West Carrollton High School - Piratan Yearbook (West Carrollton, OH)

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As you know Reno has many restful country ranches so Mr. Stockton decided to take a plane and fly there for a few quiet days but I'm not so sure they were quiet. Marilyn Pulse was the air hostess on the plane and she said her regular run was between New York and Reno. Well, anyhow, he then went to a very prominent ranch. Now, he thought, I'll get some rest, but Juanita McClain was there. She was getting her fourth divorce. Twice before I guess she had found a husband right there. After leaving Reno, Mr. Stockton went to San Francisco where he found Nila Miller struggling along with her Geometry. She is an engineer and has traveled a great many places. David Hadley was in San Francisco for a short vacation. He is the prominent Father oi Boys Town. Bob Snell is the warden of Alcatraz. He is really busy most of the time. Hollywood is full of the 1945 graduates. Kats Hokoda is a producer for RKO Studios. He is very prominent and very successful. Ruby Bledsoe is on the screen quite frequently. She is a stand-in for Joan Davis and Ray Roberts is Frankie Sinatra's successor while his wife, formerly Phyllis Howland, sits at home and nurses the twins. As the bathing beauty contest was not so long ago Mr. Stockton wondered who was Miss America. Well, she turned out to be none other than one of his students. She was Rosie Wehner. Betty Hall couldn t seem to be located so he asked Ruby where she was. It seemed she is a Chorine in Ziegfield Follies. Well, as Mr. Stockton was this far, why not go on to Los Angeles, and so he did. At the hotel where he stayed he ran into Jerry Stevens. She is waiting for Dick Jaechel to get a divorce so that she can marry him. He then went to the University of Los Angeles where Audra Mesarvey is a Home Economics Teacher. Mr. Stockton's next stop was in Florida at the Ringling Brothers Circus to see Helen Andrews. She is a very good acrobat on the flying trapeze. Now that he has seen most of them and knows where they all are, he is now back in West Carrollton, sometimes, I think, almost proud of that class that graduated with so few boys and so many girls.

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CLASS PROPHECY I received a letter from Mr. Stockton last week and he was quite enthusiastic about his class that graduated in 1945. It is now 1955 and most of them seem to be settled down, although they are scattered far and wide. Mr. Stockton started looking for his pupils around home first. This is the first year he has been away from old West Carrollton High School. He is now a retired teacher. The first two he found were Norma Jean Brown Throckmorton and Don Throckmorton, maid and butler for Governor Cox. Dayton has quite a few of the old class, so it seems. Joan Denning is a beauty operator and Doris Moore is working at the Mayfair as chorus girl. She is in the first row, the third from the left end. Charles McElwee made quite a success it seems. He is sports commentator over WHIO. Bob Kelley is also very outstanding and having a wonderful time as the instructor for fat ladies at the reducing club. Still trudging away is Dolores Borger. She has started her third hope chest. Betty Ertel is very busy in the kitchen cooking beans for Dick and family. Dayton has a very good undertaker now. Morris Bellware is very good with the help of Viola Grewatz. Mr. Stockton flew in a plane, piloted by Martha Miller, to New York to see how many prodigies he could find there. He stopped at the New Yorker Hotel and who should be the owner but Margaret Tackett. Dick Rowe's Orchestra was playing at the hotel that night and he also ran into Patsy Kokenge there who is a dietician and a very efficient one, too. Pat O Dell and Alberta Treon are very prosperous women in the art of designing for Mademoiselle . Pat designs hats and Alberta, dresses. He then went to Powers Models to see Mary Alice Fite. She is one of the very best. The fact that Phyllis Root is an old maid school teacher, was very hard to believe. She also is in New York. Patsy Shade was on her vacation; she was taking it in New York and while she was there she saw Mr. Stockton. She is now playing the flute in Carnegie Hall. She is very famous. Marian Pfeiffer is now in Akron, Ohio working as head bookkeeper for Du Pont Inc. I guess Mr. Stockton had a swell time while he was in Akron. He then went to Chicago by train and stayed at the largest hotel in Chicago where Dottie Foskuhl is hostess. Norma Branner was here on her vacation staying at the same hotel. She is an Opera Star on Columbia Stage Show. An all girl orchestra was playing at the hotel in Chicago and Helen Downs was really making her fingers move over those piano keys.

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FIRST ROW — P. Howland. B. Hall, D. Borger, H. Andrews, N. Miller. M. Tackett, A. Treon, M. Pulse. SECOND ROW — M. Pfeiffer. N. Brown. D. Moore, M. Fite. R. Wehner, V. Grewatz. J. Stevens, D. Foskuhl. THIRD ROW—R. Snell, R. Kelley. P. Shade, J. McClain, P. Kokenge. Mr. Stockton, H. Downs, N. Branner, J. Denning, C. McElwee, D. Throckmorton. PIRATAN STAFF Almost ©very member of the Class of 1945 has had some part in the editing the Piratan. It has really been a cooperative project. Although there have been difficulties due to war conditions, thanks to Mr. Stockton and Mr. Shade, we have overcome many obstacles. We hardly expected our teachers to survive after the taking of the faculty picture. The photographer came on the very worst day of the year. Due to the expert salesmanship of Patsy Kokenge and Don Throckmorton our sales were unusually high. Our class can not boast a large number of men but we are proud of our salesmanship (after Mr. Stockton gives us one of his pep talks.) Editor ............... Associate Editor Circulation Manager Art Editor........... Business Manager MARIAN PFEIFFER ALBERTA TREON PATSY KOKENGE JERRY STEVENS PATSY SHADE PIRATES LOG The Pirates Log was written and edited by the High School English classes with Miss Green as the efficient advisor.