Dayton Joint High School - Maple Memories Yearbook (Dayton, PA)

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Prophecy It was late in the afternoon of june 20, 1969, when Dale Brocious, now a prosperous farmer, happened to hear on his portable transistor radio that Alaska was an ideal spot for a class reunion. After hearing this commercial, he reached into his pocket and pulled out his port- able telephone and called the President of the United States, William Conn. Kay McGrainor, now the Presidents secretary, answered the phone and was very glad to hear of the reunion. She informed us that the President was in Mos- cow, Prussia, playing golf with the new Dictator Richard Kruchev Powell III, whose chief guard is ljilillie Brown, better known as machine-gun Mi ie. Several hours later, Kay called and said that President Conn and Dictator Powell would be very happy to join our expedition to Alaska, and would be leaving immediately in their pri- vate plane piloted by jim Bish and his co-pilot, Larrie Crissman. President Conn decided to stop in Paris and pick up Mademoiselle Wilkinson, a French artist, who was there painting Mona Liza II. Upon arrival in Paris, he also found Monsieur Rummel, a famous sculptor chiseling Sam Pat- terson, the great Gourmet of France. Leaving Paris, our right engine conked out and our pi- lot, jim Bish, decided that we would have to land on top of the Eiffel Tower, where Judy Reed, the famous French heavy-weight wrestler, was just having her sixth serving of Crepesu- zette. We called Prupp's Wrecking Service and they said they would send their best mechanic over immediately. As Indy was hanging up the phone, a familiar face appeared before us. Closer inspection revealed that it was our faith- ful buddy, john Rupp. Within a mere matter of seconds, john had the plane lowered to the ground. After the repairs were completed, we tele- phoned the police and explained the situation to them and they arranged to have the street cleared for us as a run-way. On our way again we decided to stop in London to visit Scotland Yard and were wel- comed by the famous detective, Sherlock Iohn Armstrong. He was working on the case of that ruthless criminal. Floyd Doverspike, who was Wanted for swiping cream puffs out of Bettv,s Bakery, owned and operated by Betty Lou Gon- dron. After talking it over, Floyd decided he would return the cream puffs, if Betty would drop charges and then they could come with us. VVhile boarding our plane, Betty Wilkin- son, attempting to rescue her precious painting, was struck by a falling star. We immediately rushed her to the nearby hospital where Dr. Daniel Brownell and his two lovely nurses, Peggy McLaughlin and Barbara Deemer, treated ber, and in a short time we were on our way. They agreed to meet us in Dayton because they could not accompany us at that time. As we were leaving the hospital, we were annoyed by the constant shouting of Extra, Extral, We followed the sound and found our classmate, Anthony Odosso, selling the latest edition of The Daily London Timesf, We asked him if he would like to join our excursion to Alaska to become part of our class reunion. He politely accepted, and we were on our way. Landing at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport we met Kay, who had the addresses of the rest of our classmates. Stopping briefly for lunch, and after getting the plane refueled, we started our cross-country journey to locate the class of '59. Our first stop was Kentucky where we picked up the Early Brothers, the famous hill- billy recorders singing at the famous vacation resort for stray dogs and cats, The Stray Awayf owned and operated by George Abel. The Early Brothers told us that jim Stover and Norman Beers had gone into a welding business known as Hot-Shot Welders Incf, located in West Virginia. Norman and Jim were welding the fenders back on Richard Steffy's Ford, crumpled in a head-on collision with Ken Rosenbergefs milkwagon. Richard said he had to go to court and would like to have us ac- company him. Little did we know that His Honour, Oscar Gearhart, was in charge of court that dav. The prosecuting attorney was Vir- ginia's only woman lawyer, Gail Shay. The de- fense attorney was Richard Comman, who had just opened his own office on Main Street, with Ada Atherton as his personal secretary. The newly hired court reporter, Velma Shick, was very efficient and exact in her work. Late that afternoon the jury brought back the verdict, Not guiltyf' Our next stop in rounding up the gang was in the beautiful state of Florida where we find Phyllis Collier and her husband relaxing in the Florida sunshine during their two-week vaca- tion. Accompanying them were Donna Butler and Ioann Fox, who were still eagerly search- ing for their knights in shining armour. Over in Miami, we find Donald Bussard and Gary Iewart now joint owners of Miami's Miraculous Muscle Builderf' Their best cus- tomers are Bill Galbraith and Bob Wadding, who are trying to change their blubber into muscle.

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Our gang was getting larger, but we still had several classmates to pick up. On we went to Louisiana just in time for the Mardi Gras where we lind Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Troup QMrs. Troup is the former Dorcea Blosel celebrating their Wedding Anniversary. Also at the Mardi Gras were Shirley Myers and Helen Peteroti. They were on their vacation from Eckman's Refractory owned and oper- ated by Ronald Eckman, who was also at the Mardi Gras. The next morning we telephoned for a bus at the nearby Greyhound Bus terminal, and in a few minutes the bus was coming towards us at a high rate of speed. Only one person could be driving like that. We all knew at once it was Daytonis former speed maniac, Dave Ston- braker, who had just been hired for the job. After riding four hours, we were bothered with the growling of our stomachs, we then knew that they were requesting nourishment. We noticed a sign that read Reesman's Dinerf, which to our amazement was owned and oper- ated by two of our former classmates, Shirley and Ruth Reesman. VVhen given our menus, we were greeted by two smiling cigarette girls, Audine Hunsberger and Linda Brocious. After we had our lunch, we again boarded the bus and were on our way to Texas. Stopping in Houston, Texas, We were greeted by Ray Best, now a wealthy Texan oil well owner, who was in Houston winding up a huge business transaction in which he pur- chased the famous King Ranchi' from the former ovsmer, Ron Schrecengost. Ray invited us to come and tour his ranch. We found that a complete tour would take at least a week. We told him we could stay only a day, because we had to complete our search for the rest of our classmates in time for the reunion. Reaching his ranch, we were greeted by Ronald Mateer and Bud Martin. two of his top cowboys. Ron and Bud showed us around the ranch. After an exciting tour of the ranch and a wonderful dinner with our host, we started on our homeward journey with only a few more stops to make. Our next stop was Dallas, where we found Iudy Shirey, Phyllis Brocious, and Indy Shick working as secretaries for Neil Lydick, now owner of the famous Lydick,s Oil Corporationf, We told them of our reunion and asked them if they would like to join us, they gladly accepted. After refueling at one of wells, we were again on our way. was Independence, Missouri, wher to visit the former President, H whose secretary now was Ioanne told us that Mr. Truman was doin his library. VVe decided to stop Truman before leaving Missouri. we found Peggy Jamison, the head her assistant, Bonnie Bish. Miss Mr. Truman had just left for a th cation in Florida so we had to le Without seeing the former presid leaving, we told Bonnie and Peg union and they joyfully accepte that they would be glad to be r their former classmates. Our next stop was Columbus, we found Larry McConnell, owner Connell Service Station? After eil's private ur next stop we stopped ry Truman, artz. Joanne research in nd see Mr. t the library ibrarian and amison said ee-week va- ve Missouri nt. Before of our re- . They said united with Ohio, where of the Mc- refueling at Larryis Service Station and gettini his promise to come to the reunion, we agai our way. started on Having only four more mem ers of our class to locate, we headed for Pitts we were told we would find Norm lb . burgh where Copenhaver and Shirley Shaffer. Norma is nog' working as a secretary for a large constmct' and Shirley is assistant manager of manufacturing company. Since th on vacation, they immediately acc vitation to go to Alaska for the re Our last stop was in Dayton w a car pulling up beside us and a w frantically. Closer inspection rev our faithful buddy. Myrna Parse Robert Reesman. Myrna told us th and Mrs. Leek were still teachin Joint High School. We rushed to t they agreed to accompany us to A reunion. After the arrival of our final cl boarded a T. W. A. plane and He Alaska. We were welcomed b elected Governor of Alaska, Day n company large dress y were now pted our in- IHIOH. ere we saw man waving aled it was , now Mrs. t Mr. Baker at Dayton school and aska for our ssmates, we directly to the newly Ferguson. He said he had a wonderful plac picked out for our reunion. The reunion lasted for one we k. We did everything from skiing to swim ing. When the week finally came to an end, eryone was tired but happy. Gathering all o our things together, we went back to our o jobs and homes, but promised that we woul return one day in the near future, and have nother class reunion.