Kendallville High School - Kay Aitch Ess Yearbook (Kendallville, IN)

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..,. .., THE SENIOR PROPHECY The day was Iune 4, 1946. In one end of the large darkened room stood a tall white screen with an immense metal machine, bristling with levers and wheels on each side of it. Today after years of research and labor this Super Television set was to be tested. The room was silent as Lamar Higginbotham, Morton Holcomb, and Ralph Willy adjust- ed each part. For testing it, they had collected a list of their old classmates and were going to try to see and hear them, for the machine's super directional ray not only picked up pictures anywhere, but also conveyed the sound back. Through them I had re- ceived permission to be present along with some officials. Everything was ready- Morton held the list in his hand. Bob Glass, he whispered. Lamar threw a lever, Ralph directed the ray. Yes, there was Bob in overalls milking. Irene Parker stood in the doorway blushing when he squirted milk at a cat. The machine was a success-you could hear the cat meow and the milk spatter. Wallace Shultz, came Morton's whisper. There he was plowing. The horse loafed and Ralph shut off the sound mechanism as Wallace started to speak. CLadies in the audience! Ed Stoeckley. A classroom came into the picture. Edward was vigorously teach- ing Latin in front while Ierry Rupp slept in a back seat. Says Lamar, I guess he's been there six years. Catherine Bartlett came on next-behind bars- Yes, said Ralph, she poisoned her husband. A good home town scene followed. Charlotte Swartz scortching Ronnie's shirts. Another home town scene appeared, though not so peaceful. Down one side of the street was a row of shops-I could hardly believe my eyes at the names. Enid Haller- proprietor of the Elite Beauty Shoppe, Ruth Call-proprietor of the Frilly Beauty Shoppe, Pauline Wright-proprietor of the Premier Beauty Shoppe, Ieannette Harp-proprietor of the Perfect Beauty Shoppe, Virginia Steckley-proprietor of the Deluxe Beauty Shoppe, Ilo Swartz, proprietor of the Curly Beauty Shoppe, and Beatrice Blech-proprietor of the Blech Beauty Salon-and they were all, according to Mr. Dixon, economist extraordin- ary-running cut throat competition. The Blech Beauty Salon had additional troubles, too. Olive Hayden and Betty Kropp, heads of the Anti-Drink League, were its zealous persecutors because it looked like the Blech Beauty Saloon. The scene shifted to the hardware with which Howard Misselhorn supported his wife and seventeen kids. He was selling Norman Rottmiller a manure spreader. Next came the dancing team of the century. Norman Carter and Kathyln Eminger --happily married. We heard Kathlyn explain, It was love at first step! The next was a funny one. Ioe Deal ran across a field closely pursued by a bull- the funny part was in telling which was the bull. A war whoop rang out! Dale Seng dashed across the picture, stopped, and pulled out an arrowhead he had sat on. Ralph tumed a wheel and a droning sound came to our ears. A club room came into view. Virginia Crofoot, president of the Hear-em-tell-em Club, was just now tell- ing them. Ieanne Kurtz was impatiently waiting her turn. Virginia Getts, after telling a hot one, was looking smug and self-satisfied. Iohn Wagoner was next shown selling lingerie to Leona Bucher. For Betty Reith the scene opened upon a boarding house. Ethel Homett was in the kitchen over a stove. While we watched she flipped a panful of hash into the air. and collected it all on the return trip. Robert Lehner, their star boarder, licked his chops in anticipation. Pete Holbrook, says Ralph. Hes probably a coach or something. But vtfhcrt's Page 16 1' .- ', , , g 1, ., 5 f af- 'H -'ft ' L-iwii-Ii 'i .1 ali . l d Q, , dgr ' 1.- l Ea

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1. ZW ZW RAYMOND IEROME RUPP Basketball, baseball, track, intramural, class president '34. HENRY A. SALLER Annual Stall, Board of Control, president ot Stamp Club, Wig and Paint. IRENE VIRGINIA SCHMIDT Spotlight, volley ball, volley-ring tennis, base- ball, basketball. . EVELYN IANE QIDEL ' G. R. social chairman, Wig and Paint, Kodak Club, volley ball, volley-ring tennis, basket- ball, Hiking Club, Sr. Play- Growing Pains. DALE LEOHNARD saucm WALLACE WAYNE SHULTZ Basketball, baseball. VIRGINIA MARIE STECKLEY Senior Play- Growing Pains. EWARD CHARLES STOECKLEY Iunior Class President, Editor of Spotlight '35, '36, track, baseball, Wig and Paint, league basketball, Ir. play business manager. MARGARET NOLA STREICH Girl Reserve, Sr. Play- Growing Pains. Page 15 WALLACE SHULTZ I VIRGINIA STECKLEY7! Last four upper row NORMAN ROTTMILLER BEATRICE RUEI-IART DAVID RUNDEN IEROME RUPP Last four middle row . ,ya 7'w EDWARD STOECKLEY MARGARET STREICI-I Last four lower row C ' FERNE WIBLE RALPH WILLY PAULINE WRIGHT ELMER ZOLLMAN CHARLOTTE L. SWARTZ Girl Reserve, Madrigal Club, Spotlight Staff, baseball, basketball, volley-ring tennis, vol- ley ball, Wig and Paint, Ir. play prompter, Sr. Play- Growing Pains, Hiking Club. ILO MAE SWARTZ Volley ball, volley-ring tennis, basketball, table tennis, Shuffleboard, I-liking Club. IOHN WILLIAMS WAGONER Wig and Paint, assistant staqe manager Ir. Play- Skidding, Sr. Play- Growing Pains, band, orchestra, Kodak Klub. EVEREST ELMER WIBLE Baseball, Annual Staff, Spotlight, track, band, Board of Control, Sr. Play- Growing Pains. FERNE E. WIBLE Basketball, baseball, volley ball, volley-ring tennis, Girl Reserve, G. A. A. vice president '34, Sr. Play- Growing Pains. ALBERT RALPH WILLY Band orchestra, league basketball, Wig and Paint, Annual Staff, Spotlight. PAULINE ELIZABETH WRIGHT Girl Reserve, Madrigal, Sr. Play- Growing Pains, Kodak Club. ELMER E. ZOLLMAN Spotlight, track, intramural, stage manager Sr. Play- Growing Pains. 4

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thisl Paul Holbrook, reform mayor of Kendallville, was on a platform at a large gath- ering, pinning a medal on Elmer Zollman, the best liked iceman in K-ville. Bill Brunson was next, decorated as being the laziest milkman in the city, and rec- ommended for advancement into other contests. Henry Saller, teacher of the local kin- dergarten, gave a speech celebrating the occasion. Margaret Miller, singing instructor of children between the ages of four and ten, entertained the group with nursery jingles, although a dog butted in at the end. Its owner tried to stop it, but the people said they didn't mind. This was truly a gala occasion. Next the ray found Bob Kropp. Bob was yelling, Come and see Irene Early, the greatest living tiger trainer. Along somewhat the same line was the following scene: Margaret Streich, standing on a soap box, haranguing a crowd with the cry of Mrs Huey Long for President. Not far away was Iohn Claussen on a Chipso box just as vigorously crying, Down with Democracy-let's be Republicans. After this David Runden, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, etc., was shown operating. Dave was now a famous surgeon with eighteen deaths to his credit. Stanley Minar was shown doing a six months' stretch for swiping the K-ville police siren off the car in front of the station. Now came Ferne Wible dangling by her teeth from a rope high above every- one's heads. Later she said she owed her marvelous jaws to chewing gum in school. Next Helen Hinkley with husband number 9, was giving an interview, quote, I really didn't dislike any of them, but I do SO like new engagement rings. After this the poor machine let us see and hear the Discord Quartette-Mac McMarrell, singing low bass and stuttering, George Hornsher, tenor, Everest Wible, baritone, Richard Kuckuck just making noises. They were well known, well disliked and heard over all the worst sta- tions. The managers felt it made the listeners appreciate the following programs. Now what should be shown but Albert Allen and Cecil Koon as co-editors of the La Vie Paree Magazine. The scene shifted to Prof. Donald Gunsaullus, AB, BS, MA, Ph. D., instructor of Calculus. Lamar had the bad taste to laugh. Pat Patterson, as his assistant, cleaned the blackboards after each example. Much different from this high standard was the following scene of Mary Anna Forker starting a nudist camp. Her explanation was, A girl can't be good all the time. Robert Hafer was shown in'his curling iron factory. Earl Halferty was shown testing new parachutes. He was good because his center of gravity was so low down. Violet Kitchen followed, she had fallen into and was vainly striving to find her way out of her cello. Irene Schmidt was caught dumping her dishwater out the window. Next the ray was directed to a session of Herbert Iackson's, Petting Paradise Night Club, and the music of Ilene Hart's Hot Shot Girl Orchestra. It was under the direction of Ilo Mae Swartz, a good program was assured. Betty Hartman was a model of a per- fect hat check girl. Phyllis Gunsaullus was a blues singer who really made you feel blue. Beatrice Ruehart, gold digger supreme, headed the chorus. The hit of the eve- ning wtas Evelyn Siedel in her famed Shadow Dance. My! Myl How times do change! Elden McWilliams, janitor, said he wouldn't trade jobs with Mussolini. Much different was the stern note in the next picture. lack Aichele, G-man, was out with his magni- fying glass on the trail of Robert Hosler, public enemy No. l plus. The tension was re- lieved soon with the sight of Tom Renkenberger pulling himself out of his horse trough where his mule had deposited him. Next Esther Hass was shown being crowned as champion hog caller of seven states and Canada. Morton Holcomb remarked that those who had sat near her at basketball games would readily believe this. Ruth Bro- wand was seen teaching her dog to rob the neighbor's hen-houses-starting the poor thing on a path of sin. The show was over-the machine a success! So everybody left to celebrate on gin- gerale and pop. ' 'U -Wyndham Brown Page I7 Tm -QT 'l E