Laketon High School - Laketonian Yearbook (Laketon, IN)

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LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE In the year of 1966, A.D. The other afternoon several of us were strolling down Laketon Avenue and decided to go over to the airport to see the new ticket building. As we entered the airport grounds we met a former Laketon student, Everett Wrightsman, who was waiting for the next plane to Dallas, Texas. You know, Everett is now presi- dent of the Mickey Mouse Mouse Trap Company there and is now supplying mouse traps for the H.A.A. (Hyp- notists Association of America.) After telling us all about the mouse trap factory, he told us the latest news about his classmates, the Class of 1956. On the previous Sunday they had met at Round Lake for their 10th-year class reunion. All of the graduates were present except Donald Long who was in Africa captur- ing six live lions for the Barnum Bailey Circus. He has been the lion tamer there for several years. John White also works there. He is the featured attraction in the Big Top as the tallest man in the world. He is now 11 feet 1 1 inches tall (when on his stilts). Everett then told us about Pat Amiss. She is repre- senting Ijamsville in the current Miss America contest to be broadcast on colored television over Laketon's T-l-G-E-R-S network. Marleah Frantz is now married and her husband has a large ranch in Colorado. She invited the Class of '56 there for their next reunion. Evelyn Pearson and Nancy French are in Yellow- tone Park operating a concessions stand. They enjoyed working at the concessions stand so much when they were seniors that they decided to make that their life work. Then Everett told us about Welby Simpson. He is now captain of the police force in Laketon. He decided he couldn't lick em so he'd join em. Ronnie Dickerhoff is looking forward to driving in the 500 mile race at Indianapolis. Yes, you guessed it. He's going to drive his Dad's Plymouth. Martha Kline, the senior from Florida, decided to return to Florida and take part in the high dive con- tests along the Atlantic. Pat Metzger has been an air stewardess, but an- nounced her engagement to a movie star while at our reunion. Peter Meyer, the exchange student from Germany, decided to remain in the United States. He is now a famous psychiatrist in Hollywood, California. Bill Kline and Larry Brubaker settled in Stringtown. Bill is dance master at the Kline Dance School, and Lar- ry operates the ADDING MACHINE FIXIT SHOP in Stringtown. Joyce Smith is working as secretary in the shop. On our next week-end jaunt to New York City, be sure to stroll down Frenchie Avenue where Shirley Lyons has her art work displayed along the curb. If you will stop and look up 13 stories to the little win- dow 20th from the left you might see Shirley peering over her trusty easel. Ruth Ebbinghous is also in New York City and is now a singer in the Metropolitan Opera House. Last winter, while we were in New York City, we visited a ballet show and were impressed by tUfe light- footedness of the star. After the show we inquired as to the identity of the star and were amazed to find that the slender and beautiful star was none other than Charlotte Ohmart. Janice McCullough is now Mighty Red, the lady wrestler, who often appears on the television network. Merl Wilson is now a movie actor. His first appear- ance will be in the movie Bachelor's Paradise. Ted Hudson, known in high school as Reckless Ted, is now the Drivers' Training Instructor at Laketon Univer- sity. Steve Vrooman is now the star snail pacer for the Olympic contests. Did we forget to tell you about any of the grad- uates of the Class of '56? Oh, yes, JoAnn Siegfred. She is enjoying herself very much as a chewing gum tester for the Smacky Wacky Chewing Gum Corpora- tion in Cucamongo, Rhode Island. We enjpyed our visit with Everett Wrightsman very much, and as his plane arrived we were sorry to bid him farewell.

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We the Senior Class of 1956 of Laketon High School, do acknowledge this to be our last will and testa- ment: I, Larry Brubaker, will my ability to use my head, instead of the adding machine, to the girls in Book keeping, and my ability to have headers on my car and stay out of trouble to Maurice Lipply. I, Merl Wilson, will my good behavior to Jack Gray and my quietness to Roger Montel. I, Ruth Ebbinghous, will to anyone who wants it, my ability to get a diamond between my junior and sen- ior year and my ability to have dates as a freshman to my sister, Helen. I, John White, will my chair in the band to Philip Clingenpeel and my ability to be a good student man- ager to Tom Floor. I, Shirley Lyons, will my natural curly hair to Mr. Sandau and my chair in band to anyone who can play off beat. I, Welby Simpson, will my reckless driving to Jack Gray, and my basketball ability to Tom Pence. I, Marleah Frantz, will my ability to chew gum in Government to any junior who needs ft and my ability to stay slim to Becky Frantz. I, Everett Wrightsman, will my ability to run the half-mile to Philip Clingenpeel and my ability to eat to Mrs. Bowers. I, Joyce Smith, will my four years of band to Con- nie Smith and my ability to drive safely to Don Mylin. I, Steve Vrooman, will to Don Mylin, my ability to go steady with the same girl through high school and my ability to throw peanuts in Study Hall to Ned Schuler who usually was my target. I, Pat Metzger, will my ability not to go steady in high school to Sherry Harmeson, and my fingernails to Judy Butler. I, Peter Meyer, will my ability to play the piano to my brother Tom and my ability to date girls to Roger Montel. I, Janice McCullough, will my ability to have been a high school cheerleader to Sheriann Gearte and my ability of being engaged during my senior year to Jane Burch. I, Bill Kline, will my Ford to anyone who can keep the wheels from falling off, and my ability to be quiet to Roger Montel. I, Nancy French, will to Mildred Entsminger my abil- ity to eat so heartily and my ability to go steady with a boy 1200 miles away to anyone who has the pa- tience to stick to it. I, Ted Hudson, will my ability to play baseball to my brother Dean and my ability to run the Mimeo- graph to Jack Gray. I, Evelyn Pearson, will my ability to teach the sec- ond grade their arithmetic to Jane Ann Burch, and to Judy Butler my office as treasurer and counting all of that senior money. I, Pat Amiss, will my cheerleading ability to Sherian Gearte and my ability to leave boys alone to Sandy Hopkins. I, Ronald Dickerhoff, will my ability to play in the band to Wilbur Wolf and my ability to play basketball to Phil Clingenpeel. I, Charlotte Ohmart, will my job in the office to any junior so that the seniors will have some place to congregate and my dark brown eyes to Mildred Ents- minger. I, JoAnn Siegfred, will my height to Marilyn Vroo- man and my ability to let someone else like gum as much as I do to the Coach. I, Martha Kline will my ability to stay home at night to Jan Ohmart and my height to Marilyn Vrooman. I, Donald Long, will my curly hair to Roger Montel and my ability to get along with the teachers to Jim Shock. We hereby nominate and appoint Mr. A. Spandau, Mr. W. Sullivan, and Mr. R. L. Mertz to be our exe- cutors, without bond, on this our Last Will and Testa- ment; and we hereby rebuke all former wills and testa- mentory instruments. In Witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our name and affixed our seal this tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-six. Witnesses: Perry Como George Gobel Howdy Doody

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PRESENTING ... No, not yet... NEXT YEAR Maurice Lipply Judy Butler Sandy Hopkins Max Weller Marcella Floor Larry Weitzel Nelson Drudge Mac Coon Jack Gray Margie Kelly Jane Ann Burch Leon Albright Donnabelle Hudson Roger Montel Steve Bradford Nancy Lynch JUNIOR CLASS President Larry Weitzel Vice President Nelson Drudge Secretary ludy Butler Treasurer .... Sandy Hopkins