Arcadia High School - Arcadian Yearbook (Arcadia, OH)

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CLASS WILL We, the SENIOR class of l953, being un- sound of mind and physically dilapidated, do hereby bequeath the following will and testa- ment to our fellow inmates, hoping that it will make them happy and their later days easier. To the teachers we extend our deepest re- grets that we will not be here to entertain them in the years to come. To the Juniors we will our SENIOR cell- blocks. iHome room No. 4683927584933 To the Sophomores we will our play acting ability. To the Freshmen: Disinherited. Carl Ziessler bequeaths his mechanical ability to Barbara Good. Jim Warren wills his trouble with girls to Paul Thompson. Peggy Fox transfers her athletic ability to Johnnie Diebley. Glen Saltzman leaves his basketball sweat pants with Mary Weaver. John King wills his ability to argue with teachers to Mary Dicken. Let's not overdo it, Mary. Richard Smith wills his position as assistant soloist in the choir to Jim Woodward. Another person destined for fame. Carol Kuhn bequeaths her quick temper to anyone who can control it better than she can. Floyd Hissong leaves his speed to Ray Lazenby. Maybe we could start a track team. Shirlee Farrell leaves her Jim to anyone who can handle him. Jim Steyer transfers his immense collection of exotic, fabulous, and usually mis-placed words to Jack Eisaman. Compliments of The Commercial Bank and Savings Co. Fostoria, Ohio Bob Good bequeaths his intensely, studious, attitude in Ag. class to Carol Reid, Oh, those project tours! Lanny Semler wills his dramatic ability to LaVerne Shaull. You'll never need to worry now, Mrs. Sharninghouse. John Bushong leaves his jokebook to any- one strong enough to carry all that corn around. Janet Ziessler delivers her cute little blush to Lewie Campbell. Patty Emerine transfers her property in Carey to Dalores Campbell. Janet Boes wills her.blond hair to Ronnie Stall. Now you won't have to bleach it, Ronnie. Dick Kelley leaves his pet mice in the Candy room to the next candy room propri- etor. Shirley Lenhart bequeaths her junior girl friends to the Junior boys. You guys can han- dle them better than she can any way. Shirley Rainey transfers her cafeteria posi- tion to Joe Steyer. Let's keep that line mov- ing, Joe. Norma Ritter gives her clerks position in Fostoria to Sharyn Peters. Marilyn Plotts wills her capability of hand- ling four subjects and two boy friends at the same time to Pat Butler. Glen Saltzman Witnesses: Yes Kirk Milling Company Findlay, Ohio

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An Excerpt From The Lives Of The Senior Class of l953. Ten Years Hence. Carol Kuhn is the only smart one of the bunch. She got married and is now busily raising little tax deductions. Q, Jim Warren, the athletic one, is now playing for the Globe Slobbers, which is the best Tidley Winks team in the country. He is their best Tidler. Lanny Semler got fabulously rich by making a killing in the stock market. lt seems that he invested in Amalgamated Tooth Pick just when the bottom fell out of his Jelly Bean Stock, making his holdings in National Door- nob increase SOOCKQ. Shirley Lenhart has just realized her lifelong ambition of being a nurse. She is now the nurse of Dr. Von Hoopenshlimer, the famous tree surgeon. Bob Good, the famous dairyman, has just cre- ated aboon to the Dairy lndustry which will set it ahead 25 years. He has just invented a non-slip, non-tip, milk stool. Carl Ziessler, the great mechanical genius, has just set the automotive industry ahead a century by inventing a car that doesn't use gas. He uses horses to pull it. Glenn Saltzman was the one who wanted to become an Engineer. He's an Engineer all right. I see by the paper that he runs the Flatwheel Limited between Podunk and Flat- bush. Floyd Hissong had the ambition of becoming a great painter. He is now happily situated in his present employment, which is painting eyebrows on the dolls in the Findlay doll fac- tory. John Bushong has a very comfortable position in the White House. He is the best piano tuner they ever had. John King has been with the French Foreign Legion for ten years. He decided on this secluded career as the result of a drastic hap- pening in his life. Ten years ago he received a traffic ticket and decided to beat the rap by skipping the country. Shirlee Farrell, the wealthy society matron has Reid's Sohio Service just traded in her eighth Cadillac for a new one. The windshield got dirty. Richard Smith is now a prominent Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He says he owes his entire success to the Commer- cial Law class he attended in school. Janet Ziessler always had the fond ambition to work in a large business office. She now is filling a position at the office of a large New York lawyer. She is in charge of sharpening pencils and keeping the water cooler full. Norma Ritter is now employed in the large chain store of Rears and Soebuck . She sells chains. Janet Boes decided to enter law after she graduated from high school. She is now a prominent lawyer and is famous for convict- ing her former school teacher for cruelty to dumb animals. Peggy Fox, after graduating, decided that she would enter the field of Stereophotomicro- graphy, but gave it .up after she found that she couldn't spell it on her application form for the job. She now sells mop handles in a large department store. Marilyn Plotts has become very famous as a popular song writer. Her latest song, My tomato ran away, but l'll catchup with her, is doing very nicely in the number one spot on the hit parade. Dick Kelley has opened a chain of candy stores all over the country. He said he is entranced by the sight of children straggling up to the counter with a penny to spend. Pat Emerine has become very much interested in her present employment as a newspaper writer. She has her own very important job in a very famous newspaper. She numbers the pages. Shirley Rainey organized a very prominent detective agency in Chicago. She calls it the Rainey Super Duper Snooper Agency, Jim Steyer has been commissioned an Admiral in the U. S. Navy. He has command ofa fleet of rowboats on the Blanchard River. Korner Lunch At the Traffic Light in Arcadia Bob and Thelma Nunn, Prop. Dinners-Short Orders-Soda Bar

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E IOR PL Y The Senior play this year was a spine thrilling murder mystery, which demonstrated again that the female of the species is more deadly than the male- nine times more! Under the direction of Irene Sharninghouse and aided by a very able cast of nine girls the play moved through two acts of excitement to a very satisfying conclusion. JUNl0R CAST Jane .,...... ................. ......... P a t Emerine Freida ...... ........... ...,..... S h irley Rainey Alice ..... ....... S hirley Lenhart Eve .......A................... ...... S hirlee Farrell Sharon ........................ ........ N orma Ritter Shirley, Betty, Phyliss ...,. .,..... M arilyn Plotts Stella ..................,....... ...... J anet Ziessler Mary ........................ ........ C arol Kuhn PLAY THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED was presented by the JUNIOR CLASS, MARCH 27, l953. The story centers around the Huntington family. Laurie Huntington, a college psychology major home for the summer, creates a stir in the household and neighborhood by using her little knowledge of psychology on family and then the procedure is reversed and the family uses psychology on her. The cast included Carol Kieffer, Harold Nye, Janet Nunn, Jerry Gaertner, Carolyn Clark, Mary Weaver, Lewis Campbell, Pat Butler, Joe Steyer, John Howe, Carol Reid, Hilda Grine, Arlene Walsh, Mary Dicken, Bill Peters, LaVerne Snyder, Carol Wolford, Bob Graham, and Nina Lewis. The play was directed by Mrs. lrene Sharninghouse with Pat Butler and Hilda Grine as student directors. Stage managers were Glen Fruth, Norman Lewis and Jim Blake. The Arcadia Creamery Cash Buyers-Cream and Eggs Phone 22l Arcadia, Ohio