Donovan High School - Donovo Yearbook (Donovan, IL)

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4 MARCH I6, I95I DEAR DIARY---TOOK A TRIP DVER T0 PTTTWOOD THIS AFTERNOON TO SEE Q DALE METZINGER wHo HAS QUITE A .Nssm FLDURISHING BUSINESS THERE AS A N9 WALL PAPER HANGER. HE SAID HE IS rl STILL ON HIS FIRST MILLIDN BUT HE THINKS HE WILL GET THERE. X ,ZH X ,- 1-5 Y S 'f N 4 L, ' N' '- ' I . V Xsn APRIL 5, l95l DEAR DIARY---WENT T0 A NAVAL WEDDING TODAY AT NAVY PIER. SINCE RUSSELL DDYLE IS ADMIRRL IN THE NAVY IT WAS QUITE A FASHIDNADLE AFFAIRS THE DRIDE, LDLA PATNAUDE, HAS BEEN SHOUTY'S SECRETARY FDR THREE YEARS. AFTER THE WEDDING WE ALL WENT TD A RECEPTION AT A DIG HOTEL. I SAR JUNE HARRIS THERE SHE TOLD ME THAT SHE wAs ON A LEGTURE TOUR OF THE UNITED STATES' HER TOPIC IS HPRDD- LEMS or THE MODERN ECONOMIC 3lTUATf0NuO APRIL IO, l95l DEAR DIARY-Q-WENT TO THE ART INSTITUTE TODAY WHERE MY OLD FRIEND ROBERT ALLEN GEORGE GUS JOHNSON WAS HAVING HIS ART EXHIBIT. GEORGE wAs THERE DHESSED IN Hrs PAIN- TERS sMocK AID ALL. I GDT T0 TALK A FEW .MINUTES .WITH HIM. HE wAS VERY SERIOUS ABOUT HIS woRK AND SAID HE WAS PREPARING TO PAINT HIS MASTER PIECE, A PORTRAIT or MISS MARJDRIE DURAN, WHOSE STAGE NAME IS ROSA STARR. SHE IS NOW APPEARINS AS A BLUES SINGER IN NEW YORK, WHERE SHE MADE THE SDNG URED PEPPER BLUESU FAMOUS. MAT 5, I95l DEAR DIARY---JUST HEARD THE OTHER DAY THAT Mass MARJDRIE KING wAS THE HEAD MATRDN AT THE GIRLS' REFORM SCHOOL AT GENEVA, So I DECIDED T0 GO' SEE HER. SURE ENDUGH THERE wAs RUIE, SHE TOLD ME SHE wAS GOING T0 GET MARRIED AS Soon AS HER HERO CAME BACK FROM SOUTH AFRICA WHERE HE HAS BEEN SEARCHING FOR A CERTAYN wILD DIRD. SHE SAID SPUD, FOR ELDMED NATSCHKE WAS THE HEHO'S NAME, WAS EMRLDYED BY THE MUSEUM IN SAN FRANCISCO. l-- HDPE THEY WILL BE HAPPY. I

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FEBRUARY 5, 4951 I M ,A Z , X VLA' DEAR DIARY---JUST READ IN THE f Q3 If gif. PAPER TODAY WHERE REVERSNU.'MYRON -1 I AP HffL WILDUR MORRISON HAS GONE TO CEYLON ,fa 'i i Q I I ON ANOTHER MlSSIDNARY JOURNEY, HE ENNN-A.. - l x HAS JUST FINISHED A Doox ABOUT HIS I 17 AAISSIDNARY WORKq ' 9 FEBRUARY 25, l95l . . DEAR DIARY---I TOOK A TRIP TO ILLINOIS TODAY T0 VISIT MY OLD FRIENDS. WHILE IN ILLINOI-S I wr-:NT TD THE BOWLING TOURNAMENT THIS EVENING, WAs VERY SDRPRISED TO FIND THAT JEAN PERRY wAS THE-LuoKY YDUNG.WOMAN'WHO, HAD woN THE TITLE OF UTHE MIDDLE WEST BOWLING CHAMPIONQ JEAN SAID THAT SHE WAS GOING TD MARTINTON AND SHE ASKED ME TO G0 WITH HERQ ' FEBRUARY 28, I95l DEAR DIARY---OF couRSE MARTINTON HAD HEARD ADDUT JEAN'S GREAT suocEss so THEY HAD A REGULAR RECEPTION Fon HER. THE MAYDR, Ross MORRISON, GAVE A VERY SUPER- FLOUS SPEECH AND PRESENTED HER WITH THE KEY TD THE CITY. UMDDSEW AND I HAD QUITE A VISIT TALKING OVER OLD TIMES, MARCH 2, I95I DEAR DIARY'--SURE IS Doon TO GET BACK T0 DONOVANQ VISITED THE HIGH SCHOOL TODAY AND WAS WELCOMED BY THE New PRINCIPAL BETTY RDADH. SHE'S THE FIRST WOMAN PRIN- cIPAL DONQVAN HAS EVER HAD. SHE EXPLAINEU TO ME THAT SHE HAD A NEw METHOD or TEACHING, MAINLY T0 LET ALL DO AS THEY PLEASED. EVERYTHING SEEMED T0 DE RUNNING SMOOTHLYg ANY WAY EVERYBODY WAS HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME. MARCH IO, l95l - DEAR DIARY--QJUST HEARD DvEn THE AADID TO DAY THAT ANOTHER GREAT BRAIN OPERATION HA3.BEEN PEKFORMED 87 DDDTDH MARY ETTA LINDGREN fBRAlN SPEClALlST,. HER NAMF, IS SURE T0 GO UOWN IN HISTORY AS ONE OF THEPLEADERS FN MODERN MEDICAL SCIENCE. UN ,,

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JUNE 26, I95I 5 DEAR DIARY WENT T0 THE OON , G. THE MISSISSIPP CHOIR SACRED MUSIC wAs GIVING A BENEFIT CONCERT FOR THE DISABLED SPARRows H or ST. PAUL. I SURE wAs SURPRISED J iw TD FIND THAT THE SOLO TENOR WAS WARREN SWANSON. HPEANIEH IS SAID TD HAVE THE BEST TENOR VOICE NORTH OF THE RID GRANDE. JULY I5, I95I 2 WMV ,. sf' , CERT AT THE OPERA HOUSE THIS EvEN- ,Q 11 IN I or 1 ll 1 ' fx A v X, ' DEAR DIARY---TODAY I VISITED THE GREAT SCIENCE LABORATORY JUST OUTSIDE DENVER. THERE I SAW EUNICE CALKINS WHO HAS MADE SEVERAL IMPORTANT DISOOVERIES IN RELATION TO THE NEW ELEMENT, KAFASKOVNQ, wHOSE FORMULA IS FOO. EUNICE PLANS T0 DEVDTE HER ENTIRE LIFE T0 THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF FDD. I HDPE SHE IS SUCCESSFULO AUGUST 28, I95I DEAR DIARY-'-AS I wAs PASSING THROUGH SALT LAKE TODAY I SAW A LARGE FACTORY WITH THE SIGN DN IT WHICH SAID EDMONDSDN'S NEVER GAIL SAFETY PIN FAOTORY. I STOP- GED AT THE HEAD OFFICE AND wAs GREETED BY JAY HIMSELF. HE CLAIMS THAT BUSINESS I8 BOOMING AND THAT HE'S NEVER HAD A BETTER YEAR. SEPTEMBER LI, I95I DEAR DIARY--TODAY WE HAD OAR TROUBLE IN THE MIDDLE OF A SEMI-DESERT IN NEVADA. AND THERE OUT ING THE MIDDLE OF NowHERE ,I FINALLY SAw MY OLD FRIEND MISS BETTIE BE- DORE. SHE WAS VERY QUIET, I IIIDULD HAvE HARDLY' KNOWN HER, SHE SEEMS TO BE A REGULAR HERMITESS. I GUESS SHE'S PLANNING T0 WRITE A DOOK CALLED HIGHLIGHTS IN THE LIFE DF A DESERT RAT .I SHE PRDMISED TD GIIvE ME A COPY3 OOTODER 25, I95I, I DEAR DIARY--rl VISITED MANY HOLLYWOOD STUDIES TODAY. NEAR THE BIGGEST THEATER IN TDwN I SAw A MOD OF GIRLS. I wONDERED WHAT THE GREAT ATTRAOTION WAS. RIGHT THEN IN THE MIDDLE DF THE MOD wAs GERALD GAGNON, THE BEST DRESSED MAN IN HOLLYWOOD. I ASKED HIM FOR HIS