Elmwood Community High School - Ulmus Yearbook (Elmwood, IL)

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Prophecy In the prophecy this afternoon we would like to go behind the scenes with an E. C. H. S. teacher. Our principal subject for this afternoon is a well-known figure around' the halls of Elmwood High School. Our subject is unaware of her part in the prophecy. It is the pleasure of the class of 1957 to ask our principal subject to join us now. This is Your Life, Mrs. Iohn Hart. You were born on December 23 as Martha Isabel Kotz in Hoopeston, Illinois, and receiv- ed your grade and high school education there. While snooping in your past, we found that you were quite active in high school, and we found the following information under your pic- ture ln the yearbook. You were quite active in chorus, and served as literary editor of the yearbook. You appeared in the following productions--Bells of Beaujolas and The Florist Shop. The saying under your picture in the yearbook was quite fitting. It was Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. Also in the yearbook we found a little joke between you and the teachers--it went something like this: Miss Dale: Isabel, where did you get that chewing gum? Isabel: Do you want the truth? Miss Dale: Surely. Isabel: Under your desk. You attended MacMurray College, but transferred to the University of Illinois and were graduated from that college. You began your teaching career at Cerro Gordo and then moved to Elmwood. You taught in Elmwood until you were married on june 10, 1939, to Io hn Hart. That ended your teaching career for the following year as married teachers were not allowed to teach. For several years you lived in a small house belonging to Smith's and lived there until last year when you moved to a new one on the farm. You didn't stay away from it long though as the following year you were at it again, this time at Paradise Chapel. During your year's stay there, your lunch consisted of mustard on bread and your coffee, the liking of which has been changed to tea. This year proved to be one of your most enjoyable. Next you taught the sixth grade at Elmwood. About this time you acquired Sarge and began one of the greatest friendships between dog and woman. The following year you again began teaching at Elmwood High where you have remained for the past seventeen years. There you became the assistant principal until you moved into the new building. One of your favorite hobbies is the prepara- tion and eating of food. We all know what a happy hostess you are and how people enjoy going to your home. Your favorite flower is yellow roses and your favorite color is brown. Your favorite TV programs are George Burns and Gracie Allen and Father Knows Best. You are quite famous for your puns. The seniors of this year will long remember how you worried about getting your potatoes planted during the full moon when it was raining all the time. Another memory is how you were going to plant your sweet peas when it was snowing. We will never forget the Senior Steak Fry and our smoky fire, the tears we shed, and the food we ate in the dark. There was also the bake sale we sponsored and the rolls you made. After being with this graduating class for four years, your favorite expression has become. My hair is gray, but not with years. We have recalled incidents in your past life, now we are going to give you an insight into the future lives of the class members of 1957. This is Ronald Coon, our former class president, carrying a blanket because he's ambas- sador to Chile. The other four brilliant looking men with him are Doug Coulter, Richard Coon, Tom Kilpatrick, and Stu Lewis, the world famous engineers of the Kiddie Erector Sets. Coming out in this next group we see janet Harlan who now ,drives DeSotos on the Groucho Marx Show. With her we see Jerry Blankenship, President of the Safe Driving Organization. where Sonny Patterson has just been awarded the pin for ten years of safe driving. Following along about this same line is Ed Cosby, who races in the Indianapolis Speedway, where he's safe from police tickets, police cars and policemen.

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Following the line of entertainment are Vernon Broadfield an honorary Mouseketeer Cheer- leader on Station C A T in Dogpatch. Then there is Larry McCoy, M. C. for the Rock'n Roll Party, Jerry Eccles a ballet dancer at Kepler's Hall in Hanna City, and Floyd Dunham and Catherine McIntyre understudies for George Burns and Gracie Allen. Next we see Mary Ann Vance dean of girls at Amy Vanderbilt's finishing school for young ladies. The hat she's wearing is from Rowena Geeseman's world-famous Mademoiselle Hat Shop at Yates City. Carol Smith coming onto the set now is a private secretary for the manager of the Long Lines Department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Violet Lewis is now a professional Coon hunter and her helper is Larry Page who has just won the championship burp gun shooter in Pottstown. Coming out next is Bill Robinson a lamp lighter for the Pottstown Electric Company. In this next group is Judie Davis who has just won the speed test for putting a motorcycle together blindfolded. Here comes Larry Proctor now an investigator at the Aetna Insurance Company where he tracks down the hardened criminals who put gum under chairs. This is Bill Andrews the Chief Chef at the Chanute Parachute Diner where he specializes in the feeding of finicky fighters such as his old pal Malcolm Bollinger the Golden Gloves Champ. Across the water we have our old classmate John Wilson president of a large chain of pool halls in South America. Then there is Jim Strappe a manufacturer of ladies Cosmetics in Gay Paree and Betty Largent who runs a sugar can plantation in Cuba. Judy Van Dusen is the chief cook and bottle washer at Schmutz's Restaurant in Kewanee. The racket you are hearing comes from Marilyn Cochran president of the Elvis Presley Fan Club, and Beverly Tanner a very good friend of Elvis Pres1ey's ----- hound dogs. The quiet conservative looking lady right behind them is Joyce Nelson a lady minister at the Oak Hill Church. Here we see Sharon Ekena who runs a famous store for red heads where Evert Cape, a model for Yul Brynner haircuts, sometimes puts on a red wig to help model her clothes. This is Karen Kleen a House Mother at Knox College for the Tau Kappa Elsilon Fraternity. Well, if it isn't Judy Purcell and her husband Dale Patton now a big farmer in the Hanna City Bottoms where he and his charming wife, from the city of Elmwood, arise at 5:30 every morning to milk the eggs and gather the cows. Anyway, that is what Judy says. Our other classmates are Maurice Stambough, a salesman for Hoover sweepers, Bob Groper, a Boutonniere maker at Monroe's Flower Shop in Elmwood, John Davis, a cake decora- tor at the Bake-Wrong Bakery, Joyce Webber, an instructor of calisthenics at West Point, and Ronnie Brooks, a Professor at Southport University. He must be reading the famous book How to Get Along With Your Girl Friend written by Claude Spellman, or it could be the one entitled How to Get Along With Your Boy Friend written by Mary Etta Pettow, his biggest rival. Bringing up the tail as usual is Virginia Ekena who has just sold her ten millionth copy of the book entitled Psychology in our Society Today. With the proceeds from her book she now drives a lavender Olds. Now as you see us ten years later, Mrs. Hart, we are scattered in far away places engaged in various occupations. You are still teaching in Elmwood, and your beloved Sarge is still limp- ing around . And so ends the prophecy of the class of 1957 with memories of the past and with hopes of the future.