Plano High School - Silhouette Yearbook (Plano, IL)

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A Reality in our m1nd's eye becomes so keen that we even witness the majestic closing of the first act and wind our way with the crowd to the lobby. Look! there's Johnny Dunne--in tails, mind you! fif only the class could see him nowl. Johnny is the newly elected president of Ford Garages, Inc. to which he gives all his time when he isn't visiting Pat's art studio. The lobby, for some strange reason, seems crowded with our old classmates tonight. Perhaps, after all, there is something in the business of concentration and mental telepathy. Joanne Olsen is here with her first high school crush, now her husband. It's really too bad she d1dn't marry before she broke all those hearts. Happy threesome! Barb Hughes is accompanying Liz Osbron and her hubby Dick this evening. Barb has combined professional wrestling and management of a restaruant for her own enjoyment and good business tactics. We hear that Liz and hubby have just returned from a European tour which they made as a popular professional skate team Civic is proud of election for the first unanimously to Delores is Sal Newkirk who has chain of restaurants. the celebrities here tonight. The woman senator of Alaska was thrown Meier. Accompanying her,we learn, become head waitress of uTellingsn Sal has practically achieved owner ship of this great enterprise except for the signing of a few more legal documents. But back to the productiong Dot just hit her highest most sensational note! which fact reminds us that Betty Kiltz has been acclaimed the highest salaried, most sensational faculty member at Annapolis. we hear the Schumacher brothers, Alvin and Bob are a great football pair for Navy. Wonder what inspires them? Coffman and Killey are here tonight after their grand opening no and K Confectionsu which is really putting Plano on the map for the original store of this great favorite chain for teen-agers. And remember Stub? He's their special motor-scooter delivery boy -- that is, when he isn't working for the nbeauty-sleepn mattress company as the living model in the window display. More celebrities! Here comes dazzling Vera Scull Powers, the new leading model, with her manager fsuccessfulj Dorothy Thomas, and her escort, Dave Whitfield. His is the greatest name in F.M. radio development. And there's Renee Doderlein who, we hear, has given up her French professorship at Yale for her freshman love who is with her tonight. And there's Betty Casner, our greatest con- temporary novelist who develops the theme suggested by Dorothy Erwin nAll men are snakesln

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PPGPI-IE SY As we sit absorbing the blended harmony of the year's achievements and performance, our thoughts wander, lost in our mind's struggle against the vagueness of the future. In our wandering we turn to the year 1958, just ten years after the commencement of the class of '48' of Plano comm- unity high school. I vision myself entering the Civic Opera House in Chicago with an old classmate of mine and whom should we meet! none other than Dick Sauer with his wife, the former Joan Naggs. Of course, you know Dick is editing and publishing his own sports newspaper, magazine, and theatre with the aid of his assistant manager Bill Stern. We stopped and chatted for a while until we heard the three minute call for curtain time. We then moved on through the lobby and into our box seat. As the lights dimmed, the faces in the box seat next to ours came to life in my vision as four of our old class- mates namely, the HB1g Fourn who went West a few years ago. Marc and Ginger, I've heard, are proprietors of the Elite Dress Shoppe in Arizona. This plan was blueprinted years ago during detasseling. Bette and Carole, the other half of this illustrious foursome, are engaged at M.G.M. as understudies to the associated crime writers, Hack and Bailey. Just a moment while I wipe my opera glasses. I am almost positive I saw little, timid Ray Kimmey surrounded by his harem of ladies. Ray is living on Wall Street these days, almost next to the Vanderbilt estate. It is rumored that he is receiving sums of money each week from important figures in the U.S. government for which he translates important documents for the Archives building. The show must go on. First comes the ballet and listen to the ladies scream! No, it's not Frankie! only Bobbie Bell! We should have known his popularity and skill ten years ago in Mrs. Williams dancing class would prove his real talent and now he is Civic's greatest ballet star. The orchestra changes its mood and tempo and I imag- ine the greatest sensation since Kate Smith, none other than our own Dorothy Erwin who has been singing Civic's soprano lead for the past five years. There seems to be a rumor on the winds that a more enthusiastic crowd was never seen than that which applauded for Dot at the pier just two months ago when she returned from her voyage where she sang for the king of Siberia.

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Oh, but wait a minute! What's all the excitement down in the first section? It looks like--it is! Our bashful Ray Kimmey seems to have been overcome and has been stretched out in the aisle. Oh! How exciting! Here come two stretchel bearers, none other than Albert Christensen Che must have taken his part in the senior class play seriouslyj and Bill Rogers. Holding Ray's pulse, is none other than Edna Konow who is a specialist in heart cases. Miracles will happen! We never thought we'd see Howard Hatcher, Jack Soderberg, Loren Christensen, or Earl Severson here at the opera house, but tickets were a part of the prizes they received on a radio program for their great minds conceived a mechanical hired man which can be operated from the arm chair by a push button. Rev. Simms, still known as Jerry to many Planoites, is a here with his devoted wife Bonnie who was instrumental in his conversion into the ministry. The final curtain call comes and we cheer on our famous Dorothy and her troop as well as our classmates of whom we have dreamed and deemed successful. As we file out with the crowd, we are certain of the fact that we are one of the greatest classes ever to have been graduated from Plano Hi, but the critics will bring the true report of the real performance in the near future. CLASS HXSTCPJ' As the house lights dim, the conductor, Mr. P. H. M11- ler, raises his baton as he strikes the first chord of the opening strain. ' As the music softens, the soloist, Miss Kirkpatrick, begins the new overture, followed by the orchestra, con-V sisting of: Betty Anderson, Cleo Bromeland, Alberta Cass, Betty Casner, Marcia Curwen, Dorothy Erwin, Barbara Hughes, Elaine Killey, Edna Konow, Carol Madsen, Delores Meier, Rena Newkirk, Elizabeth Csborn, Joanne Olson, Virginia Peterson, Loretta Sampson, Richard Sauer, Vera Fae Scull, Luther Walker, Bette Kennedy, and John Soderberg. During the first part of the overture we recall many incidents which occured. We began to learn the arts of reading and writing and became acquainted with the different instru- ments to knowledge. The second movement began with our soloist, Mrs. E. Gill and with many new pieces added, such as, John Dunne, Florence Hough, Hans Hubbard, Raymond Kimmey, Earl Severson, Neva Coffman, Rufus Rumpheimer, Warren Mundwiler. Some of