Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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,vu £e on a {.vato- inep It was June 4, 1951, when 1 entered the airport terminal at San Francisco to purchase a ticket for my trip to New York City, on the new Strato-hner S-1941. To m) ' great surprise whom should I find to be the chief ticket agent, but my old school- mate of ' 41, Harold Nelson. He told me that June White was working for him as his secretar) and that the chief pilot and co-pilot on the new Strato-liner were Warren Andrews and Harry Mote, respectively. I found that I had several hours to pass before my plane was due, so I decided to take a walk. As I was going down the street, I heard someone call to me. I turned and saw that it was JoAnn London. She told me she was doing social welfare work and that she was just on her way to the beauty salon that was recently opened by Maxine Dunham and Ruby Bohnger. She also informed me that Robert Tiffany and Johnny Erwin owned a very profitable men ' s store here in the city. Nice going, boys! It was finally about time for my plane to arrive so I bid JoAnn good-bye and started back to the terminal. As I was walking down the street I met Evelyn German and Marian Orewiler. Evelyn told me that her husband was working in San Francisco, and that they had been living here since she was graduated from high school. Marian was in San Francisco visiting her. She was working in Denver, Colorado, for an in- surance agency. It certainly did seem good to see so many of my old schoolmates again. Just as I reached the terminal, my plane arrived. I recognized the air stewardess to be June Fanning. She was just getting off duty and another schoolmate of mine, Roberta Hanna, was just going on. I was finally on the plane and seated comfortably when I noticed a very charming young lady in the seat next to me. I recognized her to be another high school class- mate of ' 41. It was Nancy Fisher. She was on her way to New York to sing at the Silver Slipper Nite Club where Baxter Oberhn and his orchestra were playing. We naturally began talking about our high school pals an d she told me that while she was in San Francisco she had run across Nancy Eisele modeling in a very exclusive dress shop, in which Inez McBride and Connie Brane were designers. She also told me that Evelyn Walter was married to a very rich bank executive and that Betty Nisonger was working as his secretar) ' . After Nancy and I had talked for some time, we decided to have dinner. As we walked into the dining room, we were surprised to see Betty Myers, Leanc Kling, Marian Champion and Margaret Munn all sitting at a table. They had got on the plane at the last stop. Betty was enroute to Boston, where she was working as a commercial artist and Leane was a librarian in the Carnegie Public Librar)- at Trenton, New Jersey. Marian and Margaret were returning to their tearoom at New Haven, Connecticut, where they had established a very profitable business. While we were still eating, the stewardess told us we would be in New York soon; so we hurriedly finished and went to the window to get a glimpse of the skyline. After we had landed I bade my friends good-bye and went to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. It was here that I saw Joe Holderness and James Rowe. They were attending a lawyers ' convention which was being held in this hotel. After we had been chatting a few Page Twenty-eight

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I, Robert Tiffany, do hereby will and bequeath my magnetic power over the ladies to Billy Dotson. I, Warren Andrews, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to get into trouble to Emerson Imus. I, Hal May, do hereby will and bequeath my personality plus to Marcus Dixon. I, JoAnn London, do hereby will and bequeath my gavel as president of the student council to Max White. I, Miriam Simpson, do hereby will and bequeath my inability to get successful re- sults from the use of blonde hair rinse to Maxine Mabie. I, Lucinda Sopher, do hereby will and bequeath my odd assortment of nicknames to Windy Zimmer. I, Leane Kling, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to keep from going steady to Ruthie Shoup. I, Nancy Fisher, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to step out with a fresh- man to Bobby Andrews. I, Betty Lynn Myers, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to raise heck after play practice to Mr. Handy. L Maryann Hicks, do hereby will and bequeath my typing skill to Sue Zane Goudy. L Ernest Pence, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to rustle furniture back- stage at pageants to Charles Spangle. L Duane Rose, do hereby will and bequeath my office as F. F. A. president to Dan Barnes. L Ednamae Eastburn, do hereby will and bequeath my part as Sally in the class pgaeant to Dolores Nelson. I, Martha George, do hereby will aad bequeath my jet black locks to Betty Ensley. 1, Nancy Eiselc, do hereby will and bequeath my worn out shorthand notebook to Orie Agner. I, Kimsey Dole, do hereby will and bequeath my ability for collecting uncompli- mentary nicknames given me by my friends to Max Buck Boyer. L Lois Kiser, do hereby will and bequeath my arguments with Mr. Certain to Mar) ' Jane Rose. I, Harry Mote, do hereby will and bequeath my ability to get by with being tardy at noon to Johnny Keckler. I, Harriet Carver, do hereby will and bequeath my green hair ribbon to Saint Pat- rick or to anyone interested in Ireland. L Inez McBride, do hereb)- will and bequeath my school girl complexion to Betty Sue Zimmerman. I, Kerger Gartner, do hereby will and be- queath my sense of humor and joke book to Fred Vesey. (He needs them.) I, Evelyn German, do hereby will and bequeath my tendency to ride to school in a V-S to Viola Benson. I, Lavon Wells, do hereby will and bequeath my formula for curly hair to Allen Boyer. 1, Marian Orewiler, do hereby will and be- queath my spelling ability to Berta Lee Myers. In testimony whereof we hereunto set our hand and seal, and declare this to be our Last Will and Testament this the sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hun- dred and forty-one. Signed; THE SENIOR CLASS, Per Duane Rose. Page Twenty-seven

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minutes, Joe told me that Lois Kiser was working as their secretary and that they had an estabhshed law firm in this city. Who could have predicted this back in ' 41? I walked over to the desk to register and it was here that I recognized the clerk to be Hal May. He told me that the hotel manager was Ernest Pence and that Ednamae Eastburn was in charge of the dining room. I told Hal I ' d see him later and went up to my room. After I had freshened up a little, 1 decided to take in a few of the sights of New York. As I was walking down the street I noticed the enormous building called Rocke- feller Center. I had heard so much about this building that I decided to go in and see it. As I entered the door I immediately spied a beautiful painting hanging on the wall and who should be the painter but Harriet Carver! I walked across the huge room to the elevators and to my great surprise heard Lavon Wells yelling, Up, please! Lavon an elevator boy! Who would ever have thought this of him? Getting into the crowded elevator, I suddenly became aware of two people talking rather loudly behind me. I turned and saw that it was Kerger Gartner and Gerald Deller. They were partners in an insurance business and had their otfices in this building. Who would ever have expected that Kerg and Buzz would be insurance salesmen? I got off on the tenth floor and as I went down the hall I stopped in front of a huge door, the sign reading — Dr. Kimsey Dole, D. D. S. Well, I saw where Kimmy had come through with his high school ambition to be a dentist. I stepped inside the door and was greeted by Secretary Dorothy Mielke. I sat down to wait for the doctor, but not for long, because in a few minutes Lucinda Sopher came through the door of Kimmy ' s inner office. Lucinda told me that she was the dietician in the St. Joseph Hospital here in the city. She also informed me that Marj ' ann Hicks was the superintendent of nurses here and that Willadene Slick was working as her assistant. She asked me to have dinner with her and said that she ' d wait until I ' d seen Kimmy. Finally my turn came and I was shown into the inner office. I stayed but a few minutes and then re- joined Lucinda. Again I was in the elevator and went up to the sixteenth floor to the Sky Cafe. We were met my the head waiter. Jack Green, who because we were old classmates of his, gave us the best table. We had just been seated and had ordered our dinner when the floor show began, the music being furnished by a famous colored orchestra and the featured dancer was Willa Beard. While we were eating we noticed three boys dressed in United States Army Air Corps uniforms. We certainly were surprised to see that it was Robert Hanselman, Dale Ireland, and Robert Fisher, members of the class of ' 41. They said that Miriam Simpson had signed up to be an ambulance driver for the Army also. As we left the Sky Cafe and descended in the elevator, I bade Lucinda good-bye and started back to my hotel. On the way I bought a newspaper and noticed the headlines to blare out — Rose and Thompson Begin Voyage, I read farther and discovered that Duane Rose and Raymond Thompson had become two very famous explorers and were just starting another trip to the Unknown Continent. No one ever thought back in ' 41 they would be doing this. I finally reached my hotel, went up to my room and got ready for bed. As I lay there I thought to myself, wouldn ' t the teachers back at Angola High be surprised at the class of ' 41 of today? -MARTHA GEORGE. Pa e Twentv-nine