Metropolis High School - Illohmet Yearbook (Metropolis, IL)

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Billie Yost has also gone in for pictures. She has made the movie fans forget there ever was a Mae West. Herman Wiedeman now goes under the name of Dr. Wiedeman. He is a noted chiropracter and surely knows how to use his hands. For some unknown reason I have found that most of his patients are of the weaker sex. Helen Woodard also has the handle Dr. attached to her name, but along a different line. She is a dentist, and her office is in Philadelphia. Velda Jessing has turned out to be quite a literary figure, having already written seven books. She also writes articles for Cosmopolitan and Reader’s Digest. Mildred Wilson is a buyer for Marshall Field and Company in Chicago. Carolyn Wiseman is an afficiency expert for Armour and Co. Lorraine Johnson is a columnist on the Kansas City Times. Alice Wiedeman is conducting a scries of cooking schools in various parts of the country. Lorene Wilcox is a society editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Helen Batson is a great sculptress, she has given Metropolis many of her greatest works. The above report is true to the best of my knowledge, and I hope I have fully carried out your request. Sincerely yours, ALVIN OAKES, Private Investigator.

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One of the greatest engineers now living is a graduate of M. C. H. S. and a member of the class of 34—Reid Arrison. His greatest achievement was the building of the Buffalo Rock Dam, the largest of its kind in the world. Clyde Russell is a spy in the U. S. secret service. She is now in Japan. Helen Gillespie has taken up dentistry. She boasts of being the only woman dentist in San Francisco. James Matthews is ambassador for the U. S. to Greece, while Elvis Searles is ambassador to France. Otis Teckenbrock is dean of agriculture at the University of Illinois. Hilda Bess is head operator of the Bell Telephone office in Atlanta, Georgia. Esther Bremer is head waitress in the Crill room of the Hotel Chicsa in Memphis. Cornelius Buddenbaum is running a poultry farm north of Metropolis in dear old Massac County. Modena Smith is working as a stenographer for a large firm in Evansville, Ind. Grace Trampe is on a prolonged trip abroad with a class of Ancient History students. James Crain is a high pressure salesman for the Akron Rubber Company. James can sell anything, including himself. Alberta Fullmer is teaching sociology in Brookport High School. Ruth Bremer is a lawyer in Reno. She specializes in divorces. Charles Cagle is postmaster of the Choate Post Office. Edith Dunn has done her duty for the good old U. S. A. She is working with the Red Cross in the plague stricken area in Africa. George Estes is a technician for the largest pipe organ builders in the county. His job is to assemble these mammoth instruments. Aline Gandy is the proprietress of a beauty salon in Columbus, Ohio. Ralph Green is minister of the Rockefeller church in New York City. Hazel Hedden is court reporter in the federal court at East St. Louis. Dorothy Main is a new sensation for the radio fans. She sings with “Ace Paust’s orchestra. “Ace” is also a member of the class of 34. Margianna Yost is an expert aeriolist in a large circus. Ruby Vaughn is a matron in the Illinois Women’s Prison at Joliet. Thelma Wallace is writing articles for the Good Housekeeping Magazine. Willie Lee Walters is a model in Paris designer’s salon. Roy Reeves, the boy who delivered papers back in 1934, is now editor of the Chicago Tribune. Gordon Ramsay and Waymond Jenkins are on his staff of reporters. June Roe is private secretary to Paul May, the big oil magnet. Paul is considered the sixth richest man in the U. S. Thelma Oliver is selling candy in a downtown department store in St. Louis. Luster Leukering is driving a yellow cab in Detroit. Since he has been on the force he has wrecked 17 cabs. For this reason he has been given the name of “Yellow Devil.” H. A. Evans has been appointed to one of the highest offices in this country and is the youngest man in history to serve in this office, that of U. S. Supreme Court Justice. George Rogers is an electrical engineer for NBC. Henrietta Riepe is one of the few woman lawyers in the state of Illinois. Ruth Ruggles is teaching school in Georgia. She has a quiet little school of about 14 pupils about 50 miles out of Atlanta. Helen Harper is living a quiet married life in her old home town. Her son, Loren Jr., is now attending Helen’s Almamater, M. C. H. S. Rose Wilma Black recently got a divorce from a well known aircraft designer and is planning a trip to the Orient. Mary Rose is teaching English in Brookport High School. Hescal Sleeter is a challenger for the feather weight boxing crown. His next bout will be sometime this coming July. Mary Ellen Gurley is living the life of an old maid with her cat and dog. She has never left her old home town. Loren Kirkpatrick is manager of the upper Kroger store in Metropolis. Wilburn Morris, the boy from Mermet, has recently been elected mayor of that fair city. Marie Markus is teaching Home Ec., in Round Knob district High School. James Fitzpatrick has been chosen one of the ten swimmers to represent the U. S. in the 1950 Olympics. Marshall “Wrecker” Inman is a demonstrator for the Ford Motor Company. He gets his middle name from his experiencew ith fords. If a car can be torn up “Wrecker” can do it.

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4 Junior Class The Junior Class of 35 consisting of forty-eight members met at the beginning of the school year and elected the following officers: Lillian Lukens, President, Alice Morrow, Vice President: and Charles Zettler, secretary and treasurer. The outstanding events of the year were the Junior-Senior Reception and the class play, “Loose Ankles.” The class adequately financed its activities through concessions at the basket ball and football games, by sponsoring a picture show, serving luncheons at the County Teachers’ Institute, selling magic slates, and through ticket receipts of the play. JUNIOR CLASS MEMBERS Alice Ashley Loren James Gladys Benjamin Houston Jones Jesse Carter Elmo Karraker John Clark Francis Kidd John Collard Loyd Lambert Maxine Collie Irene Lowery Stewart Cooper Lillian Lukens Arnold DeJarnett Escol Mathis William Dunmier Lena Moll Helen Evers Peggy Morgan Louis Flanagan Alice Morrow Hazel Flanagan Harry McDaniel Barbar Frazee Fern Niekamp Elaine Golightly Paul Ragsdale Elsie Graman Joe Simmons Sam Gurley Loyd Scott Clyde Hankins Velma Steele Edward Haynes Vernon Steele Mary A. Hardy Goldie Wallace Mary Harper James Walters Davis C. Heath Otis Waters John Housman La Vere Wiedeman Carlton Hunnerkoch Frank Wilson Imogene Hille Charles Zettler Page Seventeen