Bucyrus High School - Bucyrian Yearbook (Bucyrus, OH)

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Prophecy DEAR CLASSMATES At last I have fulftlled my task whtch fell upon me as I was chosen associate edrtor of the 1940 annual I have warten ten years to wrtte the fulttllment to my prophecy but at last I have gathered all the tnformatxon necessary and am takrng thls letter as the means of tellmg you the How When Where and why ot all your old school frtends who graduated rn the Class of 1940 Ot course rt IS almost unnecessary to mentton the brrlltant career of Bernard Galttza, for surely most of you have recogntzed Bernard rn Barnardo Caesarrllrmo the handsomest actor rn Hollywood Some say that he was dtscovered by the Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studto when he was vlsxtrng hrs srster rn Caltfornta Eleanor Fegley and Luba Petroff own and operate a Beauty Through Health school on the 29th floor of the Second Natronal Bank burldmg here rn Bucyrus The place ts so famous that people from all large ctttes rn the U S A come rn once a week on the New York Bucyrus San Francrsco Arr Lmes to get treatments Elrza beth Bendock 15 head rnstructress rn the art of caltsthentcs, and Tresste Gatchell rs the masseur Cleona McAdams acts as head nurse and supervtses the treatment of broken legs backs or necks Carolme Mrlls ts rn Chtcago as a governess for s1x ltttle chtldren and Dorothy McNutt IS rn Hollywood as socnal secretary to Cecrl B De Mtlle Dorotha Stuckert has achteved great success rn dotng personnel work wtth Maceys rn New York and Margaret Kruse rs the Personal Shopper rn Halles, Cleveland Another Mar garet Margaret Heller IS wrttrng the adverttstng scrtpt for Wanamakers m Phtla delphta Among our other successful busmess women we fmd Alrce Jacobs at the head an accountant tn the ttrm of Morgan, Morgan 8: Morgan He rs so clever wrth flgures that the Morgans havent bought any red rnk for over erght years Irene Caldwell and Erma Papp both started out wtth thetr eyes on busmess hte too After a few years, Irene gave up her career to marry Lee Saffell who now teaches C1v1c and Soctal Problems rn Bucyrus Htgh School Erma however re mamed steadfast rn her resolutton not to marry untrl last month when she sur rendered to the proposal of Harvey Augustus Du Pont IIII John Black at Ermas request ts now frnrshrng the plans for the Du Ponts one hundred twenty frve room house, whtch wrll be ready for occupatron when the happy couple returns from honeymoonmg tn Bermuda Barbara Ruhl rs drrect mg the mterror decoratron James Dunlap has realtzed hrs destre to be engxneer and IS gotng to 1nstall atr condttromng rn the Du Ponts new home and Betty and Joyce tot Peppard 8: Shaw Furmture Col are supplyrng all the furnrture, drapes rugs, etc Irene Candel became so tasclnated wtth mrrrors, that she learned how to make them The busmess became so profrtable that she now employs one thousand workers and ts now under contract to Erma Du Pont to make a flawless one ptece mrrror to ht the curved cerlrng of her large dtnmq room The ocean bottom seems to have rnterested three men of the class of 40 Donald Wtllett and Charles Verl are both deep sea drvers, and Wrlltam Steve Appleman IS a great student of undersea lrfe and has wrrtten three books on Ftsh and Thetr Relatronshtp to Man Abroad are Edward Naufzmger capturrng wxld anrmals tor the Rmgltng Crrcus and Dras and Reeder ratsrng coffee rn Braztl John Savage and Robert Royer are down rn South Amerrca workxng tn the gold mmes Far afreld rn the army are James Ktsor Don Hnell and Myron Wentz Abroad too ts Eleanor McPeak But no wxld ammals or gold mrnes for her! She ts marrted to the U S ambassador to England I . . l . I I I . I I . . . . I I I ' I I 1 1 ' . I . . ot the Netherland Plaza tn Cincrnnati. Paul L1 Blasi has become quite famous as . I 1 ' 1 I ' I - I I - . . . . , I , . I . I . . . . . . I , . I I ' I I l '

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Wlll We the undersigned the members ot the Class ot 1940 ot Bucyrus High School City of Bucyrus County ot Crawford and State ot Ohio being in good health of body and sound state of mind and memory fwe hopel, and berng desirous ot settlmg our worldly affairs while we have yet the strength and capacity do make and publish thrs, our last will and testament, hereby revokrng and making void all former wills by us at any time heretofore made Firstly We do give and bequeath unto our worthy underclassmates the lun tors, the respect due to seniors and all our worldly possessions, including our physics note books our red ink for bookkeeping some heated discussions in psychology and Hamlet Secondly We bestow upon the sophomores the pleasure ot annihilatmg them selves with Sulphur droxide and Chlorine fumes in the chemistry lab Th1rdly We leave this motto to the dear treshies lwhich they probably prac tice alreadyl Never allow your studyrng to interfere with your pleasures You can get a better education by having one date than by readmg three books may be able to ride right through Latin but dont try to do it on a pony an auto mobile s more modern' Fitthly We bestow upon the sweet sevenths the honor ot almost but not quite being members ot Bucyrus Senior High School S1xthly To Mr Baer we leave our love for a wonderful high school and our thanks tor his having made it so Bucyrus High wouldnt be Bucyrus High with out Mr Baer and his kind consideration of our problems Seventhly We confer upon Mr Gearhart the honor ot having originated our present Student Council system, and give him our hopes that rt may remain a part ot the school for many years Elghthly To Mr .l E Dobbins, annual advlser and executor to this will we bequeath another series ot headaches tor next years annual He has made the success ot this annual possrble Sworn and attested to this hrst day ot March nineteen hundred torty THE SENIOP CLASS OF 1940 LUCILE CARLISLE Notmy Publzc WITNESSES GLADYQ GALLINGER J E DOBBINS March 1 1950 O I l I . I I I . . . . I . I . I . F . . I . . . . - I . . I . . . , . I . ' . I . . . n . . I . Pourthly, We leave to the eighth graders this sound advice: Next year you . . . I , . - - . I . . I U . I t I . . . ' I ' . . I ' . ' . . . . I N . ' I , .

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Prophecy Hugh Dobbxns has proved that xt can pay to stay near home for he now owns the fourteen story elevator garage at Marlon, Ohlo Kenneth Graceley and Robert Flohr are hrs two head mechanxcs We travel over to Bucyrus agarn only to fmd Chuck Helby at the head of the Bucyrus Tax1 Servrce and Robert Trucks Wrllxam Oberlander and Eldon Hllde brand workrng as foremen at the Swan Rubber Plant W1th1n the last few years th1s plant has been enlarged to cover four city blocks Here we also f1nd Wrlham Mack who has just completed the dredgmg and wrdenrng of the Sandusky Rlver so that boats from Lake Erre may travel down to Bucyrus wrth less dxffrculty The fxrst lake steamer wrll stop at Port Bucyrus next week, and on board wrll be three of the ship s offrcers, Davrd Truka, Robert Vrrtue and Gerald Thlel At the dock one wrll see Jack Parsel photographer and Wayne Markley edxtor of the Bucyrus Txmes a new wrdely read newspaper started by Markley as a nval of the Telegraph Forum The Cookware Associates IS offxcxally headed by Grlbert Wlllrs Hubble but he actually handles only the busmess end Two of hrs old fnends are worlcmg wrth htm James Dobbrns rs the factory manager and James Tate IS the head of the sales department Followmg the company s behef that a woman s husband rs the most probable potentxal buyer, Mr Tate has a travelxng sales force made entirely of gmrls headed by the three Marys Mary Hem Mary Jane Pearl and Mary Volpe They say that sales have lncreased 100041 srnce thrs system was put rnto effect Eddle Rush IS runmng a large cafetena on the f1rst floor of the Baumoel Store where both Velma Marquardt and Elsre Dreher are asslstmg ln the drnmg room Maxxne Clady and Ethel Nelson are busy keeplng the books of thrs store Jack Peppard IS the manager of the new Crystal Cmema rn Bucyrus Thxs theater IS the In our own clty lxbrary we flnd Edna Lehman Mary Heller rs workmg rn the chrldrens department tellxng stones and supervxsrng play Kathleen Baum and Gertrude Wrlson have competrtrve shops on Washrngton Square Each worked so hard to put the other out of busmess that she made a fortune and retlred On the promxse of a better lob John Wyatt has grven up hrs posrtron wrth Hrogers and ns now general manager of all the Ohro A 8: P Stores Wrlford Savage IS teachmg yes physxcs rn B H S whrle Betty Hnecht IS dramatxc coach rn Shelby and Warren Wrllett rs football coach at Ohxo State James Beattle IS now a very successful busnness man and has returned to Bucyrus to accept the posxtxon as presrdent of the Grove Toy Mfg Co Mr Grove xs of course the mayor stockholder but he recently retrred to be wrth hrs wrfe Mary, and thexr frve chrldren Mabel Lahr IS now employed rn the Grove Toy Mfg Co Another of our busmess women Mary Pettrt rs edxtmg one of the largest women s magazrnes rn the world Several of the boys have also dlstrngurshed themselves rn the llterary world, for Edwm Flexser rs drawlng a page for the comrc sectlon of the Cleveland Plam Dealer and Franklrn lSlc1nnyj Myers IS now a famous poet Martha Ann Lown has followed her brrlllant college record wrth years of scxentrfrc research Through her patrent, systematrc delvrng she IS solvmg the mysterres of psychotherapeutrcs and phychonosology The three way partnershlp of Chance, Chnstman and Haaser has proved to be very successful Young Walt Haaser constructs the planes on paper Harry Chance supervxses the constructxon and Fred Chrxstman makes the actual tests Thls frrm has recently sold to the Unrted Arr Lmes ten passenger shlps whxch have a crursrng speed of 450 m p h There have been no accxdents due to thrs tremen dous speed because of an rngenlous devrce lnvented by Orval Hoover which l JVM v YY YT Y Wi' ' T M Y Y H I I . . . , . . . I ' I I I I I . , ' l I i I I ' first to be made entirely of glass, and was decorated by Earl Kintz. I - - . . ' I .I . . . . I ' I I I I I , . ' I - . . I ' I , . I