Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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PROPHECY I pushed my way to the Airport lunchroom where I bought a local paper and had a cup of coffee. My waitress was Evelyn Bryan. The headlines read Alderman Charles Thompson Pur- poses Curfew to Rid City of Juvenile Delinquency. I read Glenn Hess’s editorial about the Crime Snydicate In Momence and learned that Doris Bedinger was Judge of Kankakee County. Head- lines on the Society page were Delores Marucci Returns to Home Town for Benefit Perform- ance. After reading further. I found that Delores was an acrobatic dancer and the benefit was to climax a Children’s Welfare drive headed by the society leader. Sharon Lamie. I couldn't help noticing Janice Thurman's name as she was author of all twenty-six comic strips and Jim Montague's Believe It Or Go Jump In The Lake presented such interesting facts as six-hundred- and-eighty-seven butterflies were caught in the Union of South Africa last year. Barbara Ben- nett's article about Vyron Klassen, President of WMOM TV was also interesting. I finished my coffee and decided to go to the High School to see if they could help me in my research on those famed, far-flung members of the Class of '55. As I hailed a cab and on my way through the business district I noticed Turret's Turkish Baths, Forburger's Hamburger Palace. Dobbe's Donut Shop, Bisher's Bijou, Shirley McCurry's Quickie Washie, Margaret Konopacke's Photography Studio, and Walter Fieleke's Fine Foods Grocery Store. At the High School I was greeted by Betty Boomsma, the School Secretary, who showed me into principal Art Gelino's office. I told Mr. Gelino of my task of finding out the occupations of the class of '55 and as we walked over to view the Ward Memorial Gym. donated by Phyliss Ward, the department store tycoon, this is what he told me. Sandra West was operating a Travel Bureau and Alice DeYoung was living off the royalties of her invention of an extra large vacuum sweeper designed to clean alleys. Yvonne Schomer had been presented with an honorary mem- bership in the F. F. A. and had advanced to National Presidency. Gregg Gelino was coaching football at St. Pat's a rival school. Dick Demack was Momence's athletic director and Joe Sanders was coaching all four sports. I spent the evening at Barbara Buchanans High Hat watching the Adagio dance team of Joe Long and Lolita Schmidt and when I finally reached Dianne Klassen's Kozy Korner Motel at two A. M., I was pretty tired, but there were still three members of the class who had eluded my research. Would the F. B. I. be able to help me? However, success was nearer as I switched on the radio while climbing into my pajamas, and heard the Moondog, Joe Peterson's disc jockey show. My day ended blissfully when Moondog played Darlene Giasson and Marlene Simpson's recording of Take Off Your Shoes Honey If You're Going To Run Around In My Mind. This page sponsored by JENSEN'S DRUG STORE 20

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JUNIORS Hello! We are the Juniors of 55 . We entered Momence High in 1952, feeling excited yet insecure. The money we got that year we earned by working in the concession stands at foot- ball games. As Sophomores we were top sellers in the Magazine Drive; we sold football programs, had a bake sale, and also put on an amateur show. Boy, we really made a haul. Now as Juniors we started off the year by sponsoring the Home- coming parade, and as the usual custom we put on the all-school dances, starting with the Armistice dance then the Christmas, and Valentine dance and finally the Junior Senior Banquet and Prom. Our advisors this year were Miss. Coontz, Mrs. Peterson, and Mr. Lister. Our elected officers were Ann Linn, President; Vuryl Klassen, Vice President; Elizabeth Borggen, Secretary; and Betty Denton, Treasurer. First row; Richard Denton, Elizabeth Borggren, Marjorie Claussen, Peter Brouillette. Second row; Russell Clifton, Carol Dravo, Kay Fite, Elsie Cable, Barbara Blanke, Gene Garner. Third row; Betty Denton, Donald Baechler, Joyce Dionne, Patricia Barnes, Janice Cromwell. Back row: Lee Ellsworth. Roger Bennett, Craig Bishir, Gilbert Eckhoff, Hilton Brown. This page sponsored by DENTON'S NEWS STAND 22