Black River High School - Echo Yearbook (Sullivan, OH)

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Senior Cfaad propbcy The year is 1971 and that famous newspaper team of Daugherty and Wolf have started a new column in their New York Times called, Failures Yesterday--Successes Today. They had in mind that fabulous Class of '61 when they wrote this column. We shall now take a glimpse into their little column to see what's happening to the members of that Class of '61, JANET AVERY, a noted chemist, has recently discovered a now rare earth element. She named it Avererium after her own brilliant self. LYN BASSETT hasnow taken Julie London's place as the Marlboro girl. This new job is due to the changing of Junie's voice. KENNY BERRY has become Yogi Bear's new assistant, Booboo because he 's so much like the average type boy. CONNIE BILLHEIMER has just been appointed as Secretary of State after her success as the secretary to the Class of '61, LARRY BLESSING is the new coach of the Harlem Globe Squatters, and ROSE BOWLING is the new chief water-woman forthe Squatters. BRENDA BOYD has gone into hibemation in the Catskills. She states that the annual and the school paper will go out in time. She is also writing a novel entitled E Makes Commercial Teachers Tick? VIRGINIA BRADLEY now owns and operates a factory that manufactures stilts of all sizes. The only trouble she has is getting up on them. SUSAN BRIDGETT, after divorcing fifteen husbands, has started her own love-lorn column in the Times entitled Dear Heartbroken Susan. SUSAN BURKHART has made her fame as an auctioneer on her husbcnd's television program, You can't out-talk her! CONNIE CLIFFORD has started her own beauty salon with the slogan OnIy her hairdresser knows. HENRY COWHICK is the owner of a large rodent ranch near Sullivan. He just hopes they dan't rat out on him. JOAN DAVIS, who is the president of WrigIey's Chewing Gum factory, now owns,and operates her own riding academy in Sullivan. LORETTA DAWSON is now a model with Mad Magazine. She states that the work is absolutely Mad, Mad, Madl JUDY DENNIS, our national birdwatcher has written a book entitled, Twelve Easy Lessons in Bird-Watchigg: GARY DEWAR, the electrician of the year, has had many shocking experiences since he left Black River. ADOLPH DO RN, an engineer, is now remodeling the great Khufu Pyramid in Egypt. ELAINE FORSTER is now the owner and operator of the Fred's Food Basket. Her specialty at the food basket is hot potato valcano. RAY GARN is now the congressman form the 17th District and has just introduced a bill to halt all Senior Government Classes. The only trouble is that this bill is just ten years too late. RAY GAST, world's champion pool player, has won the safe-driving award. RICHARD HEILMAN has just made fame in Paris with his WhistIer's Brother painting. DAVE HOWE has won the award cs best mechanic of the year with his prize-winning B-Gasser. He is assisted by JOAN HEIFFNER .zs his chief numer-one grease-monkey. CONNIE HYDE has become the star vocalist with the Majce's Ace's band. The leader of the terrific Ace, band, who also plays Ist trumpet, is JOE MAJCE. JOHN JORDAN, who just set up asheep-ranch onthe campus of Ohio State, has married another sheepherder and with their three kids they have a bIeating gaocl time. KAREN KARI has just invented a device to keep from having fouls called on her lMiss Kari is the star center on the Globe Squatters.1 SUE KEILLOR, the world's judo star, has just cracked up in more ways than one. ROSE ANN KURTZ is row the feature attraction on the Mickey Mouse series, our own little Mouse- kateer. DAVID LEIDORFF, star tackle for the Leiclorff Little Lugheacls, is still winning those

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Eighth grade Huntington's homeroom teacher was Mr. Shilts and the new student this year was Richard Pfeiffer. This year Huntington participated in graduating their eighth graders to Sullivan. At Homer, Mrs. Debow was again advisor. Arnold Wacker joined at this time. The enrollment remained unchanged ln the eighth grade at Spencer and Mrs. Stoll again was the teacher. At the same time in Sullivan, Mr. Ronald Bowie was in charge. Lynette Bassett and Elaine Forster joined their class. As freshmen, we all took our first big step as high school students, in which we chose the subjects for an educational basis to our different careers. In Homer, Mrs. Debow was once again supervisor and at Spencer, Mr. John Stockert was in charge. At Sullivan, Mr. Karl Prosheck was director. The graduating students of Huntington joined Sullivan's ninth grade, they were Brenda Boyd, Joan Heiffner, John Jordan, David Weyer, and Richard Pfeiffer. Mary McKean was a newcomer this year. ln the summer of l958, in July, to be exact, the people of the small communities of Albion, Homerville, Huntington, Spencer, and Sullivan in the different counties of Ashland, Lorain, and Medina emerged into consolidation. During that summer the various students met at Homer to pick the school colors, black, gold, and white, and the team name, the Pirates. Homer sophomores were under the direction of Mr. Jol'n Kiliany, while Mrs. Stoll was in charge at Spencer, and Sullivan's homeroom teacher was Mr. Donald Wolf. lt was during this year that all three classes worked together and enjoyed many fund-raising projects. The junior year at Homer was an eventful one for everyone. With Mr. Ray Massey as advisor, class rings were ordered which officially made everyone feel like juniors. Happy Daze was presented, and the juniors were also the host of the Junior-Senior Prom. Adolph Dorn was a newcomer of our class. Spencer's junior year was under the guidance of Mrs. Stoll. Class rings were received and the class play was called Raggedy Nan . They also were the hosts at their Junior-Senior Prom. Sullivan juniors were glad to still be under the leadership of Mr. Wolf. With his able assistance the group tried their talent at acting, and successfully presented their class play, A Feudin'O'r Yonder. Class rings were also received. They were also hosts at the Sullivan's Junior-Senior Prom, their theme being The Gay 9O's. With music being presented by David Rose's Orchestra. Dick Seagart joined the class this year. New friends were made at basketball game when the three classes joined forces, and took over the selling of refreshments. At last, the anticipated moment had arrived! Our dream had come true! Consolidation! To be as one Classl Our Senior yearl A new building! New faces! New friends! New challenges to meet and conquer! Everything was new, strange and bewildering at first, we were divided into two homerooms under the able supervision and guidance of Mrs. Emma Dougherty and Mr. Donald Wolf. Mr. Donald Larabee assisted us as our class advisor. With the combined efforts of new talents, we edited the annual, The Echo, which was one of our major achievements. We gave dances, sold refreshments at football games, and served at various banquets and also took a second curtain call on the brand-new stage for our senior class play to raise funds for our much wanted class trip. We, as a class, chose our motto, flower, class color, color of robes, and our invitations. At the end of the school year the class trip is an extra reward, but the real climax of our school life is that Golden night of graduation. We from Homer, Huntington, Spencer, and Sullivan feel that we have gained much through consolidation and are proud to be the first graduating class of the new Black River High School Building. We appreciate the hard work and the patience of our teachers and supervisors and we hope to set our goals so high that even if we do not reach the top, we shall not be far from it.

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trophies. MARY McKEAN finally hooked Ken. It took ten years to plan the attack, but success at last. JOHN McREYNOLDS has been assigned on as head photographer of the Donald Larabee School of Dance. The dancers have one big complaint about John, he's always taking pictures without a warning. LESLIE MEININGER has found a new formula to take the curl out of his hair---starch. DOYLE OXENDER has started his own still in his basement and says, lt's iust like Grandma used to make. DICK PFEIFFER, between naps, pitched the 342nd no-hit game for the Cleveland Squaws. He states that he lust can't get warmed up or woke-up enough or he would have pitched more. SHARON REX is now the chief sky-writer for the Paratroopers in the U. S. Army. She has iust written a song entitled Love Letters in the Sky. RICHARD ROOK has lust left for another safari to darkest Africa where he plans to visit his old friends the Mu-Mu's. He informs us through his letters that the favorite food over in Africa is People and Cheeze on Rye. RICHARD SAEGERT, Red Barbor the second, has broken the filibuster record with 9 days, 8 hours, and 52 minutes. He would only give one comment after his filibuster, Water Pleasel JOYCE SHEPHERD now runs her own beauty shop in downtown Albion. She has lust bought a new machine that removes scalps to use in her shop. JOAN SHOULTER has finally snagged the right one and lives happily in Polk with I2 kids and her mother-in-law. LINDA SHULTZ now runs her own butcher shop in her home-town, but plans to retire next month and move to the Shultz-Wood Estates on the east side of Spencer. PHILIP SIMCOX, a physics prof at Kent, has developed a sleqaing pill that makes you sleep with your eyes open. He says it comes in very handy during some of the lectures he gives. DUANE SNODDY, the millionaire playboy, has left his old home-state of Ohio to become the replacement for Tab Hunter on the Tab Hunter series. PAT STEVENSON in now the head of the music department at good old B.R.H.S. She is assisted by Mrs. Foor at the piano, and Mr. Root is the handyman whenever she needs an errand run. JANET SVIRIK, professor of pyschology at Priceton, is having the time of her middle-age life, and what female wouldn't at an all-male school? DAVID TRAPP is now the proud owner of the Trapp 's Trucking Lines . He is also the proud owner of four sets of twins and three sets of triplets. DON VAN METER stars in an outdoor series on television called An Afternoon with Don. JERRY VEVERKA has just purchased Dragstrip 42 for his kids to ride their tricycl es on. ARNOLD WAC KER has just given up his title The Wolf of Las Vegas so he can settle down in Alaska, and start his own dog team to race in the Olympics. DAVID WEYER has his own night club in Huntington called Froggie's Hide-A-Way. It looks as though the Daughtery and Wolf team has another successful column, but of course it couIdn't be anything else but a success when you have such a brilliant, hard-working, lovingl y, and wonderful group as the Class of '61 to work with.