Kunkle High School - Echo Yearbook (Kunkle, OH)

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Home catazq Today we the Seniors of 1956 have reached the goal toward which we have strived for twelve years GRADUATION DAY In the fall of 1945 sixteen brave children started their first year of scnool at Kunkle They were Edwin Wyrick Richard Traxler Colleen Stark Joanne Eberly Gale Landon David Surbey Nelson Rupp LeRoy Stantz Eva Barrett Pauline Kosier Nellie Leskow Arthur Stantz Mannette Stambaugh MaDonna Steffes Jo Ann Theobald and Shirley McIntosh Our teachers through the first eight grades were Mrs Stauffer for lst and Znd Mrs Stipe 3rd and 4th Mrs Oberlin 5th Miss Dury 6th Mr Gilcher 7th and Mr Schie home room teacher for the 8th grade We had other teachers that year In 1952 our Junior High Basketball team won the county tournament Boys playing on this team from our class were George Sitek Hal Whetro Ronnle Hennamen David Hamilton James Ball and Donald Baker Our coach was Mr Clyde Schie In 1953 twenty Freshmen entered the high school not knowing what was expected of them but willing to do their best We were initiated by the Sophomore Class Having survived that we felt as though we were really part of dear old K H S Our advisor was Mrs Anderson and the superintendent Mr Cornell During our Sophomore year we initiated the Freshmen Our business ventures were selling home made candy clothes hangers and ordering our class rings Our advisor was Mrs All1on and Mr Wichmanowski was superintendent also discovered our abilities in dramatics when we presented the Junior play This Ghost Business Our director was Mr Kolar who was also our class advisor Our biggest project of the year was the planning of the Junior Senior Banquet We finally arrived at the last year of high school last fall as Sen1ors We sold magazine subscriptions sponsored bake sales skating parties a box social and the Third Annual Mother and Daughter Banquet We have achieved compiling the year book of 1956 and had our part with the school paper The Echo The Senior Play Those Funny Brats was our last attempt in dra matics and the most successful We wish to thank Mrs Henry Kunkle for her untiring efforts as director of this comedy On April 29th we left on our Senior Trip visiting Washington D C New York City and Niagara Falls Our chaperones were Mrs All1on and Mrs Clayton Moore We the Senior Class of 56 wish to thank the people who helped make this trip possible Those of us who have been together for the twelve years are David Surbey Edwin Wyr1ck Colleen Stark Joanne Eberly Nellie Leskow MaDonna Steffes and Jo Ann Theobald During these years in school our teachers have worked with us en deavoring to help us meet the problems that will confront us with an education both in class and out and I m sure that in the future we'll re call much of this help and find use for many bits of knowledge gamed here atKHS 13 I i ' H rv ' . ' - , . . . , . , 9 9 9 D D 7 3 3 3 1 ! ! ! . . , . I ' 3 ' 9 D . , . . . . : . , , ! I 3 ' . , . , . ' D . , . . . - , , . ln our Junior year we were thrilled by receiving our class rings. We V' ' ' ll ' , . . . . . , . 3 3 1 ll Il , . ' ll vs ' - D 2 . . . , . . . . ' I , , . . . , . ! I . . D D 2 . 7 , . . . l . . . , . . . , . - I

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S1gr1d Mar1elu1se Hoboy SIGRID HOBOY OUR GERMAN EXCHANGE STUDENT BECOMES FIRST HONORARY GRADUATE OF KUNKLE HIGH SCHOOL GERMAN EXCHANGE STUDENT I am a German Exchange Student and ome from the La wh1ch 1S 1n s a teacher 1n about 30 m1les I found an advert1sement of the exchange m the dally news and wrote my appl1cat1on to the Amer1can Consulate General 1n Mu n1ch I took a couple exam1nat1ons and had to get passport v1sa and many other papers In the last part of June I was pos1t1vely sure that I was one of the few who were chosen to the n1ce tr1p 1n July to the Umted States a dream got fulf1lled Then I got a letter from my host parents and Sunday July 17 1955 I left my home for one year I was golng on a ra1lroad to Bremen and July 19 157 Exchange Students left Germany w1th the M S Seven Seas We were 1n LeHarve France and Southhamp northern provmce of Bavar Southern Germany My father Bachhausen a l1ttle v1llage south of Nuremberg but I was not seas1ck After 11 days on the sh1p we were 1n Quebec one day and we ar r1ved Montreal on July 30 There we made a c1ty tour and 1n the n1ght we were on the ra1l road to Baltlmore I was for a few days 1n New W1ndsor fMaryland On August 3 I left Balt1more aga1n and was gomg alone one n1ght on the tra1n to Def1ance There were my host parents Mr and Mrs Henry Kunkle and then we were goxng to Kunkle I enjoyed my stay here at Kunkle very much and I want to thank the members of the Faculty the School Board the Students and the Commun1ty for the pleasant t1me I had fnfsrjwrv One of S1g1's spec1al opportu Slgl who celebrated her seven n1t1es was to travel w1th the Sen1ors teenth b1rthday wh1le w1th us has on thelr tr1p to Wash1ngton, D C our every good w1sh for a success New York and Nxagara Falls. Here ful and happy l1fe. she IS on the roof of the Congress1on The Kunkle, Oh1o, Commun1ty al Hotel ln v1ew of the Cap1tol w1th Joanne Eberly and Delores Hugg. -.fp J I 1 . 9 D 9 . ' , uv X 0 n ' K I - ' ton QEnglandj. One day we had a big storm.

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On May 30th the Kunkle Sen1or Class of 56 met at Heartbreak Hotel Nash v1lle Tennessee We all wore our blue suede shoes As we were eat1ng lunch each of us told of our adventures and what had happened to us dur1ng the past ten years JoAnn Theobald told us that she 15 now a sk1n d1ver We had all heard her escapes She tours the world search1ng for the second greatest sex men Hal Whetro 13 now play1ng profess1onal baseball for the Detro1t T1gers Be cause of h1s loyalty to the Cleveland Ind1ans he has been benched most of th1s season We pred1ct that Hal w1ll be voted the most valuable player 1n the Amer1can League June Carter has become a famous ha1r styl1st her most famous customer 1S Mam1e E1senhower Her latest ha1r des1gn 15 the Monkey Cut We were all d1sappo1nted that James Ball was unable to attend th1S reun1on Hal told us that he was attendmg the Tall Men of Amer1ca's Convent1on Th1s convent1on was held 1n Dallas Texas We pred1ct he Wlll cont1nue grow1ng Joanne Eberly Just returned from Europe where she went on a tour wh1le v1s1t1ng Slgrld Hoboy She Sald she 1ntended to go back to V1S1llO'!1C of those Frenchy French men Dw1ght S1ckm1ller recently rece1ved the Tr1ple Crown by w1nn1ng the Ken tucky Derby P1ml1nco Preakness and the Belmont Stakes w1th h1S dar1ng horse Apache We are pred1ct1ng great th1ngs for Dw1ght and h1s horse Apache Nell1e Leskow 13 a famous woman Jockey She rode Apache 1n the Ken tucky Derby We pred1ct that her w1nn1ng days are Just beg1nn1ng Larry Beaverson's fans recently nom1nated h1m as the most hep 31tter Colleen Stark was so thr1lled w1th the performance of the Rockettes 1n New York C1ty that she has Jo1ned them We pred1ct that she Wlll out dance Sally Rand DaV1d Surbey 13 bu1ld1ng a new car called the 'Surbey Spec1al Speeder and w1ll enter lt 1n the 500 m1le Ind1anapol1s race We pred1ct a w1nner for Dav1d Surbey Charlotte M1ller has entered Cal1forn1a's Hot Rod Powder Puff Derby She 15 dr1v1ng Surbey's latest SpeC1al speeder Edw1n Wyr1ck 15 Larry Beaverson's press agent and recently returned from Monacco where he photographed Grace Kelly and PTIHCC Ran1er's new tw1n boys Slgl Hoboy returned to the Un1ted States 1n 1959 She met a dash1ng sa1lor on the boat and fell IH love w1th h1m but forgot h1m when she saw a Mar1ne stand1ng at the dock Dav1d Dossett IS capta1n of the Joey Clutwood Daredev1ls R1ght now he 1S recover1ng from 1n3ur1es that occured 1n Hollywood He was dr1v1ng along saw Mar1lyn and fa1led the make the curve Donna Steffes be1ng the bra1ns of th1S class has developed lots of new holds 1n the Wrestl1ng profess1on We pred1ct she w1ll w1n the Most Popular Wrestlers Award by men fans Donald Baker rece1ved h1s degrees from Tr1 State He has been stat1oned 1n Afr1ca bu1ld1ng drag str1ps for the nat1ves Dor1s Gorsuch 15 now 1n Afr1ca test1ng the drag str1p Don has recently com pleted We pred1ct that she w1ll f1nd a red headed nat1ve boy that she Wlll C1V1l1ZE Delores Hugg 1S now the most talked about C1garette g1rl 1n New York C1ty On the Slde she takes scandal p1ctureS Dear Mrs All1on just returned from ElV1S Pressley's Funeral Poor lady she was the one that stepped on h1s blue suede shoes . , , - ' , . c 1. 'D . n 1 . 6 J' - n I vu K D a I . - . bugger of the year. We predict that he will be as popular as Elvis Pressly.