Warren High School - Echoes Yearbook (Warren, IL)

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20 3 22820 JO232O20£ - barren “tty6 ScAo i - CLASS PROPHECY Beverly March I received an invitation from my old friend Donald Saunders (you know, the Wall Street broker) the other day to spend a week-end in his home in New York, so of course I accepted. On boarding the plane I thought I saw a face I recognized, and, sure enough, it was Robert Krippendorf, the famous Hollywood talent scout. I remember Bobby when he was just a freshman in high school. Along with him was a cute little piece of talent he had just found in a small Illinois town. Apple River, I think he said, was the name of the place. He told me that the girl’s name wa- Carol Jean Yeager and that he was gjing to give her a screen test immediately It seems that she is to play the lead role in his new production, “The Wife of Frank- enstein.” Donald and charming wife, Donna, his high school sweetheart, who were chauf- feured to the station in their new ’55 Cadillac by their extraordinary driver, Joyce Beyer, met me at the airport and welcomed me to their palatial mansion on lark Avenue. I he evening’s entertainment was nr turally opened by musical comedy. I had to go, of course, because two of my old school cnums were to star in the new smash hit, “West Atlantic.” You knew whom I’m talking about, of course, Eldena Kent end Charles Neff. That Charles is really terrific when he sings, “Some Enchanted Morning.” After the show we had to see some of New York’s night life, so we went direct- ly to JIMMIES, the Hot Spot of New York. I had yet to learn that this was the same little Jimmie Gale I had graduated with. Another surprise assailed me when the iloor show began. An Adagio dance u-am under the billing of ANDING KUHLE- MAN performed and everyone enjoyed their dance. Mary Barker sang the new torch song, “New I’m All Alone” or Dadcy Tcok The Kids To A Movie.” On the way home a very strange thing happened. A well dressed woman (who I found out later was P. L. Anschutz M. D. B.S. B.A.) was down on her hands and knees apparently searching for somethin- on the street. We stormed and asked her what was the matter. It seems that she hi d lost a string of pearls. You know she’s (he one who made a million on a gadget mar will curl your hair in five second» ilat. She seemed quite distracted, so we told her to jump in our car, and we would take her down to the police station to re ort the less. And who do you think is the Chisf of Folice in New York? Gene Holland, the old Warren High bad bey! Oh. well you never can tell how they will turn out. We took P. L. heme then and went home ourselves to sleep what was left of the night. The next day Donald and his wife took me to the Stork Club for lunch. We were really flattered when the head waiter was sent to wait on us. The strangest part of it was that he was a woman, and her name was Beverly March. Why even a coun- try bry like me has heard of Beverly March, the connrseur of line foods. We were very lucky that afternoon to get tickets to the Athletic Meet at Madi- son square Garden. It pleased me to see th it Anna Mae Flatz, originally of Warren liLnois, placed lirst in track and javelin throwing. And also to see Deloris Kent perform beautifully in the water ballet. That evening we made a special trip to the Mocambo to hear Bill Courtright and h's band of the year. Before I came home the next day I e -eciallv wanted to visit New Ycrk Uni- versity, where my good friend Barbara C raig is Dean of Women. On driving into the campus we noticed a mob of students gathered around a crude stand, fis we came nearer we could hear them chanting, and then we realized! It was a revival led by the famous woman minister, Georg’nnna Groom. We talked for a wh.le to Mi -s Craig, who was quite disturbed over the whole thing, as the students hadn’t attended classes for five days, and then made a fast trip to the airport to catch the feur o’clock plane. I bade my host a-ri h ss-ss a hasty good-bve and boarded just in time Tn a f ' mantes I war on r y way back to peaceful Chicago after a very interesting week-end.

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s - 'ZVa'ireK “r 'C Sc oea tZQyyjJHyjJVJ}! 5J 53S53153! jn; 55 5] YEAR’S EVENTS The “W” Club homecoming dance heralded in the social program of the year. Although Warren was beaten by Stockton in the afternoon, the evening was never- theless a success. Students frcm Stockton. Gratiot, Scales Mound and South Wayne were welcomed into the brightly decorated gym. At the height of the evening’s gayety Donna Wolfram was crowned homecoming queen by Duane Wolfram, who substituted for James Gale, captain of the football team. The annual Junior-Senior hunt wi- : held a month later. As usual the seniors re- mained unbeaten, and as the unwritten rule states “the defeated have to throw a party for the victors. In December a meeting of the class officers was called by Mr. Austin. At this meeting it was decided that at the basketball games refreshments be sold, the re- turns from which were to go into the student fund. The class officers initiated the idea, and later on the individual class groups took their turns. Seventy-nine dollars and fifty-one cents was taken in all together. Later in the month the initiation of the freshmen was held. The upper class- men enjoyed immensely seeing th frosh come to school in their strange costumes The Fresh-Soph party in connection with this custom was held on the 3rd of March. The seniors enjoyed two trips during the term, the first of which was to Du- buque to see the screen production ol “Humlet.” This came at an opportune time, as the class was studying Shakespeare ju t then. The second trip was to Platteville, Ahere seniors heard a lecture by Jesse Stuart, the famed author. Mr. Stuart gave a very personal and entertaining talk whi.h most of the seniors took quite seriously. It made them think somewhat of Ameri;an youth’s great heritage and future. Dancing classes were started on the 2 7th of March, under the direction of vari- cus members of the faculty, assisted by the student council, the purpose of these being to prepare the students for the Jun.or and Senior prom. The Lions Club sponsored an athle:ic banquet on the 11th of April for all the lettermen and cheer leaders of the high school. The public was invited, and the bard members served. Dolph Stanley, coash at Beloit College, was guest speaker, and Mr. Austin was honored as toast master. May 11th and 12th were the dates for the Junior and Senior banquet and piom Gus Fuhrman and his. orchestra from Dubuque provided the music. The junior mothers prepared the lovely meal, and the under classmen served. Spring events climaxed by baccalaureate and commencement brought the school year to a close. .y-Trysrr.-srrsrr

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iHJ. !£5 ’-n- ST5 m g ?SME0y?583 - Barrett 'rtyi £c oe - INNOVATIONS OF 1949-50 The new school busses proved quite an advantage throughout the last school year. Numerous field trips were taken by various classes to places of interest. Mr. Merlin Gerretson’s agriculture class visited many places in connection with their studies, Kraft Cheese Company in Stocktcn, a modern dairy barn at the Charles Vanderheyden farm at Stockton, different local farms to study the mech- anical corn picker, a DeKalb corn test plot, and the DeKalb Hybred Corn Plant in Warren. Mr. Gerretson also accompanied the freshmen to Rockford, where they learned how a large city secures and purifies water, operates modern methods of garbage and sewage disposal. The Civics and Economics class under Mr. Donald Schmitz visited the W. T. Rawleigh Plant in Freeport, where they we.e shown through the various departments, each specializing in some one product. Th s class also visited the Dubuque Packing Company in Dubuque, Iowa. The workers here took the class on an extended tour through the buildings. Mr. Joseph Rushforth and Miss Esther Siemen took their Industrial Arts and Home-making classes to the Weiman Furniture Factory in Rockford, Illinois. Here the students acquired a better understand.ng of the methods and techniques -u making fine furniture. Because the hour of Major Activity in a Newspaper Plant made travel by bus impossible. Miss Groom took the Sophomore English Class in private cars to visit the Rockford Morning Star and Evening Register, where they saw the machines and processes involved in the publication of a daily paper. Groups from grade schools in the dis.rict also enjoyed field trips. Special men- tion here should be given the bus drivers: Leslie Grindey, LeVerne Long, and Her- man Krippendorf. who were kind enough to drive the busses on these field trips. Audio-Visual-Aids also came into bc-:ng this year with the purchase of a new movie projector. Mr. Merlin Gerretson as.umed charge of this program, seeing that movies get not only to the high school but also to the rural schools and the gradss. The movie projector itself is anotve; addition to the wire recorder and phono- graph which have been a part of the schol’s audio-visual program for a number cf years. Much entertainment was provided by the movies, along with many fine educa- tional opportunities offered in the class rjems for individual studies. Along with the “new” things in our schcol came the “Tom-Tom”, our school newspaper, edited and distributed by the Civics and Economics classes under the supervision of Mr. Donald Schmitz, with Joan Slcthower as editor-in-chief and Miss Eleanor Grot kin as director cf typ ng and make-up. 7 77 v 7 7 7 77 u ffj! ildu ’7' ,7 7, i7 7 i f 7 7 v7i i7' v .7 7 77 7.77 7S7 Tr