Monticello High School - Memories Yearbook (Monticello, IL)

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1948 It was the year 1948. The members of the class of 1928 of Monti- cello Community High School had scattered to the four corners of the earth. One cold wintry night, I was sit'ing at home with my wife and family, thinking' of my former classmates and wondering what had been their fate, when suddenly I heard a gentle knocking on the door. Upon opening the door, a very disreputable looking person fell into the room, half frozen and dir'y beyond recognition. I realized at once that the creature was in dire need of medical aid. I radio-phoned Dr. Ray Ashton to come at once and in exactly seventeen seconds. his non energy airplane alighted on my specially cons ructed landing field on the roof of my home. Dr. Ashton at once took matters in hand. The first thing done was to clean the face of the tramp, which required several hours, since it was no doubt twenty years since the last time it had been washed. The patient slept, soundly during the entire operation. He seemed to be in a very deep sleep. Acr-ide'-tally, Dr. Ashton, during the process of cleaning, spilled a little liquid soap into the yawning charm just below the pirate nose. The figure straightened up at once, and his face lit up with a broad grin as he said in a deep voice- Give me a cigarette bo. As sure as you're born that's 'Dirty' Savage, exclaimed Dr. Ash- ton. He hasn't4 changed a bit. YVho are you? said 'Dirty' blankly. Why, I am Dr. Ray Ashton, the most noted doctor in America, and a former clasfmate of yours. You're not .......... but it was too late. He had fallen asleep again. Dr. Ashton immediately mixed up a soap bubble' cock-tail, as only Dr. Ashton can, and forced it between the 'nigger' lips. Dirty again raised up. Why you're Ray Ashton and, you, he said, pointing his finger at me, you're the guy I used to copy off of when we went to School way back in 1928. Shortly afer graduating, being disappointed in love, I decided to become a wanderer and see the world, and in these travels to the four corners I have come in contact with all my former classmates. Say I injec1ed, What ever happened to Heath Bumstead? Heath is President of Jacksonville Women's College. And Clifford Ahlrich has just discovered a serum to make canary birds sing bass. Lucille Weddle is a member of the Salvation Army in the Samoan Islands. She has been especially successful in her work with the bar- barous natives. Lois Bradham is pastry cook for the Hotel Monticello. And Kate Adams is a midget with the Barnum and Bailey Circus and her latest flame is Archie Lilly, who carries water for the elephants. Helen Catlin is a star in Stanley Slevers' new production, The Un- covered Wagon. Mary Brady and Minnie Perry are digging fossils in Arizona. Their greatest ambition is to excavate an en' ire dinosaur in one piece. Page Twenty-four

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GLASS fH15ToRu The Pioneers of '28 CHAPTER I. Early in the fall of 1924, a band of seventy-three courageous stu- dents led by Carol Foster, set out to explore the vast dark wilderness of High School life. Would our adventures net ultimate successf-or hopeless failure? It was for us to find out. Though our green-clad forms couldhbe readily detected against the brown walls of the great forest of M. C. H. S., we soon learned to ad- just ourselves to our environment. Our brilliancy in scholarship was soon self-evident, our industrious nature asserted itself when we held a bakery sale to increase the amount in our treasury. We entered so- ciety by the well-known road of a Freshman Reception. Sad to relate, however, we lost a few of our fellow-men in the semi-annual conflict with Semester Examinations, while a few others fell by the wayside- vict-ims to the arrows of Flunker's lists. CHAPTER II. In September of the following year, we set out again, this time, as befitting a group of fifty-eight Sophomores, hoping to conquer the mysterious realms of Geometry-and Caesar, of course! Under the guidance of Martin Kratz, we proceeded a goodly way on our journey, successfully evading the Flunker's List most of the time. We became quite proud of ourselves, some of our band having' attained prominence in the field of athletics. But not all of our pride was justifiable, as we discovered at the end of the semesters, much to our disappointment. Geometry, in the form of examinations, was taking its toll. But in spite of all discouragements, we struggled on, though our little group was diminishing from time to time. CHAPTER III. The fall of 1926 found forty-eight experenced pioneers entering upon their journey, with Winfield Holmes as a worthy leader. No more did we fear Semester Examinations. Our place was well estab- lished in School Activities. Our feeling of responsibility was not over- estimated. The fate of the Junior Play and the Junior-Senior Ban- quet depended on us alone, and we may say, with the correct degree of modesty, that our efforts were received laudably, and that our work was carried through to a creditable finish. Success was within our reachg our Senior year would decide whether we were to win or lose. CHAPTER IV. We, the pioneers of the Class of '28, are well on the way toward our goal. As one exemplyfying' the spirit of our class, we chose for our president this year, Heath Bumstead. The Seniors, comprising a group of forty-three members, are noted for scholastic ability and ath- ietic superiority. The Senior Circus, proclaimed by many the best ever has come and gone. We are now looking forward to the presen- tation of our class play, and, after that the end of our journey through lligh School-graduation. But the Great Adventure is yet 'vo come. Let us keep that pioneer spirit-so essential a part of the Class of '28-with us through life. Let us continue to cherish that spirit-that dauntless courage, that ability to surmount all obstacles which arise before us-as one of the priceless possessions acquired while we were students in M. C. H. S. ELOISE O. COMBES '28. Page Twenty-three

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Darrell Foster is song and dance man and is billed for next summer at the Lyric Theatre, where he will introduce his newest song, She was only a Fireman's daughter, but she sure could shovel coal. And Carol lives in Bement and is helping her husband in his never ending search for snappy sport news. Yes, and while I was passing' through Bement I heard a familiar voice falling on the otherwise soothing air. It was Mary Funk deliver- i11g a lecture from the platform of a Chautauqua tent. Catherine Hawbaker is conducting a Correspondence School. As usual she is never lacking suitors and at present Roy Brown and George Stanley are ranking first andifsecond respectively in the line of propos- als. I also heard it rumored that she had refused Stanley Strohl-? Norman Patrick and numerous others. Bess Maier is nlow starring in Fly, Fairies, Fly! She shines the fairies shoes. Winfield Holmes has just published a book of rules on, How to Elude the Fair Sex. And Martin Kratz, poor fellow. He was always a mysterious in- dividual, you remember. Well, I guess he has been solved. After a gay life in Greenwich Village, he is spending his last days in a private asylum, where he is getting the best of care. Mary Frances Lynch is the miost effective Hula Hula dancer this side of '36. Dean McCartney is salesman for a large corporation .in New York. He sells porcelain pots and pans and has a very effective line. Frances Hubbard is taking tickets at the Lyric Theatre. Ralph Harris is obese and portly and is the president of a distillery in Monticello, having risen from official tester to President. 'Virginia Hoskins is very popular in Monticello, after winning first prize in the Atlantic City Bathing Beauty Contest. She attributes her pulchritude to having worn a bathing suit from John Levin's Depart- ment Store. Marian Wheeler is an internatilonally famous astronomer, but she takes her honors calmly. She says that' she owes all her success to her habits of observing the constellations in High School. Olive Ahlrich and Agnes Brooks have developed into typical old maids with gray hair and false teeth. Walter Baker is mayor of Monticello and doing wonders in his Clean up the City Campaign. The evil of band concerts has been completely eliminated. Katherine Albert is posing for a dandruff exterminator factory, and her long flowing black tresses photograph marvelously. 'Hank' Hannah, drector of the B. A. M. movies has announced his engagement to the big beautiful blond who has played the leading part in recent productions. Evelyn Doss has aided in a new improvement on the Parker Foun- tain Pen. Page Twenty-flve