Rankin Township High School - Mirror Yearbook (Rankin, IL)

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Vaughan jomed our crew thxs year Alven came from Btsmarck Hrgh behool and Stuart came from Beaver Dam W1scons1n Also Joann Gudeman, from Malta I-hgh School Jomed us And adam we lost a member Don Wolfe Th1s year was to be a very busy one for us as we had to prepare for the ,Tumor Semor Prom tn the Spnng The prom was held May 12 1954 1n the Urbana Lmcoln Hotel and was a very f1ne affaxr Then we had our reun1on whxch was held at Parxs agam and followed xt w1th another three months vaca t1on We assembled m September for a very xmportant year as lf IS supposed to be our last Two new members Beverly Ntsewarner and Vlrgll Baker were added to the crew We elected Jlm Kunce to head our class Vlfgll Baker was to ass1st h1m Wanda Osborn kept the mxnutes Elsle Hasler was to keep traek of the money for the fourth year 1n Hofbauer Alven Stevens and Pat Horton Of our whole crew Pat Horton Mona Boehme and Jlm Kunce are the only ones who have been together from the tlme we started rn flrst grade Pubhshmg the Broadcaster once every srx weeks and also puttlng out the year book and everythmg that goes w1th xt were to make th1s our bus1est year Then we had Class N1ght Bac calaureate and graduatlon to look forward to Agaln 1n the sprxng w111 meet Wllh the rest of the class for our last Reumon 6, ll 5 5757? 1 f A KZJCKZF ff Z x ll Q l 'ill -- M if ,V ix if A K X, It Xf 4 ff f fly ' Q fl ! ek! F ' ? f ff O

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th Let s turn on the te1ev1s1on and see 1f there IS anythmg znterestrng on Look here s my favor1te program What s my Secret w1th Gene Hofbauer as master of ceremontes The panel cons1sts of Betty Brewmgton who IS a graduate nurse from Bloommgton Alven Stevens who lS a br1l11ant DhYSlClSI work1ng w1th the S Bomb 1n Chlcago and the thlrd member IS Joann Gudeman who lS Louella Parsons ass1stant and fast becom1ng a famous QOSSID column1st and overshadow1ng Louella The last but not least lS Herb Theesfeld who lS marr1ed to the former Ellen Morger Herb now owns h1s own saw m1ll and takes up te1ev1s1on as a hobby Now the secret IS be1ng revealed to the aud1ence by Alberta Berqu1st one of the class members Alberta IS a bookkeeper for the te1ev1s1on stat1on The secret revealed lS a group of people the graduatlng class of 1955 We 11 start w1th the f1rst member of the panel Betty Betty Do I know these people? Alberta Yes Joann Are they my age'7 Alberta Yes Herb D111 I go to school w1th them? Alberta Yes Alven Oh I know! I bet they are our classmates Gene Correct Your rema1n1ng classmates are all here and we w111 1nterv1ew them now Panel you can take your masks off now MCdlC31 Secretar1a1 School 1n Danv1l1e but after graduatmg they were marr1ed and l1ve on a farm near C1ssna Park Here s our f'IlllOllS tap dancer Mrs Gene Hofbauer the former EISIC Hasler Thetr gxrls are already cheerleadmg and tap danclng tak1ng after mother And there s also Gene Jr who IS h1gh scorer on the Hustle Basketball team There s also Beverly N1sewarner who IS 11v1ng 1n Japan w1th Chuck her husband She has just returned so she could be back on the program After graduattng Wanda Osborn went to Wash1ngton D C to work for the Bureau of the Census There she met a member of the d1plomat1c servtce whom she marr1ed They are now happ11y marr1ed and l1VlIlg 1n Pak1stan Now we have another prosperous farm owner V1rg1l Baker now owns half 1nterest tn Paul Young s farm at Re1lly and IS marr1ed to the former BCFHSICB Kunce of Rankm Next 1S Mrs Ted Reynolds of Rantoul She was the former Pat Horton Mrs Reynolds IS the only woman from Rank1n who has the honor of havmg sextuplets Here lS the owner of the famous cha1n of Vaughn Stores He lS another graduate of Ran klfl Stuart Vaughn Stuart has a true success story He started out as a butcher 1n an IGA Store He f1nal1y obtamed h1s own cha1n of stores from that meager start Here we have the former Mona Boehme now marr1ed to Jack S11ver Mona lS now a famous haxr styltst 1n New York C1ty Jack IS an engmeer and at present he lS bu1ld1ng the Chop1 Chop1 br1dge 1n the Wtlds of Ch11e Here's Jim Kunce and his wife, the former Carol Swanson. After graduating Carol attended mon class ptzophecy