Luther Institute - Voyageur Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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They agreed to make a l1st of the actwxtres of some of the others Whale wattrng for th1s 11st I began to look at the placa ds on he upper wall of the coach Both nf thern gave me more matenal on my znvestrgatron One card told of the arrrval of Edgar Meyer at the Erlanger 1n the role of father rn Lrte wrrh Father another announced Don Iohns and hrs orchestra apoearmg at the Edgewater Beach Hotel and there were two advertrsrng dtstmctrve styles by Margaret Kaste and Roland Ructschl Roller skate endorsed by Mrldred Hampe and Gertrude Haupt and manufactured by Lucrlle Buettner were shown Real estate rn New Lenox was offerred by Elda Krueger To top thmgs off a course m flylng the motorless P 54 was advertrsed by Lora Bogda IL.st then I was larred by the subway wh1cl came to a sudd n h lt Darlene nd Audrey anded rre the 11st whrch they had completed and bade me farewell I rmmedxately began to study e sheet whrch looked somethmg lxke th1s Werner Schwandt Glenn Hoffmann Paul Rledel Donald Landrebe Hxldegarde Bosse Alfred Kehe Shlrley Gabel Iackson Brower Ioe Koselleck Wrlham Hardtke Audrey Noftz Lorrame Welm Angelme Kolter Annehes Creutz Eugene Sllbernagel Lours Paradles Merle Martens Carollne Gotsch Erlamae Pollex Shirley Markus Adelme Krause Karl Puder Eleanor Chavenat Ruth Knaal: Howard Vorght Lora Splrtgerber Herbert Schroeder Gerhard Iunq Fuller Brush travelrng salesman News correspondent for Nature magazme Appearmg wrth the Metropolrtan Opera Presrdent of Internatxoral News Avratrrx tBlush1ng Bosse outflymg Smxhn Iackl Makmg graphs of rare drs ase yxotmeno Amerlcan consul to New Brrtam Electromc expert rn Australra Foreman of the Norman Schalk Foundry Assrstant movre dxrector at M Q N Ongmator of new short harr style Resrgmng as a Bower s model to be marrred Tralmng wlth Marge Selbert to be a mldget Head of the natronal N O F Testmg the Thoresen Corn Husker on hrs large farm near Burlmgton Wlsconsm Star flrst baseman of the Brazil Blrds Chosen as best telephone operator Secretary to the mayor of Des Momes Operates a charm school m Hollywood Wrxter of a gossrp column Carolma Moon Currently on a lecture tour rn Russxa Revtsrng basketball rules for the U S News commentator on Statxon W B N Hosprtal head m Argentina Presldent of the Mexrcan Shrppmg Assocratlon Manages Woolworth s Alaskan offrce Ace photographer for the New York Iournal Now wrth the F BI Fred Rechtermann Head of Radio Corporatxon After I had looked at thrs paper for a few moments I drscovered that I now knew the where- abouts of all the members of the class except two I fell 1nto a state of mental angulsh as I tned to thmk of a means of fmdmg these At that moment the conductor shouted Central Avenue I arose quickly and hurrled toward the door When I reached the street my gaze fell upon two large posters pamted on the srde of an offrce bulldrng There here was the fmal lrnk rn the cham of class recollectlons For one poster dtsplayed the long flowmg harr of Ralph Schroeder sohcrtmg users for Vxtalrs and parallel to thxs a Pepsodent add dlsplaylng the IVOIISS of Marge Vogel revealed rn a broad smlle There lt IS Mel I hope that you dldnt get the lmpressron from the descnptlon of my labors that you made me a great deal of work It was a pleasure It does however prove that our class has really gone places and 1ust try to fmd them I surmlse from your request that you are makmg a survey of the results of educatron before begxnnmg your senatorral campalgn Best of luck to you Yours truly Earl R Iohnsen A n A , . I - H , A ,. .. th Warren Meyer ..................................., Authority on the life of Sam Adams

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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 . .

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