Gorham Fayette High School - Eagle Hi Life Yearbook (Fayette, OH)

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PAULINE STORRS—“POLLY'

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PAUL SCHAFFNER—“Park

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CLASS II I STORY THE VOYAGE OF THE GOOD SHIP CLASS OF 41” Ahoy shipmates! How’s about let’s spin a yarn or two of the good old sailing days of the “class of 41. ’ Remember when we launched our good old ship for its cruise to the land of greater knowledge.7 Our ship was christened the “Class of 41” because she was built for only one voyage, whieh was destined to end the year of 1941, after twelve years of steady sailing through the sea of learning to the port of knowledge. Ah but it was a happy day when we launched our sturdy ship and put to sea, and ‘twas a hardy crew we had, too. For our skipper we had Miss Tule and for our crew: Velma Bachman Ray Bailey Donna Marie Borton Calvin Canfield Galen Cline Durwood Hibbard Doris Link Neva Ort Martha Riviere William Russell Robert Stewart Orville Schilt Ester Walden Gerald Cline Ella Thompson Albert Devys Nona Ruth Ford Grace Ford Phyllis Gleason Robert Handy Robert Kibler Mary Ondrejka Hazel Rice Paul Riviere Mervin Russell Pauline Storrs Ralph Wagoner Helen Ford Elmer Taylor Edith Thompson Navigation was a little new to us then, but we soon took our bearings and set our course, so sailing was smooth through our first six years of voyage. Our skipper for the second year was Miss Stow-ell and we took on four new shipmates, Warren Sev-rence, Velma Towne, Gilbert Severence and Betty Jane Christensen. From the third to the sixth our skippers were Thelma Lee, Vivien Gamble, Leita Fought, and Lola Gleason. Of course, during the five years we took on board new shipmates and also lost some, but a few that we lost rejoined our crew later on. The following were the additional crew: Vernel Carrington Robert Peter Loren Morningstar Mildred Butler Ruth Climo Charles Smith Carolyn Best Annabel Sower Marion McCaslin A. L. Ford Glenadine Hitt Charles Christensen Mary Ann Hicks Franklin Smith Bernard Lamb Galen Borton When our ship came to the seventh year of our cruise and also into the Jr. High, we began to come into new' waters. Here the crew lost their accustomed recesses in the fore and afternoons, and weren.t released from their posts of duty until twelve bells, and at the end of each day, four bells. We soon became used to this, though, and sailed happily onward. We did not travel so fast that we could not pick up more crew, however. During the seventh and eighth grades we were happy to pick up a few landlubbers: Virginia Blaker Earl Fidler Richard Gors Richard Hutchinson Glenn Rice John Russell Evelyn Wollter Doris Link llene Spangler Annetta Stewart During these two years the crew decided one fine day, to do some fishing, and do you remember who they caught on their hooks? No one else but Robert Kibler, Junior Rice, Bob VanAuken, Lloyd Bachman, Lloyd Frazer, Duane Milliman, and Harlan Woodard. After due consideration the crew decided they were pretty good suckers after all and we kept them and continued our sailing. Never will I forget when we came to the troubled waters of the ninth grade. Here each of the crew had a tremendous responsibility of steering their own individual courses, and did they have trouble! They rushed hither and yon. Some probably even felt like jumping overboard to end their troubles. To make it worse the haughty Seniors watched from their lofty crow’s-nest perch of experience and laughed at us. But not for long. Each of our crew took their bearings and soon had our ship sailing her course again. From then on the crew began to prepare themselves for our ship’s landing in ‘41. During this time we took in still more shipmates: Marion Nofziger William Russell Richard Walter Wayne Uhler Rozella Baum Howard Sallows Philetus Spear Edna Moden Lela Zimmerman Remember in the eleventh year of our cruise when we took time from our journey to put on the play, “Early to Bed, Early to Rise?” Now, this, our final year, we have had a picture taken of each and every one of our crew who are still with us, to put in a yearbook for everyone to see in years to come, and to be able to think back and dream of the pleasant memories of our cruise in the quest of knowledge. We have yet a few duties before we complete our journey. A Senior play, the publishing of this, our Tattler, and a trip, before we have reached the port we so long ago set out to reach. Now at the end of our voyage, our crew will be handed a certificate, which they will well have earned, denoting them as each and every one able seamen. Now we will disband to leave forever the duties on board our good ship “Class of‘41,” and each of us will start on a new cruise—the journey of life. Bon Voyage, Galen Borton Lloyd Bachman