Covington High School - Buccaneers Yearbook (Covington, OH)

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Class Propliesy Dear Drar y One day on my vacatron whrle drrvrng through Ohro I decrded to stop off rn my home town I had not been there srnce I graduated from Covrngton Hrgh School rn May 1948 and rt was just ten years ago As I approached the crty I notrced a brg farm on the rrght srde of the road There was a brg hrgn that read Garness Rrdrng Academy I remembered my classmate EVELYN GAINES and I also remembered that she had been very rn terested rn horses so I decrded to stop and see her Sure enough rt was Evelyn She told me that she had started the academy about frve years ago She to d me I would see a great change rn Covrngton Just as I was about to leave I looked up and saw what looked to me lrke a streak of red parnt and a cloud of dust It frnally stopped rn the barnyard and a person wrth a crash helmet stepped out As he came near I saw rt was GLEN CLEM another classmate of mrne He told me he had to race hrs hot rod car at Indranapolrs After I had talked to Glenn I contrnued my Journey rnto town As I was rrdrng aong I was gettrng more anxrous to see everyone So I decrded to hurry Just as I was nearrng town I heard a srren I looked rn my rear vrew mrrror to see a hrghway state patrol car approachrng So I pulled over and warted A great brg guy stepped out of the patrol car As he came nearer I saw rt was JIM HUFFMAN an old frrend of mrne He recognrzed me rmmedrately and we talked over old trmes rn school He told me JAKE SHEFBUCH had taken over Mr Buchanans Job as prrncrpal of the hrgh school and JOAN GEORGE was the Latrn teacher Then he gave me a trcket for speedrng and told me to appear rn court the next day rn front of Judge DONALD GARMAN who rs a brg trme polrtrcran rn Covrngton now Then I drove more slowly toward town See All and Tell Nothrng Arr port So I decrded to dr rve back and see the owner GEORGE BRANT Just as I arrrved George was about to take JOAN FARMER a plane rrde It was Joans frrst arrplane rrde so they asked me to go along I hesrtated for a moment because I remembered how George drove a car rn hrgh school But I decrded to go anyway because rt was a chance to see Covrngton from the arr After we were rn the arr I saw a huge farm below us on the rrght Joan told me that was the darry farm of Mr and Mrs Tours Robbrns the former JEAN DEETER She sard they now had qurte a famrly rncludrng a set of twrn boys Then I looked to the left and saw Covrngton It ooked the same as rt always had except a lrttle larger than when I had left rt After crrclrng around for a whrle we frnally landed Just as we taxred up to the hangar a mechanrc ran out and I saw rt was VIRGINIA MYERS I waved to her so she came over and talked for a whrle She told me that she had worked for sever al years as head mechanrc But rn the summer she worked as a professronal dancer at the Summer Theater rust outsrde of town and she really enjoyed her work She also told me that I could frnd a room at the Bader Hotel MYR NA BADER owned and managed rt herself So I went on rnto town to the hotel and found rt very homelrke After I had gotten settled rn my room I set out to frnd Myrna I found her rn the krtchen cookrng drnner JEAN MUTZNER was her assrstant Myrna told me that Jean only helped when the hotel was crowded because Jean had her own busrness a Srnger sewrng machrne shop up the street Her assrstants BARBARA MOTE and JOANNA ROGERS managed and drd most of the sewrng whrle Jean was helprng out here Joanna and Barbara were expert seamstresses and could manage and keep the books for Jeans prosperrng busrness Myrna then asked me to do her a faxor to get her a few artrcles she had for gotten to put on the grocerv order I to d her I would and started out On the U33 Then I spied a large arrow with lettering' on it ten feet high, that said Brant's

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last Will and Testament MYRNA BADER wxlls hex smgxng ablllty to Pat Chambexs LEE BOYER wx ls hlS fxshmg ab1l1ty to Ml Deetex GEORGE BRANT wxlls hlS ab111ty to play the p1n ball machxne to Rxchard Lutz RITA BROWN W111S her cookxng ab1l1ty to MISS ROth61m61 RUTH BUCKINGHAM wllls her ab1l1ty to get men to Joan Purdy GLENN CLEM wxlls hxs drxvxng ab1l1ty to Dean Root MARION DEAL JR W1 ls hlS bubble gum to Ml Robexts JEAN DEETER w11ls her engagement rxng to Baxbaxa Koon JOAN FARMER W111S the colox of hex haxx to Bettv Van Atta JOHN FLETCHER w1lls hxs abxllty to pxeach to Eldon Bakel PAT FOLKERTH wxlls hex typxng ablllty to Jean Saundexs EVELYN GAINES w1l1s her ab1l1ty to Ilde hoxses to Mxss Holfxngex DONALD GARMAN wx ls h1S modesty to Ixancy Ettex JOAN GEORGE W111S her scholastxc ab1l1ty to Ellxe C1116 JAMES HUFFMAN w1l1s hxs abllxty to axgue to MISS Saxent MARGARET INGLE wxlls hex ab1l1ty to flxxt to Cathexxne Stanbaugh MARJORIE KAUFFMAN w1lls hex body and sou to Fxank Hemm KEITH LANGSTON wxlls h1s muscular physxque to Mr Bake1 MIRIAM MCCOOL wxlls hex shoxt skuts to Baxbaxa Johnson JANICE MEYER w1lls hex' ab1l1ty to keep men to Max1ne Eppexson THOMAS MILLER wxlls hxs good looks to Rxchaxd Shawlex ANITA MONNIN W111S her hexght to Beatlxce Hessler BARBARA MO'I'E w1ls hex quxetness to D1ck Sup1nge1 JEAN MUTZNER wxlls her shyness to JHHICB Mxllex VIRGINIA MYERS wxlls her ab111ty to be tardy to Bevexlv Clark CHARLES PHILLIS w111s h1S d1p1oma to Ann Thomas JOANNA ROGERS wxlls hex love fox the boys to MISS Fxey JOE SHAFER wx ls h1S abxllty to talk xn classes to Davxd Mote JAKE SHEFBUCH w1l1s hxs ab1l1ty to teach school to Mx Apswxsch BRUCE SNIDER wxlls hxs Job on the mxlk xoute to Don Whltman BETTY STEVENSON wxlls hex ablllty to make flxends to Mxll1e Roblnson WILLIAM TREMBLY wxlls hxs abxllty to get xough 1n Iootbal to Tommy H111 JEANNE VIA wxlls her personahty to Mx Slmpson MAX WARNER wxlls hxs farmmg ab1l1ty to M1 Watson NED WOLFE wxlls hxs sleepxng ablllty to Mx Buchanan CHARLES WRIGHT wxlls h1S ab111tv to tell COIDV jokes to Dean Klxne U21 . , . '. . . . '1 ' V . . . A . . . , ' . . . V ' K . .y . . . . . A . . . . . . Q i . . 1 -

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way I stopped rn at Burks Drug Store to get a coke About thrs trme Mrs Robert H1ll the former MIRIAM McCOOL came rn wrth her three darlrng lrttle grrls and asked me to Jorn them so I drd She told me that her husband ran a mrlk route for the Mlaml County Dany and he was havrng trouble wrth BRUCE SNIDER and the Sanders route It seemed that they keep takrng one anothers customers I sat there awhrle and gossrped Then I remembered the grocerres that I was sup posed to get So I sa1d goodbye to Mrrram and went on down to the Kroger store and lo and behold just guess who was the manager? Wel rt was JOE SHAFER He sard he had been manager for about f1V8 years He then showed me hrs new rnventron that he had rnvented to save work and money It was a machrne that had the names and the brand of the artrcle you wrshed to purchase prrnted on a card above two slots at the other end of the rnachrne wrth your brll attached and Joe was hrs own cashrer I then selected my artrcles and went back to the hotel After eatrng my drnner I retrred to my room because I was trred after my trrp In the rnrddle of the nrght I heard a crash below my wrndow so I hurrredly dressed and went to see what rt was A taxr had not qu1te made the corner and ran strarght 1nto a brrck wall across the street After rnqurrlng around I found out 11 was one of the Folkerth Cabs and the owner and manager PAT FOLKERTH was on her way takrng MARGARET INGLE and her secretary ANITA MONNIN home Margaret and An1ta had rust a rrved rn Covmgton on therr vacatron from New York where they had a Job wrth the Snavzalrod Snazzalrod Sneeze and Sons Theatrrcal Company They were both rn my class rn school Whr e I was standrng there an ambulance came and took them to the hosprtal The next day I had to report rn court for the trcket I recerved for speedmg the day before There were qu1te a few people ahead of me so I took my place at the end of the lrne The court was then called to order and the frrst case that came up was LEE BOYER vs MAX WARNER Lee was surng Max for catchrng all the frsh out of hrs favorrte frshrng spot So Judge Garman gave them both a frshrng pole and told them that the one who caught the most frsh 1n Rocky Branch creek wou d wrn the case The next case that came up was the case of the Pleasant H111 and Covmgton both professronal photographers workmg on the Wo f Cry Covrngton s one and only newspaper They had gone after a human rnterest story of a Hobo s Lrfe So they hopped a frerght and were caught by the rarlroad offrcrals Because rt IS agarnst the law to hook a free r1de on the rarlroad Judge Garman Sald the case was rn favor of the rarlroad But NED WOLFE the ed1tor and prlnter of the paper frnally convrnced the Judge that the grrls drdn t know they were breakrng the law He also pomted out that the grrls had endangered therr lrfe for the people of Covmgton and the surroundrng v1c1n1ty rn order to see how a true hobo travels The next ca e that came up was the case of my former classmate TOM MILLER He was charged for over s1tt1ng on Covrngton s only park bench It seems he had sat there for three days readrng and kept the bench occupred when other people wanted a place to s1t and enjoy the scenery He was f1ned f1ve do lars and d1sm1ssed Then the Judge turned to me He read the report that sa1d that I was go1ng erghty mrles an hour He f1ned me ten dollars and suspended my l1cense for a week I pard my frne and started toward the hosprtal where my fr1ends Margaret Anrta and Pat vrere confrned When I arrrved BETTY STEVENSON a former classmate that was workmg on the swrtchboard recognrzed me and told me that another one of my classmates RITA BROWN was the supervrsor of nurses and I should go and see her So I went to her offrce and she was very glad to see me We started talk1ng and she told me that qu1te a few of our classmates were workmg 1n the hosprtal KEITH LANGSTON and BILL TREMBLY were surgeons there and RUTH BUCK INGHAM was the dretrcran Then I asked her rf I could see the three grr s that were rnjured but they were all asleep So I started for the hotel The next day was Sunday and I had promrsed Myrna I would go to church wrth her before leavrng Because a classmate of mme was to be the noted speakrng mmrster Dr JOHN FLETCHER He had a wonderful sermon and upon leavrng I I saw Mr and Mrs CHARLES PHILLIS and famrly Whrle talkrng to Mrs Phrllrs the former Ann Thomas I learned they were plannrng to move to Calrfornra where Char'1e had a Job workrng on a newspaper i141 Railroad vs JANICE MEYER and JEANNE VIA. It seems Janice and Jeanne are . . , . , s - , .