Hopewell High School - Memories Yearbook (Hopewell, OH)

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of muslc was even more heallng than her mlraculous power of nursxng I was about to pass on when Gertrude set her cordlon as1de to ask me 1f I had seen the famous parachute jumper, and world pzlot, perform She told me I must see th1s for the lnternatlon l hero1ne was Gertrude Kreager She told me, too, th t I must run out to the Hupp Tfalnlng schul for athletlcs, where Gale Rupp was reaplng a fortune through h1s ab1l1ty to traln anyone to become an ath1et1c success.As I was golng out the door Gertrude said, 'LI suppose you found Bob changed I stared at her till she added, 'You saw how Bob Porter changed d1dn't you? Vhen I Sald no that I hadn't seen Bob she took me by the h nd and led me to a special roon of the Hospltal and there lay Bob, laugh1ng uproariously t N1cke1ho1st Comlos in the funny paper edited by Charles Net telhorst And what a changed Bob he was too, years ago h had gone Nest for his health He had become a cowboy, and new he was SIX feet eight 1nches tall, welghed 260 pounds and was the heart ache of all the marr1ageable g1rls from ATIZODB to Montana Bob sa1d that he was happy After few moments he confessed that he st1ll had one unfulfllled ambit1on He hadn't yet seen Mlss Amerlca for 1965 'Who 18 the lucky girl? I asked Why Wilma Irvln he cried She has become more beaut1ful every year s1nce 1939, the year she 1n ented the famous Irvln Freckle Remover, and almost over n1ght became r1ch and beautlful her today though because she 18 tG111Dg the president about how slngle handed she captured twelve tough bandits while she was mlssionary to Mongol1a And then he added thought fully, Bob Wlnegardner sa1d yesterday that 1f he wasn't busy w1th h1s strlng of 20,000 Wlnegardner Jot'm Down Stores he would llke to talk to her awhlle, as he was thinking ser iously of selling off cart of his buslness so he could get t1me to marry and settle down I had to leave at l st hurr1ed1y for I h d just tlme to get to the studl of the Famous pa1nter Eileen Swinehart who was at that moment unveil1ng her masterplece, Perry's Vic tory South of Lake Er1e From there I 1mag1nod myself ,ggthe National Zoo, where the very 8ffiC16Ht superlntendent turned out to be the hand some senior of 1939 Fr6dGP1Ck Morehead He ad not changed a b1t, even though I d1d find him 1D the cage with the tame baboon which he was try1ng to each to sing Dear Old Hope- well H1gh I Love You I was a little em arrassed here though for when the guari adm1tted me to the cage, by mistake as I ' . . , ac- . O D I I O . . l . e I ' . . s 9- . . . , . O O H , ' 1 O I . V . A . . . Wands: Lee Wise is sack, He said suddenly. You can't see ' ' so Ai . . . . . . .. . .W 0 ' e . . ,E i L . ' . -

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learned later, I walked up and shook hands w1th the baboon and called lt dear old Freddle Walter Slmms who was with h1s National Strlng Band for a SIX months engagement 1n the Cap1tol stralghtened me out f th1s dlfflculty by oo1nt1ng out to me that the one I should have greeted wore a cap and the other on d1dn't Resolvlng to keep th1s clearly 1n mlnd I thanked alter and walked out to look at the statue of the famous h1gh gumoer to the mem ory Ben Ventworth, who wo lltCPDHt1OHBl renown for h1S fan ous hlgh jump last fall but who h d not yet come down At this moment ln my prophcslng, from the th1ngs that actually see, I turned to view the huge bu11ding before where I was stand1ng and I was much surprlsed to f1nd that a deep 1nscr1pt1on was there whlch read 'This 15 the State Hospital for tho Feeblo M1nded U For a whlle I paused serlous th ught but th1nk1ng that thls w uld not be the tlne to recall sad HOMOPICS, I d1dn't go 1D to see 1f env of the to good old 1939 Robert Dlek CLASS PROPHET CLASS POEM Long lt w1ll l1ve in our memories As down througd the years we recall Our days at dear old Hopewell mich we th1nk were the est of all Each fall we'd beg1n our studies And work harl the whole year through Wlth the cooocrstion of teachers Vho gulded the work we should do 'll always remewber the g od t1N6S e've had at Hopewell H1gh 1th our te chers and fellow students o bade us a sad goodbye We now dust IQCG the future Wha+ev r may be our f te Romemberln cur S0D10P Motto 'Honor L1es at Labor's Gate n Evelyn Snelllng . . . . 1 . . . 0 4 e Q . q li A' 1 . Y . x . A . . I l ' me I ' . ' in . is , . . . O .A faculty were at home, but quietly returned through the years I 1 '- ' 5 . - - C 1 - 0 17-:S . -1 V. . .. W V . q , 'Y' a o - Wh . 1. . ' rr N ' , ' o , . I