Washington High School - Sunburst Yearbook (Washington Court House, OH)

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Z 1 ,ova the names mentioned, I am sure the older generation will not have forgotten. VVith your permission I will read just what is written: Georgia Prugh Chapman has been with the Hartman Stock Company for the past several years. She is the prima donna. Ivan Manville Boyer is successfully completing his fifteenth year on the con- cert stage. The public never allows Mr. Boyer to leave the platform until he has given them his unique and absolutely original presentation of Twittering Birds. Ruth Ellen Sheppard is not the man-hater she was in High School days. She is especially fond of reading the nursery rhyme about Tommy Tuckerf' Aulten Edward Carter, profiting by his own experience while in High School, is the head of a large Automobile Protective Association. Elizateth Florence Burnette is the wife of the manager of a Penney Store. She is in charge of the music department recently installed in her husband's store. Thomas Ware Doyle had so much trouble with his private correspondence in High School that now he is the head of a large concern for handling communica- tions between High School pupils. Dorothy Louise Boggess is now living in Sabina. Gone for awhile, her m- Emory has returned and now she is quite happy. Harold Allen Todhunter and Bertha Inez Smith have attained great success by their interpretive dancing and at the present are touring Europe. Marjorie Katherine Evans has been doing reform work. It has been rumored that she gives most of her time to the Irish. Loren Donald Overstake has remained in the occupation of his forefathers. He is the owner of one thousand acres of land around Washington Court House. Susie Irene Tracey, because she disliked her name so much, changed it to Jane! She has been teaching all the children in the neighborhood the beautiful old ballad Oh John, My Joe John. George Everett Conner, so much admired by the Faculty of IVashington High School for his scholary attitude, did not accept the Rhodes Scholarship offered him. Instead he has the job of entertaining the fair maidens of the Kindergarten in their spare time. Laura Esther Hurtt is now with the Zeigfield Follies. She has the responsible position of costumer. VVilliam Kouns Robinson has seemingly repented of the characteristics that gave him, while still in High School, the nickname of Wild Bill. He is now con- nected with the Capital University Conservatory of Music. Essyle Mae Bell and Florence Marie Christian are stenographers of the National Defense League. They are extremely well fitted for their positions because of their High School experience with Reds . William Lawson Henry is doing a great deal of good among the poorer classes in his position of secretary of the local Y. M. C. A. Jean Catherine Michael's natural talent has led her into politics. She has sp-oken a Little for Senator Miller, Congressman Carr and others. Being non- partisan she always speaks for the best man. Robert Samuel Whiteside-'s slow and cultured drawl acquired in school theatri- cals is an invaluable asset in, his law practice. Two persons with the initials, UD. W., one of whom is Daniel VVehster, have had a marked influence on his lffc. Armeda Jean West has just returned from Afghanistan. She has been explor- ing for the National Geographic Society. Always interested in Athletics, Herbert Condon Campbell is Head of the Athletic Commission for the State of Ohio. It was a great Schfriock to him when Frank Palmer lost the heavyweight boxing championship to Thurman Sheppard. 26

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QQ i -V DUO End of the Rope and Scenes from Old Granada. Every person in the cast played his 'part well, carrying out clearly the dramatic talent of the class. At the start of our final round, we were saddened by the death of Joe Chris- tian, called in the midst of the basketball game between the Phi Sigma Chi Frater- nity quintet and New llolland. Joe went down fighting to the last breath, as he always gave his last full measure of strength in his games for the Blue and White. Again in the Senior class, Cupid welded hearts together. A fitting climax for our hard efforts at school was the Senion play, The Hottentotf' extremely well played by every member of the cast. Our debate teams came through this year adding another trophy to our long list. A majority of the debaters were from our class. This year our school lost the most popular coach ever known here. Coach John II. Miller left to go to the University of Arizona. Everyone, not only those on the athletic teams, but all who came into contact with him regretted his leav- ing very much. This vacancy was filled by Mr. Staats who piloted the baskeball team through a very successful season. A very appropriate ending of our High School career was the banquet given at the Washington Country Club by the Juniors in honor of the Seniors Out of the one hundred and twelve who finished the Freshman year there are now seventy-five of us who have lasted through the voyage of four short years. VVe have gained a knowledge that will make us much better fitted to fight the many strong battles of life. CLASS PROPHECY XVENTY-FIVI-'I YEARS ago today? Let me think! Oh, dear. How time flies! K J May and flowers again. Spring. How like, yet how unlike the Spring imqnj, of 1927. NVhat joys and sorrows have the years brought to the young men and young women of our graduating class of 1927? In my mind I see them then joyously and perhaps noisily moving from class- room to classroom or congregated in small groups in the corridor. Days-months-years together. And then-and then--the last days of school. So eagerly sought. forg so reluctantly given upg the last days of school. Each May brings vivid recollections of those dear classmates but this May of 1952, the twenty-fifth anniversary of our graduation seems particularly to have brought with it many forgotten incidents. My life work has necessarily taken me away from the world, but seclusion has never lessened the desire to hear about my school day friends. Yet until last evening I knew but very little of them. Last evening l gained much information in a very strange way. While searching through old records I noticed an apparently newly bound volume. Closer examination disclosed that it was printed in 1951 by the Record 'Publishing Company and in the city of Washington Court House, Ohio. Ilow it came to be where I found it will alwaysbe a mystery. Hastily glancing through the book I found some familiar names and brief accounts of the lives of these interesting people. Just the information for which I had been longing. Although many of the younger folks here tonight will not rexnevnber some of 25

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:gg ' D10 Mary Josephine Paul is a famous name. Shortly after she graduated she be- came secretary to Aimee Semple McPherson. In the last few years she has taken complete charge of Mrs. McPherson's evangelistic work. Mary Alice Davis has become one of the most sought for public speakers of her time. She is now debating tl1e momentous question of whether or not the Campbells really are coming and if they really do go without food and water as long as it is said they do. 1 Herbert Emory Hard is manager of a Woolworth store in Lancaster. He is gathering material for his book on married life. Hazel Elizabeth Ellison is assisting' in conducting a chain of red-fronted curio shops throughout the United States. They are well liked because service is given so quickly fQuigleyJ. Lucile Ethel Janes is following in the footsteps of her beloved Mr. Kay. She is instructor of chemistry in Wilmington College. Ralph Leonard Burke and Florence Wilmah Moss are married and living in New York. Because of his knowledge of Spanish, Ralph is an interpreter for a South American importing company. Mildred Elizabeth Mc-Gee founded the McGee confeetionaries, which are famed all over the United States for their excellent food and quick service. Jedediah Bernard Witherspoon, the noted biologist, is now tracing the origin of the black-eyed Susansv. Everybody knew what Thelma Jane Gwendolyn Stevens' plans were, and now that they are carried out she spends many of her afternoon sitting on a bench near the banks of the Little Miami. Richard Manning Sprenger has been in China for twenty-five years. He still startles the natives when he comes riding' by on his hicycle . Ursula Marie Meyers fs Latin instructor at the VVest Virginia Institute Forrest Pensyl Smith, after a wild High School career, is happily married and is a prosperous banker in Milledgeville, Ohio. He has been ailin' tAileenJ since the June after he graduated. Lucy Mabel Stokesbury has given up her worldly life to become a teacher in the llawiian Islands. Malcolm William Craig is a Junk man. He received his first instruction in t'his art before he left school. Velestia Cleora Speakman is the owner and head designer of the Mme. Ce- leste gown shop in Paris. Richard Warren Staubus after a long High School career finally graduated from the Hall of Dear old Washington to operate a J. V. Penney Store. Florence Mae Hoppess is Private Secretary to Governor Charles Schwart. She surely is climbing higher and Hyer on the ladder of fame. Because of his captivating smile and self-assertive manner, Jacob Edwin Sol- lars has won much success as a Fuller Brush salesman. llazel Gertrude Bennett is on the Chautauqua platform as a reader with the Swiss Bell Ringers. Darrell Allen Williams the famous contractor has just completed another large building. lt is noted for its wonderful Lamptejs. 1 llelen Elizabeth Hutson has been in Germany for twenty years searching for Wagner's manuscripts. Helen always has been musical but it was not until after her Senior year that sl1e developed such a decided preference for this man. Robert Leroy Flee is a very prominent physician. He is a mumps specialist. Mary Katherine is his most troublesome patient. 27