Michigantown High School - Challenger Yearbook (Michigantown, IN)

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The Class Prophecy After three years of nurses' training and seven years of serious and hard registered and army nursing, we three--Sara Huffer, Wilma Whiteman and the former Fern Shearer--decided to return to Michigantown for the reunion of the class of 1952 to be held on June 7, 1962. We have completed our overseas service and have been stationed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Fern and Max Whiteman have been living for the past two years. Before reaching Michigantown we had car trouble and had to call a service station. Surprise! Surprise! lt was ourfellow classmate, Robert Smith. He is unmarried but corresponds with a girl from London, England, It looks serious. In partnership with David Metzger, he is running a chain of service stations. He is a bachelor and lives in a mansion with Robert in the suburbs of Michigantown. The very reliable mechanic who fixed our car happened to be Norman Perrel, another classmate. He graduated from Purdue and married a girl whom he met there. In Michigantown we saw a sign Newell Appliance appearing on an enormous building being one-half barber and beauty shop and the other half Philco Appliances. Stopping, we talked to Mark and his wife, the former Judy Bowen. He said proudly he had enough boys for a basketball team. Mark and Judy informed us of the remodeling of the schoolhouse and of John Higbee's being a doctor in Mayo's Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He graduated from Indiana University, is unmarried and is doing very well. Later driving toward Boyleston, we read the name of Glenn Dunn on the mailbox, being curious, we stopped and learned that Glenn had married the former Jane Ann Ransopher. They farm 500 acres and own 300 and have two sets of twins, all girls. They informed us that Junior Nance had made millions in the oil industry and a gambling Casino in Texas. He married one of the dancers from the Casino. We spent the rest of the evening and night withthe former Carolyn Cohee. She told us of her experiences teaching at Jeff High of Lafayette, Indiana, 'for two years. She graduated from Purdue and later married and lives on a farm near Frankfort. They have a family of twin boys. Early the next morning we started toward Frankfort. We saw a woman, who resembled Lucille Eaton, feeding chickens. Looking at the mailbox we saw the name Paul Gravesg therefore we stopped. Lucille saw us and came over and started talking to us and asked us to stay for lunch. The rest of the morning was spent socially. They have a little boy.

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JANET LEE WEAVER Girls' Athletics '49, '50, '51, Girls' Chorus '49, '50, '5l: Sunshine '49, '50, '51, '52, Senior Play '52: Annual Staff. VIOLE T ZAR TMAN WILMA JEAN WHITEMAN Senior Play '52, Sunshine '49, '50, '51, '52, Chorus '49, '50, '51, '52, State Chorus '5Zg Girls Athletics '49, '50, 'Sli Band '49, 50, '5l: Kokomo District Con- test '51, '5Z, Annual Staff. Senior Play: Sunshine Society '5Z: Annual Staff.

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Lucille told us about some more of the classmates. She told us Tom Daniels was married to a Frankfort girl and had enlisted in the Navy for twelve years. They live in Florida, where he is stationed and have no children. Joan Ostler was a stenographer for a lawyer ir. Kokomo: after working for him one year, they were married and have three children-two girls and one boy. Barbara Sutton after going to business college is now working in the office of the Delco Ramey Corporation at Kokomo. After lunch we continued to Frankfort: needing gas, we stopped at a service station and lunchroom owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Grinstead. Mrs. Grinstead, of course, was the former Phyllis Jackson. Phyllis operates the restaurant and they have two children, a boy and a girl. We passed the George Motor Sales, where the proprietor is David George-another former classmate. We stopped and he told us he had been married three times. His first wife diedg he divorced the second and is stillmarried to the third. I-le has one blond curly headed boy. Going back to Michigantown, we passed the home of Wayne Patchett. We stopped and talked to Marilyn. After she had graduated from Indiana University, she married Wayne and is now teaching in a public school besides giving private music lessons on the piano and the organ. They have a family of two. She told us that Phyllis Conrad has her own radio show and makes personal appearances on television. She married a young singer and lives in New York. They have two children, a boy and a girl. She also informed us that Violet Zartman was a registered nurse. After being graduated from Home Hospital at Lafayette, she married a boy from Frankfort. They now live in Clregon and have twin girls. Back in Michigantown we saw the former Sarah Crist, who is now the postmaster there. She is married and has three children, two girls and one boy. She informed us that the former Janet Weaver had married Robert Crenshaw. They moved to Chicago, where Robert is an interior decorator for Marshall Fields. They have one girl. Since'Sara's mother and father had moved to Canada and Fern's had moved to California, we spent the night with Wi1ma's parents.