Clay High School - Crystal Yearbook (Oregon, OH)

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Senior Prophecy Our local Ladies' Aid Society has just elected its new officers. jane Brundage was elected President, Marie Clifton, Vice-President, Phyllis Haack, Secretary, and jean Heintschel, Treasurer. Congratulations to these new officers! We hope they don't celebrate their election with an ice cream social again, as they did last year. They nearly poisoned the many people who attended. It is said that someone accidentally mixed a bottle of arsenic in the ice cream. They thought it was vanilla flavoring Y ! ! News from our campus is great tonight! Professor Hagedorn has just Hnished his experiment of the mighty B-Bomb and has stated that this bomb will prove a great help to society. He declares it will kill any bug in the vicinity of the bomb's explosioni A great discovery, professor I 3 I Kathryn Mahl, professor of English, has just released her new book and it promises to be a great success. The title, 'Iohn's Other Wife . Emil Reisner, professor of Civics, reports that his book which he has been working on for the past ten years is almost finished. We are still waiting, professor. Many men and women are coming back to college these days. And what for? A Master's Degree, of course! Four debuantes striving for their degrees are Anna Mae Wilson, Billy Van Gunten, Shirley Witty, and Betty Lou Sloan. Best of luck to you girls! Are you planning to attend the Policemen's Ball this year? If so, obtain your tickets this week from Sergeant Simon, Captain Reif, and Lieutenant Vilhauer. These Hatfoots will be selling tickets in Grinnel Brothers or the Boys Athletic Supply Com- pany. Hurry now before they are all sold. Elsie Solberg, Shirley Lang and joy Meeks, officers of the Y.W.C.A., are campaign- ing for donations for the new Y.W.C.A. which they are planning to build in the near future. They already have donations from Reverend Muir and Reverent Pingel, who are highly in favor of the new building. lt has just been announced that Alton Brown has won the National Trophy of the Auto Races. Congratulations, Alton! Rita Hastings of the Acme Publishing Company was voted, in a recent poll, the most popular secretary of the city. Betty Trisel was voted the most efficient bookkeeper. Miss Trisel is an employee of the ' Book of the Year Club . Our local Veterinarian, Karl Loveland, will close his office next week for a much needed rest. Dr. Loveland will be back with us next year. We hope you have a nice vacation, Dr. Wfe are fortunate in having Dr. House, world famous psychologist, join our Medical Staff at the local hospital! We hope his advice to our patients will be right and that many of them are cured soon. His assistant, Dr, joe Hollo, will do all the work. A new cab company is being organized in our city. The name of the company is Suicide Cab Company . Glen Diefenthaler was elected President, Ralph Taylor the Vice-President, Bill Schmidlin the Secretary and jim Stretchberry the Treasurer. Newly installed firemen at the Oregon Volunteer Department are Bill Kleine, Donald Cordell, Ray Dippmann, Jim Harrell, and Norman Mackey. These men were installed this morning at the Hrehouse. We also have a new branch of the City Department, called the Street Cleaners Association. Harold Russ, Richard Warkentein, Calvin Meyer and Lyle Ames are officers in this association. The Style Show recently appearing in our city was sponsored by the Singee Sewing Center . We are also told that Carole Varner designed all the clothes featured in the show. Evelyn Chikadroff, Ethel St. john, Alice Reynolds and Jewel Crews added spice to the show as models and Margie Bury furnished the music with her Hotshot Rhythm Band . All in all it was a great success. This is all the news for now, ladies and gentlemen. Listen in again next year for the next broadcast over station C-L-A-Y. This is your announcer, Clay' Hi, signing off until then, and wishing you all a good night. 25

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Senior ropbecy Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. Oregon Township, this is your announcer, Clay Hi, speaking. Let's go to press! The newly elected president of the United States, Neal Nightingale, was inaugu- rated into oliice this ..,..,.. day of june, 1957. Chief justice Charles Pautz administered the oath of office at the exact hour of three o'clock in the morning . The President immediately announced changes in his cabinet, many of whom are well known to the former students of Clay High School, The Secretary of War, james Chikadrolf, who was the manager of Sadie's Tea Shop a few years ago, the Secretary of the Treasury, Dick Lutzmang the Secretary of Agriculture, Bill Burnside, who has recently won the title as the nation's most prosperous farmer, the Secretary of the Navy, Willias Schanke, and the Postmaster General, Milburn Baker. I leave it to you folks, what is this world coming to? And now, we switch you to Harlon Adams, who has a message for you from Ander- son, Sanderson, Henderson, and Potts, makers of Maumee Pollution hand lotion. Do your hands feel different lately? Do they look clean and well kept? Well, if so, try just one bottle of Maumee Pollution hand lotion. XVC guarantee results! If you are not satisfied with this lotion send back your half-used bottle along with your name and address, and ten cents to cover postage, to us and we will not refund your money. And now our Maumee Pollution's famous Stinky Trio , those three beautiful girls, Margie Henninger, joyce Meyers, and Nancy Bratschi, sing our jingle for the day. tTune of Archie's Little, Love Songj Maumee Pollution, that's for me, It's something like D.D.T.! And now for the sports of today! Kenneth George and james Klotz have just signed contracts with the All-American football team, the Brooklyn Dodgers . News from our local team, the Oregon Terrors, is dim tonight! They were walloped by a score of 76 - 6. The reasons given for this defeat are that Paul Kiggins fumbled all the balls, Rollie Turnow tripped over his own feet, jim Keene was carried off the Held too many times and Carl Armstrong dropped all the wobbly passes. Our Hollywood columnist, josie Patznick, reports that the great screen lover, joe Veselka, has just married the Bamboo Blonde , Shirley Susor, after his recent separa- tion from the Sarong Girl , Bonnie Lou Teems, who I might add has just eloped with the Swoon King , Bob Mathews. And now to the homefront news! A few of our prominent housewives have actually gone on a strike. They are striking for a more adequate allowance from their husbands. The strikers are Doris Bosch, Esther Eddinger, Frances Harris, Lois Menter, Marilyn Miller, Donna Navarre, joan Moritz, joan King, Nancy Thomas, and Mary Catherine Ten Eyck. The Grapevine contends that there are frequent visitors at Sunny Solitude Orphan' age these days, that answer to the names of Dick and Gordy. This orphange, as you have heard, is under the supervision of Marian Mathewson and Cathryn Klebold. The Daily Times reports that the Advice to the Lovelorn column is doing very well under the mighty pens of Dorothy Douglass and Ruth Rohr. They have mated over one thousand forlorn, dejected, and lonely old men and women. Two of our prominent Times reporters, Lucille Hurm and Irene Schrader, attended the national reporters' convention in Washington last week and were highly praised for their outstanding newspaper work by President Nightingale. Flash! Attention, drivers of the Stiff Ambulance Corps ! You are to report to headquarters at once. Information has just been received at our studios that two of your fellow drivers, Bud Wenzel and Tom Fazekas, have just been kidnapped by il patients of theirs. Come at once and prepare for a search! 24

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Senior Clary WZ!! We, the Clay High School graduating class of 1947, being in sound mind and body, do hereby bequeath to our friends and followers the following possessions: I, Harlan Adams, leave my seat in Chemistry to some sophomore who can break as many test tubes as I have. I, Lyle Ames, bequest my Civics book to the next victim. I, Carl Armstrong, leave my singing voice to Douglas MacPherson. I, Milburn Baker, bequeath my brilliant mind to Donald Spangler. I, Doris Bosch, leave my messy locker to the mice. I, Nancy Bratschi, leave my infectious laugh to some demure freshman girl. I, Alton Brown, leave my ice cream bars to Mary Luce. I, jane Brundage, leave my seat in a taxicab to those who go to the Trianon. I, Bill Burnside, leave my psychological mind to Margie Wagner. I, Margie Bury, leave my ability for playing practical jokes to whoever has the nerve to try them. I, Evelyn Chikodroff, leave my ability to jerk sodas to anyone who is a frequent visitor at Don's. I, jim Chikodroff, leave my ability to play hookey to Richard Engel. I, Marie Clifton, leave my carrot top and a few freckles to Edith Rabbitt. I, Donald Cordell, bequeath the love of my coon dogs to Donald Wfixom. I, Jewell Crews, leave my sweet, quiet manner to Betty Hettrick. I, Glenn Diefenthaler, leave my position in the F.F.A. to Karl Dreier. I, Raymond Dippman, leave my big, black eyes to Marie St. john. I, Dorothy Douglass, leave my seat in Advanced Algebra to someone who has the nerve to tackle the stuff. I, Esther Eddinger, leave my pleasant memories of Clay to some appreciative freshman and go to join jim. I, Thomas Fazekas, leave my ability to play basketball to joe Ball. I, Kenneth George, bequest my guardianship of Barbara Bake to David Shulko. I, Phyllis Haack, leave my typewriter to Margaret Garber. I, Floyd Hagedorn, bequeath my brainy substance to jack DeHart. I, James Harrell, leave my basketball shorts to Arlene Witty. I, Frances Harris, leave my smile of love to him.', I, Rita Hastings, leave my size to Nancy Weller. ' I, jean Heintschel, leave my quiet manner to Mary Wynn Eteau. I, Margie Heninger, leave my way with men to some timid freshman. I, joe Hollo, leave my farm tools to jim Schlageter. I, Robert House, leave my wise-cracks in Sociology to some timid junior. I, Lucille Hurm, leave my sportsmanship to Mary Chikodroif. I, james Keene, leave my lanky physique to Tommy Kechstein. I, Paul Kiggins, leave my glamour to jim Pautz. I, joan King, leave my single blessedness to all junior girls. I, Cathryn Klebold, leave my seat in Chemistry to whoever can keep his or her feet on the floor. I, William Kleine, bequeath my gum to someone who can chew as energetically as I. I, James Klotz, leave my position on the Crystal to some other good reporter. I, Shirley Lang, leave my mischievous smile to Rita Fassett. I, Karl Loveland, leave my way with women to Charles Chase. I, Richard Lutzmann, bequeath my love for the girls to johnny Cavas. Sniifl Snitf! I, Norman Mackey, leave my taxi service to Miss Ray. I, Kathryn Mahl, leave my seat in Senior English to some junior who has a wild imagi- nation. I, Marian Mathewson, bequeath my sparkling eyes and ability to roll them to some freshman girl. 26