Columbus Grove High School - Col Gro Yearbook (Columbus Grove, OH)

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been stationed around the South Sea Islands. To hear HIM tell it, those native girls adore him! No wonder he stayed a bachelor . Suddenly my guest's hands grew swifter. Isee a foreign country. It is Germany, There, sitting comfortably in a lavishly furnished home is Jeannine Core Gerdeman. Bob is a Colonel in the Army now and Jeannine is leading a very high-class social life. Sheand Bob have sevm children so-far and life is very busy for them . We are in Paris now. Thereis a large shop. The sign says, Reithmaier's Style Shop - Fashions for the Wee- Sized People'. It is owned and operated by Bill Reithmaier, who has a chain of these stores all over the world. I see two of your fellow classmates inside. One is Doris Cartwright. She models party dresses for the petite. All of her children are pretty well grown-up now so she decided to get a part-time job. She always manages to be home by 4 O'clock though, so she can have supper ready for Ronnie. The other person inside is Ray Kleman. He is also a model. He models small hats for tiny men. Ray enjoys his present job much better than the one he had four years ago. He was a midget in a flea circus and he's still itching! I see a large hospital in Chicago. Inside is an operating room and standing beside a table are the brilliant surgeon, J ack Teegardin and his assistant, Shirley Hoyt. .T ack is well-known in the medical profession and he has cut-up the best of people. Shirley has been his assistant for the last thirteen years and Jack couldn't get get along without her skillful service . Remember Bill Radabaugh and Wilfred Fuerst ? They are bachelors and live together in West Virginia. They raise rabbits and business is booming. They raise 'bunny-hop Bunnies', a new specialty. Their bunnies are guaranteed to hop-even after they are dead and skimmed. They can even go from the table to the frying pan in one leap. There is a large estate. I belie1eit's in Vermont. Here lives Arthur Anthony Joseph Kiene and wife, Ruth. Art made millions in the oil business and, although he has given a lot of money to charity--the government--, he still has a surplus of millions left. Before us is the MGM motion picture studio in Hollywood. Coming across the lot is Marilyn Monroe and her hairdresser, Dorothy Meyer. Dorothy has quite a job. She bleaches M.M.'s hair, combs it, and tries to cover up her wrinkles---an impossible job. Oh, there's that handsome Dick Reeder! My, he looks dapper. He is the leading star here at MGM now. All winter, summer, and spring he slaves away before hot cameras, but each fall he goes back to Columbus Grove, where he is a tomato seed picker at Macke's Cannery. He has a very important job. He has to take all of the seeds out of the tomatoes so people with false teeth won't have any difficulties eating them. Bob Risser is over to the left. He's talking to Betty Grable's youngest daughter. They are great friends! Bob has a triving business here in Hollywood. He is an interior decorator and his best customers are the WOMEN movie stars. There is an office over there. lt says 'Gail Bricker-Writer'. She is busy pounding out the story of a new Martin and Lewis CJ r., of coursep comedy. She is a very busy person these days. Oh, Oh. It must be 3:30. There she goes! Even though she likes her job here at MGM, Bill and their family still come first. I see a large forst now. Itis in Oregon. Dick Verhoff has come out for the day to see how the work is going. Dick is the undisputed 'Lumber King of the West' and his products are shipped everywhere. See those women? That is a meeting of the Ladies Home Chatter Society and it's being held in the home of Shirley Rimer. Two well-known faces are those of the formers Eileen Keine and Mary Ellet Brenneman. Their meeting is in full swing. Shirley is talking about her husband and daughters. Her girls, ten of them, are well- recognized in the field of sports. They have a professional basketball team and travel all over the U.S. Elleei is telling her troubles about trying tokeep house for four people in an Air Force barrack, Her husband is an instructor in the training center and insists onliving on the base. Mary Ellen has her troubles too. She is constantly worrying about her husband's health. He is a policeman and already he's as full of holes as a pin cushion! What would she ever do with her two boys if he got laid up for a while? t Looming before us is a large, beautiful apartment building. Here lives Rosalyn Myers and Dorothy Luginbill. Rosalyn is in charge of the big pediatrics department of the Salt Lake City Municipal Hospital. The children love her. She is always bringing them candy and toys to play with. fYesterday she gave a little boy a hatchet. . . That ward is now closed for repairs.J Dorothy is the private secretary to a big engineering firm. She practically owns the place by now. Each year for Christmas they give her 4 per cent in stock. In five years the place will be hers. Oh, there's trouble ahead. A train is stopped on the tracks. Somethings is wrong with the engine and there is the chief mechanic of the B 8: O, Bfyron Virgil Dotson, fixing it in jig time. He's getting quite a bit of help from 21

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PROPHECY CLASS OF NINETEEN--HUNDRED FIFTY--FOUR Last night as I sat alone, leafing thru an Annual of five years ago, I began to wonder what would become of the girls and boys who held the position of Seniors here in our high school-the class of Nineteen-hundred and F ifty-four. Further thought caused my curiousity to become aroused concerning my fellow classmates. What would be our fate in the coming years? Suddenly I heard a faint tapping at the window. It grew more and more urgent and as I walked slowly toward it, a weird, ghostly voice said, Open thy window and let mein . . . Scared and shaking, but afraid to disobey, I lifted the sash and a black robed figure floated in. It was covered with a heavy black veil and the only visible parts of anatomy were two long, slim, bony hands. It threw back the heavy veil revealing a very ancient and bewitchful looking face. Long, stringy, hair led me to believe this thing was a woman. She limped slowly across the room and stood by the table. As I watched her she turned and fastened her hypnotic eyes upon mine. My mind was soon put at rest for she said, Fear not, my dear. I have been sent by the Spirit of Prophecy to tell you the future of your fellow class- mates . From within the folds of her flowing black robe she dr ew a large mystic orb which she placed on the table be- fore me. She began moving her long, slim, bony hands over the celestial sphere while mumbling her mysterious dialect. Suddenly her eyes began to roll and her general appearance became more superhuman. I see, I see , she cried. The future is passing before me. The years go swiftly. 1954-1955-l965-1971-1973-1974. lt has stopped! Into the future I shall take you. We will travel twenty years into the deep, There is , she said, an office . I believe it is the office of your dear old C.G. High. Sitting behind the superintendent's desk is Gordon A. Meyer and nearby is his assistant-the principal, Roger Ridinger. Coming into the office is the school secretary, Jeanne Stechschulte. She is really kept busy and it is doubtful the school could get along without her. flncidentally, we hear Superintendent Meyer never attended college. He passed his tests and got his degree all in one daylj Principal Ridinger is looking over Saturday's football results of the Michigan-Ohio State game. The score was 20-20, a good thing, because the Ohio State head football coach, Jim Hayden, and the Michigan coach, Dale Jenkins, are the friendliest of rivals. Neither team has lost a game since 1962 when Jim and Dale be- came the Big Chiefs . I see , she continued, a small, neat dress shop on the exclusive Fifth Avenue in New York City. It is owned and managed by 'Countess Doneta', your fellow classmate, Doneta Amstutz . She designs and sells her lovely fashions to the best-dressed women in New York. I The scene moves to LaGuardia Air Port. Coming out of the large Pan-American plane is Stewardess Beverly Sperbeck, 'Queen of the Airways', and behind her comes Detective Robert Eversole who is affiliated with the F.B.L He is on another top-secret mission. They are headed for 'Janet's Supper Club' located in downtown New York. It is a very swanky place where the best-of-the-bestest in food is served. Janet DeVelbiss is kept quite busy man- aging her place and doing all of the bookwork, but she is still as efficient as ever . with a slight quickening of speech, she continued, I see a very happy looking couple waiting for a plane. It is the very famous star Julius La.Rosa and his private secretary, Carol Kurber, who has secretly been his wife for fifteen years . Here we are, back in Grove again. See that tall man coming down the street? said my mysterious guest. That is Benny Baxter. He's the tallest mailman in Columbus Grove. Lookl He's reading postcards again. He knows more about everybody else's problems then they do. Now he's stopping at the Putnam County Vidette office. Inside Charlotte Lentz Heffner is working very industriously at her desk. The paper has grown in the past twenty years, and Charlotte is now assistant editor. CThis paper is a family concernl. Benny is moving again-slow, but sure. He is approaching a large garage. Here Glen Williams and Fred Wootten are partners. They don't have too much business today so they are just sitting around talking. There are Ronnie Fisher, Herbert Carpenter, Ed Davis, and James Goedde . Ed Davis stopped in on his way to the grainnery. He has a big chicken ranch out in the country. He raises six-legged chickens for people whose children like drumsticks. Ed developed this breed himself and it has made him a wealthy man. Mr. Goedde says he just dropped in to see how the other half lives. His automotive repair shop in Toledo is one of thebiggest inOhio. He is an expert on repairing Franklins and Stanley Steamers . Ronnie Fisher is telling about his big job at SOHIO in Lima, He practically controls the business. fHe's the J anitorj. Herbert is having quite a time telling of his experiences. He is a Fleet Admiral in the Navy and he's

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Martha Metzger Jenkins too. Martha is on her way home to Michigan where she lives on the MSU campus. She is a retired nurse, but she gets to practice her skills on Dale's injured players. Since it's almost Spring this is about Byron's last trip for the season on the B 8: O. Each Spring he sheds his greasy coveralls, puts on his easy clothes, and sets out for greener pasturm.'fHe's a hobo-part time.J Ah, before me is a large factory in Columbus, Ohio. Here Sylvia Bradford is plant supervisor. She really cracks the whip when those slow, old men don't do as she says! She likes her job here though, because she's never too far from the campus AND Jim. We see Norman Birkemeyer also works here. That's him sitting in that office over there. He does a lot of desk work--when he isn't sleeping. Plowing into the office is Robert Epley. He's a foreman here in the plant and he really is a TOUGH onel He's probably going to get someone else fired. If he does, it will be the seventh one this weekl Here we are in Washington D.C. Two of your classmates are working here. They have very executive-like jobs. They are Marvin Struble and Fred Mikesell. Marvin is the chief mechanic and his job is to keep the Presi- dent's cars in perfect running order. Fred is bodyguard and with him around, no-one dares try anything. CCon- fidentially, Fred is due for a raise in salary in twenty more years.J St, Rita's Hospital in Lima, Ohio, is graced with the presence of two members of the class of 1954. They are Mary Jean Kissell and Doris Ann Doty. Mary Jean is a R.N. and her station is in the nursery. She really has a time with all of those babiesl Doris is the receptionist here, She is still as beautiful as ever. ln fact, the doctors voted her the girl we would like most to cut-up with in the operating room. Clank, clankl Here comes Paul Tussing down the road with another load of junk. l-le has a very prosperous business. He hauls junk formillionairesin N.Y., N..T.. and Connecticut. Last, but not least, we see lrvin Schroeder. He is on his farm in Georgia where he raises peanuts, salted as they grow. It's a marvelous technique. Suddenly her speech ended, her long, slim, bony fingers ceased to move over the celestial sphere, and her general appearance became less mysterious. You, my dear, have received this thru the Spirit of Prophecy and have the right to put it on paper. When she had said these words, she withdrew herself farther within the folds of her long black cape, picked up the celestial sphere, and limped toward the window. Before l could speak she had raised the sash and disappeared into the clear night air.