Ellis School - Ellisian Fields Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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THE JUNIORS lqbo One night, sinking into my favorite arm-chair to rest my weary bones, I began thinking about the good old school days. Now, let me see, there was Rachel Hall. She certainly has become famous as a writer. I consider All Thir and Then Some and The Draper of Bath, both best- sellers, her best. And then there was Connie Russell, whom I heard play Concerto in Z Minor by Inoe Itzlouse not long ago at a concert. How many times 'I have cheered for the all-girls' football team, The Fighting Femmes , since four girls were members of the famous Junior class-Jeanne Friesell, Harriet Fleming, Jane Wood, and Joanne Bradford. Several of the girls own or work in shops. Betty Bier is proprietress of a restaurant fthe food is fairl known as the Bier Garden, while Virginia Reine- man is the bouncer. Dorothy Todd is a designer of hats- Todd's Toppers are Tops. And Nancy Donaldson owns a swank dress shop, there is nothing under two hundred dollars, which explains why I haven't seen Nancy lately. Suzanne Offill-poor girl-has nearly killed herself by spending ten years translating I-Iomer's Odyrrey in live lines of iambic pentameter, one line of dac- tyllic hexameter, ten lines of iambic tetrameter, and every hundredth line rhyming. Mary Lou Heidenkamp, the most famous of our group, was the first woman President. fShe succeeded F. D. R. after his sixth term.J Betty Morris, Republi- can, ran against her. Mary Lou, you remember, was the one who changed the number of hours in a day from twenty-four to twenty-six because Then we'll have more time. Peggy Wentzel is a famed surrealist painter. Her most famous painting is of a fur-lined bathtub filled with tears of a human eye which is pinned to a cloud. The picture is entitled Sadness, Jane Hartman recently arrived from Europe with her, let me see, eighth husband, Count Haugleitzfeldt. Count- ess Jane centainly gets around. Every time I look in a magazine I see Nancy Jane Gellatly's face grinning at me from a Dentilene Toothpaste ad. The other day, to my great surprise, I saw Dorothy Keally, now Mrs. Gerald Smith, with her six husky sons. Quite a few of the girls have found success on the stage, screen, or radio. Libby McNary has taken the place of Irene Rich on the Welch's Grape Juice program. And Dorothy Lind can be heard every Monday through Friday at five-fifteen P. M. on the program This Path Called Life sponsored by Friskies. Betsy Ann Wright is heard singing and swinging her way over the air waves every Wednesday night with Len Giller's band. Marcella McNulty, comedienne, was star of such extravaganzas as Step on Your Toes and It's Up to You, which reminds me that Helen Bradshaw and Betty Ann Metz wrote the tunes for these shows. The Bradshaw-Metz combination has turned out such hits as Orchid Orchids and Down in Denver. Carol Johnston, now Carole Bombard, was Glamour Girl of 1950. Cynthia Hoeveler has won for eight consecutive years the Academy Award. Her latest triumph is The Snows Came, a bold, adventurous story of Alaska. And Janet Kuehner, or should I say Janette, is the lucky wife of Byrone Powerhouse, handsome movie hero. But now, enough of this reminiscing. It's time for me to put the children to bed. A. G. Twenty-fi-ug ELLISIAN FIELDS