Metropolis High School - Illohmet Yearbook (Metropolis, IL)

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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.

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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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