Wright City High School - Echo Yearbook (Wright City, MO)

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quite similar to the one she had in school. She got the idea of being a demonstration agent from Mrs. Walker in home economics class. She is still planning to marry Roy but hasn't ever quite got around to it. Harold Booher was next to appear from Adele's past. He was the perennial bachelor- he had a new girl friend from each season's debutantes. He had been in service where he received an eye injury. He wore a black patch and, with his prematurely white hair, he was a very distinguished and romantic looking man. No one knew the source of his income, but it was rumored that he had an interest in one of the big gambling houses in Las Vegas. Melba Oney was quite a surprise. She had gone to St. Louis to work as a book- keeper for Bell Telephone Company. Here she had met and married a fellow who objected to her Working. She went to Reno, got a divorce, and stayed out there working on a Dude Ranch. She is co-owner of one of the better known ranches and came to the program dressed in western type clothes. Buddy Taylor sent his regrets at being unable to attend. It seems that Lois was in the hospital—their fourth child had just arrived, and Buddy had to be there to hold Lois' hand. You remember, they were always holding hands back in hight school, too. LaTelle West had cashed in. She was a model for Petite Numbers, Inc. which made nothing larger than a size 7 dress. This was only her secondary job—the one she did for pastime. Her main job was that of secretary to the president of Mercantile Commerce Bank in St. Louis. Every Sunday she drives out to Big Boy's to have dinner and to encourage the young waitresses by showing them what she had become. Tommy Null rushed on the stage and very exuberantly greeted all his old class- mates. Tommy, better known now as The Reverend Thomas Arthur Null, was pastor of one of the largest churches on the west coast. He had his last fling at the 1957 Alumni Banquet and had decided it just wasn't worth it. He has never married but it has been noticed by the ladies of his church that he is attending their meetings very regularly of late, and so thought that the young widow in their group might not remain a widow very long. Alice Tremblay was rather subdued in comparison to 1957 memories. She and Bob had married when he finished college. He had gone into the teaching profession, and she was content to be a faculty wife and have open house every Sunday afternoon for the students. Her training in home economics came in handy, and her sandwiches, cookies, and salads were the talk of the campus. Phyllis Sherrill was next to appear. She was in the white uniform of a nurse. She had gone to nursing school, and by hard work had advanced to head nurse at Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis. She had then become a member of the Army Nurses Corps and was stationed in Los Angeles. Last to appear on the program were the pilot and stewardess of the plane which brought all these people to Los Angleles—Fred Harms and Freda Booher, Fred, of course, liked his work fine because it required little physical exertion(you remember he wasn't any too active back in '57), and Freda likes the excitement of going places (she decided planes went further and faster than trucks). She and Fred made a good pair—one quiet and reserved, and one gay and vivacious—I leave you to choose which words apply to which person.

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LEORA UTHE President SHARON HARMS Reporter MR. JONES Sponsor NORMA BOOHER Secretary-Treasurer X MARY JANE KLAUSMEIER Vice-President CHARLOTTE BURGAN Student Council 14 JIM VESSELS Student Council