Rantoul Township High School - Eaglet Yearbook (Rantoul, IL)

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PURPLE AND GOLD 27 At present, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Condit, tMrs. Condit formerly Doris Browni are stationed in Rome. This is the first stopping place in their annual music tour. They expect to go to Hongkong, China, where they will probably broadcast. Don Green is manager and outfielder of the New York Giants. He has the highest record of batting average which is four-hundred-fifty eight per cent. His classmates praise him highly because his team won the National League Pennant and World's Championship in'1949. Olena Cole has received the B.A. and M.A. degrees in the University of Illinois and Harvard. She is Professor of Language in Yale College at the present time. She is in good favor with all her pupils and ranks among the best teachers there. Robert Clark is employed in the U. S. mail service, flying route 379 from London, England to Gifford, Illinois, making record breaking speed at five hours and thirty-two minutes, averaging 380 miles an hour. Dora Howe met bereavement in her heart affair. She went to Europe to forget her troubles and became a model in the Paris Fashion Shop in Paris, France. Cyril Duke- ll-.-.-Pres?-ident of the Baby Doll Manufacturing Company and Association, and Marion Welles, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer of the organization, areihaving a great financial success which is still increasing. I have learned that they are elected to these offices for a life-time term which I'm sure pleases both of them. Just a moment, please-James Hampel is waiting patiently to break the news of his great slenderizing secret. In a few moments he will ex- plain his best reducing exercises. Mae McCain is proprietor of a hot-dog stand in Kankakee, Illinois. About a week a-???-go a band of robbers entered the stand and took all her merchandise and money. She is regaining her money and has her stand fully equipped again. She invites you to visit her at any time convenient to you. Ruth White is in Champaign as the manager of the Marinello Shoppe. She has many customers. Even the men are going there for a manicure and marcel. Ida Zander and Keno Morgan were married about five years after our graduation. She attended a music school for a few years, and Ken- neth attended a coaching school. They are now located in England. Kenneth has been hired as coach in the Oxford University and Ida is Dean of Music in the Woman's College which is located only a few blocks from the Oxford campus. Agness During is the wife of a miner in Pennsylvania. He is employ- ed in the big coal fields at Pittsburg. Gertrude Drinkwalter- ,??? is the wife of the Manager of one of the Woolworth Chain Stores. Their home at the present time is in Palm Beach, Florida. They are gradually becoming multi-millionaires. I suppose you all remember the Thomasboroite that joined us in our l

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26 PURPLE AND GOLD RADIO NEWS Station R. T. H. S., Rantoul, Illinois, Broadcasting 1926 Alumni News. 8:00 P. M., Friday, June 2, 1950. This is Station R. T. H. S., Rantoul, Illinois. Our entire program this evening will be given over to the Alumni Association of the Class of 1926 of Rantoul Township High School. We wish to introduce Clark Webber, nation-wide orator, who is one of the Alumni. Just a moment, please- I have some interesting news to tell you classmates who I know are listening from all parts of the country. The coming of this unusual program has been broadcast for several weeks so we feel confident that many are tuning in and enjoying a good laugh at their old friends. Do you remember the two cut-ups of the class-Lee Sheuring and Lee Smedley? These boys tried very hard, but in vain, to make a financial success of their Cedar-Chest Factory in the thriving city of Prospect, but were forced to go into bankruptcy. On the other hand, along with the failures, we have some who have been successful. Dwight Hall has received a fortune since he succeeded King Benjamin in the House of David at Benton Harbor in 1940. Al- though barbering was his trade, he has no need for it now. Emmett Holmgren has consecrated his life to this faith and is now manager of the street car line in Benton Harbor, Michigan. I suppose you have heard that Leota Wilson after being employed for a few months in Lawyer Mulliken's office in New York, became in- fatuated with him. They were married, and now they are living in Locarno, Switzerland where he is serving as ambassador for United States. Red Odell is now proprietor of a Tailoring and Dry Cleaning Shop in Savoy, Illinois. Jesse Menefee is his assistant. Since the seasons have changed and rainy weather was the result, many suits have been soiled by the Savoyites, and their occupation has been very successful. Raymond Starkey is acting as Principal and Coach in Pumpkin Center High School. Vera Menefee and Annie Schroeder are faithful teachers under his direction. Mae Murrell has been employed for the last fifteen years in Per- fect Peace Restaurant in Timothy, Illinois. She is chief cook and bottle washer at the present time. Of course, we feel sure she must 'have re- ceived her knowledge from dear old R. T. H. S. Keith Drennan, the famous dare-devil of Rantoul, is now in London at the Roaming World's Fair, showing his skill with his Never Stop Ford. Faye Evans and Bill Ainsworth are famous movie stars in play, The Delicious Little Devil now being filmed.

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28 PURPLE AND GOLD fourth year of High School, Mylla Taylo. She became the wife of a weal- thy society man. About three weeks ago, he purchased Muscle Shoals from Henry Ford forthalf a billion dollars. They have paid the debt off and are rapidly becoming billionaires. Dwight Leonard, as you all remember, was very much interested in Chemistry in High School. He invented a-boom???!!!-pop- ' a gas called D. E. L. all of the properties have not been identified yet, but he thinks that the explosive property belongs especially to it. At this time, we will hear about Mr. Hample's reducing exercises. Just a moment, please--James has decided that he cannot afford to re- late his secret without financial support. This is Station R. T. H. S., Rantoul Township High School, Rantoul, Illinois, now signing off until 8:45 tomorrow night. We hope you have enjoyed our program this evening. Good night. 1 Eva Mae Gerdes, Wayne Stout. H SENIOR CLASS PLAY The Class of '26 of the Rantoul Township High School presented the Annual Senior Play on Friday, April 16, '26, at 8:00 o'clock, in the High School Gymnasium. The name of the play was Miss Somebody Else. This is a copy- right play and demands royalties for each presentation. This play is in the form of a four act comedy and takes the adventures of a multi- millionaire's daughter in trying to find a crook who has defrauded her father. She lives for a time, disguised as an Irish maid, in the home of her mother's friend Ann Delevan, manager of the Tuxedo Brook Club House. To this place the Crook repairs as he makes love to Ann's blithe young daughter jointly with his deep engrossment in an affair of the heart with the debutante daughter of Tuxedobrook's social leader. How Miss Somebody Else recovers the lost satchel, entrusted to the care of the unsuspecting Delevans, accomplishes the capture of the crook, and wins the social leader's son as the prize makes a story that you should never have missed. Susan Ruggs and her undertakings plus her Conscience contrive a superiority complex that is laughable, while poor Jasper, devoted to science and fond of his family in an absent-minded sort of way, promises no end to amusement.