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

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FAIRBURY TOWNSHIP HIGH F is for the faculty, who teach us in school A is for ability so you won’t be a fool I is for intelligence that few students have R is for the rhythm our music class has B is for biology, we learn about bugs and plants U is for underclassmen, who learn how to dance R is for running when time for the bell is near Y is for the yells which at games you hear. T is for Tartars, who will win us fame 0 is for obtineo, which in Latin means obtain W is for work that we do in class N is for nitrogen which Miss Jordan says is a gas S is for scholarship won by the bright H is for homework that I do every night 1 is for incomplete which you will find on a report card P is for promotion which some of us find hard H is for history which to most students isn’t new I is for Idylls that we read in English Two G is for geometry which for me is very tough H is for headaches of which I’ve had enough. —Shirley Moser. A STAR I have a little friend each nite Away up in the sky. I’ve often wondered if it might Be frightened up so high. The only things it does each day, Is sleep on cloudy beds, Because each night it has to stay And watch o’er people’s head. —Thelma Moser.

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CLAW PCCPLLCr Mrs. B.: Oh. but Carroll, the diary says she’s not working at the fountain. You see, when Mr Wade retired, he turned the store over to Phyllis Bean and Mattie. Phyllis takes care of the money end of the business and Mattie is the official bouncer. They have to have one for those mean high school kids. Mr. B.: Oh, I see. Mrs. B.: Here on June 30, it is written that Jacqueline Schade still is recuperating from a shock she received about three years ago. Guess she spends her time cutting out paper dolls now. The poor thing! Mr. B : Well, for gosh sakes, tell me what happened to her. Mrs. B.: Why Bert Cooper asked to marry her! Maybe she read Ruth Smith’s “How to Catch a Man in Ten Easy Lessons or Five Hard Lessons’’ too many times. Mr. B.: Either that book or Bert must be mighty powerful. Mrs. B : That Dean Schrock! I always did think he would amount to something. I’ll read this to you just as it’s written here: “Dean Schrock, a well-known scientist, has revealed that he has discovered a formula for atomic bombs greater than any other scientist’s. But he adds that he will not under any circumstances give out the for- mula because he feels it would cause hard feelings among his fellow-scientists, and he definitely does not want this.’’ Mr. B.: A good excuse at any rate. Oh. it’s eight o’clock. We had better hurry end finish reading this. Gee, I’d hate to miss Gabriel Furnace. Did you know that he used to go to school with us? We knew him as Willy Harris, but he had to change his name when he took Gabriel Heatter’s place. Mrs. B.: This page says that Stanley Weeks had to retire from the Metropolitan Opera. He is suffering from eyzatobia. He hit a high “E“ and broke his glasses and can’t see until they are fixed again. Stan sure has his troubles, doesn’t he. Let’s see, here it says in the diary that Dick Green fell through some scaffolding and broke his neck. Poor boy! Mr. B.: Well, what was he doing on some scaffolding, anyhow? Mrs. B.: He was being hanged. Then on this next page, July 15, it says that Gladys Bushman is running an elevator in the Empire State Building. Mr. B.: Yeah, Gladys always did like fast moving work. Mrs. B.: My! My! Dick Steidinger surely has ar, easy job now. You know he used to work for an electrical company. One day he received a very bad shock. Now he is testing light bulbs in Walter Harris’ famous store, “Wee Walter’s Widdle Wompers and Wight-bulbs.’’ All Dick has to do is hold a light bulb in his hand to see if it is a good one. Mr. B.: It says here that Dick Schwarzwalder and his wife, Eleanor Walter, had to leave the country because they were passing counterfeit money. Mrs. B. I can believe it of Dick, but never of Eleanor. She was always so quiet and refined. She surprises me almost as much as Annabel Nash. Mr. B.: Annabel Nash? Does it say anything about her? Mrs. B.: Why, she is an inmate of the Women’s Penitentiary at Dwight. Guess that covers everyone in the class of ’46. Mr. B.: Yes, I guess it does. Mrs. B.: Oh, no, we didn’t: here on the last page is something about Warren Wessels. Mr. B.: Let’s not even mention him though. He’s probably turned out worse than any of the others in our class. Mrs. B.: Oh, but he’s reformed. He left that rackefeer gang after a couple of years and joined the Boy Scouts. It says here that he’s still working for his Eagle Badge. Mr. B.: Well, I didn’t think Warny was the kind of a guy that would become involved in racketeering. Mrs. B.: That takes care of all our class now. It does seem good though to find out what they’re all doing, doesn’t it? My goodness. We’ve spent three whole hours talking about them. Close the diary. I hear Fran coming. We wouldn’t want por to know we were reading her diary. Mr. B.: Yes, we have, but it was worth it. Well, let’s turn in now. What do you say ? Mrs. B.: O. K. Good night. 25

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junior Officers JIM HURT—President STANLEY VAIL—Vice-President DON MERRILL—Secretary REVA CARDER—Treasurer T 27