Northern Garrett High School - North Star Yearbook (Accident, MD)

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CLASS PROPHECY This beautiful spring morning in June 1963 finds my wife and me returning to our home in Bittinger from a trip to Portland, Oregon, where I represented the state of Maryland at the National Farm Bureau Convention. We left a week early so we could visit some of my classmates who are scattered throughout the United States, I would like to tell you about my trip. We stopped at Stahl's store to fill the car up with gas when we saw Bob Beachy carrying a sack of Wayne Fertilizer to his truck. Bob says he has to get something to make those potatoes grow faster so he can-get more money to build his future wife Jo Ellen Buckel a house, Jo Ellen i still nursing at the University of Maryland Hospital where she completed her training. I heard the train whistle blow and when I looked across the field at the train, the engineer wa ved, It was Merle Hoover who has taken over his father's postion as engineer on the Jennings Special. As I stopped at the bank in Grantsville for some much needed money, I met John Kurtz depositing a roll of money which he is making from his beef farms in Garrett County, As I was traveling through Meyersdale to get on tne Super Highway I noticed a big neon sign, Betty and Mary's Beauty Salon. Betty Resh and Mary Stanton have married the Miller boys and they own and operate the beauty salon in partnership, At Somerset we got on the turnpike and started toward Pittsburg, We were listening to a half hour program of recorded music by the nation's top recording star, Homer Hoover, from station KDKA. We knew Homer would take Bing's place someday, Since we had plenty of time we stopped in Pittsburgh to spend the night. As I was watching the Pirates finish their first game of the season on the television set in our motel, I thought they had im- proved, Just then the sports announcer called attention to the Pirates new pitcher, Glenn Patton, who was one of my classmates, As the game was over the announcer said, This is Owen Bittinger, signing off for the Pittsburgh Pirates, I thought that voice sounded familiar, My wife loved to listen to the Pittsburgh Philharmonic Orchestra, so we went to see and hear it that night. As we glanced over our programs a name stood out from the rest, It was Jane Bowman, now a concert pianist for the orchestra, The next morning when we were leaving town I saw a big billboard reading, “Reck- less Ringers Dare Devils, I said to my wife, That must be Charlie Ringer, my old classmate. Out in the country I noticed a man working away on a barn roof, As I came nearer I could see that he was carrying out the new idea of painting landscape scenes on barnroofs. Since I was interested in this I stopped to talk to him, To my surprise the man coming down the ladder was Don Wengerd, He said he was quitting work early because his wife was entertaining a group of secretaries at a bridge party that evening. He asked if I knew that Eloise Durst was working as a secretary for a large steel corporation in Pittsburgh, When entering the town of East Liverpool, Ohio, I thought of Margarite Minick and upon inquiry from a policeman as to where she lived, found that he was her husband. He invited us to their home for lunch. Margarite told me that Charlotte Shultz and Martha Enlow had worked for three years in a factory in Akron and now they are married and raising their families. She told me also, that Betty Artice had married Jim Uphold and they are running a chicken farm in a little town near Youngstown, Our next stop was in Mansfield where I went into the post-office to mail some letters, Entering the post-office I saw that the postmistress was Freda Resh. During the few minutes we talked, she told me that Bob Diehl has forgotten that Chevrolets exist and is now a supersalesman for the Ford Company in Detroit. He is really working so he can buy

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CLASS WILL “cont.” Ellen Rose to Dorothy Shoemaker--her ability to become engaged. Charlie Ringer to Mr, Brown--his dog Sally , Don Savage to Bill Caple--his ability to fish, Louis Schlossnagle to Dick Teets--his ability to eat apples in Core, Charlotte Schultz to Lavona Humberson--her ability to roller skate, Alice Sisler to Alice Friend--her tattered and torn Shorthand book, Dorothy Sisler to Barbara Harshbarger--her ability to stay thin, Robert Sines to Bill Emory--his ability to chew gum without getting caught, Reed Smearman to Jack Frantz--his ability to be quiet in class, William Wampler to Dale Layman--his ability to be late for class, Carroll Smith to Paul McKenzie--his ability to play baseball, Joel Stanton to Wayne Glotfelty--his place on the soccer team, Mary Stanton to Juanita Bittinger--her laugh, Helen Turner to Arizona Garlitz--her knitting ability. Rita Weimer to Gladys McKenzie--her ability to finish school, Donald Wengerd to Allan Georg--his ability to flirt with girls, Ronald Wilburn to Lorretta Butler--his ability to drive a car, Golda Wilt to Clara Mason--her ability to get along with teachers, Phyllis Wilt to Alice Broadwater--her square dancing ability, Gordon Wright to Bill Caple--his ability to get along with Mr, Cross, To Mr, Fleming and the faculty we leave our patience which they will probably need in dealing with next year's seniors, To the Juniors we leave our skill at tying hangman's knots in the blind cords, To the Tenth grade we leave our speed in getting out of the building when there is a fire drill. To the Ninth grade we leave our class talent because we have so much, To the Eight grade we leave the halls of N,H.S. for them to roam. To the Seventh grade we leave our hopes of someday growing green grass in the red clay around the school me CLASS POEM As the first graduating class of Northern High, We came together from far and near, And shall always hold these memories dear, Still achieving; still pursuing, We hope that we shall e'er be true As we struggle on for victory Neath our colors, silver and blue. As the yellow rose grows brighter Thereby life and light to gain; So may we with grit and patience Strive to reach a higher plane. As life open now before us, And true honor can be won; Pleasures too and bitter sorrows In their turn are sure to come, Let us be content with knowing God rules both on land and sea; While we ever love and cherish Memories of 53 ,

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a little cottage for he and Bernadette, Freda told me that Barbara Frazee is secretary to the President of General Motors, Passing through Fort Wayne, Indiana, we saw Robert Friend's name on a movie marquee, Seems he has taken Tony Curtis' position as bobby-soxer's delight of the United States, We stopped in Fort Wayne to visit Jean Coddington who is married and has started to raise her family of fifteen, Jean told me Betty Friend and Elsie Richter are waitresses in a big restaurant there in town, In Illinois we visited Patsy Durst where she and her husband, Harry Pope, own an apple orchard, Patsy's little girl told me she was taking dancing lessons from Wilbur Hutzel who owns a dance studio, As we drove through South Dakota I thought of Mark Fruehan who is teaching agriculture in Rapids City High School. We stopped at a service station in Wyoming and found that Elwood Glass was the proprietor, We drove in to Montana to visit Margaret Brenneman who has completed her nurses’ training, married Don Hershberger, and now lives on a picture- sque ranch, Margaret had me guessing which one of our classmates was a trapper in Alaska. Finally she told me it was Francis Miller, We stopped in Idaho to buy some souveniers and found that Lucille Hinebaugh owned a novelty shop. Without further delay we reached our destination, We went to the hotel where the convention representatives stayed and dis- covered it was owned by Bill Lowry. As we went into the lobby I saw the familiar figure of Floyd Baker who was re- presenting Pennsylvania at the meeting. Floyd and I had a nice visit together, He told me that John Bishoff owned a beef farm in Pennsylvania and Francis Resh was a Laboratory Technician in a Philadelphia hospital, Floyd was quite surprised when I told him Joel Stanton was a veterinarian for Garrett County, One afternoon, Ellis Brant, a photographer for the Portland News came to take pictures of the convention, The last night there we went to a stage show where Dorothy McKenzie was one of the dancers, After the show we talked to Dorothy backstage and she told us she and Vick Ruhl are happily married. She informed us that Dorothy Sisler and Joan Glotfelty are switch-board operators in Holly- wood, We started home through California, In San Francisco we met Reganold Bowser who is an Admiral in the Navy commanding the U.S,S, United States, He told us Esther Murphy is a nurse at the San Francisco Bay Hospital. We had been looking forewardto seeing the Harlem Globetrotters play because Garland Jake Jenkins was manag- ing them, Traveling through Arizona we were watching for Gene Beachy's airport where Rita Weimer is an airline hos- tess. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, we stopped at a Greyhound Bus Depot to see if we could find Bob Otto who drives one of the busses, We noticed standing by the ticket window a well dressed gentleman who looked familiar to us, I walked over to him and was surprised to find it was Gordon Wright, someone else from Garrett County, Gordon was ready to buy his ticket home, He had been to a forester's meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, and was returning to his duty as forester in Garrett County, To save him money, we asked him to travel the rest of the way with us, He was very happy to accept our offer, Herbert was interested to know what some other members of our class of '53 were doing. I told him John Georg was a Lieutenant in the Air Force and he still hadn't found the girl of his dreams, He seemed surprised to know that Blaine Kisner had set up his own barber shop in Friendsville, and had gotten overhis bashfulness and was happily married, I told him, also, that Robert Sines operates a sawmill near Friendsville and was progressing very well. Others he didn't know about were Francis Georg, who is head mechanic at Sporlein's Garage in Accident; Louis Schlossnagle, who is