Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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mints and chewing gums at the factory which he now owns. Dolores Frank is a Hull House worker, as is Evelyn Marlatt. Elmer Johnson has just received the position of county treasurer of Ford County, and Thelma Walker is his secretary. Virginia Tweet and Elinore Munson own a chain of beauty salons, and Louise Sandstedt and Thelma Swanson are competent nurses at Paxton Community Hospital, where Earl Palmberg is head doctor. T forgot to mention along with Marilynn’s kindergarten that Frances Woodward has charge of handiwork for the kiddies. Thomas Stevenson and John Lind are in a partnership, running a dairy farm in southern Illinois. “When mentioning Catherine Archer’s dress designing, I should have reminded you that Ruth Anderson is conducting her Paris opening of knitted frocks next week, so if you can’t get over there any other way, I suggest you go by plane, but by all means, don’t miss it! “Delbert Karr is making things hot for Mussolini over there in Italy. As you know he is United States consul at Rome and his wife, the former Miss Zelma Kiest, is utilizing her time over there for the study of the Italian language for the next opera in which she will appear. “Albin Nelson is running for mayor of Paxton as the “people’s choice.” Strangler Magnuson, Paxton’s burly wrestling champion, is going on a personal appearance tour at the advice of his manager, Loren Carlson. Donald Clouse is star reporter for the Chicago Tribune, and Frank Anderson is owner of that paper. “The name of Dorothy McFadden is a household word since her great novel, Why, and Clara Rose Stubbins is now editor of the country’s leading music magazine. Marcia Nelson and Norma Swanson are her assistants. “Hartzell Teesdale is county sheriff out there in Ford County, and Earl Marshall is trying to set a new flagpole sitting record. Norman is serving as minister at the Paxton Methodist Church, serving since his father-in-law’s resignation of the position. “And now7 I have time for one last word about some news of the day— and that is that John Swanson, the famous criminal and divorce lawyer, has just succeeded in his five hundredth case—so with that new7s, this is Mrs. Hinchell’s little boy Walter signing off.” ♦

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CLASS PROPHECY “Hello, Mr. and Mrs. North America and all the ships at sea, let’s go to press! As many of you already know, this is the tenth anniversary of the graduation of the class of 1936 of Paxton Community High School, and as I promised, I am going to devote my tete-a-tete with you this evening to a brief review of that class’s progress by the courtesy of my sponsor, the Bergens Company. “Now, in order to crowd in everybody in my fifteen minutes, I’ll get right down to business and leave out the many flowery remarks that could be made. Naturally the first person I can think of is Kenney Jones, who, as you all know, married into the presidency of the Bergens Company. Are you listenin’, Kenny? “Then let’s see—Billy Parker is well known as the model for those Chesterstrike cigarette ads, and Marj Vevig is using hard-earned knowledge as the private secretary to the owner of the Stevens Hotel, while in another section of the counti’y, Texas, to be exact, we find Glenn Anderson and Vernon Swanson running a large cattle ranch. Eugene Whitman and Jimmy Reep are co-managers of the Hoity-Toity Club here in New York. And none other than Lyleth Larson and Marian Moline are the star entertainers there. “Gail Hedrick and his wife, the former Phyl Stevens, who has just recently resigned her position as editor of Vanity Fair, are now making a huge success of their Hollywood Mode Shop, where Irene Schwartz is mannikin. Of course, their designer is Catherine Archer, who has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her dress designs. We who are interested spectators wonder what would have happened to the world if women’s fashions, styles, and fabrics had continued in the way which they were going before Catherine brought the world to its senses. Harold Barr is the highest paid body guard in the world, serving in this capacity as body guard for Del Lundy, who has just accepted the office of mayor of Los Angeles and as a sideline owns the London-New York Tailoring Establishment. “I’ll advise you all to see Beulah Orr opposite Johnny Reep in Tarzan: Half Man, Half Ape, a forthcoming Warner Brothers’ production. Arlene Burklund has just been chosen, for the fourth consecutive time, the queen of the Mardi Gras. It has been said that her manager, June Grimsley, has tried to get a twenty year contract for her, but the attempt failed. Virginia Bess has just been commissioned to fill Miss Anderson’s boots at P. C. H. S. Speaking of teachers, Alice Carlson and Victoria Horridge have also taken their places in the faculty of that noble institution, and Marilynn Ryan is conducting a very successful kindergarten at Paxton. “Mabel Doan is mistress of ceremonies at the Blind Pig Nite Club at Champaign, Illinois, and Laura Belle Miller is head waitress there. Elmer Flannigan has complete charge of blending the flavors of his famous

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JUNIORS CLASS OFFICERS: President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Virginia Froyd Wayne Brethorst Anielita Kjellstrand Cecil Reehl First Row—Willard Walker, Emil Sandstedt, Cecil Reehl, Nobel Skonberg, Richard Eager, Wayne Voorhees, Clyde Van Antwerp, Howard Goodwin. Milton Schofield, Philip Lindell, Arthur Lee, Roy Larson, Donald Roe, Ralph Flora, Irene Anderson, Vernon Moline, Albert Adell, Irma Coulter. Second Row—Lavade Hanson, Norma Grayson, Alice Starkey. Margaret Brunton, Paul Mortweet, Mary Archer, Charles Cornelison, Virginia Froyd. Wayne Brethorst, Edna Natterstad, Betty Olson, Thomas Curran, Shirley Apland, Ferd Marshall, Cecil Anderson. Third Row—Margaret Nuss, William Chartier, Elsie Brock, Walter Amerman, Ruby Buchanan, Martha Lantz, Donald Ryan, Vernon Swanson, Donald Wesslund, Maxine Hyde, Clarabelle Ernest, Amelita Kjellstrand, Chalon Maulding, Evelyn Nelson, Dorothy Geegan, Dorothy Stine, Gladyce Ryan, Arlene Reitz, Martha Apland. A GIST OF THE JUNIOR CLASS— This dignified group of young men and ladies entered upon their high school careers as frivolous freshmen “way back in ’33“ and were advised by Miss Maude Gracen and led by Ralph Flora as president, Roy Larson as vice-president, Shirley Apland as secretary, and Virginia Froyd as treasurer. They enjoyed two class picnics, one at Foster’s timber and the other at Kemp’s. They also contributed a program to the Friday morning assembly. Their officers as sophomores were Clyde Van Antwerp, president; Cecil Reehl, vice-president; Elsie Brock, secretary; and Margaret Brunton, treasurer. Mrs. Lily McConnell and Miss Dorothy White were their advisers. In the year just passed, the juniors were advised by Miss Marjorie Strong, who directed their class play, Xew Fires, in the fall, and Miss Mary Holme, who was in charge of the dramatic clubs, debate, literary contestants, and the Junior-Senior Banquet. Martha Apland and Nobel Skonberg were representatives to the Student Council with Virginia Froyd serving as vice-president of that body. They brought their school year to a close by entertaining the seniors at the annual Junior-Senior Banquet on May 15.