New London High School - Wildcat Yearbook (New London, OH)

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CLASS PROP!-IECY I pulled the covers up and I tossed sleeplessly-I pushed the covers down and I tossed sleeplessly. The program celebrating the Silver Anniversary of colored TV had been too hair-raising and new I could not sleep. I finally drifted into that dreamy place of nowhere-halfway between consciousness and sleep-and the most amazing prooram of all appeared on the colored TV screen of my dreams- The N.L.H.S. Class of T956 in Review. Boots Bilton and Bunny Meyer have bought the largest carrot ranch in the world. They raise little rabbits and feed them carrots. My eyes blinked and the vision of Barbara Blalia came before my eyes. She has be- come the owner of a huge restaurant called Tops. jim Brown and Don Clmndler are now big tree surgeons. When thev have time they give free advice to The New London Greenhouse. I Shirley Byron has formed an all-star basketball team. Her star player is Swish Campbell. Of course he plays for the girls team. In the field of athletics Sue Case has made a name for herself. She is the first girl to swim the Vermilion River upside down. I turned over in bed and got some more of these red hot dreams. Mickey Close is married and has 18 kids. Their first names all begin with Z. To-in Buck Burrows owns a coon farm. I-le sells coonskin ca s to the kiddies when 7 ' P he s not out prospecting. I sat up in my sleep as if awakened by a scream and I could actually smell burning tires. I raced to the window and what should I see? VVell, it sure wasn't 8 tiny rein- deer. It was Hank Cramer and his relief driver l'Hernzit Cole. What was really fun- ny was that Fearless Art Frank was trying to wash the car by leaning out of the back window. The next channel had the program of jackie Gleason and Donna Davis. I knew her jokes would get her in trouble. They were followed by the Arthur Murray Dance Party. The chief dancer was Howie Dum, who did a few dances that Uncle Bay Anthony taught him. Dany Dunn finally accomplished his ambition. That was to go to Spain. I-lc speaks Spanish fluently now. Ervin Emerson has one child named after his trusty Green Chrysler products. Yes, youlve guessed it. His name is Hernando DeSoto. Bonnie Denslow is, just by luck, in the movie of the evening. They call the movie company Franklin and Denslow because joey does most of the directing. After watching the late movie, I drifted to sleep and then clang-I was awakened by Roger Fowlefs booming voice saying Testing-one, two, three. What a radio ant- nouncerl V Donna Foster has bought the controlling interest in the detention study hall and is making money substituting for kids who have time to make up. Lnetta Gaton has become a big wheel in the instruction of badminton. She has produced four world champions and has invented a new bird made out of parakeet feathers. Lila Heitsclze has become one of the finest advisors to the President that has come along in years. I should say that she tells him. She's married to him. Ruth Keifer still contends that they don't know the truth about Ruth. She is giving lie detector tests to all the people that say this to her. Howard Kessler has become a politician. l-le still goes by his nickname, Bull. Of course, everyone knows that Bill King is writing a column in the New London Times, but few know that the column concerns advice to the Love-Lorn. He writes under the assumed name of Penelope Prune. joan Kooken is happily married and has settled down to knitting typewriter covers to replace the ones that were in use at N.L.H.S. when she graduated. They have built- in pockets, too. Sponsored by Crumrine Cleaners

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CLASS HISTORY Way back in the year of 1945, the class of 56 started its journey through the school assembly line. Members of the original crew of the class of 56 include: Janice Bauer, Richard Bilton, jim Brown, Art Campbell, Louise Denslow, Bill Dunn, Dean Em- erson, Lila Hcitsche, Margaret Hess, Bill King, Susan Lawrence, john Marctt, Beverly NlcQuate, David O'Hara, Barbara Patchen, Pat Perkins, Doris Poole, Ron Runkle, Marie Springer, Barbara Stone, Doug Tulk and Bruce Upton. The chief foremen moving the class along the assembly line were Miss Hubbard and Mrs. Coleman. In the second grade the class continued its trek under the steady hand of Mrs. Brad-v ish. There were no new additions to our hard working class this year. Tom Burrows was added to our closely knit cog in the third grade. We had a rough time with the subtraction problems that Mrs. Cannon and Mrs. Finkel gave us. Miss Paddock and Mrs. Robbins greeted us and three new members, Howard Duta, Ruth Keifer, and Anita Westfall in the fourth grade. Multiplication along with English was drilled into us as the tempo increased. In the fifth grade geography was a new and startling change to our assembly line. Glen Stewart came to us from Anderson, Indiana. I-Ie, with the rest of us, was put to work by Mrs. Charst. In the sixth Grade we were the wheels of the elementar buildin . Mrs. Wisler rs Y 8 was given the job of controling us this year. The seventh grade was our first year in the Big Plant. We were always late to our classes and forgetting our study hall desk numbers. Cal Cole was our only new hand in this year. After a trying year in the eighth grade came the biggest thrill of our career thus far, graduation from elementary school. Now we were promoted to a new job. This was the job of being ninth graders in the high school building, lowly freshmen.. In our ninth year everyone made new friends and acquaintances with the students who came to replenish our class from Clarksfield, Hartland, Fitehville, and Rochester. The mem- bers who joined us this year were: Barbara Blaha, Shirley Byron, Sue Case, Don Chand- let, Howard Cramer, Donna Davis, Donna Foster, Art Franks, Joyce Franklin, Howard Kessler, Ioan Kooken, Peggy Meloy, Carol Meyer, Janice Oney, June Ryan, Barbara Stiles, Dorothy Story, Rodney Streng, and Rosalie Wilson. No new students were added in our tenth year along the assembly line. Many of our students were now assigned special jobs such as football, basketiball, chorus, band, track and many other jobs. In this year the plant CNew London HighD joined a new syndicate, the Lakeland Conference. In our junior year Roger Fowler joined the crew which was now working on assign- ments like they were robots. In this, our twelfth and final year, Fritz Sauer, fresh from a trip to Germany, joined our class as did Luetta Caton and Orlie Close. This brings the membership of the Class of 1956 to a grand total of 52. The 55-56 school year has brought a great many lasting and cherished memories that we will keep for years. We have the distinction of being the last class to graduate from the high school of the old New London Local School District. just as we leave school, the districts of Clarksfield, Fitchville and New London are involved in the process of consolidation. Sponsored by Knopp's Shoe Store

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CLASS PRGPHECY I-Io hum! Boy, am I sleepy! Oh, I mustn't forget Susan Law're1f1.ce. Remember Tommy Twaddle's soda fountain, It seems Susan and another soda jerk, Glen Stewart, have formed a company and bought out Tom. And from what I remember, they were really rolling in the dough. john Marett is professor of history and space travel at Fitchville Tech. One of his main objectives has been to change the name of the city of Fitchville to Marettville and he has quite a backing, too. Bev McQuate and Mag Hess, who once might have had visions of becoming nurses, changed their minds fast when they were offered jobs counting money in the local branch oi' the U. S. Treasury. Some people have all the luck! VVham! Boom! Peg Meloy is at it again. She is the official setter-offer of the fireworks at Rochester. In her spare time, she puts pennies on the track of the NYC railroad. From the far-off regions of Saudi-Arabia comes word of a great discovery of oil, Pure oil, that is. The noble discoverer of this is Dave O'Hara. He insists he found oil by means of a Geiger counter but we have our doubts. Ianice Oney is busily engaged in giving square dancing lessons to the Eskimos. She 1.'an't complain about being cold because one of the foremost engineers of our time, R011 Sfrreng, has invented a system of makirg heat from snow and ice. I-le also trains for the coming Oylmpics by running around the North Pole. Barbara Patclzen is a stock car pilot and is pushing her 1976 Ford to speeds reaching nearly 200 miles per hour. Down hill that is. Pat Perkins and Dorothy Story are employed by joe Portaro's Beauty Salon. They are experts in the field of hair-dyeing, having had much practice while in high school. You never could tell what color their hair would be the next day. Doris Poole has her own troupe of majorettes called the Poolettesl They are world famous and are now getting ready to tour Russia. Watch those Reds' blood pressure rise! Ron Runkle seems to have taken over his former employer's construction business and has yard-boys of his own. The President called him up the other day and wanted a road built to England so you probably won't see him around here for a while. june Ryan has taken over Clarksfield by storm with her invention of the electronic telephone dial. F-ritz Sauer is the leading man in his field of baking. His most famous delicacy is Vienerschnitzel bread. No one up to this time has known the secret formula for this concoction. Marie Springer is happily married and the mother of 11 chidren. When asked why so many children, being a lover of athletics, Marie replied, This way I have enough for :i football, basketball and baseball team all in onef' What about the band and cheer leaders? The Stiles sisters are recently employed by the Toni people and no one seems to know Which has the Toni? VVC know it is Betty or is it Barbara? Maybe we didn't know after all. Sponsored by Ferrell ond Gardner