Grafton High School - Graftonian Yearbook (Grafton, OH)

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CLASS HISTORY (con't) As Juniors we were the busiest that we ever had been. At the football g-mes we sold pop and hot dogs and at basketball games, pop and pod corn. We also sponsored two dances, three skating parties, and of course our Junior class play. A.t the end of the year we gave the Seniors a Prom in the form of a Dinner-Dance. It was at this time that a grim tragedy occurred. We were indeed grieved because of the passing of our beloved classmate, Edward Tablett whose life was taken in an automobile accident. We are Seniors now, and although it has seemed like a long, long tine, I guess every one of us has enjoyed all of the past twelve years. Now as we look back, we can see the brighter side of many incidents, which at the time were so heart-breaking or embarrassing to us. Perhaps it was the time we missed one spelling word and couldn't have a blue ribbon, or was it the day we go caught throwing paper wads, and had to sit out a long detention period. This last year has been a pretty busy one also. Besides working on the Purple and Gold, we have given a Dramatic Club play with the Juniors, and then given our own class play. Toward the beginning of the year, we sponsored the program Salt and Peanuts , which turned out to be a complete success. As usual, the last three events of the year, and also the three most important ones, were the Junior-Senior Prom, given to us by the Juniors, Baccalaureate, and Commencement. The Baccalaureate address was given by the Rev. John Foster. Our Commencement address was delivered by David Keith Stewart, Assistant cashier of the Central National Bank of Cleveland. SENIOR PROPHECY Sept., 1957, Cincinnati, Ohio ell, I've just finished a very enjoyable trip to different parts of the United States. I suppose you're already wondering how I happened to take it. It all goes back to 1953 when I was 24. I married a wealthy manufacturer from Cincinnati. We were blessed with two fine children, bo'h boys. In our fourth year of marriage my husband suddenly died. That was last January. Last month I decided to take a trip and visit some of my old friends. I knew where only a few of them were but as it happened, I either saw or heard of all of them. I left my children with :y sister and started West, planning to go through Chicago.

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CLAES HISTORY As the year 1935 came rolling along, September saw a proup of ex- cited youngsters go tripping off to their first year of school. Of course half the fun was at recess, when we went outdoors to play games and swing. We rot our fine start under the supervision of Miss Tran, whom we also had for our second year. When second graders, we were almost as excited at the beginning of school as we had been the nrevious year, for instead of being in the old building, we were to be in a new and much improved school. At the end of the year, Mona White left us to live in Rittman. In our third year, we became Miss Adams' responsibility. It was then that we welcomed Margaret Ebeling, who joined us from Cleveland, and Richard Pudlich. The latter left at the end of the year along with Richard Sooy. With Miss Adams again for the following year, we had three additional members in the class: Marion Fill, Damon Hill, and Eugene Noah. The latter to whom we also said Good-by during the year. Our fifth and sixth years took us into Miss Knechtges' room where we had our first encounter with history and long division. Jimmy Reynolds joined our class at the beginning of the fifth grade and the following year, as we were preparing to go upstairs , Jerry Dillon joined us and we bid farewell to Marion and Damon Hill, who moved to La Grange. Seventh Grade 1 At last we were upstairs. It was wonderful to have a different teacher for each subject, and of course to be able to change class and have our own lockers was just as exciting. During our seventh and eighth grade years we welcomed Diane Totter, Eugene Smith, George Susak, and Ken Stokes and said Good-by to Jimmy Reynolds, Jerry Dillon, Diane and Ken. Freshmen! Now we were really in High School, and better still, we could pick out the subjects we wanted to take. When' school started we had one student from East Carlisle with us. He was Edward Kidney who vas here for only the ninth grade. This same year, first Stanley Koscinski and then Eugene Smith, dropped out of the class to join the Navy. Our Sophomore year, as most everyone else's, had the tendency of being a little bit dull. It seems as though we were preparing for the things we will be doing during the next two years. The two important events were the initiation party we gave the Freshmen, and the return party which they gave us in the form of a wiener roast in the park. We were happy to have Lenny Leininger join us this year ffom Belden, and we regretted having both George Susak and John Zacharias depart.

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I stayed there for a few days and on my last day there I went out to find a beauty shop. I saw the sign, Madame Bennett's Beauty Salon , went in, and found Janie Kazmerczak to be the owner. We had a very nice chat. She told me all about Jimmy and their two children. They named the children Edna and Bruce after tueir parents' two favorite teachers. Darlene Rader, much to my surprise was tneir nurse. Her husband is in England working as a foreign correspondent and she plans to join him there in a few months. After spending a very pleasant evening at the Bennett home, I continued'on my journey. As I got near Denver, Colorado I turned on the radio and who did I hear on a comedy program called The Blonde Bombshell but Dorey Jantz. Of course Dorey was tne star of the program. When I reached Denver, I went directly to her broadcasting studio to see her. After a lot of gossiping , Dorey told me that Dorothe Burke owned a Dude Ranch a few miles outside of Denver. So we went out to see her. She looked wonderful and certainly seemed to like the life on the ranch. Dorothe told me Justine Wedic had just finished an engagement at the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York, where she sang the leading role in the great opera CHLOE . I stayed at the ranch for almost a week and had a very nice time. Dorothe told me to be sure to call on Elizabeth Maple waen I got to the Coast. She said Elizabeth was a well-known Professor of Science at the University of California. When 1 got to San Erancisco, I went to Elizabeth's apartment and found that Elaine Shephard was staying tuere while giving a series of lectures or Current Events of t..e World. These are very popular as she. is widely known as an authority on international problems. Coming home I stopped at Las Vegas, Nevada to see if it were as wonderful as I'd heard. And wno should be running a large nite club colled JOHN'S PLACE but John Rozga. I was very pleased to find him there os it had been such a long time since I nad seen him. He was still without a wife. He said he’d been too busy working to'bother with girls but that didn't sound like the John Rozga I knew in High School. I asked Jonn if he'd kept in touch with Lee Trenchard, the returned veteran member of our class who joined uy. in the latter part of our Senior year. John told me, but I had a nard time believing it could be true. You see, Flora Schworer went to Art School in New York. As part of a recent publicitycampaigh she drew a picture of Hector-the-Inspector , a new comio-strip character, and there was a. contest to find out who looked most like him. Guess who that person was Lee Trenchard, of all people! Of course Lee won a large cash prize which he put into his Used Car business in Grafton. A few days later I got back in Ohio and decided that as long as I had seen most of my former olassmates I might as well go to Grafton to see the rest cf them. I knew Bill was managing the A P Store, so I wert there to see him. He looked very prosperous and happy, ard told me that he and hi? wife now have two cuildren, Jeannie and Willard, Jr. Th®n 1 went to see Dee Martin who is now the secretary of Mr. W. 0. Larson of the Larson Foundry. We never guessed the job she got there during her Senior h° ld .iead her ,into such a 8°od and responsible position. She told me she d had offers of important jobs in Cleveland, but preferred to stay close home among all her friends. sl,ay c-LOSe is Dee said she'd Just received a letter now happily . married and has four from the former Peggy Ebeling. Pea children. She is living in Arizona, where she went for her health. I returned to Cincinnati having, heard of every member of our class but Lenny Leininger. Much to my satisfaction I found a letter from Elizabeth wait- ing for me which told me all about Lenny. She wrote that Lenny and Mimi had bought a fishing camp up in Canada and were very happy, running a very profit- able business. Well, I'm afraid that's all I can tell you about our friends. I hope you've enjoyed hearing, about them. I certainly had a very wonderful trip, and I think the Class of 47 should have a reunion next summer, in orafton, oi course.