Lancaster High School - Mirage Yearbook (Lancaster, OH)

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PROPHECY Being gatekeeper I see a lot of people coming, but not going. Among those I see rather often are Betty Van Horn, Sue Jeffries, Betty Minic, Sally Lerch, Sue Kneller, and June Poling. I really feel sorry for those girls sometimes. You should see them with their little wheelbar- rows full of ashes. You see they dump their ashes right outside my gate. There is also a coal mine over the hill a little way and you should see the black-faced workers coming back after a hard day’s work. If you could see through the black coal dust, you would see Paula Clump, Weisie Kaumeyer, Patti Carnes, Janis Clark, Sally Miller, Lois Milsom, and Carol Rodman. I hear they take turns hitting one little piece of coal until it breaks into a lot of little pieces. Then it takes all of them to pick it up, a piece at a time. Well, they shouldn’t gain any weight. I understand they have John Kistler, Bob Arledge, Wink Lawrence, and Ritty Beiter shoveling coal into the big furnaces. By the way, you should see these furnaces. They are so big I can’t begin to tell you the size of them. The other day the big boss, Bob Woodgeard, had Jim Kane, Keith Brengman, Bob Black, and Bill Keene painting them. Jack Hunter fell off the top of one of them right into a bucket of red paint. Now he has a red suit that will not come off. Talking about red suits, you should see whom we have making our little red suits. They are John Huddle, Jim Waugh, Kenneth Nihiser, John Imhoff, and Charles Graf. They seem to be pretty good at it, too. Are there any little men you have to look out for up there? Well, these darn pitchforks down here are just about driv- ing me crazy. Every time you turn around someone is right there waiting for you. Among my old friends I have run into are Leota Hart, Lillian Moyer, Phyllis Lowry. Richard Bolar, Norman Brehm, William Weber, and Ray Ruff. As for the pitchforks, I have heard they have Jack Behrens, Jim Booker, Ray- mond Boystel, Richard Chevalier, and Bob Francisco making them. Then they have Eugene Bainter, LaVon Chilcote, and Charles Hartman painting them real bright red. On my last week end off I saw a play called No Way Out.” It was written by Bonnie Kitsmiller, produced by Don Johnson, and directed by James Miller and Robert Brown. The leading charact- ers were Vivian Wright, Carol Waits, Jack Swett, Nathelia Fourman, Freda Starner, Tom Smith, Carol Stoneburner, Norman Brunn, Betty Kennedy, Mary Ellen Noice, and Robert Kunkler. The dancing chorus consists of Marg- Page Twenty-Iwo

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PROPHECY Mayer, John Stoughton, Roger Kumler. and Kenneth Macintosh. They seem to be practicing the Charleston. As I move along I can hear the choir. It consists of Betty Weaver, Eileen Aldenderfer, Grace Arent, Marty Bang- ham, Donna Barnes, Don Starner, Wayne Wright, Paul Wiegand, and Harvey Stockwell. Neil Reed is the director. They are singing The Fire Will Burn Bright Tonight, written by Don Bowman. Last week we held an election. We had a large turnout. Some of the candi- dates were as follows: County Clerk— Paul Leohner, Register of Deeds—Ron- ald Smith, County Auditor—Jack Tracey, County Treasurer—Edwin Imler, and Sup- erintendent of Schools—Charles Reid. We also held elections for ambassadors. John Lohmann, who is head of the De- partment of State, has a lot of new men under him. Neil Simmons and his new secretary, Albert Underwood, left yester- day for their new jobs in Hades. Bob French also takes up his new job next week as Ambassador to Earth. His secretary, Dick Green, will also go with him. Seven clouds make a state. You understand that the clouds are very far apart. Sometimes it takes days to get from one cloud to another. You might get a ride on a bolt of lightning, which is controlled by Charlie Hiatt, or on the thunder roller driven by Harold Lescalleet or Karl Plank. We had a contest last week to see which girl had a Toni. Among those who entered were Joyce Pfeiffer, Mary Lou Kiger, Nettie Underwood, and Rosanne Major. After a big fuss, John Rauch and Karl Henwood were chosen as the Toni Twins. Oh, you should have seen what just flew past. One of my oldest angels, Mr. Payne. I suppose he is going back after more chalk. He has made only three trips in the last four hours. I hear he has used almost ten dollars' worth of chalk marking up his sins already. Sometimes I wonder how some people get up here. He must have a pull. Please write back and give me some news of the people you know who are down there and who graduated with us in the CLASS OF 1951. Until I hear from you, Pat Boystel, Head Angel Hole In The Ground, Hades June 28, 2051 Miss Pat Boystel, Head Angel Heaven Dear Pat: I was glad to hear from one of my old classmates. I have been looking up . . . some of our old classmates, too. Page Twenty-one

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PROPHECY ie Beatty, Oby Lue Bixby, Barbara Bren- stuhl, Joyce F. Clark, Marlene George, Barbara Hudson, Phil Gehres, Eugene Combs, Dick Clark, Ernest Hedges, Ralph Hendrickson, and Dick Huffine. The girls are practicing up on the latest waltzes and the boys are practicing the two-step. They have told me they are better than the Rockettes. Our choir had an important part to play, too. It consisted of Jean Anderson, Joan Arledge, Betty Drumm, Joan Raines, Jean Neiser, Jane Blake, Tom Brenstuhl, Bruce Haning, Allan Vlerebome, Jim Nigh, Don Nichols, and Bernard Mum- ford. They sang Music by the Angels,” written especially for them by Vonda Beavers. The organist was Bertha Boggs. Joan Miller, Leah Moore, and Alice Poling were selling the tickets. Delores Poling and Jayne Probasco were taking them. Dorothy Reed was selling popcorn at one side and at the other side June Sesslar was selling Ice-Cold Water. (That really sells like hot cakes down here.) Eloise Reed, Patty Shaver, Florabell Shri- ner, and Betty Snider were the ushers. Carol Ochs was the curtain puller. Mark Benson, Mert Brown, Dick Waugh, and Patricia Reid were selling toasted marshmallows and joking about how we would look sometime. Just before the play started, down the aisles came Tom Kuhn, Kenneth Lytle, Bill Markwood, Francis Mowery, Don Patton, and Bud Peck. They were throwing all kinds of little trinkets, and they were dressed up in clowns' uniforms. After the first act Louise Reid, Marie Spires, Ruth Stein, Ellen Valentine, and Garnet Yantes entertained with a tumbl- ing act. After Act Two Cherie Thrush, Mary M. Thrush, Carolyn Wachter and Carolyn Stevens wrestled. Delbert Shut- tleworth was the referee. Paul Stouder was the timekeeper. They had the referee pinned within three seconds. After Act Three Pat Conklin, Marilyn Watters, and Lora Wittman sang Branded by Nor- ene Appel, Don Compton, and Jo Anne Davis. Well, here come Patty Fisher, Martha Hightower, Evelyn Hoshor, Betty Hommel, and Edna Kemper with a wheel- barrow full of ashes. I will have to sign off to open the gate for them. We keep it locked, you know, for we don't want anyone who doesn't belong here. Be seeing you around—or will I? Until then, Bob Goodman, Gatekeeper Pag® Twenty-three