Francesville High School - Francillian Yearbook (Francesville, IN)

 - Class of 1937

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THE FRANCILLIAN she was now Mrs. James Hamblin. Jiimfmy, our tease of high school days, was now the owner of the nicest night club in New York. Just then the announcer came forward 'to an- nounce the next numlber. Could you believe it? It was a song and tap- dance by the Hamblin twins, Jerry and Sherry, age 5. The children were cfirtainly talented, and gave a Won- derful performance, After their number, we girls re- turned to the Ritz Hotel for the next morning we were leaving for Florida, and needed a good n.ight's rest. In the middle of the night we were awakened by a noise from the room above. I-t sounded as though some- one were tapdancing. Standing it as long as we could, we rang for the manager. When he appeared at our door, we were surprised beyond be- lief, for who should he be but Herald Bailey. During our talk with Herald. we learned that his rich uncle had died willing this branch of hotels throughout the c-ountry to him. The noise was still progressing, so Her- ald and we three tired girls advanced to the above room. Herald knocked, and was met at the door .by a maid. He asked to see her mistress, who came forward just then. This time we were shocked, for the girl who had been tap-dancing above us was none other than Odetta Kes.ler. She asked us in, and while her maid was preparing a lunch, he told us about her success as a dancing star in the Ziegfeld Follies. After a delicious lunch with Odetta we again returned to our room, 'to sleep undisturbed the res-t of the night. The next morning we rushed to the airport to start our trip. We were just ready to board the plane, when the pilot came forward for a word w-ith the stewardess. The voices sounded familiar, and turning around we recognized the stewardess and pilot as being Lenora Kelley and Ralph Koebcke. This was Ralph's first trip as pilot since he had just been promoted from co-pilot. Lenora had also been transferred here from the United Air Lines. Wasn't it strange that fate should put these two together? After a smooth take- off we were in the air headed for Florida. Lenora came to serve us lunch and Ralph being relieved by the co-pilot, came to join us. As Lenora was preparing the small table, we noticed she was wearing a. dia- mond. Not knowing that it concerned anyone present, we asked her who the lucky person 'mighlt be. When we asked the question, we noticed Ralph blushed a deep pink! Much to our surprise, Lenora with the help of Ralph told us the great news. They were going to be married the next Wednesday. However, they were both going to continue to fly. Having such a capable person at the controls as Ralph, we felt quite safe for the remainder of the trip. We stopped at Atlanta, Georgia, for refueling. Across the way from the airport was a nice looking dairy farm. On the barn appeared the name. Eluston Free Germ Dairy. Remembering a boy by the name of Elston whom one of the girls of the Senior Class of '37 had been greatly interested in, we asked Lenora if this was the same person. She told us that Mardella Eide and Jim Elston were- now married and the owners of thin up-to-date dairy. As we had a stop here for 15 minu-tes, we ran across to see Mardella. She seemed very glad to see us and immediately asked us to come in. She told us all about her life on the dairy and showed us their collection of ribbons that their dairy cows had won at the state fairs. We were glad to know that ,Mardella was enjoying her mar- ried life and was doing so well. After a hasty goodbye, we returned to the airport. As we entered the plane, Lenora handed us a newspaper and called our attention to the huge headlines, LUDEMAN'S CROSS-COUNTRY BI- CYCLE RECORD BROKEN BY ACE JACKSON , which proved to be none other than Keith Jackson of hi-gh school days. Reading the complete article, we learned that Keith had completed his life-long ambition. He had traveled th-e entire distance from coast to coast on a Kiddy Kar. When he arrived on the Pacific Coast, he was presented with a new rubber- tired Kiddy Kar by the Walters- Kruger Toy Corporation. Lenora informed us that her old classmate, Florence Kruger, and her husband, Kenneth Walters owned this corpora- tion, manufacturing all types of toys for small children. As we continued to read the paper, the article, Big Mlill Strike in La- Crosse came to our attention. Mil- dred, reading the article further, learned that -the mrill belonged to a certain Virgil Hienhold. Mildred ex- 1937,

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f -.l,,F, . t . THE FIEANCILLIAN all our belongings. So rather than bother them, we decided to get our lu.nch at the small restaurant near by. We were met at the door by a nice looking lady, 'who greeted us, and showed us to a table. Surprise! It was our schoolmate, Patricia Kear- ney. She 'told uns -she was the owner of this lovely restaurant. She seemed to be sitting on top of the world, as she 'had many customers and enjoyed her work very much. As we were anxious to get started, we hurried through our lunch. We crossed over into Canada throuigh the Windsor Tunnel. We visited many places of interest during the next few days. On Satur- day we arrived in Montreal, Canada. Seekinlg more exciting adventure. we decided -to board a steamer and sail down to Niagara Falls instead of trudging along with our trailer. We drove on the boat and parked our car and trailer. For the next few days our minds would be at rest. The voyage was certainly peaceful and entirely different from our days in the trailer. One morning we were walking on deck, when we heard the Captain say to a sailor, Gain speed as we have just received an S. O. S. from a small yacht in distress. After a short time, we sighted the stated vessel. When the rescued occupants were on board, we received the great- est surprise oif all-for who should it be but Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Weltzin. The Mrs. Weltzin we had known in school days as Glendoris Tillett. She was carried to our stateroom to rest after su-ch a narrow escape. Mean- while, Gerald told -the experience to the officers of our ship out on deck. When Glendoris was again breathing norlmally, she told us that she and Gerald had just been married and were taking this yacht trip as part of their honeymoon. That evening, they joined us at dinner, and it was through Glendoris that we learned about Joe Manion. Glendoris and Gerald had come through Washing- ton, D. C., on their trip. Consequent- ly she related the following: Quote: One evening we were sitting in a hotel lobby, waiting for a friend to arrive. A bell-hop came through pag- ing Amibassador Manio-n. Everyone rose to his feet, and many men in uniform stood at attention. As Glendoris further stated: I won- dered greatly if he 'm-ight be my old classmate, Joe. So I -worked my way through the crowd to catch a glimpse of him and sure enough, it was he. Rushinig up to him, I was so excited by this time, that instead of address- ing him in respect to his position, I blurted out-Hi-Ya, Joe! Everyone gasped in amazement, to think that I would so rudely address an ambas- sador. Joe was glad to -see us and taking each of us by the arm, he escorted us into a secluded reading room, where he at once began ques- tioning us about homefolks, and in doing so mentioned that his wife, the former Mary Long, was quite home- sick to see some old familiar faces. We girls were speechless, to think that one of our former schoolmates had risen to such a high and d-ig- nifled position. In return for this startling piece of news we told her of the other .classmates we had en- countered. When we arrived at Niagara Falls, we parked our trailer at Clifton Tourist Camp. We hurried d-own to glimpse the falls and on the way was a huge neon sign on the dome of The Royal Palace Ballroom, stating that the LONG-BYRD dancing team was appearing here for a six-weeks en- gagement. We were curious and lost all interest in the falls when we saw these names. We must say that the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers' team would have to take a back seat now. After the wo-nderful performance, we hurried ihack stage to see if Perry and Rosemary would remember usf They told us that -they had 'been tour- ing the country and had met several old classmates. They had met many of them dolwn in Fl-orida, where they had made pulblic appearances the previous winter. An idea flashed into our minds. We would dispose of our troublesome trailer, and car, and 'take a plane to Florida. Since we had discovered -the where-abouts of so many of the Sen- ior Class of '37, we were inspired bo hunt up the rest of the old gang. We decided to go up to New York, to see if 'we might find any of the old class there. We arrived in New York City about eight o'clock. Hungry and seeking excitement, we sought out the El Ham,bl.i-n Night Club. We wondered if the name could be con- nected with one of our class. As we entered, a beautiful blond girl was singing. The voice sounded familiar, and as we came closer, we found the soloist to be Eleanor Gitzlaff. She came -to our table -for a brief chat. During the conversation, she told us 1937



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.V we. V l1: 'i no ii THE FIIANCILLIAN claimedf Why that's Ruth Gutwein's school day sweetheart. Just then Ralph came .in and we began ques- tioning him about Ruth. He told us that she and Virgil had been married the next year -following her gradua- tion. He had come into the posses- sion of his father's mill soon after that. - The next day, we arrived at the Beach. We took a airport at Palm taxi to th-e Palm Beach Hotel, where we freshened up a bit. We then set out for a 'walk along the beach. Sit- 'ting under a huge palm tree was a young couple very much absorbed in one another. Didn't that girl look familiar-and the boy? Why, sure enough, it was our midget classmate, Alice Hill, and of course, the youn.g man was Gordon Helfrich. We rushed over to them and all started asking ques-tions at once. Out off the hub- dub, Alice informed us that she was now Mrs. Helfrich, of Lafayette. Gor- don had been transferred from the North Slide Station in Monon to dis- trict manager of Conoc-o Gas and Oil Co. They were taking a two weeks' vacation before he assumed this po- sition. We were all very hungry and thinking that a sandwich would tide us over until luncheon, we hurried to the large hot dog stand down on the beach. After waiting for a while until our turn came to be waited on, we received the surprise of our life. Who should be coming to wait on us but our former cheer-leader of high school days, John Hancock. He had not lost the alblility to be heard, for upon seeing us he let out a yell that could be heard far down the beach. Johnnie started telling us his success as proprietor of a whale and hot dog stand. Milo Myers was in Johnnie's employment, catching whales which Johnnie made into delicious whale sandwiches. During our chat with Johnnie we learned that Roy Osburn of F. H. S. was no'w coach of the Texas University Basket Ball team, which had just won the semi-finals. They were to go to Austin, Texas, to play in the state tournament, but the team had gone on a. sit-down strike and refused to play. Roy was having a rather trying time, but we all hoped that everything would turn out all right. We then left Johnnie to return to our hotel for din-ner. After a love- ly dinner, we went for a short walk before retiring. We had all agreed to meet at seven o'clook the next morn- ing to go t-o the races. Johnnie came alon.g at seven in his Model T Ford and we all progressed to the race track. We purchased very good seats in the gra-ndstand and patiently awaited the starting of the race. Soon the cars were called to line up. The announcer called to car numbers and drivers, and then is w-hen we received the final blow. Car -no. 13 was being driven by Dot Severna. After this announcememnt we were all the more interested in the race. At the waving of the white flag, the cars raced forward-all but one. Car No. 13 was going in the opposite di- rection. At the half way mark, she raced between the cars tearing off a fender. We all sat breathless-we were not able -to speak! Dorothea ar- rived -at the starting point again. She changed gears and was attempting to to turn around, when she put it into reverse. Goin-g at a terrific speed, she went completely around the track backwards. By this time, we girls and especially Alice were almost frantic. During her zigzagged course around -the track, four of the remain- ing six cars had run off the track in attempting to avvoid her. Thus thefre were only two left beside Dorothea. She again arrived at the starting point and you know the third time is a charm. Rlghting herself, she at last started around the track in a normal position. We soon saw that there would be no competition for Dorothea at all. She won the feat by quite a margin. But to top it off, besides the 515,000 she received for 'winning the race, she also received a premium of 55,- 000 for her dare-devil driving. We all iushed down to see Dorothea, for we -thought she would need the atten- tion of two nurses and a doctor. But I -guess we didn't know Dorothea, for upon entering her small preparatory room, we found h-er 'quietly reading the newspaper. She told us that was the mos-t fun she had for some time. It was then that we needed -the smell- ing salts -instead of her. Dorothea then called our attention to the article about Coach Osburnls basket ball team winning the state tournament. He had at last straight- ened out his difficulties and had a championship team. We invited the entire group back to our suite to celebrate Dorothea's victory. Reaching -there, we turned on the radio and listened to the Lonely Hearts Program . At the completion of the program, the an- 1937

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