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

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BACHELORS mga n Io rs JOHNNY WESTHAUSE I'rr'.vidvnt DICK MOERSCH Vin'-l'rrxid4'11f BETTY SNEED .S'm'rrtnry MARILYN ALTENBERND Trvnxzfrm' LINA WILLIAMS Qzrvm BOB GLAESER King SHIRLEY BECK FRANK DOERR DORIS CLOONEY HARRY GEBHARDT RUTH DIETZ BILL ALTENBERND VIRGINIA WEIMANN DON MATHIS 'S CHARLENE WRIGHT RALPH RECTOR FAYE COLEMAN DONALD DULIN VIOLET KELLER HAROLD HEITZ MARLENE RICKARD ROBERT HARTMANN LAVERNE BALTZ JOHNNY SCHROETER SHIRLEY OSTER . RALPH MILLER ELLEN MUEHLHAUSER WILLIAM GEBHARDTJ DORIS ALEXANDER BOB LOHMAN As battle-scarred participants in the annual duel between ignorance and learning, the 1948-49 Junior Class of Mehlville High boasts a colorful past. Some credit for such a proud past is undoubtedly due to wise choice of spon sors and ofHcers who were willing to strive to ward perfection in class activities. This year the juniors re-elected Johnny Westhouse for his second term as president, Dick Moersch as vice-president, Betty Sneed as secretary, Mar- ilyn Altenbernd as treasurer, and Bill Alten- bernd as Council representative The sponsors of the previous year, Mr William Schmidt and Mrs Martha Freeman, were again chosen As timid Freshmen the class presented its first contribution to Mehlville social life a Val entine s Dance That year they also established the precedent of an annual spring excursion by visiting Springfield, Ill., and the reconstructed village at New Salem State Park. In 1948 the state capital at Jefferson City was visited by P1190 T'Zx't'llfj'

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Madame Suzanne Antolnette has r1sen to fame ln the world of art Her self portra1t recently sold for over S1 000 000 LaVerne Ferbet Dorothy Eckerle and Faye Wllkerson are ardent leaders 1n the Rollmg P1n Brlgade local housewlves umon Thelr present proyect IS How to Subdue Husbands It seems that an unusual preparatlon of energy burldmg foods called health perpetuator one of the 1ngred1ents belng the new vegetable sparrots developed by agrlculturlst Vernon Franke Edwln Blomker devoured thls potent combma t1on too v1gorously and consequently acqulred so much v1m and v1tal1ty that he developed a bolsterous personalltv and IS now employed by a carnlval company as barker at s1de shows Norman Rebsamens dark room experlence IS now reapmg large profits for he has become an lmportant cog 1n the Hollywood movle 1n dustry Margaret Rolfes became a llghtfoot Cand I don t mean a dancer'J Due to an un happy love aFfa1r J 1m Hendr1cks has become a vowed woman hater and to get away from It all he became a bu1lder of sky scrapers Howard Mlld IS also one of the constructlon experts H15 slogan IS We ll Bu1ld Your Home While U Walt fno wonder Mehlv1lle has grown to be such a metropollsj Mary Ellen Coffey our officlal cows tall was left wa1t1ng at the church on her weddlng day Her groom grew tlred of waltlng for her so he left She was two hours late Poor Mary Ellen' Audrey and I became so absorbed 1n devour mg the 3u1cy morsels of news reflectmg by gone days that we dldnt notlce the passlng of the afternoon hours My frlend apologxzed for her hasty departure and explamed that she had a dmner engagement wlth Rosemary Hupfeld and her forty chlldren QRosemary operates the local orphanagej As I walked casually toward my hotel that evemng, before my wonder1ng eyes appeared a large s1gn w1th brlght red neon llghts spellmg Spengel's Automatlc Shoppxng Serv1ce I found that Russell, former grocer boy for S J Hagemann, was one of the first to lnstall th1s new system Just drop the requlred number of co1ns 1n a machlne and out comes a bunch of 4 L up h ! 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sf' the classg they stopped Off at Bagnell Dam On the return home. This year as juniors the class journeyed to Hannibal, the home Of Mark Twain. Notice should be taken of the spunk of the class in general. Last spring each member of the class was given fifty cents to be invested and increased by Odd jobs during the sum- mer. The following fall, each memberls prin- cipal and interest was returned to the swelling class treasury. The purpose of all this industry BACHELORS s llI1lOl'S SHIRLEY BRANSTETTER l BOB FABRY JOAN HOECHST ROGER HOLDEN MARGUERITE HARDT A- 1 ff f CLARENCE HILL ,5 ? W EDNA NOETH ff T DELMAR DAUM T ' ,A J NANCY Moss A - JACK MEIER - I M5 QM ' DONNA SMITH RAYMOND SCHAEFER . It DIXIE HOGAN ' Wg JACK O'KEEFE TISH PORTER ,' RAY HUIGHE 5 . JANE JERASHEN' ,V ' JERRY NAVRATIL ' .', VALRIE CRIGGER ,770 BILL CARSON ANN SORG ' ROBERT REILLY THELMA BUSCH NORMAN POPOVITCH JEAN DELANEY GEORGE WEBER LAVERNE NIEMEYER CARY THOMPSON LAVERNE KAssEBAUIvI BURRELL LEE A JANICE OSIECKI was the financing of the Junior-Senior Prom, the festive Occasion when the gym and its contents was carried on a magic carpet to that legendary land Of Arabian Nights. Although the class's enrollment has de- creased from 77 to 57, the juniors of 1948-49 have been well represented in the activities Of Mehlville High School. They hopefully seek richer and brighter horizons as they approach the culmination of their high school careers. Page Tzsvnly-Um'