Shadeland High School - Echo Yearbook (Shadeland, IN)

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After nearly one and one-half miles of walking, we came upon a house where, to our' astonishment we found the former ROSEMARY I-IINES, her husband, CHUCK ANGSTADT. and their three little girls preparing to go to town. We had a nice chat with them, after which Chuck offered to fix our car for us and do any other necessary repairs at his ga- rage in Kansas City. Chuck and Rosie were married a few months after they graduated and just decided to leave Indiana and start in business for themselves in Kansas City. Bothwere fine and their children all look like Rosie! We finally got on our way and went on to Springfield, Illinois where we encountered a convention at our hotel--The National Dairy Convention. After gettin our room, we decided to go to a show. because we certainly couldn't sleep with all the noise. While leaving the hotel, we met'BILL BAUMGARDT and RIC!-IIE SMITH who were attending the convention. We had a visit with them and soon found out that Bill is manager of the Curtis Candy Company Farm, in Kankakee, Illinois and Richie is the supervisor of all dairy barn work there. Bill showed us some pictures of his home and family in Kankakee. Richie is also married and lives in one of the tenant houses. Both boys enjoy their work and the location seems very good as it isn't too far from Indiana. We had a delightful evening and a most restful night, considering the convention. The' next day we started our journey again, heading for Lafayette, Indiana, our home town. We arrived there in the evening and decided to stop at the Grand View Dairy Bar. Coming out of the office was DALE I-IAYNES, who is now the owner of the dairy. We knew he had worked there for several years, but never realized he was the owner. Dale treated us to a very large helping of ice cream. He told us that he had taken over the ownership four years after he graduated from high school. The next day we decided to visit dear old Shadeland High School. The band was prac- ticing when we arrived there, so we decided to go in and listen. There, directing, was MARILYN COCKRELL. We had a most enjoyable visit with Marilyn at the end of the peri- od and she told us she had been teaching music for two years, had been married for three years, and lives on the West Side, enjoying life more ever day. That afternoon we started out for Chicago and got in there in the late afternoon. We stopped at a cute little eating place where we discovered VIOLET LEAVITT, who is the manager of two stores in a chain of restaurants. Violet is living with her sister and is planning to be married next spring. It so happened that there was to be a guest opera soloist at the Chicago Civic Opera House that night, so Violet and we two went to see it. You'd never guess who the soloist was--none other than PEG O'BRlEN. The opera was lovely and afterward we tried to work our way to her dressing room, but there was a long line of people waiting for auto- graphs. Finally, we caught her eye and she insisted we come to the head of the line. Peg is married and is living in New York where she studied voice after graduating from Indiana University. She had really worked to the top in the work of music. ' We spent the night with my brother, MAURICE I-IEEMSTRA, his wife and their three boys on the South Side. Maurice teaches Social Science at Hammond High School, where he has been teaching ever since he graduated from Indiana University in l955. Z7

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Prophecy My girl friend and X were on a business trip from Los Angeles, California to New York City for the purpose of buying new clothes for a leading clothing store. In doing so we were very fortunate in having the opportunity to renew acquaintances with old friends from Shadeland, Indiana. Before leaving Los Angeles, we decided to stop in Pasadena at a garage to have our car checked, and who do you suppose was standing just outside the office? None other than JERRY FLACK, 'the owner. He had come out to California to visit relatives several years ago and had just decided to stay. Jerry looked well and his business seemed to he going along perfectly. After leaving Pasadena, we traveled on into desert land until we reached Needles, California, where we decided to spend the night. We thought we were seeing double when we went into the hotel, but suddenly we realized it was the former REMSBURG TWINS, Jean and Joan. Their husbands were in partnership operating a new hotel and the twins were the desk clerks. They don't have children but said that after they got better estab- lished, they could settle down and raise families. The next day we started out very early and got as far as Santa Fe, New Mexico, where we decided to rest our weary bones for the night. The next morning we awoke with a bang, for, you see, a new school was having open house that dayg and the children were going up and down the streets before school took up, yelling for everyone to come and visit their school. As we were very curious, we decided to visit the new school and MARYLIN MORGAN greeted us at the door. She is a nurse for the hospital and had just given the little first grade Mexicans a physical check up. She is living a happily marriedlife with her two little boys - and husband, of course. Marylin told us that if we would go to the commercial room we would find someone else we might accidently know. Sure enough, there was ELAINE BLAIN with a typing class of ten hand- some Mexican boys. Elaine and' Marylin went to college together and then decided to go West for jobs. Elaine is still single, but she seemed to be enjoying herself. We decided we would sleep that afternoon and then start out driving in the evening. About halfway to Wichita, Kansas we stopped at a little eating place. We noticed a large truck outside the restaurant, but never dreamed the driver would be GENE KIRTS. 'of course, where you see Gene you most generally see TOM BENNER, which was true, also. in this case. We were beginning to wonder if we were dreaming, after all this. Gene was driving the moving van to Arizona and Tom was accompaning him on this trip, as there was a letup on the farming season. Both are single and still looking! We arrived in Wichita the following afternoon and decided to go shopping. As we were entering a clothing store, we ran right into a woman who had packages piled so high we couldn't tell for a moment who she was. After apologizing, however, we discovered it was the former THOMASENE BURTSFIELD. Thommy is happily married and also has a good job as secretary with a large firm in Wichita. After spending a most delightful night at Thomasene's home, we traveled on to Kansas City, Missouri. About ten miles just outside Kansas City our car stalled, and, since neither of us knew anything about the mechanism of a car, we started out walking to the nearest house to call out a Wrecker. ' 26

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The following morning we headed for our next destination - Detroit, Michigan, where we planned to see Michigan State play Notre Dame. We had wonderful seats where we kept hearing the name Guse being mentioned, and finally woke up to the fact that the people were talking about RONNIE GUSE, the coach of Michigan State. After the game, we went down to the entrance of the Coach's dressing room where we met MARY BAILEY who is now Mrs. Ronnie Guse. Mary told us that Ronnie had been coach for two years and was ' really having pretty good luck with his teams. Soon Ronnie came out followed by their son whom Ronnie promises to make a football player someday. They invited us over for dinner and there were JIM WATT and his wife. Jim owns a resort on the lake where business is always good both summer and winter, as they can rent it out in the winter as well as summer in Detroit. After hearing all about Detroit, we spent the night at Jim's Hotel and then started out for Cleveland. Ohio. This might seem like a roundabout way but we decided to take in all the sights and large cities we could, as we had the time. We drove through Cleveland and did a little window shopping on the way. I had a split- ting headache so we stopped at the nearest drugstore, which was Adkins Pharmacy. Upon entering. we ran into LORENE GRAVES Adkins. She and her husband own the pharmacy in Cleveland. They have two children, a boy and a girl, and really are enjoying themselves, both at work and at home. Lorene invited us over for a snack, but we declined as we want- ed to get on our way again. We traveled merrily on and spent the night in New Castle, Pennsylvania. The next morning we decided to drive on to Williamsport, Pennsylvaniato have our hair fixed at a beauty shop. Having heard that DOROTHY SEYFRIED had a shop there, we looked her up and, sure enough, we found Dot's Beauty Shop. She was very happy to see us and tell us of her adventures as a beautician and to hear of adventures during our travels. Dorothy is single and lives in a lovely apartment where we stayed all night. The following morning we started out at five o'clock and got into New York City in the middle of the afternoon, going directly to our hotel. We had an enjoyable visit with the desk clerk, with whom I had corresponded before. He invited us to accompany him and a friend of his to a night club which had been in business for a short time. After a delicious dinner came the orchestra! I thought, at the time, that l should know the leader, and when he turned around l recognized him as KENNETH BUTLER! Kenneth not only has a wonderful orchestra but also owns the club. He isn't married yet, 'but, I guess, he's just too busy for that now. Incidentally we got all this information from his head waitress, Beulah! ! Kenneth had gone backstage before we had a chance to see him again so we went on back to our hotel talking about the adventures we had on our way to New York. How wonderful it is that each member of this class is holding a good job--either as a homemaker, mechanic, manager, or owner in many different fields of- work! Z8