Geneva High School - Aquila Yearbook (Geneva, OH)

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inn ff L Si' N .X For reference to word s heretofore unknown or uncomprehendable consult Carl Desko s Condensed World Encyclopedta or Shurley Barrett s New Standard Drctronary both publushed un 1969 OHN Neul Bob Curtus, and Frank Castellu sat hunched un theur contour chaurs amudst the throng of people un the statuon whule wautung for the passenger let to take them to theur deshwllloybu lusten to thus! exclaumed Bob, wuth hus ears and eyes glued to the portable televusuon The newscaster lust reported that Barbara DeAngel us won the Natuonal Women s Sports f T962 ChmEgh?1nrl:gphfJ have responded favorably to the news had he not been suddenly engrossed un an artucle wrutten la smate Delores Shafer by onThla?eCwds a turfue back un 1959 when such celebrated men un government as John McSpadden deluvered soul l f n messa es of ho e and encoura ement to the ople I hF?ank ha?l funushed: readung Bull Rggner s comuc gtiup un the funnues when he heard Bob whustle GT fhe Sflfeen on the portable set Now what'-' ' he asked Loo I l l The all gazed un pleasant surpurse at Marlene McFarland who was modelung gowns un the Statler room for the Hug e Co un Cleveland Muke Pasqualone wuth hus famous all gurl orchestra appeared before the muCr0 hone to announce that lrvun Tuller, as guest star, would sung for them hus new song that had gust been released y R C A Vuctor but our reporters pleasure was crudely unterrupted by the announcement that theur plane had arruved They hurrued to the our fueld where they saw that another plane had landed to unload some passen ers A sugnufucant thung about thus plane was that Ronnue Hawes was the pulot One man, bruef case un han , stepped from the boardwalk and began amblung toward them Who s thus? saud the three Hello, saud Otto Zechner when he had stopped before them How us everyone back home'7 We hear you have quute a large farm now Yes and Don Duglua has a successful daury farm near mune You have probably heard of the brand of mulk products he manufactures You wrote us some tume ago saud Bob that Martun Mclnnerney was runnung for cuty mayor agaunst Ray Berruer Who won'7 Martun was elected by a close margun but Ray has a very good real estate busuness, especually now that the town has grown to be so large He went on to say that Preston Pollock had been asked to take the contract to desugn the new school buuldungs that are badly needed In Geneva When they funally parted the three reporters left for the rescue plane to cover a story about an F T06 pas senger let that had developed engune trouble and was forced to land un the Pacufuc Ocean They notuced upon steppung unto the plane how famuluar lookung were the hostesses Of coursel They were LaVerne Wullus and Carmelo Marquette The gurls smuled greetungs and surprused them wuth the news that they had met Lunda Blough yesterday who was accompanyung some of her students from elementary school on an aur excursuon trup of the Unuted States You can see everythung by plane un lust about twelve hours now they saud We covered another trup saud one un whuch Audrey Gornuck who teaches school was returnung from a vacatuon trup un Hawauu Whom do you thunk she saw'7 Ray Herbat and Duck Anchor naval offucers wuth the atomuc submarune duvusuon She saw them at a dunner party where they were surrounded all evenung by beautuful Hawauuan dancung gurls The hostesses bade them be comfortable and told them that another old fruend was accompanyung them on the rescue trup Lookung around them whom should they meet but Gary Cruttenden He explauned that he wascg6oung along to decupher the cause of the faulty engunes, beung a specual let mechanucal technucuan for the F I s They rode smoothly along stoppung only once at the unterspoce refuelung statuons suspended un the aur at hugh altutude It was an amazung councudence that Paul Novak supervused thus one, and hus co owner was Joe Stuart who checked the engunes and cleaned the wundows No sooner had they waved good bye than out of the must of clouds they saw a solud speck bobbung un the ocean They descended, landung smoothly besude the destutute shup and ummeduately the emergency rescue squad began to help the passengers on board Among them was Thomas Duke, a college hustory professor, who was returnung from a trup un Tubet to get un formatuon from Davud Holmes author and explorer, who had uncovered the remauns of a strange new ancuent cuvuluzatuon And there was Ray Bender, an enguneer supervusung the constructuon of a huge new power dam un central Afruca Hus specual secretary Joanne Kummy had accudently swallowed an oversuze Afrucan rung she was holdung un her hand at the splut second the plane had hut the water Havung been flown back to the aurbase, Joanne was ummeduately taken to the cuty hosputal Frank accom panued her to cover a story of the uncudenr and the other two were sent out on varuous mussuons They agreed to meet for dunner that nught at the famous Esophogus Dunung Room and Hotel 26 ,z II k ' U i U tr II ' U ' A T I' ,Y . . . . . . 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Class Hustor IX years ago, on a warm September day, a group of curuous seventh graders entered the halls of G H S eager to pass through the years ahead wuth as luttle work and study as possuble, and eventually to gaun the funal reward of beung bug senuors We duscovered that thus goal was not easy to attaun and ut was necessary to devote more tume to studues and less to muschuef Durung our freshmen year we entered untocompetutuon wuth the upper classes, and for the furst tume chose our own sublects The maun prolect of the class that year was sellung greetung cards As sophomores, the enture class was together un one room for the furst tume Under the leadershup of Bob Mc Guure presudent, Eugene Eller, vuce presudent Januce Dean secretary, and Gary Cruttenden, treasurer, our class sponsored a donkey basketball game whuch developed unto a hularuous affaur wuth over sux hundred fullung the gym to capacuty Our second sale of greetung cards proved to be very profutable and a popcorn machune was purchased wuth the earnungs Returnung as lunuors we elected Preston Pollock presudent, Frank Castellu, vuce presudent Margue Patterson secretary, and Gary Cruttenden, treasurer, and promptly chose our class rungs The lunuor play Strange Boarders, unearthed great talent among members of the class The maun events of the year were the Junuor Senuor Prom held at the Maduson Country Club and the banquet whuch was a success due mostly to our wonderful mothers who served a very delucuous meal and were responsuble for all the detauls Senuorsl Long had we wanted for the day when we could look back over three happy years and realuze that we had qualufued for our funal year at G H S The offucers elected for the year were Ray Bender, presudent Frank Castellu, vuce presudent Morgue Patterson, secretary and Don Duglua, treasurer, wuth Mrs Ward and Mr Sherman as sponsors After our puctures had been taken and the announcements ordered, plans were made to rause money for the Aquula by sponsorung several dances after the games and sellung magazunes We operated the concessuon stand at the football games and our ever fauthful popcorn machune remauns ot the school as o guft from the senuor class Early un May our senuor play was produced and met wuth great success May rolled around whule most of us were stull un a whurl of actuvutues Thus year we were the honored guests at the Junuor Senuor Prom and the banquet whuch were very enuoyable events At last come Baccalaureate and Commencement Some were happy to graduate, whule others regretted that they were to leave G H S We all realuzed we had to go but through musty eyes whule we sang our beloved Alma Mater, our thoughts wandered back to what us lust hustory to most, but to the senuors has a value that cannot be weughed Some of us thought of the wonderful guudance and learnung from our teachers some, the fun we had but regardless of what we thought, ut us what G H S has guven us that enables us to face the world as young adults wuth determunatuon and courage It us the hope of the Class of T952 that we have contrubuted somethung whuch wull be of assustance to those who wull follow, and that we may repay those who have guuded and counseled us o S ' ..- F ' ' 1 f ' P ' ' 1 f . D . .. ,, ' 1 ... , ' , ' I l I I ' ' 1 . I f ...

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Once at the hospntal technncnan Barbara Edy took x rays of Mnss Knmmy,and Dr Robert McGunre advnsed an nmmednate operatnon Afterwards Mary Lou Jeppe the nurse supervnsor told them the operatnon was a success and Joanne would soon be up and well agann Frank took down nnformatnon for another story as she dnsclosed to hnm that Lelna Myers, one of thenr very effncnent nurses had slnpped on a rug Mary Lou had ordered for the hospntal lounge Mnss Myers had knocked out a tooth and as a result was sunng the manufacturer for damages Frank had asked to see her and Mnss Jeppe dnrected hnm to one of the offnces,where Mnss Myers sat nntently lnstenung to the radno What are you lnstennng to? he asked Oh she declared Emma Jones who ns snngnng and also playung the guntar ns competnng agannst Ellen Westlake snngnng at the pnano,on a cross country talent program The wnnner wnll get a years contract to appear as guest star every week Suddenly the door opened and nurse Mary Jean Hagler stepped nn to hand her a gnft and to say that her snster Rose and frnend Audrey Rhoads had taken a short tnme off thenr secretary receptnonnst posntnons nn Manhatten to come to see her Mnss Myers offered part of her gnft to Frank whnch turned out to be delncnous apples from Jannce Dean who had sent the order from New York where she was a well known publnc welfare worker to her father s farm Frank was preparnng to leave when Mnss Myers asked hnm to remann and see the state contestors for the Mnss Amernca Beauty Contest on televnsnon That s Irene Wntlnckn representnng Mnss Ohnol exclanmed Frank It certannly ns sand Lelna A lnttle later he left and was walknng along the avenue headed for the offnce when he decnded to stop nn the drug store for a copy of the latest paper It was hns no ful surprnse to see Roger Commnsso behnnd the counter Thns natur ally was lust one of Roger s chann of stores aroun the cnty Would you lnke to buy some scrumptnous candy he sand a specnal blend of chocolate manufactured by Larry Hattery Hns candy ns sold all over the Unnted States now Later wnth a box of chocolates under hns arm he was about to walk out the door when he bumped nnto of all people Eugene Eller Eugene explanned that he was on hns way to New York Cnty to an agrncultural conventnon where he ns chanrman of a commnttee on plant entomology He had heard that many of hns old frnends were here and had decnded to stop on hns way to New York to look them up Meanwhnle John had been sent out of town to a desert area nn Nevada to report certann nnterferences wnth the radno actnvnty of the energy statnon Back agann that nnght he told our reporters that Nancy Peterson was chnef of a commnssnon succeednng nn harnessnng the atomnc powers for use nn publnc utnlntnes and communncatnons That afternoon whnle wantnng nn the statnon for the plane back to the cnty he had notnced huge posters urgnng vacatnoners to vnsnt Lomas Lakeland on Beautnful Lake Erne Further nnqunry revealed defnnately that Nancy Lomas was the successful manager of thns resort All together agann they set out for dnnner at the hotel and who should recenve them when they entered but Enleen DeGeorge the charmnng hostess She led them to the mann Lobby where Jnm Cook was dnscussnng a detanl wnth the desk clerk They learned to thenr amazement that Jnm was the owner of thns establnshment and took specnal prnde In hns prnvate dnnnng room He led them near the floor show where Albert Pulsnfer another former hngh school frnend who had succeeded Arthur Murray nn becomnng a natnonally known dance studno teacher appeared There are some people I d lnke you to meet tonnght Jnm sand dnrectnng them to a table occupned by a dnstnn gunshed looknng couple and a pretty young gnrl Thns as absolutely mnraculous' the reporters sand delnghtedly astonnshed to recognnze thenr former home room dnrector at Geneva Hngh School wn th Mrs Sherman and daughter Deborahl We are passnng through thns cnty on our trnp east and decnded to stop and renew old acquanntances wnth our former students they sand Jnm whnspered to John that he was havurng a surprnse party for the Shermans after the program and nnvnted them all to come Thenr attentnon was suddenly dnverted by a famnlnar looknng woman weavung nn and out among the patrons super vnsnng the handlnng of all the hor deuvres that were served They dnscovered nt was none other than Nancy Stnffleg who had become qunte a noted cateress,servnng anythnng from Congressnonal dnnners to Hollywood celebrnty luncheons She sand that she owed much of her success that nnght to Irene Catano who as chnef cook possessed a very famous secret recnpe for maknng these refreshments Also she had two assnstants helpnng her Mary Tellep and Pat Sterret home economnsts who had prevnously been food edntors for the Ladnes Home Journal Thenr prolect that evennng was to serve a dnnner for a conventnon benng held nn honor of the guest speakers Margaret Patterson a well known publnc welfare agent and a possnble candndate for senate: cgf Ohno, and Peggy Moss a chnld psycholognst who was speaknng nn behalf of a charnty benefnt program for home less c nl ren The lovely hostess who nntroduced these two was Joyce Holmes novelnst and chanrman of the program for the con ventnon Suddenly whnle lnstennng to the speeches the reporters were paged by the head wanter and told to return nmmednate ly back to the newspaper offnce At the mann desk the new receptnonnst Vnctorna Gawlnkowskn reported that the edutor had another nmportant lead on a story wantnng for them They headed for the offnce where once nnsnde the chnef told them they were to fly to Alaska to learn whether Barbara Gleason had vnsnted Barbara Ott who owned a whnte fox farm there You see, he sand Mnss Gleason has nnhernted twenty mnllnon dollars from a mysternous old lady whom she had once befrnended If she does not clanm the money wnthnn two weeks nt ns to go to Beverly Bender, secretar for the Geneva Savnngs and Loan nn that cnty She had once stated 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