Tremont High School - Echo Yearbook (Tremont, IL)

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 CLASS PROPHECY Station JOY presents the highlights in the Tremont Community Class of 39 as seen by Marianne Bolliger, Commentator on World Affairs. Y e now present Miss Bolliger. Hello folks, well, here I am once more speaking to you from Station JOY after an extended tour to the East Coast. I shall summarize briefly to you the many famous and interesting people with whom I came in contact. One morning upon alighting from the tram at New York, I was surprised to find Franklin Gunion, Star Reporter, for New York Herald, interviewing the various passengers. I gave him a few interesting inoidents for his paper and called a taxi to take me to my hotel. That taxi driver looked very familiar to me, and after a few minutes of hesitation, I discovered him to be no one else but Don Morris. On my way, X, also, passed the large dance studio of Jeanne Lambert. As I remember Jeanne back in old T. C. H. S., she was always dancing. It seemed quite natural for her to be doing this type of work. In a short while, I arrived at Waldorf-Astoria and met Mr. Lester Merle May (Bill, as I knew him) seated at the register desk. While registering I chatted with him a few minutes then went to my room, I was there only a few minutes when, Mis3 Mabelle Storrer, poet and journalist for Cospolitan arrived for an interview. After Mabelle left. Miss Irno Adcox, Social Secretary to the Mrs, J. A. Vanderbilt telephoned, inviting me to dine with them that evening. As perhaps you know, Mrs. Vanderbilt, was formerly Miss Borothy Getz of Tremont.

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I, Bill McMurry, do shift and transpose my ability to go steady to Jim Weeks. I, Bud Gunlon, do shift and transpose my Jitterbug possibilities t Ryan Hild hoping he will develop them to further extent. I, Vadis Riggenbach, do shift and transpose my quiet and unhastlngly ways to the certain mem- bers of the Freshman class in order to provide better order in the halls. I, Imo Adcox, do shift and transpose ray many stenographic duties around the school to whoever has ambition to accept them. I, Verla Schweigert, do shift and transpose my ability to play plngpong to Mae Staber. I, Mabelle Storrer, do shift and transpose my ability as an artist and scenery painter to Jean Patterson. I, Martha Burk, do shift and transpose my studious manners to Charles Nace. I, Jeanne Lambert, do shift and transpose my dancing abilities to Shirley Cox. I, Don Morris,.do shift and transpose my good- natured laugh to Madeline Woerner hoping it will prove useful to her. I, Shirley Van Horn, do shift and transpose my beautlfuly wavy hair to Anna Kaiser. I, Marge Bennett, do shift and transpose my cheerful disposition to Betty Hoffman.

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If then, went down to the beauty shop to get a manicure from none other than Martha Burk. Both Miss Burk and Miss Shirley Van Horn are very successful beauticians In this same shop. After this, I went out to the N.B.C. Studios to get my material organized for this fifteen minute broadcast. On my way, I met Mr. Charles Augustin, who Is a prosperous farmer back in Tre- mont, Illinois. He was vacationing in New York. With him was Vadls Rlggenbach, prominent rancher from Wyoming. Vadls informed me that he is taking up flying in his spare time. I was to meet Mrs. Vanderbilt at eight, so I hurried back to my hotel to dress for dinner. Upon entering my room, I was very pleasantly surprised to find Miss Esther Connell, who, incidentally, has Just captured the World's Pro- fessional Typing Championship with 350 words a minute. After chatting with Esther for a few minutes, it was time for me to meet Mrs. Vanderbilt. Upon entering the dining room, I was very pleasantly surprised to meet Mr. Harold Haskett, head of a large engineering firm in New York City. With him was Mr. Duane Hild, who is an investigator of Income Tax returns. They were waiting for Mr. William McMurry, who, they told me, was in the F. B. I. He had been seriously wounded in a fight with gangsters but was now recovering very rapidly, due to expert nursing by Verla Schweigert the modern Florence Nightingale. We then proceeded to our table. Upon glancing at the orchestra platform, I almost fell off my chair when I recognized Bob Becker, leading the orchestra. He saw me simultaneously and dedicated the next number to me. It was sung by Norma Jean Hoffman, orchestra vocalist, who incidentally, is a partner with Bob in life, as well as in business. (His wife). At the bottom of the menu, I saw that Miss Alice Mae Sauder was the Chief Dietician at the