Logan High School - Aerial Yearbook (Logan, OH)

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In planning my trip, I had arranged for stop overs at various places that I had been wanting to visit for some time. In Panama I met Violet Culbertson, Rose Summers, and Virginia Dawson who were returning to the United States for a rest after serving in the missionary Held. In Mexico, which I found to be a very fascinating country, I met Sue Schempp who told me that she was studying art in Mexico City. I went from there to Los Angeles, where I decided it would be advisable for me to check up on the latest fashions. Stepping into a very unique dress shop I found the owner to be jean Loomis. Her employees greeting me were jane Windle, Helen Rutter, Betty Kline, and Ruby Rice. They told me that Christina Smith had an oflice in the same building, and that she had become a very successful psychologist. I reached Logan in the afternoon of a day in May. As the plane circled in preparation for landing, I had a bird's-eyefview of the town, and from my Erst glance I knew that many changes had taken place. Everywhere there was color from the early May shrubs. Native blooming shrubs, trees, and flowers bordered the lovely highways which branched out in all directions from the town. I learned later that under the enterprising president of the Chamber of Commerce, Dale Derr, a program of city planning had been carried out with splendid results. Logan had now become a mecca for tourists, and people from all parts of the world were coming to visit the Hocking County Wonderland. Several large imposing structures, which I could not identify at first, were later pointed out to me as new hotels, which enjoyed national reputations for fine food, entertainment, and service. The Mayflower Hotel was owned by John Buchanan. Among the employees were Marjorie Ellis, Mary Jo Brown, Charles Smith, and Lloyd Lehman. Ned Smith was the owner of the Grand Scenic Inn, and he employed Grace Chute, Paul Ucker, Wilma St. Clair, and George Coakley. I was pleasantly surprised when James Harbarger met me as I entered the Ritz Hotel. He was managing it for Bill Ford. The desk clerk, Lee Lehman, told me that Martha Pierson was the owner's private secretary, John Richards the chef, and Joan Kalkosch the hostess. In one of the hotels I picked up a booklet printed by Richard Dollison on our scenic wonderland. In the list of guides I saw the names of Paul Neff, Edwin Turner, James Oblinger, John Cox, jack Allberry, Charles Bock, Rex Dupler, and Earl Freeman. I also noticed in the pamphlet some remarks of interest written by Louise Bowers on the impressions some very outstanding people had made concerning Logan and its surrounding beauty. 25

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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

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I was interested in the new library just completed. Gertrude Poling, the librarian, greeted me as I entered. Her assistants were Helen Lott, Madge Stimel, and Betty Smith. In the reading room I met Robert Daubenmier, Betty Poling, Roseann Brown, Bob Bateman, Ann Smith, Pauline McWilliams, and Morton Epstein. Across the street from the library was a very modernistic drugstore, which looked very inviting on such a warm day. It was very comfortable and I was glad to rest. When my order was taken, it was given to none other than Betty Jean Friend. She said that jo Robey Case owned it and among the employees she named I recognized the names of Martha Ann Lee and Dorothy Meyers. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Courter fthe former Jean Featherj came in before I left and during a short chat with them I learned that Jo Ann Adcock was vocalist for Dick Buntz's swing band. At another table I saw Miriam Mock, Retha Mohler, Winojean Sloan, and Anna Mae Nutter. At the huge skating rink constructed by joe Robinette, I saw among the skaters Don Hemsworth, Ruth Martin, Freda Hutchison, Corinne Hardgrove, and Eugene Miller. On attending church on Sunday, I was tremendously surprised to find Dale Bumgardner as the minister. I noticed among the parishioners Dale Schultz, Myrtle Glass, Pauline Davis, Leota Keinzle, Helen Ellinger, Helen K'Miller, Gerald Miller, Sam Ford, Thelma McCune, Monabelle Beougher, Jeanette Leonard, and Pansy Hugli. Many of these wonderful changes were brought about by the splendid publicity given our fair city by the mayor, Joe Smith, and our congressman, James Brehm. One evening in the company of a friend, I took a stroll up the hill to visit old school scenes. New and more imposing edifices had taken the place of the old ones, but in the deepening dusk I could still see in memory the outlines of the old familiar red brick structure in which I had spent so many happy carefree hours. Mingled with the distant sounds of the city, were the remembered voices of my classmates of long ago. I felt a mingled emotion of both joy and sorrow-sorrow for youth and days long gone by, but joy in the thought that, although the Class of '44 was scattered to many parts of the world, each had been able to find his niche in life and that everyone of us was contributing our bit toward the making of a better world and thus the dreams we had dreamed in old L.H.S. had been fulilled. - NBTTIE Baiucan, Sixth Honor Student ze,