Ionia High School - Ionian Yearbook (Ionia, MI)

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to understand women. They've built a new hos' pital here, which we were conducted through by brain specialist Dr. William Westmaas, and his private nurse, Virginia Velia. The other nurse, Jean Benedict, had measles. Winifred Lockwood was visiting as a social worker. Floor girl Helen Burns took us to the second floor where we met two laboratory technicians, Esther Nielsen and Margaret Ketchum, doing research on Why Bed' bugs Can't Think. Leaving here we discovered the mayor's wife, Mary Jean Hines, arguing with Phyllis Brown over the ethics used by her husband in obtaining the new Boob2AfDoop playground for the State Hospital on the hill. By the way, Lester Dadd has just forced his dad out of the job as chief janitor there. Going out in the country to get a breath of fresh air, we saw some very prosperous farms. Ralph Furman, Dorothy Howard and family, along with Frank johnson and Richard McCord and Wayne Chamberlain, are making a fortune off a new method of breeding pigs as fast as rabbits and Japanese. Close neighbors were Roy Bradley, Floyd Hammond, Harold McCord, Glenn Munger, and George Westbrook, who had formed a cor' poration Sheer Shimmering Silk Sales, the new silk they processed from hybrid corn stalks and clover. They tell us we have a very fine conservaf tion department in these parts. Officers Ed Coon and Leslie Murphy go out every spring and hunt for lost Babes in the woods. Back in town again Federal agent Gordon Fuller was found investif gating an attempted sabotage of the new branch factory of the Willow Run Plant that we have in town. Since the war ended, Manager Ron Curtis had converted it into making family airplanes. Everything went along fine until UnionfOrganizer Bill Burras called a strike because it was unfair to large families. However, everything was settled when Foreman Ralph Montgomery fired the strikf ers. Going through town, we were told that Earl Schmidt, owner of a men's clothing store, was the first to put cuffs on trousers after the war was over. We passed the TipftofToe Fashion Shoppe, operated by Phyllis Steel with the Wingeier twins as her models. She had created a new ruffle for the whitefcollar workers in town, chief of whom are Mildred Gallagher, Maxine Greenhoe, Mar' jorie Astle, Anita Beckhorn, Ruth Tanner, and Nadine Guernsey. We also noted the Setchfield Beauty Shop, with beautician Rose Mary Peterson and the competing shop across the street, run by Myrtle Glossi and her assistant, Lois Guider. The price war cut the treatment for shiny noses from 251.19 to 79 cents. While quenching our thirst at the fountain of soda jerker Jean Young, with her lavender fizz special, we met Shirley Todd and Betty Welker of the Todd and Welker Interior Decorating Firm. We also saw Lorraine Griiiin buying four ice cream cones for her family. We now found ourselves in a hurry to return to our naval base in Florida. Speeding through town toward the new airport, managed by Anita Tafel, and her assistants, Barbara Johnson, Ammie Lake, and Glenna Smith, we were stopped by terrible Ted Bennett, the speed cop, who rides around on his motorcycle all day with the Lone Girl Cop, Margaret Haney. He ceremoniously handed us a ticket - to the new night club in town where entertainment is given by glamour girl Patsy Houghton and singer Jean Dunn. Down the street, we saw the Motcheck Orphanage for Young Men - ages 14 to 40 - founded by Ruth herself. We made our way to the airport, though, and were given a free pass on the Baird Hot Air Lines by Doris. Ship hostess was Arna Gail Leiter and among other passengers going to Miami with us were Barbara Herron, buyer for Sweater Kid Fashion Shop, Arlene Knapp with son, Junior, Hazel Leland, promoter for New Tieless Ribbons, and Geraldine Moore, the champion typist who has broken all previous typing records. Our pilot was the famous ace, Gayle Leslie, who created the slogan and another Jap bit the dust. On the way down to Miami, we found out that mariner Joe Wyman had received the distinguished service medal when he had captured the entire crew of a German sub by feeding them U. S. Navy beans. Well, we got back to our destroyer safely, mom, and I think I will have to close my letter now, be' cause chief swab, Charles Smalley, says it's our bedtime. I'll write again, mom. With love, Your Johnnie Censored by: Motcheck, Mosson, and Westmaas.

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aofainqfniadzeauifwze Aboard a U.S. Destroyer in the Carribean, June 27, 1952. Dear Mom: We are back on board ship again under Captain Dale Burdy, after our long shore leave, when we went places and saw things, inf cluding many of our old classmates. When we first got ashore, we saw George Peterson and Dale Haney celebrating shore leave from the Coast Guard with a couple of cute shore mermaids, Lina Smith and Wilma McPherson. They said they had reenlisted - just as we had - back in 1950, when we finished sinking the Rising Sun, and the war had ended. They said they were goingto stick out their threefyear enlistment - if they didf n't get married. Their girls were getting impatient, so we left and looked up Tom Conner, a prominent playboy down in Miami. Taking his secretary Kathleen White with him, he showed us the night club where Hugh Hanson's band featured Tom Lockwood's quivering cornet, Joyce Banks, the champ hatfcheck gal of the century, checked our wraps in the downtown concert hall where soloist Beverly Bowne, with accompanist Mary Esther Helmes, was billed. Coming soon was the Flutterf ing Flute and Resonant Reed Musical Troupe with glittering Glenna June Douglas and jovial Jack VanReenen. That night we stayed at the Hotel Haskin - Miami's finest, where we were greeted by Manager Joe himself in his shirtsleeves, laborif ously puffing at a Havana. We saw quite a few oldftimers there: hostess, Alice Strong, private secf retary, Lucille Kyser, visiting nurse, Betty Lou Conner, cook, Ruth Scheierng and bellhops, Ed' ward Zander, Gordon Sargeant, Harry Carroll and Wayne Anderson, who spent all their spare mo' ments riding up and down in the elevator. In the morning, we stopped at the House of Henry Morgan, banking firm, to borrow enough money to take a train back to good old Michigan, with Ionia its dead center. Teller Meriline Hoy took care of ,us nicely, and Assistant Geraldine Kiefer directed us to the station. On the way we passed the art studio of Brushless Bill Owsley who, with his Phenomenal Phyllis Oberlin, the mumptious model, was making art circles gasp all over the country. At the station we bought tickets from Betty Dunn and Clarabelle Durkee. Hopping on the train we met Dorothy Dalton and were inf formed that this was the new Sizzling Streamliner that had just broken the record under its speed demon engineer, Dave Ayers, and assistant, Bud Potter. On the train we met that irresistible, suave salesman, Jim Nichols who, in three minutes flat, had sold us both a new suit ensemble with underwear to match. Upon reaching Ionia, Fred Christopher, news photographer, snapped our physiognomies for the front page of the local Read It and Weep. We were greeted at the staf tion by Charles Signs and then we went to the drug store, where Pharmacist Ralph Lee fixed us up with a prescription of salkafeltzer to counteract the effects of our fast trip, while Assistant Barbara Eitniear was in a heated discussion with a cus' tomer, Thelma French, over the merits of two bubble dancers, Marian Munger and Zelphia Horf rocks, We were shown through the town by Mayor Fritz Kernen, who had won on the plat' form, 'bYou tend to your business, I'll play with mine. Gosh! you would never recognize the old burg. Remember Gasoline alley? Jerome Nelson has bought it all, and erected a superfservice sta' tion, selling cut rate aviation gas. While you wait, Eugene Vos, 'lBuck Walton, and Richard Vaughn swarm over the car, cleaning the windows, polish' ing the front bumper and cooling off the tires. For live cents more, Lester Smith will come out and check your oil with an amazing new gadget invented at the Dow Chemical by Chemist Richf ard Olds and Engineer Don White. Speaking of new things, Deacon Warren Vanhetloo has erected a new Evangelical Church with twoftone chimes. And a new Junior High has been erected after the old one collapsed under the strain of the new jufjitsu taught by Mary Eddy's revolutionary gym classes with Betty Moorhead as her assistant. Over in the Senior High, Jeanne Mosson teaches a new class - L'How to win friends and influence men, with Alice Fitzgerald as her star pupil. Professor Bob Vander Molen has a competing class - How

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