Jackson Township School - Saxmuri Yearbook (Roanoke, IN)

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he ' s been doing the town lately with many and varied young ladies. They say he dates a different girl every night. Can this be our George, the woman hater? Everyone remembers our friend, James Caston. We find him on a busy street corner in Chicago orating from a soap-box and shouting his convictions to the high heavens. He pauses, whistles at a passing blonde, and casts a longing look at a tavern across the street. This touching scene brings back fond memories of Government class. William G. Winchester, the member of our class who has fully realized his ambition, is now editor of the Chicago Sun, Chicago Times, and the New York Times. He is kept busy flitting between New York and Chicago in his jet propelled plane. Willy just can ' t slow down; he ' s always getting arrested for jet propelling over the limit. Oh yes, Willy owns a factory that does nothing but produce super jet propelled planes for his own private use. They just don ' t make them fast enough for Willy. He also imports his own private brand of cigars. It ' s expensive, but he says its worth it to get a good cigar. Huh, Willy? Betty Lou Pratt, known at the present as the Gay Divorcee, has established permanent residence in Reno, Nevada. We all thought Betty Lou would settle down with Floyd, but we have been given quite a surprise. Shortly after her marriage to Floyd, she secured a divorce; and since then it has been a continous stream of marriages and divorces for her. Betty Lou says she enjoys the social life of Reno, but she ' s been in- quiring about the now-prominent editor William G. Winchester. Could this mean shp wants to settle down? Morris Striggle, now known as Maurice Van Strigglebottom, holds a prominent posi- tion on the New York stage. Maurice is the current Broadway play boy. Starring in various theatrical circles as the Sheik, Maurice, once the bashful, barefoot boy, is turning the head of many young gals these days, that is, when he has time. Rehearsals and press conferences take up much of his time. Bill Schnepp has given us all a shock. He is now the conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. It seems he took a sudden interest in music after his graduation and secured his position after appearing on Do you want to lead a band? He ' s wild about his career and says nothing will stand in his way. But we hear that every now and then he sneaks off to a farm and broods over his lost past. Mr. and Mrs. Jeanette Johnson are farming a small tract of Ashley ' s land along the Wabash River. Whops! Jeanette just pulled in a huge fish — a sucker, to be exact. They sell the fish that she catches to a fertilizer concern. Mr. Johnson, formerly Ralph Click, is quite the pampered husband. He was rather hesitant about making the plunge, and she wants to keep him, you know. During our short stop in Turkey, we inquired about Thomas Piatt and found his home just outside of Istanbul. No one should miss seeing that mass of re-heads in his harem. There ' s only one exception, and she ' s a blonde. He seems to like Turkey much better than the United States and expects to spend the remainder of his life there for ne reason or another. Gordon Jones has just returned home again to his large chicken farm. He made quite a long trip — in fact, all the way to California to bring his bride home. He recently married Gypsy Rose Lee. It is our opinion that she is in love with the jeep, not Gordon. She ' s right at home in the bouncing jeep. Gordon ' s seriously contemplating the build- ing of a factory for the manufacture of plastic bubbles. Gypsy doesn ' t like this at all. Miss Dora Dumbell which is the pen name of our old classmate, Donna Lee Redding, has started her journalistic career at the Allerton Hotel in Chicago. She is chief menu writer in the cafeteria there. It ' s been a long, hard pull up to her exalted position, but her newly-acquired dignity more than pays for the grueling work that it took. It is yet a secret, but she ' s planning an elopement with the head Chore Boy cleaner.

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Prophecy of the Class of 1948 In this year of our Lord, 1958, we submit a detailed report of the 1948 class of Roanoke High School. First in our survey we run across Margaret Ann Bachman. We find her residing in the halls of Huntington High School. She pitched a pup tent, and has spent all of her time there since her graduation from good old Roanoke. Margaret Ann says that she enjoys life in Huntington High School thoroughly, but that it is no consolation for her lost love. Joe, still a bachelor, is farming west of Roanoke. On the road to Mardenis we come to the lovely, little, white farm home of Mr. and Jerry Walter. Mrs. Walter, the former Jane Shideler, is kept busy herding the Jane and Jerry Juniors under her wing. Jane married Jerry shortly after Gerald ran away with a brunette chorus girl. Mr. Leonard Jack Dinius, the terror of our class, we find married to a 235-pound lady wrestler. This is one gal Jack isn ' t beating around. He has become very meek and mild, and he hands Mamma the pay envelope every Saturday night. By the way. Jack is ironing tea towels in a laundry for a living. Elizabeth Hine, now Mrs. Robert Schieber, is the owner and proprietor of a roadside restaurant, called The Chicken Shack. She and Bob are kept busy serving the public, as they have built up quite a thriving business. Liz really runs the place, but she lets Bob think he does. As we travel on we come to Miss Clara Jean Clark. Miss Clark, still a maiden, is president of an international correspondence club. Between her club meetings and her many and varied dates, Clara is kept quite busy. Miss Clark remained unmarried be- cause she was unable to decide between her many swains. Patricia Rea Kelsey is now residing in Chicago and still working on her first novel. She has been working on it since her graduation from Indiana University and Butler University. Pat has a small home under the elevated tracks so that she can absorb local color for her novel. It ' s going to be a best seller, if she ever gets beyond the first chapter. She keeps rereading it; she ' s fascinated by her own work! Professor George Pinney is teaching Agriculture at Purdue University. He made it through eight years of study with flying colors, and now is engaged to an able young home economics student at the university. David Stump is now employed as press agent for Jackie Van Meter, queen of the show, at the Fox Theatre in Indianapolis. Dave is not the boy he used to be. He enjoys his job immensely and hopes to make it his life-long career. Miss Nedra Pence, R. N., our angel of mercy, has finally become head nurse at a large dog and cat hospital, after being discharged from St. Joseph Hospital because of cruelty to patients. She denies that several disappointing love affairs with the interns had anything to do with her leaving the hospital, but who knows? She spends all hei spare time trying to track down the master of a poor, lost dog named Sorry. George Ness has become the owner and proprietor of a noted gambling establish- ment in Chicago, called the Glass Slipper. George remained a bachelor, but we hear

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t WN K § tand-0ns Junior Officers Doris Miller, Secretary- Treasurer ; Harry Swing, President ; Mr. Hinton, Sponsor ; Wayne Den- nis, Vice-President. B e V e i 1 y Cramer, Wayne Dennis, Clotene Heaston, Wilma HoUey. Morris Hoover, Del- mar Jackson, Allan Jones, Karlita Kline. Marilynn McFarren, Doris Miller, Marilyn Patten, Joyce Schmidt. Robert Shatzer, Keith Steele, Alan Stetzel, Harry Swing. Leah Warren, Rich- ard Weaver, Carolyn Wohlford. .,J