Lafayette Jackson High School - Golden Memories Yearbook (Lafayette, OH)

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To Mr. Hager, our sympathy for signing excuse blanks. To Mr. Packer, all our jokes'to tell future students. To Mr. Bixel, all thequietness that Bud Boop always presents. To Mr. Fellers, all our good looking nlrls. To Mr. Cox, all our talkativeness in study hall. To Mr. Kreglow, all our sleepless nights for your tests. To Mr. Yoakam, we leave the best of everjthin . To Miss Jump, all our ability to get our Englfsh and govern- ment asslgnments in on time. To Mrs. Mosher, all our poor excuses to get out of class. To Mrs. Cox, all our ways of sneaking up in the nchow-line.U To the Junior Class we leave the privilege of publishing the next annual. ' To the cooks we leave the task of keeping the 'seniors of 1948 good and healthy. - To the janltors, the seniors leave all the carved-up desks, chalk dust, erasers on the floor, gum on the seats, and any other dirt they can find. In Testimony Whereof, we have to this, our last willand testament subscribed our name and affixed our seal, the last day of school, in the year of our Lord, one thousand-nine hundred and forty-seven. Sighvdi .Mary Jane Ward Utcter.Brenaman Doris'Kinao6fe CLASS PROPHECY The year is 1930. Aboard a plane heading for the great HOrange Bowln in Miami, Florida is the greatest of all great football stars, the great half-back Bill Hall of the renown- ed Cleveland Browns. But wait! The motor sputters--and the plane starts to fall. Down! Down! Down into the stony Appa- lachian Mountains. Then the crash! And on the ground lays our hero--half-back B111 Hall., Immediately appears an Angel and the old horn-swaggled Satan, himself. These two unearthly creatures fall into an ungodly argument as to the status of the great Hall. To be above or to be below? That is thequestion. Finally,nmither Angel nor Satan making their point, they decide, after sug- gestions from our star half-back, to visit all the friends and earthly acquaintances that he had in his life before, Starting on our journey we find that even the super- natural beings crave to havoy their stomachs filled, so we visit a near-by store and who should we find but the prom- inent mcrchant and his wife, Theodore and Mary McCague, for- merly known as Miss Mary Sterling. n Having quenched our spiritual and physlcal'hungers, we ramble on to the city of New York where the great star of

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I, Joe Epp, will my luck of losing girls to Don Smith. Ve, Vic Brenemen and Vernon Adams will our drawing equipment to Norman Longmeier. I, Bill Hall, bequeath my position as class president to Cliff Driver. I, Viola Gause, will my diamond to Jeanette Skelly. . I, Dale Amstutz, will my ability to get a girl to Herb McElwain. I Alberta Amstutz, will my soprano voice to Joan Boyd. le, 'Libbyn Fisher and Charlene Hall, will our fun at the Blue Circle to Bill Bradford. , I, Jim Bassett, will my good looks to Joseph Sopher. A I, Elmer Bible, will my technique with the girls to Bob Maxwell. Ne, Esther Guthrieand Bud Earlywill our arguing ability to.Hobert Dearth. I, Betty Parks, bequeath my successful diet to Bernice Hullibarger. I, Naneta Ransbottom, will by typing ability to Dick Snith. I, Mertis Hackworth, will my quietness to Hilda Rumsey. I, Danny Reed, will my nSinatraH voice to Bud Golden. I, Nolan Younkman, will my studious mind to Bob Pinney. I, Harold Vermillion, will my ability to act to Dick Whitmore. ' I, Kenny Schick, bequeath my basketball ability to Russ Gossman, who is capable of making good use of it. II, Lela Joseph, will my pleasing figure to Mary Hill. I, Lois Werling, will my small stature to Rosalie Emer- iCks, , I I Ve, Ed Stpodt and Dick Phillips, will absolutelynothing to Paul Arthur. N I, Janet Stoner, will my ability to study to RuthYnowl- ton. . I, Mary Sterling, will my technique -with the boys to Eileen Morgan. He I, Frank Ruhlen, will my ability to milk -cows to Dick yes. I, Betty North, will my position as UEditor-In-Chiefu of the annual to Clara Dirmeyer. I, Jean Miller, will my neatness to Nola Condon. I, Phyllis Lutz, bequeath my ability to play the piano to Chuck Glancy. I, Cledith Long, will my trips to see' Jean to Bob Hun- saker. ' ' I, Doris Kiracofe, will my bashfulness to RosieBradford. I, Dick Kersker, will my ability to play football. to Jim Smith and Lloyd Littler.' ' I, Betty Fleming will my pleasant disposition to Maxine McNett. .' ' ' 1 We, the Senior, Class of 1947, bequeath to thaTbaohsrs of LaFayette-Jackson High School the following: ' ' To Mr. Badertscher, all our determined ways, about how .our class should be run. -

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tiful strains of stage and radio, Betty Rundio, is making ,her first ,preview in the wonderful new hit, UGone With aveqyuninggnr ' Finally, ob we journey on to outside a side- giving out with the V tainine her okay on the good deeds of Bill, that happy, frollcking Coney Island. Just show is the yuwfessional caller, Bud Boop, common showman's ability HHurry!ll Hurry!!! Hurry!!! See the great sword-swallowerln The Angel never seeing the sight of the gr lion. , Upon leavin enter into the Gause and Lois Nerling. The Angel seeing this rushes us out the door where we see a heavily f chair where si Doris Kiracofe. we leave her to top of the great of the main mast trapeze artists, as we leave voice calling N my Key Hole! As one and only Ken his beautiful si sword-swallower decides to enter and upon eat wizard recognizes him as Harold Vermil- mistake and irls, Viola vulgar duet .irenagieded ts the terrific fat lady, of 1947 pounds as it is time for her 25th meal of the day, sup her porridge and travel off to the big carnival. Here we find, perched at the top of the tent, the sensational, magnificent Dick Kersker, and Mertis Hackworth. 3, we go out the wrong door by harem of the beautiful dancing 3 this fine exhibition Bill hears a familiar Key Holelll Tey Hole!!! Everybody look into we draw nearer the sound, we recognize the ny Schick, who exercises, between his calls, nging voice. Walking along the beautiful board-walk we hear thebeau- the popular 1960 hit nDon't Smear Your lLip- stick All Over My Face.n As we approach the great open-air dance hall we recognize Dill's old classmate, Nolan Younk- man, as the leader of the band. At this time his star trum- pet player, Cledith Long, is playing a beautiful solo. Rambling on, Bill feels a need for some recreational amusement. He decides to navigate his spiritual soul and body in the ever popular Dodge-em cars. As Bill buys his ticket he recognizes the attendant as Reverend M. A. Packer. After an enjoyable ride on one of these so-called cars, Bill is naturally hungry again. So we visit the combination het- dog, hamburger, and cotton candy bar, counter-propricted by Joe and Lela Epp, formerly known as Miss Lola Joseph. We leave Coney Island to beard a luxury liner to Paris where we have heard the great doctor, Jim Bassett, is per- forming daily the great medical feats of all times. Coming aboard the ship, we meet the captain, Bud Early, who bids Bill and his companions a pleasant voyage. After having a short talk with Doctor Bassett in Paris we journey down to Home where we find the inventor of the extra-ordinary new Italian spaghetti, Vernon Adams. Seeing