Edwards County High School - Edwardian Mirror Yearbook (Albion, IL)

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Sierrroia Brass libimoioriiiecer Wilbur Short gives private lessons in Instrumental at West Salem. Ruth Vandaveer is singing in the Vandaveer Trio in the Stork Club. Joyce Walton will give piano lessons to untalented brats. CFor a price, of course.J Lloyd Waters produced the picture Beyond the Hills, starring Wilma Kerster as Jody. Clive Gillard just finished a very successful season as head coach at Bennington Q1 win, 14 lossesj. Some people have all the luck! Carl Johnson is station manager at the radio station ECHS located one mile north of Albion. Rodgers and Srnith's Daring Motorcycle Act is to be presented in Albion's Bigger and Better Fair coming in August. At this point in our story Patricia came in with a telegram for Mr. Eblin. It was necessary for him to leave at onceg so the conversation had to be ended. As Bill left the room, he almost collided with Pat Kramer, who told Frank that she had stopped in to have a stubbed toe dressed, and thought she might as well kill two Bergs with one stone. She was still smarting under the indignity of being fined for over parking on Marks Street in Bone Gap. She told him that Alice Wisner is doing well as secretary to Charlie Michels who was just elected the fortieth President of the United States. This will really put Browns and Albion on the map. Myron Waterfield has been crowned heavy weight wrestling cham- pion of the world. Good luck Mike, you'll need it. And Frank! Eleanor Johnson filed suit for divorce from her fifth faithful husband on grounds of desertion. Boy! She is doing O. K. Thelma Reid and Wilma Keener are hired as taxi drivers for Walter Schuh's Taxi Stand. Oh yes, Jessie Harrison has just been crowned Star Talker of Lawson's Talk Your Way Out College. An intellectual in the bunch! Harold Blackford is making pretty good money as P. E. instructor at the University of Illinois. Betty Shaw and Joyce Bond, owners of the Nu-Way Cafe, have David Crackel employed as head waiter. Joyce McKinney and Mary Britton have a right to wear ball caps. They're making 335,000 a year playing baseball with the Saint Louis Browns. Eugene Brown doesn't have to worry about keeping a budget with a secretary in the family. . Kemp Bunting has just returned from his first trip to the moon in his new R. S. V. Rocket. Wish I could have gone, said Pat. Might have found some new prospects.

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SJEBNTDJR UMASS llll9RiDlll3HllE5ll3CM Norma Cullison, no relation to Donald, is employed as one of Billy Rose's Chorus girls. Focus your eyes on the gal third from the left end. Dow Davenport was crowned Snooker Champion of the World in the finals held in Australia last year. He's doing better than we thought he would. Junior Coale was crowned Corn King of the United States. Ruth Mann and Pauline VValker have taken the place of Harry Ile as Chief Cook and Bottle Washer at E. C. H. S. Cafeteria. Joyce Knust is the featured singer with Tommy Dorsey's band at Club 20 in New York. Larry Searby, a bartender, has been fired from Archie Green's tavern for being late for his job. After this bit of juicy gossip Patricia, the aforementioned nurse, glided into the room, and interrupted the conversation by sticking a thermometer into the mouth of John Spray. Oh, excuse me, wrong mouth. But anyway, Frank had heard enough for a little while. Must get him up and about before this is all over. His second visitor was Bill Eblin, foreman at the Vaughn Ranch in Mexico, who was in town on business and eagerly divulged his knowledge of former classmates. Dona Feldman Shop, specializing Mabel Harper book carrier. She and Carol Blood have opened their new Handiwork in knitted socks and hand-hemmed handkerchiefs. is now famous for her invention of an automatic remembers the old school days. Norma Jean Lawson is president of the University of I. D. J. T. A school specializing in I-low to Talk Your Way Out in ten easy lessons. i Bill revealed that Linda Lou VVilliamson, after getting her big break in the Senior Class Play, is in Hollywood finishing her tenth film. Don Wisner has a job teaching the deaf and dumb at Jacksonville tand Margaret Witte is now teaching soft-spoken languages at Charles- on. Darrell Woods had just paid his seventh fine for hitting pedestrians last Tuesday. Marvadean Woods is employed by the Roosevelt Construction Com- pany. .Joyce Leveque now has her own studio with Ray Judge as the main photographer. Now this may be only gossipg but I read in the paper the other day that as a result of Barbara Shaw's influence, Donald Knight has just been electrocuted for assassinating Dick Foster.

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SlIE5lNllll4DllR QEIIQASS lll23llR4DlIlOlIHIlllli51l36lf Von remember Dick Simms and Dale Colyer don't you? Well, they are playing pro-football with the Little Prairie Pro-football League. Shirley Montgomery is the first lady pilot to fly around the world. She had Maxine Scott as co-pilot. Victoria Michels' speech training was very beneficial. She is a great lady orator and teacher of languages at Harvard. Dorothy Parks was just named Miss America , and best dressed lady of the year. I always thought she was pretty. Ruth Myers and Cella Straight are models for the great painter, Carrol Pierce. Lester Moore succeeded Virgil McKitrick as Ag. Instructor at old C. H. S. and has Jack Reid as his able assistant. John Rink Keener is farming 160 acres on his Rancho four miles north of Albion on Route 130. s Tex Bill Harrison is in the hospital, too, recovering from a broken ankle received while wearing cowboy boots. John Straight and Arlene Metcalf are missionaries in Africa, and they say they have the cannibals eating out of their hands. fHmm, I wonder.J Don Johnson, after ten years in the Navy, has been given the title The Best Deck Hand in the Whole Navy. Faye Perkins is a dancing instructor at Arthur Murray Dancing Studio in New York City. We knew she had talent when she Was still in high school. Galen Talley, a concert pianist now, will make his opening appear- ance with the Grand Ole Cpera Saturday night. Good luck, Galen. Vernon Johnson was named Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press. Is he married? Duane Leeds is employed as the strong man in Pat McDowell's Stage Show. Well, said Pat, I've run out of things to say and breath, toog so I guess I'd better run along. Now, you hurry up and get well and we'll talk some more about our old classmates. Signed: Nancy Davisson Shirley Rister Willis Cunningham Bob Sheraden Gene Copeland