Manlius High School - Mirror Devil Yearbook (Manlius, IL)

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LLHLOZ CL tin Class Officers Seared: Robert Rudiger, Student Council representative; Dorothy Engels, vice president; Eugene Wirth, secretary; Lois Sanden, president. Standing: Miss Coleman, Senior Class adviser; Donna Mae Coggins, Student Council representive. This promising class of 1949 is rather small in comparison to the other three classes. However, what it lacks in number it makes up in quality for about 30 per cent of its students are usually on the Honor Roll. Their play, “Bolts and Nuts,” was one of the largest activities of the year and we know that their prom will be equally as successful.

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Our glances moved on to two rather familiar- looking creatures lying in the shade of a tree at the far end of the park, Robert Engels and Bill Van DeVelde, owners of the Dinglev Real Estate Association. Near them we noticed two men engaged in a yo-yo contest—none other than La Verne Labahn and Dean Jensen, owners of the world’s largest yo-yo factory. As we turned to go into the pavilion we noticed some fellow telling a story to a charming young lady. We immediately recognized the fellow as “Girky” Lathrop, but who is the lady? She was giggling—sure enough—“Isy.” Those two still had their unusual sense of humor. Corky had become a very successful surgeon and Isy was the owner of the most exclusive women’s apparel shop in the Tri-Cities. Upon entering the pavilion, what should we see and hear but “Bud I lanson and his Wacky Wacketeers.” This band leader had earned the distinction of playing any piano number forward and backward. We were happy to see, however, that Bud hadn’t forgotten his fellow-classmates when he organized this nation-wide famous band, tor we noticed Bud Kirkpatrick at the saxophone and Jackie Steers playing the only accordion in the world with a built-in air compressor. After a fine musical interlude we were summoned to dinner. At the head table sat the honored guests—Stanley %Yliller, the winner of the 500-mile speedway race at Indianapolis, in a 1940 Buick! Joe Johnson and Warren Taylor, co-managers of the Tri-City Red Devils', the greatest pro-basketball team in the nation; Gene Haftz and Keith Olson, the largest stock-holders in the John Deere Implement Company; and such music celebrities as Rose-Mary Gomion, Metropolitan Opera star; and Bernice Thompson and Rita Jensen, the only two women, to say nothing of the fact that they were the only drummers, ever to reach the position equivalent to what they had attained—co-conductors of the 250-piccc New Bedford Philharmonic Orchestra. Yes, the Homecoming Banquet, with its speeches from all these fine celebrities, ended all too quickly, for soon we found our Jet Special ready to take us back to our work. But it was with a light heart that we left for we realized that only the renowned Class of ’48 could find such success! 23

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Grant Hcuer Norma Wilkinson Eugene Wirth Robert Rudiger Dorothy Engels Dean Hapner Robert Nelson ■4 I )orothv Yandermoon N Roger Hubbard Lois Sanden LcRov Wirth ’cra Schuneman Donna Mae Coggins