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Senior Class Will — 1954 We, the Senior Class of 1954 of Kingsville High School, being of sound mind, do hereby give, bequeath, and devise the following: 1, Carol Reed, will my ability to make mistakes in the office to Mary Jo Loesch. May you overcome them. I, Raymond Reed, will my secret of growing to James Edixon. I hope it does as much for you as it did to me. I, Keith Carlson, will my absence excuses in gross lots to my brother William. You’ll need them. I, Edward Weaver, will my tardiness to anyone who doesn’t like to get up. I, Robert Ball, will my curly hair to Victor Tiscenko. If you come around sometime. I’ll show you how to put it up each night. I, John Oren, will my superior skill as a big game hunter to Burton Bartram. I ll lend you my instruction book, “How to Catch Elephants in Ten Easy Lessons.’ I, Jon Manwaring, will my unanswerable questions and ability to read the dictionary to James Risley. I hope it brings you more help than it did me. I, Ronald Hanson, will my special laugh to anyone who would like it, but please take good care of it. I, Patricia Fandrich, will my devotion to Kent State University to anyone who has an interest down there. I, Loretta Sowry, will my interest in chemistry to Leroy Campbell, but don’t blow up the laboratory. I, Joanne Bancroft, will my eagerness to get out of work, especially short- hand, to Nancy Carter. I hope you succeed more than I did. I, Joe Brown, will my accidents to anyone who doesn’t watch where he is go- ing. I, Marleah Thompson, will my ability to dance on bridges at midnight to John- ette Eaken. May you have as much fun as I did. I, Charlotte Rushton, will my parking place in Tinkers Hollow to anyone who would like to know how it feels to be caught by the sheriff. I, Rosa Magons, will my mistakes in typing to Wilma Louden. I hope you have a good eraser. I, Margaret Church, will my quiet ways to Richard Mandrake. They may help you if you use them. I, Claudeen Slater, will my small waist line to Annabell L’Amoreaux. I can give you a few simple exercises. I, Emilie Kubichek, will my ability to do several things at once to Ruth Simak. You’ll need it next year, Ruth. I, Bernice Shank, will all my boyfriends to Carol Carle. Please take good care of them. We, the Senior Class of 1954, will our enjoyment of Macbeth to the junior class. May you have as much fun with it as we had. In witness whereof, we, the Senior Class, have set our hand and seal hereto this first day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifty- four (1954). (SEAL) THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1954. Senior Letters From Long Ago When the graduating class of 1954 was in the third grade, Mrs. Emily Miller presented our room with an American flag. Mrs. Keller, our teacher, then told us to each write Mrs. Miller a letter expressing our thanks. Following are some letters which were written by members of the senior class. They are printed as they were written. ★ ★ ★ Kingsville, Ohio March 14, 1945 Dear Mrs. Miller, We thank you for your flag you sent us. We love the flag. Your friend, JO ANN BANCROFT ★ ★ ★ Dear Mrs. Miller, Thank you very much for the flag. We all like it a lots. Every morning we say the Pledge. When we say it we look at the flag you gave us. Mrs. Keller put it at the back of the room. It looks pretty there. Your friend, EMILIE JEAN KUBICHEK
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She always was good at playing Cupid anyway, and now she is known from coast to coast as “ Cupid. ’ Even in all her fame, Bernice lives in a little shed out in the edge of the woods. We think she has some money hidden away somewhere in it, but she denies it very strongly. Even yet, she might meet some nice millionaire who will marry her and take her away from all this. Bernice tells us that John Oren is now a coal miner in Pennsylvania. Remember how John was the only one in the class who wanted 15 children. Well, it just so happens that John still is a bachelor. It seems that every time he got serious over a girl, she found out how many children he would like to have and that settled that. His main excuse, though, for not getting married is that he just simply can’t afford it. John is one of the lucky miners be- cause he has a mule to help pull his cart and, of course, that is a lot of help. We leave Bernice and as we go on we see a sign which reads, Dead End Funeral Home—Tinker’s Hollow—Come in and make yourself comfortable—Co- Managers, Emilie and Kamdes—Telephone T-H-000.” We decide to go and see if this is our old pal. We rent a jet car and we are on our way. In a few minutes we arrive, and before we even finish ringing the doorbell, someone opens the door and says, “Come in and make yourselves comfortable. Such wonderful service. We ask to see Emilie and just then she walks through the door. Sure enough, it is our pal Emilie Jean Kubichek. She invites us into her home and we accept gladly. She lives in the back of the funeral home. We ask her if it doesn’t bother her sleep- ing there when there are corpses in the other room. She says, Oh, no, it isn’t the dead people that hurt you. They are sometimes safer than the living.” Her house is dark and damp and, believe us, very spooky. She asks us to stay overnight, but we politely make an excuse. Because night is approaching, we stay only a short while, but while we are there, she tells us that Bob Ball is now acting as Judge of the Dog Shows at the fairs around. She says he enjoys his work very much and has been working at this for ten years. He has only been bitten once. It seems he told a German Police Dog to heel and instead he barked once and simply chased Bob out of the ring. He bit him as he was going over the fence and since that time. Bob leaves the German Police dog judging to the other judges. He just doesn’t trust those dogs, and we can’t blame him either. After all, that could be very embarrass- ing. Before we leave Emilie, she gives us a calling card and tells us to come around again some time when we could stay longer. We wonder if she means on business. We leave Emilie and go back to Kingsville. After depositing the car and leaving the garage, we run into Margaret Church who is now on vacation from her job as a model in New York. She models fur coats in the summer and bathing suits in the winter. What a life. She tells us it is a lot of hard work but she enjoys every minute of it. She gets as high as $400 a week and still she says that she is broke all of the time. We ask her if she ever married, and she tells us that she has been married four times and is thinking about getting married again. That is, if her last husband will let her. You see, her hus- bands think that she spends too much money on her clothes and she naturally dis- agrees. After all, if she earns the money, why can’t she spend it as she pleases. Margaret tells us that she got a letter from Loretta Sowry the other day. Loretta is a private nurse for the Ambassador to Algeria. Loretta is there now, but since the Ambassador is never ill, she spends her time seeing the country or staying in her hotel room working on her hobby which is mounting foreign butterflies on a plaque. She is going to save the plaque to show to her great grandchildren if she ever has any. We say “So long” to Margaret and go into a restaurant. Keith Carlson and Ronnie Hanson are eating lunch and we join them to find out what has happened to them since school days. Keith is now the head salesman for the Fuller Brush Com- pany. That company has really expanded since 1954 and it’s a good job. Keith has a nice family and lives on Wright Street in the same house he lived in in his younger days. Every night Keith can be seen in his backyard teaching his children to throw a baseball. He is trying to make major leaguers out of them. (Keith’s own ambi- tion). Ronnie is also very successful in business. He owns and operates a fish mar- ket in Kelloggsville. Naturally Ronnie is married and has a family. You’d never guess that Ronnie’s hobby is, designing women’s hats! His wife is the best-dressed woman around—it is all due to her husband’s good taste and originality. Ronnie and Keith are working on a project of starting a gymnasium to train boys to play basketball and other indoor sports. This is a very worth-while project and we wish them luck in it. We find out from the boys that Marleah Thompson and Charlotte Rushton are now working for the Navy Secret Service Department. They say that they like their jobs very well. Who wouldn’t like being around all those sailors! It must be very interesting to know what the Navy is going to do next. Certainly the Class of 1954 has come a long way in 25 years. I wonder what they would have done if they had known then what they were going to be doing now. Good question!
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