New Salisbury High School - Tiger Yearbook (New Salisbury, IN)

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Blau P While waiting for my husband to come home for lunch one sunny May day, l the doorbell rang and it was the postman. He gave me my mail and I noticed on top-of-the stack a small envelope. Eagerly I opened it and to my surprise it was an invitation to the reunion of the Class of l954! I sat down on the sofa and picked up our old album. The first picture I saw was Janis Jackson, my old pal and companion while in high school. Here on the picture it showed Jan- is and two of the boys clowning around. I had to laugh to myself because at this time Janis is running an old Maid's home across the campus from Purdue Univer- sity! Right across from Janis's photograph was a small picture of Mary Goldman, Violet Davis, and Margie Arbuckle having a heated conversation. Margie is feat- ured in Radio and T. V. Press as a yodeler and commedienne of the Troncin Troubadours. Don Troncin, being the owner of the Troubadours, broadcasts and entertains guests at his famous dude ranch in Cheyenne. Violet Davis went to a more beautiful place at stage her career, Hollywood, California, where she is a beautician for Paramount Pictures. Violet wrote me not too long ago telling me how successfully Mary Goldman has taken over Dave Garroway's show To- day1'. She changed to Tomorrow. Recently featured in the news headlines was Marilyn Monroe, who divorced her sixth husband to marry multi-millionaire, Martin Kennedy. Another one of our classmates made news. Porter Nash entered the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race hoping to win his twelfth cup. Going on to the next page of the album, I saw Nancy Hudsonand Dean Hiestand's pictures where they were laboring over their books. They are married now, Nancy being a housewife-career girl. She is the Art Direct or for the Program Win it All, on T. V. , while Dean has been very successful in the air conditioner business. He just completed an automatic air conditioner that you can carry in your coat pocket. Nancy is working for the same station that spon sors T Bar V . where Forrest Oppel is Master of Cermonies for the kids. I interviewed Forrest on my 30 minute program one Saturday morning where I read Fairy Tales to the children. After the interview we had lunch together and he was telling me about Don Davis, our class president, who is now in Siam mak- ing a report to Washington, Don is eager to return because football season isn't far off and he has to return to watch his team, Notre Dame. Another famous man coming out of the class of l954 was Forrest Byrne, now a scientist at Mount Palamar, receiving credit for discovering the 4th Dimension.

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01444 Jlalbuf In September, l942., 36 little beginners rushed eagerly into the primary room for their very first day of school. They were: Judith Applegate, Forrest Byrne, Jimmy Brock, Donna Blunk, Margie Carpenter, James Chinn, Betty Cunningham, Ernest Dodge, Don Davis, Keith Davis, Violet Davis, Ruth Damon, Beatrice Damon, Beulah Elwanger, Phyllis Fisher, Vance Fulkerson, Roland Harris, Paul Harrison, Shirley Kaiser, Earl Lone, Esther Lone, Phyllis Mosier, Porter Nash, Forrest Opp- el, Rosie Peas, Elvin Smith, Eleanor Sinex, Terry Thomas, Maryiln Windell, Ethel Wright, Patrick Winn, Jessie Coomer, Audrey Agan, Lydia Shelton, Gladys Dunway, Junior Mills: - During the next eight years we had several additions and subtractions from our class but we started our Freshmen year with 45. They were: Donald Adams, Margie Arbuckle, David Askren, Forrest Byrne, Betty Cunningham, Beatrice Damon, Don Davis, Deith Davis, Violet Davis, Beulah Elwanger, Phyllis Fisher, Vance Fulkerlson Ronald Harris, Dean Heistand, Nancy Hudson, Janis Jackson, Martin Kennedy, Janet Miller, Phyllis Mosier, Porter Nash, Jorrest Oppel, Harold Rainbolt, Martha Rain- bolt, Walter Rich, Anna Mae Rusk, Arnold Schwindt, Lewis Smith, Terry Thomas, Edith Totten, Denzil Whitman, Lawrence Wernert, Patrick Winn, Billy Smith, Shirley Cunningham, Edna Long, Paul Harrison, Riley Cureton, Judith Applegate, Charlotte, Abbott, Norma Evaline, Ellen Hoten, George Hoten, Barbara Fessel, Allen McCoy, John Erhart. Edna Long quit during the school year and moved to Jeffersonville. In the Sopho- more year we gained Rex Seacat, and lost several more of our members who were: Billy Smith, Paul Harrison, Riley Cureton, Charlotte Abbott, Allen McCoy, John Erhart and Barbara Fessel preferred married life. ' At the beginning of our Junior year we lost Judith Applegate, but we gained Mary Goldman, Louise Craig, Donald Troncin and Joan Gettlefinger. Before the school year ended we lost Arnold Schwindt and Rex Seacat, When we became Seniors we lost Janet fMillerj Taylor, Joan Gettlefinger and David Askren. Which, now, leaves the present 31 members of the class of 1954.

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Turning the page of the album, I thought what a wonderful and talented class we had. Down in the corner was a picture of Terry Thomas in a basketball uniform. It looks so silly now, after seeing him just a week ago in a tailored business suit in the Better Business Bureau. He told me he was working for a New York Contractor Association. His next assignment is to draw up the blueprint for the new White House in Washington in honor of our first woman President . . . Beulah Elwanger. Terry told me his old friends Rdrinie Harris and Lawrence Wernert were in entirely differ- ent occupations. Lawrence was now a sports commentator over WSLM, broadcasting from our old school N. S. H. S, every game the Tigers play, while Ronnie is teach- ing the nine judges of the Supreme Court Parliamentary Procedure. After seeing Terry, I walked down the hall of the big building. I walked past the door of the Prudential Life Insurance Company and happened to glance at the open door I saw a face that looked familiar. I went closer to the desk and to my surprise, it was Martha Rainbolt, private secretary to her new husband. I asked her about her broth er, Harold, and she said he was Dean of West Point, the University. She also told me about Louise Craig, her school-day chum. She said Louise had just been chosen Queen of the Applesauce Festival in Seattle, Washington, and Pat Winn was King. Martha also me of the Opera that she attended at the Metropolitan Opera House starring Phyllis Mosier in The Clogged-up Key-Hole. Her very first performance, and that night she received 18 curtain calls! While thinking of Phyllis Mosier, I turned another page to find her picture, and I found it directly across from that of Edith Totten. She was recently elected Nurse of the Year by our Armed Forces. Speaking of the Army, Betty Cunningham has just made a tour of the world, following her Army Colonel husband. Getting closer to the end of the book, I stumbled across a picture of Louis Smith, now a leader of the National Duck Association at Tampa, Florida where he is making his home. Also residing in Florida is Walter Rich and his family. Walter is testing out a space ship he designed with hopes to reach the moon in the near future. In the corner of the page was Denzil Whitman's picture, winner of the Marathon Olympics in Greece this year.