leaves his first hour class to whoever is lucky enough to get a free period. Frommer leaves the Green shirts to the Bund Selma Glick leaves her driver's license in hock. Betty Wilson leaves her wonderful executive abilities to Laura Mae Proctor. LeRoy Law leaves chemistry in the lurch in an attempt to pass physics. Dotty Brown leaves her popularity to Helen Gelber. Natalie Combs leaves her bobby pins to the next person who wants curly hair. unruly

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May: l-lad appendix removed, feels funny be- cause Doc left instruments inside. Mayer, H.: Still asleep in English Lit. class. Mayer, P.: Still trying to figure out the future of Spain. Melman: Just had 45l3th date. Millstone: Rewrote Virgil in Ogden Nash style. Moore: Flautist in W.P.A. orchestra. Morton: Mountain climber, pulled l-leys off Alp yesterday. Morganstern: Still breathless from speedy de- parture. Nackman: Flagpole sitter. Niekamp: Designed bathing suit out of cello- phane. Nolte: Collects old orange peels. Painter: Runs hamburger stand, soft drinks only. Peck: Designed house that collapsed, now building another. Pfeffer: l-las l2 children, all brats in spite of psychology course. Polack: International tiddly-winks champion. Poletskyz Invented word containing 24 syllables. Portman: Punches holes in Swiss cheese and doughnuts. Prather: Back home in Abilene. Purnell: Still looking for dummy, still suspects Schirmer. Reitz: Sponsors equality for men movement. Roll: Created new, super-dynamite mint julep, afraid to drink it. Rollins: Senator from Missouri. Rosvall: Writes fairy stories. Roth: Chases tennis balls for Barron. Sachs: Umbrella mender on edge of Sahara. Sapin: Writes advice to the lovelorn column. Satanovsky: Playing Stardust in assembly for 36,000th time. Schirmer: Just published The Life of Bud Schirmer luncensored ll. Schoelch: Still at third table in library reading Popular Mechanics . Schwartz: .lust made Metropolitan debut in Aida . Seiler: Invented safety-first automobile-with square wheels. Shaw: Can't stop for interview, in thei middle of his third million. Page Twen The Class of '39 in 1950 Sheperd: Bumped h e a d entering CIQAMO office, resigned in huff, whereabouts un- known. Shurig: Lost argument with truck, much sub- dued. Smith, G.: Arrested for beating referee on head. Smith, M.: Still under table in French looking for knitting needles. Snyder: Glittering glamor girl of cafe society. Stavin: Organized anti-Westlake League. Stern: All-American fraternity dream girl. Stout: Runs farm for retired milk horses. Stumpe: Still making unsuccessful attempts to pacify elder Abrams. Tabachnick: Peanut vendor at Arena. Tallmanz County Sheriff. Taylor: Fights Joe Louis tonight. Taylor, C.: Happily married to l-lill-Billy. Taylor, O.: Shortstop for the Blankees. Upchurch: Installed indirect l ig h t i n g in Mammoth Cave. Wackman: Sitting on park bench. Weenick: Building bridges in Russia. Weiss: Movie star, plays smooth, villainous roles. Weller: Wrote book explaining Swinburne. West: Still trying to get his picture in the '39 Annual. Whitcraft: lWe had hula dancer here, but it was censoredl. White: Still pounding dents out of left front fender. Wides: Runs taxi service to Vescovo's. Wills: Still at it. Wilson: Still typing on Annual copy. Wittcoff: Still paying off debts incurred on Annual. Wolcott: Over in the Dump playing l-leaven Can Wait . Wolff: Designs costume jewelry. Woodside: Elected CLAMO Queen for l95O. Woodworth: Model wife and mother, a la Cummings. Wolkowitzz Autographs basketballs. Wunsch: Coal miner. Wurst: Private detective, has the goods on Cretcher. Zell: Models for Arrow collars. Ziercher: Chief kibitzer to Chess Club. ly