Shawnee High School - Quilna Yearbook (Lima, OH)

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Class of 1941 Will We, THE CLASS OF 1941, do hereby be- queath to future generations the -following ster- ling qualities found In our midst: Jack Andrews wills to his brother Jerome his smoothy way with women. Zoa Breitlgam to Coretha Miller gives her ath- letic ability. To Ruth Mook, Dorothy Burget donates her flashing smile. Pauline Cattell gives her quietness to Nell Jean Lutz. Her raven-black hair, Geraldlne Case graci- ously gives to Dorothy Kunkleman. Jo Ann Cotterman wills her laughing brown eyes to Dorothy Miller. To Gloria DeLong, Ruth Cowan leaves her dimples. Jack Earl ' s wit goes to Bill Paul. Betty Eyier leaves her ability to play the piano to Donna Lou Miller. Don Fetter ' s skill In toting the pigskin goes to Rex Croft. Betty Settlemire is the receiver of Betty Fox ' s neatness. Eugene Frueh gladly donates his drawl to Bob Lotz. To Mildred Lou Moore, Julia Freyer wills her brown, curly hair. Roseanna Gray wills her job in the cafeteria to Wetona Marshall. His accuracy in shooting a basketball, Robert Grothaus bequeaths to Charles Coulter. Wallace Sanford is the receiver of Virginia Hadsell ' s ability to lead cheers. Charles Hahn ' s adeptness In the art of wood- working goes to Kenneth Sunderland. Mildred Hanes wills her work on the Chief to Lois Keller. Bob Burtchin Inherits Willis Hardesty ' s ability to play the trumpet. Don Hardin wills his height to Gene Shaw. Russell Mitchell receives Dale Harshman ' s tumbling ability. Earl Hefner gives his tenor voice to Wayne Lutz. Her ability to type, Agnes Hixenbaugh gen- erously bestows upon Mary Anne Mohney. Junior Howell ' s blush goes to Roy Jones. To Helen Lehman, Mary James transfers her dramatic ability. Evelyn Katterhenrich donates her editing abili- ty to Helen Breneman. Patricia Eagy receives Ruby Kerr ' s job in the library. Helen Kerr gives her big, baby-blue eyes to Frances Ring. His power of oration Dick LaPoInt leaves to Donald Rankin. Kenneth Miller Is the heir to Jim Long ' s job of stencil-cutting. Martha Loyer very gladly wills American Gov- ernment to the juniors. Bettie Manahan bequeaths her looks to Mar- jorie Ebling. To Gerald Dershem goes Roger Mathews ' shyness. Margery Mayer wills to anybody who will take It, all the work she has to do. Rose Mary Miller ' s cheerfulness goes to Jean Hadsell. Norma Miller donates her laugh to Sara Ann Reynolds. Betty Mitchell inherits her brother. Miles ' jit- terbug ability. Kenneth Moser wills his he-man-ness to Bob Wood. Betty Stoner gets Treva Moser ' s red hair. Gladys Mote ' s camera-phobia will fall upon Mary Crites. Eloise Mullenhour leaves her skill in hair-dress- ing to Arletha Fox. Norma Notter wills her blond loveliness to Nelda Hardin. Janice Palmer ' s business ability goes to Jeanne Miller. John Carnes inherits Herman Parent ' s popu- larity. Lowell Schaeublin leaves Ruth for Helen Jean Spyker to protect. Donald Schlegel wills his Intelligence to Mar- shall Harshe. Mary Ralston wills her French brogue to any sophomore interested in French next year. Her ability to sew, Winifred Ramga bestows upon Dorothy Fetter. Bill Settlemire gives his F. F. A. work to Bill Burtchin. Ernest Davis Is the receiver of Jim Settlemire ' s dark features. George Stewart wills his handsome looks to Lyman Fisher. Bob Styer donates his practical joke-ishness to Paul Cox. Mary Alice Grosmann gets Arline Warner ' s giggle. June Watterson wills her typewriter to Charles Ring. Fred Wiesenmayer leaves his dish-washing job for Darrell Lehman. This has been our will and testimony, made legal by the Great Seal of the School of Shaw- nee. — Mary Butturff. 27

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A Movie in the Making ' Way back about 1922 and ' 23 when theaters were being crowded with movie fans to witness a silent picture (which was their weakness now } a new movie was com- ing into being. Mr. and Mrs. Father and Mother were writing a script which they named ThHE CLASS OF 194!. This script was sold to the 20th Century Indian Studios about 1929. The few personnel of the original cast that remained on the lot until production of THE CLASS OF 1941 was completed are Mary Butturff, Ruth Cowan. Betty Eyier, Julia Freyer, Agnes Hlxenbaugh, Martha Loyer, Margery Mayer, Norma Miller, Mary Ralston, and George Stewart. The accompaniment for the most dramatic scenes In the first year of shooting pictures was played by the toy band of which most of the afore-mentioned actors and actresses were members. Another attraction In their first year of cinema life was the Christmas play — and how some of those little starlets shone In their characteriza- tions of dollies! After two years of steady work on the set, THE CLASS OF 1941 began its third year of production. One of the Indian Studio ' s talent scouts, Miss Cathren Parent, dis- covered a star that rose to fame overnight and received the academy award for the best costume In the scene named. The Third Grade ' s Hallowe ' en Party. This star was Donald Schlegel, and he has won several awards since for his high mentality. In the same year, Martha Loyer substituted for the director of that movie In a scene entitled The Christmas Play. In the fourth year Betty EyIer got her first practice In costume design when she acted as chairman of a sewing club. Margery Mayer was absent from the lot a few weeks that year with an attack of the chlckenpox. After the characters in THE CLASS OF 1941 learned three hundred sixty-five more pages of this much-talked- about script, they began an interesting, eventful year. Mary James rose to fame that year In her plausible acting in the title role of the muslcale, Aunt Priscllla ' s Garden. In the sixth act, the characters of this show and of the other five CLASSES in the Young Actors ' Guild gained increased fame in their second muslcale, Sunny of Sunny- side, starring Betty EyIer. Remember how the audience roared when Tomboy Blllle (Helen Lehman} got a little extra rough and bumped Lovely Leila (Mary Butturff} so hard that she fell to the floor? Thus gaily ended the first half of the production of THE CLASS OF 1941. In the seventh and eighth years of casting, Director Hamer Mitchell sent representatives of this classic movie to the Allen County Music Festival at Memorial Hall In Lima. (You should have heard some of the melodious(?} singing of that famous tenor trio — Martha Loyer, Mary Butturff, and Mary James.} In the eighth year. Norma Notter starred in the oper- etta. Ask the Professor. In that splendid piece of drama- tization, cute little Ruth Cowan made her debut as a gypsy dancer. This year ended with a gala sports outing and picnic with THE CLASS OF 1942. The cast began Its advanced work In the following year. Several of Its petite lassies drew the crowds In the CARNIVAL that year from their billboard (bulletin board) advertisements: Come and see the FOLLIES — 20 beauti- ful girls. They reallly could cut the rug In The Big Apple. The cast was outstanding In several fields: In the Gomer Eisteddfod, It held more honors, and In scholar- ship, it sent more competitors to Bowling Green for par- ticipation in tests, than any of the more complete movie productions. In sports a large number of Its members were honored. The second year of its completion work began with a great increase in the cast of characters. The Perry-Ites boosted the total members to eighty-one — a larger num- ber than any of the other eleven movies being produced by the 20th Century Indian Studios. In the FOLLIES the same attractive chorus girls starred In The Lambeth Walk. Again this class showed superior talent, for one-half of the select chorus for the state and national contests for girls ' glee clubs was composed of members of this personnel. This and the boys ' chorus ranked first In the National Contest at Anderson, Indiana. The eleventh year found the camera clicking faster than ever. Several of the actors won fame In various judging contests for the scene entitled The Future Farmers of America. Bettle Manahan and Bob Styer took the leads in the drama, Spring Fever. Remember the tetched zoologist (Kenneth Moser). That was a most entertain- ing act in this movie— THE CLASS OF 1941. The actors and actresses of this movie, almost complete at that time, entertained those in THE CLASS OF 1940 with a dinner-dance at Beatley ' s-on-the-Lake. In September, 1940, THE CLASS OF 1941 began its final year of production. Bettie Manahan brought honors to the film at the beginning of the year by winning the title, Miss Shawnee or Queen of the Carnival . Then at the homecoming, Mary James was chosen queen and Bettie Manahan and Betty Fox, her attendants. Lowell Schaeublln, Jack Earl, and Don Fetter found their pictures eligible for the sports reel for winning a berth for themselves on the All-League Team for football. Baseball star Robert Grothaus was very outstanding in that he won an award in that field for four years. In the Spring the entire cast was entertained with a dinner-dance by THE CLASS OF 1942. As the year sped on, more and more honors were bestowed upon various actors in their drama of life for their remarkable performances In music, art, journalism, editorship, agriculture, dramatics, sports, and popularity, and at last, the cHmax arrived. The commencement was an impressing inspiration to not only the members of THE CLASS OF 1941 but also every theater-goer that experienced it. After the commencement, the conclusion to this un- forgetable drama soon followed. The actors were hon- ored with a tea at the Shawnee Country Club, and re- ceived their last taste of work on the set. And now that The Class of 194! has gone through all Its stages of production, it is ready for the premiere showing. —Mary Butturff. 26

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Senior Class Prophecy This evening in May, 1971, as I sll In my lonely room, I am feeling rather blue and depressed and I dream of those happy, care-free days I enjoyed when I was In my merry youth. I wonder what my high school friends are doing. Those were the best friends I ever had, I mused. What a silly fool I was for not enjoying them more fully! Then suddenly, an icy chill penetrates my body to the very marrow of my bones. My head slowly lifts, my mouth gapes open as before me I see the very people I had wondered about. There before me passes none other than our own NOR- MA MILLER returning in formal garb, from a piano con- cert she has just completed. The great Paderewski had died in 1953 and Norma has far exceeded his fame. Next in the procession are TREVA MOSER and ELOISE MULLENhlOUR, and believe it or not, they have de- signed a hair-do for Greta Garbo. They now operate the hlollywood Beauty Salon, and all the Hollywood cele- brities patronize them. Who is this approaching me? Why, it ' s none other than DON FETTER. My he ' s changed, hie Kas married hiedy Lamarr, but, although the movie gossip writers declare It ' s a happy marriage, hIedy doesn ' t like it on the farm. Especially doesn ' t she like milking which hubby Fetter compels her to do. ROSEANNA GRAY and BETTY FOX enter the spot- light and what gorgeously exquisite costumes they are wearing! From their conversation, I gather that they are costume designers. No wonder the flashy clothes! The next two gentlemen (?) are DON SChlLEGEL and BOB STYER. They have gained world wide fame for in- venting a formula for the prevention of bedbug bites. All you have to do is to take three tablespoons of arsenic to two teaspoons of strychnine, and the bedbugs won ' t bother you after that. Well, blow me down (as Popeye would say), here comes GLADYS MOTE all togged up In a baseball outfit. She has joined the Cleveland Indians and Bob Feller sub- stitutes for her now. What occupation won ' t women get Into! hiere comes Shawnee ' s two glamor girls, BETTIE MANA- HAN and MARY JAMES. Every year since they have been out of school, they have alternated being Miss America — and no wonder, beautiful girls win beautiful titles. The funniest thing about It is that the titles haven ' t gone to their heads. (P. S. They keep the bathing suit industry thriving.) Speaking of bathing suits, stylists WINIFRED RAMGA and GERALDINE CASE have brought back the cover-all type bathing suit, worn In the Gay Nineties. Their idea is to prevent sunburn. Next in our parade are those two ditch diggers, HER- MAN PARENT and LOWELL SCHAEUBLIN. They pos- sess the most ultra, ultra, deluxe development in the equipment line. Their shovels have seats at just the right height and two extra handles to make them self-support- ing. Who is the dignified, black-haired lady with the French accent? After her self-introduction, I learn It is VIR- GINIA HADSELL, who has travelled France extensively to become an authentic French teacher. She dyed her hair black to be more realistic. The yell of Hurry! hurry! hurry! step right up, ladies and gentlemen, step right up! The greatest show on earth! Hurry! hurry! hurry! pierces my ears. Why, It ' s none other than ballyhoo-er DICK LA POINT with the Ringling Brothers Circus. I guess his Future Farmers ' public speaking contest set him on the right track. Also in the Ringling Circus are NORMA NOTTER and MARTHA LOYER. They Impersonate monkeys, and very well, too. The reason they took this job was that they like the peanuts and popcorn their audiences feed to them. Here comes JACK ANDREWS and ZOA BREITIGAM. Imagine seeing them together! They are famous now as authors of a best-seller. Tips for A Happy Romance. The passers-by continue with the SETTLEMIRES— BILL and JIM. They are competitors in the dairy busine ss, and I mean competitors! They put any political candi- dates to shame in the rat of mud-slinging. ARLINE WARNER and PAULINE CATTELL are man- aging an insane asylum. I wonder how they got there. (Perhaps they are extra-special trusties to merit such a high position!) The next person is accompanying his arrival with a tom- tom. It ' s rather hard to recognize him under all that war paint. Oh, It ' s none other than cannibal JACK EARL. He must have been serious in his senior English class when he said the cannibals were justified for committing cannibalism. MILDRED HANES and RUBY KERR are leading happy married lives; and just to prove what time does, both are grandmas! Mildred ' s granddaughter is Martha Downing. Imagine that! The procession hustles on with KENNETH MOSER. EARL HEFNER, and WILLIS HARDESTY who have a human cannon ball act. Judging by the size of their present waistlines, they could easily be mistaken for cannon balls, too. Next come EVELYN KATTERHEINRICH and JANICE PALMER. Both are very, very gay society women, and you can ' t say you never heard of them. Just open any magazine and you ' ll see them listed In an advertisement as America ' s distinguished women. BOB GROTHAUS, the iceman, follows. He declares he ' s In the dog-house, but I think his wife ' s henpecking is justified. His coming home every night with a coat of lipstick on his face certainly looks fishy. JULIA FREYER and RUTH COWAN are still employed by Miss Rumbaugh to check showers and mark credits for the physical education classes. I guess they got so attached to that work that they just simply couldn ' t bear to depart from It. ext comes our snappy, slap-happy swing eroo, that double for Fred Astaire, none other than MILES MIT- CHELL. He has smashed the box office records for all time all over the world. A screaming siren sends more chills through my bones as firemen EUGENE FRUEH, CHARLES HAHN, and DON HARDIN speed a colorful fire engine by on a wild-goose chase — a false alarm. It is rumored that these brave heroes volunteered to the fire department so they could have a good excuse for attending the Fireman ' s Ball. DOROTHY BURGET, MARGERY MAYER, and AGNES HIXENBAUGH are officers of a ladies ' sewing circle. If you want the most recent and sensational facts about the Class of ' 41, ask one of these ladies. JUNE WATTERSON and JUNIOR HOWELL are in the printing business: Each found the other ' s company so enjoyable while running the Chief on the mimeograph that they have kept up their close friendship through all these years. JO ANN COTTERMAN and BETTY EYLER are now two very easy-to-look-at models, whose pictures often ap- pear on magazine covers. These ladies make Ann Sheri- dan look sick when they begin to strut their stuff. GEORGE STEWART is a sports writer and radio com- mentator of great fame. He describes the prize-fights on the radio, especially those in which World Champ JIM LONG takes part. The next paraders are the theme of a very well-known ballad. Remember, She flies through the air with the greatest of ease, the daring young girl on the flying trapeze. Well, these aerial performers are our own HELEN KERR and ROSE MARY MILLER. These girls credit their success to the author of this resume because they never realized their abilities in this type of work until she suggested tumbling In their physical education class. ROGER MATHEWS and FRED WEISENMAYER pass before us now. They are this year ' s presidential candi- dates. (Roosevelt didn ' t run after the fifth term.) These two very handsome candidates sound very convincing on the band-wagon. DALE HARSHMAN completes our procession of dreams. He has a one-man medicine show In which he sells some magic remedy. He claims If you put some of his remedy on your gardens, your vegetables will come up so fast that they will get growing pains. For the rest of his remedy ' s qualities you ' ll have to ask Dale. And now that all my musings have been realized, I return to my everyday life of writing prophecies. Hm - - -. — Mary Butturff.