Morrisonville High School - Crest Yearbook (Morrisonville, IL)

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Violet Ruth Ryan has a studio in New York City where she designs fashlons for JHDIOTS She has recelved consid erable notice for her work w1th unusual color COmb1D8tiODS Dale Patr1ck Whalen and JoAnn have a D106 l1ttle home over in Dixle Dan and John were good sports about wishing them luck and happiness, and we believe they have it Merle Waddle recently enlarged his bracelet and trinket m8Huf8CtuT1Dg bus1ness and took Eugene Sallsbury 1D as a partner They received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for artistic Jewelry designs thls spr1ng, and we wish to con gratulate them Dale Dey is keep1ng up the family tradition in the cleaning and dyeing business Marjorie McK1nnie is h1s bookkeeper, and we understand she handles very large f1g ures, now that Dale has enlarged the plant Alice Stahr and her husband we don't know h1s name have opened a new dine and dance place in Clarksdale wish them all the success in the world Donald Mcward is a professor of agronomy and physics Clark Unlversity near Boston He has quite a crush secretary, we hear, and don't be surprised any day you about wedding bells Dorothy Coy Wells is enjoylng keeping house, but she h1S hear does admit she gets a little tlT8d of cooking meals for all the wells boys every day They seem comfortable and happy, and Wllbur, Jr 18 the l1v1ng image of his Uncle Donald Norma Klimm is playing the drums with Splke Jones' City Slickers Didn't you hear that extra lick she got in during the radio broadcast last Sunday night? That's a special code she has with her latest heart throb' Cecil Huddleston is coaching basketball players down in New had quite a successful season, plans to stay here for a while to spend w1th Nita, his secret a team of professional Orleans He says they've and now that it's over, he in order to have some time passion of h1gh school days She's currently on vacation from her duties as chief sur gical nurse at M1chael Reese Hospltal in Chicago Doris Lamb couldn't stay away from her chlckens long, so we excused her early We see her in town now and then, and we notice she always gets her Nicol's worth About time to adjourn, who should arr1ve, but the former LaDonne Lamb, now Mrs Jason Dowdy She is now living 1n Madison Square Gardens w1th her husband and her triplets Her husband 18 now the boxing champion of the Helter we1ghts - 22 . . . O . - . C O O C O - . we O at ' . on ' O O I O I . . . . . . C O ' B I ' A D I

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY It's the Spring of 1955, and the weather looks promising for a good farming season The latest atomic development has been added to the list of helps for housewives It' been adapted to a push button dish washing mach1ne wh1ch washes and drles the dishes and stacks them on the shelves ln less than five minutes The newest model of Kaiser Frazier Rocket Ship broke all prevlous records for a round trip to the moon by making the trip in 3 hours, 59 mlnutes, and 59 seconds A helicopter settled down comfortably on the school ground last week, and deposlted the members of the class of 1946 for the celebration Of the1r T nth Annual Alumni As soclatlon Meetlng It was a Jolly gatherlng, and we are happy to report tie followlug news and VIGN concernlng the m mbers of the group Neal and Velma were the P1TSt to allght from the shlp for the meetlng They were unable to brlng the tw1ns, and the other two chlldren because the old st had a sllght touch of kindergarten1tis We hope the quarant1ne is lifted soon Both Neal and Velma looked well and happy, and we understand Neal expects to make a small fortune on h1s bean crop this y ar Dorothy Yeyer MacPherson was drlpplng Wlth sllver foxes, and wore a very attractlve new hair do In addltion to keeplng up a very charm1ng home for the Doctor and Junlor Dorothy stlll finds time to keep up w1th her flute, her drawlng, the local Red Cross Chapter, the Eastern Star, the Ladles Ald, and she also wr1tes book for ch1ldren vnlch she lllustrates herself Evelyn H111 Slkes seemed to be 1D a hurry She told she hasn't much tlme to be away since Ray is farmlng over SOO acr and she 15 presldent of th local Home Bureau Chapter Jack Bacon lost a little halr worrying about which of the glTlS to plck, but Erma won out, and they are now l1v lng 1n Palmer, 1D a charmlng home next door to the1r grocery store Jack bT1DgS home the bacon Aldene Greear ha a model agency and school for models in San FPSHCISCO Several of her ex student have recelved offers of screen contracts, wh1ch takes them to Hollywood Paul Smlth stlcks brav ly and cheerfully to the Navy He 1HS1StS 1t's the safest way 1n the world to have as many glrls as he llkes, but only one to a port 21 o o S 1 1 . . ' Q c - . 1 o . ' W - - ' cz - V I h Q 1 l 'S 5 0 V . . . . C . ' A 9 O ' 9 . N! l ' o , S I f Q LIS Q. 35, 9 Q J , . . Q . - . - ' , ' ' . U U S . S . I ' S o C .. -

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Temple NlHHiS can't remember the rest of it, was back for the f1TSt t1me 1n several years After teach1ng Girls Phys1cal nducat1on 1n Los Angeles, she marr1ed the manager of the St Lou1s Cardlnals They're currently l1v1ng 1D Florlda durlng he SPPIH5 Jork out Jonn Fahl has recently invented a new hydromatic over dr1ve for h1 tractor, and we understand the Internatlonal Harvester Company 1S maklng a bld for h1m to become an executive vice president Lou Howard used to be has opened another restaurant to brlng the number in her chaln up to four It's t e best place we know of to eat ch1cken 1n the rough, and Lou is very happy dishing lt out Deacon Grundy bought a sect1on of land a few years ago, and lt is now one of the best 1mPTOV9d farms in thls part of the country He's experlmenting w1th a new type of hybrld peanut vlne this year Mary Goebel is pr1nc1pal of the Modern Era Buslness College in Taylorvllle where many former MOIT1SODV1ll6 students go to learn the ABC's of typlng and shorthand Jlmmey Kinney was 1n a rush as usual, because he had a date waitlng 101 h1n in Chicago He's chlef accountant for the Purple Passion P81Ht and Plastic Company there now, and seems to have a rushing buslness wlth the glrls Rita Mae Sloan supervises the department of Occupatlon al Therapy at McCloskey General Hosp1tal at Temple, Texas She's doing a good Job of help1ng the wounded soldlers learn a pleasant and prof1table occupat1on there Stephen Miller is the newly appointed Farm Advlsor of Montgomery County He and Irene have Just bu1lt a new home near Morrisonville w1th a nursery for the chlldren Velma McKinney has still managed to escape any matrl monial snares She is now a private secretary to Thomas Q Hells, Esquire, President of the W1ndy C1ty Tire and Tube Company, where he has built up qulte a successful business Velma looked f1ne and prosperous, but Tommy looked a little worse for business WOTPISS He st1ll has his cheerful dispos1tion, congenial manner, and curly hair, and we certa1nly enjoyed seelng him Kenneth Dunkirk has organized h1s own skatlng company, and they have Just returned from the1r premiere tour Kenneth is looking f1t and happy over the success of h1s new buslness venture Leah Faye 18 as sweet as ever, but she seemed to be a little lonely and unhappy to be away from Donald for the two days she spent at the convention Three of her l1ttle ones are in school now, and together wlth the two l1ttle ones at home, they keep her pretty busy -23- A. 111 Q . . . , 0 - -1 - - . O I . . . . . 4, . C .N I' - , - . .C , t. ' 0 ..- ..- . . . . Q Il l 1. 1 1 0 ' v o o l . ., I . ' . L 0 I . -- . . ' O . 1 I a Q o .1 I , . . e o . . v O 0 4 . ' . 1 . o o