Mount Lebanon High School - Lebanon Log Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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ELIZ: Oh, by the way, I hear that Ray Jones was appointed traFfic commissioner. BETLTY: Look, there's Thelma Dublin. She's married now, and has twins-two adorable oys. MARD:. I was at the Century Club last week and heard Betty Volz speak. She's the president and just as attractive as she used to be. ELIZ: By the way, Dorothy Thompson was elected secretary of the International Con- gress of Women's Clubs. BETTY: flaughingj l heard the other day that Betti Vance had won a new kind of mar- athon. She talked incessantly for ten days. MARD: Here's Joe Haller. Remember when he invented an engine to be run by steam generated by Joe Salisbury and Walt McCain? CThey all laugh.j ELIZ: And there's Bud Cline. I'll never forget the time he signed up to be an usher at the class play. He certainly was embarrassed when he found out it was a girls' com- mittee. BETTY: Will you ever forget that class play? Howard Hanna, as the professor, was a scream. ELIZ: VVho is this? Why, it's Mary Brannon. I never would have recognized her. She's a champion swimmer now. BETTY: And here's Iack Creehan. He's still a good runner. I hear that he's going to the next Olympic games. MARD: Speaking of sports, the last that I heard of Dan Robb and Jack Fischer, they were both football coaches. Nice work! BETTY: This is a bit ot? the subject, but I saw Charles Dimmick yesterday. He's run- ning an employment agency and told me to come around if I lost my job. MARD: And I saw Ed Taylor last week. It was obvious that he still prefers redheads. ELIZ: Oh, here's Bud Kirkpatrick. I wonder if he's still as good-looking as ever? BETTY: He probably is. Claughingj Elizabeth, I just remembered what we came over here for. We wanted to know if you had been to see Gwen Yeagle since her appendectomy. ELIZ: Yes, I was at the hospital yesterday, and whom do you think I saw there? George Madden. He was in an automobile accident, but wasn't hurt very badly, just a broken leg and some head injuries. You'll never guess who his doctor and nurse are-George Lacy and Beatrice Hugus. Rather coincidental, isn't it? MARD: You know our class doesn't seem to have had much sickness. ELIZ: No, but don't forget those who were injured in the war. BETTY: Cslowlyj There's Gil Andreen, Frank Spreha, VValter Phillips, Virgil Johnston, and Harold Crowell. They all were decorated for bravery. MARD: Salvatore Bellini certainly did a great thing when he invented that solution to counteract poison gas. He did the world a great service. BETTY: Secretary of War is no easy job, but Clair Heatley did an admirable piece of work in that position during the war. ELIZ: When I think of those war days, I wonder how we ever lived through them. And to think that two girls from our own class, Bette Miller and Charlotte Wyman, worked right at the front. MARD: Let's change the subject. We're getting positively morbid. There's Mat Rey- nolds' picture. I saw in the paper that he's been carrying on a filibuster in the Senate during the past week. BETTY: Here's Connie Bleecker. I do like her theater column in the newspaper, don't you? She certainly was right when she chose Newton Heisley as the year's best newsreel photographer. ELIZ: While we're talking about movies, did you know that Dot Bromwich is a make-up expert at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer? MARD: Bob Seltmann is working there as a sound engineer, John Massol is chief elec- trician at Twentieth Century-Fox. BETTY: Did you see Louis Graham's last picture? He certainly is a ladies' man. ELIZ: Oth, there's Jack de Benedictis. I wonder if he still dislikes girls. BETTY: Who's this? Why it's John Cibos: I saw his paintings exhibited at the Interna- tional Art Exhibit last month. He's really becoming quite famous. MARD: I saw Ted Goldsmith buying a painting out there. He's supposed to have the finest collection in Pennsylvania. 21

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aZ!m9Sz2wa A PLAY IN ONE ACT Characters: Betty Craig Elizabeth Hill Marden Armstrong Scene: fThe curtain rises, revealing the living room of Elizabeth Hill's modern apartment in the year 1950. It is furnished in modern colonial style, with chintz-covered furni- ture and booklined walls. Seated on a low divan, Elizabeth Hill is engrossed in the 1938 Lebanon Log. Suddenly she is startled by a knock, and rising, she opens the door, admitting Betty Craig and Marden' Armstrongj ELIZ: Hello! I was hoping that you'd drop in. I've found an old Log, and have been having a grand time looking through it. BETTY: Oh, good! I misplaced mine years ago. MARD: That ought to be loads of fun. CThey all sit down, the Log in front of them.j BETTY: flaughingj How funny everyone looks! MARD: Aren't those hair styles rare? ELIZ: Incidentally, I wonder if Adella Jaspert still has such gorgeous golden hair. MARD: I saw her sister, Betty, the other day. You know sl1e's a model at Marshall Fields now. BETTY: Yes, and Bertha Beitler and Mary Hanover model there too. ELIZ: Oh look, here's Dick Anderson. Hels a bouncer at the Yacht Club Casino. BETTY: Betty Prescott sings there now. They say that she's quite a hit. MARD: While we're on the subject of hits, did you see the latest play Jack Stauff pro- duced, starring Marion Stafford? It was a grand success, and Bob Zwinggi was a per- fect leading man. ELIZ: Did either of you see Bob Bacon at the Stanley last week? He's really a top-notch comedian. I hear that he's going on the radio next month. BETTY: Our class members should really go places on the radio now that Bob Leathers is president of N.B.C., and Harold Moore is chief electrical engineer. ELIZ: Yes, and look at Jim I-Iuntsberger and I-Ial Calvert. They really have done a good job, taking the place of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, haven't they? MARD: But even Hal couldn't come between Jim and Paul Hughes. Paul is their man- ager now. Oh, all this radio talk reminds me, Alice Louise Rager sang on the Metro- politan Opera broadcast last Saturday afternoon. Did either of you hear her? BETTY: No, but I heard Jim Weisel sing last Thursday night at Syria Mosque. He got twelve curtain calls. Do you know who's coming next month? ELIZ: Yes, Mary Louise Berkovitz. She's one of the outstanding concert pianists today. MARD: Oh, look, here's Pat Ulam. I wonder what she's doing now. ELIZ: Why, she's a home economics expert at Heinz. Lenora Imrie does the same type of work there, too. BETTY: Did you know Nancy McKelvie and Edith Swartz were home for a visit? They're career women and have their own apartment in New York. MARD: Ed Gaber is a chemistry professor at Pitt. Here's his picture. He hasn't changed a bit. BETTY: While we're on the subject of chemistry, did you know that Dick Miller is Head of Mellon Institute, and A1 Hofrichter is his assistant? They say that they're doing great things out there. ELIZ: Oh, here's Jack Whitehi1l's picture. Remember when he supported the library with the fines he paid? BETTY: And here's Bob Wheeler. I'l1 never forget the time he wrecked his mother's car. MARD: I wonder if Dot Morris has learned yet that a car needs gas to go uphill. I sup- pose that these bacteriologists are a trifle absent minded, though. 20

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allmqglwwi ELIZ: Oh, that reminds me! I've been hearing about VVarren Drexler's collection of old violins. I'd like to see it! BETTY: I had an appointment with the dentist yesterday, and the man nearly killed me. I'm going to hunt a new one. MARD: Why don't you go to Bob Holmes? IIe's just opened a new office in Mt. Leb- anon, and has hired Janet Albright as his ollice assistant. ELIZ: It's a bit off the subject, but I must tell you before I forget. I saw Jerry Mc- Closkey, Bob Richards, Hazel Goldaine, and Elsie Neely at the Italian Terrace on Fri- day night. They seemed to be having a grand time. BETTY: Here's Grace Rebholz and Thelma Campbell. I saw them wheeling baby car- riages down the street today. They both seemed very happy about the whole thing. ELIZ: Look at Vaughn Gordy. You'd never think that he's cleaned up Pittsburgh poli- tics in such a short time. MARD: Bob Leech helped a lot through the publicity he printed in his paper. They say that Paul Cain did all the reporting on that job. BETTY: Vernon Augenstein and George Knotts got a lot of publicity in his paper, too, about their non-stop flight around the world. ELIZ: And did you see last week where lrVilma Usher had a house party? There was a long description of it on the society page Dorothy Hartman, Bill Hamilton, Clarke McCormac, Jean Travis, and William Llewellyn were among the guests. MARD: You'l1 never guess whom I met last summer in New York-Jane Nelson. She's a fashion editor for Vogue. You'll be surprised to know that Ruth Heil is her assistant. BETTY: Here's Jim Taylor's picture. Do you know where he is now? MARD: Why yes, I saw him in New York last summer too. He, Carl Singhouse, and Ken Blackburn are the town's most popular playboys. ELIZ: I heard that Jack Berg made a fortune in the stock market. They say that his Long Island home is a dream. MARD: And didn't Virginia May marry a wealthy New Yorker? BETTY: I'll say she did! Oh, look, there's Bob Montague. He's a professor at Har- vard. I wonder if he's still as absent-minded as he used to be. ELIZ: You know that Charles Fetterman is head warden in a New England prison. He's worked some marvelous reforms there. BETTY: Ed Mikelonis is chief electrocutioner at the same prison. I don't particularly envy him, do you? MARD: Incidentally, Mary Jane Knoff is head of a social welfare community in Phila- delphia, and has written a book about her work. Katherine Kranse is her assistant. ELIZ: Say! Did either of you read that article in the Readefs Digest about Jim Ecken- rode's getting a fortune by collecting diamonds and orchid bulbs in Brazil? He's some- thing of an adventurer. BETTY: Cturning the page and smilingj I was at the circus a few weeks ago and you'd never guess who the lion tamers were-James Welch and Tom Aston. MARD: Here's Walter Bruno. You know that he's taken over his father's barbers' sup- ply house and is doing a fine business. ELIZ: There's George Coward. He was just appointed chief color-guard to tl1e Presi- dent. I'l1 bet he feels proud. BETTY: You'd never guess who's in the navy-John Fitzgerald. He's become quite an old salt. MARD: Clooking at her watchj Oh, how late it is! We really must be leaving, Elizabeth. We're going to Syria Mosque to see Bob Wycoff and his ballet. Cshe risesj ELIZ: I'm sorry you must leave, but do come again soonb BETTY: We'd love to. Goodbye. And thanks for the memories. 22