El Paso High School - Cometeer Yearbook (El Paso, IL)

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CLASS PROPHECY Imogene Knecht is now manager of a very reliable firm known as Knecht and Un-Knecht or Advice to the Lovelorn. Ada Radcliff ia now engaged in teaching her students all she doesn't know. Naomi Crawford ia connected with the National Lecturing Bureau. Her two best lectures being, Laugh and You Laugh Alone and Six Quick Ways to Get a Han. Mary Helen Jones has resigned her position with Baker and now ia in the Cereal Business with Puffed Rice aa the main sponsor. Alvin Jakob has been given the job of Life Guard at Panola Hole. Calvin Rippel, tennis champion, has just finished some matches which burnt the Japs. Dick Kilpatrick is in the auto business ana claims to be paid weekly, yes, very weakly! Leila Stotler just broke the microphone over F.O.B. singing I'll Wait For You Bobbie Dear! Joan Barnard returned home weak in the knees after modeling Cotton Stockings in Marshall Fields for a year. Marie Schaffer is now a manicurist. Her favorite polish is Red. Helen Jo 0 Connor is teaching professors what they missed in High School. Florence Stortz had to quit pitching for the White Sox because of the expense of runs. Juanita Hockor was so successful in her Senior year as playing a child s role that she continued with her work, still acting as a child. Gene Lyons has become quite famous in taking pictures for the magazine Beachcombers. They report that he has hardened and no longer blushes. Doris Barney, famous pearl diver is now ducking from spongers. Ruth Coyle is now working in Africa and in her spare time is teaching the natives Deep In The Heart Cf The Congo. Eva Jane Pinkham and Helen Epps are now running the nursery, advertising Illuminated Safety Pins for Quick Changes During Blackouts. It is rumored that Betty Ann Punke and her associates, Edith Phillis and Wilma Miller of the Humane Society, wrote to Professor Raymond Newkirk deploring the situation at Simon 01tman s monkey island. They said that the rocks were baked so hot by the sun that the baboon could not sit down without being singed and offered to knit drawers. Junior Keehma is said to be a leader of men and a follower of women! He still can't understand why black cows don't give chocolate milk! Dr. Leonora Altum has just returned to live with her husoand. Dr. Clark. They parted over an argument concerning dissection of the numan anatomy. They have a joint---office on front street next to Rippel's Lounge. Shirley Gibbs is taking Martha Ray's place in Hollywood and Maurice Quiram left a good job in his hometown to play opposite her in the picture called Shut My Mouth. 13

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I Maxine Heal , leave my streamlined figure to Paulina St in. pert I Mary Helen Jones, leave my little Puff Rice to anyone who can get him I Junior Keehma, leave my ability to get along with Commercial teachers to Eddie Coyle I Betty Pimke, leave—so what II I» Calvin Rippel, leave my droopiness and wise oracles to Fred Gibbs We, Marie Shaffer and Rlmyra Swann, leave, taking all our knowledge with us I, Florenoe Storts, leave my stale gum to Mary Francis Mette I Helen Jo O’Connor, leave my ability to get all the high grades possible to Bob FTuln I, Ruth Coyle, leave my job as ohief librarian to Louise Parkhouse I, Wayne Zehr, leave my ability to start yarns to Junior Gauger We, Ward Barron and Gene Lyons, leave our blushing tendencies to Luan Smith I, Edith Phillis, leave my shortness to Charlotte FTese I, Homer Clark, leave my contributions to the development of the Freshman class I, Clayton Sohofield, leave my knowledge to Bud Pieroe We, Imogene Kneoht and Mary Kathryn Williamson, leave our modesty to Helen Eft This document having been fully witnessed and approved, we affix our signature SENIOR CLASS OF 1941- 42 12

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Lyle Reetzke got a vote of thanka for hia invention. It a a device whereby the atudenta can get into mischief without being caught and it also enablea them to get good gradea without studying. M xine Neal has saved enough money from her Hash stand to pay her income tax, now all she has to do is borrow some to live on. Wid Brines is still serving detentions for a certain teacher. Frances Whitmer is a clerk selling dog collars which guarantee them a new lease on life. Ward Barron and Wayne Zehr are publishing new books and their latest one is Physics and How to Like It. Elaine Bohlander now has world renown by living up to her theme song, I Had Someone Else Before I Had You. ffill she get her man or will one ever catch her? Gladys Alt, Paulita North and Elmyra Swann are three old maids and live in a house with closed shutters, have a black cat and go to the barn dance every Saturday night; still hoping. We read the other day that Clayton Schofield, a daily patron of the V right Restaurant, always has his coffee black; and he has an arrangement with the management, whereby, at the end of each month he gets a quart of cream free. Eldon Koopman, conductor of El Paso's Sympathy Orchestra, was playing golf and not doing so well. In annoyance, he turned to his caddie, Dick Tipler, and asked, Can you tell me what's the matter? Tipler's diagnosis was immediate, Mister, you ain't got rhythmj Mary Kathryn Williamson, well noted publisher, has just released Ruth Oltman's latest book on How To Come Out of a Twirl Successfully.