Walnut High School - Walnut Tree Yearbook (Walnut, IL)

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Class Prophecy Dear Marge, In the last letter 1 had from you, you asked about some of our classmates. I will try to tell you as much about them as I know. While on my vacation this summer, I stopped in Miami, Florida, at the Glen Hotel. Who was 1 to meet? None other than Phyllis Albright. She said that after school she went to work as an elevator operator. She fell in love with the owner, Dean Winchell, and they were married. Now she is co-owner of this great hotel and is rolling in money. They certainly were happy. She told me where to find Zulma De Waele in Palm Beach. I located Zulma there and soon realized that she hadn’t changed at all. She was still as happy-go-lucky as she was in high school. She worked in a night club as a hat-check girl. 1 was glad to get the addresses of several other clasmates from her. It would be fun to visit them. In New Orleans I found Dorothy Mag-nuson and Eugene Farmer. They are married and are so happy. They started a small restaurant and now own a chain of them all over the country. I suppose you have heard of F.F.A. (Farmer’s Fish Assortment) . Just as I was walking out the front door, 1 met Betty Bourquin and Larry Clausen. I hey were honeymooning! I stood and talked to them for about an hour. They were anxious to get away as they were leaving soon for Anchorage, Alaska, where Larry had a job. 1 never thought that that day, several years ago, when they held hands in an assembly for the magician, would lead to this. I met Bob Peach in the lobby of the hotel in which he was a bell-hop. We stood around and gossiped a bit until he asked me to eat with him at “Pete’s Dew Drop Inn.” While we were eating, a very slim girl came to our table and started talking to us. I had to look again to see if my eyes were deceiving me, but it really was Lois Peterson. She told us, in the course of the conversation, that after leaving high school she went to college. Many careers interested her, but eventually operating a small restaurant was her choice. She is still single. (Can’t decide which one, I guess.) We left the cafe and went back to the hotel where Bob went on duty and I took a much-needed rest. As I was packing to go to F.l Paso the next morning, the chamber maid came in, Nelda Ann Gloden!!! When 1 inquired about this, she told me she was just waiting for her application as Dean to e o m e through. (She didn’t tell me of what school.) While I was talking to Nelda my cab was waiting to take me to the airport. I raced downstairs, jumped into the waiting vehicle, but soon wished I hadn’t for it was a woman cab-driver. Can you imagine Darlene Hardy at the controls? She didn’t know me at first, but after realizing that gaining a little weight can change vour Compliments of Magnuson and Renner—Corn Shelling and Hauling

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Seniors. . . Lois Llaine Peterson Senior Class Play 4; G.A.A. 1, 2. 3. 4: Pep Club 1. 2. 3. 4; F.H.A. 1. 2, 3, 4; Student Council 1, 3: Student Council Rep. to Chicago 3: Paper Staff 3; Girls’ Chorus 1. 2. 3. 4: Mixed Chorus 3, 4: Musicade 1, 2, 3. 4; Gymboree 1. 2. 3. 4: Thanksgiving Cantata 3: Black- hawk Vocal Festival 3, 4; Bureau County Music Festival 3; Class Assembly 3: Drill Team i, 3: Religious Education 1. 2; Annual Staff 4; Vice-President of Pen Club 4: F.H.A. Song Leader 3; Homecoming Queen 4: Sectional Music Contest 4. MAJORS—Social Science. Science. Commercial. English. MINORS—Homemaking. Phyllis Jean Renner G.A.A. 1. 2. 3. 4; Pep Club 1. 2. 3, 4; F.H.A. 1. 2; Student Council 2; Paper Staff 3; Girls’ Chorus 1. 2. 3, 4; Mixed Chorus 3. 4; Musicade 1. 2. 3, 4; Gymboree 1. 2. 3. 4; Thanksgiving Cantata 3: Blackhawk Vocal Festival 3. 4: Bureau County Music Festival 3: Class Assembly 3; Drill Team 1,2: Religious Education 1; Annual Staff 4: Queen Attendant 2, 4: President of Pep Club 4: G.A.A. Vice-President 4: Honorary Usher 3: Cheerleader 3. 4; Vice-President Class 3: Secretary of Class 1: Senior Class Play 4: Sectional Music Contest 4: G.A.A. Camp 3. MAJORS—Commercial. English. Social Science. MINORS—Homemaking. Science. Gloria Schoff Senior Class Play 4: Religious Education 1. 2: F.H.A. 1. 2. 3. 4; G. A. A. 1. 2. 3. 4: Pep Club 1. 2. 3. 4: Girls’ Chorus 1. 3. 4: Band 1. 2: Mixed Chorus 3. 4: Junior Honor Society: National Honor Society: Secretary of G.A.A. 4; Secretary of F.H.A. 3; President of Girls' Chorus 4: Secretary of National Honor Society 4: Activities Editor. Paper Staff 3: G.A.A. Camp Delegate 2: Annual Staff 4; Musicade 1. 2. 3. 4: Gymboree 1. 2. 3. 4: Thanksgiving Cantata 3: Book Club 3: Black- hawk Vocal Festival 3. 4: Bureau County Band Festival 1; Black-hawk Band Festival 1. 2: Sectional Music Contest 4: Class Assembly 3. MAJORS—English. Social Science. Home Economics. Commercial. MINORS—Mathematics. Bill Sarver Boys’ Chorus 1: Mixed Chorus I: Gymboree 1. 2. 3. 4: Football 1.4: Basketball 1. 3. 4; Track 1; F.F.A. 1. 2. 3. 4: ”W Club 4: F.F.A. Reporter 3: Annual Staff 4. MAJORS—English. Science. History. Agriculture. MINOR—Commercial. Dolly Stickle Annual Staff 4: Girls' Chorus 2. 3. 4: Mixed Chorus 4; F.H.A. 2: G.A.A. 3. 4: Drill Team 4: Gymboree 2, 3. 4; Musicade 2. 3. 4: Paper Staff 3: Thanksgiving Cantata 3; Bureau County Music Festival 3: Class Assembly 3: Senior Class Play 4: F.H.A. 2: Sectional Music Contest 4. MAJORS—English. Commercial. Social Science. Virginia Strader Musicade 2. 3; Gymboree 1. 2. 3. Chorus 2. 3.; F.H.A. 1. 2. 3: Class Assembly 1; Pep Club 4: Religious Education 1. 2; Drill Team 3. 4: Mixed Chorus 3. MAJORS—English. Social Science. MINORS—Homemaking. Commercial. John Wallis Gymboree 1. 2. 3. 4: Football 1. 2. 3, 4: Basketball 1. 2. 3: Track 1.2: F.F.A. 1. 2. 3; W” Club 4: Annual Staff 4. MAJORS—English. Social Science. Agriculture. MINORS—Science. Mathematics, Commercial. Dean Winchell Boys’ Chorus 2. 3. 4: Mixed Chorus 2. 3. 4: Gymboree 1. 3. 4: Football 4: Basketball 1. 2: F.F.A. 1. 2. 3. 4: F.F.A. President 3: Religious Education 1.2; Blackhawk Vocal Festival 3: Paper Staff 3: Annual Staff 4: Sectional Music Contest 4. MAJORS—Social Science. English. Agriculture. MINORS—Mathematics. Commercial. MINORS—Science.

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Class Prophecy appearance, she did. I asked what in the world she was doing as a cab driver. Her husband had been ill and she had taken over was her reply. (It didn’t matter to her that she had driven only twice in her life.) Her husband, Ellsworth Kelly, may have been ill, or he might have been out scouting around in the sport’s field. (Can’t forget his high school experience, you know.) Soon I bid her adieu. As I arrived at the airport I caught a glimpse of Caroline Parker driving by in her Cadillac. She was on her way to Arkansas to pick strawberries. Lucky gal! Running up the ramp, I tripped and fell with an awful thud. When 1 came to, the pilot and stewardess were standing over me with worried looks. I almost went out again for there were Herb Gerdes and Phyllis Renner. They had just been married. Emergency flight instructions were postponing their honeymoon plans. We landed in El Paso late in the afternoon. I went directly to the hotel where I had reservations and took a barh and rested. I was very tired after the trip and my head didn’t feel very well. After my rest, 1 arose, eager to tour this Texas city. My stomach soon told me that it was meal time. I went down to the lounge and ordered a large steak. A charming couple approached the dance floor in Spanish dance costumes. When they finished their number, they spotted me at my ring-side table and came over. I’ll bet you can’t guess who they were. None other than Rita Middleton and John Wallis. Since they had to change for their next number. we didn’t get to chat very long. I left the hotel and was walking down the street when I heard someone singing “Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy.” Remembering that song had been popular in Walnut about the time of our last Musicade, I turned around to find where those sweet notes were coming from. To my surprise there was John Perino on the street corner, shining shoes. We chatted for awhile and he said that he was making a small fortune with his shoe-shine business. Walking on down the lonely street, I ran across a circus poster with a picture of “The Pat Lady,” Lois Ganschow. I wished that I could have stayed to see her, but 1 knew that I couldn’t spare another day. Vacation time is never long enough. I landed in Phoenix, Arizona, at high noon the next day. We had had a rather bumpy trip because of a bad storm. (Another upset stomach!) I went to a house where a sign read “Rooms for rent. Dolly Stickle opened the door. She had a skunk farm in the country, but lived in the city because she just couldn’t stand the smell. I asked her if she knew where I could find more of our classmates. But, as usual, she couldn’t give me any information. She talks as much, if not more, than ever. I stayed for a few days and then left again. This time for San Francisco. In the post office of the “Golden Gate city, a letter from home awaited me. How happy I was to have mother send me the Compliments of Andersen's Oil Station