Newcomerstown High School - Newcosean Yearbook (Newcomerstown, OH)

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RUTH SI LVERTHORNK “Ginger ' Booster Chib 4; Bibleoteca 3, 4, Scc.-Treas. 4; Glee Club 1, 2, 3. MARY SIMONI “Bright-eyes Class Vice-President 3; Booster Club 2, 3. I, Scr.-Trcas. 2; Girl Reserves 3, 4. President 4; Glee Club 3, 4; Literature Club 4; “The Other Half Dozen ; Ncwcosean Staff 4 ; Student Print Typist 4 ; Scholarship Team 3. MAIRFAIR STOCK HR “Mae Glee Club 4. JOHN TAYLOR “Johnny Hi-Y 4; C.lee Club 4; “The Other Half Dozen ; “The Path Across the Hill ; “Dying to Live’ . PAUL TAYLOR “Paul Varsity X 3, 4; Glee Club 2, 3, 4; Class Basketball I, 2, 3. 4; Varsity Basketball. Manager 4; Varsity Football 1. 2, 3, 4 ; Student Print Staff 4. WARNER TIDRICK “Ben Glee Club 4. KATHERINE TROEXDLY “Kaky Class President 3; Bibleoteca 2, 3, 4; Literature Club 4 ; Glee Club 3, 4; Orchestra 2. 3, 4; Xewco-sean Staff i; Student Print Typist 4; Scholarship Team 3, 4. THELMA WIAXDT “Curly Student Print Staff 4; Student Print Typist 4. RCTII WIDDER “Ruthie Booster Club 4, Sec.-Treas. 4; Student Print Typist 4. ROBERT WOLFE “Bob Glee Club 3, 4; Orchestra 2, 3; Class Basketball 2, 3; Xewcosean Staff 4. [ 19 ]

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JAMES PARSONS “Jimmy” Class Basketball I, 2, 3, 4; Student Print Staff 3. VIRGIL PEOPLES “Virg” Class Basketball 2; Varsity Football 3. VERNON POWELL Pal” Cambridge High School 1, 2, 3; Student Print Typist 4; Scholarship Team 4. RALPH REED Reed” Glee Club 3, 4. JEANE RICHMOND “Blondie Glee Club 2, 3, 4. Scc. Treas. 4; Booster Club 2, 3. 4. Vice-President 3; Girl Reserves 3; Literature Club 4; “The Flash”; Student Print Typist 4. RETHA RICHMOND “Ritchie” Student Print Staff 4; “Dying to Live”. MARY KATHRYN RODENSTINE “Mary Kay” Booster Club 2, 3, 4. Vice-President 4; Girl Reserves 3; (ilec Club 3; The Other Half Dozen”. RUTH SCHLARB Babe” JOHN SCHLUPP “Johnny” Glee Club 3, 4; Orchestra 1, 2, 3. 4. MARJORIE SCHLUPP “Tarzan” Booster Club 2, 3, 4; Girl Reserves 3; Glee Club 4; Student Print Staff 4. [ 18 ]

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Senior Class Prophecy Cleveland, Ohio, May 17, 1950 Carl Daugherty, owner of the controlling interest in the Ohio Gas and Electric Company, has called the class of ’35 together. They are now in the banquet hall of thr Hotel Sovereign in Cleveland. Gene Matthews, by tbc way, is the manager of this hotel. As we open the doors Mr. Daugherty is speaking. “As you know I have called you, the class of ’35, together at this time not only for a reunion but also for the marriage of Evelyn Barcroft and myself. As you all appear ill at ease 1 will introduce you, one at a time. As 1 call your name, will you please stand. “First is Betty Latter, my private secretary; Opal Fisher, a waitress in the Peerless Confectionery: Billy Miller, whose profession is made easy to tell by his beautiful set of cauliflowercd ears; Mary K. Rodenstinc and Lavonne Kecs, models in Vernon Powell’s fashion show; Nelva Myers, who is married to John Foust, pastor of the Lutheran Church in Newcomerstown; Harriet Opphile, librarian in Ohio State Library; Mary Pappas, bookkeeper in Derr’s Vencral Store at Plainfield; Rctha Richmond and Ruth Bradshaw, campaign managers for Grover Moore, Republican nominee for President; Marjorie Schlupp, head nurse in the dental department at Lima; Ruth Schiarb, whose picture you have often seen on bill boards advertising Kissproof lipstick; Mary Simoni, who is teaching school in the northern part of Siberia; Katherine Tro-endly, who took the position left vacant when Miss Conn abdicated; Thelma VViandt, a snake charmer in a circus side show; Ruth Wklder, manager of Ncwcomerstown's new theatrical emporium; Willard Beal, who plays first base for the Giants; Paul Car-ruthers, recently promoted to the rank of General in our army; Willard Bond, owner of Bond's File Shop; Carl Boltz, janitor at N. H. S.; David Davis, owner of a chain of drug stores; Bernard Hartman, who helps his father-in-law in the slaughter house; Yulah Miller, the red-headed siren of the screen; Edward McCall, who took the place of the late Stepin Fetchit; Edna Alexander, a nurse in the Coshocton Hospital; Paul Taylor, who is married to Jean Richmond; Howard Norman, Ben Tidrick, and John Taylor, a trio salvaged from the Boy’s Glee Club of ’35 and managed by Ralph Reed; Virgil Peoples, world's champion flagpole sitter; Robert Wolfe, a doctor in Newcomerstown; Hilda Chapman, Janet Lacey and Rachel Neighbor, violinists in the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Mac Draper, comedian of the stage and screen; Ruth Early and Helen Hill, stewardesses on the airlines of Casteel, Parsons, and Company; Edna Hothem, instructor in a cheerleader’s school; Donald Courtwright, a son of the soil; Marvin Derr, a mechanic who acquired his experience at the wrong end of a crank; Robert Elliott, a salesman for the Gist Ford Motor Sales Company; Delbert Gadd, warden at Sing Sing; Paul Hammersley and Frederick Hootman, guards at the same prison; Lawrence Dayton, Superintendent of Bond's File Shop; Lloyd Maloy, history teacher at N. H. S.; Paul Murphy, a simple country lad; Helen Booth and Laura Gadd, owners of a beauty parlor in Newcomerstownj Carl Groff, manufacturer of Groff’s ed ucated hot dogs; Woodrow Couts, former all-American quarterback at O. S. U.; Johr Schlupp, who followed in his father’s profession as a lawyer; Virgil Hogue, who retired as soon as he graduated and hasn’t changed yet; James Hillegas, man about town; Max Corbett, author of the book “What My Farm Would Look Like If the Seeds Would Come Up”; Betty Meyer, Superintendent of the Massillon Insane Asylum; Gene Hackenbracht, who turned his father’s farm into a night club and after the finance company foreclosed on the mortgage they reopened it and made him master of ceremonies; Mary Burdette, who holds down the job of professional housewife; Ruth Silverthorne and Mabel Craigo, well known evangelists; and Richard McMillen, who plays the guitar in a hill-billy band. And now that you all know each other we will proceed, with the1 banquet. —By Ben Tidrick [ 20 1