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

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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

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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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running his father's farm; Robert Oester, who is in the chicken business with his brother; Bill Frazee, who has taken the Farmer's Stockyard in Accident; and Bob Edgar, who owns a wood-working shop along Deep Creek Lake, He seemed interested in some of the girls from Friendsville, so I told him about Ellen Rose being married to Davis Taylor; Alice Sisler, an army nurse in Germany; Thelma Schroyer, an exchange teacher in Denmark; and Wilma Do DeWitt, asecre- tary for the Northwest Mounted Police in Canada, We spent the night at a country tourist home near Matador, Texas, When the people heard where we were from, they said they had a neighbor from Garrett County. We went to see him and it was John Friend, who has decided Texas is the best state after all, John told us Ruth Griffith lives a few miles away, where she and her husband, Richard Thomas, moved right after she graduated. They have eight year old twin boys, We were driving towards Louisiana when we saw a hitch-hiker on a long stretch of road. We stopped to pick him up and it was Bill Hamilton. He said his thoughts had left basketball, so he started playing the guitar on a TV program in Texas, We left him off at Houston and went on to Louisiana, In Louisiana we stopped at New Orlean's to see Dan Edgar who owns a big fishing fleet. Audrey Edgar and her husband live near him, As we drive through Mississippi we talked about Arthur Schroyer who is driving a tractor- trailer from Wisconsin to Mississippi. In Mobile, Alabama, we stopped at a 5 10¢ store. A pleasant-faced girl came to wait on us, and we saw that it was Mable Ohler, She told us that Margaret Lohr was married and teaches a kinder- garten class in a small mining town in West Virginia, We knew that Phyllis Wilt owned a hotel in Tallahassee, Florida, so we decided to stay all night there. That evening we went for a walk and we met Golda Wilt and her boyfriend, She told us she was working in an orange juice factory outside of town, In Georgia at an army hospital we stopped to see Carroll Smith who was a patient from World War III. Snuffy told us that two of our classmates, Ruth Croft and Delores Moon are nurses there. In Virginia we stopped at a pretty little diner. Much to our amazement the owner was Ruth Michael. She told us that Don Savage had finished his studies for the ministry and now had his own little congregation in the foothills of Kentucky, She also told us that Virgil Beachy is a crime investigator in the F,B.I. working along the New York waterfront, In West Virginia we stopped at a small motel to spend the night. On TV we saw Glenn Krause on a fifteen minute program withEvelyn Friend as his advertising partner. The next day we stopped to visit some of our fri- ends in Washington D.C. We went to see Phyllis Beachy first. She and Bernard Mazer are married, Bill Wampler and Bernard are policemen. Phyllis and Bill's wife, Cecilia Minick, work for the F.B.1. Cecilia told us that Shirley Drees is a hostess in the dining room of the Hotel Statler, and that Peggy Durst is a receptionist for the Governor of Maryland at his office. We drove into Baltimore to see Wayne Fratz and his wife. Wayne has been out of the Air Force for three years and is working for the Glenn L, Martin airplane plant. Wayne told us Edward Ream is a professor of engineering at John Hopkins University, and that Dorothy Frantz is a secretary in Montgomery Ward's Mailorder House. The next day we started on our last lap home, In Cumberland we saw Reed Smearman who is the town's chief fireman, and Alma Platter, who completed college at State Teacher's College in Frostburg and is teaching Home Economics at Fort Hill High School, We stopped in Frostburg to see Helen Turner who is married to Dan Raffety. Helen told us that Ronald Wilburn was hauling milk to his Alma Maters cafeteria. Driving from Frostburg to Grantsville we waved at John Miner who is head boss on the reconstruction of Route 40, Along the road we noticed signs reading Vote for Allen Ault for