Newcomerstown High School - Newcosean Yearbook (Newcomerstown, OH)

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 Bidc-A-Wcc Hotel 2913 Fifth Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, June 19, 19 'i Dear Milly: ou cant imagine how glad we were to receive your letter and how sorry we were that we were not at home when you came to visit us. Your letter was very interesting because we hadn’t realized how many of our classmates arc achieving fame and in only six years after we graduated, too! Maybe we can tell you about some of the ones you didn’t mention in your letter. There's Robert Crater for instance. Of course you've heard how well he's succeeded along the artistic lines. He’s been painting portraits of movie actresses in Hollywood. And Marion Johnson is here in Cleveland. He’s one of the operators at Keith’s Palace. We had a letter from Willis Roc the other day. He is an aviator. He told us that he had flown to l.os Angeles recently where he had seen Carl Lyons and Thelma Neighbor in an act at Keith s Pa'ace. They’re two of the best comedians on their regular circuit. 1 guess you re wondering why we weren't at the hotel when you were over. You see we had heard that Eugene Thompson was to hold Evangelistic meetings at the M. E. church at Newcomerstown and we couldn’t miss hearing him. He’s really quite wonderful. While we were home we saw Frances and Rachel Crater. Frances married Howard Jones shortly after graduation and Rachel is a stenographer at the Heller Brothers Company. Rachel told us that Bernice Brown and Glenn Stewart were married last year and have started a poultry farm south of Newcomerstown Hazel HufT and Harold Marlatt are married too, and are living in the old home town. While we were home, we walked down Canal Street and what should we see bu a sign saying “MATILDA MURPHY—PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.” We thought since we were there we might as well drop in and talk to “Tilly”. Inside another surprise awaited us. There was Izola Hannahs as Dr. Murphy’s efficient nurse. Ma tibia told us that Mildred Oaklief and Florence Folkcrt arc teaching in the new kindergarten at home, and John Callentinc and Robert Lee have gone to Wisconsin where they have important positions in the steel mills. She also told' that Verna Allen is married and is living in Toledo and that Frederic Loader is occupying a high position with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. So when we think of the great athletic coach of Cornell and realize that it is Ike Hayes, and when we remember that Jack Kirby is enthralling large audiences with his saxaphone numbers, and that Arthur 1 ufford is sports editor of the Pittsburgh Post, we can't help feeling just a little bit proud that we’re members of the Class of '29. And we’re glad, Milly, that you like your work so well. You know it isn’t every one who can become a Spanish interprctc at a Customs House. With love, Hazel and Ginny Mae. 26

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 Tvj Senior Class Prophecy 1345 Broadway, New York City, June 3, 1935 Dear Hazel and Ginny Mae: I have been thinking of our old school days, so 1 decided I'd write you a big long letter. Do you realize that just six years ago we graduated from dear old N. H S.? 1 wonder if we can find out what .ill our old schoolmates are doing now. First of all, I wish to compliment you two girls on the wonderful hotel that you have. I came to see you about a week ago but you were out of town on business. You have certainly been very successful in your work and you deserve much praise for your achievements. Last Wednesday night I went to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra and of ah surprises—Bob Byrd was wielding his baton as the very efficient leader! After the program I talked with him and he told me that Connie Cooper is governess in a very rich family here in New York and that she is now on a trip to Europe. 1 read in a home-town paper that Eugene Hartman is now one of the joint owners of the Sinclair Service stations of Pennsylvania and that John Little has gone South where he is teaching History in a prominent high school. 1 have been hearing so much talk about the wonderful painter who just come to New York and the other day one of my business partners pointed him out to me. I thought lie looked familiar, and, on closer view, I recognized him as our own little foe Maxwell. 1 stopped to talk with him and he told me that he had just returned from a visit to N. C. T„ where he learned that Margaret Fletcher is teacher of the eighth grade and principal in the West Building there. I met Mrs. Meyer in New York the other day and she told me that Mary Kathryn is married and living in Detroit, where her husband, Mr. English, is office manager of several large service stations. She also told me that Helen Lehman had married Lloyd Huff and that he has now a very prominent position with the Heller Brothers Company in New Jersey. . Last evening I attended a movie and in the News Reel I saw a picture of Floyd Stocker, who had won a prize for operating the largest and most efficient dairy farm in Wisconsin. Maybe some of his success is due to his wife because, as you know, he married Hilda Ripley shortly after they graduated. Speaking of marriage—I suppose you know that Charles Stoner and Mary West have married and are now living in Fostoria? . In the same News Reel that 1 saw Floyd’s picture were shown the pictures ot Elmer Yanai and Ben Barthalow, who graduated from O. S. U. and have also been chosen as two members of Grantland Rice’s All-American team for this year. Isn’t it wonderful that so many members of the class of '29 have proved themselves lo be famous and really worth while? I ihink they all deserve much praise and About a week ago the cruiser Italia” came into New V ork harbor and whom should I notice among the crew but Loren Brown and Walter Hammersley! They told me that Ruth Troendly and Mary, her sister, were waitresses on that boat. About fifteen minutes after the boys went back on the boat another surprise greeted niv eyes—Marjorie Wise and Violet Mercer walked into the customs house! They had gone around the world, traveling on this cruiser Marjorie told me that during a stop-off in Panama she met Ralph Robinson, who is chief engineer on a very important construction there. While in the Phillipines she met Geneva Marlatt, who is a very well-known English teacher in a high school there. Yesterday 1 received a letter from Viola Harthalow and she said that Air. and Mrs. Laurence Heller and their three children from New Jersey visited their parents last week-end. “Larry” is a partner of the Heller Brothers, and George has a prominent position on the railroad. I don't recall where anymore of our classmates are, so when you answer, tell me anything you might know about the rest. I would certainly enjoy hearing about them! Yours with love, Your old pal, Milly Earley. P. S. Oh, yes, Carl McFarland and Chester Lehman are research workers in Africa. 25

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