Roanoke Benson High School - Ro Vic Yearbook (Roanoke, IL)

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If you are ever driving through Texas he sure to stop in at the 'Martin Slap Happy Dude Ranch. You will be entertained by that beautiful red- haired flame, Winnie Martin, and her guitar. Her exquisite music has brought all the wolves to Texas. Jack Sauder has just been appointed Secretary of Agriculture. He was appointed upon his merit and also because of his super-natural hog calling voice. Donnie Gudeman has won fame in Hollywood as an actor. He is the only living human being that can wiggle his ear, blow smoke rings, tight-rope walk, stand on one hand, play the piano with the other, and wiggle his toes all at the same time, while the band plays the polka. Virginia Priller, we find, has started up her own business and is doing quite well as a grocery Woman. She is in partnership with Joe Rediger and the name of her store in Joe and Joe's Food Stuff. Tom Paluska has reached the height of his ambition. He has finally been selected to be the main organ-grinder man in Cole Brothers' Circus. Due to the shortage of man-power Goldie Schuler has taken a position as a clown in Cole Brothers' Circus. In Tommy and Goldie's spare time you will find them feeding the elephants. Believe it or not Donna Schirer has finally settled down on a farm of her own. When she is not helping her husband, she is taking care of her pet calf and two kids. Rosemary Wilson turned down her ambition of joining the WAVES for a position of driving a transfer truck from Roanoke to Eureka. She has a man in every farm house along the way, so she takes the hard road past Bluniers going over, and the gravel road past Sauders coming back. This way she can make the rounds every day. ' Eliza Kistner is a missionary in far Africa. Her gentle ways have tamed the most savage savage. Her greatest achievement, a school for apes, has made her many close friends. Betty Walker with her beautiful singing voice is the leader of a church choir. Every Sunday their voices fill the church and crowd the people out. Irma Pfister has a job working for the Pfister Hybrid Co. She helps with the detasseling in the summer and shelling in the winter. Dot Martin, we find, is singing for the Salvation Army and you should hear the men swoon as she holds on to one of those high notes. And last but not least, our dear Mr. Cravens was left broken-hearted when his favorite lovable seniors graduated. He couldn't bear the sight of school without his dear little seniors so he decided that the only alternative was to join the Navy. He has now achieved the rating of eaman 3rd class after being in the Navy four years. Every pay day Wil find the sailors gathered around Seaman Cravens to participate in that little game that has to do with rolling ivory cubes. No wonder his family is on relief. The above has been prophesied, written, and approved by the three great and notable prophets, Mildred Rocke, Anne Wallace, and Jerry Sauder. 17

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Class Prophecy We hereby do prophesy that all of the following will take place no later than 10 years from this date-May 15, 1944. Kenny Bachman has grown a long curly mustache and sideburns to match, and is manager of the Mighty Secor Midgets baseball team. Ann Blunier Works for the Leman Hog Raising Company as secretary, and spends most of her time taking dictation from her perch on the boss' knee. After her last romance, which left her broken-hearted, Janice Brown is filling the highest position on the staff of the Roanoke Review, giving advice to the lovelorn in a column entitled The Voice of Experience. Tune in your radio to station USMC every morning at 1:30 a. m. and you will hear a familiar melancholy voice gurgling loudly and cooing softly like a mourning dove. It is none other than our own Private Robert McEl- downey enteiiaining the women Marines at his base in San Diego. Annette Pioletti is making personal appearances at army camps. She is Illinois' most famous jitterbug. Harriet Thommen was just married for the fourth time and is living with No. 4 and her ten freckled faced children in Cruger. June Wilson has become famous overnight. She can do the ballet, hula, and jazz wiggle at the same time and is now starring in the Martino Tulip Club. Ruth Sebree has graduated from a school of nursing and is on her Way to Europe, where she will not only play a heroic part innursing the soldiers' wounds, but will play a very important part in keeping up their morale by her kind motherly ways. A few weeks ago an elaborate party Was the talk of the town. It was the Coming Out Party of none other than Georgette Pretet who announced that since she is no longer kept busy with her school work she is seeking a social career. Jerry Sauder is in full charge of the Sauder Funeral Home as an under- taker. He is now undertaking the task of supporting his wife and a beau- tiful baby daughter who looks just like her father. Mildred Rocke has just accepted a position in Hawaii as Hula Queen instructor of Honolulu. I hear she is quite the wiggle type and has finally wiggled herself into her life's dream of going to Hawaii. Anne Wallace has finally settled down in Roanoke and is the proud mother of 7 crew-cut, bow-legged, and knock-kneed kids. She also does secretary work at the Zimmerman Dental Clinic in her spare time. Bob Scherer has finally made up his mind to be a fisherman and is doing a good job. I hear he finally caught a blonde one. Charles Mangold swings the hash and flips the flapjacks at a ritzy joint in Secor. He cuts hair as a sideline and I do mean sideline. He uses one of his bowls as a pattern. He just signed up Myrtle to be his head waitress. Joey Bussone has set up a laboratory and is diligently working to find a formula to get more miles out of gasoline so he can get from Roanoke to Bloomington at least twice a week. 16

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Junior Class Picture Top row, left to right: Marvin Yordy, Richard Rocke, Richard Zimmerman, Lloyd DeJohn, Eddie Teuscher, Jim Leman. Second row: Annabelle Martin, Marilyn DeWilde, Wilma Hefler, Helen Hodel, Neta Fauber, Betty Hangartner, Wilma Scherer. Third row: Malinda Hodel, Bertha Pisel, Geneva Ulrich, Mr. Webb, class adviser, Marjorie Hodel, Eunice Fehr, Carol Bachman. Bottom row: Robert Fischer, John Schirer, Milton Ekiss, Richard Fischer, Ben Fehr, Lee Sauder. Juniors . The juniors found themselves facing a great problem at the beginning of this term. They were supposed to raise enough nioney to give a banquet to the seniors, school board, and faculty in the spring. As it takes time to make enough money for a banquet, preparations were immediately begun. One of the first projects started was the selling of candy bars, potato chips, corn curls, peanuts, and popcorn at noons, after school, and at games. Hot dogs and pop were also sold at some of the basketball games. For many years the junior class has presented a play, and ours Was no exception. This play, Don't Keep Him Waiting, a three-act comedy, Was given October 18. It was a great success and We were proud to have made 95112.00 profit. Every class is asked to present an assembly program and We had ours the day of our play, The main attraction of the assembly was the play skits. A number of musical acts and a gossip column filled in the rest of the time. 18