Kenton High School - Echo Yearbook (Kenton, OH)

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TOP ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Fred Barren. Stanley Corfinan, Duane Deardorff. SECOND ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: AnneDaniels, Lois Fitzpatrick, Mack F linn. THIRD ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Robert Gemme 11, Alvin Johnson, Carol Neal, Lois Norton. FOURTH ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Marcella Parrott, Robert Reid, Sally Wachalec, Robert Wil- leke (member at Dunkirk High School in 1950). Students tapped for N.H.S. are in the top-third of their class in scholastic standing and they have accepted responsibilities in the affairs of the school and the community. They are adjudged superior by their fellow scholars by the persons of the faculty, and so affirmed by the administration. The Chapter was instituted in K.H.S. in 1938. 22

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which tours the United States. Joe Edman is head cofcchof these fast-playing, quick-scoring cagers. Norman Turner, Dick Zeigler, and Neal Lowe are prosperous farmers. Their greatest am- bition is to out-do one another in hog-calling; which no one has been successful in doing yet. Sally Streak Wachalec has just won first place in the Women's Grand National Jet- propelled Automobile Race. Arnold Smith has opened a huge servi-center station for both rocket ships and atomic cars. Business is rushing (right past the door.) I hear that men are getting scarcer, and it must be true. I just met Jessie Ward, Kenton's new police force. Gary Bill Stern Sams, being interested in sports, is now a prominent sports commentator. His favorite annual football struggle is the one between Jumbo Tech, and Pfeiffer Station. Kenneth Weaver is now operating an Atomic taxi service. I wonder if he still uses the old Phantom Stagecoach ?? It seems there is a new sorority in town of which Marcella Parrott is the president. It is called the Eata, Gabba, and Gossipa. Basil Ward, former Kenton boy, is now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. When asked to comment on his opinion of socialized medicine, he remarked, I don't understand why medicine needs society. Dean Zuchetto is actively participating in a World series. It's the Yanks versus the Reds. Dean, of course, is for the Yanks. Marilyn Montgomery is now the head of a chain of five-and-ten-cent stores which feature everything from baby buggies to kitchen sinks. Owen Leigh is now the owner of a self-service beauty salon. You just walk in and douse your head with hair dyes, bleaches, etc. For an extra dollar he will demonstrate each one personally. One of the Alumni of K.H.S., Reed Armen- trout, is one of the nation's leading artists and is now abroad painting for the royal families of Europe. Lois Norton, who is sponsored by that wonderful new product called soap , is now a popular television entertainer. Margaret Comer is her head gown designer and accompanist. Buddy Collins, former student of K.H.S., is now traveling throughout the country selling laboratory chemicals. This seems like a rather explosive job. Bob Cooper, once head drum major at the Alma Mater, is now stepping high and wide at Ohio State University. Compliments of THE NEWS AND REPUBLICAN We watched the Echo grow Stanley Corfman is now designing the latest fashions for Paris. That lucky mani I I hear that Ohio Northern University has added to its faculty staff Bob Reid, who will teach Philosophy. (Those poor students.) Elizabeth Guttenburg is now the secretary to the President of the United States. She makes $12,000,000dollars a year. (Inflation, you know.) Bert Howard and Bob Styer are now officiating at inter-scholastic basketball and football games. According to the fans the two robbers deserve the stripes they wear. David James is now the director of a large choir. Among his better singers are Bill Crosby Myers, James Sinatra Houghton and Kathleen Kate Smith Manlick. Bob Willeke is now pitching hand grenades for the armed forces. His baseball ability comes in handy for this job. Florence Bidwell, formerly an outstanding student in bookkeeping, is now having difficulty in balancing her checking account. She always wonders why they are marked insufficient funds. She thinks that if the bank doesn't have enough money to make it good, they shouldn't be opened to the public. Paul Grode and Ollie Stephens are touring the country as census takers. One way of meeting girls. (Now they have an excuse.) Thus the prophecy of the tree of time was completed. Bert Howard Bob Cummings 21

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Friends, Romans and Countrymen, lend me your ears. We are here not to condemn our class, but to praise it. Four (not four score) years ago, we ascended the steps of Ye Olde High Schoole with high spirits, not knowing what fate awaited us beyond the beckoning door. As we passed into the inner sanctum (front hall) some of the more enterprising members of the senior class tried to sell us season tickets to the elevator at a discount of fifty cents; if we also bought tickets to get into our home rooms (back hall, up stairs), they offered to give us a discount of one doliari ! But you've heard the old saying, you can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. We knew there wasn't an elevator in the school. During the next fortnight, we, the Rupubli- crats, were busy campaigning for our officers. We managed to get ourselves in debt right off the bat because we had to borrow the fabulous sum of $.02 from the office for the purpose of paying off the various debts incurred through campaigning. We finally managed, by hook or by crook, to get Russell Blue elected president, Anne Daniels vice-president, and C. C. Dick secretary-treasurer. Elections over with, we settled down to two weeks of intense study, but since all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, we decided to have a straw ride which began with a ceremonial bonfire at Chief Milk-in-the-Pail's Farm (Daniel's dairy farm). As the fire died down into embers, we all departed to our wigwams to scrub off the war paint. During the next few months, we were busy going to ball games. Three of the freshman girls (Lois Norton, Winnie Katterheinrich, and Lois Fitzpatrick) were elected reserve cheerleaders. Therefore, we had to yell mighty loud to show our school spirit. Last, but not least, in our young lives was the Sadie Hawkins Dance. Since we were the babies of the school, this was about the only dance which we were allowed to attend. There were many Daisy Mae's who shyly drug their Li I' Abners in with a rope. Sho'nuff the big gym looked like that thar buddin' city of Dogpatch. After a rolicking time at the dance, we were about due for our summer vacation—so we took it! 11 With a very eventful summer behind us, we returned to school under the leadership of President Alvin Johnson, Vice-President Margaret Comer, and Secretary, Gene Pifer. As Sophomores, we were the wise ones; we found our that classes actually were held. This was an unforgettable year for most of the students of K.H.S. Our football team won the Western Buckeye League Championship with the unbelievable record of nine wins, no losses and no ties (9-0-0). It was quite an honor to our class to have Gene Pifer, Gene Osbun, Chuck Smith, Fred Barrett, Dick Jones, and Duane Deardorff on the team and Leonard Gossard as one of the managers. This was the year that the music department presented the operetta Naughty Marietta under the direction of Mrs. Mills. Our class did all right in this field too, for outof thirteen principals, six were sophomores: Roberta Kinsey, Winnie Katterheinrich, Owen Leigh, Gov. Robert Gemmell, Ah-da Lois Fitzpatrick, and our own funny man, Fred Barrett. The Homecoming game was one of the high spots of the season. Pat Fox was the queen that year, and Margaret Comer was our first class member to become an attendant. Fore! Everybody duck! Here comes our newly organized golf team swinging woods and irons. The golf team was under the sponsorship of Mr. Rompers Griffith. Robert Gemmell, Mack FI inn and Mary Lou Breidenbach all won their letters in this sport. This was the year that we were allowed to join clubs. Girls joined the F.H.A. and the Y- teens. The boys joined the F.F.A. and the Hi-Y. The lucky boys from our class qualified to join the Varsity-K were Fred Barrett, Gene Osbun, Gene Pifer, Dick Sharp and Chuck Smith. Again we were due for another vacation; but before we knew it, our vacation had come and gone and we had returned as lower-upper classmen. It was nice to know that we didn't have to be afraid of every turn of the hall anymore. We were now coming to the more serious portions of our high school career. We took this into consideration when we elected Duane Dear- dorff, Mack Flinn, and Robert Gemmell as our class officers. Compliments of STURGIS MARKET Meats, Groceries Vegetables 23