Keokuk High School - Comment Yearbook (Keokuk, IA)

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THE COMMENT, 1934 little house-wife. Her home is in Des hfloines where her husband is a famous architect. Thelma Hedden has just accepted a position as stenographer in a large Los Angeles firm. The manager is Ralph Shahfer. Annabelle Huff is now doubling for lilissa Landi in Hollywood. Frank Johnson is a wealthy playboy with a home on Park Avenue. l've heard that for a while he was making a collection of tin cans. Everyone must have their hobby you know. John Paul King is principal of a kindergarten in Omaha, Ne- braska. ln California Marcia Kiedaisch is living on the estate of the late Luther Burbank. She has succeeded in raising seedless watermelons. Kathryn Kavanagh is making some man happy in a vine covered cottage at Argyle. Henrietta Kraushaar is raising pedigree puppies in Shanghai. Betty Kiedaisch is proprietress of a swanky beauty shoppe in Hindu- stan. She specializes in woozy corkscrews and frizzles. She says the secret of her beautiful yellow hair is that she massages three tablespoons of nitric acid in her scalp every night before retiring. When her husband asks if she dyes i't, she smiles sweetly and says, Now, hubby, you wouldn't want me to dye my hair, would you ? Marie Koss is now head nurse at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago. Lloyd Leftwich is first assistant to the Keokuk Com- munity Street-Cleaner. Naomi Laisle is private secretary to Jack Pllug who owns the W. K. K. K. Fish Co. flnterpreted-- We Katchem, Kill and Kan 'Emu Fish Co.j Doris Larsen is now retired in luxury because of the rewards of her latest book success, My Life. Dorothy Larsen still is riding with her motorcycle cop looking for the men who short-changed her live dollars in 1933. Katheryn Moander is the leading manicurist of Chicago. Blondes always do lead. James McCarty is now tryingto argue the King of Great Britain into installing showers in pig pens. Mary Florence hleinberg is a teacher in the Argyle Consolidated School. She instructs the second grade in advan- ed chemistry and Spanish. Wilhelmina lVIarks is now known as America's Personality Girl. Marjorie Montague is special nurse for a red-headed patient. Johnny Mawer is to be found any time standing near the Wes't Keokuk Fire Station singing 'fLover Come Back to Me. Lucille Miller is pegging the keys of an old typewriter and chewing gum. Well, I guess Lucille hasn't changed any. Doris McManis is working in a large office trying to figure out whether to put a comma or colon after Dearest Billfl Mildred Nelson is now a successful owner of a millinery shop in Houston, Texas. Wilbur Odell is literally rolling in wealth which he got entirely from that clever invention of his. His invention is a patented nose warmer for cold nights. Jean Prouty is still trying to convince Elmer Maas that there isn't a big bad wolf. julia Peterson is teaching fortunate youngsters to dot their i's and cross their t's. Julia is in a rural school. Doris Phipps is a nurse at the hospital. She is in charge of Jack Peavler who is suffering a nervous breakdown from his numerous love affairs. Babe van Pappelen- dam is now a millionairess due to the collection she has been making, ever since high school, of dimes made by haunting and heckelingl' well known TWENTY-FOUR

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THE COMMENT, 1934 alibi, HVVe would have won, but the field Was muddyf' Freda Boyd is playing the piano in a l0c store in St. Louis. Bob Brunat has inherited the prosperous business of undertaking. His motto is Service While You Wait. Lawrence Buerklin has signed a fine contract with the Metropoli- tan Opera Company for next winter's season to be night watchman. Although a famous singer, he has been pressed into service, as gate receipts have not been suflicient to take care of the insurance. Bob Banghart has fulfilled his life ambition. He is now a second Wes Farrel in baseball. Ruth Cameron has gone on an expedition to the South Pole in search of alligators and Ches. Edith, the Cameron twins other half is an eflicient chemist for a southwestern corporation which believes i't has discovered a new way to cause chameleons to change color. Howard Clark, following in the footsteps of his pa is the leading butcher in the great city of Sand Prairie. Florence Eloise Chrestensen is now singing the Mikado once a year at 'the Colosseum. Isabel Campbell operates the dog pound in New York City. She declares her fondness for the animals leads her to this. Eddie Cochrane is now the junior partner of the custodian in the Wells Carey School. Jerome Doggett is happily married CI won't say to whomj and is a newspaper reporter in Chicago. Harry Duncan is now being paid 350,000 a week to show insane people how funny one can really look if one tries. D. Norelle Dunn is now private secretary to the President of the United States. She carries a big, brown brief case. something like Miss Nancolash Constance Day is now an artist in Lon- don, England. She draws out her r's. Charlotte Eckland is settled down nicely in a quiet little cottage of their own. Mary Leota O'Bryen is happily working in a dress shop in Mt. Pleas- ant. Donald Chadwick is the favorite violinist of the sultan of Lee County. Alice Feldman is a nurse in the city of Milwaukee. I hear she's quiet and demure now. Rhea Flambeau is driving a taxicab in New York City. He refuses to transport canaries and cats. Don't ask me why, ask him. In a far Western city we find Maxine Fuqua, attired in cowboy clothes, teach- ing reading and scribbling and arithmetic to all the bad little boys and girls. Gerald Faber lost his crush on girls due to his wife and 'the little Fabers. The Flower twins are spending their days fooling the daisies into thinking they look alike. Loretta Goez sings lullabys to babies every night over the radio. No wonder the babies have been crying more than usual. Mary Jane Goetz and her husband are moving east, so tha't they can put their three children into a music conservatory. Dorothy Grimpe is now running a reducing shop in partnership with Nlarie Dressler. Their specialty is raising extra strong and large horses, so their customers may reduce on horseback. Professor Jesse O. Hodges, Ph. D., B. S., B. A., M. A., D. D., M. S., is now teaching chemistry in Lima, Peru. Dale Burton is a teacher in Florida. He has 'tried at least once a year to get a permit to raise prize malaria bugs. Henry Holton is now the K, Of' Kid from Keokuk. Walter Herin is a physics teacher. He won't let his pupils recite for fear they'll reveal his knowledge to be slight. Dorothy Heston is now a sweet, TWENTY-THREE

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THE COMMENT, 1934 couples found in the utmost regions of Rand Park. Dorothy Pannell is running a soup kitchen on First Street for all the dear boys who come in on the trains. Dorothy Robertson is now a Nletropolitan Opera star. Mildred Renard is a famous blues singer in Carthage, Ill. She had an offer to go to New York and croon, but she declined and accepted the Carthage offer as much superior. Olivia Rosencrans has begun to manufacture weinies Without skins. They are quite a success. John Robertson is now engaged in making rub- ber 'tires for wheeless baby buggies. Juanita Rader is playing her violin in Little America, trying to train polar bears tif there are anyj to dance. Ronald Ricker is now head of the Walker Bus Co. Rick is sitting back with his feet on a large desk while the little Rickers are driving north and south side buses. Roberta Seabold is now in Africa running a beauty shop for monkeys. Her motto: No Monkey Business. It sounds like a de- pression in Africa too. Colleen Strohmaier is now at the lamp shade counter in Nletropolitan, chewing gum. John Leake is trying to break his former records and run the mile in twenty minutes flat. Clyde Smith is binding books in Kansas City and insuring them against book worms. Carlyle Shively is a crooner, running a close race with Cab Calloway for the honors. Betty Sayller now warbles the blues in the De Duxe Nite Club in N. Y. City to an appreciative audience. Mary Helen Scott is still the subject of radio requests by her many admirers. Bernadine Carmichael is now scrubbing floors in a St. Louis depart- ment store. Dorothy Stice is running Mary Bower a close second in the National Debate Contests. Florence Davis is raising daffodils on an island in the Mississippi, trying to make them turn pink. George Strate is a judge in the Supreme Court. He decided that Judge Judge Strate had it all over Judgie -the name pinned on him by his feminine acquaintances in high school. Daisy Smith and her smile are advertising Pepsodent toothpaste with Amos and Andy. Bernice Strohmaier is happily married and living on a farm. She always did prefer country life. Beverly Schard is now proprietress of a hamburger stand. lt seems she uses garlic for onions and beet juice for catsup. Charles Seltzer is now excelling in trig- onometry. He has mastered the formulas. Harold Schwartz leads his orchestra and announces M. C. Phillip's songs as a pastime. Margaret Trump is painting portraits of big people-Mr. Davis is her latest sub- ject. Helen Weed is in Charleston making great achievements on the stage as a peanut vender. Estie Wells is still running up and down the drag with C. Penny's sign on his back. Florence Wright hangs out her bmty Shop Mgmt THE WRIGHT si-1oPPE YOU CANT GO WRONG Billy Hyatt is experimenting with newer and brighter magazine cov- ers. Edgar McKay is yelling traffic signals in Hong Kong. Ralph Jones is canning green bananas to feed to fresh monkeys. T. Joseph Wettstein is the most famous hog caller and radio announcer in Missouri. lt is TWENTY-FIVE