Ypsilanti High School - Ypsi Dixit Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Bob Gaudy was a research chemrst He was persevenng rn the development of a bean whrch when planted would grow ready made steenng wheels Jack Suggrtt Wrllram Haberer and Fred Wadke had garned popular acclarm by swrmmrng the Amazon Rrver George Berklrch and Vance McDonald were mrllron dollar play boys They had made therr fortunes by holdrng beauty contests for blondes Dora Eaton was tourrng the country wrth a vaudevrlle show Besrdes berng therr star vocalrst Dora sat rn the audrence dunng part of the show and laughed at all the jokes Her laugh was so srncere and drfferent that the crowds would go mto hystencs laughrng at her Robert Magee had hrs own Super DeLuxe cookrng school where at thrs trme he was teachrng housewrves how not to burn the toast Im sure that many a husband has thanked Bob for hrs help errme Wrngard Margaret Drxon and Gwen Randall had marrred nch husbands who had all dred unfortu nately leavrng therr wrdows wrth mrllrons to spend they drvrde therr trme between New York Bermuda Europe and Hawarr Alexrne Fox and lean Johnston were strll debatrng upon the subject of whrch one would go steady the longest Alexrne strll had a lead on jean Hurry and catch up jean Robert Hutchrnson was tourrng the country as Blackrock the Magrcran wrth Catherrne Barnaber as hrs assrstant She was puzzled as to where thmgs drsappeared When she asked Blackrock he drdnt know Its a mystery to me he sard Jack Abbey and Forest Begole were runnrng a hllrng statron They were sellrng Blue Bunko Gas As an adver trsement jack had hrs 26 Chevrolet on exhrbrt showrng rts state of preservatron whrch he attrrbuted to the fact that he had always used the aforementroned Blue Bunko Mary Lourse Trautwetter Marran Wolter and Ioan Wrlcox were runnrng a boardrng house They were eter nally experrmentrng wrth new recrpes Therr newest drsh was shoe strrng potatoes whrch could be used erther as food or as shoe laces Most people preferred them for shoe laces however Derwood Hagen and Raymond Krngston owned the Krngwood Pop Corporatron Even Pop lrkes our pop rs therr slogan Patrrcra Pro rs therr head stenographer Although Pat had wanted to be a model she was at least a model secretary Marran Grarchen and Bernrce Flanagan worked rn the ofEce for the firm that makes strtchy stretchy Corsets Cors ets good rs therr motto Davrd Gransden and Ted Crossman were radro announcers Dave announced for the Hr O Sterlrng serral whrch starred Stanton Dusbrber as the Lonesome Stranger and Lucky Leslre Coleman as Tronto Ted announced for the modern dance orchestra whrch was drrected by Clarence Srmon It was called The Sparklrng Rhythms of Clarence Dramonds and hrs Orchestra Anna Grosshans was rn the flower busrness Her specraltres were tuseys and panlrps lfWrllram Smrth had mvented a new devrce namely a gum chewer for all school chrldren to say nothmg of hrmse Bob Norton had hrs own orchestra The Sophrstoluttens The maestro and hrs gang were favontes at the Ann Arbor Garden Club loe Hatch was runnrng a machrne shop where he made du funnres that tum a do gadget whrch goes on a do hrckre that goes rn a do dadget Catherrne Oakes and Bob McClure were followrng rn the footsteps of De Vrncr Recently they had parnted the Bmprre State Burldrng fa prcture of coursej Don Brothers and Thomas Harner owned busrnesses of therr own Don was rn the rnsurance busrness where he sold Crashum Smashum but dont Mashum rnsurance Tom was a barber Hrs shop was called The Scalpum Shop Ruth Brown and Nora Collrns were prrvate secretarres for detectrves Snoop Snrtch and Snatch MBFIOD Cook was runnrng a woodwork shop where he had an order for srx cradles from Papa Mrone Ellen DeVee was a beauty operator at Wrggy Srsters Beauty Shoppe Shrrley Tucker and Faye Lynn were rnstructors of flyrng at Crty Arrport rn Detrort They were not having much success however srnce there was so much drsturbance from therr good lookrng puprls lNot grrls ertherj d k Eunrce Ashton and Marran Johnson were runnrng a roadsrde stand where they sold 2 ft long hot dogs and soft rrn s Geraldrne Frye and Adelle Campbell were nrnnmg the Songster Sewrng Machrne Company Dorothy Freeman and Earthleane Foley were both rn busrness Dorothy had a bakery called the Paste ry Shop Earthleane was a model rn one of New Yorks smartest shops C f Samuel Clark and james Wrllrams were professronal food tasters for that smart restaurant called The Bat More a e Gerald Power was rovrng the seven seas Of course everyone knows the old sayrng A grrl rn every port Well - 1 9 ' . i 9 ' - Q . .4 u . . . . . , . J . , , , 1 s 1 I . , . . . M . . ,, . . . . . n o - . . . Q rt 1 an ' 1 - n . . . . ,, ,, , . ., .. . . . . . . . a 1 - rr n a - ' . , . - rr - - n rr - H . . , , , . rr vs - - ' . . - rr . . ,, , . - tr as rr n - , . . ,, , . . ,, a v n ' - u - - -1 - . 1 , ' a ' . l , . rs Q u - - rs ' ,, v v - - . . . . . .. . ,, n v - ss - - 1 an a 1 ' - , . - . as as . . . . U N - 1 ' . - s . . . U - n ' . ., . . N ' Y 1 .

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s 'Wt CLASS PROPHESY CHARLOTTE OLMSTED For years at the approach of the graduatron season Senrors have begun to wonder what members of therr class would be dorng rn the future I have been no exceptron srnce I too have pondered long over the prospectrve careers of each mdrvrdual rn the class of 41 In fact I thought so much about the subject that one evenrng as I lay back rn a soft, easy charr concentratrng on thoughts of my frrends there suddenly appeared before me a funny lrttle old man wrth twrnklrng eyes and a crooked mrschrevous grrn He looked lrke a dwarf from Grrmms Farry Tales He sur pnsed me so much that I was speechless for a moment When I Enally found my vorce I asked who he was In a wee trnklrng vorce he answered that he was the dwarf of the future and was gomg to foretell the future of my class mates Then he pulled from hrs tmy pocket a book The Movre of the Future I began to take hrm serrously as he handed me the book and told me I mrght look at rts contents Currously I opened rt and glanced at the first page There appeared a regular movrng prcture The figures were qurte small but as I looked closer I saw to my amazement that they were those of Homer Drebler and Roy Beuschlem Homer and Roy were great orators They were grvrng speeches agamst the draftrng of boys between the ages of ten and fourteen the burnrng questron of the trme As the scenes contmued to change I saw rn successron the other members of my class Harpo Harold Har ner and Don Barley had crashed mto movmg prctures Harpo was the modern Borrs Karloff' and Don was the new Brng Crosby I thrnk Don rs much nrcer lookrng though dont you grrls7 Carol Cook was a famous srnger and had been travelrng over the entrre country grvrng concerts The men were so entranced by her beauty and vorce that hundreds of drvorces had resulted causrng Russell Loesell and Audrey Beadle partners rn law to work overtrme Joe Brrtton was now on the legrtrmate stage starrrng rn that famous productron 'You Cant Take It Along Ioan Coleman was hrs manager rn more way than one Vera Beck Dona jean Grrfhn and Mary Holdrrdge were makrng good use of therr unbreakable glass rollrng prns Warren Oakes and Gerald Holly had turned out to be rnventors Together they had rnvented an arrplane wrth a reverse control whrch could stop strll rn mrd arr Therr latest efforts were bent toward rnventrng stop lrghts and stop srgnals for use rn arr trafllc Good luck boys' Merna Pat rck was now the leadrng telephone operator rn the country She has set a new style by srngrng rn her low alto vorce Num ber please Betty McKrllen had just broken the worlds record for fast talkrng by utterrng erght hundred twenty words per mrnute The former record was seven hundred srxty joe Samonelt Brll Kruse and james Grapp were full fledged flyers Brll and James were rnstructors at Ann Arbor arrport turnrng loop the loops rn therr spare trme Joe was grounded for two weeks because he flew too low over the crty causrng a scare among the people for fear hed hrt a burldrng and crack up Shrrley Brrggs was the oomph grrl Ann Sherrdan the second There rs a resemblance dont you thrnk7 Nancy Alford Charlotte Mosher Marjorre Roehm and Paulrne Shackelford were full fledged nurses They were very successful because therr quretness rn srck rooms was very soothrng Nelson Watlrng was the star salesman for Klrpper Klapper Klop shoes He was such a successful salesman that many corporatrons were beggrng hrm to work for them Mary Battelle and Ann Grll were noted musrcal artrsts Mary wrth her cello and Ann wrth her vrolm Mary had lately achreved great fame by playrng The Wrllram Tell Overture rn the key of H flat Ann was rn France where she had been playrng for some trme The French people were so enthralled by her playrng that they absolutely re fused to allow her to return home Drck Hall Ray Clark and Stanley Marken were behrnd bars not the krnd of whrch you are thrnkrng however Drck was a clerk rn the bank of Ypsrlanrr part of hrs trme was spent advrsrng Mr Best on sound rnvestments Ray was a postal clerk for Uncle Sam lrckrng postal stamps for pretty grrls and Stanley was trcket seller at the depot tryrng hard not to look cross eyed when lookrng through the bars john Leabu Margre O Key Helen Spears and jean Watlrng had formed a mrdget colony They were wrth the Curtrss and Gleason Crrcus owned by R-oger Curtrss and Oren Gleason Roger played for the srdeshow and Oren was the dare devrl prlot Both were qurte sensatronal X , S la. 4 J, , J r 9 - a . , . . tr an . . . . , , r . , . . . . . . . .I e n . , , r - - rn - n . . . , - . , , , . 4 - A tt w 1 ' ' - - - - ts. n rr - 1 ,. . ,, .... . . ' 1 r v ' - 1 r r - . .. . . . ,, , ,, 1 y . .. .- , r . . , . Y. . . . I . . , - rr 1- 1 1 - . . Q . . . . 4 r r - , . . . , , . . ' . A . tr n V - - v . u - v - ' f . , , . - rr . 1- , . . . U . . n . . . . f , 1 1 - 1 - - 1 s . , . . , r r , - tt - - -1 . - ' 1

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Don Weatherrnan and Vxrgxl Mull had stowed away on a boat to So America but Don was kept s1nce the South Amencan OECIBIS mistook hxrp for one of thenr own famous cxtxzens John Dawson was a reporter for The Moonlnt Way for whlch he wrote artncles on How To Swat the Love Bug Harold Heyler was a country doctor However he had gaxned great fame and was now Amencas Number One Doctor DeFoe Iuamta Oleson was a pretty school teacher at a country school near her home She was popular as well as pretty Kexth Metcalf was the Second Rear Admiral on the U SS Ivanhoe He wxth latest reports was fighting rxver pxrates on the Long Tea Rxver rn Chma Wanda Wesolowskl and Dorothy Hatch were runmng an outdoor theater where at the trme The Trarl of the Termltes was playmg Beth Rust was a teacher of gurls athletxcs She was the modern Bloomer G1rl There xs no need to wonder how she recexved thxs dl5ClnCtl0l l She can do anythmg to whgch she sets her rmnd Marianna Boersema and Betty Harden were xn busmess Mananna was runmng a Lonely Hearts Bureau for gxrls whose loved ones were elxgxble for the draft Betty had a Date Bureau for lonely gurls George Moorman owned a lumber yard where he had ready cut houses for sale Soon he expects to sell furniture to match the houses Donald Green and Fred johnson were ln the army where they suffer through the days of dnllmg and march mg They said that the army was not what they had expected once that first fine careless rapture was gone Alma Cooper Ruta Block Laura Bennett and Pearl Allen ran the Harem Scarem shop The chief articles of sale were masks which they sold to movmg pxcture corporatlons xn Hollywood Ellen Neal Carrle Robxnson and johmebell Stewart owned a beauty shop They called themselves The Kxller Dxllers Somehow they dont seem to have very many customers I wonder why Beverly Boutell bexng an expert photographer had her own magazme called Candxd Shots or Ouch It really sold well Mane Bortz Vera Clark and Ruth Hanlon were all sob sisters for the Ypsr Cner The trouble was that they couldnt find much about whlch to cry Helen Ellxs was an hxstonan She was m Asia at thxs time trying to spot the exact boundaries of Afghanxstan for a book she rs wntmg Clara Egbert had settled down for good ln Ypsxlantx She saxd the weather was a lrttle Dreyer Charles Bone was runmng hrs own dog kennels where he ralsed Russxan Wolf Hounds The reason he said that they were called Russxan Wolf Hounds was because they were always rushm' Allen Clow was raxsmg bullfrogs for the Waldorf Astoria Hotel xn New York thus assunng an ample supply of frog legs It seemed to Theo and Theressa called the Lots and Lots Martha jean Rexd Frances saxd xt was mostly George Lamkm and be qulte a jumpy busxness Hamxlton were 1n busxness together They were runmng a real estate oflice which was and Lots Company and Frances Leddxck were co workers m a flonst shop Martha called xt Relds but Weeds Dont argue glrls Verne Magee were playmg m a ntzy Band of the Month Guss Rapxd Rhythm Stan ley Seleska the presrdent of the Seleska Food Company was thexr sponsor Hrs best known product was the kmd of spaghettx that curled around a fork by xtself Lorraine Rrce started out to be another Rembrandt but tmng of this rs now glvmg advice fvla self addressed envelopes, to the lovelom The last scene was fnmshed so I closed the book and handed xt to my strange vrsxtor who was now perched on the back of my chanr I thanked hlm for the pleasant time he had shown me and told him I was sorry hxs Movxe of the Future had come to an end . , , I s .. . .. . . .. 1 .. - , . . . . , , . .. - . . .. .. . , , , . , , , . , , . r . ,. . .7 . 4 .. . .. .. .. . , . , , - , . - . . , so . . . , , . A A . , .. .. , ' n . . . . .. .. .. . . .. . . , , . , , , .. . ..