Dallastown Area High School - Spectator Yearbook (Dallastown, PA)

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@l€U Gazing Into The Crystal Ball I» now being a lieutenant in the Navy Nurse Corps, was curious to know what my classmates were doing. So, during the brief leave I had, I arranged to have a party and invited the entire class. “Janie” Strayer, “Shortie Blessing and Nancy Flinchbaugh were the first to arrive. We had gone through nurses’ training school together and were more than anxious to see what each was doing now. Janie specialized in pediatrics and “Shortie” and Nancy were doing Red Cross work. “Lulu Rojahn came in next. She is now the visiting nurse for the community of Dallastown and Yoe. Faye Burkins, Louise Poff and “Gus” Herbst came in with Louise singing as sweet- ly as ever. She is an opera singer starring in Philadelphia (married, of course). “Burkie is an elementary school teacher and “Gus is operating a nursery school. Hearing a dog barking, I looked around and saw Doris Keener with “Corky”, her cocker spaniel, and Anne Kieffer. Both are noted music instructors of the town and Doris is doing double duty as she is a perfect housewife. Speaking of housewives—several walked in while I was talking to the Big Wheels”. Betty Mego is now an undertaker’s wife, Grace Geesey and Almeda Lentz are rearing wonderful families. Marian Hildebrand is a Mrs. and manages a gift shop. With this gang was Fonda Spiker who is playing in a guitar band. Then I heard some hearty laughter and out on the porch stood the fellas. Coaxing them in, I found out that Pete” Hildebrand is doing quite well as a mechanical engineer and holds a good position. “Peck Holtzapple is a scientist working for DuPont. “Peck al- ways was the brains of the class. “Bobby” Bricker, head basketball coach at D. H. S., is quite proud because he had a championship team the first year he coached. Bugs” Strayer, “Ed” Vernon, “Coon Warner and “Tonto” Raab are all officers in the Army Air Corps. I must say that they all look neat in their uniforms. “Ed” said that when he gets out he wants to set up the big- gest shoe store in Dallastown and “Bugs and “Coon” are going to work for him. “Crock” Heindel is married and is a proud father. “Johnny” Geesey is a senior at Leba- non Valley College and their star football player. If there is any surveying to be done, call “Bones” Daugherty; he has followed in his father’s footsteps. “Louie Heindel has also followed his father’s footsteps and he 34

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 Pictures 1. Norma Blessing 2. Jeanne Boyd 3. Robert Bricker 4. Lucreta Brenneman 5. Walter Roy Daugherty, Jr. 6. Mae Dehoff 7. Catherine Feltenberger 8. Nancy Flinchbaugh 9. Eugene Geesey 10. Grace Geesey 11. Margaret Hale 12. Louis D. Heindel 13. Norman S. Heindel 14. Dean Hildebrand 15. Marian Hildebrand 16. Kenneth Holtzapple 17. Hilda Jennings 18. Doris Keener 19. Betty Mego 20. Louise Poff 21. Crystal Smith 22. Robert Raab 23. Janet Strayer 24. Marilyn Rojahn 25. Marilyn Rost 26. Lenabelle Sanders 27. Ruth Sechrist 28. Linda Shatto 29. IsoDean Shenk 30. Patty Snyder 31. Dorothy Spangler 32. Fonda Wannetta Spiker 33. Bruce Strayer 34. Margaret Wagman 35. Edward Vernon, Jr. 36. Marian Zeigler 37. Gloria Herbst 38. Almeda Lentz 39. Anne Kieffer 33

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 now has a prosperous coal business. Eugene Hulshart states that he has been traveling and manages a fruit farm. The phone rang and IsoDean Shenk said she’d be a little late as she is now a beauti- cian and must give a rush permanent. She also said Lenabelle Sanders and Marian Zeigler would be coming with her. They, too, were working late as Lenabelle is head floor- lady at the Sewing Factory and Marian, who took a Home Economics course in College, does interior decorating. Soon “Cass” Feltenberger came roaring in, (which is nothing unusual for her). She has been roaming all over the country, besides doing civil service work. Ruth Sechrist and Linda Shatto were right behind her. Ruth in- formed me that she is the secretary of Dal- lastown High School and Linda is a perfectly contented housewife. A little later, the door burst open and “Dirt” Spangler said, “Watch that stuff”. Good old “Dirt”! Being a dentist’s assistant hasn’t changed her any. “Chris” Smith ac- companied Dirt and we were all surprised to see her in a WAC uniform. Those uniforms! —what they can do for a person. The door was no more than closed when “Jin” Boyd opened it again. “Jin”, “Margie’ Wagman, and “Margie” Hale were all sort of gloomy and when asked why, “Hale’ said that she had a flat on the way and got a run- ner in her nylons fixing it. “Jin” just gradu- ated from college with the highest honors in Chemistry. “Margie” Wagman is one of the beauticians of the community and “Hale” is the Home Economics teacher at D. H. S. Patty Snyder soon came in and said she is doing missionary work here in the U. S. Lu- creta Brenneman and Hilda Jennings were with Patty. Lucreta is the private secretary of a prominent business firm and Hilda is as- sistant fioor lady at one of the sewing factor- ies in Dallastown. The party was going at top speed when someone started singing “Hail, Hail, The Gang’s All Here.” We turned around and guess who?!? Mae Dehoff! “Better late than never,” says the private music instructor. About 3:00 A. M. on June 15, 1954, I was cleaning up dishes, ashtrays, and bits of strewn paper, but I was quite content. I could return to my base with the knowledge of what my classmates were doing and what made me really happy was to know that they are all doing well. Marilyn Rost 35