Leetonia High School - Lehiscan Yearbook (Leetonia, OH)

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The Last Word Glwu of '45 Class Prophecy In the year 1955 A. D. joy has struck us once again! As we are about to write this story, we-Bill Mathey, john Donley, and Rudie Ashman-are traveling salesmen for the Deming Company of Salem. We just returned from a trip that took us throughout the country on the Brain and Corl Railways from Chicago to all points West. Incidentally, Floyd and George own all the railways of western United States. Upon this route we met many former classmates of the Leetonia High School, Class of 1945. After we left Leetonia, our first stop was Chicago where we met Eddie Duco, now married to Helen Mae Atkinson. Ed is a petty officer in the Navy and is the Admiral's right hand man. He has invented a new game called 'ffootball at sea . Ed told us about a friend of ours, Jim Beilhart. jim was a malaria victim in the Southe Pacific but has recovered wonderfully. Ed took us to see Jim at the Veterans, Hospital where he was receiving the best of care, and no wonder, for his nurse was none other than Margaret Ferry! Her ambition had been fulfilled. She always wanted to be a nurse. After a happy visit in Chicago we visited the Kovach and Hinerman Hotel where we de- cided to stay for the night. The service was excellent, and since we were old classmates, we re- ceived the best of everything. Of course, we went to Edgewater Beach where Shirley Holt was singing with Tommy Dorsey and his band. Shirley is the most famous singer in the land. She was very happy to see us, and in the course of our conversation, she asked us if we had seen jane Siegel, the matron of Illinois State Prison. From Chicago we went to Washington where Coach Joe Bernard was teaching the Red Skins the fundamentals of football, and doing very nicely, too. He hopes for a Rose Bowl game New Year's Day. joe told us that Dean Vestal is teaching at Washington State. He is the toughest teacher thereg few pupils ever pass his tests. From Washington State we went to Hollywood where we saw Bob Shimer playing oppo- site Helyne Louise Spatholt in Nothing But a Dream. Their names were in lights for miles around. From Hollywood we went to the San Diego Marine Base where we saw David Peppel, now a sergeant in the Marines. Mooney,' had decided to make the Marines his life work. This decision really surprised us. At a jerk water town we stopped to pick up David Driscoll who is a farmer in the San Fernando Valley. He has really decided to make the San Fernando Valley his home. He said he had seen jim Stewart recently. Jim is a postman and raises rabbits as a side line. He has over a thousand rabbits. Dave told us that farther east was the Farmer-Stouffer ranch where dudes are always welcome. Dave was making the trip East on business and we were glad to have his company all the way to Georgia where he got off. We stopped for a few hours at Georgia Tech to see Kenny Spear who is studying there to be an engineer. From Georgia we went to Florida where we went to the Archer-Tingle Dress Shoppe which they have named: You Furnish the Shapeg We Furnish the Dress. In our talk of old class mates they told us that Huffnagle and Jeswald are glass blowers, both using their wind to good advantage. Last year they both won prizes for their beautiful work. Lois and Dot also said that Shirley Rouse is now a john Powers' model and she loves her work. Barbara Barrickman is running a journal called S'The Daily Blow. Dorothy Stahl is her assistant, and they are making lots of money. Earl Van Fossan is running a Wolfing Business,