Mason High School - Anchora Yearbook (Mason, MI)

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....-..-. ...,.. Anchora......... .... .. .-..... - .-. .. -. ... -. ... - .-..- .-. - .-- ,- - A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION IN 1960 Oh, Ercella, while I am waiting for that call to come through, I have something that I would like to ask you. Do you know what ever became of Helen Baldwin?f You mean to say that she writes that Love Lorn column signed uCoral Gables . Did you know that Margaret Barr is a great stage star.-You say she has coal black hair. But I thought she had auburn hair.+She dyed it once for a stage play and couldn't get it hack to its original color. Don Hadwin is a movie star. Did you see his latest picture, Field and Company. It seems he goes by his wife's former last name.-You say Ardis Brown is now a Druggists wife. Well, I am not surprised, anyone would have been able to prophesy that way back in our high school days.--Buster Bullen is funeral direcf tor in Mason. Betty Bergin is a tightfrope walker in a circus. Alvin Burgess sings cow' boy songs over the radio and Vera Ward yodels and sings on thc same program,+It'5 eight o'clock now. They'll come on WJR in thirty minutes.iNo. I don't suppose that a telephone operator has much chance to listen to the radio.-Well, well, who would have ever guessed it. Glenna Childs beat Mrs. Dionne by one. And all six of them are alive! Argial Collins is an architectural landscaper if you understand what that means. -No, I understand that he designs rich people's homes, gardens, or grounds. Last night I went to have my fortune told. Guess who told it for me.fNo, not he, Mary DeRose. -I don't know whether she is a fake or not but she assuredly could tell my fortune as I wanted it told. Listen, has my call gone through to Madeline yet?-No.-Oh, Made' line is a doctor and specializes in childrens diseases. Did you know that Violet Farnum is a chorus girl. She wanted to start as a fan dancer but as you probably remember just at that time they passed a law prohibiting that type of dancing. Ellen Field is supposed to be a painless dentist. The other day I went to have one of my teeth pulled at her olhce. She nearly killed me. Where is Rowena Flagg?-In the circus? What is she doing there7fShe is the Wonder Woman and earns her living by eating ten meals a day. She always did have a pretty good appetite though you wouldn't have known it because she always was so slender. Maybe she has some secret formula for reducing.- And you say Holbert Fuller is a missionary to Africa. And Bob Sanborn is a preacher. What ever became of Betty Hamel?-He married her? I suppose you read the Good Manners column written by Helen Glynn. I never imagined she would ever write such a column.vRoy Guernsey is an airplane pilot for the old China Clipper route. He al' ways was up in the air though not in an airplane. Helen Holmes is a nun. Russell Huntington is a barber in Mason. Wasn't it wonderful when Darrell Huntington was

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elected President of the United States.-Did you know that the former Marjorie Snyder is his wife. Dermont Hanes is a detective in Scotland Yard. jean Heins is an opera singer. She offers the birds some competition. Doris Swift has a flea circus. VVe wonder where she found all her performing fleas. Charles Myers is a reporter for thc Detroit Times. He always did have a nose for news. Howard jackson is planning to run for Senator of the United States next election.fNo, not on the republican ticket as you would think but on the Townsend Old Age Pension ticket.--You say Martha Laws is Wally Simpsons maid. But I thought Douglas MacDonald was a butler therc, too.-He is? So Martha and Douglas got married and tapfdance in their spare time. Colleen Maddox is a tiger trainer. They claim she tames the wild tigers with her won' derful voice. Tom McEwen is a scientist and he found the cure for cancer after he had worked on this cure for twenty years.-Burr Potter is a traveling Fuller Brush salesman. He always did have a pretty slick line. He could sell you your false teeth as real teeth if he wanted to.-Lorna Rusch is a New York model. Oh, I saw her photograph in a toothpaste advertisement and I thought I recognized her but I couldn't quite place her. Dan Simonds is a traffic court judge in Detroit.-Duane Thurlby is a motorcycle cop.AOh, so jareld Smith has his fathers Meat Market in Mason.-He won the world's championship for the hundred yard dash! And Wesley Webb is a chef in the New York Waldorf. Phillip Williams is a tailor.-No, I'm not trying to be funny. Not Tfa-yflfofr. Frances Willis owns the Wrigley Chewing Gum factory. Now she can chew all the gum she wants to. She has someone guard the place as she is afraid she will chew up all the profits. Paul Young is a lawyer. He showed he had some talent when he defended Thomas McEwen in our Mock Court Trial. Budd Zimmer is head of the New York Symphony Orchestra. Edith Stevens is a beauty operator. They say Kenneth Bartow runs a combination dog pound and a little hot dog stand. He always was a little Scotch.-What! Howard Oesterle is a jeweler. I imagine he runs the jewelry store so that he would not lose so much on his five former wives?-And Malcolm Petty owns and runs a Dude Ranch in Wyoming. He thought probably that he never could be rich so that he might as well earn his living from rich people. And wasn't that hor' rible how janet Hemans hypnotized Lillian McKean and they haven't been able to awaken her yet. They think that she has some kind of sleeping sickness. Janet feels badly about it and has tried to remove her from her trance but all her efforts and those of other people have been unsuccessful.-Irene Huntington is an insurance saleswoman. She has always loved to talk. Now she earns her living on how much she can talk. She even sold me one policy of her Talk Them to Death insurance'-My call has comc through. Well, Goodbye and Good Luck. -Marguerite Ashfal Zn: I I 2 : : 2 : I I :.:.-.:......0.....,-.,..0. Anchoi-a.......-..-..-.