West Salem High School - Hi Lite Yearbook (West Salem, IL)

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On August 30, we entered W. S. C. H. S. for the act of completing four joyful years of education. We were joined by four students from Parkersburg and Mt. Erie, making twenty- seven “dignified” Seniors. At the end of the second quarter two of our fellow students, Dale Knust and Russell Greathouse, left our midst. During the first semester we gave two parties, both of which were successful. We selected orchid and white for the Senior class colors; gardenia for class flower; and “FINISHED, YET BEGINNING” for our motto. Class officers are: President Delbert Seals Vice-President Laurene McVaigh Secretary-Treasurer ............ Alwyn Wisner Class Advisor Miss Stoltz Three main events concluding our Senior year are: Junior-Senior Banquet ................. April 28 Baccalaureate May 7 Commencement----------------------------- May 11 E. A. Richardson, Poet Laureate of Indiana, as speaker. We have completed four years of Scholastic-activity and wish to thank all who made this education possible. Having left W. S. C. H. S. we hope to use to the best advantage this knowledge gained.

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CLASS PROPHECY We may be two little Morons but we certainly get around. We’ve just been around the square of West Salem, Illinois, and picked up bits of gossip we thought we’d pass on. Don Yedtman is living on the banks of the Little Wabash River. He is teaching fish to swim. He’s been seen walking around the square with Gwendolyn Sager who is now employed as manager of the pin factory. Miss Anna Lou Orrel has never married. She’s been traveling abroad teaching Christian- ity. She is giving a lecture tonight at the W. S. C. H. S. entitled, ‘'The Evils of Alcohol and Tobacco.” Jim Litherland has been trying to propose to Mary Wolters for the past five years. When he comes to the point he falls in dead faint. He is trying to overcome this hinderance by eating vitamin pills. Nile Douglas, commonly known as Stinky, joined the Air Corps recently after graduating from W. S. C. H. S. He was so deeply involved in his work that he forgot his fiancee, Laurene. Daniel Ridgley and Hyla Gawthorp are in the South Sea Islands teaching the natives how to “Woo” West Salem style. Betty Shelby has turned out the total of one hundred sixty-three engagement rings and is out seeking her next “victim.” Miss Viola Gibson is on the Sahara Desert. She’s a beauty culturist and is giving camels permanent waves. Wilma Swartz won a beauty contest at Miami Beach, Florida, and is now modeling underwear there. Nelda Rae Moudy is giving a correspondence course on “How to Win a Husband.” In- cidentally she has never married. Countess Emil Em, the famous bubble dancer, known at W. S. C. H. S. as Marty Miller, has been vacationing in Bone Gap. Martha Rothrock is still waiting for her ship to come in (her fiance is on it.) Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Ahlfield celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary yesterday. Mrs. Ahlfield is the formerly known Laurene McVaigh. Vernon is a “swoon crooner” composing and singing his own scngs with Bob Crosby’s orchestra.