Metropolis High School - Illohmet Yearbook (Metropolis, IL)

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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

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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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SOPHOMORE CLASS OFFICERS President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Sponsor Billy Humma Alice Ruth Fick ... Patricia Barfield ---------- James Ray A. Eleanor Neuhoff FIRST ROW: Gerhard Winterfeld, Rudy Ham, James Ray, Glendall Stout, Kenneth R. Compton, Carl Mescher, Irvin Krueger, Donald Baccus, Robert T. Korte. SECOND ROW: Harvey Laird, Jack Estes, T. J. Shepard. Jasper E. Hood. Lloyd Sielbeck, Joe Zaricor, Norman Steele, Henry Davis, John Busclas, Carl Mescher, Billy J. Humma, James A. Pearce, Joe Powell, Louis Brooks, Vance Moyers, Paul Teckenbrock, Raymond Williamson, Miss Neuhoff, sponsor. THIRD ROW: Louella Stafford, Imogene Baker, Helen Wehrmeyer. Catherine Main, June Beckman, Dorothy Wilkins, Mary V. Barfield, Alice R. Fick, Catherine Miller, Helen Mitchell, Calista Starkes, Evelyn Cummins, Hattie F. Baker, William Jerdon, Charles Bolton. FOURTH ROW: Millissia Estes, Betty Lou Ridenhower, Anna L. Oakes. Catherine Fiorentini, Pat Barfield, Inez Golightly, Mary Leukering, Doris M. Wilcox, Dorothy H. Castleman, June Harrington, June Bolden, Lillian Mann, Wilma Sanders, Maurice Kidd, William Parmley. FIFTH ROW: Aline King, Clai'a Watwood, Jesse Gullion, Virginia Croach, Alice B. Cagle, Virginia Gray, Mary L. Toler, Russel Simpson, Harry Anderson, James Haley, Robert J. Smith, Alvin Bess, Clarence Yates, Howard Alliston. The Class of 1940 entered Metropolis Community High School on September 1, 1938. happy and proud to have advanced from a “green freshman” to a “sHly sophomore”. We had an enjoyable social life under the guidance of Miss Neuhoff. The highlights of the year being the class show and party. Pertaining to athletic achievements we accomplished much on the football field and basket ball floor. One of our class, James Ray, received a letter for football while many others obtained valuable experience. Two of our number, James Ray and Jimmie Pearce, were on the basket ball squad. The scholastic status was upheld for the Sophomore had the largest number on the honor roll. We re looking forward to next year with great anticipation and hope to accomplish many worthwhile things. Page 27