Metropolis High School - Illohmet Yearbook (Metropolis, IL)

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THE 1942 ILLOHMET SENIORS IN 1952 By Delores Lynn The Adkins and Bremer Webuildem Factory is manufacturing on a large scale E-Z-Studee machines to study for high school students, so they can sleep all the time. It does everything from solving algebra equations to taking shorthand dictation. Miss Pearline Thomas has opened a delicatessen shop, with Jimmy Armstrong and Harry Edwards sampling all food before it is sold. William Buchanan has opened a nationwide chain of Kill or Kure Drug stores. Herbert Teckenbrock manages the Metropolis store. Charles “Pulverizer” Dyer, Passemall College, Grand Canyon, Colorado, has been chosen water boy for the All American Football Team. As a reward he has received a gold water bucket. All the girls think he’s darling. Miss Gloria Fitchpatrick and Miss Jacqueline Fisher are opening their new night club, “Ramble Inn”. On the opening night you will be entertained by the music of John Sleeter’s hot dance band. Some of the band members with whom you are familiar are: Billv Searles, saxophone; Henry Schmidt, trap drums; L. T. Evers, sousa-phone; William Corson, piccolo; Milton Lindsey, vocalist. They invite you to “Swing and Sway the Sleeter Way”. The floor show features the world-farr.ous Jitterbug Jeeps, Jimmy Pettiford and Sally Bull. Omar Crafton, in memory of his own school days, has installed reclining seats with air-inflated cushions in Metropolis high school so students can sleep in peace without breaking their necks. If you want a date and can’t get one for yourself, call Belt-Wiseman Date Bureau. They guarantee to get you a gal but it’s up to you to keep her. Their best customer is KeuDen Maess. But if you fail to keep your man, you can always find the welcome sign out at the “Old Maid’s Home” owned and operated by Betty Compton, Felva Cummins, Melva Wilke and Mary Brannon. They have plenty of room and are always looking for company. Dr. Patricia Goyert has just opened a hospital. Her first patient, Dale Speckman, is suffering from severe eye-strain contracted while looking at Dr. Goyert through high-powered binoculars. The Jackson boys, Fred, George, and William, have invented a new farm machine, a combination plow, combine and corn-husker, which will make work on a farm simple and very easy. Hooray for the Jacksons! We wish to announce the opening of the Adams Dress Shoppe, owned and operated by Miss June Adams. Miss Adeline Kotter will design the dresses and Miss Betty Howell will model them. Miss Mildred Moorman has just finished her revised edition of Gregg Shorthand. Miss Moorman believes shorthand should be made easier for students because she herself could not understand shorthand in the old edition. At the Baynes Better Business School, Miss Geneva Baynes, Proprietor, you can learn shorthand in three weeks if you live through the strain. The teachers are Laverne Stratemeyer, Business English; Betty Neicamp, Moorman Shorthand; Betty Mittendorf, Bookkeeping; and Jewell Parr, Typing. The Brides-To-Be Cooking and Sewing Club, is now under the leadership of Virginia Philips, Elaine Johnson, and Doris Hillebrand. If you want a good picture of yourself or your family go to Smith’s Studio. Wilburn guarantees a good picture of you no matter what yo look like when the picture is taken. If you can’t find anything to do, take a moonlight ride on the Rodenberg Excursion Boat. Billy is an old school mate of yours. When you need a corsage for your date call Jessing’s Florists. Bob crossed a rose with an orchid. The outcome is a beautiful rosorchid. It has a purple center surrounded b red petals.

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THE 1942 ILLOHMET Namoi Taylor, “Pal” Glee Club 2, 3, 4. Carl Wilson, “Ca! Ca!” Football 1, 2, 3, 4; Junior Stand 4; IlRhmel 4; Basketball 2, 3. Herbert Teckenbrock, “Herbie” Commerce Club 3; Latin Club 4. Margaret Wiseman, “Margie” Hi-Tri 1, 2, 3, 4; Commerce Club 3; Illohmet 4; Librarian 4; Pep Squad 4. Pearline Thomas New Columbia 1, 2, 3; Pep Squad 2, 3; News Reporter 2; Orchestra 2; Hi-Tri 4. Joanne Woodward, “Jo” Hi-Tri 1, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 2, 3, 4; “A'm st Eighteen” 3; Commerce Club 3; Pep Squad 4. Robert Trieglaff, “Trig” Basketbeall 3, 4; “Almost Eighteen” 3; Biology Club 2, 3, 4; President 4; Glee Club 3; Junior-Senior Reception Committee 3. Odell Korte Melva Wilke, “Blondie” Hi-Tri 2, 3, 4; Latin Club 2, 3, 4. Robert Willis, “Bob” Hi-Y 3, 4; Physical Education 1; “Almost Eighteen” 3; Illohmet 3, 4; Pep Squad 4. James Armstrong, “Army” Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 2; Football 2, 3, 4; “Almost Eighteen” 3; Biology Club 2, 3, 4; Commerce Club 3. Mary Brannon, “Gin” (no picture) Hi-Tri 1, 2, 3, 4; Latin Club 3, 4’ Consul 3, 4; “Almost Eighteen” 3; Pep Squad 4.

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==THE 1942 ILLOHMET-------------------------------- SENIORS IN 1952 (Continued) Doris Lauderdale and Joanne Woodward have opened a restaurant with ten per cent discount to soldiers and sailors. Virginia Curtis has just been appointed to the Supreme Court Bench, the only woman ever to sit there. Congratulations, Gina! Miss Naomi Taylor won fame and fortune for herself when she completed around the world flight. She is one of the most prominent aviatrixes in the country, so Leroy Larrison, her press agent tells us. Mary McLuckie, the great artist, has just finished a portrait of Markham’s “Man With the Hoe”. Paul Morris posed for the picture as the man, and the hoe was furnished by Richard Kennedy’s hardware store. Robert Willis has just been taken in as ap a-tner at the Du Pont Laboratory. His chief job will be to clean the slides and inspect the equipment. Good Luck Bob! Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ablett (Beulah Leukering) have just returned from Choate where Mr. Ablett has been studying music. Mrs. Ablett will assist her husband in the concert he will give May 10. Elmer Pansing and Norman Proffitt are working together as partners. Elmer owns a gas station and Norman burns a tank of gas a day in his new Tri-Motor plane the Air Falcon. Works quite well together. Those two great stars. Betty Baker and Robert Trirglaff are appearing in the film version of Delores Giffin’s new novel. They Lived Happily Ever After. The National Broadcasting Company has just employed Clyde Frothingham, a graduate of M. C. H. S. as their chief sports announcer. The Town Crier, Edited by Carl Wilson has been named one of the best papers published in Illinois. The reporters on the paper deserving honorable mention are: Ruth Hodge, Society Reporter; Alberta Moller, Gossip Editor; and Maxine Pansing, Advice to the Love Lorn and Homemaking columns. If you don’t know how to dance and would like to learn, see Mrs. Billy Cooper (Mary Alice Kidd) at her Klutchanslide Dancing Studio and she will teach you any kind of dance from the tango to the jitterbug. Maryette McDuffee has just finished her greatest work, The McDuffee Speller. Miss McDuffee has broken all international spelling records for the last two years. The first five pages are spelling rules and the next 1,600 pages are exceptions to tll6 I’ulgg It was made known today that Dr. Delores Lynn, BS, MS, PHD, MRS. finished her Dictionary of the English Language. Dr. Lynn asserts that her volume greatly simplifies grammar and spelling for those having difficulty in high school English class6s. Betty Holmes and Ruth Hilgeman have just returned from the battle front where they have been nursing wounded soldiers. Both girls think it s the most exciting work to be found. There’s a sweetheart in every Hospital. World’s Heavyweight Champion, •‘Slugger” Bill Collie will defend his title against “Dynamite” James English at Madison Square Garden the Fourth of July. Virgil “Charly-Horse” Bremer, Slugger Collie’s trainer, says the Champ is sure to hold his title but Trainer Oliver “Bone-Crusher” Russell says “Dynamite” English is a dead-ringer for the next champ. May the best man win. The world-renowned explorers, Elmer Geittmann, Vernell Baccus, and Glendall Stout, have just returned from the wilds of Joppa. They brought back with them some rare specimens that haunt this sparsely inhabited jungle, three native girls. Robert Eckenberg has just hired Anna Payne as new cook for the Greasy Spoon Cafe. Miss Payne has had much experience and can do anything from frying eggs to baking devil food cakes.