West High School - EOS Yearbook (Aurora, IL)

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SENIOR PROPHECY We, Elbridge Flanders, Jack Holslag, Jack Townsend, George Ruby, and Joe Reising de¬ cided to meet in 1975 to tell all we know concerning our former classmates. The results: Butch Mitchell is blowing windmills in Holland. He is expected to do away with all other forms of power. Norm Challis is still running. Bill McWethy is a judge of beauty con¬ tests in Miami, and he’s going to town with a micrometer. Betty Jane Cochran just took first prize for corn husking at the Big Rock plow match. “Spring” Baldwin has just graduated to head man in Ringling Bros, flea circus. Lorraine Goldman, Edna Skom, and Mar¬ ian Rosenthal are principal stockholders of Consolidated Meat Packing Co., speci¬ alizing in ham, bacon, spare ribs, etc. Iggy Stephens is coach of the Vassar soccer team. How ya’ doin’, Dave? Bucky O’Connor has just published a book of secret snapshots of Mickey Mouse and other celebrities. We see Tod and Grace Leah co-starred in a night club by unsophisticated Sue Egan, who is general manager. A1 Fagerholm rides a bicycle built for two. Some pickup, eh? Jack Fohn is employed part time setting up pins in the Sylvandell Alleys. Herb Funk hauls pail after pail to those darned elephants. Bill Hall is looking after his newly ac¬ quired estate. Rumor has it that Rowley is now custod¬ ian of the Old Ladies’ Home. Bert Hepburn is now the proud papa (?) of the world’s second set of quintuplets. Lucille Stumpf and Hortense Ericson are now employed in Jimmie Dawson’s Corset factory. Marion Hume and Jeanette Honey are joint proprietors of a millinery shop. We found Jeanne Kellogg’s diary. We shan’t say what she’s been doing. Joe Reising and Mary Bacon are managing the House of Reising basketball team. Leona Richmond just received her truck chauffeur’s license. Beth Royston was just made honorary captain of the C. C. C. Marguerite Schink is an artist’s model in Big Rock. Evelyn Dubois is reviving Sally Rand’s bubble dance at the World’s Fair of 1995. Carol Stapleton is doubling for red head¬ ed Clara Bow in “The Barkers.” Ray Dixon is seen milking chocolates in Hershey’s factory. Don’t take it hard, Ray. Eugene Wilson teaches “The Fundamen¬ tals of Poor English” to Harvard grads. Theldon Ellis succeeds Neds Sparks as the screen’s favorite cynic. Chet Davis and Bob Wittrup are selling chin bristles to the National Brush Co. Through our crystal we see Fred Wirt, eminent chemist, working in the G.E. Laboratory—washing test tubes. We see by the papers that Jane Long was just granted her fourth divorce on grounds of Chase and Sanborn. John Marsh is serving as flagman at the Montgomery tracks. Jack Townsend just spreads his arms and makes a face; Jack is working as a scare crow on the Tribune’s experimental farm. Ray Nilles is pounding rocks at Joliet. Esther Pecoy is broadcasting “In My Solitude” from K-Y-B-O. Chuck Weinaug has taken up street sweeping as a profession. He lifts weights as a hobby. Strong Man Koehler is now employed shoveling smoke in a feather factory. Don’t strain anything, Len. Morris, Flanders, and Ruby are now the most pious members of The Holy Rollers. Marian Gregory and Mary McGlaughlin are pounding typewriters for that butter and egg man, Ray Thomas.

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NATIONAL HONOR ★ SOCIETY for 1934-1935 NORMAN BRUBAKER JACK HOLSLAG BETTY JANE COCHRAN MYRTLE LINDAHL GRACE LEAH DANIELS JOHN NELSON SUE EGAN BETTY ODMARK VIRGINIA ERICKSON JOE REISING MILDRED FETZER MARIAN ROSENTHAL ELBRIDGE F LANDERS ALBERTA SEAVEY MARGARET FLYNN EDNA SKOM LORRAINE GOLDMAN CATHERINE STATHIS ISABELLE GREITER HESTER THOMASSON The members of this Association are selected from the members of the Senior Class. From the highest one-third in scholarship, a committee representing the different school activities selects fifteen per cent on the basis of leadership, character and service. ★ 27 ★

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LAST WILL and Testament We, the Class of 1935, being of wavering mind and confused memory, do hereby solemnly declare this to be our last will and testament. Walter Pagel leaves his piccolo to Mr. Ames — excellent firewood. George Ruby leaves his effeminate sup¬ pleness and grace to Mr. Grant. Bob Fraser leaves a can of red hot lotion to Chuck Schminke for his knee. Ri Ri Michaels leaves in hope of gradu¬ ating in 1936. Wesley Lukowsky leaves for Siberia — Tally Ho! Stalin. Jack Rennels and Walter Hastings, the schools two geniuses, leave a thesis on “The Insignificance of the Statistically Significant Relationship of Man to the Hoodlebug.” Elbridge Flanders leaves for the sixteenth time this year with the sixteenth imprint of Mr. Rea’s hoof upon his pants. Herm Burgert leaves two boxes of tennis balls to next year’s tennis team. Bread cast upon the water comes back or sumpin’. Jane Long leaves for Stephens College. Returns “Via Air’’ taken within the first quarter is $22.50, Jane. Bill McWethy leaves his extra bottle of Jergen’s Wave Lotion to Chick Rosen¬ thal —to be applied in small portions. Ticka McWethy leaves that smooth oceanic sway to LuLu Manchester. You’ve really got sumpin’ there, LuLu. Edna Skom leaves her accent to Halsey Stein. No offense, Halsey. Lym Macatee leaves for summer school. Tarzan Weinaug leaves a school full of heart broken girls. Chan Rowley wills his east side flirtations to Phil Smith. Jean Kellogg leaves her hair dye to Tom McWethy. Iggy Stephens leaves his ability to make touchdowns and women to Louie McWethy. Pony Boy Townsend leaves his Roman thought and nose to Miss Peterson. Fannie Guyton leaves everything she has —thank goodness. Norm Challis leaves a pail of burned cinders to anyone with cold feet. . Eugene Dickerson wills his gigantic pro¬ portions to Bob Sanderson. Playboy Mitchell and Bro Morris leave with everything they can carry. Bernie Murtaugh leaves his great athletic ability to Dick Benson. John Nelson leaves his habitual toughness to John Wright. Ray Nilles leaves for the other side of the river. Tod Oxie leaves for his job with the Jewel Tea Co. Frank O’Connor left a long time ago. Esther Pecoy wills her golden voice to our own Elmer Flentye. Bill Pritchard leaves his baby tricks to Val Reising. Joe Reising leaves his No. 13 gunboats to Frank Scarpino. Marian Rosenthal wills her date break¬ ing ability to Janet Goss. Norman Brubaker leaves the Physics lab. Tom Held leaves his excess foliage to Slip Meyers. Red Royston leaves her face towels to John Monahan. Tom Bailey wills his cod liver oil to Scarpino. Alberta Seavey leaves her ring worm to Russ Wilson. Bob Jones wills his red muffler to Don Rowe. Carol Stapleton leaves her blush on Marsh’s left cheek. Carl Sahlroot leaves a can of striped paint for the athletic field. Fred Wirt leaves (we hope). Wilbur Wendell Wonderly leaves his per¬ manent wave to Tony Pauls. Bucky O’Connor leaves his pipes to the sanitary district to be fumigated. Stanley Springfield Baldwin, Jr., Ill, leaves with the family crest. Grace Leah Daniels wills a few of the extra activities to be divided equally among many deserving juniors. Gene Anderson leaves his black and white dog’s collar to the city pound. Chuck Baker leaves his portly figure to Bunny Twyford. Bud Burgert leaves with Hortense Eric- son in his custom built Pontiac. ★ ★ 29