Creston High School - Annual Yearbook (Creston, OH)

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I 1947 ANNUAL 1 sons and was THE lady of society. She was living in a New York pentf house and had been chosen as one of the ten best dressed women of the year. 1. Robert Fry, it seems, was quite a man about town. His distinguished goatee and moustache evidently added to his magnetic charm for he had broken many of the local women's hearts. He had been married six times but each marriage had been a failure. It was then that he decided to call it quits and spend all his time on the stock market. Dorothy Bigler wasn't at all the shy, bashful type she had been during her school days. She was now the sole owner of the Bigler Construction Company of Creston. The motto for Dorothy's company was You tear 'em down, we build 'em upf' She, of course, owned a ranch south of Creston and has some of the most beautiful horses in the country. Bing Crosby had sold all his horses to Dorothy, thus explaining her ranch. Corrine Kaufman had wanted to become a dramatic actress but she, too, had changed her mind and was now a very prospering lady dentist. She had an ofhce high in one of Creston's biggest business buildings and was the foremost dentist. Donald Reese was doing all right for himself too. He was a tree surgeon which explained the wellfkept look Creston's shrubbery had. He had mar' ried a local belle at the age of 19 and had settled down to raise a lovely family of twelve. He led a quiet life except for Saturday afternoons, when he took part in a debate heard over the radio on a nationwide hookfup known as Donald's Dingy Debate Department . Pauline Irvin had surprised everyone by buying out her father's garage and converting it into a recreation hall. She also bought some additional land surrounding the garage so she could have a twofacre gym. Her basket' ball team was the girls' championship team of Ohio. Phillip Matteson, it seems, was tired of the humfdrum of city life and had bought a huge dairy farm in Wooster. It was known as Flip's Dairy and was very prosperous. A great asset to his business was his clean shaven look, acquired when he received permission from his parents at the age of 25 to use a razor. james Blough was the president of an oil company created in Creston many years ago when oil had been discovered there. He was a millionaire but it hadn't gone to his head. He had never married because he didn't trust women since his brideftofbe jilted him when he was a young man of 28. I thanked Mary and Frances for the information about my other class' mates and again boarded the ship which was taking me to New York. -Donna Lewis fPage Eighteenj

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I my ANNUAL 1 CLASS PROPHECY I was on my way from California, where I had been a hairfdresser for several movie stars, to New York. The study of a few new hair styles for a picture about to be produced in Hollywood necessitated the journey to New York. I was almost asleep when the engine of the rocketfship began to spit and sputter. The pilot informed the passengers that we would have to land immediately to refuel or repair the engine. As I surveyed the strangely familiar surroundings, I noticed an airport to the west of us, and approaching this airport, I made out the letters on the hanger to be Creston Airport. The name 'LCreston brought back many memories and I decided to look up all my old classfmates while the ship was being repaired. At the airport there was a garage with the sign The Boudoir Me' chanics in front of it. As I entered the garage, I thought I saw two familiar faces and was astonished to Hnd that they were Frances Drabenf stott and Mary Henderlong. Since they were covered with grease and were dressed in men's clothing, I hardly recognized them. Standing in back of them were eight little girls, whom Mary quickly claimedg Frances said her eight little boys were sleeping but she would arouse them. It seems their husbands had divorced them and they had decided to pool their resources to open a garage. They were doing very nicely too. As usual they were the town's busiest busyfbodies and gave me an account of each of our former classfmates. Kathleen Murray had inherited a huge mansion from one of her many rich uncles and had turned it into a boarding house. She had formerly studied interior decorating but her boarding house was as far as she went with it. In the day time she was a school teacher, while in the evenings she was a fortune teller. This occupied all her time so she had employed Dorothy Cherry as her maid and cook combined. Neither of them had married and both were prim old maids. Dorothy was also working with the town's new physician. He paid her a commission of 5 CZ, for every meal she cooked that sent a patient to him. He was fast becoming one of the richest men in town. Roy Lucas was working hard as an understudy of Boris Karloff, and had very little time for social life. He was a nervous and solemn man and was crowned with quite a bit of gray hair. After his graduation he tried to get on the radio as a second Bob Hope. He was to be called the Corn King but after his first program the country's morale dropped 5O'Z,. He said he knew it couldn't have been his jokes or his singing so it must have been the commercials. Marjorie Mulhollan had changed' her mind about being a farmer's wife and had surprised everyone. She had married one of Tommy Manville's jfPage Seventeenj

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