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

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Iim Egbert has the only Do Nothing naval base in the navy. Dlck Farnsworth and Pete Skidmore run the second largest cross country rocket line. It's a bird, lt's a plane, it's them.. Janet Fetzer has a home for the aged, .and is she rolling in dough! Connie Gilbert is kept quite busy between Tom, her family, and the task of trying to run an accounting school. Wish her luck. Barbara Hall and Eddie are down here raising one of the best football teams Texas has ever had. Roy Harris was one of the lucky ones, he struck oil. . But, never satisfied, he sells oil to buy other necessary things. You can guess what. Bob Holcomb hasn't done a days work since we came here, but he drives a new.Cadlllac. Must be his ex-wives C71 paying alimony, not him. Dave Lanlgan and Margaret run a dancing school. Also they make and' sell the lowest cut levis ln the state of Texas . Donna Luecht brought the marines. She is raising little marines and cattle. Rodger Mack runs the slaughter house. lFor cattle only. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 73 Roger Martin has a disc jockey show for all of the old moondog records . Plus the show he puts on a pantomime for each record. You can imagine how that is. Cute? ? 7 ? ? ? Keith Massie has a big bean plantation down here. He is doing fine. He cans them, and sells baked beans, wax beans , and green beans. H Linda Milkey is here with Lizzie, the '47 Ford, her husband, and the dozen kids that she was never going to have. Sonya Miller does the local floorfshow every night at the Saloorix KBUBBLESJ Carl Moore is just plain here. Lois Norton brought all of the jewelry she hooked and started a beauty shop. CFOR MEN ONLYJ Marcene Orr is Vice-President of Lois Cliffordfs Lonely Hearts Club. Rita Padgett has a How to Grow Taller school down here. As you know, Texas is known for its tall men. Well, you can thank Rita. , Mr. Pietrzak is now one of the biggest bull shippers in Texas. Dave Samsa is very busy doing nothing. Larry Scott takes care of the money, the same job he had at home, but-we stlll are usually broke Ronnie Stewart brought his navy slang and part of Hawaii, the female part. Tom Seal is the only doctor in town. The only person that's ever lll is Connie, though. Barbara Snader is a nurse at the Air Force hospital down here. That is so she can watch all of the cute airmen. Windy Williamson is the news reporter. He can even out talk Walter Winchell. Shows what years and years of practice will do for a person. A Jack Yost brought Locke Manufacturing Co. just because of one certain secretary. Guess who? Well Bettyj I have to close for now. I hope this will give you a good idea of how we are doing now. Don't forget to answer. Give my best to everyone. V Love , MELVIN

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Dear Betty , Well, I thought it was about time that I was answering your letter. How are the kids and all of the folks up your way? Gosh, Betty, it doesn't seem like it has been twenty years since the class of '56 graduat- ed, does it? In your last letter you asked me if I knew anything about the class. Well, it seems I know where everyone of them are and what they are doing. As you can remember, our class was always very independent and original. Here is what we did two years after we graduated. We had a small reunion and our president, Iack Bittner, put a very good idea up to the class. We had been thinking about it for a long time and finally we decided it was time to take action. The idea was for everyone to pitch in all of his dollars and cents and buy a small piece of land down in Texas and raise cattle and other stuff. Well, everyone just fell for the idea. right away, but the main objection was , we didn't have any dollars and cents to pitch in, so we went out and raised some money. As you can remember, it always took us ages and ages to raise money, but to everyone's surprise we had subscribed enough in one year. CMIRACLEJ So we set out for Texas to buy our land. We found a beautiful spot, not too large, about 12 or 14 hundred acres ,' and we .settled down. Then we ,decided that we didn't want to take orders from some high official so we set up our own town. We had everything then. At first there wasn't anyone else in the town but good ole '56ers, then other people wanted to move in. Now we are doing fine. We control it as we aI.ways controlled L.H..S. Everyone chipped in with his talents and here is what we are doing now. Pat Allenbach runs a day nursery and tries to keep track of Iim. But you know Texas, - too many hills and curves, and not on land either. Tom Arters has the town garage. You can get anything from duals to girls there. Charlene Benton is doing the job of breaking the horses. Her favorite song is Why am I So Black and Blue. Jack Bittner is our politician. He protects us. Also on the side he has insurance, life, fire, theft, and insurance against Bob Holcomb's ex-wives. Monty Blough is in charge of the school. He has several teachers and all he does is to bat his eyes at them. Janet Burnside teaches piano lessons in her home when she can tear herself away from the cows and horses she has to feed every night. Lois Clifford runs the telephone office and a Lonely Hearts Club. Cecile Crittenden, of course, has an Isaly's store down here, We didn't know Isaly's needed business that far down the border. Bill Daly, better known as Wild Bill, has gone hog wild since he arrived here. Between Janet and his cattle we hardly ever get to see him. Don Darrah had so much invested in Simple Simons that they gave him a share and he started a . small branch down here. I hear he's doing fine.. Matt Davis has started a Harley Davidson shop down here, but with so many horses on the trail he doesn't have a motorcycle's chance. Loretta Eglin, better known as Eggy v in school, has the only chicken farm in town. She supplies us with chickens and eggs all year round.

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Carl Moore wills his old set of barbells to the person who needs them the most. fDon't lift too much at first, Mr. Weir.j Rodger Mack wills his ability to spend the whole afternoon in the commercial room, Qwith all the girlsj to anyone who thinks he can get away with it. Lois Norton wills her ability to hook jewelry and not always get away with it to anyone that want to try it. Linda Milkey wills her little, old car to any girl who would like to have it and all of its troubles . Lois Clifford wills her romantic pen pals to anyone who can handle them and her height to anyone who likes that cool atmosphere five feet off the ground. Ronnie Stewart wills his arrival at school at eight o'clock to whoever feels he can make it. Keith Massie wills his ability to sleep through government and chemistry classes and pass the courses to anyone who wishes to try it. Bob Holcomb wills his ability to keep from dating girls while still in school to anyone who thinks he can stay away from the girls that long . Roy Harris , being of sound mind, here by and forever wills his great height to Ken Zarney. fGood Luck with basketball, Ken.l Donna Luecht wills her ability to get along with the marines to her sister, Linda. Tom Arters wills his ability to take a transmission out in 2 0 minutes to anyone who wants to try it. Ianet Fetzer wills her ability to get moved out of library for talking, to her cousin, Linda Spellmant. Cecile Crittenden wills her ability to play dots with Pat in Mr. Skurvid's study hall to anyone who thinks she can get away with it like they did. Connie Gilbert wills the naturalfC?J red part of her hair to Pat Baird because Pat just loves red hair. Don Darrah wills Roger Martin to the Freshman Class in the hope that he learns more in the years to come. Loretta Eglin wills her ability to any sophomore to join Dramatic Club without the final initiation to anyone who wishes to try it, and to Pat Baird, all her secretary jobs . KWho already has a good start., Rita Padgett wills the piano in the auditorium to anyone who likes sticky keys and sour notes. Roger Martin wills his ability to get along with Mr. Pietrzak to Ken Carver. Also, all his chemistry equipment to Chub Slater, who has credit for breaking half of all the equipment in the lab. Barbara Snader wills her ability to laugh at nothing to Janet Underwood. Have fun, Janet, but be careful. Marcene Orr wills her ability to get along with Mrs . Dowell to Cheryl Pope, in hopes that it will help her get into English class late without any consequences , as she often did last year. I, Tom Seal, being of, -well, we'll dispense with the technicalities , do hereby will my lovely HJ masculine QD physique to John Ferguson, who surely can use lt. Iunior Repp, being of sound mind, does hereby will his entire joke collection to anyone who has run out of good ones, and fMr. Woodl and his typing to almost the entire 9th period typing class. Iack Yost wills his parking place across the street to his brother, Iohn, if he can talk fast enough to keep everyone else out. Pat Allenbach wills her ability to skip school for 4 years without ever having seen the inside of Mr. White's office, to Sandy Warner.. Charlene Benton wills Dotty Dewey her place in orchestra, and to anyone who wants it, her ability to be on refreshment committees . f