La Vega High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Waco, TX)

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Doctors Jack McFarling and Conrad Lambert recently clinic here in town. Dr. McFarling has been my private years! The former Marian Thedford is head nurse in the My husband is just crazy about home gardening. He rial this morning sent out by the E.L. Thompson 65.000 New Jersey. They have quite an enterprise down there. Where do you buy your chewing gum. dear? I'd like tip--try the Olson chewing gum. It's really delicious. owner 'Chewing-Gum-Olson'--isn't that humorous? I see that the Americans have set up a Humane Soci President asked Glenda Oakes and Elaine Winn to head th should be an interesting piece of news to folloy, I'm taking reducing lessons now in town at YMCA. for my lesson the other day there was a new instructor Warren. She's really good but she does need to take a ercises herself. Joyce Ward and Joanne Merritt are very high up in at Baylor. I want to send Cathy to take lessons there Do you subscribe to the magazine. 'True Romances'? interesting article in there by Beth Makowski on 'True It's quite good. There are also some very cute cartoon Gene Graham. Those two things you really shouldn't mis My son, Tom, wants to go to Purdue University for The marching band up.there. led by Bill Harlan. is real college realm. I'm going to try to send Tom. Cathy is taking baton lessons in town under Doroth knows her business, I must say. Cathy is a little reck because she came home with a black eye the first week s The Nobel Prize list was released the other day. ceived the Art award and Dr. Denena was presented with That is quite impressing. The President seems to have a very capable diploma Barbara Devaney. She has saved the nation several time barrassments. She always was good at advising people. We had Tom Jr's coach and his wife over for dinner Shelton and his wife. I don't know what this High Scho without such a good coach. Highland Park has won City since he has been here and that has been five years. Have you ever ridden the Chicago Limited? I was l uctor the last time I rode and his voice carried a fami consulted the train bulletin for his name and found it His voice observation car. has quite a good tone. I can hear him all th built a beautiful doctor for several clinic. received some mate- acre farm in Newark. to give you a good They call the ety in Russia. The e Society. That When I went down in charge, Miss Wanda few warming-up ex- the music world now if I can. There is a very Secrets of Love'. s and jokes by Billy s. his college education ly famous all over the y Fogle. She really less, I'm afraid, he began lessons. Barbara Cooper re- the Science award. tic advisor in s from grave em- wasn't she? last night, Coach ol would have done Conference every year istening to the cond- liar note. So I to be Don Taylor. e way down to the

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The marines recently elected the sweethearts for their marching band. They were none other than Margaret Scott and Nadine Clifton. Of course. you probably knew that the marine has landed and has Mary Bess Robertson well in hand. Wilma Dee Back recently received a contract for an act in Ringling Brothers. Patsy Richardson is already working for then as the midget attrac- tion. I understand Wilma Dee was contracted to attend to Irate male customers. Both of my children are in the Highland Park School in Chicago. My daughter and son were telling me about their teachers. Tom is taking Shake- spearean English under Miss Norma Bongard. Miss Lois Byford is teaching Cathy social studies. I took some sewing out to a little lady out in the suburbs who takes in sewing all the time. When I walked in the door I was nearly bowled over by nine or ten young urchins who were playing Indians. After talking to the lady a while. I discovered that she was the former Bessie Chaneyworth and her family of boys now numbering eight. I told you in my last letter about my dear aunt who is now in the Austin Institute. didn't I? We went up to see her not long ago and who do you sup- pose showed us to her room? - little Virginia Chaney. She says she enjoys the work because she feels close to those people. We spent our vacation up in Colorado this summer on a Dude Ranch. After the first few days I met the owner's wife and discovered that she was Lannelle Bates before her marriage. We had a nice chat together while she saddled my horse. She seems quite content. I was reading the headlines in the morning paper about the nel ambassa- dor to Mexico. It sounded so interesting that I decided to read it: and I was astonished to read that the personage in the headlines was our former classmate. Betty Jean Kinsel. The President asked Virginia Williams to go along as her literary aide. Those two always were inseparable. Dear. do you know of any hair dye that doesn't leave streaks in your hair? I've been using the Sanders peroxide. but it isn't perfect. Do you suppose that could be the same Bobbie Jean Sanders that we went to school with? I was walking along the pier last month just as the ship. Eugenie. pulled out of dock. I got into conversation with one of the women. It seems they were shipping a detachment of WACS to Africa in charge of Sergeant Evelena McCormick. Juanita Thorn is drummer for that regiment. It's the same old Corsair gang. Monty Montgomery was on that Africa-bound ship also. He's on his third expedition down there at that. When I went up to New York last year. I got a ticket to the former Dr. I.Q. program. It has a new quizmaster: none other than Dr. B.B. Garrett. he's quite famous on that network by the way. The children were telling me all about the tightrope walker in the cir- cus they went to last week. I do believe it's the same Gene Hungerford who always loved to run and walk so much. They also saw Riely Allen, the famous lion-tamer-

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Our Ladies' Club takes up as its subject next week. 'America's Money Making Mints'. The pamphlets and material from the Philadelphia mint Cale with the signature of Zagnona Richardson. She always was good at handling money. Where do you buy your husband's shirts? The Cliff McTee Company of Illinois certainly design beautiful plaid shirts. My son and husband are simply crazy about them and I must say they're quite eye-catching. What do your children do for recreation? I had quite a problem until and understanding woman established a Teen-Age center in town. It's the Edna Kilgo Center. She has an able assistant in Wilva Jean Thompson. The Toni advertisements these days are surely attractive. but I sup- pose you haven't seen them. Those redhaired twins are very Ph0C096DiC- Their names are Ann and Nan McCormick and they are real Southern beauties. I haven't heard much from Cecelia Waschman since Senior year. However. I have gotten around enough to know that she's happily married in spite of all her children. She had triplets and a set of twins. you know. Betty Jo Lunday and Ruby Quiram now own and edit the Life Magazine. It featured an article on the life of a model last month. The model chosen for the feature story was Joyce Marcell. My youngsters began their education in a New York Grammar School. Their first grade teacher was James Freeman and he seems to have given them a good start . Cathy was entered in this year's Chicago Teen-age Beauty Contest and was placed second. I tried to converse with the judges before the show. but the only one who showed me any courtesy was Joe Price. the same one who was in Senior homeroom way back in 1950. by the way. Helen Walker and Frances Plagens are quite chummy now since they both married the two strong men in the circus. They have a darling. two-family bungalow just outside Coney Island. They recently published some new notes on atomic enerqy by Dr. Lloyd Wilson. Phyliss Glenn is his chief assistant and she is quite a brilliant scientist herself. Most of the people around the vicinity of Spiro. Oklahoma. get quite a laugh out of the cute Hermits' Lodge on Lookout Mountain. It is run by Pat Phillips and features solitude! I listen to the commentator. Mr. Bill Robertson, almost every night that I can. He always has some interesting comments on almost every subject. Cathy still entertains the idea of attending Baylor. I suppose I should write the Dean of Women. Janice Wyatt, and ask for information. That seems to be just about all of the news, dear. Don't neglect to vote in the Presidential election coming up in a couple of weeks. Bob Edd Shotwell is the favored Democratic Candidate and is expected to carry the nation by a landslide. I intend to cast my vote for him. Your friend and classmate. Betty