Stephenson High School - Classmate Yearbook (Stephenson, MI)

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classmate sliows experience ... maybe i roiild hire liiin to drive my cloud... tliiiik i ' ll take a sneal peel ; at my liome town. . . ' etting- Icind of lonesome for the old place... ah i see a new modern building: with pool hall written on the side. . .proprietor eldred swanson ! say-he i.s doing: okay ! look at all tlie business he has... he got his experience during his scliool days . . . mo -ing my glance a little south of Stephenson i see a huge farm with all the modern conveniences. . .with all these worJc saving devices it could only have one o ler. . .alex malawka!! another con- venience is his cute little wife... leave it to alex to be eomfoi table. . . shifting my glances a little i see an- other farmer. . .these modem farms sure are something. . .push a button in the house and the cows are milked out in the barn...ervin wery is the proud owner of this ultra modern farm. . . say who are those girls in the white unifornis down there???? they ' re going into the new modera high school-can ' t be school kids cause they look older than that... guess i ' ll lower my cloud a little and take a good look. . .well if it isn ' t norma ca.sebeer and marilyn fit .patriek in their slick white nurses luiiforms. ..i ' ll tet they have a lot of patients! they al- ways were good at getting along with people. . . hey-buddy look at that big building over down below witli all those care sit- ting around. . .can you imagine what it is . ' i can ' t either. . .get under this cloud bud- dy and pull it down a little. . .aJi- now i can see what it is. . .a new standard oil station. . .look ! ! ! there is fred lebeau down there. . .he used to be a classmate of mine way back in ' 50... maybe we can get a ear from him. . .what am i talking about?? what would i do with a car up here. . . now that my cloud is down lower i can see positively everything. . .another new building! can ' t miss this one it ' s so large... i see that it ' s an apartment.... proprietor - josejih morin...they say he built this place himself. . .helping him run the place is his capable wife-the former rosena rasmussen . . . i can see that it ' s a very successful marriag e . . . for a.s long as i can remember joe and rosena went to- gether. . . say - i heai ' d that they finally got the bridge built across the straits. . .they said it could never !»• done - and guess who accomplished this magnificent miracle??? none other than my old buddy harold pratt...lie said he was going to be an engineer but i never thought he would be this famous. . . shifting my glance ba.ck to Stephen- son i notice a large crowd is gathered . . . looks like a big celebration. . .wonder what the oecasiion is? it .seems to be .some sort of an exhibition. . .say buddy would you like to come down with me? okay then get out and push ... ah - here we are... why look if it isn ' t james hacker. . .now i know what it ' s all about . . . jim just came back from a hunting trii over in africa - and today he is showing all the animals he caught, . ' .looks like jim had a successful trip... look at all the lions and tigers he has... glad i wasn ' t with him there! and last biit not least i see an apart- ment liuilding in milwaukee .. .there are four girls living there, .one is eleaning the small apartment - if it isn ' t my old buddy pat caulk. .. (remember how she used to hate work...) but since she became en- gaged to |)anl sakovitz she works like a beaver. . . out in the tiny kitchen is bbmdie - better known a.s shirley winter! she ' s prac- ticing cooking. . .wonder why? just take a look at her left hand ! you guessed it - in another month she ' 11 be iixrs. al thoune . . . golly with two diamonds in the clique the apartment will soon be vacated. . .those cute chintz curtains will go to waste... hey! what are we doing up here? let ' s get down to earth . . . hang on ! here we go ! ah yes - gin allgeyer and lorraine aman the other two members of the quartet . . . we have no future plans - maybe writers - after that darn prophecy we should be good . . .but i guess we will be buddies to the end . . . this is the end ! ! ! 28

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c spci-ctHry uUulys krantz. . .Imlli wiTc liDiio; ' studi ' iits t ' l-diii tlip class of ■. )() and have used tlicii- brains to ' ft sonii ' whci-c in t!i world .. .Ilic I ' ii ' st huly president lias ap l)ointed bill vvaranius as the seeretary oL ' state. . .mv. warainns is miss enrey ' s rigiit hand man in all of the important mattei ' s and by the looks of thing ' s mr waranins is U ' oin ' to a(kl something- to miss eoi ' ey ' s left hand. . . ( it tilitteis) ! in T)!) wheiu ' ver ou saw niarilyn yon saw bill and yiiess that ' s how it will be fm- sonictiine to come .... like father like son so the saying- t;oes and it looks like enyene joues has kept up the tradition. . .see over on the east side of washing-ton d.e. in that huge office sits eugene. . .he ha control of all the powei plants in the country ...( big wheel) lie jnst called in his se-retaiy niai ' ion hering ...niy-she even sits on his lap to take dictation ... they both seem to be doing oka - ! (in bnsiness-of course). well what do ' on know-another one of my (da-smates in Washington (l.c....non ' other than wayne krneger! wayne i: ' head of the democi-atic pai ' ty now! wayne was never at a lo s for words at school... now he has put his gift of gab to work. . . guess i ' U take a little peak at grec! bay now. . .ah-what ' s this i see? the l ;ni- ger green bay business eolleu-e. . .it ' s under new management now. . .do you remember marjorie peterson and betty ball-those two girls who were as in-eparal le as siames twins. . .well thcy ' vi ' taken over the collet now and ari ' really putting out some effi eient se. ' retaries. . .i can remember back in sidlool how thi ' y were both whi . ' s at typing- ill id slioi-thand . . .there ' s another old biidd of mine-glen ba-knuin. . .i see he owns ami operates the green bay Inmlier company. . he got his experience by working in the woods on Saturdays during- his seliool days . . . m.y eyes are -wandering toward the east-to the huge g-littering i-ity of iic »- york...i see a distinguished looking man carrying a large brief ease... by the looks of him he is somebody important. . .what ' s that name on Ids brief case? jirofession.al lawyei--|iaiil bast ieii .. .even in school he eouhl talk pco|ile int i d ling tliiiig -c -cii if the - diiln ' t want to. . . i sei a lieantifnl pcntlious, and in this pciitliou 1 ' i see a young laiiy thi-owing papers around .. .fi-oni tlie looks of the I ' oom she must lie a writer. . .just as i :lassmate tliought- -iolette b.ickman ! i knew she ' d be a great writer someday .. .she always did do a lot of eomposing back in .school- espci-ially for the sehool paper. . . my roving gaze is back in Stephenson again .. .what ' s this i see? an old ela.s?,- mate of mine in a poliee eai ' -why eddie godlewski-what dul you do? heek-he didn ' t do anything. . .he ' s a .state trooper! jast cruising around i sn|)i)ose-didn ' t tliink an arrested man wonld ilrive the police car. . . ah lia-here is another farmer from the class of ' oO. . .none other than bob fox. . . he owns and operates a farm at eedar river- miehigan . . . stephen.soii sure has grown-i see they have a professional baseball team now! better known as the wolf paek ...re- mcnibei- m-ton melchoir-he just signed a ten-year contract with the wolves as eatoh- er... another contract just a.s important has been sig-ned. . .there ' s oidy one hiteli dug is now married to none other than aliee le perance. . .aliee claims this is one. eontraet that ean ' t be broken. . . there is another one of our classmates mrs. richard bnelteman-the former delia hayward . . . tliro igli the window we can see her bathing her little eherub ! do yon want to be beautiful ? do 3 ' on want hands that men adore . do you want to get eng-aged . ' the new beauty shop in .Stephenson does this and more for you... if you are a eomplete drip-it will nmke you more eomplete. . . projjrietor-adelaide Iteau- doin...even baek in TiU adelaide ' s hair was neat as a g ' lamorified wig . . . ah i see that another giid from the class of ' 50 is married ... remember anne sjoholm : ' she ' s mrs. manny sundberg now . . .they live in a sky-blue pink house with a grass green-red lawn about 8 miles fi-om step ' henson . . . isn ' t mai ' ried life wonderful anne? ever been in a raft on the pacific oiean? that ' s just the way i ' m beginnini;- to feel on this cloud... it ' s swaying and turning around so much i can hardly keep my glance focused ... not even the darned emergency brake will stop it... i see fig ' ures but i can ' t make them stand still... the (d(md below has passeil and i can sim ' through miw ..a huge red semi truck is traveling- down tlii ' road... wow he is going to hit that oncoming car . . .oops-he missed . . . (the car that is. . . ) no wonder he missed it wa.s wari ' en newdin driving. . .the way he handles the truck •II

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