Linlawn High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Wabash, IN)

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TREASURE CHEST OF '40 ,1 , , Jus-0-uq,,'1,'L, l , 1' J CLASS PROPHECY Q Locking into the crystal, we see the year 1950 ap- pear. Let us see what the future will bring! Helen Cole is appearing in person at the Westside Opera House in a suburb of Treaty. She is known over Wabash County for her skill in potato peeling. John Lynn is teaching at his Alma Mater, Linlawn. He has discovered a new method of 1 writing shorthand backwards.. He learned this method while writing to Dorothy Wilson, who is now his wife. Delores Weesner is a reporter on WLondon Times.N She is known internationally' for her minute detail of the marriage of Princess Rose to Prince Henry of Fin- land. ' Merrill Kendall, a promising young farmer, has just received a loving cup for the beauty of hisshug, Orange Blossom. He is the founder of the Kendall Cor- respondence School,which gives a course in 'Beauty Cul- ture For Swine.' Doris Schaaf,after three years of being a glamor girl, is now devoting her entire time to rearing her three sets of twins. Her home covers half a city block. Martha Jane Brown has found that nmarriage is not what it is cracked up to be.' Anyway, she has just re- ceived her second divorce. Russell Eppley is chewing gum and candy salesman at the Paradice Night Club in Lagro. He is training Russell Junior for the same profession. Ruth Ellen Binkerd is a nurse in the Dora City Hospital. She specializes in corns and bunions. Milton Stitz spent six months in England persuad- ing Winferd Eccles to return to the United States with him. They met through a foreign correspondence in high school. Dorothy Barlow is a designer at Russell's Shoppe in Hullywood. Because of Dorothy's excedlcnt.design.a ing, WGONE WITH THE BLIZSARDW was a great success. Avis Fordyce is the well-known artist who recently won the Nobel Prize for her picture,NUnder the Kitchen Sink.n Dorwin Mendenhall is bass singer in the Chippewa Opera House. He-is known as Chief Mud-in-your-eye.

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,TREASURE CHEST OF '40 s S , J CLASS HISTORY l Turning back the pages of time, let us take an imaginary trip back to the Linlawn grade school in the fall of 1928. The teacher was Miss Osa Long. There were thirty pupils in this class. Of the thirty in that class, eight are graduating from Linlawn High School this yearg namely, Ruth Ellen Binkerd, Martha Jane Brown, Martha Esther Dubois, Paul Glass, Maurice Halleck, Merrill Kendall, John Lynn, and Milton Stitz. However, Paul Glass and Milton Stitz have not attended Linlawn all of this time. Our second grade teacher was Miss Pauline Church- ill lMrs. Ralph Lawsonl, and our third grade teacher was Miss Hilda Gurtner lMrs. Philip Evistonl. Miss Irma Small instructed our fourth grade class, and our fifth grade was under the supervision of Miss Helen Tomson CMrs. Francis Garpowl. Mr. Arthur Tinkel was our sixth grade teacher. In the fall of 1935 our sixth grade enrollment was increased by the transfer of several girls from Rich Valley. Martha Stone and Dorothy Wilson are ending their school career together, after attending both Rich Valley and Linlawn. The freshmen class of 1956-57 was composed of Dorothy Barlow, Henry Barnett, Ruth Binkerd, Rolland Bozarth, Martha Jane Brown, Martha Burkholder, Vern Clark, Helen Cole, Jack Curless, Dorothy Dawes, Martha E. Dubois, Marcella Emrick, Russell Eppley, Naomi Finkenbiner, Frank Finnegan, Avis Fordyce, Bob Fordyce Arol Frantz, Paul Glass, Marland Halderman, Maurice Halleck, Aileen Houser, Merrill Kendall, John Lynn, Dorwin Mendenhall, Kathleen Miller, Katrina MillerKMrs. Kenneth Millerb, Mike Mindala, Glen Pormen, Anna Ridenour lMrS. Leslie Jinesl, Flora Jean Ridenour, Dor- othy Louise Rutherford lMrs. Merrill Harmonj, Milton Stitz, Martha Stone, Howard Tucker, Delores Weesner, Lily Whitaker, Calvin Williams, Dorothy Wilson, and Jim Wright. ' The members of our senior class are: Dorothy Bar- low, Ruth Binkerd, Martha Jane Brown, Helen Cole, Mar- tha E. Dubois, Marcella Emrick, Russell Eppley, Naomi Finkenbiner, Avis Fordyce, Robert Fordyce, Paul Glass, Maurice Halleck, Merrill Kendall, John Lynn, Dorwin Mendenhall, Kathleen Miller, Mike Mindala, Bob Qliver, Ivan Rinearson, Doris Schaaf,, Milton Stitz, Martha Stone, Delores Weesner, Lily Whitaker, and Dorothy

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-F Y-elf . -,Y L., ,, TREASURE CHEST OF '40 situ, Y, ,, , , 1:1 L , ,L 'lu 1,,, ,. 1 ,.,, I , Kathleen Miller is proprietrix of the Greasy Spoon Restaurant. Every Friday carp, mush, and milk ere specs ials. Martha Esther DuBois models clothes appropriate for bfrn dances. She usually advises slacks for these occasions. - Bob Oliver is head 'coach at Longcliff at Logan- sport. His team travels from the Bering Strait to the Strait of Magellan-- ------------ they think! Naomi Finkinbinder was recently chosen for the re- presentative to Washington to the conference on NHow to Raise More and Better Grasshoppers.n Dorothy Wilson assists her husbsnd, John Lynn, in winning friends among his student body by giving part- ies. At these parties the games played are hide and seek, and drop the hanky. Bob Fordyce writes the column 'How to Win Friends and Dodge Metrimonyw in the daily paper. So fer Bob has followed his own advice. Lily Whitaker is libriun in the Rich Valley Public Library. She says quote: I owe my success to my exper- ience in Linlawn Library under the direction of Mrs. AdP.mS s ' Paul Glass, now a colonel in the United States Air Corps, has invented a Wstopn and 'gon system for air traffic. Ivan Rinecrson, the steeple climber, has won rec- ognition through out Noble Township for climbing the steeple on the Kestler Corner Church. Marcella Emerick won a prize of two guinea-pigs for her effecient service to the South of the Border Air Line as stewerdess. Mike Mindalu received a medal of bravery for res- cuing Joan from the Arc. Martha Stone has decided to quit keeping the rest of the class in suspense, and has finally consented to marry NBsrney.W Maurice Halleck takes the port of Tarzan in Pura- mount Motion Pictures. His last picture is WGall of the Tea Table.n