Kinde High School - Beeline Yearbook (Kinde, MI)

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I 'sf-ng .nf vice-president in charge of producing romantic serials for CBS. Jim introduces Jack Nelson, the famous crooner, who will sing 'A Dreamer's Holiday. Jack makes a few corny remarks after which the first chords of the tune are struck, but instead of starting on cue Jack stands silent staring at the door. Suddenly he begins to sing 'Nature Boy. The reason is seen when all the people turnaround and see aheavily bearded, shaggy-haired man standing there. Jim Popham is the first to break the silence by exclaiming, Keith, Then his whole story comes omit, how he had become discouraged five years before he couldn't sell any of his inventions and had gone into hibernation to escape these cruelpeople. He makes quite a realistic hermit we think. After the excitement has died down, Jack finishes his song and Jim begins to announce the next number, but is interupted by a burst of laughter in the corner. It's just Jacquelinge amusing the children by teaching them deaf and dumb signs. She just can't quit working. The next thing on the program is movies of Shirley Upthegrove, world explorer. These movies show unusual spots she has visited. The applause dies down after,Shirley's short talk on her movies and Jim introduces Willetta, now the famous opera singer. She has just returned from a tripto Reno, where she divorced another husband. She has been married so often that her agent never knows what name to put on her checks. , A peal of trumpeters is heard and Jerry Cornett, now Baron Von Cornett enters the room accompanied by his beautiful wife. He finally got that title he wanted so much by marrying a rich and beautiful Baronness. The last thing-on the program is a piano solo by the famous concert pianist, Virginia Brade. After this pleasing entertainment we adjourn to dinner. Midway through the dinner when everyone is talking about how nice this reunion has been someone screams as a tramp walks in through the door. He looks suddenly very much ill-at- ease when he sees the people in the room. When Mrs. Hunter offers him something to eat he says that he's not hungry, has to go, and other feeble excuses. Jim McPhee starts up at ,the sound of his voice and runs over and throws his arms around his old friend, Jim Gottschalk! A clanging is heard, the machine coughs, sputters, and stops and our vision of the future is ended. .. .,.'!.l-AA. W 1 0

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We seem to be entering a large ranch, and the sign over the gate reads: Grandma Huntei-'s Dude Ranch, Proprietor, John Hunter. This must be the site of the reunion of our class because we see a huge banner which says, Welcome to the Class of l950. Just then Joann Ignash arrives, and Grandma Hunter runs out to greet her and admire her two sets of twins. Two boys and two girls, isn't that nice, Grandma says. She tells Joann how much she wishes there were a girl in her family. Seems her grandchildren are all boys. Joann goes in to register and gasps to see Merle Koth there. He is the bookkeeper hereg Mrs. Hunter chose her best bookkeeping student we guess. We see the ranch's station wagon returning from meeting the last train and are happy because we will see how more of us will be in ten years, but the only one who gets out is Julia. She has so many kids and bags of diapers that the driver, Slats, has to make another trip to bring the rest of the passengers. Next, a 1-o-n-g black limousine arrives drivenby none other than Miss Yaroch, the famous love-lorn columnist, and Miss Geyer, the Angora cat-breeder, is with her. These two old maids hate men so much that they wouldn't even have one for a chauffeur. Quite a change from school days. As guests arrive, they all go into the ranch house to eat a delicious luncheon prepared by Mrs. Hunter's prize cook, Anna Mae. - After lunch some of the guests want to go riding, and they certainly are surprised to see Jim Popham lead the horses out to them. He always was fond of horses! Slats comes back with the second load which includes our old friends, Elfrieda, now the famous actress who plays motherly parts on the screen, and Walt Luecke, who's made use of his natural ability to talk and has become a politician. He's thinking of reviving the Know Nothing party and running for president next election. A white-haired woman gets out of the. truck and we wonder who it could beg surely not a member of our class. lt must be our class sponsor, but just then Walt's telling Grandma Hunter that his mother couldn't come because she's still teaching school and is taking the seniors on a cruise. Finally we recognize the white-haired lady as Virg'Hewitt. She was widowed early in life and it caused the thing she always feared, white hair. A sudden bellow is heard from the barn, and Julia dashes out to the rescue of her little boy. He found out the horse didn't like to have his tail pulled. We're surprised Julia hadn't taught him how to behave around horses by now. He has a small gash on his head so Virg Hewitt insists on calling a doctor. She dashes to the house and picks up the phone. A very surprised look comes over her face as she recognizes the operator as Betty Toner. They start gossiping until Virg finally remembers why she called. After she gets the doctor and explains the case he says that he'll send his most efficient nurse, Elaine, out to see the boy, after which Virg takes a minute to remind Betty to come to the reunion. During this interval almost everyone has arrived, and since there is so much talent in our midst, Mrs. Hunter suggests we have some entertainment before dinner. Jim McPhee is selected as Master of Ceremonies, and he quickly organizes a program. ln his warming-up talk he brings out the fact that he married a daughter of a CBS executive and is now sixth 9

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cfs, ul Be it re embered, That we ' ' of.LQ.iQin the County of and State of Michigan,being in a near-loony state o mind and in a com- plete exhaustion and being aware of the dangers in this atomic age, do hereby make, execute, and declare this to be Our Last Will and Testament, in manner following: First, Being broke,we hope that our teachers will pay in full all our debts and funeral ex- penses since they drove us to our death by so much hard work. Second, We give, devise and bequeath the following: Tothe Juniors, who gave us all our sorrows, we will a double portion of tribulations. CThat's enough for them D l Third, To the Sophomores we leave patience and a sense of humor which is very needed so that they can withstand the Juniors, who will be such conceited Seniors. We also give them our good manners, our good looks, our expert athletic abilities, our out- standing scholastic records, and our good personalities. Fourth, To the naive Freshmen we leave our sedate manner and pleasing smiles that have won us our way through high school. Fifth, To our slave -driving teachers we will our discarded school books and comic books and an additional gray hair from each of us. Also the boys leave to them all their stray hair-pins. Sixth, To Sid we leave all our autographs carved in the desks. They'll be worth a lot of money some day! We also will him an easy chair and a new spitoon to replace the tomato can. Seventh, To Mrs. Barney, the school secretary, we will a magic-eye so she can find the students when they receive phone calls. Eighth, We leave our class picture for public display on the wall. You lucky public! JIIVI POPHAM wills his back seat and black beardto Karl Hunter.Also he leaves his ability to keep his mouth shut to Don King. PAT YAROCH wills her eleven o'clock curfew to Donna Mousseau, and her inability to, get a man to Helen Marie Luecke. WILI..Ef'l TA SAWYER wills her ability to lose weight to Geraldine Moore, and would like to leave her heart to someone but thinks that it is too wornfrom being tossed back and forth so much. SHIRLEY UPTHEGROVEwills allher car troubles to Rink Everingham. Also she leaves the kiss she received from Merle in the tenth grade to Dorothy Hagle. JIM GOTTSCHALK wills his grade-school flirtations to Eddie Moore, and his ability to square -dance to Don Brade. GERALD LACKIE wills his-long-term managership of the football team to Billy Styles. VIRGINIA HEWITT wills her ability to win a man to Mary McLeod, her job as librarian to anyone who wants it, and her laugh to Edna Miller. JERRY CORNETT wills his shyness and red face to Ken Wahl, and leaves his ability to get along with the 'opposite sex to Jim Hall. BETTY TONER wills nothing to nobody. ANNA MAE POPHAM wills 'Little Art A. to Irene Gore ski, and her quiet manner toDorothy Merrick. JACKIE MOELLER wills her love affairs to Dorothy McKim, her natural ability to lead ICONTINUED on Pac.: 121