Marissa High School - Yearbook (Marissa, IL)

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ADVENTURES IN ST LOUIS lt ms the openmg performance of the great play Dream Gxrl The leadxng part IS played by none other than the great actress Miss Tootsie Rolle fCec1le Kalkhoffl The play Dream Girl was written by a graduate of dear old Marissa Townshxp I-hgh He graduated tn the class of 49 I-hs name is Albertmo de Varsaroso the Great Albert Varsa Hts great plays finally reached St Louis 1n the year 1959 He had a little trouble trymg to get anyone to back his great success Dream Girl but finally a few of the successful Mllhonaxres 'P jlmmle Vanderbilt Kane Plymouth F Hennrlch and Fred Mllkman Muelhauser came to his aid This play IS being gn en at the Great Amerlcan Theater which is now under the management of Mr Dickie Maxwell Leeman better known Red I-le is now marrled to his childhood sweetheart the forme Bernice Dumstorff Red s old friend Eugene Stew enson better known 1 high school days as Smoky and Ralph Schlckedanz fSCl'l1Ck, are gu mg him a little competttxon by runmng the burlesque theater down the street and comedlan Billy Zoot Reed Kenneth Kanel Also at the American we haxe the great smger L1l1 Ponds afue Myer and her accompanist Ethel Smith Lorene Lehman As we look into the audience at the American we find Mr and Mrs Aurelius Vasquez Mrs Vasquez is the former Clara Buescher also Mr and Mrs Charles Mules Cathcart and six children Mommy Loxs Owens IS havmg a tough time trying to keep all of the dartmg six ktddles quiet Sitting up in the rlght hand balcony we find Mr and Mrs Donald Lee Gegel Mr Gegel is now an Engineer and Mrs Gegel Darlene Fulton IS one of the world s best dressed women There IS to be a style show given m the famous Tea Room at the American starting june l Mr Powers Ray Kxlmanj and his famous models are to be there Two of the favorite models are Mary Stex enson and Patsy Albert At the Arena we haue none other than the great wrestler Gorgeous George acob Pflasterer I-hs opponent IS the Great Virgil Dumstorff Gorgeous George s manager is Ray Blus and V1rg1l s manager us Rudolph Sommer At the Kiel Auditorium we have the St Louls Bomers xs Phxladelphxa Warriors The Bomers first fue Donald jackson Butch Lehr Paul McNary Lester Steele and Claude Little Thus IS the ftrst year for any famous team to have ever been under the management of a woman Thus IS none other than Miss Betty jean Smn Zl ' K ,I . . . . . cn, . . . ' . . ' . ' ' , as . ' . ' , ' , g .n They are featuring this week Miss Georgia Southern fVirginia Wescoatl , ' f J- - f D ' ' - l ' ' l . . ' . ' . 1 7 U L . . . . n

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I Geraldme Delores Russell will my ability to stay shm to Marte Kane Ralph Schlck Schxckedanz hereby bequeath my taxl cab serx tce fOJ1l1'1 Canmng Mildred june Shlres vnll my vu ac1ous nature to jackxe Church Betty Sinn will my ablllty to resist fllrtnng wxth all the fellas to Betty Mclalatton We the Sinn Twuns Joanne and june will our ability of keepxng the school m a wh1rl to Gene Krebs I Rudolph Sommer do bequeath my quietness in class to Roger Schoenbeck I Lester Steel bequeath my good grades to Clara jo Church Mary Frances Stevenson do bequeath my clean language to a certain group of Sophomore glrls I Eugene Stewenson do bequeath my ab1l1ty of bemg prompt to Rxchard Singer Albert Varsa wxll my Model A rord to Dennis Sandhexnrlch Aurelius Vasquez bequeath my Chevy and all the bills to Duck Rutter I Vu-g1n1a Ann Wescoat wxll my ab1l1ty to sklp school to june Koch Eva jean Wise do bequeath my beautiful thick hair to joella White We the Senior Class of 1949 do bequeath to the junior Class our ablllty to run the school We also bequeath to the Sophomore Class our great ambltxon and good times We bequeath to the Freshmen Class our abxhty to get along with the teachers In thexr next three years of school We do bequeath to the faculty of the Marlssa Township Hugh School another class as studlous as we were Z0 Il ll ' Ol ' , I- yu 1 7 I I n ' -O 1 I . 'l V K - I I n I, - , W ' . I I . ' ' K II 1, , ' S ' I 0 . i I . . . . ' -. . , .

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Comlng to the Kiel Audttorlum followlng the basketball season vnll be the Great A1lG1rl Orchestra under the dlrectxon of the great composer V1rg11D1ecker The orchestra is to Introduce a new song written by Mr Dlecker s good friend johnny Mueller Wtth the orchestra we have the world s best women sextet mcludmg Dorothy Dennts joe Ann Emerson Vtolet Khoury Exelyn Laumbattus Betty Muller and Fern Mc Gough This sextet has recently reached the United States from a tour in Europe ask them to return to Amerxca xuth them and they would put them on the stage Thus quartet vull make their first appearance ln St Louts with the All Girl Orchestra The gtrls mcluded tn this quartet are Eva jean W1se Geraldine Russell Joanne S1nn,june Sinn Their ptanlst ts june Shlres As we leave St Louis It IS lndeed a pleasure to look back and reahze that so many from the class of 49 hate made themselx es known through out the entxre world 72 While in Europe they discovered a quartet and their accompanist and they