Metropolis High School - Illohmet Yearbook (Metropolis, IL)

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Dixie Marbury has discovered jessamine on her Alaska estate. So far it has only one hundred uses: ninety-nine are unknown, the other she won’t tell. Wilma Mescher is a talent scout for a hospital, better known as a professional hit-and-run driver. Geraldine McClusky, “Mistress of Modern Satire,” is in solitary confinement after writing her masterpiece on “society.” Velma Pitt has joined the navy—a boy-friend in every port! Arthur Pullen has intentionally fed chalk to his children. In classes at school they noiselessly spit their words on the blackboard. Mary Alyce Rush is busy these days as understudy for Minnie Mouse, Mae West, Shirley Temple and Ethel Wilson. Norman Sherfield flew around the world in reverse. Was he surprised when he backed in home! Virgil Smith, after twenty years of professional bull-fighting, has decided he is well prepared for home life. Ray Speckman and Harvey Wilfred crossed a chicken and a concrete mixer. Cohossal outcome—they now have a hen that will lay corner stones. Rex Speckman, a none-too-successful teacher for a class of “How to Laugh in Ten Easy Lessons , is recupeiating liom a giggling breakdown. Frances and Margaret Williams have incorporated and are now pio-ducing soundless horns, to use in hospital wards. Carl Williams has replaced Donald Duck in the hearts of millions. Mary McDaniel has achieved fame in Australia as the only glamour girl among the jungle savages. Troy Mescher is mathematics instructor at Yale, but finds time to collect china dolls. Lodena Hurt, agent for John L. Lewis, is organizing a union of American old maids. Lorene Wharton, sponsors educational programs for anemic canaries. Elizabeth Huss is bedside nurse of a famous megician, who has made her indefinitely invisible. Dorothy Hutchinson is quartered in the South with the Wringer Brothers Circus, which employs her husband as a knife thrower.

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CLASS PROPHECT June 1, 1959. After months of painstaking research, biographers have traced the careers of the members of the Class of 1939 of Metripolis Community High School. Delores Alliston invented a beauty aid to help distracted girls: a warm cream to melt an icy stare. Laveve Austin, prize-fighter, states he owes his strength to his music teacher, Marie Owens. For hours he has sung while she thew the songs back for him to catch, thus developing his arm muscles. Guy Baker and Billy Wetherington have crossed a turtle with an automobile. The result is “slow-traffic” through which they speed. “Uncanny!”, said newspaners when Big League Player, Jack Barfield threw a baseball across the Atlantic. But we knew him when! John Aikens surprised the world in a record-breaking pole vault jump without the pole. George Barger is a criminal lawyer and right-hand man of Louie Stratemeyer, Public Boogie Man Number One. Ida Lee Belt, New York’s “Torchy Blane,” surely was surprised when all the clues of a sensational murder pointed to her. Mildred Bohannon is teaching hopeful secretaries the proper technique for sitting on a boss’ lap. Lady Van Custard, formerly Ruth Broadway, says she will honor the States with a visit in early spring. Charles Campbell, dietician, says one thing he detests is soup. Iris Dassing is perfecting a new version of the Tango called the “Tangle.” Elizabeth Dyer was recently chosen “Miss Rural Housewife.” Ilal Trovillion has introduced a blank newspaper to aid sightless readers. His most ardent fan is Laverne Ellerbush. Opal Henson is proprietress of the Hence Inn. Their special dish is snake steaks. Jack Holmes, after years of research, has come to the decision that the earth is not the earth at all, but a huge rubber ball that the man in the moon bounces around. Lucille Hood is a social worker in China, trying to collect a set of Haviland. Harry Humma, a successful druggist, has turned his attention from druirs to learning the rumba, which he says gives him “inspiration.” His teacher, Virginia Woodward, says he is a most “trying” pupil. Harry Hurt gives advice to the love-lorn on the air every Thursday evening. Bill James has introduced air-conditioned seats to all high schools in Illinois, in remembrance of his own high school days. Jack Kidd, movie idol of thousands of women, is suffering from amnesia. His condition has always been serious. Virginia Lindsey danced her way to fame and fortune. She tapped cn the Empire State Building (Fame!) and the Honorable Mayor, Vance Moye's, allotted §10,000 (Fortune!!) to her estate for the publicity she gave New York. Virginia Marberry, chambermaid in a Tenth Avenue hotel, has invented a new mop, “no stoop, no squat, no squint.” Now she works on Paik Avenue. 1939 Th

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memorial ALICE: RUTH FICK Class of 1940 DEBOIS RUTLEDCE Class of 1939 CLYDE CARVEL Class of 1939 IQ39 The lllohmet