Grafton High School - Graftonian Yearbook (Grafton, OH)

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At the close of the school year we said ‘Good-bye’ to Pat Spanski and Sam McGrew. Now, as Seniors, we are all surprised and happy to see that we have finally reached this goal. We look back over the years and see the brighter side of most of the incidents, that at the time were em- barrassing. The pleasure of working on the Purple and Gold for pub- lication, the dances that we held in the gym, the work on the annual was also fun. We had our individual pictures taken at Indicott’s in Elyria. The Dramatic Club play, A Credit to the Family”, directed by Mrs. Finlayson, and the Senior Class play, 'Something Old, Something New”,again directed by Mrs. Finlayson, were among our last activities. The three most important events of our last year were the Junior and Senior Prom, Baccalaureate, and the most important of all, Com- mencement Day. It was there, that we said our last ‘Good-bye’s’ to the teachers and our classmates. Remembering all of the fun and hard- ships that we have been through together in the past twelve years, and appreciating the foundation for better living which we have been helped to lay, we shall always strive for perfection. Shortly after graduation we were married. Fifteen years passed, my husband was promoted to be an executive with The Larson Foundry Company. Because my husband had to go to the West Coast on a business trip we decided to combine business and pleasure. As we were passing through Sidney, Ohio, we noticed Albaugh’s Meat Market was having a grand opening, so we stopped. As we entered the store Phyllis rushed up to greet us. After we had talked for a while we learned that she is happily married and has a nice home and two darling children. From Sidney we went down to LaGrange, Georgia, where we heard Florence Hudson is living with her husband and four sons on a huge cotton plantation. She looked quite happy and she told us that she and her husband were doing well. We may add she was quite happy to see us. When we arrived at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to stay a few days in the Capital City, we heard that one of my old classmates, Jim Anderson, has a large and thriving plumbing business. We were quite anxious to see Jim so we looked up his address in the phone book. When we ar- rived at the address we saw a beautiful store. We went in and asked for Jim. We were taken to his office which was very luxurious. Jim was very happy to see us. He told us that he has this office in the winter and in the summer he had another one in Cleveland. He said he has a lovely home and likes Baton Rouge. After a few days of site seeing we left for Sweetwater, Texas, where, Jim said, Jo Boise owns a ‘‘Dude Ranch.” When we arrived Jo asked us to be her guests. We gladly accepted her gracious invitation. She has a lovely place. We enjoyed our stay so much, for everyday there was something new to see and do. Our time was getting short and we had to leave. Jo was glad to see us and asked us to come again next year. Our next stop was Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Ken had some bus- iness matters to attend to. While we were there we attended a lecture on Pre Historic Man. To our surprise Dr. William Ward Knechtges was the main speaker. After the lecture we congratulated Ward on his mag- nificent address. He was quite pleased to see us, as we were, him.

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(Mass Jlistorg As the day approached for us to start to school, our Mothers willingly accompanied us to the new building, which was located at the end of Mechanic Street. Miss Tran had the trouble of teaching us the Three R’g’. During the second grade, we still gave Miss Tran nothing but trouble, but after a few months of this, she finally got used to us. This year Emery Strah withdrew from our class. In our third year, Miss Adams took the responsibility off Miss Tran’s shoulders. She taught us how to tell time and all the multi- plication tables, which were hard to understand at the time. This year we were pleased to add to our class John Reynolds and Ethel Curley. As we passed into the fourth grade, Miss Adams again was our teacher. This year Darrell Hill and Raymond Kemp entered our class. For the fifth and sixth grades we went into another room. Now, we had Miss Knechtges for our teacher. We welcomed Dorothy Drachen- berg, Thomas Blackburn, and Kathleen Totter. We said Goodbye” to Ruth Scholl, and Devona Myers, who moved to Birmingham and Ridgeville respectively, and to Darrell Hill, Raymond Kemp and at the end of the year to Kathleen Totter. Seventh grade found us kids all excited because of the fact, that we were upstairs and had the use of the lockers. We said ‘Good- bye” to Ethel Curley, and said Hello” to Theron Snyder and Joyce Butdorf. The eighth grade found us still not used to being upstairs, but gradually we got over it. During the course of the year, Joyce Butdorf entertained the class with several parties. At the close of the year we said Farewell”to the Bolte twins, Gertrude and Betty. Tom Blackburn also left us to attend St. Ignatius in Cleveland. The Freshman year found us electing class officers and discus- sing ways to make money for our class, Miss Miller was our advisor. The initiation party that was given us by the Sophomores caused much fun and to most of us embarrassment. We welcomed into our class Myron Grott, while Joyce Butdorf moved to Seville, Ohio. We gave the Sophomores a return party, for the initiation, in form of aweiner roast at Willow Park. The Sophomore year wasn’t so full of exciting things to do. We did select or class rings, and gave a playlet for an assembly program. This year Dick Porter and Sam McGrew came to our class. Dick came to us from LaGrange, and Sam came to us from Shawnee, Ohio. When we entered the eleventh grade we encountered many new activ- ities. The selling of pop and popcorn at all of our home basketball and football games kept us busy. Our dances and skating parties added to the enjoyment of us Juniors as well as our schoolmates. Then, our classplay, ‘Damsels in Distress”, which was directed by Mrs. Finlayson , was produced. Finally came our prize activity, the Junior and Senior Prom, which was held in our auditorium. The auditorium was decorated in such a fashion that it took rolls and rolls of crepe paper and many packages of straight pins. We mention these because of the great scarcity of that much needed commodity, not mentioning all the work and worry for the Juniors. The theme was “ Starlight Frolic”. The gym was divided into two parts, one was for the dining room and the other for dancing. They were made by aqua colored crepe paper for the walls and ceiling, with silver stars sprinkled here and there. Over the dance band was a Big Dipper made of our silvered stars. Our class, with Mrs. Finlayson, spent many hours during the evenings be- fore the Prom in preparation. Our own mothers prepared the delicious banquet. The Prom was held on May 17th, and was greatly appreciated and en- joyed by the Seniors and faculty, who were our guests for the evening. Music was presented for our pleasure by Henry Dolomore’s orchestra.

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After several days with Ward, the great scientist, we left for Hollywood to tour some of the motion picture studios. As we were going through ‘Twentieth Century Wolf, I spotted one of my old classmates, Dick Porter. Dick was doing well and was very glad to see us. He was doing a picture with Jeanne Crain. Dick told us that Theron was in Santa Barbara playing in a band. He told us that he would take us to see Theron, so the three of us motored there in Dick’s Rolls Royce. Theron has a band in one of the night clubs there,--‘The Blue Derby.” Just as we went in, the band was playing its last number. Theron spotted us and dedicated it to us. After the number he rushed over to see us. Theron is doing well and is soon to leave for New York. After a long talk we said ‘Goodbye and left for Reno, Nevada, where we knew Myron Grott was living. As we drove up to Myron’s home we exclaimed over the lovely place he has. Myron is married and has one son. He is a lawyer in Reno and is handling a lot of the movie stars divorce cases. Myron was quite happy to see us. We stayed and had a long visit. We finally bade farewell and left Nevada. Our Next stop was Helena, Montana, where we found Dorothy Konczal employed as a private secretary to a criminal lawyer. Dorothy told us that, much to her delight, she is going to leave for New York where she will join a Mr. and Mrs. Douglas and accompany them on a world-wide tour. She will join them to be a secretary to Mr. Douglas and a companion to Mrs. Douglas. Feeling quite happy over Dorothy’s good fortune we left for Des Moines, Iowa. After reaching Iowa, and glancing through a morning paper, I not- iced that the Harmony House,” a beauty parlor was having a reopening after being remodeled. I also noticed that the owners were no other than two of my old classmates Dorothy Drachenberg and Joyce Kazmerczak. I took this opportunity to see them. Both are doing well and enjoy their work very much. They told me that Ruth Hitchcock and her husband were living in Wisconsin, near Racine. Their immense dairy farm is a model for the Co-operative of Wisconsin. Our next stop was that very city in Wisconsin, so, needless to say, we visited Ruth. The farm was one of the largest we had ever seen, everything was ultra-modern and her home was very beautiful. Hiey told us, that they supplied the milk for a nearby cheese factory. We had to cut our visit short because we had overstayed our time as it was. How- ever we didn’t feel badly because we had renewed the friendship of all my old classmates of good old G. H. S. No matter how good it is to travel it is always good to get home. I hope you have all enjoyed hearing about our classmates and I hope the ‘Class of 48” will have a reunion next year. And I hope it will be in Grafton, too. James Anderson Josephine Boise Dorothy Drachenberg Myron Grott Ruth Hitchcock Joyce Kaczmierczak Dorothy Konczal Ward Knechtges Nelda Lawson Dick Porter TTieron Snyder Florence Stanislawski Fbyllis Vodarski WANTS to BE Plumber College Graduate Beautician Lawyer Co-ed Manicurist Secretary College Graduate Dancer Actor Composer of Music Housewife Housewife Owner of Ruder Hardware Sales Clerk Employee at Valerius’ Olympic Swimmer Nurse Housewife Career Girl Violinist Housewife Owner of Furniture Store Leader of Jazz Band Mother of Twins Housewife WILL BE