Dillsboro High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Dillsboro, IN)

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Sen br P opfzecy I am employed by the U. S. Peanut Company as atraveling salesman. This job takes me all over the world and I remember most all my school mates from good old Dillsboro High School. When we left that dear place of learning there were thirteen of us. Some people thought we would all have bad luck with the number Wl3n but I have found that we all have made a success of life. I remember the first persons I met after school. It was in business conference with the Art Editor of Ford Motor Company, who was Donald Mathias and his private secretary, Jean Schwanholt, whom I didn't know at first because she is now Jean Gullian. On one of my trips to Europe I was in Paris and saw the Eiffel Tower. I looked up and saw a man on a girder near the top. I inquired and found that Virgil Laaker had been employed to clean it. He had invented some new chemical that would clean that type of metal. I can understand that because he was tops in our chemistry classes. I was on my way west to see about buying a ranch for our firm and I had to pass through Dillsboro so I stopped at the Health Resort and went in. Melvin Cleeter met me at the door, for now he owned the Health Resort and had become a millionaire from the profits. We went into the dining room and there was Donna Naegele, who was the hostess. I notice that she had a wedding ring on, but 1 didn't get to find out who the lucky man was, After chating with them a few hours I continued my journey west. As I traveled through the city of St. Louis I saw that George Smith and Garnette Huber were Starrlhg at one oi the night clubs. I didn't know whether they were married, but anyway they were still together. I arrived late in the city where I was to buy the ranch and the Real Estate dealer asked me to his home for supper. I was very suprised when Scharline Utter came out of the kitchen. She was married nowandlnd five children. We enjoyed a delicious supperand talking over old school days. I went on to San Fransico on business where I visited an army hospital. I enjoyed this, too, because the superintendent of nurses was Martha Randall. While I was in California I went to see a hot rod race. The winning car owned by Kay Long. I spent the next day visiting with her in her large ranch house. She said she had made her money on the stock market and racing was just a hobby. She told me that Ann McNeely was giving a piano concert that night, so we rode to see her in Kay s 1927 Jaguar. Ann asked us to join her for a midnight snack at her spacious chicken farm. This was very amusing to me because Ann didn't like chickens when she was in high school. By dawn I was traveling through Texas. Ann told me thatAda Mathias was living there She lived in a beautiful home on an oil ranch. She and her husband took me to see a rodeo while I was there. Shehadtw: darling children and owned several oil flelds and was very happy. While passing through Cincinnati I nad to wait six hours for my train. I went shopping and happened to meet Janet Johnson. She was on her way to work. She had just graduated from modeling school. She told me that Martha Meyer was the instructor there. The six hours soon pass- ed and I continued on my way home thinking over the lives of my school mates.