Yeatman High School - Yeatman Life Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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-'x 404 X X 2 Elliott Scheer is in the Spanish department at the University of Missouri. Rosalie Muckefuss Stewart has made a unique place for herself as a successful theatrical manager on a large scale. She is now the President of the 'Western Vaude- ville Managers' Association. Of late, she has had enormous success in producing with her own companies The Show-Offf Torch Bearersu and Enchanted April. Thus far our list has included only the names of those who have been busy in the ff MWX I z ll if ll 2 ig lt l in ,. El gf gs fl . if-2' viz? -K .0 -af. -.-:a,:z,.a5-h::-siffaaz. li, -,-a..,.-....,-.....-...........,.....,.---.....,..-.N ,.,,..... ... -Y 5,43 5 ,.t.,.-A.. it 1, iliw , ' Wm -Tn'L '3'fff'?Ql J i ' 5 I I .:. iw 1 .gs ,M 1 r 4 r 6 E F,Q W 'iIII??.i g Q . I l -I l : 1.5. ga it I Q :I I ..,. U z x i n -f ,.... li l 1 'l 51 ll Q31 ' f if E Q 2- T el .l F 2. f N il gg .V .gp p gs 55 r Ns ii lr X i.. N gf ii.. f K H zgf , . wx lt . ., J 'e:..'JJ if N i A 2 'ns if Z Y y W lf,fr f rf Zvi' s Ml 17---fafc-ex i x br If V' big world outside the home. VV'e do not for- get or undervalue the careers of the many Yeatman girls who have married and are making happy homes and bringing up chil- dren in the atmosphere of Y eatman ideals. lt is to such homes and such mothers that the old school looks for its final justihcation. Many more people, we know, have made good and more than good, but they have not kept in touch with us.' The list that we have just presented is one to fill the faculty with gratification and to be a source of in- spiration to the present student body. THE SECOND GENERATION OF YEATMANITES Forty-eight

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