Metropolis High School - Illohmet Yearbook (Metropolis, IL)

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CLASS PROPHECY (Continued from page twenty-four) Ruby Brugger is the World’s top speed shorthand writer. Until just recently Merrell Hood was private secretary to the President of the Bell Telephone Company. Last month she married her boss. Edward Verbarg and Robert Hodge are Ilinois’ leading agriculturists. Warren Main is the science instructor at the University of Alabama. Mac Mann is a “Fuller Brush Man”. Walter Schmidt and John Jessing are salesmen for the International Harvester Company. Doris Roberts is the proud mother of two sets of quintuplets. Carol Sabel is the head nurse of the famous babies. Ruth Mitchell and Reba Fern Dunn are co-writers of “Form Your Figure”. Pauline Seibold is the authoress of “Through the Looking Glass” of the Chicago Tribune. Geraldine Leukering has translated “Gone With the Wind” into Latin to add zest to future Latin classes. Frances Bremer’s name has recently been added to The Blue Book for scientific reasons. Dorothy Busclaus, Jean Barbour, Elva DeJarnett and Katherine Baccus are secretaries in the government office at Washington. Robert Graman is an orchestra leader who is now playing at the Empire Room in the Palmer House, Chicago. Mary Park is the proprietrix of a Beauty salon in New York City. Mary Inman is one of her hair dressers. Kenneth Wilcox is a sports announcer sponsored by Kentucky Club Tobacco. Kathryn Pope is a woman Evangelist now touring the country. Ruby Hillebrand is the proprietrix of an exclusive antique shop in Philadelphia. Aline Hunerkoch and Mabel Copley run “A Little Gypsy Tea Room” in Boston. John Bill Estes and LaVerne Elam are co- partners in the Estes and Elam Law Firm of New York. Dale Baker plays the piccolo in the New York Phil-Harmonic Orchestra Charles Girtman is now President of the Pan-American Air Ways. Rachel Reams is playing the title role of “Josette” in Lettie Mathis’ play of the same name. Robert Elliott has succeeded Dorothy Dix in the “Advice to the Lovelorn Department”. Page 25 OCWjjsO'

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CLASS PROPHECY Metropolis, 111., June 6, 1950. The 1938 class of Metropolis Community High School held a class reunion yesterday at the Parkside Hotel, Metropolis. Many noted and outstanding men and women were members of this class, as well as many unknown and insignificant. Reporter. Bettylee Brown. Mary Hotter is now an air stewardess and has just made the around the world non-stop flight on the famous Pan-American liner. Corlis Davis, better known as “Corlis Corlis”, is America’s leading dress designer. Norval Evans has proven to the world that there’s no such thing as love, in his popular novel, “Hearts Away”. Ruth Adams and Ruth Swinford are joint-owners of Chicago’s leading night club—“Club Parezian”. The dance team now featured at the “Club Parezian” are none other than our own James Park and Edna Foreman. Mary Bernice Parmley has a very exclusive school for children at Boston. Kathryn Albright is the world’s outstanding authority on bridge. Frances Jean Lasley is the owner of ■'“Lasley’s Lucious Peanuts”, world-wide in their fame. Mary Helm, Sue Moreland and Evelyn Garrett are mannequins whose pictures appear frequently on current magazine covers. Dorothy Helen has brought fame to the name of Van Hooser by her ability to transform “Baffled Brunetts to Beautiful Blondes”. If there are any young men having perplexing problems with the opposite sex, consult Charles Gross, authority on women. Blaine Kennedy is the youngest member of Metropolitan Opera. Don Trieglaff is assistant to the President of the United States. Hope Moseley is the leader of the “Be Kind to Animals” Humanitarian Movement. Eugene Nave “Fields” has been awarded the Pulitzer Literature Prize for 1950. Lorraine Buldtman, Valora Bess, and Thelma Carson are featured dancers in the “Follies of 1950”. Ben Thane and Mary Kathryn Shelton have won great fames with their adagio numbers. Jane Teague deserves the credit for molding the beautiful figures of Hollywood. Virgil Riepe has just made a startling discovery—that air is unnecessary to mankind. For further details see the June issue of the “Scientific American”. Deloris Hotter and Mildred Hohman are now making personal visits to Home Economic classes in leading high schools. Beatrice Harrison has taken the place of Jean Harlow as America’s number one glamour girl. Kathryn Goheen is publicity manager for Miss Harrison. June Simpson is the wife of the President of the United States—the brains behind our government. (Continued on page twenty-five) Page 24

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THE JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS President ------------------------------------------ Mary Alice Rush Vice-President ---------------------------------------- Jack Barfield Secretary ------------------------------------------------ Jack Kidd Treasurer----------------------------------------------Guy E. Baker Sponsor---------------------------------------------- Miss Ora Rush Reporter ---------------------------------------- Billy Wetherington FIRST ROW: Guy E. Baker, Virginia Marberry, Elizabeth Dyer, Geneva Baynes, Frances Williams, Doris Schneider, Virginia Fulkerson, Carl Williams, August Moorman, Virgil Smith, Jack Kidd, Miss Ora Rush, sponsor. SECOND ROW: Verna Pitt, Virginia Lindsey, Elizabeth Huss, Velma Pitt. Vitrue Hayden, Marie Owens, Virginia Woodward, Margaret Williams, Mildred Bohannon, Gerldine McClusky, Opal Henson, Mary Alice Rush. THIRD ROW: Harry H. Humma, Harvey Wilfred, Wilma Mescher. Delores Alliston, Mary McDaniels, Lucille Hood, Margaret Taylor, Dorothy Hutchinson, Evelyn Hill, John Aikens, William Wetherington, Laverne Ellerbush. FOURTH ROW: Jack D. Barfield, Lavere Austin, Robert Fulkerson. Milburn Taylor, Ethel Wilson, Ida Lee Belt, Lodena Hurt, Hal E. Trovillion, Louis Strate-meyer, Ray Speckman, Harry Hurt, Norman Sherfield, Troy Mescher, George Barger. Milford Dunmier, Jack Holmes, William James, Genell Grace. We, the class of 1939, have finished another successful year of our high school career. Our Sponsors were Miss Rush, Miss Atwell, Mr. Devers and Mr. Sullivan. On the evening of May twenty-nine we took the seniors to one of the garden spots of the world to say good bye to their alma mater. We hope the evening spent on a Southern plantation will be a very bright spot among their other happy memories. We are looking forward to another very successful and enjoyable year. Page 26