Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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Page 23 MOMENCE HIGH SCHOOL 21—A green apple day will attract the doctors your way.

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MOMENCE HIGH SCHOOL Page 22 Junior Class Roll and Officers President. Vice President Treasurer Historian Student Ashbrenner, Plenry Bradley, Howard Burch, Lawrence Chatfield, Ray Chatfield, Roy Cook, John Condon, John DuMontelle, Lester Evans, Frieda Hall, Marjorie Harms, Doris Hardy, Irene Hess, Roy O’Connell John Cook Ray Chatfield Henry Seavey Howard Bradley Jensen, Elizabeth Kinney, Andrew Kinney, Myron Lamport, James Mussman , Lydia O’Connell, Violet Peterson, Beulah Porter, Gertrude Price, Arthur Schaffer, Harry Seavey, Henry Tomas, Frank Younglove, Gladys Violet Council Flower—Pink Carnation Colors—Pink and White Motto: “Impossible is Un-American” 20—Love is blind. (About some things).

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Page 24 MOMENCE HIGH SCHOOL Junior Class Prophecy By HENRY W. SEAVEY. It was one evening- in the fall of the year Nineteen Hun¬ dred and Forty-three, that I sat at my desk, at the police headquarters in the small town of Pumpkin Center. The day had been a day of glory for me, for I had at last reached my highest ambition. I had just been appointed Chief of the village, blue-coated peace preservers. As I sat musing over the honor and responsibility that had just been placed upon me, the thoughts of my good old school days and companions came back to me. Had they made a success in life too? Here I was, sitting at my desk, a large, plump, jolly individual, as high and pompous looking as a child with his first pair of trousers. I opened the lower drawer of my desk and brought out my old Ouija board, which had been my pastime in the evenings while on the “force.” I prepared the Ouija board to tell me the whereabouts and doings of my old Junior classmates. “Now Ouija,” I said, “tell me where Violet O’Connell, the president of my Junior class, now resides.” The Ouija hesitated and then moved and spelled out “Cuba.” “And what is her occupation?” I asked with increasing interest. Ouija responded quickly by spelling out “Wife.” I began to be very interested and asked excitingly, “And who is her husband?” And Ouija started with “G” and hesitated, and then slid clear across the board. The action was done repeatingly without satisfactory results. Well, I gave up trying to find out who was the lucky man and asked Ouija about the rest of my schoolmates, and was rewarded with fine results. I discovered that John Cook had furnished the American and Allied troops with army beans from his Indiana bean plantation, and helped defeat the Kaiser. The Ouija also told me that Roy Chatfield had made him¬ self rich by manufacturing “smokless” powder puffs. Les¬ ter DuMontelle is a famous chef in the large Price Hotel on Broadway, run by Arthur Price. Irene Hardy had become editor of the “Woman’s Home Companion.” Doris Harms is singing rag-time music in a five and ten cent store. Howard Bradley is traveling salesman selling “patented collapsible wheelbases” for Fords. The Kinney Bros, were running a southern plan¬ tation, raising seedless pretzels. Burch is leading man in “The Follies of 1944.” Frieda Evans is married and is making another life more brilliant and happy. Harry Shaffer is floor-walker in the Boston Store, and Edward Bydalek is also a “floor-walker” in his little home in Cal¬ ifornia, but he “floor-walks” at night. Elizabeth Jensen is champion woman auto racer. Verne Cantway is making “big money” by selling boat loads of gum drops to the Eskimos in Iceland, who are working in Ray Chatfield’s large whale oil refining plant. Gladys Younglove is teaching the dance fiends how to dance the “Chocolate Drop,” the new dance craze. Gertrude Porter was the authoress of “Love’s Flavor Lost.” Beulah Peterson and Lydia Mussmann were Red Cross nurses, and Vera Burns became an aviatrix, while Frank Tomas be¬ came a talented music teacher. “Now Ouija, I know the 22—Success has been introduced to but very few men.