DeVilbiss High School - Pot O Gold Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Page 'IO 4- 5- LEAH SCHUEREN As her traveling library went around Her wisdom and learning became renowned. MARIE STOLL Aboard a ship to the Golden West She served as cook and did her best. VIRGINIA FRANCIS She and the miners kept a Bible in hand To spread the Good Word over all the land. BETTY DeMARS In a mining camp she struck it rich And made a fortune without a hitch. BETTY RABY A can-can dancer with pep and verve- To dress in such costumes took some nerve 6-FLORENCE LANZ Her mining office ran smoothly and well For above all others she did excel. 7-ANDREW LEISER He was a prospectar, big and tough, Who kept the miners from gettin' rough. 8-EVA SAMSEN She was a gambler, her stakes always high, At cards she was best as all testify. 9-CLARENCE COONTZ Why he's here he has no notion- Perhaps to sell the Pacific Ocean. -PIERRE PASQUIER He was a trader who went along lTis rumored, to win his Ethel with song. -MARY BARGMANN She taught girls to use needle and thread In case they should a miner wed. -WARD BRICKER Working in the office of the mining chief, To keep records straight was his belief.

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-CARL A. BENSON In a busy mining camp of the west He panned for gold along with the rest. -MARY TANBER The miners' gold she placed in sacks And kept it safe from the robber attacks. -MILDRED JOHNSTON The frills and bustles of the dancers bold Were designed by her for nuggets of gold. -FOREST BLANCHARD A foreman stern, they called him pop , But when he yelled they really did hop. -CHARLOTTE BURWICK She taught the miners how to Live How to take-and how to give. -MARJORIE WARNER She picked and shoveled for pleasure alone The exercise kept her muscles in tone. -DAVE MacMURRAY This fine fellow with his shotgun able Did keep the customers off the table. -JEANNETTE BRAND She danced around the campfire bright Like all pioneers she loved its light. -FRANK ARCHAMBO He sailed his ship around the Horn Those who went by land he held in scorn. -HAROLD GRUBS He often sat around the bar And with the boys smoked his cigar. PHILIP ZAUGG He worked and worked to reach a stream Where he panned gold from tunes, it seems. ETH EL WILLOUGH BY A pioneer woman, brave was she To success and ioy she held the key. Page 9

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'I PAULINE BACKUS A wonderful girl-they called her Tiny She ever dug for the sfuff fhoi's shiny. -JANE TERHELL She found herself in a social whirl For she was Ihe miners' pin-up girl. -FANNIE GUNN A forged permil she clid noi see For ihe whole wide Wes? locked a library. -WAYNE CRUEY He came especially to win some gold A courageous, valiant miner of old. -ALICE GERDING She was the first lo a mounlain scale Her true bold spiri? did never fail. -DONALD SHARPE He rode ihe Pony Express way back then, The mos? daring and brave of all ihe men -NORMAN STALKER He was lhe luckiesf miner of the year, He found his gold in a poi-right here. -RUTH SMITH She wrole ihe memoirs of ihe pioneers For us lo read Ihraugh all fhe years. -DOROTHY MILLS Gold of friendship she really treasures, Foreign friends are her greai pleasures -ELIZABETH JOHNSON She hiked her way from Easi to West For pieces of gold which were her quesi. BEATRICE LOUY As they danced, ihe piano she played, And with gold dust from fhe dirt was paid. ' FRED BREED He was lhe man on the Oregon Trail Who by Pony Express delivered all mail. Page 'l 'I