Bucyrus High School - Bucyrian Yearbook (Bucyrus, OH)

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too. After we had eaten we went to the show at which Hazel Yost sold the tickets and Betty Luke and Wilma Fritz in tricky uniforms showed us to our seats. The program began with a juggling act by Bob Love assisted by Dorothy Dieb- ler. Lovey always did like to keep things up in the air. Next was a ladies' jazz or- chestra with Margie Kehrer as leader, Ellie Rutter pianist, Ethel Pfouts, flutist and Jerry DeWalt as saxaphonist. Mid Groves sang the choruses. After this came the feature of the evening, the dramatic tragedy, Don't Eat Bologna Before You Go to Bed with John Shaner and Jennie Lemke in the leading roles. In the last act Hudson Graven appeared as a magician. 'tYeah, Janie said, he always did like to put something over on us. Carl Etsinger helped Craven in his act. As we came out of the show Katy Volk and Marie Shoemaker, Y. W. C. A. secretaries rushed up to us. Have you heard the great news? Shoey cried, 'tJi Baker, the famous ath- lete, is stopping here for a few minutes on his way to Ctglumbus. We're all thrilled about meeting him again. ' I always did think he was the sweetest thing! V Katie exclaimed. So we went down to meet Jim, too. He had just established a record for being able to throw a wet-blanket two hundred feet. Don Gestenslagewwas his manager. After leaving him we met Earl Ackerman, a struggling young druggist who told us about Thelma Bowen who writes such brilliant poetry, the futuristic kind you know, the meter may be found sometime in the future. He also said that Art Kitchen is doing research work to prove to the world that red wood trees are not red. He is married to Dorie Harer. Next we encountered Evelyn Faust and Lucille Foulke who were selling Lady Grey cosmetics. We walked down the street several blocks further and met Don Zeller who considers himself very successful because he has broken all but twenty- five of the bones in his body and he hopes to be lucky enough to break those within the next few years. He said that while he was in Hollywood recently he saw Mike Aidt, who has the title role in the picture, t'Heza Flop. Rowena Howard has the feminine lead and Ray Westenbarger is the villain. We walked on down the street and met the rival grocery dealers, Bob Myers and Bill Weber. VVe were talking to them when Harold Riddlebaugh came bound- ing up to meet us. He has his eye on the heavy weight championship since he knock- ed Johnny Risko out. Jim Gerster is his manager. If you go to the debate tonight, Jim said, You'll meet a lot of people you know. So we went. The affirmative team was composed of Jessie Staton, Ruth Schaber, Wilmy Auck and Evelyn Spaid and the negative Willy Assenheimer, Sippy Shumaker, Leo Speigel and Harold Shoup. The judges were Jim Berry, the town pholosopherg Mary Beall, a young matrong and Fairy Risinger who poses for the cover pictures on dime novels. The topic of the debate was Resolved That It Should Be A Criminal Offense to Feed a Child Spinachf' Margaret Wenninger re- ported it for the paper. When we left we started for Bucyrus. We stopped at a garage on the way where Ralph Nickler worked and he tried to sell us everything from a spark plug to a Cadillac. It was only when his boss, Fae Hull, who always inspires respect came out that he left. Further down the road Alberta Ghist, Jessie Hoover, Clara Walters and Bar- bara Sand have a poultry farm. At the next farmhouse we saw the Beall sisters who as dairymaids have learn-- ed that all milk does not come in bottles. Mary Maley is the housewife there. Upon entering Bucyrus we saw three young matrons, Thelma Mills, Lucille Mollencopf and Eleanor Keller, they were formerly discussing the relative merits of Mellon's and Eagles' baby food. Uptown we met Eleanor Martin who had gone in for toe dancing in a big way. She had just bought her third set of artificial toes. Have you heard, she said, how musical Paul Myers is becoming? She also told me about Violet Cole and Nellie Downing who are co-editors of the magazine, The Truth About Romance. Vilma Galitze is their chief con- tributor. Before returning to Chatfield we went past the old schoolhouse from which we had graduated eleven years before. I was glad that during my vacation I had been able to hear about all the others who graduated with us. All in all the members of '30 had been very successful out in the world. ' -Doris Gatchell Page Twenty-eight H - BUQAN -

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- BUSQSAN - CL!-XSS IDROPHECY After having worked ten years as assistant to the postmaster at Chatfield I decided to take a short vacation. With my time worn but courageous Ford I began my tour accompanied by Janis Millar, who is now the successful editor of the Chatfield Daily Times , and Margaret Patterson her efficient reporter. When we reached North Robinson we saw tents of a medicine show there. We went to the show and recognized Bob Kranich as the doctor, Bob was as voluble as ever. His assistant and better half was the former Ada Ream. The leading lady in the show was Dot Brown and playing opposite her was that handsome Fritz Bertram. After the show we went up town where we saw the constable, Bud Gallagher, rushing around like mad with his deputies George Brown and Ned Srodes, trailing along behind him. By that time we were very hungry so we stopped at the grocery store to eat and chat awhile with Wally Frey, the jovial grocer. Upon returning to our car we saw a shiny new Ford parked beside it. Its oc- cupants and joint owners were Chuck Herschler and Dick Bowers, who had just bought it on the installment plan. They are now prosperous butchers in this dis- trict. They gave us a newspaper in which we read the account of the amazing in- vention of a brilliant young American scientist. .Tim I-Ieckert had invented a sky- hook for airplanes. In the same paper we read that Bob Elsasser, the famous nutologist had found his life work among the people at the Ohio State Institution for the Feebleminded. After reading our paper we looked across the street to the Sisters' Beauty Parlor in time to see the owners, Marjorie and Vansaneelia Kennedy, emerge. Beside the beauty parlor Seckel has set up a shop and is doing amazing business. He specializes in original decorations for Fords and Burnell Dowler helps him. We headed toward Leesville then and had gone only about :wo miles when we saw someone coming toward us on foot. When we got closer we saw that it was Nell Burrows who is trying to establish a record for hopping on one foot from North Robinson to Leesville. The car began to balk then so We stopped at a garage to have Pete Trout fix it. We stopped at Leesville to hear the band concert which was being given under the leadership of Bob White, now a prominent farmer. A feature of the program was a vocal duet, 'Tm Called a Buttercup , by Emmett Snyder and Edgar Price. Before we left we saw Fred Skeen who is still practicing high pressure salesmanship. When we went to Crestline the first person we met was Bert Bevan who is now the wife of the janitor of the Crestline hospital. Next we saw a small army of children of all shapes and sizes coming toward us with the sweet and patient mother, Dickerhoff, and the indulgent father, Dwight Mutchler bringing up the rear. They told us that Velma Marshman is now working in a broadcasting sta- tion and that the studio electrician, Ralph Baehr, greatly appreciates her ability. On the way to Galion I remarked about a beautiful brick building I saw on one side of the road. What's that? I asked. That's the old maid's retreat, Janie replied. That's where Boots Schell, Marj Wasson, Dot. Morrison and Gert Rinker live. When we stopped at the next farmhouse the farmer's wife, Marguerite Cook, gave me a drink of water, which revived me somewhat. We also met Claudia Baker and Martha Albright, overworked school teachers, there for a quiet rest. Being hungry we immediately went to I-Iubley's in Galion where we met Carme- lita Shaefer. She's added something since, of course. Coletta Coy is working there Page Twenty-seven

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