Dalton High School - Luanna Yearbook (Dalton, OH)

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rt e. prophecy Walking throughthe lowerhall one day, we stopped In the lab to talk to Mr. Howey. He asked us if we wouldllke to see science in action. Of course, we did, so he ushered us into his Time Machine and told us to push the button marked Future. We pushedthe button and were lost for a moment in the whir of odd noises which followed. Then came si¬ lence. We decided that the experiment was a fail¬ ure and knocked on the door to be let out. After what seemed like ten years, the door was opened, and we were surprised to see Daniel Gerber waiting to greet us. He said that he had taken over the science department of Dalton High ten years ago, after Mr. Howey retired with a broken heart when he lost several students in a time machine. We took our leave of Daniel and decided to ex¬ plore the new high-school bul ' ldlng. Hearing music, we followed our ears to the music department where we found ElaineKerstetter, teacher of vocal music, directing the mixed chorus. In another room, we found Dick Simpson teaching Instr-uraental music. A buzzing noise in a room across the hallattrac- ted OTur attention. This was the sewing room where the girls from the Home Economics department with their teacher, Marcella Gerber, were making new drapes for the cafeteria. Next, we stopped in the office to see Mr. Berg. Darel Danner, the truant officer, was returning several boys to school. They had developed the habit of attending school half-time and Darel was trying to explalnthe Importance of regular attend¬ ance habits. As we stepped outside the building to walk down town, we hardly recognized our little town of Dal¬ ton since it had grown into a city. We boarded a city bus driven by Gary Close. 0 ir first stop was Chaboude ' s Service Station where Charles checked the oil and filled it up with gas, Our next stop was the new hospital whlchhad been constructedby RonaldMck. The mason work had been done by an expert, Maynard Yoder. When we entered the hospital, we were greeted with a smile by the receptionist, Judy Horst. In the hall, we saw Bonnie Nussbaum, a nurse ' s aid, serving a tray of food prepared by the dletltion, Marjorie Hasseman. And, inthe operating room, we saw Dr, FritzSprung- er performing an operation with his most efficient nurse, Barbara Moser,- handing him his Instruments. Feeling the pangs of hunger,we left tbe hospital and went to a restaurant across the street. We were served by the proprietor himself; namely, Ronald Gardner. Bonnie Blacksten, his only waitress, came to have a chit-chat with us when she saw us. She told us that the delicious chicken we were eating had been raised on Harley Gerber ' s poultry farm. Our next atop was Ralph Basinger ' s Chevrolet Garage. There we saw GarySteiner,the top mechanic, covered with grease from head to foot. Ralph very generously offered us one of his new cars to drive out to Jerry Berg ' s dairy farm. Jerry, with nothing to do, was sitting In the house listening to a re¬ broadcast of a Dalton- aynedale basketoall game. Dalton won this game, as they had all the others, since Bill McCullough was coaching. We recognized the voice of the broadcaster as that of NeilAmstutz. We asked Jerry about some of our former classmates and, since tney didn ' t live so far away, )e decided to visit them before we returned the car. Driving westward, our first stop was the Kidron Electric Company to see Marcella Nussbaum. She was busy typing in the new office of the enlarged store. That night, we stopped at Slabaugh ' s motel,owned and operated by Norman Slabaugh and the former Eileen Nussbaum. After long hours of driving,we crossed the bor- dec between Illinois and Iowa, Since it was Sunday, and we were in Iowa, we drove over to The Little Brown Church in the Vale. The pastor of the church was Larry Buchwalter, In the afternoon, he took us out to his smallfarm to show us where he spent his leisure time. Our next stop was at Ray Norr ' s ranch in Colo¬ rado. Ray took us to see one of his tenants, whom We recognized as the former Margaret Hofstetter and her husband. The children, unlike their mother, were very bashful. We traveled next to South America and had the privilege of drl lng onthe new Trans-Americanhigh- way which Myron Nussbaurahad constructed afteryears of battling the jungles in South America. We stop¬ ped at a large experimental farm where we fSund Marvin Good teaching the Indians how to farm the scientific way. Being unaccustomed to jungle travel, we had developed the tropical sniffles. Marvin directed us to the village drugstore for medicine. The pharmacist, Rodney Hostetler, was happy to sell something to North Americans with whom he could visit for a while. Going out to the coast, we boarded an Around the World Ship andafter a boring forenoon we went to the recreational room of the ship. There we found Margaret Moser, the recreational director, who helued us to entertain ourselves. con ' t on page 59

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One day inSepteinber, 19Sh» group of fifty-four venturesome individuals prepared to enter the New World called High School. We had received our charters from our Junior High government leaders , after eight years of workand a great deal of study. After sailing for three months, our ship docked at the New World port and we clamored ashore eager to begin our adventures. We followed the foot- beaten paths of earlier settlers in the wilderness of high white trees and low green shrubs that much resembled flat walls. We saw many narrow entrance ways into small settlements and climbed steep step cliffs. Finally, we came to a small unoccupied clearing where we decided to unpack and set up a temporary settlement. There were three other set¬ tlements near by,and a tribe of Indians whose tribal name was Teachers. Two of these friendly Indians came to our settlement to advise and help us to get started. They were Mr. Gonter and Miss Seager. We decidedto set up a small government in our set¬ tlement and elected the following officials: Pres¬ ident, Bill McCullough; Vice-President, Marilyn Graber; Secretary, Gloria Domer; Treasurer, Myron Nussbaum. We also sent three representatives to the Student Council of the New World. They were: Margaret Moser, Bonnie Nussbaum, andRonald Gardner. On October 22, a group of settlers, called Sen¬ iors, gave a big party for us which they called initiation. After this, we felt more like the other settlers. On May 17, we had a rollerskating party. Some of our parents went along to drive the covered wagons. By this time, we knew pretty well what we were seeking in this New World and we realized we would have to explore farther into the strange land. So, we packed our covered wagons and painted the sign Diploma or Bust on the side of the wagon. We stopped, after traveling for another three months at a new clearing and set up o ar government which consisted of President,Ron Blo3ser;Vice President, Fritz Sprunger; Secretary, Sylvia Slabach; Treas¬ urer, Barbara Moser; and Sgt.-at-Arms, Dick Simp¬ son. Our Representatives to the Student Council were Bill McCullough, Rodney Hostetler, and Elaine Kerstetter. The Indians standing guard over our settlement were Miss Campbell and Mr. McFarren. We were now better acquainted and not nearly so bashful as we had been as we ventured to the trad¬ ing post to order our class rings. Of course, we had to keep moving in order to reach our goal, so we gathered our belongings and left to seek other adventures. In the fall of 1956, we stopped again and were met by two of our Indian friends; namely, Mrs. Shankleton and Mr. Gonter. First, we established our little government which consisted of Fritz Sprunger as President; Bill McCullough as Vice Pres¬ ident; Sylvia Slabach as Secretary; Barbara Lehman as Treasurer; and John F. Lehman as Sgt.-at-Arms. Our Student Council Representatives were Ronald Gardner, Judy Horst, and Dick Simpson. history This year, we again went to the trading post and when we returned we were wearing our new class rings. We sawthat we would soon need more money in our treasury so we sold stationery with the picture of our log cabin on it. We also servedthe R iralYouth ' Banquet which helped us a little. On May 3» to provide some entertainment, we presented our class play Our Town. The theme Moonglow was used for the Banquet which we gave for the seniors who would soon be leaving us. Following these activities, we again packed our covered wagons for travel. We repainted our slogan Diploma or Bust and by the time we were ready to found our last settlement there were only forty- four members in our group. Some had chosen to ex¬ plore new paths and others had busted. We were pleased to find Miss Santschl and Mr. Howey to greet us this time and to have them as ad¬ visers. Forthls perlodof activity, our government consisted of Rodney Hostetler as President; Jerry Berg asVlce President; Barbara Moser as Secretary; Bonnie Nussbaum as Treasurer; and John F. Lehman as Sgt.-at-Arms. This year, we had officers in the Student Council as well as representatives. The officers were Bill McCullough, President; Bonnie Nussbaum,Secretary; Fritz Sprunger, Treasurer; and Rod Hostetler, Sgt.-at-Arms. Our Representatives were Barbara Lehman, Elaine Kerstetter, and Dick Simpson. One day, we climbed on our horses and went to several near-by trading posts to sell advertising for the football programs. Another time, we went to see Mr. Davis at his trading post to have our senior pictures taken. On November ll;., we served the Equity Banquet. The following week we were busy getting ready for the dress rehearsal and presentation of our class play, Cyrano de Bergerac. In January, we saddled our horses and went to the trading post to sell advertising for the Annual. This was the beginning of o ir big job, publishing the Luanna. With the Junior-Senior Banquet, the Senior trip to New York, and Commencement, we leave to explore further into the worlds unknown to us, but the things we have learned here and the friends we have known here will never be forgotten.

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class will We, the members of the Senior Class of 1958, who are about to depart from the hallowed halls of D, H. S,, feel that we should like to leave with our younger friends here some mementos of the happy days we spent together. So we hereby certify the following individual gifts as our last official act: I, Neil Amstutz, will my magnificent ability to be a good football manager to John Hare. I, Shirley Archer, will my ability to be calm at basketoall gaiiies to Janet Zltnraerly. I, Ralph Basinger, will my ability to resist girls to Dave Gerber. I, Jerry Berg,will ray ability to run coal trucks off the road and give Mr.McFarren a thrill to anyone who takes driver training. I, Ruth Ann Blxler, will all my gnlworg pills to Nancy McCullough. I, Bonnie Blacksten, will my ability to have fun on bus No. i; to Pat Lowery. I, Ronald Blosser, will the city of Orrvllle to Dave Mlzner. I, Larry Buchwalter, will my class ring to anyone who can get it away from Carol Zlraraerly. I, Connie Cantrell,will my ability to have problems in bookkeeping to whoever is taking it next year. I, Charles Chaboude,will my ability to lose my temper in basketball games to Mr. McFarren. I, Gary Close, will ray electric shaver to John Douglas. I, Darel Danner, will my ability to study to Christy Nichols. I, Gloria Doraer, will ray nickname wreckless to Lynn Welkert. I, Ronald Gardner, will my artistic ability to Marilyn Tschantz. I, Daniel Gerber, will my cheirilstry book to Randy Kratzer. I, Harley Gerber, will my taxi service to any safe driver in the Junior Class (if there are any. ) I, Marcella Gerber, will my calm and gentle voice to Mrs. Shankleton. I, Catherine Good, will my ability to get along with Mrs. Shankleton to my brother. I, Marvin Good, will my ambition to Sidney Amstutz. I, Marjorie Hasseman, will ray place in the concert band to Charlene Hostetler. I, Margaret Hofstetter, will my love for Orrville boys to Bonnie Goudy. I, Judy Horst, will my ability to stay home nights to Karen Eckard. I, Rodney Hostetler, will ray ability to walk to Cat Saurer. I, Elaine Kerstetter, will ray spot remover for ray neck to Connie Bodager. I, Ronald Kick, will my ability to keep my speed down to Dave McFarren. I, Pat Killian, will my shorthand book to anyone who can use it next year. I, Barbara Lehman, will ray ability to go to class inprepared to Eunice Steiner. I, John F. Lehman, will my used set of dlrnples to Jeanne oerg. I, John Paul Lehman, will my ability to play ping pong to Kenny Hueoner. I, Paul Lf.’raan, will my ability to do advanced algebra to Charles Meier. I, Bill McCullough, will my ability to get racked uu in football to Jeff Eckard. I, Barbara Moser, will my nickname Porky to Delores Staken. I, Margaret Moser, will itiy extra energy to Bruce Adams. I, Ray Norr, will some of ray height to Mr. Biggs. I, Bonnie Nussbaum, will my thinness to Keith Goudy. con ' t on page 59 -13-