Keokuk High School - Comment Yearbook (Keokuk, IA)

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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

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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 strange that the radio listeners do not have ear trouble. Walter Wilson is buying up everyone's rugs. He says that it will be of benefit to the United States, because the rugs in this way will not wear out. Ruth Williams is now in New York modeling Paris styles. 'lihelma Weed is a star reporter on the Sandusky Post Dispatch.--My, you must have a lot of competition! June Young has acquired the envied title of Miss America. Jack Wirtz is now playing leading parts in Shakespeare's plays for recreational pur- poses. Oh, yes, l must not forget to mention that Jack has also rewritten Shakespeare-just to keep his promise to a group of people interested in his welfare. i Paul Iinsminger is now picking dandelions from the cemetery lawns. He picks only a half a dandelion at a time so his job will last twice as long. Gene Fallon is now training children in the technique of football. The best training says Gene, for children, is football, so they learn how to kick good and hard. Ralph Farnsworth is now, running a ferry between Key West, Florida and Havana. Two more years of practice and he expects to beat airplane time. Fred Ferguson is now orating every night on the benefits of using egg mixed with tooth paste for making one's hair light and silky. Mary Leota O'Bryen is now writing ten cent novels to sell at a bargain price of a nickle. She is now able to write thirty stories a day. Dale Johnson is an inventor of note. Last week he concocted a new rat poison and, incidentally, the trap kills the rat after he eats the so-called poison. Dale is really quite brilliant. Nlarabelle Belford is conducting a dancing school in Paris. James Lloyd is 'traveling through China looking for yellow monkeys. Le Roy Lofton is now plowing ground in the Alps to raise sugar cane. He thinks he can do itg so his mother lets him play. Dorothy McCoy is now attending school for old people in Europe, learning how to keep young. lylax Masters is now working hard as an architect. He designs braces to keep his buildings from falling down. Harold Neiswanger is now the court jester someplace in France. I suppose that one of his favorite tricks for amusement is making the amused ones think that he is extremely clever by performing the tricks with the Bunsen burner that he learned in his high school daze. Ethel Quick, we find, is now the wife of a well known owner of a chain of gasoline stations.-Gas who?l!l Alice Jean Miller is walking the streets of Los Angeles crying in her old familiar way, Wanna buy a Duck? I can't just think now, but I believe I heard someone else say that once. Mary Helen Ricker, since she pulled Tub through, is making him plant onions in their garden patch on the Rock of Gibralter. Glenn Roost is now a winning jockey in the Kentucky Derby. Glen named his horse Spark Plug, but horsey refused to move with such an old name,'so Glenn named it Lucille. And does it run now! Glenn doesn't even have to sing to it anymore. TWENTY-SIX