Vandalia Community High School - Vandalois Yearbook (Vandalia, IL)

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Elynor Stapp started out in the grocery business by working at the Atkinson grocery in Vandalia, and has now worked her way up to a home in New York and a chain of Elly May grocery stores from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Elynor isn't married yet, but is still giving the young men of New York society the runaround. Also in New York are Betty Henson and Peggy Hobson, who own a small dress shop on Fifth Avenue. They will probably all go to the Graham's in Elynor's new plane. Lucille Atwood and her husband own a large dairy farm in Wisconsin. Lois Merriman and her fiance, a veteran of World War ll, were married not long after her graduation from high school, and are now raising thoroughbred horses on their farm in Kentucky. Lois will probably come to the re- union with her sister-in-law, Una Telford, who is staying with them at present. Lela Wilson, her husband and three children are living in New Orleans. Arlene Pryor married a boy from Browns- town, where they are living now. William McNealy is coach and history teacher at the Hyde Park High School in Chi- cago, and his wife, Bernadine Carrico, is teach- ing English. Betty Baldwin is a singer and now has the starring role in the opera, Carmen, being played in St. Louis. Norma Roe and Shirley Sperry are both married. Norma is living in Bloomington and Shirley in Greenville. Floyd Staff and his wife, Audrey Fink, are living in Detroit, where Floyd is star pitcher on the Detroit Tigers. Leslie Mahon is head chemist in the Gen- eral Electric plant in Trenton, New Iersey. He is married to Rena Wood. e655 lane Feery has a job as long distance oper- ator in St. Louis. Bertha Mae Leininger is a missionary in China. She might not be able to get away to come to the party. Betty Steinhauer liked her work as a soda jerker so well that she never gave up her job at the Wagon Wheel. She has a new boss and he is Dean Culbertson. Dean and his wife, Bettie Clymer, have a home in Vandalia. Mary Denton and Louella Pummill have an apartment in Decatur and are working there. Ioe Davidson is a mechanic at a garage in Cincinnati. He is married to Bemadine Belcher and they have one son. Donna Oglesby is married to the high school coach at Centralia. They have five little Greens, enough for a basketball team. Don Brown and Ruby have just celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary. They have a farm near Ramsey. Benny Forbis went to school to become a lawyer, and he and Evelyn Carter were mar- ried right after he fixed up an office in Spring- field. Evelyn Benefield and Wanda Tate are sec- retaries in one of the large department stores in Chicago. Norma Smith and her husband are living in Phoenix, Arizona. They have four children. Don Funk was put in the Army of Occupa- tion in Germany. He married a German girl and settled down there. Charles Emerick and loyce have built a modern farm home north of Vandalia. They have been married about five years. Q Bill Blunt and his wife, Mary Ann Hasler, are living in Decatur where Bill is teaching chemistry and physics at the Decatur High School.

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Roger Yarbrough owns a newspaper in Little Rock, Arkansas, and his wife, Donna Mae Linton, edits the women's page. Donna's sister, Lois, married Paul Branham, who is a dentist in Minneapolis, Minnesota. S All through high school days Virgil Strobel said that he thought a man should have a wife that he could boss. Well, Virgil is still wander- ing around the country looking for that kind of woman. I don't know how, but Rosemary Moore man- aged to become a politician and is now run- ning for governor of New York. Rosemary was going to get married but never got around to it. Margaret Holbrook is teaching fourth grade at the Washington School in Vandalia. Marie Bennyhoff is married and living in Charleston, West Virginia. Pauline Carter and Iune Heather own a theater in San Francisco. They worked hard to get where they are and are now sitting back and enjoying themselves. Dorothy Watts and Elsie Martin are in a maharaja's harem in India. Betty Dayton is librarian in the Vandalia Public Library in Vandalia. Claudine Richardson wanted to do some- thing spectacular in her lifetime, so she went over Niagara Falls in a barrel, and she is the only woman to do it and live. She has so many fans that she has to have a secretary to answer all her mail. Her secretary is Dolors Withers, a friend from high school days. Iames Fish liked the Coast Guard so well that he stayed in when his service was up. His wife, Ferrel Filer, has fixed up a little house in Boston and awaits his return on each trip. - Iean Carson went to college and became an interior decorator. She is now living in Salem. Betty Rine is married and living in Vandalia. Having rounded up all of the graduates, I'll report back to my boss and tell him that everybody will try to come if it is at all possible and that he can plan on a big time when they all arrive. -Elberta Ewbank ?-:T izg if? gs..-....-f wif iff v kr' ' X If slab fin' jg AM. C QQMY- y X C662