Metropolis High School - Illohmet Yearbook (Metropolis, IL)

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fftctrnpolis tCuuummitij 3 cuieu 2 rattle snake aiul a stuffed fish. These daring young men will be sprinkled with confetti by Howard Schneider of Schneider's Secret Service who will fly over the adventurers in his airplane. Mary Mescher, ltuth Mescher, Evelyn DeJarnett, Helen Hall, and Mary Virginia Davis have opened a business school for high school graduates. Helen Hall will be superintendent. Miss Prudy Sw in ford, famous artist, has added an improvement to her studio. As Miss Sw in ford paints Charles Davis plays on his cornet. Every time he hits a wrong note, the artist smears a blotch of paint. Perhaps that’s why her latest masterpiece is called “The Storm”. Jean Strubinger and John Lewis have finished their latest novel “If Someone Took the Hole, Out of the Doughnut, What Would be Left in It's Place.’' Eleanor Wilfred is the only one who has been able to solve the problem and it will probably run into a lot of dough. Mrs. Norman Steele (Melba Cummins) has opened her designing studio for business. Robert Smith of the Hudson Ray Region will hunt and trap the furs and they will be carefully hauled to Mrs. Steele’s studio by the Lippert Truck Company. Floyd Lippert will handle them personally as they are priceless. Mrs. Steele has hired Ina Lois Bohannon as a model and Miss Bohannon will journey to California next week end to model the latest fashions to the movie stars. Mrs. Louis Stratmeyer, (Charlotte Creason), Mrs. Charles Girtman, (Estelle Dhu), and Mrs. Earl Reynolds, Geneva Grandstaff) and Mrs. Robert Taylor, (Joe Ann Mathis), are showing everyone how to be modern and efficient housewives. They serve tea, play bridge, gossip, shop, spend their husbands' earnings for spring clothes, and still have the house clean, and supper ready when hubby comes home from the office. They arn’t housewives, they’re magicians. Miss Ella Mae Wemhoener has at hast received her wings. She will make her first solo flight at night with only her stewardess along. Miss Ruby Schaffer has the position as stewardess on Miss Wemhoener's private plane. She will have charge of all the hostesses when Miss Wemhoener starts her airplane corporation. Milton Helm and Billy Cooper have opened their law offices in New York. They will handle a great deal of the business of the stock brokers and wall street financiers. Henry Davis bas succeeded in raising four ears of corn on one stalk or nine on two stalks, thus promoting the idea to farmers that by raising two stalks of corn close together you can get one more ear of corn than if you planted one stalk at a time. Paul Parkins, prominent business man, handles the sale of Henry Davis’s products. The Chicago Tribune has hired Miss. Dorothy Willis as their society editor. She will cover all the gala spots to obtain the news and it is believed she will eventually offer stiff competition to Walter Winchell in reporting gossip. The Dr. Pepper Bottling Company has selected Lillian Ferguson as their Florida Correspondent. Miss Ferguson will go to Florida and supervise the sales of Dr. Pepper to all winter resorts. If you want any infoimation on how to miss school every other day for four years and still graduate with straight A's go to the Meyer Information bureau and Miss Etta Marie Meyer will tell you all about it. The prize for the best housekeeper of the year given by the Woman’s Club, was awarded to Mrs. Ruby James. A new chain of restaurants has been established in three different cities. The proprietor is June Moss. She is having the front of the restaurants painted green to represent moss and the inside will be warm and sunny to give it a June atmosphere. Miss Ruth Baker has accepted a position as bookkeeper-stenographer, and financial manager for the new tire company recently opened. It is under the supervision of the Goodrich Tire Company and Miss Baker’s father will have charge of the recapping. Flash!.....The second person to solve the riddle in the Lewis Strubinger opera, is a gent who claims he is Napoleon IX. Surprisingly enough, He is!!!!

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SENIOR PROPHECY metropolis (Community Steuino May 31, 1961 joe Ann McLaughlin, Editor Hospital Notes Misses Roselyn Barolett and Lavene Reynolds have recently been elected the most beautiful and efficient nurses in their hospital at St. Louis. The Wings That Failed Last Tuesday morning a low-winged, two-wheeled airplane piloted by Major Raymond Conley crashed into a taxi near the glove factory. Major Conley suffered a broken rib and head injuries. The plane, an invention of the Famous Alex Harrison, was being tested for the first time. Major Conley will remain the hospital for a week under the care of Grace Evans superintendent of the WPA Hospitals of this district. WPA Tragedy Yesterday morning Lee Hill, son of Rev. Othmar Hill of Eleventh and Girard Sts., suffered a broken arm and sprained ankle when the shovel on which he was leaning collapsed. He is under the care of Miss Helen Carvel, R. N. A Thick Combination Miss Peggy Wilson of Pennsylvania has returned for a visit and plans to take Miss Rosemary Ryan back with her to go into partnership in a business deal. Miss Wilson is a child specialist and while she is tending the child, Miss Ryan, a dietician, will show the mother how to diet properly. Miss Betty Fleming, prominent social welfare worker is now spending her summer vacation in Chicago's Slums trying to better the conditions there. She has made many improvements such as making them paint the coal white so the smoke will be clean and putting perfumed lids on all garbage cans. Evelyn Frink went with her as her secretary. Misses Mary Aik ins and Kathaieen Smith have recently opened their beauty salon and furnish music to every patron. Miss Majoric Swenson plays on her clarinet each time some one gets a finger wave. While the beautician is waving your hair Marjorie plays “Over The Waves’'. Agriculture has reached its heights. Robert Gillespie of the fanning Gillespies has discovered how to grow jelly beans and tobacco that gives off invisi ble smoke. Hot News A new electrical shop has just been opened under the management of Robert Anderson. Anything that cannot be solved otherwise is welded together by Louis Brooks, head welder, and Jimmy Verhines. Robert Rush has offered competition by opening a shop across the street instead of going into business with them, but then Robert always had a mind superior to that of his friends. Miss Dorothy Sturgis has accepted a position as corporation lawyer for the Lasley ten cent store corporation. Robert McClusky is employed as Advertising Manager and Evelyn Cummins is a secretary. Donald Lindsey has invented a machine that mixes, flavors, and serves ice cream sodas in one operation. Juan Louis Lackey has been appointed Assistant Commander in Chief of the Navy. He has already installed an electric potato pealer and an electric scrub brush. Amusements The American Theatre of St. Louis, Missouri, held over for the 17th consecutive week the great heart breaking, soul stiring, drama “Just Two Birds in a Guilded Cage.’' The play was written by Mary Lee Johns who has even sur passed the great Noel Coward in writing, acting in, and producing her own brain children. Not to be forgotten is the outstanding performance of Miss Paula Whitton, the “Hepburn of ’51.” These two courageous women Sacrificed marriages for a worldly career. A new skating rink will make its gala opening tomorrow night at the corner of 13th and Market street. Mr. Thomas Driver of Paducah is the proprietor, and his wife, the former Mirelyn Johnston, will give a skating exhibition each night. In the north side, which will be turned into a night club, you can hear Lyndell Shirk, the famous crooner. He will be accompanied by his wife, the former Eleanor Jean Cummins, who is now a famous concert pianist. Howard “8 Ball” Fort is now playing basketball with the Quince Tree Cu-ties. Adeline Kotter has accepted the position as his secretary to handle his fan mail. Adventure The whole town will be on the river bank tonight to greet the “Big 3” explorers who arc returning from a big game hunt in Alaska and the Argentine. They are none other than Philip Barton, Glendell Stout, and Willis Brannon. “Brogan” Barton telegraphed that they were bringing home a iattiei Rom a

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SENIOR eLAefcT HISTORY (By Dorothy Sturgis) In September 1937, as the summer drew to an end, over a hundred shy freshmen entered M. C. H. S. to begin their four-year course of hard work. They elected these officers to guide them: Ella May Wemhoener, President; Milton Helm, Vice President; Robert McClusky, Secretary; Robert Gillespie, Treasurer. In September 1938, ninety-five strong, the new sophomore class chose as their officers: Wallace Maddox, President; Robert McClusky, Vice President; George Evers, Secretary; Evelyn Frink, Treasurer; Vernon Johnson and Willis Brannon participated in football. Brannon received a trophy as outstanding player of the year. In basketball, Milton Helm and Vernon Johnson represented the class. In September 1939, they returned as Juniors under the leadership of these officers and sponsors: Ella May Wemhoener, President; Willis Brannon, Vice President; Floyd Easley, Secretary; Louis Brooks, Treasurer; Miss Ora Rush, Sponsor; Miss Bess Atwell, ssistant sponsor. “320 College Avenue”, presented in November, proved to be one of the most successful Junior plays ever given in Metropolis. The class was represented by Johnson, Steele, Brooks, and Brannon in football and Helm and Johnson in basket-mil. The Junior-Senior reception bid farewell to the seniors in a Hawaiian setting. It was an outstanding social event of the year, and one of our gayest times at M. C. H. S. In September, 1940, the Seniors began the year with the fulfillment of their four-year schedule in sight. These officers were elected: Ella May Wemhoener, President; Robert McClusky, Vice President; Louis Brooks, Secretory-Treasurer. Our able sponsor. Miss Elaine Munal, led us skillfully through the hazardous ways and by-paths of the senior year. Tne ring Committee—Ella May Wemhoener, Willis Brannon, Louis Brooks, Floyd Lasley, Milton Helm, Mary Lee Johns, Dorothy Sturgis, and Betty Fleming—selected September 18, the All-American design for the class rings. Activities and awards were numerous. In football we had Willis Brannon, Floyd Lasley, Robert Johns, and Glendell Stout; in basketball Milton Helm, Howard Fort, and Floyd Lippert. Ella May Wemhoener, class president, received the D. A. R. Citizenship award. John Lewis won the American Legion Medal for the best essay on the Illinois Constitution, and Joe Ann McLaughlin and Jean Strubinger were given honorable mention. Ina Lois Bohannon was elected M.C.H.S. queen candidate in the Regional basketball tournament. She was further honored by being chosen the queen of the :ournameiit. Betty Fleming, Mary Lee Johns, Ruth Elaine Baker, Ruby Schaeffer, Eleanor Wilfred, Hattie Baker, Jean Sturgis, and Jean Strubinger were selected as library assistants. Joe Ann McLaughlin was President of the Commerce Club, Ella May Wemhoener was President of the Hi-Tri, Billy Cooper, HI Y President, Robert McClusky Editor of the ILLOHMET yearbook, and John Lewis editor of the 1LLOHMET Newspaper. Many seniors were active in band and glee club. The Senior play, “Yes and No”, a comedy in two acts and an epilogue, proved to be entertaining and one of the best pla s ever presented at M. C. H. S. A Junior-Senior reception given by the Juniors as a farwell to the Seniors will be long remembered as a happy event of the Senior year. The Seniors gift to the school was a gray repp cyclorama curtain. May 30 came Commencement, which had been looked forward to with great anticipation but with a feeling of regret in leaving behind M. C. H. S.