Forest High School - Leaves Yearbook (Forest, OH)

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Next they visited a new restaurant which had just been built b Burl Hemmerly, the great architect. It was designed to look like Tarzan's tree house. Burly always liked Tarzan, even going so far as to imitate him while he was in high school. Burl's imitations weren't al- ways successful, though. The restaurant was owned by Rex Swanson. He advertised his res- taurant as selling the strongest milkshakes in the world. He had a yen for strong drinks ever since his high school days. He employed Iohn Kalb as his jerk-soda 'erk, that is. john is able to make mi kshakes, faster, thicker, and better than anyone else in the country. After the restaurant scene, jim Marshall, the famous psychiatrist, was interviewed. jim had graduated from Yale University with several degrees and now had a large practice. His specialty is women-patients. Royce Fewell, a cartoonist of some note, was also interviewed. Royce had gotten his start W en he drew cartoons for the Leaves of '50 '. His comicstrip was named Love 'Em and Leave 'Em , patterned after his own life. The next place visited was the law office of Hemmerly and Oates. Alice and Donna spe- cialized in divorce cases QDonna usually taking the men clients.j Alice is also noted for her speeches. At the moment she is running for Senator. Donna is her campaign manager. They s ould get the votes of all the men, anyway. The Two fs Boarding House was shown next and the proprietors were Joyce Spoon and jane Green. They served meals and were known the world over for their won erful corned beef hash. Conlidentially, they said that all they had to do was open a can of Armour's comed beef hash , heat it, and serve it. The poor suckers never knew the difference. The next place of note was Tong's Ping Pong Lounge. Mary Ellen had felt sorry for the girls of Forest because they had no place for recreation so she had built a ping pong room, trim somelwhat like the pool room of the boys. Mary Ellen is also the ping pong c ampion of e worl . Next to Mary Ellen's recreation room was the largest garage in Forest, bmade entirely of glass. It was owned by Marilyn Derringer, the former Marillyn Harford., The garage spe- cialized in fixing lights and other accessories for cars. Marilyn had gained her knowledge for fixing lights from her husband. Also, Marilyn thought, since she always had to be fixing her husband's lights she might as well make money fixing other peoples. Marilyn's friend and neighbor, Dolly Thacker, former Dolly Snider, owned the theater in Iimorest. Every Saturday afternoon she showed all cartoons for her husband and the children of t e town. The last person shown on the program was Barbara Cooper who, as a singer, had enjoyed success in Hollywood. She was now singing a commercial for Wheaties on the radio. The com- mercial went like this: How mild, how mild, how mild can a cereal be Less scratchy, less harsh on the throat La lee lee, la lee lee So step up to the counter and say, Gimmie a pack of Wheaties please. With that note I tum off my television set and say-Good-bye. - 18 -

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Klass Proplfccy As I was sitting in my easy chair on my estate in Panama watching my new television set, I noticed that my home town was being shown. One of the Hrst things I saw was the High School. They were having Chapel and one of my former school friends, Marjorie Harris was giving a demonstration with her four children on shorthand and typing. They had set a new worldis record for s eed. The children had been taught by their mother. Also on the same program was Linda McEntee who gave a beautiful saxophone solo. She had studied for five years in Vienna and was a noted authoritly on band music. After the program the coach, Harold Waller, spoke a few words. Coach Wa - ler's team had won the National Basketball Tournament last year. Harold had lost only two games in the last two years-each time to Alger. Then the scene changed to a few miles outside Forest where a new hospital had just been built. The chief surgeon was Ann Holtzmuller who had just retumed from a series of lectures in Europe. The hospital had been donated by one of Forest's citizens. Ann had named the hospital Bi.llvue,' after its donor. Also working there as head nurse was the for- mer Ruth Simpson. She was now the Mrs. Richard Wilson the second. Incidently, she also had two lovely children, Ruth and Richard the third. The next place of interest shown was the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul McKinleyg Mrs. McKinley is the former Phyllis Kneisley. There were 11 very cute curly haired boys in the yard playing football. Paul and Phyllis had gained national recognition for having the youngest professional football team in the country and also because the whole team was com- posed of their own sons. The farm next to their home was owned by Thomas Jones and Norman Clinger who raised Holshires, a new type of animal bred by Tom and Norman from Holstein sand Berk- shires. They had gained their knowledge of animal husbandry while taking agriculture in For- est High School. Then the scene moved back to town where a kindergarten class was visited. The teacher was the former Mildred Ann Schott. Most of the class consisted of children of her former classmates. Three of the children were her own. They were triplets who were well known for their dancing abilit . They had been taught by their mother who had been a professional dancer in her youth. Another student was Audrey Tracy's daughter. Audrey was in Washing- ton at the time where she was head of the Home Economics Bureau of the United States. She had just perfected a new method for making pork taste like beef. Next to the Kindergarten Class building was a laundry service which was managed by Eileen Staley and Edith Myers. Their specialty was washing diapers. As a sideline they had a class on The Care of Infantsf, Eileen and Edith were both experts on the care of babies and eople came from miles around to attend their classes. Their own children were the best be- llaved children in Mildred Ann's kindergarten class. Next the program visited the largest mortuary in the world. As I wasn't interested in mortuarys I started to tum the dial when I suddenly noticed the proprietors of the mortuary. They were Ardo Hammond and Bemard George. After I recovered from this shock I dis- covered that they had bought joe Shields out and renamed the home Peaceful Manor. They also had erfected a new embalming fluid which could be used for man or beast. Their side- line was fhnerals for the pets of people who were too tenderhearted, to just bury their pets in the cold, cold ground. They also owned a cemetery which was managed by their classmate Murray Essinger. The motto of the cemetery is Let Sleeping Dogs Lief, Murray had developed a new method for cutting grass. He employed the contour type cutting, that is, he was going around in cir- cles, which he had leamed in his agriculture class. -17-

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JUNIOR CLASS lst row, L. to R.: Hamilton, McDaniel, Smith, Zimmerman, Tuorrey, Fout, Willson, Iolliif 2 d .. . 1 x ' ' ' n row. Hochstettler, Young, Green, Reed, Wright, Kingman, Curtin, Sons, Cooper. 3rd row: Mrs. Holtzmuuller, Metzger, Webb, Farmer, Ludwig, Thompson, Thomson, Harris Absent: Lines, Rahrig.