Lodi High School - Tiger Tales Yearbook (Lodi, OH)

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If President Indoe does put through prohibition the unhappiest person in America will be June Kobb. June, who was voted the outstanding American business woman of 1958, manufactures the cork for champagne bottles. Dick Rice joined the Navy soon after graduating from Lodi High School and has made rapid gains. Last year he was promoted to Admiral and when last heard from he was commanding the Chippewa Lake fleet. Gerald Franks has entered the diplomatic services; as Ambassador to Upper Slopover he has gained a repu- tation for honesty, wise decisions, fear- lessness and crap shooting. You will remember that Phyllis Essel- burn was always late to school. Now Phyllis is chief detention hall slip writer for tardiness at Lodi High School. Recently Paul Gordon was given the position of head street cleaner in Bur- bank. It is rumored that he has pull in the mayor's office. Mary Ginter is working in a pencil factory. Her job requires the utmost in skill and dexterity. As each pencil comes off the assembly line she sharp- ens it. Betty Burr is dancing in nite clubs under the name of Jersy La Cow. Her theme song is ‘Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet.” Ralph McLaughlin has obtained a fine job in a bakery. He writes “Happy Birthday’ and other greetings on cakes. His artistry is evident even on cupcakes. Norma Garman, Shirley Reed and Bertha Ivie have made quite a stir in the musical world. Under their profes- sional name of “The O’ Hoolihan Sis- ters, Myrt, Gyrt and Sophie” they gave a command performance for the may- or of. Lodi: Bud Strouse and Edmund Ginter have formed a very successful and profitable real estate agency. They specialize in buying dog houses and reselling them at a profit. One of the industrial tycoons of the country is Charles Pickering. He manu- factures ‘“Pop-O—the World's Loudest Popping Bubble Gum.” Pat Arnold was always very fond of horses. Now she is a daring, coura- geous bareback rider in a rodeo. Bill Devoe has gained an interna- tional reputation as a nuclear physi- cist. Some of his discoveries have as- tounded the scientific world. He is now at work on a yoyo that will automa- tically rewind itself. At a wrestling match recently resi- dents of Lodi were startled to see Ed Debro enter the ring. ‘‘Muscles” as he is known, was in the best of health then. Unfortunately this wasn’t true at the end of the match. One of the members of the class of ‘49 has gone far in the musical world. Wilma Patterson has gained a fine reputation as first tuba player with Spike Jones. Ramon “Heartbreaker’’ Weaver has gone to Hollywood. His latest horror film “I Married a Woman” has just completed a long run (three Wed- nesday nights in a row) at the Idol Theatre in Lodi. These then are the stirring achieve- ments of the class of 1949. Let them be a goal and ideal to any industrious student and let that student remember that they can be achieved only through hard work, hard study and hard luck.

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Class Prophecy The Class of 1949 met this week for a reunion. It was discovered that every member of the class has been remark- ably successful in his or her chosen career. In view of this fact Mr. Wood felt that the accomplishments of the class should be published as a goal and inspiration to students now in high school. Here are the heights to which the Class of 1949 has risen. Diane James and Geraldine Thomp- son have gone on the stage. Not long ago they appeared at the Palace The- atre. Diane assisted a trained seal in his act and Gerry acted as understudy to the chief curtain puller. Ralph Tanner was always very ac- tive in athletics in high school. He has made them his career and is doing quite well. Ralph is head ping-pong coach at a girls’ school in Cleveland. Evelyn Norton and Earleen Reusch are in the transportation business. While Evelyn drives the truck Earleen sleeps and vice versa. Bob Holmes is in Hollywood. “Clem” plays cowboy parts. He is known as “Creep-a-long Holmes,” the slowest hombre west of the Atlantic Ocean. But as ‘“Creep-a-long” puts it, ‘Where I'm goin’ I ain't in no hurry.” Jacklyn Duck has settled down to a quiet life as a wife and mother. At first she had hoped that her children could form a basketball team. Later it seemed more logical that they should play baseball. Now she is looking for a foot- ball coach. Bob Blackburn and John Havens are doing quite well in New York as mod- els. They have appeared recently as the twins in a “Which one has the Toni “ad: (Bob: had the Toni,) Betty McGarvey is coaching an all girl football team. She had earned quite a reputation for herself as a full- back but injuries forced her to retire. Her best player is Joyce Barth. This, however, is only temporary as Joyce has a trick knee and no one knows how long she will last. One of the foremost women authors in the country is Bette Young. Her widely read novel “Forever Bette” has just been banned in Boston. Bob Viergutz was recently elected mayor of Lafayette. He was known as the ‘babies’ choice.” He should be; he kissed enough of them. Donna Norton is now with Ringling Bros. Circus. As a sword swallower she has made a tremendous success in the freak show. Dorothy Hastings has obtained an excellent position in law enforcement. She is chief bouncer at John’s Place. Chuck “Wrong Way” Farnsworth has made a fortune posing for the Vaseline hair ads. He manages a mod- el agency as a sideline. Every month his models appear on the covers of such widely read magazines as “Breeder's Gazette’’ and “Live Stock Growers’ Journal.” Eva Indoe is just completing her first term as the first woman president of the United States. At last report the House of Representatives was in quite a dither. Her campaign platform advo- cated Prohibition, higher taxes, and men.

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Senior Class Will -- Class Of 1949 To whom it may concern: You see before you the last will and testament of the class of 1949. We, the Seniors of 1949, about to depart into a new life, and being of sound mind and knowing how likely it is we will finish this year, hereby will everything and anything we don't want, need, or ever had, to anyone who thinks he can make better use of it than we did. To the members of the faculty, we bequeath the following:— To Mr. Wood, we leave our new Government books and the squirrels who gave him so much competition. To Mrs. Ellis, we leave all the old exam papers that she worked so hard to type. To Miss Sechrist, we leave our home room and hope that next year’s Seniors won't give her so much trouble. To Miss Jones, we leave her quiet Study Hall and know that it will be more quiet. To Mrs. Schafer, we leave all the Commercial subjects, but we'll take with us what we learned for those office jobs. To Miss Sauder, we leave the library in the same condition we found it and also her Physical Education classes. To Mr. Egger, we leave the Shop and hope nobody loses any fingers next year either. To Mr. Quayle, we leave all the sports equipment and hope that next year's team will put it to good use and have something to show for it. To Miss Myers, we leave the Cafe- teria and hope that she keeps the stu- dents well-fed. To the Music teachers, we leave the Band and Orchestra to carry on. To Mr. Fuller, we leave our home room for all those beautiful pictures that the Art Class produces. To the Juniors, we leave all the priv- ileges we didn't want: the right to break all the rules we did; and our pocket edition of “How To Be Digni- fied.” To the Sophomores, we leave all our wisdom, knowledge, and experience we have gathered and know it will be put to good use. To the Freshmen, we leave three years of work, worry, and waiting. Our personal bequests: Ramon Weaver wills his uncanny ability to get along with sports officials to Larry House. And his “black flash” and “heart-breaking” ability to Russell in hopes that he'll get as much pleas- ure out of them as Ramon did. Diane James wills her ability to “get around’ detention hall slips to Gordon Warnes. We know he can use it. Betty McGarvey wills her old braces to Joan Kindig, as if she needed any- more. And all her offices which leave her so much spare time, to her sister, Donna, so that she'll be as busy in the years to come. Dick Rice wills his seat in the au- ditorium, at noon, to Dallas McDaniels. Ralph McLaughlin wills his enor- mous height to Howard Farnsworth. Evelyn Norton wills all her freckles to anyone who would like to have them. Pat Arnold wills her ability to get a drivers license before any other mem- ber of Driving Class to any prospective member. Jackie Duck wills her ability to “sneak” down to cafeteria before lunchtime to anyone who likes crack- ers and has a grandmother working there. Chuck Farnsworth wills his curly hair and ability to talk all the time to Milo Aukerman. We hope it doesn’t get you into as much trouble, Milo.