Hancock Place High School - Momento Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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August and September were frantic hectic months of preparation Q of selecting vital drugs and foods to form the nucleus of a new life-of re-2 ,jection of precious mementoes of the past. One day-:aonly one day left! We checl-fed and rechecked our cargo,and then 'I slipped away for a brief walk through the dear familiar halls of .Hancock High. As, blinded by tears, my hand groped for the latch of the front door, the voice of my former Principal, Mr. Langehennig boomed over the loud speaker No one is to leave until I finish my announcements! ' October the first-wwe are off to assemble the world's would-wbe sur-1 vivors! At Washington D.. C. we gathered some men and women upon whose shoulw ders had rested the responsibilities of this world--a '.-,f hy not the' next? People from Congress, like'Senators, SHIRLEY EIFERT, LOIS STIBAL, andPAUL SEXTON and Representatives, FLORENCE QUIGLEY and PAUL WINTER, the scientist DAVID PLOESSER, popularly known as the spacehawk, continually has patrolled space, warning us of approaching falling stars and meteors and his brave wife who always accompanies him, the former SHIRLEY SENN, has made a cape able assistant. The 'Secretary of Atomic Warfare, BILL WHITTINGTON with his wife MARGARET DECKER were also found there. Next the rocket zoomed into the famous spot:--fHollywood.Here we stops ped production on the movie Kissable Me written by DEE STEVENS Then we took the stars, GERDA BINGOLD and VERNA HOHMAN, and the producer, ROSE WILLIAMS, MARLENE MANLEY, DOT MCGRAWM and HELEN STERN Came out of the chorus. GEORGE MOORE, star of horror pictures, and DAVID MOSS thatfamous song and dance man, were also piclfed up here. We gathered up quitea fewof our number at a circus playing at a small town in Arkansas. JOYCE BLAKE and BETTY MILLER, tight-:rope wallfersg HELEN KIENLE, trapese artist, PAT LINDURST, the lion tamer, SLYVIA BRADLEY , the snake charmer, CLINTON ZOLMAN, the skeletonman with his wife, the fat lady, formerly LAVERNE DIPPLE 5 JERRY WARD, the human rubber man, JUNE RETTIG, the fireaeateri JOHN RESETARITS, the gorilla man, JOSEY SCHALK, the human cannon ball, the two beautiful bareabaclv. riders, RUTH COCOS, and JEAN HOLAUS, and al so the chief water boy for the elephants, JOHN SCHAEFER. In Africa we found those wild animal hunters, JACK MANGOLD, with his wife the former EVELYN BYRNE, and BILL MALONEY, still an eligible bachelor: The .Foreign Legion lost two of its best men EUGENE DALE and DON HIND? RICKS. Both were there after being disappointed in love. PAT KLUNK, the object of their affections had married RICHARD LEHMKUHL.

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1 im-ff We, the class of '51 Being weak of mind but strong of heart Do make this will to show our thoughts And scatter our gifts e'er we do party WE LEA VE : Our position on the top round of the ladder of Hancock High, the star at which the Freshmen gaze in ubig eyedn wonder, to the Juniors with the fervent hope that during vacation they will change their ways and prove worthy of such exultation. , i zUur examplary behavior in the study hall and our superhuman power of remaining seated'unti1'announcements are finishedh to the Sophomores so that the faculty may not leave enmasse. I The honorsum invariably achieved in most eventsto the.Freshman Class. Tb the Faculty, our abilitytougrasp a situationnanduto go atthings in a systematic wayn with the hope that these may help them to spur the student body into commendable action. To the Student Body, the love and admiration weever held for our'Alma Mater. INDIVIDUALLY WE LEAVE: JACK GOWEN'S bashfulness and knack of getting along with the facultyto JACK ANDEL. WILLIAM FITZPATRICK'iS ability to play hookey to DAVE FRANKLIN. HELEN KIENLE grants with a cheery Good luck' her going steady theories to NANCY POf!Lrf, - -1 MARGIE DECKER willingly leaves her ability to find the man of herdreams on a blind date to SHIRLEY VONDER HAAR., RICHARD LEHMKUHLdoesn't want to will anything as he.feels he needs all he has and more to keep out of trouble: BETTY'ANN DIETRICH'S blushing she readily relinquishes to BETTY AUER. VIRGIL HULSEY'S courteous manliness is bequeathed to all who wouldbe o ular. 1 EDEAAD JASPER, the unsuspecting freshman, is left DON BRUGGEMAN'S two years in Miss McKinneyLs science classesw DAVID PLOESSER leaves his flirting to his brother FLOYD as he wantshim to be popular too. JOHN RESETARITS wants FRANK FUSELIER to have his loudness. PAUL SEXIUN leaves his.batting average to JIMMY EICHHORN. BETTY STUTZWS sultry song singing she passes to RUTH SCHLEICHER. NONA TAYLOR sacrifices her dancing.efficiency to JO ANN POHLE, AUDREY WERNIGIS interest in art class which getsher there so promptly .goes to EDWIN HILL, RALPH ARNHOLDVS shameless flirting with the girls to NORMAN KING.. JEAN ZELCH gladly handstx:ALLEN KROECK her position as all around handy man for the senior class. JOYCE BLAKE regretfully leaves her love for all things masculine toher ,brainy sister, MARYN

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RICHARD MEINE had returned1xJHancock as a professor of English with his wife, BETTY DIETRICK as a science teacher. We had great trouble in breaking into Alcatraz to extract the next person on our list, Warden JACK GOWENS, who insisted upon bringing his faithful bodyguard CHARLES RISCH. DON BRUGGEMMV and WARREN FELDWQRTH, the politicians, were nravenng with us, drawn by the lure of becoming joint presidents of Venus. Picking1qJLEO SCHLITTER wewere forcedto listen to his moans :about losing his vast business. The Condensed Food and Dehydrated Water Ina dustry. In Australia we found Dr. WILLIAM MATTHIS and his wife the former GLORIA AMELUNG running a hospital for sick kangaroos. BILL MOSIER ,bigbusiness tycoon broughthislmautiful secretaries , JEAN ZELCH and BETTY STUTZ, but before the rocket left he suddenly rea membered his wife and dashed home to bring backour old c1assmateBEVERLY BLUM. Wehad touse an Atomic bombtxnget through the iron curtain of Russia to rescue SHIRLEY MORRISON, who has been held prisoner for 'seven years after having wondered into the forbidden territory searching for COTTON SCHAEFFER. RICH EICHHORST and NORMAN HEIMAN we found in the detective business known as the Transom and Keyhole Agency. LEE BRYAN, JAMES STEGER, and JIM CRAIG were in the electronic brain and calculating research Departmentau:Oxford University.They weregiven a scholorship by the wealthy husband of JOSEPHINE ECKERT, RALPH JOURDEN. NONA TAYLOR andIun'husband BOB STANCIL were a famous construction team currently building a bridge from South America to Africa. In New Yorkweghcked up DON CALVIN alias Steel man Caln, the heavy weight champ of the universe, and his manager Bing Bfainn DON GRIMMJ also ANTHONY LIPINA, the curator of the Paris Museum of Art, and his brainly assistants HERB KAWELASKI and DICK PONTIUS. VIRGIL HULSEY and BILL FITZPATRICK both are heads in the Hulseya .Fitzpatrick meat businessaathey are commonly known as uMeat Heads'. AUDREY WERNIG and JOAN WURTZ,inspiredlnrapopular song dyed' their hair chartreuse and were exiled from the United States. We had a difaa ficult time locating them in lower Sibera. Having gathered thelast of our number, we stand ready to launch our shipforVenus. Whatweshall find, we cannot know, but with our exceptaea ional group, can it fail to be a ShangriaLa! saga NELLA LOU BYRD