Fairbury Cropsey High School - Crier Yearbook (Fairbury, IL)

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Harold: Well, I guess Ross Mowery really went in for sports in a big way when he landed the job of pitcher on the White Sox ball team. Willard: Ha! Ha! I guess we were all taken back to find out that Perry Munz has taken the place of Charlie McCarthy, who has long since “aged in the wood.” Harold: Yes, he sure fills the bill. Hm’m, John Nussbaum is in the radio skit, “Texas Ranger.” They call him Thrill-a-Minue Nussbaum; and I wasn’t surprised at all to find that Wilmer Nussbaum ran Walt Disney out of business creating his new character for the screen, Rattle-pus the Rat. Willard: Yes. Wilmer used to draw some clever cartoons back in the old days. And take the case of William Orth, who has taken the place of Professor Kaltenmyer on the radio and has made rapid success. You never can tell what will happen next Harold: I make quite a few trips to visit Robert Paternoster. He took over a wine distillery, and is he popular! And just hold on to your chair and I’ll tell you what happened to Marion Ramsey! She raises chickens on a farm. Willard: Now, let’s see, Margaret Rathbun. She is a ballet dancer for a theatre. Harold: It sure didn’t take long for Ersoll Runyon to rise to fame. Imagine writ- ing gags for the new comedian Back Jenny. Willard: Virginia Schlicher, wasn’t she madly in love with some fellow ard he skipped the country. Now she is house-mother at a Baptist Orphanage. Harold: They say Dwight Seale gets fan mail by the carloads. He’s a melodious tenor and has won the hearts of all the women. Willard: Leonard Sidfrids, isn’t he a life guard on a beach at Miami, Florida? I guess all the girls flock after him. Harold: What about his sister Margery? She’s the famous cooking expert. Willard: Boy, she really gets around! The last I heard of her was that she was chambermaid on the Queen Mary. Harold: Speaking of getting around and doing things. How about Betty Smith? She was married and divorced seven times and new is filing a suit for divorce from her eighth husband because he ate crackers in bed. Willard: Glen Sparks is really swinging it. As soon as he left high school, he took up tap dancing and now dances with a swing band. Harold: How about Bill Spence? Did you know that he took up the study of mummies and is now searching for them over in Egypt? I think he is discovering that studyii g them and finding them are two different things. Willard: Aha! Here we are! Martha Steers, our little golden-haired queen of Hollywood. She changed her name to Martha Delca. Harold: Jim Sterns thinks he’s Hawkshaw the second. Belongs to Scotland Yard and does he have that English accent! Oh deah! Willard: It's funny, but I haven’t heard anything of Arline Stiver lately. I guess she’s still running a trailer camp up in the Adirondacks. Virgil Troehler! Why, I saw him just the other day. He is a street cleaner. Willard: I hear Joe Vance is kr.cv n as the “it” boy. And Richard Thomas is a farmer. And Ethel Fae Simpson helps him. Harold: Jim Tipton got the bright idea of manufacturing invisible ink. All he has to figure out now is a way to read it. Willard: That’s what I heard. I also found out that his sister Louise cooks for a lumber camp up in Wisconsin. Harold: Ruth Wilborn owns a number of horses and entered one in the Kentucky Derby. Her horse came in last, so I saw by the paper yesterday. Harold: Well, here’s Harold Wilken. “Skin,” they used to call him. I got a letter from the old home town today and they say he sells women’s lingerie in the Walton Department Store. Harold: Just a ladies’ man at heart. But wait a minute, here’s Lloyd Zimmerman. I read in the Radio Guide that he’s sound effect man on a radio program. It showed his picture in amongst a pile of junk to make noise with. You could hardly see Lloyd. Willard: Here’s Thelma Zimmerman. She is manager of a Turkish bath. Well, it looks like we have come to the end of our line. I better be going. I’m late for that business meeting new. I probably will be in soon and we can again talk over our old classmates. The Crier » 1938 7wen ty-five

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Class Prophecy Scene: Barber Shop in Kalamazoo, Illinois. Time: 1950. Characters: Barber, Harold Ward; Customer, Willard Bess. A man sits in a barber chair, his face covered with lather. A barber stands over him. A moment later the heavy beard has disappeared. Harold: Say! You look mighty familiar to me! Why, I used to know— Willard: Don’t say it, let me guess. Now there used to be a fella’ in our room called Harold—Harold Ward, I believe. Harold: Well, sir—you’ve got the right person. Say, I’ve kept lists of all the Seniors since I was a Freshman in high school. I’ll get them and let you look at them while I linish cutting your hair. Willard: Well, would you look at the class of ’38. It’s about the largest of any of them. Let’s see who was graduated in that year. Look who’s at the top of the list. Mary Ann Alexander. The guys used to call her Blondie, didn’t they? Harold: Yes, but guess what she’s doing now. She is known to all the little folks of the radio as Aunt Mary and her Kiddies hour. Willard: Speaking of the class of ’38, Richard Atteberry stopped in to see me the other day. He’s a traveling salesman and sells “Oshkosh B’Gosh” Overalls. And here’s Iris Beatty. She started out to be a secretary and married her boss. Harold: I read that Helen Beckley graduated from college and is employed as washwoman for Ching Chow laundry in Peoria. Willard:Oh, look! here’s one of the Carter boys, Royce. The talk’s that he built an airplane and tried to fly to Mars, and hasn’t been seen since. Harold: He always did have high ideas. And you could have knocked me over with a fender when the other night at the Hotsy-Totsy club who should I see but Margaret Combes, a chorus girl in the floor show. Willard: Here’s Jean Craig, who just lately won the 50-yard dash in the Olympic championship. Harold: They call her Tarzan. Sterling Craig, I remember him. Didn’t he go to California after he got out of school to look tor a job? I guess he found more than that, because he is now married to one of the greatest movie stars of the time. Willard: She calls him “Icky Poo.” Irma Eichelberger! Say, I just heard from my second cousin the other day who is in Hawaii and he said that Irma joined the great society of Hula-Hula dancers. Harold: James Grubbs, wasn’t he that good baseball pitcher? I guess everybody thought he would turn out to be a famous pitcher, but I see he is a scientific re- searcher and is sailing on an iceberg in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. Willard: And here’s Elmer Hallock. I ran into him just the other day eating at Joe’s place out on 44. He says he rurs a transport truck from St. Louis to Texas now. Harold: Who ever would have thought that a handsome boy like Elmer would turn out to be that. Here’s Isabelle Harris. Boy. did she surprise us! She took up missionary work in Africa. Willard: That was rather white of her, wasn’t it? Look at Deretha Hornsby. She makes all the billboards nowadays. She swings through the air with the greatest of ease, a graceful figure on the flying trapeze with Bingling and Bingling Circus. Harold: She always looked to be booked for a trapeze act. Well, well, if it isn't Helen Huette. Did you ever hear how she turned out? She gave up all her luxuries in life to become a Salvation Army collector. Willard: Helen was always interested in other people’s welfare, wasn’t she? Vivian Jessup. She is on a cruise in the Mediterranean Sea on her honeymoon after being married to one of New York’s wealthiest young men. Harold: Mary Jewell Merrill. She was quite chummy with Joan Williams of our class, wasn’t she? She won a trip to Switzerland She decided to stay there and has set a new record in mountain climbing, to a height of 1,932 feet. Willard: Here’s Glenn Moore. You remember him. He and Iris had a fight when they graduated and he was so heart-broken that he took up the profession of auction- eer down on a tobacco factory in Louisiana. Twenty-four » 1938

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History of the Junior Class We were like the seed of a flower, that Freshman Class of ’35- 36. Everyone of our fifty members was firmly embedded in the soil of secondary education, but had yet to develop and show what we had in us. This we proceeded to do, some of us participating in sports and band, and our class contributed freely to the glee cJubs, while others took an active interest in the Home Ec., F. F. A., and Pep Clubs. The following were chosen to serve at the Prom: Jack Morris, Lucille Gibb, Rudolph Jarvis, Phyllis Deputy, John Fugate, Dorothy Zehr. James Lester. Barbara Foster, Carlyle Hayes, and Betty Hirstein. Another year and we believe that the seed has grown considerably. In fact, a semester or two, and we'll already be budding out. This year, with only 49 members in our class, the following participated in sports: Football: Glen Cooper, Rudolph Jarvis, James Lester, Harold Ward, Fred House- holder, Carlyle Hayes, Jerome Downing, and Raymond Householder. Basketball: James Lester, Glen Cooper, Harold Ward, and Carlyle Hayes. Baseball: Jack Morris, Herbert Patrick, John Healy, and Robert Von Bergen. Track: Willard Bess, Robert Wessels, Eugene Carlson, Harold Ward, Jerome Downing, Maurice Ricketts, Byron Dunn, James Lester, and Rudolph Jarvis. Represented in the girls’ glee club were the following: Betty Hirstein, Lucille Gibb, Lillian Reis, Judy Ann Eean, Barbara Foster, Evelyn Reany, Cathryn Wink, Alice Roach, and Dorothy Zehr. Boys’ glee club: Jack Morris, Robert Von Bergen, Fred Householder, Willard Bess, Jerome Downing. John Healy, and John Fugate. In addition to these, many participated in the band. A three-month vacation from school, and back we go to classes and the many activities. We Juniors are inclined to think that the Junior year is the best of them all. We are past the middle High School stage and feel much older. We also have a much wider range of activities to take part in and we are old enough to realize that we must bring forth all we have, or that flower we planted as Freshmen will be just a common ordinary plant, nothing outstanding, not even a healthy bud. As it is, we feel that the flower must grow great and large, meanwhile budding and blooming. Then, too, we are out of the general hub-bub the Seniors must have, worrying about Senior pictures and class rings. The former, I am informed by some of the Seniors, puts one under severe mental as well as physical strain. Those who received credit for first semester glee club work were: Girls’ glee club: Betty Hirstein, Lucille Gibb, Barbara Foster. Ada Mae Kerr, LaVerne Metz, Lillian Reis, Alice Roach. Joan Williams, and Dorothy Zehr. Boys’ glee club: Leslie Tappan, Robert Von Bergen. Willard Bess, Jerome Down- ing, John Healy, Fred Householder, and Jack Morris. Those who did their stuff in football were: Jim Lester, Jerome Downing, Rudolph Jarvis, Harold Ward, Glen Cooper, Carlyle Hayes, and Herbert Patrick. In basketball: James Lester, Glen Cooper, Harold Ward, Carlyle Hayes, Willard Bess, Melvin Bushman, and Johnny Fugate were not to be overlooked. In addition to these activities, we still have much to look forward to. I believe the ore most of us look forward to is the prom, when we play host to our Senior friends. Then, of course, there will be baseball for boys and the carrying on of the Home Ec., F. F. A., and G. A. A. Clubs by all those interested. Class officers are: Robert Von Bergen, President; Jack Morris, Vice-President; Cathryn Wink. Secretary; James Lester. Treasurer. Twenty-six The Crier » 1938