Mehlville High School - Reflector Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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enior We, the Senior Class of 1947, being about to pass out of this sphere of education, in full possession of a crammed mind, well-trained memory, and almost superhuman understanding, do make and publish these, our wills and testaments, hereby revoking and making void all former wills or promises by us at any time heretofore made, or mayhap, carelessly spoken, one to the other, as the thoughtless Wish of an idle hour. We, the Senior Class, do will: To our sponsors, Miss Evelyn McDonald and Mr. Byron Boyer, our sincere affection, our deepest reverence, our heartiest gratitude, and the whole un- limited wealth of our eternal memory. A heavy mortgage on our future in the Great Unknown beyond in an attempt as partial payment for all that they have done for us during our long years at Mehlville High School. Audrey Bauer, do will: My love for, and the good times at Mehlville to no one. To anyone who wants a swell class, wonderful teacher, and grand time, Home Ec. lll. My ability to get my English assignments thalf of the time anywayl to Iackie Kettler. Bob Cole, do will: My book entitled How to Win Friends and Influence People to Gloria Heck. My ability to drive an automobile to Jackie Kettler and Verdell Rick. To the study hall and Mrs. Polley, a drinking fountain and a cigarette lighter. Betty Belknap, do will: My passing grades to my brother, Don. All my good times in gym class to LaVerne Ferbet. My Monday morning dates with a certain fella to the cooks in the cafeteria. George Conini, do will: My typewriting ability to Philip Heitz. My job at St. Iohn School to Bob Alexander. My motor scooter to lim Klinkhardt. Patricia Bensing, do will: My shortness to Ioyce Reich. My ability to be friendly but quiet in study hall to Joe Frank. The enjoyment I received out of Mr. Schmidt's Speech and Dramatics class to Verdell Rick. Richard Eime, do will: My driving ability to Herbert Laudel. My shortness to Don Williams. My ability of getting along with Mrs. Polley to anyone who is in need of it. Ethel Bess, do will: My bottle of peroxide to Jackie Kettler to add to her own. My fish tails from Dohacks to Gloria Heck. My nimble feet on the dance floor to Don Williams. Bill Franz, do will: My empty bottles to Ray Hanbeck. All my hangovers to Byron Boyer. My best wishes to everyone at Mehl-l-ly. Mary lane Coco, do will: My friendship to all the teachers. My long nails to Mildred Schmidt. My American History book to anyone with a strong constitution. Bill Gardner, do will: My number one position in the Mouldy Four to Homer Miller. My spare tire to Gloria Heck. One seat cushion to put on her window sill to lean Delaney. Audrey Dale, do will: All my dates and good times with the basketball captain to absolutely no one. My position as cheerleader to Beverly Duckworth. My rare pajama parties to any girls who can stand them. Don Heberer, do will: All my love to Vera. My natural ability for missing school to Don Belknap. My school books for the past few years to my brothers. Betty Dudley, do will: My curly hair to any waif with straight locks. My mathematical experience to future math students. My everlasting friendship to Flossie, Dot, and lean. Leonard Hoeffner, do will: My curly hair to Ierry Navratil. My Navy experience to Don Heberer. My friendship to all the teachers of Mehlville High School. Gloria Gardner, do will: My friendship to the gang. My ability to get by in school to Mildred Schmidt. My C's in shop to Clarine Schmitz. William Keane, do will: My ability to evade Coach's paddle to loe Frank. My book reports from Sophomore English to Don Wil- liarns. My place on the boys' basketball team to Gloria Heck. Roberta Gautney, do will: My everlasting friendship with Violet Hoffman to Elmer Rolf. A box of aspirins to soothe the many headaches he had during basketball season to Coach Van Deven. Herbert Laudel, do will: My love for math to Don Bowers. My yellow tie to Mr. Boyer. The erasers in the Physics room to Martin Unger. Shirley Geitz, do will: My ability to type to Mildred Schmidt. My shyness to Gloria Heck. My friendship to Betty Rose Wright. Walter Ludwig, do will: My mechanical mind, so he can stop the water pump in the boiler room from leaking, to Pop Becker. My Chevy to anybody who has more patience than they know what to do with. My ability to go steady twith the same girll to Ra, Hanbeck. Page Sixteen

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F QTMOI' 08177, Our classroom door is closing now, And we are Seniors wise: Our class is met: our task is set: A Freshman awaits our prompt replies! He holds us with a trembling handy I have a task, begs he: I really cannot understand What X plus Y may be! He gazes with an eye so wild As from a frenzied braing He begs as might a three-year's child We Seniors to explain. Seated one day in our classroom! We were then at our Sophomore ease: Our eyes wandered idly Over pages of high degrees! We knew not what we were seeking, Nor what we were studying there But our eyes fell upon one quotation That plunged us in depths of despair. You are only a tiny atom- One wee drop in the ocean of life! lt was this that crushed all of our spirits, And filled us with darkness and strife. That poisonous declaration- That miserable, wretched line, That came from the soul of some author, And entered into our minds! Between the Sophomore and Senior, In the prime of our school career, Came the time in the life of us students That was known as our funior year. A whisper, and then a silencep You can tell by our studious eyes We were studying and working together To win some alluring prize. A sudden rush from the classrooms, A quickstep march through the hall, Through every door in the building We came at the class bel1's call! We hurried into our places: We scrambled after a chair, If you tried to pass out, we surrounded you, We seemed to be everywhere, We have all the wisdom of ages, And we never will leave it behind, But will lock it away forever, ln the storehouse of our mind. ln a school not far away, We Seniors worked-as, you know, ln the most engaging way: And we Seniors lived with no other thought But to pass on Commencement Day! 'W e were so great, and we were so straight, ln that High School o'er the way, And we worked with a zeal only Seniors feel, Did we Seniors, every day: VV ith a zeal that all the students in school Were envying us, we say. And that was the reason, ln the High School o'er the way, The Powers that Be said this class must go this season We were far too wise to stay: There was nothing more for us left to know, We must pass on Commencement Day. The students, not half so wise, of course, Were envying us every one: And that is one reason fthere may be worse, But this was the way it began!! That the Powers that Be moved with mighty force That our High School work was done! And only the big world shall praise us, And only the big world shall blame, Though we work for the joy of winning, And climb up the pathway of fame. For each in his separate calling, His separate thought must express, As he follows the gleam as he sees it To the goal that to him means success. Page Fifteen

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Violet Hoffman, do will: My everlasting friendship to the Senior girls in our club. My music box, which plays Here Comes the Bride, to Evelyn Uthoff. My best wishes to everyone at Mehlville High School. Iames Meister, do will: My suction with Mr. Gentry to Harry Overtoom. My curly hair to Ralph Miller. My place in the cafeteria line to next year's physics class. Arlene Iuergens, do will: My tallness to Dorothy Burghart. My ability to drive an automobile to loan Schierhoff, My everlasting friendship to Mary lane Coco. Merel Meister, do will: My ability to write letters to Walter Ludwig so he can write Eve and make her happy. My ability to get kicked out of classes to Ralph Miller. My large assortment of telephone numbers to Coach Van Deven. Shirley Kolb, do will: My windshield wipers of my '49 Cadillac to Donald Belknap to keep his glasses clean. My long fingernails to some poor damsel in distress. My everlasting appreciation to locker tl l ll for holding up under great strain. ferry Myers, do will: My ability to reach the high notes of the tenor parts and still sing the bass part to ferry Blumenfeld. My Dodge to anyone who has the money to keep it running. My ability to get along with teachers to Tom Klinkhardt. Virginia Krueger, do will: My love to my two pals of the last four years - Bonnie Wood-Smith and Betty Lightfoot. My sarcastic remarks and dirty looks to Gloria Heck to add to her own - to use on the boys at Mehl-Hy. My love for a certain Marine, named Schulz, to no one. Glennon Pellet, do will: My initials on desks, tables, and the walls to Don Williams. My full time job tll:45-lZ:45J in the cafeteria to Richard Wilking. My permission to have more than one ice cream cone to Richard Binden Betty Lightfoot, do will: My wonderful times with a swell fellow in the class of '45 to no one. My job as editor of the REFLECTOR to Ioe Frank. My best wishes and everlasting friendship to Elizabeth McDonald. Elmer Rolf, do will: My meal ticket to Mrs. Polley. Seven dollars and seventy-five cents to Ralph Wilke and Paul Witzel. Our good understanding and friendship in chemistry to Mr. Woods. Maxine Moore, do will: My everlasting friendship to Shirley Geitz. A pair of scissors to Mary lane Coco, so she won't knock everyone's eyes out every time she turns around. My auburn hair to Faye Coleman. Elmer Tanzberger, do will: The privilege of buying all of the gasoline my car can use to Elmer Rolf. Some of my excess knowledge that I will get next year at Westminister College to Arnold Woker, Art Voerg, and Bill Keane. My ability to ice skate to Gloria Heck. Florence Nichting, do will: My height to Ianet Popovitch. My beautiful gym suit to anyone who needs a change. My boisterous voice to Mrs. Chambers. Arthur Voerg, do will: All my women to that handsome lil foe Frank. My ability to lose ties to Mr. Boyer. To my brother, who is on his way to high school tal- though it may take him a long timel, my hard-fought- for telephone numbers. Ioan Schierhoff, do will: My love to Mehlville. My slender hips to Shirley Luick. My everlasting friendship to Arlene luergens. Ioseph Wanko, do will: My bashfulness to Don Williams. My everlasting friendship with Miss Evelyn McDonald to Bob Iennewein. My best wishes to Mr. Schmidt. Marilyn Schierhoff, do will: My friendship to the eight girls in my crowd. My red hair to Shirley Kolb. My locker 106 to a future Senior. Ralph Wilke, do will: One kind word to Gloria Heck. My one and one-fourth extra credits to Homer Miller. My ability to win friends and influence people -to the faculty of Mehlville. Clarine Schmitz, do will: My loyalty to Mehlville. My ability to run a lathe to Ethel Bess. My friendship to all at Mehlville. Paul Witzel, do will: My membership in the Mouldy Four to George Aff. My ability to get along with Mrs. Chambers to Homer Miller. My book entitled, How to Kiss ln One Easy Lesson, to Totsy Rauhut. Dorothy Stoltman, do will: My everlasting friendship to Shirley Kolb. My straight hair to Roberta Gautney. The latest gossip to that certain club of eight girls. Arnold Woker, do will, My ability to keep thin to Don Belknap and Gloria Heck. My comb to the members of the basketball team. My friendship with all the swell kids in Mehlville to no one. Evelyn Uthoff, do will: A new 1947 Buick, so he can tinker, to Walter Ludwig. My good times at Mehlville to anyone who thinks it is dull. A heating pad to keep her feet warm at night to Marilyn Schierhoff. Maurice Wood, do will: My ability to drive an automobile to Don Bowers. My ability to copy to George Aff. My suction with Mrs. Barrett to foe Frank. Dorthea Windey, do will: My biology credit to Betty Belknap who needs it for her nurse's training. My gym shoes to Florence Nichting, who wears them all the time anyway. My everlasting friendship to my high school chums. Bonnie Wood-Smith, do will: My brother, Julian, to Janet Steinmetz. All my love to a Beater of the hides. My luck of having fun always to Gloria Heck and Ray Hanbeck. Page Seventeen