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

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Prophecy Gene Marks David Bratsch As we were visiting Professor Skeindoff he demonstrated one of his new inventions, the time machine. To start he set the dial 15 years oheacl taking us to approximately April 20, 1962. And wTho did we see but the Seniors of 1947. Bernice Ibbotson, now burlesque queen, is showing at the Great Palace Theatre of West Salem. Duane Smith is touring the fairs, with his voice as a password. He is known as the world’s champion hog-caller. Dorothy Deisher has fallen for a sailor and is now on the West Coast waiting for her ship to come in. Being Secretary and wife is a neat arrangement for the former Velma Libke. Her husband is of Albion. The former Marie Libke is now a farmer’s wife. She and her hus- band are working on a new type of hybrid seed corn. Our own Betty Hall, after her fifth husband disappeared, decided to become a Nun and teach languages. Don Miller finally hooked Libby Mason and is now a cartoonist in New Mexico. Don Maas now has a job as rocket pilot and is carrying mail from planet to planet. Raymond King is a famous inventor. His latest invention is a wrist watch with a bell that rings every hour. After Boris Karloff’s death the studios looked far and wide for a successor of him. Finally they found him, and who do you think it was but Bob Gentz. Eugene Hayes has settled down to a farmer’s life. But he spends most of his time in flea training. Authorities say he has the best trained fleas in the world. Bill Stevens is a side show barker. He gets a booming business for he has very powerful lungs, some say.

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No one has seen him for a year but it is told that John Luther is a hermit and is still trying to devise a way to run a Ford without water. Don Ellis is missing in action from a coon-hunt. Some say he was killed, others say he is still following his nose on a coon trail. Camilla Clodfelter is now the head of a girls school in Boston. Her fame was gained by working out a new system of shorthand. Mrs. Jim Bennett, the former Miss Lois Gaede, is now a concert pianist in New York. Jim secretly says that he thinks her music gets very boring. Jim Bennett, after his seventh divorce, decided to go back to Lois, his most ardent love. They have been married for three months now and Jim hates her music. He says he is about ready for his eighth divorce. Clayton Brandt is a band leader in New York. Clayton is famous everywhere for his blues music. Virginia Maas is Clayton’s blues singer. She is known far and wide as the Bamboo Blonde. Gene Cash is a B.T.O. (big time operator). He has the biggest business in the W. S. oil fields. He is secretly in love with Virginia Maas but never has had enough nerve to tell her so. Hubert Weber is now the sheriff of Edwards County. He is to speak in the schools this week on “Safe Driving Principles.” Iva Jean Shelby, the ninety-nine pound weakling, has become a famous bubble dancer. She got her inspiration from earlier H. S. slumber parties. Gene Gibson is now a disappointed lover and has devoted his life to cutting out fancy paper dolls. Joan Hallbeck charms the men every where she goes. She is now trying to hook Bennett for she thinks he will soon be free. Mrs. Roy Lemke, the former Miss Audrey Fritchley, is a reporter of the New Tork Times which her husband runs. So she is both at home and at work. Margie Putnam is now cheerleading for Champaign. With her enthusiastic help the boys win most every game.