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

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Iva’Lou wishes to go to Chicago and engage in the clothing business as a seam- stress. Sew away, lva Lou! She is another one of our blue-eyed blondes. Jeanne, our class pianist and also school pianist, is the class’ “Jeanne with the Light Brown Hair.” Her fingers seem to ripple out music better than Sammy Kay’s orchestra and she plans to teach this to others this summer—that is if she doesn’t switch her views to the sea of matrimony first. Luck to you, Jeanne, in either field —or both!! Roberta (Birdie) is the little girl with the big voice. She might be called a small blonde, blue-eyed, stick of dynamite if there ever was one. She plans to be a teacher of voice and should be a good one judging from the progress she has made. Clara, patterning her life after Clara Barton, has turned her ambitions toward becoming a nurse. Clara is an average size, blue-eyed blonde of our class and should make a fine nurse. Ruth wants to be a beautician when she gets out of high school. Ruth’s dark hair and eyes are quite properly symbolic of her friendly and cheerful personality. Libby states that she has no ambitions other than to settle down with her finance when school is out this spring. Libby, being about 5 ft. 7 in., and having black hair and blue eyes, will make a fine house keeper, don’t you think, Don? Winnie, another of our “shorty gals” plans to be a bookkeeper. This little blue-eyed blonde will be an incendiary character when she gets started. Everett, a chip off the old block, wants to still be handling lumber. He wishes to go on in his father’s footsteps in the Lumber Yard. This average height, dark wavy-haired Romeo will surely make a handsome lumberman. Jack, a short, brown-headed member of the basket-ball squad and of our class, is anxious to become a constructional engineer. Jack used to say, “Don’t cross your bridges till you come to them.” We are all of the same opinion that he intends to build them as he comes to ones that need building. Bonnie wants to continue her interests in the clerical field. This black-haired, black-eyed typing champion plans to enter Lockyear’s when school is out. Bertha, another one of our blondes, but with brown eyes, has dreams of being a teacher. She intends to enter college when her high school days are done—there to learn more about the teaching profession. Dottie. another of our “little girls” and who has a personality that clicks, wants to be an office girl. With such a personality Dottie should really go places in her particular type of work.

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CLASS PROPHECY Russell Winchell Joan Hallbeck NEWS FLASH: The men from Mars were experimenting with radar and accidentally contacted one of West Salem’s party lines and this is some of the things they heard: Did you hear, Mary, that: Miss Bonnie Giese is now a missionary at the South Pole, teaching penguins how to ice skate. Iva Lou Knakmus, the well known designer, is now designing dog sweaters made from bird feathers. And say, Mary, did you know that: Mrs. Jack Grobleben, the former Miss Inez Poynter, has decided that she likes West Salem so well she has married one of its natives, and is going to make it her home. While Jack, her ever-loving husband, is trying to cross jack rabbits and horses in an effort to give horses a quick start and win the Kentucky Derby. You don’t say, well, I heard the other day that: Mrs. Bill Kerster, the former Miss Dot Fritchley, has been helping her husband in his experiments in trying to find the fourth dimension. While Bill, her devoted husband, blew his arm off a week ago experimenting with atomic power trying to see if it would clean his finger nails. John Howard, that handsome newspaper man, has a new column entitled, “Stay away from dames and live longer” or “How to live happy and die young.” Oh, yes, and did you know that: Williams Store has now employed three models that graduated from the West Salem High School ten years ago and have been living in New York all this time going to finishing schools out there. They are. and are all very pretty—Mary Ellen Provine, Mary Ann Marx, and Clarabel Clodfelter. Yes, Mary, but the worst I’ve heard yet is that: Harold Hardy has now become a great explorer in the vast wild wilderness of Alaska and has a Harem Scarem of eleven Eskimo Squaws. And it’s utterally disgraceful that: Miss Koertge, once a country gal, is now hitting all the night clubs of West Salem, with Everett Beehn, her latest love. Everett Beehn who has inherited the Southern Illinois Lumber Company is work- ing on the project of building roads and walks out of wood.