Erie Community High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Erie, IL)

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Mary Ann Naftzger is star salesman for Ry-Krisp. Pat Holcomb is playing 5th clarinet for Spike Jone's band. Jayne Scottis hauling cleaning fluid for the Holland Cleaners in Erie. Rodney has the best cleaning business in town. fThe only one., Jeanine Francque is washing windows in the Empire State Building. She has a couple of classmates in New York with her. Morlan Clark and Lester Dornbush. Morlan dusts books in the library and Lester sprays the people for germs when they come in. As we go into the fourth chapter we find Virginia Nelson doing a floursh- ing business in Fenton with her modern dance studio. Another talented girl from Fenton is Gertrude Baar. She just opened anew bakery. Ruth Ann Fietis her able assistant. She puts the holes in the doughnuts. Paul Ellison has gotten farther from Erie than most of his classmates. He owns a chain of gas stations from Alaska to Argentina. Adalene Heun is his general manager of the one farthest north. Allen Ven Huizen paints the numbers on clocks in the Hamstra Clock Factory in Erie. Gerald Hamstra Proprietor. Nancy Jackson is way down in Texas with a rodeo. Faye Melton didn't get anywhere. She's still sitting in E.C.H.S. shoot- ing paper wads. The final chapter is made up of a little bit of everything. Beverly Thomas is a surgeon. Cutting up as usual. Jean Kaecker keeps Bev's instruments sharp. She's an old sharpie. 24

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H35 ru-im. CLASS PRCJPHECY As we look through the library of time we come across the volume in which the lives of the class of '53' is recorded. We open the book and find Dorothy Cobb playing center for the Harlem Globe Trotters. Clarence Cruse is the manager ofthe famous All-Star Girls Basketball team. As Coach at Notre Dame we find Junior Null. Jim Thorpe has taken to track. He races with turtles. In the second chapter we find Carol Richardson as the fat lady of the Barnum and Baily Circus. Ronnie Kuykendall is going in circles. He has his own Swedish Disc Jockey Show. Dorothy Jacobs is employed as a John Robert Powers model and Mari- lyn Packer works in a pickle factory. She puts the dill on pickles. While we are reading of factories we find Betty Emo making rumble seats for motorcycles in the Howard Motorcycle Plant. The next chapter has a lot to do with interesting occupations. First of all we find that Dickie Bleitz has taken over Finnicum's job as official waste -basket emptier. 1 23

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Kennard Hoerler has put his driving ability to work and has just won ' ' ' re back and forth to the 5 Clinton. 00 mile race at Indianapolis. Practice runs a We find that Pat Dillon is raising livestock on a local farm. wner of a large dairy farm and Keith is his star Joe Filbert is' the o milker. e ambition. Lila Van Damme is now driving the Portland bus. Her lif Rollie Seger has just been voted Number One ladies man. The last page ofthe book deals with Robert Ellison. He has just taken over the job as President of Columbia University. From there his path seems to lead to the Presidency of the United States. As we close the book on the class of '53 we are sure that they will go on to achieve bigger and better things. x f 7 Q-X Z ff is Oi!!! Lf-ff J rfb 5 WM fgfegee lil! flfh, J Aw fjlgix N9 g el' gi. ill K T if I 72- J fl? Q Sin I 4 f , , 7 :Q K A f 4 I ff I 25