Luther Institute - Voyageur Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Caught With Their Hair Down

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Juniors For them the dangers of the educat1onal seas are almost charted the shore IS just beyond the honzon and the 1un1ors r1se to take the1r place at the top of the passenger 11st The senlors have reached port and so the 1dea1S and trad1t ons of Luther are 1n the hands of these SEATED LEFT TO RIGHT Neteland Young Stemhauser Prttlekau Oswald Rathman Schoenbeck Wrlke Faust Ray mondr Ranzau SECOND ROW Schxewe Patrmo Langer Otto Kruse Poschenrerter Hass Schwartz Schraudolf Zxm mermann D M Anderson Gresens Stemley THIRD ROW Holm s Rchards Hlelmeseth Churchrll Nordmeyer Roth D Anderson Shaw FIFTH ROW Hallman Wlsmer Ihde Strext Raasch SEATED LEFT TO RIGHT Zeschke Rowolt Parmley Grxmpe Krrckhuhn Pyntz Lense Schmxdt Gubxtz Gunther Flad SECOND ROW Gronberq Peters Petersen Rrtter Stelter Roehrrch Teske Stcrtz Hager Frxtz Temple Mrller THIRD ROW Denys Plate Hardtke Garbe McCutcheon Klemm Rreqel Luehrmq Schroeder Kussrath Kopprt FOURTH ROW Behnke Lembke lsensee Huckstadt Schranz Strelt Barq 1 Borowski, Behnken, Klotz, Ehlers. Schlueter. Mahlke. FOURT H ROW: Hahn. Hellman, Donisch, Matthias. Kubias. Miessler.

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501 Central Avenue Chrcago Illmoxs Iune 5 1944 Professor Melvin Hecht Buxldrng of Educatron Spnngheld Illmoxs Dear Mel So you would lxke to know what happened to the Class of 44 Well sxnce you made your last speech as presxdent of the semor class ten years ago qurte a lot has happened I drdnt know the whereabouts of the whole class so I wrote to Manon Rmne who rs rnstructrng rn physxcal educatron at Smxth College and Ruth Chavonat now workrng as a laboratory assxstant at the F I Flemer Medxcal Instxtute They were kmd enough to supply me wrth the miormatxon that I lacked Marlon wrote me that she had vrsrted the ofhces of Alderman Warren Iannusch to gather data on the class but was told by hrs prrvate secretary I-Ilxzabeth Golka that he was rn conference wrth publxsher Ray Irsch and Henry Schaefer ambassador to Flamrngo Iust as she was about to leave a Western Unron gxrl barged mto the offxce who was soon rdentrfred as Norma Mahler The letter from Ruth told about her renewal of acquarntances at a tea whxch she attended wxth Ruth Klopke chxef executwe of Sax Seventh Avenue Shop The tea was gwen by Lady Shrrley Pyntz WIIS of the French drplomat Plerre De Pau Other notables at the party were Lxllxan Moos composer of the leading popular song Danny Dear Marlon Sregerdt who has Just completed a successful tour with Frank Srnatra and the lady of the drstmgurshed grggle Florence Israel The only source of IIIIOIITIBIIOH I now had at my dxsposal was a VISII to Luther As I entered the new 100 000 book lrbrary I was surprrsed to ee Robert Brerhan mstructor rn mathematrcs who has just completed a new book entxtled Varzatrons of the Fourth Dzmensron We began to talk about the class and he revealed to me that Betty Wrechert rs now plannrng partres for Los Angeles s socxal set Iune Iannusch famed concert pramst has scheduled her next recrtal for Carnegre Hall Irma I-'hszar now has charge oi the spacrous Luther lunch room and Robert Sattler rs grvrng pre hrstory rnductron courses at the school A new course rn speech has been rntroduced and rs berng taught by Ruth Schrerber Bob was sorry that he couldnt help me any more but assured me that who 15 encouragrng all Itascans to attend Luther I opened the door of the school and began to walk toward the subway bewxldered as to what to do next I had walked no more than a half block when there appeared before me two oi our former classmates who had been drafted before compleung the senxor year Admrral Danrel Untch and General Wrlbur Egqert Upon presentmg the now much asked questlon whlch had taken on all the aspects of someth1ng that had escaped from a gallop poll I was overyoyed to fmd that they knew much about that old gang of ours They mformed me that Ruth Dxebold rs No l pm up grrl at Navy Prer Lucy Plotenhauer rs dorng radlo commercials for Sneezeless Soap products she demonstrates varxous types of sneezes caused by compet1ng brands of flake soap Laverne Tamm had enlrsted rn the W AC after graduatrng from Luther and rs a member wlth the ratmg of lst Lreutenant Lucrlle Tegeler rs manager of a Baltrmore restaurant whrch IS famous for 1ts dehczous dxshes prepared by Eltzabeth Uxdl from her reclpes tested 1n the Luther Instxtute lfrtchens and Fred Kwrrant IS domg archltectural drawmg for Roland Kurth s electrrcal apphance company They also had seen Walter Koeppen who was bulldxng a brxdge across the mouth of the Amazon They told me that New York s polrtrcal boss Gordon Hempel has hxred Robert lunge to test the crty s new fue engmes Wtth the encourge-ment recelved by the help just grven me I boarded the subway once agarn to return home A I sat there ponuermg what to do next I let that some one was star1ng at 1e back of my neck Attemptmg not to appear too obvrous I slowly turned around as f to look at the t1me on the clock I had no more than turned half way when two beammg faces looked squarely rnto my face They belonged to Darlene Voudry and Audrey Wendelrn who were lust returnmg from a day s work at the Hu'l House These two had had the good fortune of berng m contact wrth a large number of the class Among therr recent VISIIOYS were Loxs Rotermund who wrrtes a danly Advrce to the Love Lorn column and her colleague Carolme Dxehl who has yust completed a book on the psychology of men Hamet Lutz had also vrslted them before embarkrng as a mxssronary to Utop1a Wlth her was the Rev Floyd Grothman who had recently spoken on The Waywardness of Youth Today . I . . Luther would continue to surge forward as long as it had such promoters as Elbert Hoppensteadt. . s . ' ' . 1 . ' A ll . . . i . , I A I . .