La Moille High School - Highlights Yearbook (La Moille, IL)

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CLASS PROPHECY lt is a lovely spring day in the year 1961, and the class of '51 is gathering at the Metropoli- tan Airport in La Moille to board a iet-propelled air liner to take a reunion trip to the places we visited on our senior trip back in 1951. The first to arrive at the airport is Scott Swanlund, who owns a large dairy farm north of LaMoille. It is said that Scott has one of the best dairy farms in lllinois. Eileen is staying at home to keep the farm running smoothly. Next to arrive is Gordon Keutzer, the other farmer in the class of '51. He is running a large grain farm in rural Peru and is prospering. Here comes Beverly Fetzer, now Mrs. Donald Anderson, who owns a school called Bev's House of Charm on Fifth Avenue in the thriving city of La Moille. Is there a doctor in the airport? Oh, yes! Dr. Harold Duffield, the famous veterinarian, serving all of the rural area of La Moille has just arrived. A taxi pulls up to the airport and out steps Della Wade, whom we all knew in high school as Della Bentley, and Carol Fundell, now Mrs. Ronald Sampo. Della and Carol are the owners of that huge, new department store in La Moille, the Fun-Della . Leo Peterson, the La Moille Dodge dealer, is driving up now in his 1961 Dodge demon- strator. Leo owns that modern Dodge garage in the heart of La Moille where the La Moille bank used to be in 1951. Anybody want his hair cut? Robert Schmitz, or Smitty as we call him, is the city barber. He rode with Leo as he is one of Leo's prospects for the new Dodge Jet-O-Matic. Smitty keeps all of the present high school basketball team in butches . Now Lila Damon boards our air liner. Lila is the head postmistress in the post office of La Moille. Her husband, Paul Malgoard, owns the famous Danish restaurant in town. Harold Hubbard iust flew into the airport in his private plane. Harold came all the way from Washington, D. C., where he is a Congressman from Bureau County. Are we all ready to take off? We're going to meet the rest of the class in Chicago. Wait a minute, here comes Corrine Fouth Fetzer. Corrine couldn't leave the farm until the last minute because the two sets of twins didn't want to stay with Merle. By the way, the twins are all boys. Are we all aboard that are coming aboard? Yes. Well, fasten your safety belts and we are up in the beautiful blue sky. Say, this new iet-propelled air liner really rides smoothly. Here we are in Chicago already. As we get off the plane John Beatty and Lyle Littlewood are there to meet us. John is a dramatics teacher a Northwestern and Lyle is a math teacher at La Moille University. How- ever, Lyle has been visiting his brother, who teaches at Northwestern too, so he rode up with John for the reunion. The first place on our reunion trip is a radio show. As we reach the studio, we meet Jean Myers, who is familiar with the studio, as she plays the saxophone in Phil Spitalny's All Girl Orchestra. Jean's business manager is her husband, Lloyd Shreeves. As we reach our seats in the studio, whom should we see there but two more of our old classmates. Freddie Faber, now the coach at Macomb, where he went to college, and Elroy Faber, football player for the Chicago Bears. These two haven't seen each other for a number of years so they talk over old times. As we go out into the street after the program, we see a group of young girls swooning and trying to get autographs from someone. As we are curious, we stop and watch and who should we see but Norman Thompson. Norm has become A famous TV star. Norm joins our party and we take cabs down to Maxwell Street. As we step out of our cabs, a smart, yellow convertible drives up along side and Billy Harris and Bonnie Lawrence, now Mr. and Mrs. Billy Harris, get out. Billy drove in the 500 mile race at Indianapolis last year and won. Now he is the owner of a large Standard Oil garage in Chicago. Bonnie is a nurse at the Hines Hospital in the city. After lunch in a smart restaurant in the Loop, we go to the ball game at Wrigley Field. Melvin Swanlund, or Goose, as his old classmates remember him, is the sports announcer for the game. Melvin has just been picked by radio fans as the best sports announcer of the year. He joins us after the game is over. Now that we, as a class, are all united, we prepare to continue our day's iourney in the great windy city.

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CLASS WILL We, the Senior Class of 1951 of La Moille Com- munity High School, having well-trained minds, brightleyes, curly hair and many other notable features, do hereby dispose of the gifts we no longer feel obliged to use. To the faculty, we bequeath our amazing knowl- edge which we have gained in the past four years. To the ianitors, we leave the apple cores which we left behind the radiators and the huge wads of gum on the under sides of the desks. To the Junior Class, we will our ability to do things differently and to disagree in class meet- ings. To the Sophomore Class, we bequeath our digni- fied manners and mental brilliancy. To the Freshmen Class, we bequeath the honor of being reliable and sophisticated. I, John Beatty, will my ability to act to Dorothy Jackson. I, Della Bentley, leave my place in the band to Margaret De Long and Donna Husser, so they can keep up the good work. I, Lila Damon, do will and bequeath my typing ability to Janice Bomleny and Marva Lou Fetzer, and hope they will use it to the best of their ability. I, Harold Duffield, bequeath my cheering ability to Naomi Robbins and Vivian Meyer. I, Freddie Faber, will to Mildred Strobel and Sally Blackwell my ability to ask silly questions in class. I, Elroy Faber, bestow my football ability on Bobby Becker. Let's see you make a touchdown, Bobby. I, Beverly Fetzer, will my red hair to Anna Marie Schmidt. I, Corrine Fouth, will my D.A.R. Award to Jackie Drummer. I, Carol Fundell, donate my Valedictorian speech to Wayne Plumier. I, Billy Harris, do hereby leave my skill in man- euvering a car to Jack Weeks. I, Harold Hubbard, will and bequeath my quiet- ness to Marilyn Barger and Pat Kessel. I, Gordon Keutzer, bequeath my absence of height to Roger King. l, Bonnie Lawrence, do hereby give my many Marine addresses to Elaine May, to go with the one she already has. I, Lyle Littlewood, will my ability to run the mile to Irma Dissinger, so she is off to a good start to Urbana. I, Jean Myers, bequeath my blonde natural curly hair to Ronald Hoschied. I, Leo Peterson, leave to Eileen Einsele my Dodge car so she will have a way to get to school next year. I, Robert Schmitz, do hereby leave my basketball ability to John Lundgren. I, Melvin Swandlund, will my many manager let- ters to Dale Maloy. I, Scott Swanlund, leave my pole vaulting ability to Fred Koch. I, Norman Thompson, do hereby leave my ability to get along with the opposite sex to Roger Harris. To this our last will and testament, we the class of 1951, do hereby set our feet and seal this - - the 11th day of May, 1951. 12

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HONOR STUDENTS Valedictorian - -- .... -..-- Carol Fundell Salutatorian ...... .... L yle Littlewood D. A. R. Award .... .... 400 CLUB John Beatty Della Bentley Jacqueline Drummer Eileen Einsele Corrine Fouth Beverly Fetzer Corrine Fouth Carol Fundell Mildred Strobel ANNUAL STAFF Co-editors ......... . ....................... .... Advertising Managers --- ---- -- John Beatty, Lyle Littlewood Robert Schmitz, Scott Swanlund Subscription Managers --- --- Senior Activities Robert Dissinger, Leo Peterson Harold Hubbard Beverly Fetzer, Corrine Fouth Class Will ....... .... Class History --- Class Prophecy Sports ....... ----- Lila Damon, Jean Myers -- Della Bentley, Carol Fundell Melvin Swanlund Harold Duffield, Elroy Faber Reporters ............................. ........... Freddie Fa Faculty Adviser ber, William Harris, Gordon Keutzer, Bon 'ld nie Lawrence, Norman Thompson ---------- Mrs. Richard Nesti