RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Jeannine Janulis celebrates her 90th birthday on December 24,2019, and
WHEREAS, The City Council has been informed of this prestigious occasion by the Honorable Marty Quinn, Alderman of the 13th Ward; and
WHEREAS, Jeannine Janulis, was born as Jeannine Marilyn Stewart, in Ste. Genevieve^ Missouri on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1929. She is the daughter and middle child of the five children of Irma Rehm Stewart and Raymond Stewart. Her siblings were older brother Raymond, Jr., older sister Betty, younger sister Shirley, and baby brother Don. Their family home was located at 454 Roberts Street; and
WHEREAS, Jeannine attended the Ste. Genevieve grade school and Ste. Genevieve high school in Missouri, where she graduated in May, 1947. The class' senior high school trip.was to New Orleans. Schoolmates who are still living include Marzerie Bader, resides in Ste. Genevieve, and Charlie Hawk, who now lives in Florissant, Missouri. All three regularly keep in touch and together attended their annual high school reunions well into the 2010's; and
WHEREAS, Jeannine first started playing the drums in 6th grade and played in the high school marching band. At 14, she started working in the Dorlu Dress and Gift Shop, where she learned to wrap gift packages. Shortly after she graduated from high school, she was asked to represent the KSGM radio station as part of Radio Appreciation Day. There, she met then St. Louis Cardinals (and later Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs) baseball announcer Harry Carey, who presented her with a souvenir engraved watch; and
WHEREAS, At 21, she told a family friend she was interested in becoming an airline stewardess and the friend arranged an interview for her with Trans World Airlines (TWA). Before she left for her training in Kansas City, Missouri, she had to cut her long blonde hair to the required short length. Knowing she was going to be leaving her family and her hometown, she could not stop crying, but her mother kep...
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