Ravenhill Academy - Mariale Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Durmg the week we remamed there we met more of our old frxends though not school buddles T1me for departure came at last so we hastened to the a1rport We eft Sunday mornlng on a Jet Plane to make our way to M111 Creek the tr1p takmg us exactly twenty nme mmutes and two seconds to travel one thousand one hundred and f1ftc on mmlcs Perhaps we should expla1n thas buslness of M111 Creek In the year of my youth and manhood Bonnots M111 and Loose Creek were separate commumtxes but they are now comblned lnto one large metropol1s named M111 Creek Th1s took place due to the dlscovery of uramum by a mere accxdent when a tra1n left the ra1ls at Bonnots M111 and plunged 1nto the bluff After the wreckage was cleared up a state off1c1a1 of the M1ssour1 PaC1f1C Lmes took one of the rocks to be exam1ned lt proved to be uranium The off1c1a1 of course was none other than James Eynard who though he had started out as as an undertaker later dec1ded m favor of render1ng servlces to the state After ahghtlng from the large a1r bus 1n M111 Creek we walked up the street where qulte by accldent we met Mrs Bock who was taklng her youngest son to school She sald she took B111 to school every mornmg otherw1se the chxld would play truant He had the same 1deas about school as she QMary Lou1se Khethermes had when she was young She called our attent1on to the fact that every newspaper was full of the wonderful dlscovery of Dr FIBDCIS Kever It was a fast cure for pol1o fspht hydrogen and splxt atom mlxed wlth gold resulting 1n a 11qu1d olutlon whlch 1f taken at the proper tlme cures pollo mstantly H1s w1fe a former nurse at the hosp1tal Grace Portxng Kever had done much to asslst Dr Kever 1n the experxment My buddle and I went to a movle tx at afternoon and sat rlght next to a promment farmer and agrlcultt. dA xperlmenter of M111 Creek Ralph Boessen He had developed a seedless blackberry but then we were not so surprlsed after all for Mr Boessen was capable of almost anythmg And that my good frlends IS our story Clarence Buthod 51 Horner Maassen 51 8 I 1 . , . l , -- ' 9 1 . . . ,I . ,, . I ' 1 -- , , . 9 v f I v 1 9 1'- Q 1 , . . . . S 1 , 0 I 9 C 1 1- . . A , la' Lf , . I 1 - . n 1 4 1 ..- , n -- '

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A Trzp zn 1975 As I s1t here today on my terrace watching the golden moonbeaxns mmgle wxth the cool molst breeze saturated wlth hlac aroma my heart and mmd 1nS1St on revlewlng my recent tr1p over the Umted States and back 1nto the hllls of my youth Bonnots M111 and the vxcuuty of a nearby town My pal and I boarded a plane here ln Greenage Connectxcut and left for New York When we arrlved ln the cxty we passed over the Yankee stadxurn where the Cardlnals and the Brooklyn Dodgers were playlng thelr last game of the Serxes We bought tlckets and went to see the game There we saw Manager Ben Backes who coached The Red Bards He had hxs boys ln the rut unt1l the first of the exghth mmng when the manager grabbed the mask put on the catcher mit and pulled thas teaxn through The results of the tough work after the fxfteenth znmng raxsed the score to one run over the opponent Thls happened because the manager h1t a home run to untle the score after s1x tled mmngs The fxnal score reported was thxrty thmrty one After the game my buddy and I were walklng down the street ln New York when we met John Klxethermes who was com1ng out of h1s off ce to go on a long busmess trlp In a chat wlth h1m we learned that he was manager and proprxetor of the large Fargo Transport Company After leavlng John we passed a rad1o shop vision set the great demand of the day He sand he was dmsposxng of h1s rad1o supphes to make room for more televlslon sets as they were brmgmg more money We left New York on a boat for Annapohs Maryland Scoutlng around on decks and every nook and corner we dxscovered that Henry Wmgrath was the Captam of th1s large vessel He sa1d he had trled truckmg but found It was not to h1s hkmg We bade Adleu to Henry at the Naval Academy to whxch my pal and I attach wonderful memor1es of the tlmes we had there Here we met Admlral Rlchard Lecuru who was dr1111ng h1s comrades Rxchard recalled how his teachers had made hxm step He sa1d It really d1d hlm good to glve h1s subordmates the same work out Here we also met one of the Admlral s students Mr Albert Jansen who was gomg to advance to Commander nn a few weeks 1f he passed the test Albert mentloned that he surely had to study durmg all hls spare moments and then often untxl two o clock ln the morn1ng on what Rmchard considered easy 7 O l As we entered, we found, to our surprise, Edmund Grefrath demonstrating a tele-

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