Lakota High School - Lakhian Yearbook (Kansas, OH)

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mg: eeeee .;P W .1 m The following are excerst from The Diary of a 1961 groduoTe 0f LokoTo High School. IT reveals The experiences of This person in The year of 1981-1982 during The persidenTial elecTion and incuguroTion. November 8, 1981 Dear Diary, New presidenT elecTecl TodoynDanny Howard Eiler. in high school he always wanted To be president AT The polls Today, I happened To run mm a few clussmufes from LHS--The former Gloria Muncy, Sandy Sounders, RiTo Hamblih, and JoneT May. Theylre all married and have Children. Gloria Told me ThoT Peggy Brehm is also married and riding around in her 1961 car ThoT she boughT when she goT OUT of school. EsTher Meddings is also riding around in u lGTer model, 1962, lTook her longer To scrape up The money1. Oh yes, They also Told me Thcz'r Don Hoover finally goT married CT The ripe old age of 36. He always said he'd never geT married before The age of 20, and he meonT iT. Wonder if Sharon HompTon is sTill c1 llbochelor girl. Gloria also Told me That PaTTy SouTh is Teaching school in a liTTle Swiss village. November 15 Dear Diary, WenT shopping Today 0T The new Kroger sTore down The sTreeT. Was surprised To see Jerry CosTer and Diane Benzing as co-managers. ATTer leaving The store, had Trouble wiTh my car and sTopped CT The Cromer-CorneTT Speed Shop. Old LizzieisH running fine now. November 22 Dear Diary, Picked up The paper Today and saw ThoT Dole Alvey sTruck oil in Texas. Also read reporT of The capture of a spy ring ThoT They have been Trying To find for Five years. Police Chief, Jim Wilson, reported ThaT CapTGin Jim Griffin solved The case. OTher names I recognized in The news were Terry Cleson, who opened 0 Terrific new nigthlUb recently; Jerry SchmiTz, Terry Elam, Willard Gregory, and Richard Fischer, who are working on a secreT proiecT 0T GE. Bonnie Fee, The famous maThemaTicion, meT wiTh PresidenT Today on problems obouT The budgeT. Olympic sTQTs, Barbara Wise and Marlene Allen are enjoying Their Hold age in Hawaii; Denny Meyer and Gordon Word in Alaska. Dick McCorTy and Erlon Wheeler, The Two famous WashingTon playboys were arresTed for Trying To 'lpoinT The Town red. They were orresTed on The WhiTe House lawn wiTh c buckeT of red puinT! WhiTe House is being done over again, and Linda Mullins is in charge of The re-decoraTion. Mike Meyers is The oucTioneer who is going To oucTion off most of The old WhiTe House TurniTure. January 12 Dear Diary, NexT week The new Presidenf, DHE, will be inouguraTed. l was surprised To receive on inviTGTion from one of his secreTories, Brenda Soylor, To aTTend The evenT. 11041

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Class President Representmive Roger Taylor shows Class Pres- ident Speaker how To wear his ha? as Jim Crozier watches. At The recepfion SiH Hendrix re- ceives congrufuiufians From cousin, Howard Hendrix. A150 shown are Linda Mullins and Mary Kay Coffee in the background. REMEMBER When The books dose, end We Ias'r bell ringsl And corefree days are 105T To mundane Thims- XA-fhen nostalgia strikes, and your memory warms, And you remember The Faces bu? no'r The names- Pick up your yearbook and leaf if rhrough, y And remember The days so dear To you. Piciured Feh to right: Marlene Allen, Lind Linda Mitzel, Barbara Wise, and Joyce girls are recipients of the coveied G.A f Thunder- bird award. ' i; 1.1 ' J

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January l9 Dear Diary, Riding on The plane To Washingfon wiTh me were Diane Clark, Diane Davis, Jim Crozier, Sonny HousTon, Toby Moyers, and Carol Drake. We had a nice Time discussing our high school days. Of all people, Suzie BoaTrighT and Karen STewarT were The sTewardesses. We gossiped abouT our old school chums. Jim said ThaT Bill Hendrix is now presidenT 0T Gano Research LaboroTories. Roger Taylor is one of his Top assisTanTs. Diane said ThaT Sharon Carver is execuTive secreTary To CI big adverTising company in New York and Ernie DeBord is The presidenT. As I am off The plane, l was meT by Marvin Kinch. AfTer all These years, he sTill hasnTT made up his mind whaT he wanTs To Clo. He rode wiTh me To The hotel. WiTh Harold PhilpoT dri-ving, we had To hold on For dear life. AT The hoTel, I had my hair seT aT JoAnn's BeauTy Parlor, proprieTor JoAnn Parman and assisf- anTs Brenda Lewis and Lois Rice. When Marvin left, he said he was going To Jack NorTorI and Gordon Dixon's Barber Shop for a haircuT. January 20 Dear Diary, Turned on The Television This morning and There was Gene Beaver, who is covering The inau- guraTion. By The way, his broTher, Jack, is a successful pharmacisT in WesT Palm Beach, and Their old buddy, Gary Aufranc, is a pharmacisT in Russia. The roving reporTer, Willa BaxTer, was inTerviewing The many people aT The inauguraTion scene, some of whom were Sara Howard, SenaTor; PaTTy EllioT, Judy Kline, and Joyce Nicely, Congresswomen. She also inTerviewed Richard Wesseler, SecreTary of AgriculTure and AssisTanT, Kenny STidham; Ray Even, SecreTary of Army; Floyd Rockwell, ATTorney General, and his legal secreTary, Harri'eT Gallaher, and am- bassadors Richard Simone, Arville Dunson, and Dave Meddings. The PresidenT,s wife looked very nice. AT Donna's Salon, her hair was sTyled by Donnc CorneTT and her assisTanT Norma Harper. Her OUTFIT was especially designed for The occasion by JUdiTh Behan. The children were noT There. The family doctor, Linda Waggoner, advised ThaT They sTay home wiTh Their nurse, Peg SmiTh. Louise Dollna sang The NaTianal AnThem as ET has never been sung before. DHE was sworn in by Chief JusTice STeve Curtis. WaTching The inauguraTion Today, I Spied in The crowd, Bill Abner, Paul Hansel, Ann Brucker, Janice Ballinger, Jim Dingham, JaneT HamilTon, Linda Condan, and Ray HamilTorI. l was Talking To one of The PresidenT's secreTaries, Carol Rich, afTer The inauguraTion, and she said ThaT The PresidenT received Telegrams of con graTUlaTions From Barbara Cole, Floyd SmiTh, Wanda Woodrum, Bob Wilkinson, Florence SingleTon, and Dave Francis. January 23 Dear Diary, Clyde, my DEAR husband called Today To say ThaT he had iusT been promoTecl To vice- pres- idenT of his company. He said his new private secreTary is Sandy Mercer. Charles Dingmon is his head accounTanT. OThers on his sTan are Linda Bell, Karen Norvell, and Sue Mehl He also said someone robbed The company. John HazleTon of Morgan's DeTecTive Agency is in charge of The invesTigaTion. January 25 Dear Diary, Had 0 wonderful Time in WashingTon, buT iT's wonderful To geT back home wiTh The family. l have all hopes ThaT one of The Children may grow Up To geT an imporTanT posiTion like many of my old classmaTes. I don'T have a worry in The world Though, wiTh such Teachers as Vicki Green, Carolyn Lakes, Joyce lhle, Sherrill Young, Linda MiTzel, and Mary K. Coffee. ATTer all, LHS has Turned OUT some mighTy fine sTudenTs, and I'm sure They can do iT again. now