Logan High School - Aerial Yearbook (Logan, OH)

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SALUIATCRY Parents, teachers, and friends:- In speaking for the class of 1944 of Logan High School, I welcome you most cordially to its Commencement Exercise. We wish to express to you our sincere gratitude for the innumerable aids given us during our sojourn here. We, the class of nineteen hundred fortyffour, are graduating in extremely unsettled times. Our democracy is being threatened, and it is our duty to help protect it. All of us may not be able to serve on the battlefield, but we can protect our govemment and our Americanfway of life by following the same principle which you, our parents, teachers, and friends have followed. That principle is to encourage, promote, and provide educational facilities for all the inhabitants of our United States in order that each one may receive and enjoy the advantages of a fuller and happier life. You have provided us with the opportunities of twelve years of education. At this time, we pause in our activities to thank you for your many sacrifices. May our future endeavors reward you for all that you have done for us. We are happy to have reached this attainment in our Held of education and are happy to welcome you here tonight to witness the climax of our highfschool career. RUTH AURAND, Second H onor Student 23

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VALEDICTORY Graduation has arrived. That day is the objective for which each of us has been striving. It is our responsibility as we enter a new phase of our life to show that we are equal to success. Success for many of us is spelled, not in the bright lights of fame and fortune, but in the fulillment of our duties to our God, to our country, and to you, as members of this community. We must succeed in our undertakings if we are to preserve our freedom, our ideals, and our heritage that we prize so highly. Each of us will seek renown in a different wayg some in active service for our countryg some in the vital activities of daily life, and a few in higher educational pursuits. Some of these endeavors will be foremost in our lives only for a short time, therefore, we must try to overcome the failures that were made in the last rehabilitation period. Our appreciation of all that has been done for us during our twelve years of school life has grown with the years. We realize that you, our parents, teachers, and friends, have done much to give us our education and to train us to go out into the world to reflect in society our American standards. As a farewell, we, the graduating class of nineteen hundred and forty-four know that we can never repay you, but we intend trying to make you proud of us in times to come. Until we can do this, we wish to say from our hearts, Thank You. PAULINE GRUNER, First Honor Student 22 rf- rw W1 ...I -1 .1 frigid

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wtf- vfrffww- +--rf 'www' r- 'fu1n 'vW'1? 'W'-A PROP:-1EcY After spending ten busy, but interesting years following my graduation from Logan High School and Ohio State University, as a Home Demonstration Agent for the Department of Agriculture in Brazil, I began to long for a sight once more of the Hocking Hills and the old familiar scenes of my youth. This nostalgia grew until I decided that I would take a trip back home to Logan, if the necessary arrangements could be made. I conferred with the officials under whose supervision I conducted my work, and they assured me that I was long overdue for a vacation period. They arranged to grant a leave of absence for me without further delay. Accordingly, I began making the necessary preparations for the journey. I first called the Traffic Manager of the International Air Lines Incorporated, to arrange for transportation. The voice that answered my call sounded strangely familiar and imagine my surpise to see appear by television, Marieta Cline, as the very efficient secretary to the manager. We chatted for a few minutes and I promised to look her up on my return to Brazil. I was still further amazed when she told me of the number of our classmates who were in South America. She spoke of Zita Connor as a famous journalist. Drs. Jack Rauch and Walter Savings had a very successful clinic, and on their staff were Ruth Aurand, dietitian, Pauline Gruner, laboratory technician, Louise Cohagan, Martha Beery, June Ralston, Mary Margaret Dalton, Frances Watts, Wanda Brown, and Norma Dolan, nurses. She also said that Harold Keller had made a huge fortune in the rubber industry and was called Rubber King. The greatest surprise came when she finally connected me by telephone to the private ofhce of the traffic manager and I found it to be our own Dick Frasure. During the conversation he informed me that james Hummel and Robert Johnston were cofowners of the airline. Arrangements were speedily made for my departure, and on the morning of April 18th I went to the airport where my plane awaited to take off. As I boarded the plane, I was greeted very pleasantly by a charming stewardess who turned out to be Frances Thomas. After entering the plane, I also met Rose Anne Warner and Mary Wright who were assistant stewardesses. Don Keister was the pilot with Leo Dillon as cofpilot. I recognized among the passengers Jim Adcock, Jim Amold, Mary jane Bright, Betty Richards and Alice Busch. While talking with them I learned that Dottie Lemon now owned a very successful beauty shop and had among her operators Esther Sanner, Kathryn Shanley and Jo Ann Hildebrandt. 24