South Lake High School 1952 Yearbook (St. Clair Shores, MI) - Full Access

The prophets have just returned to St. Clair Shores after three years of service for Uncle Sam in the Women's Air Force. Having traveled around the country with theW. A. F. S. we found a few of our old classmates in the most unusual places. Weare sure you would like to know what some of the former students of South Lake High School have accomplish– ed in the past decade. After a few years of roaming around, we decided to leave the miserable streets of St. Clair Shores for the sunny plains of Texas. On our first week– end pass from the air force base we rambled into town and followed the crowd to the Felix Baselwitch Circus. Having purchased our ti~ for the Big Show, we were ushered to our seats, which were being dusted off by our old friend, Richard Cook. U you think this was a surprise to us, yo~ imagine our amazement when Matt Lansan stepped into the center ring and shouted, "We now bring you the sensational new lady of the high wires, Diane Priester.'' Having enjoyed the circus, we were riding back to the base when we stopped in at the Lazy X Ranch to see the Texas oil king, Edward Stephen. We were greeted by his charming oil heiress wife, ~Finn, and quickly got an invitation to attend a rodeo with them that evening. Approaching the grounds, we spied a huge sign "~ Larkin's Texas Rodeo; Star Performer: Carolyn Porter." We always knew Carolyn would get back to Texas. After arriving back to camp we discovered our unit was being transferred to California. Having reached the land of eternal sunshine, we had a little free time so, as usual, we went sightseeing. Walk– ing down Sunset Boulevard, we saw the sophisticated movie star, Dorothy Vaughn, accompanied by her Academy Award winning scriptwriter, Bill Lavigne. They were driven down the street by her chauffer, Q-2!! Dean , in her X 91! jet powered limousine We stopped to chat but she had to hurry off for an ap– pointment with her hairdresser, Russel Young. We picked up a newspaper on the corner, and glancing through the pages we read a new gossip column, "Beverly La Forest reports on Hollywood." Class We were then shippedtogreatNewYorkCity to receive specialized training As we window shopped on Fifth Avenue, we recognized Pat I.!:.2!!. decorating the manequins in Fifi 's Fine Shoppe. Having no time to stop and talk, we moved on to admire the fineries at Tiffanys, where we learned that Robert DeClaire was an apprentice diamond cutter Having to make the eight o'clockArthur Godfrey Talent Scout Show, we caught a subway and sitting in front of us were Ruth Mencke and Charles Neal. Chuck informed us that Ruth was a very successful model for Lille Dache hats, but Ruth modestly denied that she was successful. Chuck has a part-time job as pageboy at Radio City Music Hall. You see, he was waiting for the basketball season to start. Having nearly missed our stop, we hurried off the subway. We found our seats at the talent show, and it was a big surprise to see Alfred Schmidt come onto the stage as the master of ceremonies. He had been especially chosen as the summer re– placement for Arthur. The first talent scout on the show was Barbara Barton and she introduced Joyce ~ singing and dancing to "Lovely Hula, Hula Hands. •• The commercial was done by Nancy~ Her first words were, "Alfred is feeling chipper tonight because he is feeling his Fluffy Puffy Corn Pops." After the Show Alfred escorted us to Carnegie Hall where Eileen Lubnau was making her singing debut with Robert McConnell as her accompanist . After our training in New York we received a long awaited furlough Waiting for our train to Detroit at Grand Central Station we bought a paper to pass the time. On the front page we read that the brilliant Harry Blount had been appointed as head of the embassy in Istanbul with~ Lamountagne as his interpreter and chief aid. Turning to the theatre page we learned that Edward Alexander had taken over the male lead in South PacUic. Arriving in St. Clair Shores, we couldn't help noticing that the streets were finally being paved. Paul Rupersberg was head engineer in charge of construction.