Ellet High School - Elletian Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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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.

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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 WILL-1945 Section 26 Ruby Echard gives her ability to do. other peoples homework to anyone dumb enough to do ity but let s hope the new sucker at least does it right. Section 27 l Leah Haynes wants to will her grades to a dumb juniorg so, since we don't play any favorites, all the juniors can have them. Section 28 Mary Smith's ability not to concentrate on anything goes- to Mildred Turner, who already knows how to use it. Section 29 Pauline Slee wants to will her attendance record to someone, but no junior will take it because she's here every day. Section 30 Iimmie Wallick bequeaths his ability to translate Caesar to any poor unsuspecting junior who is silly enough to take second year Latin-Warren lowe, please note. Section 31 Ioe Burtoft wills his very good relationship with the Principal to George Ables, hoping that George will keep out of mischief better than he has. Section 32 Dale Ienkins leaves his amazing propensity for bungling to Ierry Tyree. Section 33 To some lucky junior go Ieanie Darby's high grades and her reserved seat in summer school. Section 34 Lois Flower gives her ability to get out of seventh period study hall to anyone who doesn't like school. Don't everyone grab at oncel Section 35 Fat Fassnacht gets the ability to do at least 35 push-ups in gym class from Ray Evelyn. Poor boyl Section 36 Elizabeth Huth leaves what intelligence she possesses to Piggy Hughes. Section 37 The quiet reserve of Roger Boughton goes to lack Bunch, with Mrs. Wilson to make sure he uses it. Section 38 Richard Wagner says he leaves his know-nothing ability to Hoyt Eady, who's in the same boat. Section 39 Bob Blimp King gets Robert Young's ability with the trumpet to aid the other seven members of the Ellet Band. Section 40 Earl Simmons leaves the foot prints in his football hel- met to Marv Frye, who will undoubtedly collect some to go with them. Section 41 Elsie Antel wills her ability to flick and get caught and the seat outside the office to Shorty Knecht with the fond hope that she can climb up on it. Section 42 Gretchen Pendley's silence goes to Bob Gordon, so we suggest Bernard Peters as new cheerleader. Sction 43 Bob Rabbit Brubaker, has nothing to bequeath, so he leaves it all to lack Bunch, who needs it. Q Section 44 Mary lla lackson leaves Marilyn Watford Wolfe to any junior who can match her giggle for giggle. Section 45 Nina Gooden aives Red Proctor back to the freshie girls unless Coach Scott gets him first. Section 46 Bob Slippery Reed leaves his ability in English to any junior who doesn't expect to graduate and likes daily trips to study hall. Section 47 Don Hutton leaves all his old girl friends in Ellet High to Garold Peanut Cross and Ronald Bunk Wells. Section 40 Doris Seabeck wills her ability to flick to any junior who is willing to risk making use of it. Section 49 Leonard 'lFritz Lincicome wills his ability to get satis- factory admits to any playful junior who likes pink colors. Section 50 Helen Fisher leaves her short, short cheerleaders skirt and its big seams to Bernard Peters-he'll need them. Section 51 Audrey Smith is the lucky gal who gets lanice Wade's ability to crack gum. Section 52 luanita Hardman leaves her diploma and a bottle of ink remover to her little brother so he will be sure to get one. Section 53 Millie Robertson leaves her bookkeeping homework to Miss VanderVoort. At last she got it finishedl Section 54 -Barbara Hank Henry leaves her job at Isaly's to any girl who likes to have boys trying to get her attention. Section 55 lo Spidle wills her jitterbugging to Pat Reed, and a book on first aid to be used in case she slips. Section 56 Roger Bauhart leaves-with that cute little card which bears the word Greetings on the top. Section 57 Bill Day bequeaths his violin, minus two strings, to the Iunior Class to be placed in the trophy case. Section 58 Any three freshmen who think they can fill them are welcome to Bill Peaches Powers' shoulder pads and football shoes. Section 59 - Helen Carden just leaves-still wearing that Spring- field sweater. Wonder whyl Section 60 Rosemary Hardman leaves her long, black, naturally wavy hair to Margaret Nooker. Section 61 Dorothy Sowers leaves her seat in Room 15 to anyone who wants to be used as a landing field for the dozens of paper airplanes that cruise about the room whenever the senior boys have an especially juvenile streak. Section 62 To Barbara Taylor goes Mildred Morgan's sun tan that she got in chemistry class from the reflection of the sun off Mr. Pugh's glistening top. Section 63 Bob Lawver falls heir to Norm Kolmodin's dangerous job as chief test pilot of all paper airplanes manufac- tured on the Room 15 assembly line. Continued on page 29