Ashley High School - Ace Yearbook (Ashley, IN)

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Katrina: Barbara: Rita: Katrina: Barbara: Rita: Katrina: Barbara: Rita: Katrina: Barbara: Rita: Katrina: Barbara: Rita: Katrina: Barbara: Bill Wilson, our class Casanova, is now on Station A-S-H-L-E-Y-F-M as a national joker. He became a Bob Hope; his co-star is Joan Ellert, alias Chicken, who imitates that famous comic character, Donald Duck. Dean Paulen, veteran windsock of the Ashley Class, is still up in the air. He 's Admiral Paulen now, commander of the aircraft carrier U.S.S, Windy Pass. Did you know that Joyce Lepley is an old maid and still Dodging around ? Do you recall our high school play-boy Larry Stomm. Well, he is fixed fine, now. He turned out to be a real for sure scientist. Paul Conrad used to say he was going to be another Frank Sinatra. Welt, he is singing lullabies to his children. Did Phyllis Chrisman marry Marion Baker ? Yes, and they now own the Ashley Baking Co. which bakes all the supplies for Rexall Drug Store where Marcella Hammon is working as a jerk, a soda that is. Freddie sure is in dead business, for he is now the friendly undertaker, Did you say dead business? That's Johnny Wilhelm’s work; he keeps the farmers buying new stock for he is now the veterinarian for all farmers out of Ashley. Dick Harme'’s high school athletics have sure paid off: he is now coach of the Zoliner Pistons. I suppose you knew that Helen Stout finally married that soldier boy and they are now raising their own army. That ‘‘little’’ Peggy Kissinger gave her first art exhibit in Chicago this year, I wonder if she married that short boy friend of hers? Oh, she probably left him to marry some interesting art fellow in Chicago. Here comes Bob, I°ll have to leave now. I'll have to hurry home to get Paul’s supper. It was fun remembering old classmates, but I’ll have to go home now, because Jack is going to take me out for supper. b2

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PROPHECY It is the year of 1959. Fromthe corridor of the Ashley Memorial Hospital two nurses, Barbara Sanders and Katrina Prosser, step into the dimly lit waiting room where Rita Ellert is sitting patiently waiting for her husband, Dr. Robert Mee. The three girls sit down and start talking. They soon wander onto the subject of their old classmates. Barbara: Rita: Katrina: Barbara; Rita: Katrina: Barbara: Rita; Katrina: Barbara: Rita; Katrina: Barbara: Rita: I wonder what happened to Frank Kessler? Why, he is now head of the U.S.S, Steel Corporation. And do you remember Troas Orwig? After all these years, she has finally decided to marry him. Do you remember Ruth Anne Hoffelder and Joan Miller? They are now running a boarding house jus t for bachelors. Speaking of running boarding houses, Ned Sanders and Berdena Wiler probably think they are running a boarding house too. You should see all the little blonde boarders. ‘Do you remember my girl-friend, Joan Days, whose long ambition was to travel? She has finally fulfilled her wish. She is now steward- ess for the Hurd’s Airline Inc. She sure is lucky, but do you remember Violet Gipple? Ske is work- ing as a stand-in for Judy Garland. That cute Clarice Whysonp’s looks have surely paid off. She is now a famous model for the Paris Beauty Salon of Ashley. The Salon is under the ownership of the exquisite blonde Crystal Shipe. Did you know Mona June Strite and Beverly Deetz are now co-owners of the Ashley S D Bait Factory? I think Dean Stoy as outdone us all; he is now an English teacher at North Side in Fort Wayne. Speaking of teachers, Helen Newcomer is now head of the Home Economics Department of Ashley High School. Phyllis Snyder is head of the Latin Department. I still remember Philip Ellert and his girlfriend, Margaret Redmon. I wonder what ever happened to them ? Philip is still at home waiting for Margaret, who is now Superintendent of Nurses at St. Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne. 11

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WILL We, the Class of '49 of Ashley High School, situated in the city of Ashley in the County of DeKalb in the State of Indiana, being in an unusually sound state of mind and memory, do make, publish and declare this our last will and testament, leaving our cherished possessions which we have accumulated during our four years of high school to the under-classmen and faculty. We will to Mr. Frederick, our principal, the extreme pleasure of saying ‘'so long' to the most ambitious class he has had to deal with in years, To our Math instructors, we will all unfinished algebra and geometry problems. To our English instructors, we will our excess knowledge of English which we shall not need. To our history instructor, we will all important dates and ordinances which we mastered, without a doubt. To our Agriculture instructor, we will all the shop tools we have so carefully broken and ruined. To our Home Economics instructor, we will all the food we couldn't stand to eat. To our Music instructor, we will all miscellaneous instruments used for noise making in the assembly. To the Juniors, we will our books and pencils with hopes that they will use them more than we did. To the Sophomores, we will our Senior dignity. The Senior girls will our powder puffs to the Freshman girls and Senior boys will their ability to get along with Mrs. Soudah to the Freshman boys. To the Janitor, we will all the waste paper around our desks. In addition to these bequests we wish to dispose of some of our more personal items as follows: I, Phyllis Ann Chrisman, will my good humor to Shirley Sherwood. I, Paul Conrad, will my ‘'Chevvy‘' to any one who will pay for the repair bills. I, Joan Days, will my quietness to Johnny Miller. I, Beverly Deetz, will my ability to skip school to whoever thinks he can get away with it. I, Jo Ann Ellert, will my Donald Duck voice to Helen Stomm. I, Philip Ellert, will my last name to Margaret Redmon. I, Rita Ellert, will my job at Gardners to any one who wants to get rich quick. I, Violet Gipple, will my dimples to Betty Manning. I, Marcella Hamman, will my ability to be a soda ‘‘jerk’’ to Carl Stout. I, Richard Harmes, will my butch hair cut to Gene Miller. I, Ruth Ann Hoffelder, will my ability to be Mr. Frederick's office girl to Helen Stults. « J, Frank Kessler, will my quiet ways to Jane Stoy. is