Monroe High School - Monrovian Yearbook (West Manchester, OH)

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SENIOR CLAQQ PROP!-IEC! In the year 1985, we went to visit Paul Beck at his physics laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As we entered the laboratory we discovered him working on a new type of jet and volunteered to be his first passengers. As we entered the rocket, we were greeted by the stewardess, Diane Arthur. She informed us that Donovan Glander would be our pilot and Vicki Hanko our co-pilot. For our first stop we landed on the White House lawn. We toured the White House where we were greeted by the first woman president, Cheryl Kaye Michael. With her were some of her cabinet members. Among them were Steve Schlotterbeck, Secretary of Agriculture: Duane Wright, Postmaster General: Sarah Koontz, Attorney General and her personal secretary, Pat Eley: Kent Stryker, Secretary of the Treasury. Due to the President's heavy schedule she was unable to continue the tour with us. Her private secretary, Mildred Sparks, personally conducted us around Washington. At the capitol we visited Ohio's senior senator, Terry Hundley, now serving as majority leader. Wilma Shaeffer, his private secretary, told us of our old classmates who are now work- ing at the Pentagon. We were delighted and amazed to learn that Jack Cald- well had just been appointed Secretary of the Navy. Betty Petry, Patti Somers, and Charlene Studebaker were working on the staff of the Bureau of the Budget. That evening we flew to New York where we were met by the former Elizabeth Shaeffer, New York Society's most publicized personage. She ac- companied us to New York's Radio City Music Hall where Jack Overholser was conducting the New York Symphony Orchestra. The next morning we visited Pamela Cherice Crouse at her dress salon where Linda Bowers modeled some of Pam's award winning creations. That afternoon Pam accompanied us to the RCA record company where Roberta Beetley was recording another golden record. At the sound control was Randy North. While we were there Bobbi told us that she had recently attended a Mets' baseball game. She was thrilled to tell us that they had won the World Series due to Bill Hund1ey's fabulous pitching. That night a prominent Wall Street broker, James Glander, took us to sup- per and told us that Karen Dafler was now working as his executive secretary. The next day we headed westward where we visited Phillip Elleman's huge ranch and found that Steve Ott was his foreman. While there, we were told that Jirn Gaston was the best veterinary in the West. Jim came out and helped prevent an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease. Later that day we traveled to Yosemite where we were met by the chief forest ranger, Mike Hawkey, who, among his other jobs, takes care of Smokey the Bear who is now retired. ll0

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On our way to los Angeles, we stopped in Nevada's Mohave Desert where Terry Jeffries and Jerry Bortner were giving endurance tests to new cars. Need- less to say, most of them didn't endure. When the cars did endure and the drivers didn't, Fanny Gverholser was always handy to patch up the drivers and Bob Vore, the mechanic, patched up the cars. When we arrived in los Angeles, we bought a McCall's Magazine and dis- covered that Dixie Jean Oler was now the editor. While visiting Sharon Simp- son's beauty salon we read in Saturday Review a feature article on Dick Barker, whose best seller, Sammy and Zoomie, was highly praised. We visited Eddie Glander's barber shop where we found him cutting Lawrence Rabenstein's hair. While there, Lawrence sold us a four-seated bicycle so that we could continue on our trip. lawrence told us that Connie Michael was work- ing in a children's home as her B. V. S. project. Next we visited the famous Knotts' Hospital where Raymond Knotts was chief of staff. We were greeted by JoEllen Houdeshell, the hospita1's reception- ist, While visiting JoEllen, we were fortunate enough to run into Kitty Shoe- maker who was consulting Dr. Knotts on some welfare cases. We asked her if she had heard from Linda Ward and Georgetta Spencer, She told us that Linda was in the Peace Corps serving in India, and Georgetta Spencer was a missionary to Africa. On our visit to the pier we ran into Admiral Steven Ward whose ship had just docked. Steve told us that Janet Thompson was coaching the Harlem Globe Trotters and invited us to go with him to see them. While at UCLA's field house we saw Darrel Meeks who was head of the math department. He told us that his secretary was Karen Baker, We then visited one of los Angeles' new, modern schools and were pleased to find two of our former classmates: Sherry Sourbeer was teaching home econom- ics and we found Charlotte Lipps in the gym showing the girls how we used to play basketball back at old Monroe High. Charlotte informed us that she and Sherry share an apartment with Julia Gauch who is now teaching in elementary school. Pleased to see that all our classmates had fared so well, we returned to Pau1's laboratory where we reluctantly parted company. Dreamed and written by Richard Allen Barker Cheryl Kaye Michael Kitty Hope Shoemaker Pamela Cherice Crouse