Elgin High School - Panther Tracks Yearbook (Elgin, IA)

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the hotel, Dennler's Moonstruck Hotel' was printed in neon letters beneath s large moon which was at the top We later discovered that the owners of this hotel were two Elg1n people Bill Dennler and the former Barbara Ra1ney, now Hrs Bill Dennler We left Clara at her room and entered ours We had just taken our jackets off when our trunks arrived and as I tipped the bell boy I noticed that he was Leonard West He had to rush away as there was other work to be done After we had our trunks put away we decided to take a walk We wandered down the street until we came to a very up-to-date market where we watched the trucks unload We heard that the regular driver, who was sick now, was Grace Gehring We went into the market to look around and found Bob Nickels in there del1vering milk from his goat arm On our way back we stopped to look at a newly built home While we stood there we notlced a lady with a young child in her arms IU that Marvin owned a laundry in that c1ty By that tlme it was getting rather late so we returned to our hotel room where we were greeted by two huge white rabblts We heard someone running through the halls asking if amrone had seen his rab- bits so we opened the door and announced that they were in our room He apologi2'ed greatly for letting then get away, and introduced him- self as Jack, the Mighty Magician Yes, it was Jack Hanson Later in the dq the president came in to introduce us to s young lady, who was the founder and faculty advisor of the Becker Institute of Technology We soon realized that thls young lady was Mary Lou Becker When President Smith left, he gave us the name of a tourist guide, Bill Peters, who would show us the rest of the city the follow ing da We are looking forward to seeing Bill agun We had heard of large tourist cities on the Hoon, but we did not realize that so mam of the 1951 class members would be living there An old friend Qwf-I 65444 91444 Chartreuse and Black 65444 764444: Whlte Carnation -2- f . companion then recognized her as the former Ruth Boleyn. She 'said

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Samba pkg .'Ql.' 'I' frs 4 9 ., l'III,'II,'lI, DOUBLE DOOR The Senlor Class under the dlrectlon of Mr Andrew YOSSlV8S presented Double Door on Aprll 214, 1951 The cast was as follows Avery Grace Gehring Te J on Leonard We st Loulse Clara Hendrlckson Wllliam Merle Klingman Anne Darrow Bonnle Lantz Carollne Van Bret Mary Lou Becker Mrs chase Ruth Boleyn Mortlmer Neff Jack Hanson Rlp Van Bret Francis Butlkofer Dr John Sully Paul Smlth Lambert leo Schori Victorla Van Bret rules her family with a maniac's flrmness Her slster Carollne 18 helpless before her Her half brother Rlp cannot stand up agalnst her In a dark room that has not been changed slnce her father dled, V1ctor1a goes through her cheerless routlne with cruel regularity She 13 more cruel than ever gust now just because Rlp is marrylng a young lady who 18 not of h1s soc1a1 statlon, and V1ctor1a senses a threat to the lntegrlty of the Van B et fortune How V1ctoria tortures the br1de w1th studled austerity and flnally trles to murder 18 the malevolent burden of the play - , - a.,, 4' - O 2 f 0' Victoria Van Bret . . . Shirley Reueser