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

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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.

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Alice Pixley is taking her fiance’s place since he has gone to the Army. She’s been rough-necking in our large oil fields. We might add that she’s wrecked six cars since he has been gone. Miss Faye Luther has a horse farm in Wynoose. You must go to those wonderful horse races!! Mary Lou Hossel is a great comedian. I’ve heard that she is second to Judy Canova. Laura Mae Orrel is stiil hunting her ideal man. She wants one from Mt. Erie just as close to Mt. Carmel as far as she can get him. Miss Alwyn Wisner is supervisor at an orphans’ home. Very motherly! At last! Our class of ’44 is definitely proud to say Gov. Deibert Seals of Illinois hailed irom our High. Mrs. Freeman Schwarzlose, Juanita Marx of our class, with the aid of her husband is run- ning a state poultry farm. Faithful to our city, Virginia Bennett after twenty courses of beauty culture in England and world wide fame has returned to the states. Miss Vera Pixley has just completed another successful year as Head of Girls Physical Education Department at Vassar. Having completed our trip around the square we seem to have gathered a great deal of knowledge about the class of ’44. A very successful class. We say more power to you!! Margaret Meisenheimer and Louise Gibson