Demotte High School - Keen Keener Yearbook (Demotte, IN)

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CLASS PROPHECY I, Mildred Hoffman, am just returning from Italy where I have been taking health treatments since shortly af- ter graduation in 1940. I am now seated in a large airplane bound for Chicago from London. I’ll turn on this television set. Well for goodness sakes! Look who that is. Why it’s Bob Huhn. I didn’t know he was a reporter. I think I’ll listen. Sh! he’s talking. . . . “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is your Globe correspondent broadcasting from New York City, New York. Tonight as on this night of April 23 for each of the past seven years. I’ll put all war news and others in the back seat and tell you what my classmates of ten vears ap-o are doing now. You know ten years brings a lot of changes in one’s life, so I do this every year. “The first one is a surprise to me, you, and everyone. It concerns Gerrit Grevenstuk. You all know him, the fastest man on four wheels. Well he just broke another record. He told me this morning that he is married. I asked who the lucky girl was, and he told it was Rose AnHerson, that they had been married since June last year. I didn’t think Gerrit could keep a secret that long. Rose, as you know, is Secrtary to Edsell Ford of the Ford Corporation in Detroit. Well, Mr. Ford loses a secretary and Mr. Grevenstuk finds a wife. “A report came from the airport a few hours ago that Anna Toppen has taken off on a crrss country flight. She is also trying to set a new speed record. “Mr. Charles Moolenaar was slightly injured late last night while returning home from southern Indiana where he is employed as manager of the Cheever Dredge Company, Inc. He seems to have done all right for himself and his wife. “An article concerning two more of my chums was just handed to me. It reads: “The Tutti Frutti Ice Cream Co. was purchased by Miss Dora Wright and Miss Ruby Myers. The company has offices in Chicago, New York, Atlanta, New Or- leans, San Francisco, and smaller cities throughout the coun- try.” It seems to me that I remember back in 1939 about their taking ice cream from small children on th ' street in DeMotte. That incident must have inspired them with the manufactur- ing idea. “Marie IntVeld and Dorothy Systma have signed a contract with the Columbia Studio and are now the highest paid comediennes on the screen.

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The following year 21 students enrolled so that they might finish their high school careers as Seniors. We again chose as our sponsor, Miss Hewitt, and elected Robert Huhn as our president; Charles Moolenaar, vice president; Johanna Van Kley, secretary, and Selma Recker, treasurer. We chose blue and gold for our class colors and we adopted as our class motto, “Ei ther Find a Path or Make One”. The play, “Spooky Tavern”, a mystery farce, was pre- sented February 27, and so we are planning to publish the fifth volume of the Keen Keener. And now as we go on our several ways, may we not think that we have acheived all, for we have but yet begun, but may we in departing leave behind us, our footprints on the sands of time. Footprints, that perhaps another. Sailing o ' er life’s solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then be up and doing. With heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing. Learn to labor and to wait.

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' Now, we’ll find out what Carl Punter has been doing’. He is managing- the “Punter Punsters”. His special attraction is Bill Rowen, the fattest man in the world, who weighs one thousand pounds and keeps Carl almost broke trying to feed him. Well, Bill always wanted an easy job with large meals. “Here is a sports item: Leonard Story broke the world’s record in the mile again last night, in Chicago. It is said that if he doesn’t get some real competition soon, he’s going to be- come a race horse. “Also in the sports flash is a note about Clarence Boeze- man and his wife Helen. It says that he is about to sign a con- tract to play baseball with the Yankees. He must be good to get a contract with them. But he always was good at catching. “Looking down DeMotte way, we find that the Rev. Harry Boer and his wife, Selma, are returning to their church in DeMotte after a trip to Holland. I never thought Harry could find enough courage to ask anyone to marry him, but stranger things have happened; for instance, this article says: Quote: The National Publishing Co. announces that more issues of THE MAN WHO STAYED AWAY have been published than any other in history. The co-authors are none other than Alma Akers and Ruth Dexter. “Unquote.” “Another flash from my reporter friend. Miss Angeline Clark, came through concerning Nurse Johanna Van Kley. Miss Van Kley is on a very important case. She is nurse to a millionaire in New York. Some progress, I would say. Miss Angeline Clark is one of the best reporters in America. “My time is up but you have again heard from each one. Will see you again next year. “73 and goodnight!”