Onarga Township High School - Onarquois Yearbook (Onarga, IL)

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□ THE ’45 ONARQUOIS □ vention, a duraglass face shield for protection while eating grapefruit. Also a plasti-glass collar guard to catch drippings and seeds while eating watermelon. That ended the program. We were surprised to see Doris Cupp because for the past 20 years she has been enrolled in the “Gay Caballero Rhumba Academy in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. She told us that she finally had mastered the intricate art of the rhumba, samba, etc., and has accepted the leading role in “Earl Betourne’s Vanities of 1965.” Doris introduced us to several of the band members and pointed out our old classmate Glea Thorne. We had a talk with Thorne (or rather Thorne talked to us) and found he is now a Broadway producer of musical comedies. He is now making preparations for his new gigantic show in which all of the chorus girls are redheads. This is a carry-over from his high school attraction for redheads. Going outside to inspect the new football field and the lighting equipment (including a spotlight) we saw at the far end a cloud of dust and a pair of headlights. As the cloud came closer we saw it was the latest Ford creation. The driver was a lady and as she unfastened her safety belt and took off her crash helmet we recognized her as Shirley Colebank. Shirley is now a test driver for the Ford Company. Her interests in Fords originated back in the “Good Old Days” when she was a senior at OTHS where she specialized in Fords (especially those with two tone horns). Leaving the field and returning to the gym for the closing dance we were accosted by a tall, dark, scholarly fellow who said, “Do your feet trouble you? Are you bothered with out-grown toenails? Do you have bunions? If so, try Peters’ Special Foot Cure Pads.” It was then that we recognized him as Dick Peters, our classmate of ’45. Questioning him further, Dick told us that he had invented these pads himself while serving in the infantry. He assured us that they were the best because he and his buddies had used them many times and could testify to their healing qualities. The band began playing the last dance, “The Anniversary Waltz”, and even the boys danced. (So you can see that this MUST be in the distant future). As the last strains died away we silently slipped into the night and before we knew what had happened we found ourselves back in the Onarga of the present. Smoke, black smoke, rolled through the Civic's door. Quoth the culprit, “Never more!” (With due apologies to Poe.)

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□ THE ’45 ONARQUOIS □ who was bewitched by her charming smile, while she was selling tickets at the Mode Theatre. It was now about 9 o’clock and being hungry again we decided to visit the new cafeteria which is located where our old Home Ec room used to be and dishing up the food was our ex-classmate Betty “Bed” Barnett. Betty is head dietician of the school. Noticing a crowd around the athletic cage we came closer and recognized the tall, dark, handsome figure in the center of the crowd as our old school mate, “Sad Sam” Brantley. He was swinging a couple of baseball bats and relating his experiences as center-fielder with the Chicago “Flubs”. He gave us some tickets (or forced us to take them) to the play “Romeo and Juliet” at the South State Street Theatre. Sam has the leading role in the play during his off season. Passing out sale bills for Townsend and Olson’s we discovered Evelyn Rueck. Asking her how she was coming as bookkeeper for T. and O. she told us, “With my new system of arithmetic I now own the store.” Suddenly we heard the thunder of galloping hoofs and into the arena rode Mr. and Mrs. Wayne McNeil and their All-Star troupe. As Wayne leaped from a diamond studded saddle we overheard someone behind us saying that Wayne now is making a living running a race track in Crescent City and that his wife supports the family by taking in washing. Attracted by the high-pitched voices of two ladies discussing the merits of baby foods and of a new type safety-pin, guaranteed not to “rust, shrink or stick”, we looked about us and discovered the flaming red hair of Utopia Gagnon — formerly Tope Kincade — and Donna Johnson — formerly Donna Arends. Tope is now residing on a farm south of Onarga, and as she put it she is raising her family in the good old fashioned way, with the baby bottle, instead of the modern cosmic-ray self-feeder. Donna lives with her husband on a large cattle ranch in Texas. The old familiar ringing of 3 bells took us to the assembly. Here the speaker’s platform was covered with microphones on a world-wide hookup. The entertainment began when a short pudgy fellow, a cross between the Mad-Russian and Jimmy Durante, came to the mikes and started a comedy routine. We readily recognized him as our old friend, “Spec” Pierce. Pierce now has his own comedy show originating in Television City, Kentucky. Said Spec, “I owe all my success to the start I had in our Senior English Class”. Immediately upon the termination of his skit the assembly was filled with an ear-split-tin’ shriek, and we knew that it was none other than the “Songbird” of the class of ’45, Peggy Uphoff. She is billed as Judy Canova, the second, of the airways. Peggy turned down an offer from the Dogpatch Civic Opera Company just to be here tonight. A scientific demonstration was next on the program. Those two eminent scientists, F. R. Mitchell and J. C. Wright were in charge. They demonstrated their latest in-

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□ THE ’45 ONARQUOIS □ Junior Class □ □ Because we shall be seniors next year, we should like to acquaint you with us — Burnell “I’ll Get By” Brantley, Mary “I’m Riding For A Fall” Dannehl, Marilyn “I Still Care” Davis, June “Bell-Bottomed Trousers And Coat of Navy Blue” Hahne, Leo “One Meat Ball” Kanosky, Beverly “The Man’s In The Navy” Russell. Beverly “I’m Confessin’” Sumrall. La Vern “Willy, The Wolf of The West” Price, Wilma “I Can’t Be Alone” Krause, Martha “Breathless” Greiner, Colleen “Saturday Night” Wilken, Elsie “Sophisticated Lady” Wright, Glenn “There I Go Again” Nich-oalds, Marion “Can’t Make Up My Mind” Harris, Veda Mae “I’m Making Believe” Ebert, LaVerne “I’ll Walk Alone” Reiter, and Burt “Strange Music” Keever. First row, left to right: Mary Dannehl, Beverly Russell, Wilma Krause, Marilyn Davis, Elsie Wright, June Hahne, Sponsor Mrs. Pease. Second row: Colleen Wilken, Martha Greiner. Veda Mae Ebert, Glen Nichoalds, Beverly Sumrall. Third row: Laverne Price, Burnell Brantley, Leo Kanosky, Bert Keever, Marion Harris.