McClure High School - McClurean Yearbook (McClure, OH)

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M ,......,,, ,.,.,.A, , ,,X....,. N htwxyl N ' .JD so excited over the prospect of meeting another class-mate and asked that he inform the owner of the hotel that we would like to confer with him. We could scarcely wait to see who it could be and Gosha'mighty it was Loyd Dennie! Were we happy, well I guess! Dennie was tickled pink at seeing so many old friends and insisted on en- tertaining us while in in his city. He surprised us by telling us his chief cook was Irene Peery and she was included in our party during our stay in Los Angeles. Loyd said Irene had the name and the game of being the best caterer in all the Golden West. It seems Loyd is still a bachelor and upon our hinting our surprise that such a handsome man could so long escape matrimony he smiled sadly a.nd intimated that the girl of his dreams back in his old Ohio home had married someone else. We felt mighty sorry for Loyd as he gazed into Van's lovely blue eyes with such a wistful look in his own. The lines of the poet came to my mind: 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. To entertain us for an afternoon, Loyd invited our whole party to be his guests at a National League base ball game. He said this was the last game of the season for the McClure Merchants and that he had a wonderful surprise for us. We were all on tip-toe to know what it was and Cub remembered having read in the Tri-County News that Paul Pope was the star player on the Mer- chants' team. The cat was out of the bag and we fairly crashed the gates and rushed out on the diamond to see Paul. The newspapers, afterward, carried feature stories of the game saying Pope had played the most spectacular game of the sea- son, and intimated his wonderful playing was due to the inspiration he had received from listening to our band play the melody of his old school song before the game. After the game Dennie threw an all night party for us at his hotel. Since Paul was free to return to Ohio he pur- suaded Irene and Loyd to join our party and finish the campaign with us. We were all pleased with this suggestion and Mrs. Richard and Loyd seemed especially happy over the suggestion. We thought Mrs. Richard looked rather queerly at Kelso and his nurse, and Loyd shot a revengeful glance at Dr. Fiser that sesemed to say: All is fair in love and war. Naturally Kelso and Laura were anxious to re- turn to Columbus and get first hand information from the office as to how the campaign was end- ing. Upon reaching the office Kathryn told us she and her stenographers had been Working day and night taking care of the in-coming and out- going mail and that every one said Kelso would win or bust. This bit of cheerful news made us feel like celebrating and some one suggested that we stage a party at Ray Gordon's and offered the information that Ray and Katheryn Fiser were married and living in Columbus. This was indeed a happy suggestion for this would bring nearly all of our class together. We telephoned Ray our intentions of spending the evening with them and Sixteen 4.x Ray said he and Kathryn would send their son Loren over to our hotel to meet us and bring us out. We were very much surprised at the palatial appearance of their home and was even more pleased over the clever surprise they had planned for us. It seems that Alfred Oberdorf is head of the Agriculture Department at Ohio State. I-Ie made such a good impression on Kelso that Kelso asked him to take a position in his Cabinet. Of course there was an if attached to the offer, yet we were all confident that Kelso would be our next president. My, my, how we did talk that night for every member of our class was there and our happiness seemed complete! Ray and Kathryn are both teaching in Ohio State University and are the highest paid mem- bers on the faculty. Kathryn is head of the Futuristic Art Department and Ray is supervisor of the Disciplinarian Course for prospective teach- ers. Ray said he had gotten most of his ideas from our old High School superintendent, Haggie, and we all groaned despairingly for most of us still have recollections of Haggie's notions of bein' good. Ray said he had visited Mr. Hagedorn just recently to get his latest methods on controlling Young America and had found him in the hills of Kentucky and still go- ing strong. On the wall of his office hung a queer looking paddle that looked strangely familiar, altho it looked much smaller than it did 'way back there in '29. flt might have shrunk with agelj Kathryn seems to have satisfied her craving for Art for she has expensive paintings in her home. Looking somewhat out of place among so many magnificent paintings, hung our class pic- ture, in the place of honor. The picture recalled to mind many of our pranks while in school. Kathryn showed us her favorite painting, and almost hidden in an arbor-vitae hedge that bord- ered the picture of a rural home was the name and date: Hatcher, 1945. The picture had been named Sunrise Farm and we knew it was one of Miss Hatcher's masterpieces. Some one mentioned that we knew of the activities of all our class-mates and teachers with the exception of Mr. Potter, and it was suggested that Ray call Weston over long distance and try to locate him. He was located in his little love nest in Weston and he informed Ray, in his slow and deliberate voice, that he was happily married and that there were several little Potters. We decided to spend the last evening of thd campaign in Henry County and await the returns of the election in the Assembly room of our old High School building in McClure. We sent invi- tations to the Hagedorns, Miss Hatcher and the Potters, and Alfred and Kathryn and Ray and the whole bunch decided to make the trip. It was in- deed The End of a Perfect Day when the first news came over the radio of Kelso's election. ERNEST DOLL.

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XJ x..',.,'NQQ,..... . N .:,..,... , 1,,hNW N fp .fl- iv.: Class Prophecy In 1960, just thirty-nine years after our gradu- ation from our dear old McClure High School, we received the shock of a life-time to hear over the radio that our old class-mate, Kelso Richard, had been nominated for the presidency by the Demo- crats. It seems Kelso has been something of a poli- tician since leaving High School and has filled various offices. To begin with, he had been Clerk of Damascus 1'ownship. Later he moved to Malinta and was honored by his fellow townsmen by receiving a majority of votes for mayor of this prosperous little village. From this small beginning he was elected to fill offices in Henry County. As his fame for honesty and integrity grew, he was elected to several State offices. I telegraphed my congratulations and imagine my surprise to receive a reply asking me to be- come his campaign manager! The idea seemed somewhat staggering for, of course, Kelso must win or bust, after throwing his hat in the ring, and a great deal of his success depended largely on the selection of his campaign manager. I took stock of my qualifications and, in looking back over my past life, decided my training had been of the right sort to enable me to sell Kelso to the people of our own dear U. S. A. We decided to establish our main office in Columbus and left Kathryn Deilman in charge of a large force of stenographers that were thoroly imbued with the idea of Win or Bust. We decided it was best to travel in a special train and remembered hearing Warren Culbertson had taken a course in railroad engineering and had a run on the D. T. and I., we telegraphed Mr. Ford asking him to release Cub for a few months in order that he might take the position of chief engineer of our special train. This Mr. Ford agreed to do and, in addition, offered the use of a train from his road as his contribution to the campaign fund. We were very grateful for this offer and joyfully accepted, for we were finding our campaign expenses frightfully high. After leaving Columbus on a campaign trip, our first stop was made in Cincinnati. At the Union depot we were very agreeably surprised to hear the thrilling strains of our High School song, Pep , being played by a ladies' band and wondered why they should happen to choose the music of our old school song for one of their selec- tions. The rat-tat-tat of the drum seemed to have such a familiar sound and, upon locating the player, you may well guess our delight in find- ing the drummer to be Francis Alspaugh. Find- ing Bill gave us the happy thought of taking a band with us so we telegraphed our old orchestra leader, Howard Middleton, to select a hundred piece band and meet us the next week in St. Louis. We were delightfully surprised to find Mr. Mid- dleton had selected a number of our former orchestra leaders and players and among them were Frank Sturchio from Findlay, E. E. Hadley, HR. G., Huck, Margie and Bill. We felt confident that Kelso's election was assured for the crowds that met us in St. Louis and listened to our band and to Kelso's speeches seemed to think he was a Washington, Lincoln, McKinley and Wilson combined. At Atlanta, Georgia, Mrs. Richard joined the party and continued the trip with us. Our group seemed complete with Mrs. Richard in the party and we were once again convinced of the truth of the old proverb f 'U that Gentlemen Prefer Blondes-but marry Brunettes , for Mrs. Richard proved to be our class-mate. Laura Wolfe. Laurie's dark beauty was another hunch that Kelso's campaign would be successful for we re- membered reading that every First Lady, with one exception, since the time of Martha Wash- ington, had had dark hair. With Cub at the throttle we campaigned a great many cities and in Denver it was found necessary to send Kelso to a throat specialist. In making inquiries for the best specialist in the city some four or five were recommended but each person we asked seemed to think a Doctor Fiser had the best reputation. Having in mind our class-mate, Fuzzy Fiser, we decided to choose Dr. Fiser because of the similarity of names, never dreaming this Dr. Fiser would prove to be our own Claire Fiser from McClure. Dr. Fiser advised that Mr. Richard remain in the sanitarium for a couple of days for observa- tion and treatment. He ofered the services of his head nurse and said that he, himself, would supervise the treatment. It was finally decided that Dr. Fiser and his nurse should accompany the party for the remainder of the campaign for Mr. Richard's health must be safe-guarded at any cost. We were all anxious to meet the nurse, especially Mrs. Richard, for we all realized that so much of the patient's welfare depends on per- fect sympathy between the nurse and her patient. We were almost speechless with surprise when Dr. Fiser smilingly presented the nurse and proud- ly informed us that she was his newly acquired wife, for this peachy looking little nurse was Frances Van Tassel! We thought Mrs. Richard did not seem as pleased over the situation as Kelso but Van and Fuzzy acted as tho they were still in the third quarter of their honey-moon and we felt there would be no immediate danger of scandal if Van was included in our party. We left the sanitarium with Kelso much im- proved and traveled to California making stops in all the important cities in the West. In Los Angeles we inquired for the best hotel in the city and were directed to the Figueroa. Upon our arrival at the hotel we asked for the manager and introduced ourselves as the Democratic Presiden- tial candidate and party and asked for the best service the hotel afforded. He seemed pleased to have our patronage and told us that he remem- bered hearing the owner of the hotel speak of Mr. Richard as one of his class-mates. We were Fifteen

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il xxx ukllly N ,x...... -4 .....X .N 'x,..x - ' .JD in Last ,Will and Testament of the Class of 1929 We, the members of the Senior Class of '29, of and loss our our McClure High School, being of empty heads unsound judgment feel that an unestimable to society would result if we neglected this, last duty as Seniors, to will and bequeath dearly loved characteristics and High School pos- sessions to our faculty, under classmen and to worm-like individual members of said classes. We legally appoint Glenn Potter, Principal, as executor of this document. We, therefore, bequeath to the faculty our for- giveness, without any mental reservations what- soever, their ability to fully appreciate our super- ior mentality. To the High School, as a whole, we bequeath every thing that is securely fastened to the floor. To the Juniors we unwillingly bequeath, as a tangible heritage, our beautifully hand-carved seats. To the Sophomores we bequeath the few mis- takes we have made. To the Freshmen we give our handsome looks, our gracious manners and lovable dispositions. To the in-coming Freshmen we generously be- queath all of our note books, manuals and book reviews. Our individual bequests are as follows: I, Frances Alspaugh, will my advice, How to Grow Thin to Flossie Shepard, hoping she may be benefited by it. I, Kathryn Fiser, do will my ability to speak in public to Mr. Potter. I, Warren Culbertson, will my musical ability to Ralph Huck Conn. I, Kelso Richard, will by ability of fast talking to Merle Good. I, Ray Gordon, will my ability to make dates to Leona Weaver and my ability to skip them to Miss Ebersole. I, Alfred Oberdorf, will my record of good at- tendance to Charles Deilman. I, Irene Peery, bequeath my Palm Olive Com- plexion to Florilla Randolph. I, Kathryn Deilman, will a package of Beechnut chewing gum to Mr. Hagedorn to chew and enjoy outside of school hours. I, Laura Wolfe, will my ability to write notes to Mabel Dennie, along with my method of how to evade the watchful eye of the teachers. I, Loyd Dennie, will my ability to buy Lucky Strikes to LeRoy Kinney and Franklin Adams until they become enlightened. I, Ernest Doll, bequeath my'athletic ability to Walter Weimer. I, Frances Van Tassel, will my position as Cen- ter on the basket ball team to Dorcas McCurdy. I, Fuzzy Fiser, will my position of back guard on the basket ball team to Buzzy Gordon. In witness hereof we hereunto set our hand and seal on this twenty-fourth day of May, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine. SENIOR CLASS. WIANESSES- George Nelson. Royce Steiger. CODICIL I, Frances Alspaugh, will my half of the last seat in the fourth row to Lena Bohling, Doyle Good having already renewed his lease on the other half for next year. We, Laura Wolf and Kelso Richard, unselfishly bequeath seat number eight in Senior Row to Flossie Shepard and Donald Shepard, hoping they will enjoy the seclusion as much as we have. FISER 8z DOLL. Seventeen