Deshler High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Deshler, OH)

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QlaAdu It was only one hundred years from the time of the California gold rush that we, the freshmen of '49 began our flight with destination graduation, in what seemed a far off '53. It seems as though we flew at jet plane speed through those four years, and now as we approach this day of graduation, we suddenly pause to wonder what happened in these last four years. What did we accomplish, just what did we do? Remember our freshman year? Joining our class to make 44, were seven students from Westhope; William Behrmann, Ervin Hastedt, Donald Hoops, Ruth Meienburg, Gloria Thurston, Howard Ward, and Marian Yungmann. Jerry Straley from Belmore, and Vernon Panning also joined us. With Miss Martha Kahle as our advisor, we elected the following officers to help us through the rough year. Pres................Richard Bertz Sec...............Sharon Dubbs Vice Pres.........Gloria Thurston Treas.........Marian Yungmann The big event for us that year was the day the Sophomores initiated us. By the time they were through with us, we looked a mess and felt likewise; although we all survived the ordeal. Katherine Ann Ziegler left us after the first semester, and Sandra Firman at the end of the year. Our Sophomore year we started out 43 strong, to continue on to graduation. Mr. John Homze was selected as our class advisor, and the following officers were elected. Pres..................Richard Papoi Sec.......................Kenneth Scholl Vice Pres...............Howard Ward Treas.....................Richard Bertz During our Sophomore year, Tom Knoke and Pauline Cox joined us; and Betty and Fred Brit-enriker moved away. Early in the fall we had the privilege of welcoming into the high school, the freshmen class. Games and contests provided fun at the Memorial Field. In May we ordered our class rings which arrived late in the summer. For our Junior year we elected: Pres................Howard Ward Sec.........Virginia Koppenhofer Vice Pres.........Gloria Thurston Treas..........Marian Yungmann With Mr. John Homze, our class advisor and play director, we presented It's A Great Life , which after many practices and a lot of fun proved a big success. After much planning and preparation, that day of days, which fell this year on the first of May, was here—our Junior-Senior Banquet. Quite fittingly it was patterned after May Day . In the center of our elaborately decorated ballroom (the auditorium) was a May Pole and on the stage a fountain. After the banquet we spent the evening dancing to the music of Klaus-ing's orchestra. At twelve we went to the Star Theater, and after seeing, Saturday's Hero, came back to the school for a breakfast. Of our high school days, this banquet will no doubt remain our pride and joy. At last! Although it seemed incredible our long awaited, last year of school finally arrived. To man the controls through this year of years we elected as our class officers: Pres .................Tom Knoke Sec...............Virginia Ruskey Vice Pres............Ervin Hastedt Treas.............Ruth Meienburg With Mr. Burke and Miss Kindt, our class advisors, we began almost immediately our long hard struggle to finance a five-day trip to Washington, D.C. Early in the fall the class went to Dicken's Studio at Fostoria and had their individual pictures taken. On January 26, the group pictures within the school were taken for the Annual. In February we began working and practicing on our play, Desperate Ambrose , which we presented on March 27, in the high school auditorium. This too was a rootin', tootin', hilarious success. On March 29, with most of our projects completed and our business in order, Mr. and Mrs. Smykil chaperoned us on that well deserved trip to Washington, D.C. And so it was on May 21, that 37 remaining seniors, making up the class of '53, proudly received their diplomas.

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fi wfikucif Oh good, I'm sure this is the letter from Mr. Shouck with the vital information for my husband's and my latest book. You see we're writing a novel telling the adventures of our old Senior Class of '53, so we wrote to Mr. Shauck to find out whatever happened to our Classmates. I can hardly wait to read it, so here goes: Dear Nancy and Bob, I'm sorry that it took so long for me to answer your letter, but you didn't have the right address on it, you see I'm in a rest home in Belmore now, trying to recover from the shock of finally getting your class out of school, you know for about 12 years there I didn't think that you were going to make it. Well to get on now with what the kids are doing, I'm surprised but they have done very well. I imagine you have been reading in papers about a Professor Audy Myers, yes, this is the Walter Myers that was in your class, I guess he got this nickname because everything he invented is AUDY-MATIC . Then there is Dick Wink, he finally got his wish for becoming Mayor, at least that's what I think he meant in his last letter, he said that he was the head boy at the Town Hall in Toledo now, he also said that Sharon Dubbs was working there too, she must be his secretary. Ronnie Smith owns the Paramount Theater in Toledo now, he attributes his success to the experience he received at the Star Theater in Deshler in his younger days. You should be very proud of your classmates, remember I always told you that if you studied real hard you would get good jobs when you graduated, and here is sure proof of it, because four of my best students are now professional wrestlers, they wrestle in exhibition bouts all over the country, they fight tag team style, Kenny Scholl and his wife Marguerite Scholl, the former Marguerite Hoops, fighting against Nature Girl Shirley Oberlitner, and her husband, Vernon Panning. Virginia and Sharon Koppenhofer have done well for themselves, they are slowly running Koppenhofer Brothers out of business; they call themselves Koppenhofer Sisters and they specialize in five legged Kangaroo meat. Ervin Hastedt owns a little clothing store in Holgate, Ohio now, he features clothing for TWINS , I can't possibly see how he can make any profit though, it takes so many things to dress his own five sets. John Tussing has done well for himself, he is now Chief of Police in Westhope, I think it's wonderful that he followed in his Grandfather's footsteps. Howard Ward is director of a female quartet, I believe they call themselves The Yung-mann Sisters . I don't know how he ever got this job but it seems he has connections with one of the girls. I always expected Gloria Thurston to be the one in your class to travel to foreign lands, and sure enough she's in Australia now running an ostrich ranch, her husband Dick Bertz, smuggles her very best plumes across the ocean to their dear friend, Ruth Meienburg, the famous fan dancer. Pat Casey is running a Muscle building school in Deweyville, Don Hogrefe is her special model thot she uses for all advertising purposes. The name of Don Stanfield now tops the social register in New York. A prominent writer of commercials for the PEDIGREED FLEA POWDER COMPANY , he attributes his success to his well known song hit Oh Scratchie My Itchie. Professor Donald Hoops is spending most of his time in Kentucky upon having completed his discovery of making Moon-shine in half-the-time . Jerry Straley, Esq. is now a prominent junk dealer in Belmore, Ohio. Calvin Courtney is teaching bookkeeping at the University of Deweyville. Virginia Ruskey is driving a hot rod racer at Ft. Miami race track, I wonder how she got that job, I hear that she has pull with the boss, her husband. I suppose you've heard of the new type of mashed potatoe that is on sale in all the leading stores now, well guess who invented it? None other than your old classmate, Tom Knoke. He just plants them under the new Highway Super 6, that runs through Deshler and they come out mashed. Ted Knight is very busy in his new enterprise, he now runs a rest home for old broken down football players. Dick Moses is now romping the country with his all girl basketball team, they call themselves The Bouncing Babes of '72 , some of his featured attractions are, Marilyn Bevo Francis Courtney, Vera Charlie Share Bowser, and their own referees, Clara Cold-ren and Arlene Hoops with Kenny Hoops, as head cheerleader Roger Gardner now owns a bird seed factory, his feed is sure to make your birds sing in 90 days or your money back It has worked wonders on him. Dick Papoi teaches Drivers Training in Deshler, he also owns 99 per cent of the stock in General Motors My how that boy has changed his mind since his younger days. I'm so glad to hear that you're writing books now, Nancy and Bob, you know that there's another author in your class also, Marian Yungmann, maybe you've read her latest Western thriller, Mother Get Off The Stove You Know You're Too Old To Ride The Range. My nurse just came in to put me back in my straight jacket, so I had better sign off, by the way you ought to know her she was a member of your class, Jeanette Burner. Well it has been very nice talking to you. It really has brought back a lot of old memories. Lots of Success to you in your new book. 16 Yours truly, R. D. Shauck