Marissa High School - Yearbook (Marissa, IL)

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u Baker and Pauline Krizo of Hollywood. Pauline was now a noted movie star and playing with the Famous Dickey Film Corporation, Arabella was her manager and Winifred her personal maid. Pauline told me she had been home last summer and that Marissa had grown to be one of the leading cities of Southern Illinois, Sparta now being a suburb of Marissa. Our home town boom was brought about by the wealth obtained from oil and gas wells. Lewis Lee, so she informed me, was editor of the Marissa High Lights , and a confirmed bachelor still wearing a black derby. Gordon Raney was running a chain store for the White and Albers Company. Doris Crisler was teaching ia the public school. The County Seat had been moved to Marissa and Milton Hill was County Attorney and Vernon Anderson mayor of the city. Luella Browning was campaign manager for Edith Baker, who was running for Governor of Illinois in the fall elec- tion. After lunch we touched a button on the wall which turned on a television prof gram which was very good. We recognized one of the chorus girls as Vivian Anglin and Erwin Stahlman as orchestra leader. We arrived in Miami about dusk, Mrs. Glenn, Virginia Patton, and Dorthea Kunze met us. We hopped into their aero-shoots and were soon at the Hotel Vollert. On our way we passed the airfcop Marion McGill. We spent a week in Miami en' joying the sports of the season and many were the interesting things which we saw. Cn Sunday I attended the First U. P. Church and found Jean Walker Super- intendent of the Primary Department, which I visited. She had a large enrollment and seemed to be doing a very great work. From Jean I learned that Gilbert McKinley who lived in Shreveport, Louisiana, had bought out Henderson of Radio fame and owner of a large pecan orchard. The nuts were as large as apples and picked by electricity. I decided I would visit him on my way home to New York. I left Miaini in the next few days after having had a lovely time there with old friends. Upon arriving at Gilbert's estate I found Kenneth Scott living with him as his business managerg Arah Bush was Kenneth's private secretary. An orange grove was near there owned by Mr. Smith husband of the former Inez Forsythe. A bayou ran through the grove and when the water was high and the trees loaded with oranges, the limbs drooped into the water and oysters clung to them. Marion Weshinskey was there, among the many workers, loading them into boats to be shipped to New Orleans. After a pleasant two days' visit at Gilbert's estate, I returned in my airplane to New York where I resumed my former duties, having had a wonderful and profitable trip. W -FRANCES VARNS. l 27 l

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fp pynus SUN AND SHADE Senior Class Prophecy This is an age ot' great achievements, so for the class of nineteenfthirty, we prophecy great things due credit is given our ahle instructors and our school taeilif ties of the past tour years, for the unusual attainments ot this class. As l was sitting in my otliice in the Bell Telephone Building of New York City the postfman, Mr. Harold Wmilti, hrought me a letter dated january 40, 1940. M1's. Ruth Glenn, formerly Ruth Halemeyer wished me to visit her in Miami, Florida, and attend the Golf Tournament in which many of our classmates of nineteen thirty were to take part. Her hushand, Mike, was a famous golf champion and also a solo' ist this favorite song, 'iAfter the Balluj. I was delighted to accept the invitation and left hy airplane the next day. Paul Heil was the pilot, Willixiiii Watshiier the mechanic, while Luther Reichert was the chef in the dining section. Un my way I telephoned to Marie Houghland, formerly Mzirie Vxfehster, of Honolulu to meet me in lvliami. The Dodge Brothers and Houghland Auto Companies had consolidated, and Mzlrie was driving for them in an endurance contest. At several stations passengers changed planes for other parts of the country. This was done with very little loss of time and without landf ing. Un one of the stops, to my surprise in came Arahella Triefenhach, Wiiiifred f2Gfj

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THE DEBATE TEAMS The Debate Teams are new organizations in the Marissa Township High School. They were only organized in january, but in the short time that they have been in existence, they have become very popular both in school and in the community. The subject for discussion, Resolved: That the Chain Store System is a Menace to American Business , which is of nationfwide interest, was well presented by the debaters, under the able direction of Mr. Thompson. In the first debate, which was with Dupo, the Affirmative Team won at home by a Zfl decision, while the Negatives lost at Dupo by a 3fO decision. The next de' bate on schedule was with New Athens, and this time the defeats and victories were reversed. The Negatives won at home by all three votes of the judges and the Aff firmatives were defeated at New Athens by a Zfl vote. The third debate was to be with Macoutah, but because that school declined to debate, the date was removed from the schedule. Marissa won third place in the County Meet which was held at Lebanon on April 18, 1930. We hope that debating will become firmly established in High School, and hope that the future teams will do as well as those of this year. 415 'T bf ,Q , an l! ' Q N - ,l f if Nl ei , ,, , , QT f illmlzo I 28 J