Lucas High School - Lucannus Yearbook (Lucas, OH)

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pwkw It was April 29, 1969, and I was going on a vacation trip to Mars. The space .ship, The Wanda Lou, named for a friend of mine Wanda Arnett, whose husband is the manager of T.S.A. ftranslation--Trans Solar Air- lines, was waiting for me. At the office window Nancy Tryon, who was now an efficientcareer woman, sold me a ticket. As I picked up my lug- gage, Irealized Ihad anhour before take-off time. I then decided to step into the restaurant for a cup of coffee. Ijust happened to glance at the sign which read Janet'sJunk House . Then it hit me that this was Janet Winters'home office. She has restaurants all over the Universe. I gave the waiter, who was Howard Russell, my card to give to Janet. When Howard returned with Janet we talked of old times in Lucas, and Janet told me that Thomas Kurtz and James Goodnight are now running Mala- bar Farm. Time passed so' quickly that my ship was warmed up by the time I said goodbye to my friends. Going up the gang plank, I recognized Naomi Markham, the steward- ess, and Delmar Russell the pilot. I hope Dub can drive this plane bet- ter thanhe did his car. As Isat down I screamed with delight, for across the aisle were Sue Moore and Jean Jones. After all the silly girlish talk, Sue told me she was going to Mars to open a new branch of Moore 8: Moore Pontiac Corporation, and Jean was going to enter the Miss Universe beauty contest. Oh! I forgot to mention that Carolyn Hilton is the owner of this airline. As Sue, Jean, and I talked to Naomi we were whizzing through the air at the speed of light, thanks to Leonard Haring, who designed this ship. The trip was too short and we had so many things to talk over that we de- cided to meet in the cocktail lounge of the McCready Hotel. Of course I knew that Bob McCready and Dawe McKinley owned the largest hotel on Mars. Whenlwalked down the gang plank I noticed a big petroleum truck with these letters on the side. Larry Hammett-Greatest Petroleum in the Solar system. Sue said she would drop me at the hotel, which was very kind of her. Riding through the city in one of Sue's best Pontiacs I saw a familiar sign Lomax General Store managed by Marge Smith. I told Sue we would have to stop and see Marge. She agreed. Then as darkness fell over Mars Cityabig sign lit up reading McCready 8: Lowe Furniture. I knew without asking who this was. Bidding Sue goodbye I started for the Hotel. Passinganews standlpicked up a copy of the Mars City Local, the larg- est newspaper in the orbit, and I wasn't surprised to find it edited by Kenny Sherman, who did a good job on our school annual. On the front was Bernie Harvey's picture, he is running for president of the Solar system again. I hope he wins this time. On the next page I read that a fire at the Gretten and Thomas Tire Co. was extinguished by fire chief Clark Weirick. 19

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Linda Pritchard leaves her dancing ability to Caroline Yarnell. Janet Winters leaves her cheerfulness to Alton Bucher. Frances Crawford leaves her ability to get along to Tom Pore. Marta Weaver leaves her ability to snag a man to Donna Applegate. Bob McCready leaves his right to sleep during class to Linda Stephenson Marlene McCready leaves her Bermuda shorts to Howard Rider. Don Lowe leaves his ability to sing to Villa Ernsberger. Marjorie Smith leaves her brainy ideas to John Kurtz. Sue Moore leaves her ability to write poetry to Bob McCready. Ronnie Kesselring leaves his great imagination to Charlotte Campbell. Larry Hammett leaves his false teeth to Shirley Smith, but his time to all the girls. Nancy Tryon leaves her sweet personality to Dean Hill. Wanda Banks leaves her pony tail to Stanley Vail. Millie Snyder leaves her height to Noel Culler. Bernard Harvey leaves his speedy ways to Janet Pore. Tom Kurtz leaves his noisy ways to Marciene Russell. Delmar Russell leaves his hot rod ideas to Shirley Mowers. Dave McKinley leaves his curly hair to Elizabeth Partin. Clark Weirick leaves his build to Joy McGugin. Betty McNeely leaves her blue eyes to Eric Lissakers. Carol Gretten leaves her driving and cheerleading ability to Dean Moffett. Shirley Lewis leaves her even temper to Paul Connor. Howard Russell leaves his way with women to the junior boys who need it. We do herebv name and appoint as the sole executor of this our last will and testament, our very wonderful advisor and friend, Mr. John Hauck. 18

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I was greeted at the hotel door by an old friend, Betty McNeely, who was hostess at Bob's hotel. Betty told me as l unpacked that Shirley Lewis and Francis Crawford were both married and living in Lucas. After along chat I decided to take a walk in the cool evening. I had gone no more than ten feet when I ran into Lefty Leiter, the coach at the Uni- versal University who insisted we drop in at Ron Kesselring's gambling house for a few turns on the roulette wheel. Ron greeted us with a big smile and asked us to joinhimfor dinner, cooked by a very good cook and also a good friend of mine, Millie Snyder. When I looked at the program lnoticed the dance band was called the Lucas Five, lead by Marta Weaver. When I returned to my hotel after a wonderful evening, I found waiting for me a tell-a-gram stating that my good friend Linda Pritchard just gave birth to twins. As I looked out the spaceship window lthought over my high school days and knew they were gone forever. 20 U