St Johns School - Rebel Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Head of Booster Club 1949-50, 1950-51g Honor Roll: Prefeet 19515 Review. Most Representative Senior Girl, . Biggest Party Girl, The Deb, wonderful parties, booster of the Booster Club. Ticket.v? Anybody want to buy some tickets? BETTY ANN WE.. Batty Betty' 0144-J JOAN ELIZABETH WILSON djoaniff' Dramaticsg Review, Yearbook 1951: 1950 History Career Girl. Ye olde grindef' 7: 44 f Award: Honor Roll: Prefect 1951 L Booster Club 1950-51. Most Likely to Suvveed, Most Typical Southern Girl,

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far 1 WILLISTON BRAFIDRETH SYMONDS Willy Football U1-794 948+ -'494 950415 Wrestling '50-'51g Dramatirsg Reviewg Yearbook 1951g 1947, 1950 Head The Host with the Most? Wrestler, Bookkeeper. l x x ft kJ3!.l WILLIAM DITLEF VON VOSS Wee-Willglii Football '48g Wrestling '50 - '5lg Dramatics. Camp-fire boy, Fred Astaire of St. John'sehave you seen him wiggle those hips? Future engineer for Southern Pacific. X rw 26 44 Acolyte Awardsg Prefect 1951. Most Likely to Succeed,

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?????--- ' February 12, 1961 DEAR CLASSMATE: Since our ten-year reunion is coming up in only a few months, Class Secretary Bill Symonds thought it would be a good idea for me to do some checking up beforehand, and mail this letter out to all of you fellow-grads of our old Alma Mater. Naturally, I felt unworthy of such a task, but you will all understand how hard it was to refuse that day up in his ofiice, with all four secretaries helping him to cajole me. So here is all of the news I could look up about our old chums, and we hope to see all of them next june. Of course, Bill has been keeping in touch with almost all of us, but for the benefit ofthe rest he is keeping pretty busy between New York and Houston, as well as holding positions on several Washington boards, in spite of his natural aversion to working for the Democrats. Bruce Harrington and Claude Fuqua both have offices in the new Cotton and Petroleum Building, and they are often seen playing golf together on Saturday afternoons, but their families keep them pretty well tied down on Sundays. Those of you who made the trip to Bruce's new ranch a few weeks back will remember how cute the twins were trying to ride horseback. Always a good host, Bruce has promised us some good deer hunting next season, and Pete Bowers expects to get away from his wife and come down from Canada, where he has been for almost a year engineering a new fish pipeline. It looks like Sue Dearborn won't be able to make it to the reunion by June, for she plans to stay on the Riviera through the summer with her husband, automobile racer and sportsman, Count Ivan Alexis. You probably all saw their picture in Life as she congratulated him at the finish line of the Paris-Marseille Grand Prix. She was planning to come back in time for the reunion on their eighty-nine foot sailing schooner, in which the couple has won several trans-atlantic cups, until the change in plans occurred. Most of the rest of the girls will be here, for as you know, Joan Wilson has been living on a luxurious ranch just outside Dallas and since her husband was called to Lake Maracaibo by some drilling problems, she has been flying to New York regularly to shop and visit with Marie de Menil, who has settled there for a little while to do some promotional work with the Metropolitan Opera. Neither of them should have much trouble getting away, and Betty Ann West writes from Paris that she is cutting short her annual trip in order to get back in time, though she is having to leave her husband in France. just last year. Joe Shimek was appointed to the post of Chief Strategic Coordinator by Presi- dent Truman. This keeps him very busy both in Washington and on inspection trips, for he is working on direct orders from the President to reduce efiiciency as much as possible not just in this country but all over the world. It is quite an honor to have one of our classmates become the first eight-star general in history. . Incidentally, Joe Slotnick has stayed relatively close to home since the publication of his paper on some discrepancies he found in the application of Planckls constant in the Unified Field formulas. In spite of the repercussions his work has caused in every Held from astronomy to nuclear physics, he has remained on the technical advisory board of the Houston-Amalgamated-United Geophysical Research Corporation, which has been working under some tremendous government contracts. Colonel del Valle has just been granted his retirement from the Marine Corps in view offthe revolutionary tactical methods he has helped to develop. As you know, he was one of the first induc- tees to be sent through college and graduate-school under plan V-13.14159, and his training seems to have really paid off in increasing the efficiency of the Marines from 11252 to l68W. Even in the short time he has been practicing, Dr. Jesse Dickson's name has spread far beyond the borders of our state. Not only has he been watching over our football team-undefeated now for seven years, or since the ninth grade we knew became seniors-but he has gained national pres- tige by his work with a variety of boy's organizations, including the Boy Scouts as well as several new and even more worthwhile bodies which he and a small group of public-spirited alumni helped to found. Among these, incidentally, is Jimmy Petersen, who has been very successful in his uprotection racket. Jimmy is still in Africa on his latest safari on which he hopes to bag some specimens of rare game which is said to abound in the country just north of the corner of Rhodes vw 28 44