Fairfield Community High School - Reflector Yearbook (Fairfield, IL)

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....-'-l-. THE REFLECTOR Texaco oil fields in Texas. She still wishes she had married Frank Haegele -and lived on a budget. Mayme Gray is operating a beauty parlor for gentle- men in St. Louis. She specializes in hair where there is no hair. Some of her snake juice hair .tonic will make hair grow even on wood, but that's neces- sary because some of the heads she works on are regular -blocks she says. About 10 o'clock we were served ia, ten-course dinner. This was under the supervision of Miss Helen Koontz and her world famous chefs and cooks. Miss Koontz is a famous dietician now and has taught many years in the University of Minnesota. Slhe taught there until she married the doctor there. The decoration for the great dining room was Hawaiian. The tables were decorated, each resembling a small Hawaiian Island complete with moon and palm trees. All this was designed by Melba Lee Blessing and her hubby. Melba is now Mrs. Fixemuppretty Dear. Her husband is a great designer. Melba is almost as good and show'ed us what she could do if she had to and she would like to decorate all of our homes if we'd just tell her the time. During the banquet Leland Rawls demonstrated his latest invention. It was a television set for our telephones. When the phone rings, a picture ot the ringer is flashed -into our homes. That is a sure way to ignore the phone when bills are to be paid or when an old boy-friend calls. , Next on the entertainment program was the Girls' All-City Chorus from Chicago. This chorus was made up of Dolly Corder, Floy Ewing, Hazel Nance, Marcella Smith, Alberta. Taylor, and Norma Trotter. Their contribu- tionwas a song written by one of t.heir group, Dolly Corder. It Jyvas called, If I Ain't Nothing, What Are You ? 'Ilhey were accompanied at the,piano by their just as famous pianist, Evelyn Newby.,,She took. lessons from her husband, who is a famous piano teacher in Mexico, His name was for- merly Wm. Wolfe, but now he is called Senor Woofee. . After this fine performance Awe were honored by a talk from Wayne Hufford and Dan Melrose, the two scientists. You have probably heard ol' some,of the magnificent works they have done. They are now working on a. way to make dollar billsfrom well used chewing gum. They can make them easily and they say they will last fine until they get close to heat. The effect heat has on them would make anyone cry. After their talk, the magnificent ice floor was settled on the stage and Martha Hiley and her troop ,of Galloping Ghosts appeared. Among her troop we were surprised to see Helen Boze, 'figure skater, Naomi Kieser, famous waltz skater, Betty Mitchell, the blindfolded whiz skaterg Mary Lee Nicholson, stunt performer, Geneva Barker, the veiled mystery skaterg and Dolores Hardy and Darrel Pollard, the twin Jitterbugs. This show was a lot of fun and very beautiful, -but the room began to get a little bit cold for the pretty ladies with their backless dresses, so the ice floor was drawn up again in a blaze of red flames which ended this show. We mustn't fail to mention. either, that several of our boys are on base- ball teams. On the Brooklyn Dodgers we have Noble Barker, Clayton Bush- ong, and Olen Henson. With Clayton as catcher, Olen as their great home run hitter, and Noble as the old screw twist pitcher, we are sure they will win as many games this season as they did last. On the Green Bay Packers Football team are Kenneth Johnson, Arte- mon Johnson, Bob Lambrich, Jake Porter, Gene Powell, and Charles Rinard. Seaton Cash is the front office man for the Packers. Also in Michigan are Harlan Black and Geneva Barker, who own the finest apple orchards in the world. They were married five years ago in Siberia. A Toward the end of our party Mr. and Mrs. Carl Dining made their con- tribution to the merriment by stomping out an old-time goon-goon dance. At this time Carl is drilling oil wells' in the Pacific Ocean just off the west coast of Alaska. It is rumored that Carl is in a serious business with. the belligerent nations of Asia because he has two boats drilling wells beyond-the neutrality zone. Next was a talk by Joe Bonner concerning the possibilities of airplane freigiht business. This speech was followed by a few words from Joe's wife. Mrs. Bonner told us that the life of the wife of an airline freight ma.n was by no means a bed of roses. She complained that

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-im-i., THE REFLECTOR i'-' back in Fairfield to a little blonde. His latest picture was Six Easy Lessons in which he had our own Mary Esther Bobbett, whose 'screen name is Peggy Babit, as his leading lady. She left her old high school flame and went to seek a career, but he is doing .all right for himself anyway. You now behind the palms in the hotel. The Davises were joined by Wilma Lea Bar- rett, night club owner. She has three clubs located at Chicago, St. Louis, and Memphis. The one in Memphis is called My Cabin of Dreams. She was escorted by Wm. Borah, the Federal Government Inspector of Night Club entertainment. She was wearing asvery magnificent sparkler and the Senator is unattached, so wlho knows? The group from Illinois included the larger part of our old school chums. From Vandalia came Helen Crawford, wife of an influential utilities man, and with her was Jean Coale, the Evanston socialite, president of the Morn- ing, Noon and Evening Gossip Club. Joyce Lambrich, lovelier than ever before and wearing a learned expression, gave a speech in which she told of the development of the University of Southern Illinois atfwhich she is Dean of girls. After 'Joyce honored us with a talk, H. H. Butler addressed us on a subject of vital interest to us all, the new marriage and divorce law passed in Congress last week. Hal now practices law in East St. Louis. Ten of our class still make their home in Fairfield. They are Estil Ellis, Anna Mae Curry, Helen Boze, Mary Lynn Montgomery, Mary ,Lee Nicholson, Walter McKey,. Hazel Nance, James Nettleton, BerniceNRinard, and Jeanette Thatcher. Although Estil L. Ellis makes his home in Fairfield, he is the proud owner of the Evansville Gossip-As-You-Please newspaper. His motto is to write what you think .instead of saying it. ,It's.safer they say. Our own dear Anna Mae ,Curry is still adorning the fair city of Fairfield. She is employed at thefM,cKay-Nettleton Lonely, ,Hearts Bureau. -A .sad hearted fellow takes his woes to the bureau, but his,cares are gone nasjfsoon as he catches a glimpse of lovely Ann-a. Mae. Jeanette Thatcher, as most of us already know, jumped the bucket and got married back in '43. She mar- ried a sailor lad so now they have some little gobs. Bernice Rinard is a. nurse at the new hospital in Fairfield. It is the 'Heal All , an:l'Bernlce is the head nurse in the baby department. . ' Well, since we havetold you about several of our iguests, maybe we should getiback to our entertainmentf'We' were next entertainedby Julius Hammack and his noveltyi girl floor show. I can say one thing forf Julius: he 'really knows howto nick his dancers. We were n'ext entertained by none other than Vittorio De Smitha, whom we later recognized as Victor Smith. He is called Slick, the Magician. He proceeded to pull rabbits out of light bulbs and chickens out of flower pots, but the climax of his program, was his' pulling out a little skunk from ourhown dear senior English teacher, Miss Marlin's purse: Gee, waspshe surprised! Well almost anything can hap- pen these days. Next on the program was our mighty little midget, Leon Srriith, whose name is Baby Face Smith, the smartest small boy in the show business. He has joined the Heath's carnival. We knew him way back when. 'Ilhey say he and the bearded lady are that way' about each other. Oh, yes, w'e musn't fail to mention the fact that we had a. description of wild animal hunting in-Africa and South America by none other than Bring 'Em Back Alive Earl Gash. He is one of the biggest lion hunters of this dayi Of course there aren't very many now' days so that accounts for that fact, I suppose. Hegtold about his and his six African natives' experiencg lgillmg' a lion as big as an elephant. The natives shot it, but Gash! saw it. Another guest just as brave, but in another way, was James Slick Jones who.is, I suppose, the biggest gambling joint owner in the fair state of Oklahoma. Money flows through that place like a river. But of course gambling is legal now, that is, if- the cops can't find their way into the place. It is guarded by ,lots of pretty girls so well, you see, the cops never get there. He was accompanied by a very up and coming lady. She was the same Eleanor Kello we knew in days gone by. She is the proud owner of a school in which she teaches old maids, widows, and heart-broken young things . How To Win a Man. She doesn't want to practice what she preaches though, because she herself admits that it doesn't work because she tried it long ago. Yes. the former' Dorothy Vaughn was there, too. Sherfirst became a Stewardes' on the American Air.Lines and married a millionnaire, Che owner Of th!

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l- THE REFLECTOR Joe was gone from home too often, sometimes two days in a row: Joe is in charge of the Illinois division of Hayes Airliner Freight Company. Two of Joe's afblest pilots are Clifford McNeeley and Jesse Carter. C. B. Simmons talked to us on the subject of Sportsmen's Clubs in Southern Indiana and Illinois. C. B. and his wife reside in Evansville and Catbird is a notable sports commentator over the NBC network. One of his aides in the broad- casting station is John B. Borah, who is head electrician in charge of all broadcasting apparatus. John lives in Evansville with his darling little wife. Near the close of the program we were honored by a talk from Robert Dickey, the young ambassador to Argentina. I think Bob is quite qualified, because he fell in love with an Argentina dancer who appeared in our country, searched every cliff and crevice then she flew to her own country and went into hiding. He finally found her and proved to her that his love was not like other American men's, but was true and pure. They were married and Bob was made ambassador to Argentina. Bob started to tell about the conditions of the country, but ended up telling about the beauti- ful Argentina girls. As the hours began to grow late, we noticed Nadine Miller, Mary Montgomery, and Jewell Simpson 'getting their wraps. They are all make- up operators 'at Warner Bros. Studios and have to be at the studio by 6:00. Hard work but good pay, they say. The last attraction of the evening was a vivid account of Hawaii, the forty-ninth state, given to us in three parts by Harry Vaught, Ernest Stanley, and Marcella Jones. H-arry described the conditions :among the natives with whom he was for four years closely associated as a member of the FBI to investigate fifth column activities of the Asiatic Powers. Ernest told us about the educational advances of the Hawaiians whom he educates in gymnastics at the University of Hawaii. Marcella is the wife of the Governor of Hawaii, and devotes some of her time to the education of the older girls in Honolulu. She has taught them to wear corduroy skirts and patent leather shoes. But she spends most of her -time taking care of her children whose names are Hankie and Hankeretta. You can guess where they get their names, since the gover- nor of Hawaii happens to be an oil pumper from Fairfield. Oh yes, we almost forgot to mention that the Hawaiian girls even change their walk to match hers. With the conclusion of Marce1la's account of her activities, we all danced to the tune of Dovnm By The Ohio to end the gayest evening since May 16, 1941, for most of us. We hoped everyone enjoyed it to the utmost and wished them lots of health and happiness in the years to come. If we meet again next year or in the years to come, we hope that we shall have as large an attendance Kas we did this year. We couldn't wish for any more contribution for the entertainment than we got, and we are proud of our classmates. We think they have gone as far in the world of achieve- ment as any other graduating class of any high school. Well, this is the end of our report of our fifteenth reunion, and we wish everyone could have been there. By Marcella Jones 'and Bob Dickey