Shiloh High School - Periscope Yearbook (Shiloh, OH)

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As I look back on my flrst days at Cleveland Hospltal one of my funnlest experlences concerned one of my classmates, QSAIVI LYNCH2 It seemed that Sam had developed a very mechanlcal mlnd and had lnvented a glant Robot While he was demonstratlng hrs glant Robot ln Cleveland somethlng seemed to have gone Wrong R1ght 1n the mlddle of the demonstratlon the Robot plcked Sam up and set hlm on the Termlnal Tower After a physlcal checkup we found that Sam wasn t hurt Just sufferlng a llttle from shock The next day as I walked through the hall wlth another nurse she was telllng me about a glrl that had been admltted the precedlng nlght It seems she had to be treated for shock and was to b released today In the afternoon I declded to go 1nto her room and cheer her up As you mlght have guessed lt was another one of my classmate CPHYLLIS WALLACEJ Phyllls told me she had marrled James Faulkner and they llved 1n an apartment In town Her husband worked mghts and she was scared to stay ny her self One mght as she was lymg 1n the bed she thought she heard a no1se rn the closet She got up half asleep, walked to the closet door and opened lt She had forgotten about hanglng a palr of long whlte underwear ln the closet As she opened the door the underwear was all that she saw dangllng ln the black space She was so scared that she jumped r1ght out the wlndow She wasn't cut badly but was just sufferlng from shock Early one mornmg as I was walklng down the hall I was asked to take a vase of flowers whlch had been wlred from PBITlS Island South Carollna lnto a pat1ent's room As I drd so I heard a famlllar vorce greet me Why who else would be gettlng flowers from Parrls Island South Carollna but MARY CATHERINE DAUPJ 'P I learned that Mary Catherlne had become a secretary for a large f1rm and whlle s1tt1ng at her desk one day she saw a mouse run across the room She was so frlghtened that she trled to cl1mb the f1l1ng cablnet and turned lt over on her There were no broken bones though Just a few brulses Durlng my lunch hour one day I was to report to the X ray room Upon my arrrval there I learned that lt was another one of my classmates QMIRIAM STEELE? M1r1am had got a pos1t1on where she demonstrated how unhandy the old hand crank wash wrlngers were compared wlth the new atomlc modern ones of today She had accldentally cranked her flngers up ln the wrlnger The X rays showed no broken bones so M1r1am was re leased As I was about to go off duty one evenmg I thought I would take a last round before golng AS I walked down the hall I heard a welrd rnoanlng The room was dark so I walked 1n and turned a hght on over the bed and there lay CNOREEN HALLJ, Nloreen told me she was attendlng a rodeo and whwlo perched on a hlgh ra1l1ng above a wlld horse some funny cowboy pushed her In on the horse's back All she remembers 1S the gate flymg open Of course she wasn t hurt serlously Just a few brulses here and there I 0 , . v I n 5 1 1 u I . , . . I . . . 1 1 ' I P 1 . , 5, I I . r ' . , . 1 1 - 1 1 ' 1 0 , . . I 1 1 1 I 1 ' 1 1 1 - 1 1 I . -- . . , 1 . , . I 1 . , 1 s' - - , - . I - 1 ' 1 . . I , - I - ' 1 . , . --. , Q , .

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A few weeks later my attentlon was called to Room IOI Some cheerlead1ng teacher had broken her leg whlle try1ng to show one of her s udents how to klck her leg over her head Thls I couldn t make out so I thought I would go down to her room and see her As you have already guessed It was none other than Q ANET BANKSJ She told me that she was so lnterested In cheerleadlng that she had dec1ded to teach lt Then I asked her about her accrdent She blushed and sald she was standlng rn front of a closed door and about the tlme she was demonstratrng some coach opened the door Of course I knew the rest One afternoon about I O0 P M Iwas called to the emergency door Upon my arrlval there I saw them carryrng a famllrar person on the stretchers Why yes lt was KLAR BARNDJ After Larry was taken to hrs room I talked to h1m for a whlle and learned that he had been qulte successful He was now playrng ball for the Brooklyn Dodgers Hls accrdent occurred at on of the games It seems he was lookrng at a lovely g1rl In the stands and d1d not see the baseball comlng toward hlm It had dlslocated hls shoulder He later fourd out the glrl In the tand was the prtcher s Wlfe As the clock struck 3 OO P M one Wednesday afternoon Iwas called to the emer gency room agaln Upon my arr1val they told me that there had been another accldent Thls tlme football I walked Into the room where the man was lylng Dld I say man? Oh' No' I mlght have known lt It was CGRACE ANN WOLFERSBERGERJ She was teach mg physlcal educatlon and was always wearrng some krnd of football sutt around Wh1le she was watchlng a game the only seat she could flnd was on the bench where the players sat The coach was so exclted that he had put her ln to play as h1s last player was carrled out on stretchers The only thlng she knew for sure was that she ended up on the bottom' Grace Ann was treated for shock and brulses and released It was late one evenlng when a patlent was brought In wlth a broken nose They told me lt wasn t very bad so I dldn t go down to the room untll the next mormng Of all people lt was QKQ' ELLIOTTD Kay had become a well known plano player and when she was asked to play at a concert she learned that only the nlght before Llberace had played the same plano As she was exammlng the key board very closely and caresslng the keys the 11d came down on her nose Then I remember a mlnor 1nJury of one of my old classmates QCAROLE ANN BLACK! Carole had become a prlvate secretary for Governor O Nell One day she was so terrlbly rushed that some how she got her fmger fastened ln the electrlc typewrlter The damage was not ser1ous and after her flnger was bandaged she was released One mornlng I learned that a lady sc1ent1st had been bltten by a monkey and belng cur 1ous I walked down to her room Wouldn t you know lt' CELAINE BALLITCHQ, the braln of my old hlgh school class was lylng there I learned that Elalne had become a sclentlst and was lnterested 1n the fact that we were supposed to have or1g1nated from the monkey race but the monkey dldn t llke the ldea of her efcamlmng h1s teeth The b1te was not serrous though and Elalne was released . . . ,A . l. - I . , . 1 . , . ' 1 1 ' 1 . . 1 .1 - , . , , RY .li ' ' Q . , Q . , . V . , . . . , . , . . S S . I . . 1 ' . , . , . , . . 0 ' n ' O 1 , , . I . o . . , . , . .g , . 1 o 1 , 2 . , . , . . , . r . 1 . 1 1 V ' 1 .1 1 ' 1 - - ...i-. , . . I , . Q . . . , . , .

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The next mormng my asslgnment was to keep watch on Room 808 It seems that a Home Ec teacher was sufferrng from shock Yes 1t was QIANET BAKERJ I later learned that whlle Janet was teachmg one day she was surprlsed by a skunk that ran rlght a cross the floor Ianet was so exclted that she Jumped upon a table and practlcally went 1nto hysterlcs We also learned later that the skunk was a pet and qulte harmless Janet was released after a few days Then I was told one afternoon that a sallor had just about drowned that mornlng Now thrs drd seem unusual so I walked down to the room where they told me the sallor was VVhy yes of course last as he always was but not least was KBEVO FRANCISQ Bevo old me he was set on makrng the Navy a career after he was out of hlgh school I asked n1m lf they dldn t teach them to swlm ln the Navy He told me they d1d Then I asked hrm why he had almost drowned He lay there for a whlle then as h1s face turned a brllllant red he told me the whole story It seemed that he was on board a b1g ocean l1ner and as lt was pulllng away from the dock he was leanrng out a port hole wavlng at a WAVE standlng on the dock One of h1s shlpmates from behlnd made hlm acqualnted wlth a wave twenty feet below It was early one sprlng mornlng as I walked toward the hosprtal The fresh fragrance of sprlng flowers fllled the a1r and blrds slnglng 1n the newly leaved trees gave me a feel lng of warmth and securlty I was thlnklng of the days hke thls when we had walked to chool countlng the days untfl lt would be out As I entered the hospltal I saw them takmg a patrent 1nto a room down the hall I was told lt was a school teacher so later ln the mornlng I thought I would cheer her up by takrng her some flowers from the garden behlnd the hospltal As I put the flowers down and turned toward the patlent I couldn t even move for who should lt be but our senlor class advlser K-M58 HUSTONQ She told me that whlle she was slttlng at her kltchen table one mormng she saw some dogs 1n her sheep She grabbed her shotgun and ran out the back door VV'l'11l9 trylng to Jump over the fence she caught her foot be tween the ra1l1ngs and she had done lt agarn sprarned her ankle I told her about all of my classmates that I had met whlle worklng at the hospltal She told me that she was st1ll mlsplaclng her purse As I was ready to leave the room Mrs Huston turned to me and sald That Senlor Class of 1957 stands out ln my mlnd very much I thlnk that each and everyone of them has hved pretty close to the class motto 'Why yes I never thought of lt before but they have got TO THE STARS THROUGH DIFFIC ULT IES ' ' I ' . I - . , . . . , . I I I I 9 A . . L 0 lx , . . . , . . . . . . ' I I ' I I ' I I . . S , . , . I , . . . , . A I I I , -. . 1 - 1 . , ' 1 - ' . ,I . I ' I ' ll . I I I .