Milan High School - Rebus Yearbook (Milan, IN)

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?romc y Lets take a jaunt on the old magic carpet and find out what ever happened to the Class of 48 . Ah, we're off. Here's Joan Ashcraft in the wilds of Africa. Hm....it looks as if she’s studying bugs. Why there’s Junior Ammerman. What do you know, h.s first piccalo player in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Ah, now we find ourselves in a nightclub just in time for the floorshow. No, it csn't be, but it is. Judy Koenig is dancing second to the left in the chorus line. We’re going up into the clouds now, why here we are in the Empire State Building. Who’s that pitiful sight sitting among the scrub pails snd mops? Take us closer magic carpet. The scrub- woman is none other than Betty Huffman. Here we go again. My but this is a weird looking place way out here in the slums. Lets have a better look at the sign hanging over the door of this building. It reads: Friendly Funeral Parlor - Chet Nichols undertaker. Now we whirl through space and lsnd at Radio City. I wonder who we’ll find here? Say, this boy’s risen to great heights. It’s none other than Lawrence Ferringer, the most popular elevator boy. This time we have landed in the midst of a fashion show and Tootie Herbst has just been chosen as Best Dressed Woman in the World. I. J. Fox’s successor is there too. he is Est61 Barton. We now gaze on the big top of Barniim Bailey Circus. Up on the tightrope walks Ida Mae Lowes, while out in the sideshow we find Phyllis Williams as .earded lady. What’s this? Looks like a newspaper office. Why there’s Benny Benjamin sitting at a desk typing. He’s reporting society news under the bi-line of Benny Blabber. He has just finished writing something which intrests us very much, it reads: Mr. Alvin Busching, Sheik of Sad Sac Junction, has just married Doris Wiley, this is her eighth marriage. Here we also find Le Von V inters working on the same paper. He studied journalism for eight years and now writes the love- lorn column. We see that Joyce Kinkey and Bill are happily married. A Night Club has opened in town and the doorman is none other than Edward Ester. We see by the papers that Joe Webster has become head of T.W.A. Airlines.

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Now we find the magic carpet has brought us to the Chicago stockyards ;end sitting at a gigantic desk in a fabulous office we see Delver Thayer, president of the stockyards. Oh through space the magic carpet takes us and we finally see a radio station. Ralph Blanken, a disc jockey, is just changing a reoord. We now sight by which people are working. Let's have a look, Why, there's Betty Stutler and Laura Lee Muir with theih husbands. They're in Alaska paning for gold. We see another radio station. This girl with the bangs and big bow in her hair looks familiar. She's Neva Dean who has taken the place of Fannie Brice as Baby Snooks. In the next studio we see Mildred Bergman and Dolores Schneider singing hillbilly songs and playing banjos. Now we are at the summit of a monntain peak and two men are standing talking. The two mountain climbers are Jim Coyle and Wayne Caplinger, who are confirmed bachelors. Now we are taken to a courtroom. Hero we see Carol Ludeker, a rich, criminal lawyer, defending her client. We see beneath the ocean now where there is a peral diver at work. He has come up and taken off his helmet. Why its' Dave Ridenour. 2 Now we see a ceremony of some sort. There's Mr. Robert Godsey stanging, shaking hands with the president. He has just been awarded the title of Greatest Mathemetitian of the Twentieth Century. Now the magic carpet carries us back to Mj.lan. The high school is sighted. A home-ec. class is in session and the teacher is Martha Daes. She has just given her clsss a lecture in inferior decoration. Letrice Bulich, known as the neighborhood gossip is leaning over her back fence gossiping right now with Maxine Knowlton. Both of the ladies are crabby old maids. We see that Dale Francis has just won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Forever Bats. Something new has been added to Milan. It is called the Milan Junkyard. Let's go into this old shack and find out who owns the place. Why, its' Gene Kleine. Oh dear, our carpet won't fly anymore, we're stranded. Let's catch this bab. Why, look who the cabbie is, Harold Lawburghiti Home Harold I'.'. We see Bonnie Martin, head nurse at Christ Hospital arriving home by bus. We see Floyd Lattire on the street and he informs us that he is janitor at Milan High School.