Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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' ’ As ' the party sets to work on its . over it. A tall, middle-aged man, hearty meal , cresumably a a hush falls • minister — hus-- 1 band to one of the class-rises to address the party. After . speaking in slow, quiet tones for a few moments, he again take his seat. The floor is then taken by a chairman; he is not a 1 member of the class. He delivers a speech of welcome, and . then with a queer smile on his lips, he calls upon the differ- . ent members of the class to tell something of their history . for the past quarter of a century and their present standing, 1 or as much of it as they care to relate. . The details of their biographies probably would not inter- . est an outsider, but I am sure a brief sketch of each would. . Ella Demmon was called upon first. She had been nead nurse . in the Laiman Lacy Hospital in Chicago. She was in charge of . many important cases, one of them being the case in whicn she . had helped to find a cure for the cancer. She had. also attend . ed John Hecimovich after he had fallen in a thimble of hot . steel while inspecting his mills. . Andrew Schoppel was next to clasp his hands behind his back . and proudly relate his experiences. He had started his career 1 . as feeder on a butterfly ranch and had worked up until he is now owner of a large stock farm in Nebraska. . Dorothy Piske, always the good secretary, related that she . was secretary of a great movement for advanced education and . more efficient standards of living. She was advocating quali. 1 ications for elective offices and eugenics as means to these . ends. . Next to reveal his experiences in the world was Martin

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. . • PROPHECY -OF THU CLASS ' 37 . . Once again Hay is here: the grass is green; the flowers 1 are in bloom; and the birds are chirping with gayety and con- . tentmcnt. But it is not the Hay of old 1937; instead it is a . .new Hay, an even happier and more prosperous time. To be de- finite, it is Hay, 1962, and the day of the annual reunion of the Class of. ' 37 fror.1 good ol ' llerrillviile High School. The ! .place is the beautiful lawn of Paradise Park near the calm .waters of a silver lake. The surface is dotted with small . -white sailboats that .skim lightly o ' er it. About the park . are tall trees that sway gently in the cool afternoon breeze, .swaying back and forth with the same raeloncholy, quiet, and . easy swing of a huge penulur. as it slowly counts out each min- . ute., day, and year until, young boys become men and old men . -have passed on. An abundance of wild flowers speckle the green, {n large and well-cared rock gardens are f r ' esL-bloom- ’. 4ng flowers, filling the spring atmosphere with their sweet . aroma. . Under the trees in a pleasing atmosphere of fresh grass, . newly-blooming flowers, and ancient pines can be seen a gay, ! laughing party of middle aged men and women. A luncheon is . being spread on the ground by some of the women, while the . others busy themselves about, shaking ' hands, laughing, and . joking over their old ' school experiences. In time the con- . fusion and. excitement of meeting old classmates again abates, . and the party seat themselves in a large circle in the shade ’. of an enormous treb, scarred and -orn from a century of ex- posure. -

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Luebcke. Always having advocated a hotter means of handling the nation ' s milk supply, he was now director of the Safe-from Bacteria Milk Association. But things had not all been running smoothly, for he was running competition with a oheap subs- titute for milk, made from gound cracker crumbs and sulpher water. It then became Ruth Struebig ' s turn at the wheel. She was a music teacher at the Skreech Music Academy for Young Women. She had set a record on the big trombone for playing the scale in sixty- one hundredths of a second. Helen Keilman had long been private secretary to Eddie Cantor. She made the astounding reoord of disoovering the un- derlying leap feeling expressed in his jokes. Rita Krieter was the famous woman lawyer whose name had so often filled the front pages of the newspapers. Her fame had . soared from the time she had defended the Merrillvill basket- • ball team in a suit against the German Leaguers. Cora and Dora Roberts may be heard over radio station WIND every evening at seven o ' clock. They are in such de- mand that most of the stations use recoioings by them.. John Heoimovich, often called the man of iron 11 by his friends, is president of the Gary Steel Mills. He has in.ro- • duced the four-hour day and raised the minimum wage to seven . dollars per day in order to encourage a higher standard of living. Dorothy Poop next took the spotlight. She had reached the. height of her ambition when she became famous as a torch sin- . crer. A newsboy once remarked while watching a juggler peri arm., ’. . • . . ... . . ...