Painted Post High School - Poster Yearbook (Painted Post, NY)

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As the magic stew was strll behaving badly we contrnued to see hurrred pictures of Eleanor Hawks madly pounding the keys of a typewriter Rex White selling Rccl Hots' blues srnger Barb Naylor srngrng rn a swanky cafe Wanda Preston Home Ec teacher howrng her students how to lJ0ll WHTCY and Kenneth Homer Gee LL B mopprng hrs brow and removing hrs SPCC tacles from a withered countenarce Kenny had Ju t re urned to hrs ll0mC after touring the country lecturing on the dangerous outcome of our national debt Q By this time Alrce lost all patience Making one last effort she threw on more powder to solrdrfy the tew endeavor to slow rts tempo lt worked' We agam vrsualrzed scenes as we were traveling west ln Chicago we were happy to catch a glimpse of Look s Orphan Home which had garned world wrde reco nrtron Modest Annabelle gave the Lredlt for all her unrver al fame to her publicity manager Lee Northway She politely tells rntervrewers that Lee has long been exper enced rn newspxper work way back since hrs high school days and knows Just what to do rn that line He rs also a short tory wrrtcr for The Morning Sun edrterl by ean Childs Zoom we took a big jump and landed mack rn Normanvrlle a town named after therr beloved college coach De Wane Norman Brlls Although lrfe rs rn a state of chaos lnvestrgatron revealed lrttle Mary Abbott the cause The town s largest laundry Wash Em Clean rs owned and managed by copartners Harold Lewis and Robert Alderman At Salt Lake City Utah Ceezrl Kenyon and Walter Lore famous racers were putting their Burn nut up to 450 mrles an hour faster than any other racer has ever gone On a platform near the race track shy little Ella Potter was trying earnestly to convince her audience that slow drrvrng was the best means to safety ln South Dakota Kenny Decker had recently purchased another hundred acres to add to hrs vast domain ln them that parts he rs known as the wealthrest and shrewdest business man around Hrs credit for hrs uccess rs grven to the knowledge he acqurred whrle he was a member of the Painted Post Future Farmers The stew turned a deadly black pierced here and there with tlny brrll rant spots again we thought we were running into drffrculty but the next rncrdent clarified the srtuatron lr was mrdnrght on the Arizona desert The stillness of the nrght was broken only by the steady clank of horse s hoofs The rrder of the steed was none other than Rancher Buckshot Burnside who was rounding up hrs herd alone for hrs cowhands were on a srck down strike The cau e of rt all lay rn the hands of therr economrcal employer who fed them hrs own jokes as a substitute for food A deserted old town then attracted our attention lt became apparent the government had appropriated a um of money to set the town off by rtself free of all contacts with the world lt seemed rncredrble that such a thrng could happen rn the United States' ln the mrddle of a Junk heap sat a portly red bearded gent Hermit Thompson was searching hrs brains for an rdea that he might use to reparr the dilapidated Fords--long drsowned by everyone rn the country He was trying desperately to stage therr come back 29 . ' . . ' S , . ' 1 . 7 I I ' . . - 4 . V . . S . t - D . . S .. . . Y. . . Q . . Y -' Y . Y . . De Wane is acclaimed and loved by the inhabitants of the town, his private . , Y U 7 Y , - . . - , - , . . . . . C . y - . . , . Q . . . . ' Q

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Eleanor Gamble and Leona McConnell metrculously folding bandages They had gladly volunteered thelr services Our strange voyage from England to the Unlted States was praCUCally unlnterrupted with the exceptlon of our stop at Luba to watch ohn Lee man ufacture clgarettes From Cuba we took a short Jump to St Pe ersburg Florlda to be guests momentarlly at a spectacular house party ln a palatnal mansion Our hostess was soclety leader Marlanna Kelley lhe most strlkmg personallty present was Miss Ruth laroll one of the best dressers m the world While we were scrutxmzlng the rest of the beautnful state of Florida for some more of our strayed pals we were swlshed under Barnum and Barley s clrcus tent rlght ln the mldst of a dress rehearsal Our attention was focused on one of the elephant bare back rrders who was usmg violent tactlcs to en courage umbo to move l rom the antlcs he employed we recognlzed the famous lndlan War Whoop and thus dlscovered the chref anlmal tramer to be Leonard Klock Good old Klockle hadn t forgotten hrs cheer leadmg abllltles after alll Knowmg that no one suspected our presence we casually strolled along untll our feet by some unknown magnetlc force walked themselves toward the bade Show Right lnSldC were the two mseparable Walraths-classlhed as the Freaks of Nature ln the next stall on the floor sat trny C325 lb I lmmle Bement smeared wlth grease olnppery green snakes were slndlng all over hlm from the clrcus we went over to the wlnter headquarters of the base ball leagues 'lhere we saw lrlmk Peterson manager of the Red Scalps warming up to smash a home run HIS team was predlcted to wrn the league and the World Senes We thence proceeded to zoom up to the mad metropolis On 35th Street ln an exclusive apartment we caugnt a gllmpse of Thelma Baker dletrclan scrambling eggs m the kltchenette for one of America s top models Dorothy Hedden l-ler photographs dlsplayed rn advertlsements help t glamorlze chewing gum llngerre and what have you bometlmes Wmkle Wlnlfred Holmes famous arust who stepped m on Whltcomb s shoes sketches Dort for lllustratlons ln short stories and novels On llmes Square we encountered Vhllanthroplst George Wheaton toss mg nickels and dimes to the wmds Apparently George by some stroke of genius had at last mvented a thmkmg devlce to enable students to stare out of windows and stlll know what s gomg on rn History class l always knew my woman s mtultxon l guess George s day dreams were for some purpose Our vlslons were suddenly mterrupted and we were brought back to reality The six of us sat blmdly lookmg mto that odlous stuff that was swirl Ing violently Alice thmklng her efforts were of no avaxl began gnashxng her teeth but encouraged by our steady pralse she poured a powder mto the stew which by some mlraculous power began to clanfy lt stlll danced dnzz xly however and we only caught a few brref glances of our frlends such as Lucllle Hamllton politely saymg Number please hugh pressure salesman Pat Waxnrlght ll'lHUCl'lClI1g Coach Colllster to buy suspenders wxth hugh school basketball equipment Lorrarne Flsher shovmg a customer under a dryer Dr Arthur Hall drlllmg teeth and Gladys Griffiths gymnastics teach er blowmg her referee whistle 28 . . . . . s J . I . . t , , . , . . . v 1 - 1 - J - . .. . V .. . . . - . , . - 1 v I s. . . . . .- ' U .. - U . . , 1 J , W . , - - .. . v. ' l Q N , . . 1 1 9 1 v v . , , O . . . - . .. . . .. I ! - - ' 1 1 ,-. . . . - ' - C - . . . D . , , . Q ' I I ! v v . . . . l. .. . 9 .. -- . . . . . . . 1 1 - v 1 ' , .

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ln Hollywood we had tlse prrvrl ge of be ng on the stage while the cast rehearsed for the most popularrzed prcture of the year Flame The lncr dents of thrs prcture s lrfe corncrded exactly wrth a prcture produced rn I940 that captured 90 per cent of the Qscar awards of that year Cone wrth the Wrnd Both book were bes' se'l s for two year Hollywood pleased the publrc on both occ srons by announcrng they would make the plcture as soon as they could find omeone surtalole to play the leadlng femrnrne rolcs Frnally after a drffrcult search for the case of Flame rt was decrded that the author Theone Allen would do Justrce to the part Char res Craft matmee ldol plays opposrte her Marlon Robrnson was Theone s make up expert tlinow mg that this plcture followed so closely rn the foot teps of Gone wrth the Wrnd we were sure rt would also enjoy the tremendous success that rts pre decessor had J The stew began to get hot and pop No wonder' We were lookrng at Hamels Explosrve Plant' Darrell has lock d hrmself rn hrs offrce as a safeguard agarnst drscovery by hrs emproyeesj and was furtrvely removrng a ecret compartment concealed rn hrs desk trny wooden guns remrnrscences of hrs youth The frreworks started' Dres ed s an lndran rmagrnatrve Hamel began leaprng over charrs and desk At trnres blood curdlrng crres lssued forth only to be replaced by the sound effect of a machrne gun Once when he made an extraordrnary brg bound over a charr he almost fell out the wrndow Ah a very sad ca e for the zoologlsts On the outskrrts of San Franc sco we dr covered jovral Catherrne Van redhoof openrng the door of her Dream Cottage to admrt a Gallup Poll career ln the Crty Hcsprt l Nurse Walton wa tryrng dsperately to put some nasty old medrcrne down a very handsome patrent ln Hawar we enccuntered the rdol of the adolescent world Madame Jeanne Damoth who e monthly bulletms are swallowed eagerly by her young admrrers At the same hotel we me Mr Chester Randolph who somehow or other had acqurred a spark of genrus and began wrrtrng Hrs select public was recently readrnff hrs famous book How to Sklp School Unnotrced Both Jeanne and Chet came to Hawar wrth a v catron rn mrnd but found rt u eless Therr publrc rs too demandrnff Somewhere on the Pacr c we detected Kenny Wrlson Frank Ward Ed Dann and ames Potte towaways on 3 frervhter They had accepted lrfe phrlosophrcally throwrng all therr responsrbrrrt es to the wrnd for a more free lrfe ust recently the quartet e had crrcled the globe twrce on a quarter rncredrble but true' A lrttle speck cn he ho rzon had us bewrldered tor a mrr-ute but on over takrng rt we recognrzed Lreut Rrcla rd Vlfrlhelm at the controls of the Clrpper hrp bound for Qhrna Well here we w re back fr m whence we t rted Reluctantly Alrce ceased to trr for the e were no mo e an adequate reason l gathered my belongrngs and bade ad eu to the five fgrrres around the frre leavrng them l found them Betty Brown 30 A . - 5 Q ! A - . 5 r . cr s. . 3 . F . . V Q , J . . 1 on . , , , . . , , Y - , . . . . I A . . S . . H . . , , . ' . U S T . y . . . , S . . I , . . ,L 3 . ' . . Q .Q , . . - . , V interviewer. We heard her say she thought housekeeping was a wonderful . ' . ' a , s ' .G . . C ' e ' n .M V At k v . I V' o 1 ' . 3 . . . , . S . . . . . ,,. .5 . , J r, 3 'D . ' . . . 3 . .,, . . , , . J , i Y ' --. I . , I . . , . . I. . Q? . , A . , . 3 . , e 0 . S a , , ' ' s ' , ' - r 1' C ' ' Q ,, 1 ,N , ' 1 as X ' .