McComb High School - Momento Yearbook (McComb, OH)

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Class Prophecy As we look into the newspaper office of the New York Times paper we find Kathleen Brown typing for the daily addition. Upon further investigations we find that her poor departed husband was once the editor. The school day name of Frances Basil has been changed. We find her living on Hollywood Boulevard with movie producer husband. Her six children are all actresses and Frances trains them. Dorothy Wise is teaching baseball to a girls' recreation class at Maryland school for girls. Her fingers are all jammed and whenever her friends call to see her they find her with two black eyes. Roxie Adams studied debating at college but got married instead of practicing it in public. Instead she spends her time trying to convince her S15 a week husband that S200 is cheap for a good dress. Bernice Ramsey is one of the latest additions to the Broadway Glamour Girl chorus. Right now she has a broken leg which she obtained dancing the new- fangled Rumba. Edith Roether is operating a new fangled school. She starts teaching children at 4 years of age and has them ready to enter college at 10 years. She now has 4,000 enrolled. Rowena Rader is married and is living out west of town. She was married shortly after she graduated and now has sextuplets. She is the first to have them and of course is world famous. At the Metropolitan Opera House we find Ruth Morrison. She plays the piano and also sings. She looks very sweet as she blushingly walks out on the stage and stately bows to her cheering audience. Ruth Carney has entered politics. She is running for U. S. Senator now. Her campaign cry is Have fun you only live once ? The election looks definitely in her favor. Gene Mackey runs a beauty parlor in Cleveland, Ohio. She claims she can make any one good looking if they keep their face hidden. Joy Keeler and Helen Deerwester run a guitar factory. They make them by the millions and demonstrate their advantages on San Francisco Fair Grounds. They appear once each day in grass skirts to sing and play. Jimmy Peneton is in the navy now . He spends his evenings on deck of a large boat singing Spanish songs to beautiful women. On the side he plays his cornet in a swing band. Virgil McDougle is a land surveyer in the south. He spends most of his time, however, on the beachg surveying the women. Thirteen

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0ur Diary In September, 1Sl28, we began our school career. From that first day until we entered high school it seemed that time passed rather slowly for we were anxious Lo become Freshmen. Finally on September 8, 1936, thirty-six students entered High School. We were probably very green for Freshmen always are. We organizednour class by electing the following oHicers: President, Rowena Rader, Vice President, Doyal Byal, Secretary, Gene Mackey, Treasurer, James Peneton, We chose for our motto, Your World Is Your Mirror , for our class colors, maroon and white, and for our class Howers, red and white roses. We were welcomed into high school with paddles by the Seniors at the annual reception for Freshmen. We were very busy during the year growing accustomed to high school life and participation in all the school activities. That year we gained two new members, Joe Wien, and Betty Smith and lost two members, Elsie Willford, and Elizabeth La Roche. In May we closed our books on our Freshman year and came back in September io open them as Sophomores. We elected Gene Mackey, President, Ruth Morrison, Vice President, Ruth Carney, Secretary-Treasurer, and Rowena Rader, Reporter. That fall we had fun at a wiener roast at Bernice Ramsey's. We welcome Frances Basil, Esther Doering, Edith Roether, and Howard Phipps into our class. We also said good-bye to Virginia Farthing. We had a class party at Dick Rinehart's in March. Our fun included a wild scavanger hunt which took us to some rather interesting places including a cemetery. In all our activities we were very enthusiastic and worked very hard. In May we said good-bye until fall, looking forward to our Junior year as a busy one. During the summer, Esther Doering moved out of the school district. In September we chose the following class officers: Dick Rinehart, President, Doyal Byal, Vice President, Edith Roether, Secretaryg Rowena Rader, Treasurerg Lucille Morrison, Reporter. In order to fill our treasury we sold candy and gave our class play, This Night Beware . The cast was as follows: Junior Latta, Ruth Carney, Rowena Rader, Junior Sharninghouse, Bernice Ramsey, James Peneton, Doyal Byal, Ruth Morrison, Lucille Morrison, Dick Rinehart, Imogene Foltz, and Keith Scheele. With the money we had worked so hard to get, we banqueted those worthy Seniors. We had a wiener roast at Ruth Morrison's and a class party including a scav- anger hunt at Bernice Ramsey's. Dorothy Heers, Alva Lentz, Howard Phipps and Garnet Karns withdrew to go to different schools. In the spring we left school anxious to come back in the fall to finish the last lap of our journey. A . l When school started there were twenty-eight Seniors returned with dignity. We elected Dick Rinehart, Presidentg Junior Latta, Vice President, Doyal Byal, Secretaryg Edith Roether, Treasurer, Junior Sharninghouse, Reporter. n This year we presented our class play entitled Soup to Nuts. Theucast includ- ed Gene Mackey, Doyal Byal, Lucille Morrison, Ruth Morrison, Bernice Ramsey, Junior Sharninghouse, Frances Basil, James Peneton, Dick Rinehart, Ruth Carney, Virgil McDougle, Keith Scheele. ' n We had a surprise party at Doyal Byal's celebrating his birthday. We also had another party at Margaret Gorby's where we remember we ate, drank pop, and were very merry. , We Seniors boast of having in our class basketball players whoncontributed much toward our winning the Hancock County Tournament Championship. u I We are also proud to have in our group, Edith Roether, who wrote a prize win- ning essay in the American Legion essay contest. The prize won a trip to Washing- ton, D. C., and other interesting points. , n And now, after having willed our most valuable possessions to underclassmen and teachers, we leave McComb High School knowing more than we did when we entered. Twelve

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Prophecy Dean Ewing is a millionaire poet. He lives in a beautiful mansion in Hawaii but says the scenery keeps him from his work, so he plans to move to the desert. Nelson Weeks is a window washer on the skyscrapers of New York hotels. He says next he's going to try Hag pole standing. Eddie Kersh has a ranch out west. He is a very prosperous bachelor, and spends his time out on the lone prairie writing novels on ranch life. He said he would rather train a bucking bull any day than a stubborn woman. Junior Sharinghouse is married to a beautiful glamour girl whom he met on his recent trip to Hollywood. He is trying to get her mind on the farm fwhere they are residingj by making her feed his pigs. Junior Latta is married too. He is an office worker and spends his money on bars of soap which he carves into toys to sell to children. Doyle Byal is teaching football and basketball at Yale. His team lost the first five years and now is said to be winning every game. His time is spent on his team but his mind on the women. Dick Rinehart who studied to play for the opera is now director of the greatest swing band in the country. Says Riney I'm just a jitterbug at Heart. Charles Moore- is head of the G-Man Department. He was shot in the leg by an escaping bandit and it had to be amputated. Although he has a wooden leg his work is just as satisfactory as it was when he started. Keith Scheele is an insurance man and is trying to sell fire insurance to all jail birds who are sentenced to death. Clara Belle Mitchell teaches little children in a kindergarden in McComb. It is the first kindergarden McComb has ever had. When she sends her pupils on to school they almost know as much as the teacher--thanks to Clara Belle. Lucille Morrison is President of a Reducing Club. The members must be less than 5 feet tall and weigh less than a hundred. Since Lucille was the smallest, she was unanimously elected President. Her formula to keep small is unknown. Margaret Gorby spends her time running a bakery. She is said to bake the best cookies on this side of New York. Mary Emma Rader is a great Scientist. She studies the stars. She first realized how beautiful they were, when she was disappointed in love and has studied them ever since. Imogene Foltz is a fortune teller at Palm Beach summer resort. She tells the people she is a French woman and makes more money. She expects to save enough money to keep herself in old age. She says she's going to be an old maid. Fourteen