Ellet High School - Elletian Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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CLASS PROPHECY+l945 pools, tennis courts, and other luxuries to match. Pauline Slee no longer has to swoon at Ierry's picture in the television set because she has a job as his maid and a maid's house with padded walls so she can swoon with- out hurting herself. Living next door is the famous star, Wayne Carter, who finally crashed Hollywood in the Frankenstein movies and is destined to become the great- est boogey-man since Boris Karloff. Renting part of Wayne's spacious yard is our old class- mate, Bob Hissam, who is traveling the country with his all-girl orchestra and having the time of his life. Bob's orchestra is made up entirely of peroxide blonds, and his theme song isa cute little number called Bwang . Donald Ormiston has become a famous scientist and has designed many horrible monsters to be used in hor- ror movies. Donald I-lutton is Ormiston's publicity agent and has a string of seventeen modern offices with match- ing secretaries. In the same building there is a special engineering company which is owned by Dale Ienkins, lack Knecht and Tommy Warder. This intellectual trio invents and designs new-style yo-yos, scooters, wagons, bean shooters with telescopic sights, and precision-built sling-shots which are tested by dare-devil Robert Bru- baker, who has nerves of steel. In the heart of Ellet stands a beautiful building, a brewery owned by Earl Gallion, who tests all the drinks to see that they are properly aged. In this same building Earl Simmons works at his profession of being elevator man in a storage elevator of a one-story building. These are the only members of our class known to be preserved in alcohol. Gretchen Pendley owns a New York hot spot which is world-famous as Pendley's Stagger lnn and Ianice Wade works there as chief bcu-tender and bouncer. She is fondly known as Wonder Girl Wade , the Charles Atlas of the fairer sex. Feature attraction at the club is Ray Evelyn's swing band, which is composed entirely of red-headed girls, the same ones he has been admiring since 1940. Also appearing in the show is Ioan Spidle, who is now a famous Metropolitan Opera star and makes daily lectures on the evils of dancing and jive music. Ruth Beers and lean Darby are both dancing girls in the chorus, which is directed by quiet little Iohn Lohr, who is very, very interested in his work. Ruth is going to retire from dancing because she has finally made a solution which has restored hair on Mr. Pugh's bald top and she is making a fortune. Annie Yankovich finally got up enough nerve and ex- perience to pass her driver's test which she has been putting off since l940. The test was given by the Hardman Sisters, Rosemary and Iuanita, who are policewomen and have been waging a torrid war against the underworld. Only recently they became famous when they captured the jewel thief who robbed Leah Haynes, a Powers model, of S50,000.00 in jewelry. The thief was caught when he attempted to snatch the purse of a lady wrestler, Doris Barta, and he will be sent to prison as soon as he is out of the hospital. Bill Day, because of his head start on the rest of the boys, became a general in the army, and he is now com- manding officer of a WAC base in California. Yard birds, Helen Lewis and Helen Carden, are both orderlies of General Day and they spend their time polishing brass buttons and listening to his beautiful violin music. Roger Boughton, who has finally become a doctor, has the stupendous task of treating General Day's bunions. Bill Clark bought the Ellet Theater and has changed its name to th . llew Ellet Gayety. Here Millie Robertson sells tickets to all the patrons, and Betty Plaul is often billed as the feature attraction. Alberta Pugh is head usher and Barbara Henry waxes the runway and fights off all the baldheaded men in the front rows who threaten the bub- ble dancers with the new type of rocket bean shooter. Robert Young and Richard Wagner play a trumpet duet, their specialty being the Strip Polka . Barbara Balo finally achieved her goal in life when she played Chopsticks in Carnegie Hall before a crowd of 55,000 pleased people. Outside the hall was Ruby Echard perched high upon a soap box boring everyone with another one of her long speeches. Carroll Dean kept interrupting Ruby by flying too close in his helicopter on his daily paper route. He finally landed in a nearby yard .owned by Iimmie Wallick, who is teaching Latin at Ellet High School, is happily married, and has four little iib- bering idiots. Millie Hahn is also married and is rearing a new State Championship team of little white-haired boys who closely resemble someone we all remember. Toe Burtoft has aained the position of Superintendent of Schools and is making life miserable for all the prank- sters in the school system. Doris Seabeck and Norma lean Roe are working as carpenters on the new Ellet High School building, which is finally being built. The new home oi Alma Mater is being placed next to Fred Gross's factory which is the largest concern in the country for producing weight-reducing apparatus. Alice Lilley and Mildred McCracken pose for pictures advertising the ap- paratus. Elizabeth Huth is now posing for pictures as she always wanted to do, but she has replaced Charles Atlas as an example of how to build morale. Bud McMahon fulfilled his ambition of pluclcing the hairs in Hitler's mustache one by one, and he liked it so, well that he opened his own shop and is now a world- famous beautician. His assistant and chief manicurist is Ernie Morgan, who has all the girls swooning over him and flocking to the shop to have their nails trimmed. Lois Flower has visited the shop so often that she has lost all her nails and has spent several weeks in the hospital. She is recovering now and will soon be able to return to her job as chief dealer in the poker games at Fon- taine's Chapel, which is now owned and operated by Bob Reed, who went there so often that he bought the place and moved in. Mary Smith wanted to have lots of fun to make up for the time wasted at Ellet, so she bought an amusement park, where she now spends all her time. Ellen Evans works as a bearded lady in one of the shows, while Dot Sowers runs the penny arcade and makes sure no one uses slugs in the peanut machines. Donna Hutton has top billing in the side show as Muscles Hutton, the World's Strongest Girl , who challenges any person to last three rounds with her. lo Holland is the flag pole sitter because she likes to be alone. On her vacations she relaxes by climbing mountains or washing windows in the Empire State Building. A Mildred Morgan is a bull fighter in Mexico and spends most of her time weaving red blankets and raising tame bulls. Betty Burchett lives next door to Mildred and owns the world's largest gopher farm which specializes in spotted and speckled gophers and pink elephants. By the time we had finished our pleasant little chat, the crowd was howling for the championship game to start. Soon the boys wearing the Orange and White came out upon the floor and Ellet was off to another State Championship. Earl Simmons, Class Prophet.

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CLASS HISTORY OF '45 When in the fall of 1941 the present Senior Class entered the halls of Ellet High School, they were just young freshies willing to learn all they could about the customs of high school- so different from grade school days. That year the Boosters Club was formed and many of the freshmen joined the club. The basketball team brought victory to Ellet that year by winning the Metropolitan League Championship. When they entered their sophomore year, the present seniors felt even more than one year older and wiser. A review of the various activ- ities for that year shows that the sophomores were active in many school affairs. The boys showed talent in sports. The following boys of the class played football: Virgil Mick, Bob Reed, Virgil Lisle, Bill Powers, Norm Kolmodin, Gene Bames, Bob Daugherty and Earl Gallion. ln the basketball field Bill Corbin, Bob Reed, Norm Kol- modin and Gene Barnes helped to win the Co- Metro Championship along with Stow and Nor- ton. ln the Haromano honor society for girls Pauline Slee, Mary lla jackson, Barbara Henry, lean Blanchard, Barbara Balo and Ruby Echard were the sophomore members. Eight sophomore girls joined the Girl Reserves and worked hard for the club. In their junior year the members of the Class of '45 were proud upperclassmen. That year they took a part in one of the greatest successes that could come to any high school. Their basketball team went through a season of remarkable play- ing and won for Ellet High School the Class B State Championship. This success brought to Ellet the respect of other schools and a greater pride in the little school. On the championship varsity team were Bill Corbin, Norm Kolmodin, Gene Bames, Bob Hissam and Bob Reed from the junior Class. Other juniors, including Tommy Warder, Earl Simmons, jack Knecht and Leonard Lincicome, served as substitutes on the team. Two junior girls, Helen Fisher and Millie Hahn, were cheerleaders who helped to cheer the team to victory. Among the junior boys who played football were Bob Reed, Roger Bauhart, joe Burt- oft, Bill Powers, Don Ormiston, Roger Boughton, Earl Gallin, Earl Simmons, Bob Hissam, Gene Barnes and Bill Steinhauser. First semester of- officers were: President, Roger Bauhart, Vice- President, Bill Corbing Secretary-Treasurer, Norm Kolmodin. The second semester saw a change of officers. Bob Reed was elected President, Millie Hahn became Vice-President, and Bill Corbin was Secretary-Treasurer. ln january the juniors held a Goan and Swoon dance, which was pronounced a success. At about the same time the class chose class colors of green and white. The Class of '45 is now about to be graduated from high school. For four years they have been together as a class interested in much the same things and enjoying the same events of a happy school life. Soon they will take different paths of life. Some will go to collegeg others will enter the field of industry. Many young men will enter the armed forces. Roger Bauhart, William Day, Rob- ert Reed, Earl Gallion, Leonard Lincicome and Donald Hutton have already left to serve their country. Others will follow soon after Commence- ment Day, which is set for june 7, following Baccalaureate services on june 3. After the close of school, Iune 8, they know that never again in this life will all of the members of the Class of '45 be together as a class. Their work in Ellet High School will be finished. CLASS PROPHECY-1945 It was a balmy day in Mdrch, 1965, when I strolled through the door of the huge gymnasium in Columbus to watch the finals of the State Class B Championship tournament matching the Fostoria Flaminglos and, of course, Ellet's mighty Orangemen. As it was an hour be- fore game time, I decided to stroll around and see Whether I could meet anyone from the Class of '45. Hearing a disturbance in the doorway, I went over to see who was there and met a group of grimy looking characters who had seemingly been hard at work. Look- ing closer beneath the grime and dirt I recognized several of y old classmates including Norm Kolmodin, who was high window washer in Bauhart's Putty Knife factory and the only man in Ellet with a 200-girl harem. With Norm was Bill Corbin, who was head janitor in the same factory and sparring partner for Ralph Sumstine, who was now a professional wrestler known as Otto Von Hubba. After exchanging hearty greetings we all went to our seats and sat down to talk over old times and gossip about what other class members were now doing. Because there were many strange things discussed, I decided to take notes, and here are the amazing results. Nina Gooden is still hoping that the fifteen sailors she writes to won't all come home at once and stage a major naval battle on her front porch. Helen Fisher is teaching a school of boys how to become cheerleaders. The school is owned by Bill Steinhauser and, famous as Steiny's Stinking School for Sloppy Shouters, is located in the heart of West Virginia on a beautiful hill overlooking the Hogwood Home for Happy Hogs, which is owned and operated by our old churn, jean Blanchard. Mary lla Iackson, as Mrs. Leonard Lincicome, is co- owner of the Kurtz Lumber Company, but the company is now only a toothpick factory because of Leonard's bad luck at poker. Elsie Antel works for the company freight handler and pushes box cars around the yard when it is necessary, while Bill Powers is chief toothpick handler and is just recovering from a complete physical breakdown caused from overwork. Bill has finally achieved his life's goal of being a complete failure, for which he has been preparing himself with twelve years in college. ferry Wadlington is a retired businessmen residing in his small country cottage of eighty rooms, with swimming

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CLASS WILL-1945 We, the undersigned members of the Class of 1945, having been proven thoroughly insane and definitely not in our right mind, do hereby make our last will including the following bequests: ARTICLE I Section 1 To the remaining student body and faculty we leave our best wishes, and, along with that, the beautiful aroma of Mephitis Mesomelas in the study hall to make sure they don't forget us too soon. Section 2 To Mr. Snyder we leave a gold engraved yo-yo so he can amuse himself while he forces next year's seniors to make up time for tardiness. Section 3 To Coach Scott we leave the empty space in the trophy case and the dull prospect of filling it without any of the senior athletes. Section 4 To the student body we leave the facultyg to the faculty we leave the student body-minus the Class of '45, Gruesome thoughtl Ain't it? ARTICLE II Individually, each member is so glad to get out that he leaves the following belongings, which we hereby distribute with pleasure: Section l Don Paddlefoot Ormiston leaves his big feet to any junior who thinks he is strong enough to lift them off the ground, and three shoe stamps which are required for each pair of shoes. Section 2 Tommy Warder leaves his beat-up basketball shoes and a roll of tape to Roger Clapsaddle so he can get his money's worth. Section 3, lack Knecht leaves his Ford to anyone with the nerve and engineering ability to drive it-in other words, any- one inhuman. Section 4 Ierry Wadlington gladly bequeaths his many titles such as Bulgy , Butterball , and Waddles to Iirnmy Fee together with a carton of vitamin pills so he can grow into them. Section 5 Carroll Dean pans his super deluxe slide-rule off on any junior who thinks he has the time and brains to use it. Poor boyl Section 6 Hall Guard, Fred Gross, wills his bell-ringing job to any junior who thinks he can stand the anguished cries of the freshmen, who are always late. Section 7 Ernie Morgan gives Irvin Heckerman his bashfulness, which up to now has never appeared in public. Section 8 Mildred McCrackin leaves her good bookkeeping grades to any smart kid-in fact, she's even going to return the teacher's answer book. Section 9' Mildred Dobbins falls heir to Betty P1aul's spunk and ability to argue with teachers. One first-aid kit included. Section I0 That high powered scooter, better known as a motor- cycle, is a present to Bob Leppert from Wayne Carter, who's darned glad he's still healthy enough to give it away. Section ll Dainty little Bud McMahan, our poor man's Charles Atlas, graciously wills the muscle in his right arm to Bob Gordon, who undoubtedly won't know what to do with it. Section 12 Annie Yankovich leaves Pat Reed a bottle of ink re- mover and the edge of a desk to chew on in case she takes bookkeeping. Section 13 A beautiful pair of dimples that dodge in and out of his beard are left to some lucky junior by Earl Gallion, who really doesn't appreciate them. Section 14 Norma lean Roe presents her ability to get caught pulling pranks to anyone crazy enough to try it. And who would that be but Iackie Pashkil Section 15 Bob Hero Hissam leaves his football and basketball skill t?l to Robert Shaffer-and that ain't all. Section 13 Alice Lilley says she leaves her silliness to Minnie Reed, but personally we think she used it all up in his- tory class, so there can't be much to will. Section 17 Laura Griffin is blessed with Ruth Beer's beautiful pen- manship, but she'd be much better off if she swiped a typewriter-even if she got caught swiping it. Section IBX Ralph Sumstine gives his luxurious C?l Studebaker to Carl Stair. Boy, will Carl be madl Section I9 To Don Smith goes Bill Corbin's ability. to push Ralph's car, so Don and Carl can be mad together. Section 20 Andy Calderon gets Bill Clark's high gradesg so we can count on having Andy around for several more years. Section 21 Doris Barta leaves a warning carved in her desk dedi- cated to' any fool who's taking bookkeeping, Section 22 Maybe Bill Beaky Walker can find some use in the army for the shyness left to him by Iohn Lohr. Section 23 Everyone wants to get rid of her quietnessg so Donna Hutton leaves hers to Ianice Krumroy, who probably won't use it. Section 24 Bob Lawver is willed Barbara Balo's nimble fingers, but he won't find much use of them because the piano in Room 15 just can't take it. Setion. 25 Alberta Pugh bestows her long fingernails. an Catherine Mick. If she accepts them and combines them with her temper, the junior boys had better look out.