Union High School - Messenger Yearbook (Benwood, WV)

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CLASS PROPI-IECY 'Round and 'round and 'round it goes. and what it brings, nobody knows. Certainly that little jingle can be applied to the future of the members of the Class of I9-IS, so le1's spin the Wheel of Fate and see what its whirling reveals. DOLORES GONGOIIA, now Mrs. Fritz Oser, is the mother of five sturdy children and is living next door to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Haufe. Mrs. Haufe you remember as the former MISS NEIIIIIE SNVARTZ, and the Haufes are the proud parents of twin gi1'ls. .IIINE WAGENHOFFER has finally convinced Vudge Mazelon that she is just what the doctor ordered, so they will be married in June, 1948, at the Boggs Run Church by one of her former classmates, the Right Reverend YVILLIAM JAMES OKIIE. GEORGE RYKOSKEY, owner of the Catseye Grill and Bar, has been having quite a bit of trouble with BOB SAIIIGO, Chief of the Benwood Police, as a clean-up or shut-up campaign is under way in Benwood. PEGGY HANVKINS has now taken over the V. F. W. Home in McMechen and has as her assistant, her fiance, who is Bob Hossman. JOE PAVEIJKA is employed as bartende1'. NANCY MARPIJE and NANCY RIAL are running a boarding house. Thev . . 4 - . E Q - rg I are still tending and flglllllllgf over ufiI't'9l11t',U while trying to see who can cook the best foodgfattening the calf for the kill, as it were. DOT MODIIINSKI has finally decided what her life career shall be. She has entered an eastern Convent and is now Sister Dorthea Maria. PAUL CISAR, Chief of I'olice of McMechcn and JIMMY HAMM, the Night Policeman, are having quite a bit of trouble keeping the kids off the steps of the former Yoho's Restaurant, now owned by JERRY IILLUM and BETTY ORNDOFF, whose doughnuts are famous for their large holes. BETTY FRANK has replaced Miss Cox at llnion High School, teaching most of the commercial subjects. VINCENT KOWALESKY has opened his own funeral home, with HARRY BRIIBAKER working as his assistant. JOAN McCARDI.E is editor of the McMechen Intelligencer and BILL SHILTS and CHARLES 'I'OO'I'lE SIBERT have been hired as copy boys. GARY MARCHIONE is still typing his way to the top, trying to make an honest living. He is now private secretary to ANDY BRIINNER, Presi- dent of the Lifebuoy Soap Company. DORIS BIIRSKEY has opened the Burskey Beauty Bar. Permanent waves are from 3910 up, while manicures and shampoos are somewhat lowe1'. Glamour guaranteed in six treatments. is her promise. MARGARET BOZICEYICH has finally received her degree as Veterinarian ' Surgeon. in plain. easily understood words-fa Hquack horse-doctor. page sift!!-Qiinf

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Senior Highlights oi '48 George Bartolovic Carl Baum Harry Brubaker Andrew Brunner Charles Conners Paul Cisar Henry C'rebs William Deegan Vincent Doliner Henry Fabrizio James Hamm Page Henderson William Hicks Jack Hossman Vincent Kownlesky Norman Logston Arthur Loy Gary Marchione Donald Marple Jerry Moncman Robert Myers Eugene McCormick William Okel Joseph Pavelka William Rider George Rykoskey Robert Saligo Jack Schrulnpf Edwin Shepard William Shilts Charles Siburt Charles Sine John Skvarka John Smith Harold Swiger Elmer' Trubiano George 'Visnic Andrew Zein Walter Zein Name Nickname Hobby Can be found SNOGER Bowling Pool Room BIMBO Loanng Glendale BLIMPIE Music Typing Room DOC Hunting Pool Room CHUCK Fishing Trapper's PAUL Sports Trapper's NIGGER Football 1569 Club SNUFFLE Sleeping In Bed VINCE Sleeping and eating Hard to tell PUNKIN Fishing Tony Babe's HAM Cats Lizzie's PAGE Swimming ll. A. Y. BILL Pin Ball Machine In Navy HOSS Loafing Car Barn VINCE Skating Roller Rink RED inonej Home BUTCH money Around fnonel Swimming Hillside DUKE Sports Trapper's - JOE Sleeping In Bed SQUINCE Photography At Culley's MAR-TY Driving Moore's BILL Taking pictures Anywhere JOE Women 11th Street BILL Sports Home A . KAT-EYE money Loafing BOB Swimming Pool Room JACK Sports A1'thUl S SHEP Dogs Home BILL Sports Home GAR Shooting Rifle Home CATFISII Sports Trapper's JACK Hunting Moore's JACK Sports Pool Room BAMBI Football Leaches Dry Cleaning FOOZIE Swimming D. A. V. DOBER Basketball Rubich's Bar ZINC lnonel Home BUGDUST Sports iiOlll6 page si.rty-right

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NETTIE and EVA are now well established in tl1e Martino 8: Martino MIRACLE MASK MAKE-UP MANUFACTURING COMPANY. GEORGE VISNIC is now the No. 1 gambler of Wheeling, DUKE MARPLE is his stooge. Both have recently come back from doing a. little stretch up the river as guests of the government. I BETTY STEWART, now Mrs. George XVhitecotton, has joined her hubby, an ex-Navy man, at their ranch in Iowa, where Mr. lVhitecotton is recupe1'at- ing from battle fatigue. ' ANDY ZIEN has his own orchestra and is now playing at the Steel Pier in in Atlantic City. He is known as Zing Zangl' Zien. FLOSSIE STERN has become sole owner of the Grace Lee Shop, while KATHLEEN ROBBINS has been hired as clerk. EILEEN JABLONSKI is Head Nurse at the Reynolds Memorial Hospital, situated in Glendale, West Virginia. GEORGE BARTOLOVIC has graduated from Potomac State College with top honors-how he ever did it will be beyond all of us who knew him when-l CARL BAUM has replaced Kenny Pickett in the task of patrolling Glendale. Just recently he caught MARTIN McCORMICK speeding through that fair city, on his way to a Cigar Store. The reason for such haste, Ma1'tin's wife, the former BETTY PASTORIUS, had just become the mother of triplets! EDDIE SHEPARD and WALTER ZIEN are partners in their own business. They are manufacturing Ladies' Lingerie. HENRY CREBS is employed chief janitor, while JERRY MONCEMAN is night watchman, guarding all the Little Ladies' Undies. -IUANITA TEGARDEN, still an old maid, has just left for Alaska in hope of finding a little Eskimo to cheer her old age. JACK SMITH is a well-known dog catcher of Marshall County. VINCENT DOLINAR has a secluded home in the hills, where he is bootlegging his 10071 corn Likker. We hear that NANCY SAFFLE, now Mrs. Joe Childs, is living i11 Indiana with her husband and has three little Childs. BILL RIDER is out in Hollywood making cowboy pictures. He is now known as Red Ryder? Several of our classmates are prominent in politics. WILLIAM DEEGAN is governor of our fair state, while BOB MYERS is running for Mayor of Boggs Run. BUTCH LOY is Fire Chief of Center Benwood. At tl1e annual festival to be held by the firemen, the FINNEGAN SISTERS Circus will be the special feature, while KATHLEEN KELLER is the fat lady. After being a college football star for four years, HAROLD SWIGER is now cleaning and polishing spittoons in HENRY FABRIZIO'S Barber Shop and Pool Room. NANCY KEENE is still standing around on the Campus in Columbus, Ohio, in the hope of catching her a man from Ohio State. pagc.Qeve1i.fy1