Orchard Park High School - Quaker Yearbook (Orchard Park, NY)

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E IOR CLASS PROPHECY T has been ten years smce the Class of 51 gathered tn the Hamllton Hotel on 14th and K Streets It seems hke only yesterday because memorxes of our gay and carefree days are fondly recollected Flrst to arrwe IS RICHIE STANOVICK who havmg marrled rlght after he graduated now has h1s own baseball team mne boys whlch are three sets of trlplets They don t plan on any more chtldren but ln case they do have one they are gomg to make hlm the manager JACK KELLY has Just arrwed, he s stlll hangmg loose m basketball that IS He left ADAM TOPINKO the A class bachelor down at the pool room wlth a match agalnst DON STEBBINS BILL RALPH our pinball artlst lS trymg to master a new tr1ck KEN N ,, BAUN used to be Wlth that gang but of course he'll be late overslept ' agamn One of our prosperous bus lnessmen IS headed thxs way H IS JOE AGRO who owns a chaln of Zoot Su1t shops By the Way he s conductmg a sale on the multlcolored shlrts whlch came mto style 1n 51 Over there 1n the corner tallcmg about everythmg except bus mess are CAROL BATEMAN and GEORGIE BAILEY who have half ownershxp of the East Aurora s Boy s Club Over there IS Marhs Rlemer who pubhshes her own Joke books and DICK WEISER who has a danclng school specxahzlng m the Hula Dance To the left IS JOHN WILDER a defense lawyer havmg for hls motto I am not golng to argue Over here IS SUE ROYCE who recent ly opened a charxty house for the unfortunate boys and here s VIC BOGDAN otherwlse known as Mr Anthony and IS makmg a lwlng gwmg advlce ROGER WHITE IS back from Callforma where he teaches a course m Blushmg He s talkmg to PETE COLLIGAN who IS trymg to mvent transpar en fff k cloth for practlcal use 1 Q V S vm Among some of the others who Just came f m IS Q MARGARET JOHNSTON a secretary aB'i5 K now marrled to her boss Wlth her ts SALLY X 5 SCHULTZ, who takes up boxmg ln her spare txme to protect herself Rlght behmd her IS CAROL MILLER who llked to talk so much she declded to teach public speaklng Here to the left of are some FFA boys 25 , ox - , ' . ' 'F , . ' . S U a , , 3.3. 155 . . . . e . , . . . , I . 1 , . . - V , 1 N5 , . . . - t fl D S Q' ' r I ' ,' ' Q - - xy , , I X - NX 5 my I XX. f U . . . , . I ' ' ' . us .

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W.. Ioanle Trost leaves Chemistry class as fast as she can, headed for---Cornell? ? ? Marlon leaves her Beautxful Jump to the luckiest of cheerleaders Sue Sullenberger leaves her marks to Gertrude Miller, but her pln over her heart Adam leaves our sport's world---an outstanding figure Donme Stebblns leaves Eckl s w1th a headache Sally Schultz leaves all advertlsmg Jobs but she sure did some swell work Richie leaves h1s handsome mustache to Alan Sheahan Marlene leaves her becoming height to Elame Zlebarth B111 Ralph leaves hke a streak of lxghtnmg down the football fleld Roberta Nordblum leaves gym class wxth thanks that she no longer has to play baseball wlth Barbie Brott Ellen Meyer leaves her dancmg abllity to Hibby Brott Bea Marchlnda leaves the band after 5 years of musncal deprec1at1on B111 McClary leaves checking coats forever 11m Krentz and Lorenz St1cht leave their cars anvbodv want em? ? ? 'P Carlton L1ps1us leaves hls All State voice to Dlck Benzmger who has a good start Norma Leltzan leaves selling pop at football games to only those Iumors who don t know any better Bob Kohl leaves to produce our vlctualsm a well organized manner Carol Bateman leaves wlth the g1rls Ethel Wllkins leaves the Home Ec Department to Agnes Burkhardt John Graser leaves his ability to swoon the glrls to Ed Sappelt Rlchard Van Over leaves wlthout a brush cut Agnes Dye and Helen Meld leave as competent secretaries Dlck Buss leaves in his hot rod for the Damry Bar Jane MacConnell leaves havmg unfortunately missed her tr1p to Washmgton Clarlce Pound leaves to take her dog for a walk Joe Agro leaves his pegged pants to the Semor boys w1th the w1ld shlrts Janet Borchert leaves w1th baseball on her mind Ioan Eckl leaves her laugh and the way she does the hula to any Iumor who feels he could take her place Florence Jakubus leaves her wavy ha1r to Susle Holtz gldy Hartloff leaves wlth the satlsfactlon that everyone pald for hls tlcket to the Hobo OP Ronald Wexhing leaves WITH a brush cut Bob Welser leaves for Thorn Avenue Nlck Zllak leaves the smoklng room to Leo Stromeckl THE CLASS OF '51 LEAVES THE WASTED WATER OF THE WASHINGTON WATER PISTOLS TO ORCHARD PARK DURING IT S NEXT DROUGHT AND TO SCHOOL WE SAY 'SO LONG IT S BEEN GOOD TO KNOW YA W f 24

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They are ELWOOD HACKER VOV HALBACH VOV WEISER AND BOB KOHL who are all successful farmers Over there IS RON WEIGI-IING CHEETABUNGA now a great trapeeze artlst He IS talkmg to ERNIE SAPIO who IS noted for 'Tell you what I m going to do but never gets around to It And here s BOB KLAR who now owns h1s own taxl serv1ce after gettmg a start ln school He s standlng rlght next to S DENNIS ' ik MILLS a manufacturer of all day clgars he s J: U probably 4- 2 at 4 trylng to sell some to CLARICE POUND who has Q estab llshed a successful dog kemmel mostly Great Danes Walt Here s a wire and from England too It s from DAVE STOKES who never got used to Amerlcan glrls so he went back to England to get marrled The telegram reads Sorry to mlss the reumon Have fun I am Others who won t be wlth us are IOAN TROST a ballerma 1n Brlgadoon ESTHER BEHRNS domg Irma Peterson for RKO Over at that table IS SUE SULLENBERGER now a well known author The soldxer here IS JAMES HOAG recently decorated We just got word that CONNIE SAPIO wxll so she wants to go the other way Two of our well known people who just came m are RONNIE BAUM GARTEN wmner of the 500 rmle xflfsx Indlanapohs race and LOU HODSON a hot rod drwer They are headed to ward BOB BESCH our Don Juan and MEL BLEY who has stlll Got em at second Others here and there among the crowd are DICK VAN OVER who manufactures b1gger and better water plstols and IENNIE GERLING who IS stlll lookmg for the perfect man They are gomg to have a water duel on the stalrs of the lobby where she became known for her water plstols There s MICKEY DOBSON and KEITH ELKINS probably worklng on a Joke to play on the class More to arrwe are BARBARA BRUTT our vers1on of Betty Davls, who got her start Naughty Marletta and DICK BUSS also ln the movxes playmg parts Clark Gable used to have He now has the lead ln the f1lm Casenova Brown At the table ln the corner are ALTA ENGELS who teaches grade school ROBERTA NORD BLUM who teaches Jujltsu ETHEL WILKINS known as Sophle Tucker and ANNA WIEDER flrst woman presldent of the Umted States And look there s CARLTON LIPSIUS sololst and he s wlth JANE BONG BILL WEISS accompamst B111 has a terr1f1c orchestra At the next table are ALICE MILDENBERGER who settled In Mmnesota and JIM KRENTZ a bull dozmg contractor Wlth h1m IS the shortest gxrl of our class BEA MARCHINDA who IS st1ll trylng to gam an 1nch 26 7 7 7 7 ' . 7 7 ' ' ' ' K 7 77 ' 9 7 7 . , . X . ' J . . . , . . , - N ,.. iff S '- - . 1 9 ' 9 , 5 6 f 1 . W 0 . ' x 5 - 0 W C ' - , 3-rv , . I 1 I Q , , . 7 , SI ' ' - 77 7 ' , . . , . . . , , . , - ' . . , . . . be late because she's on I Street, insisting that K comes before I , - , F - A - fl 7 ' I Q v ' ' 1 9 ' If 7 77 I 7 ' 7 7 ' , . . 7 I . , . . in, H . ,,, , . . , . ' ' ll 77 . , . . , , - 7 Q .A 7 7 . 7 7 . . . , . ' 7 7 7 7 , . , . . . . , . . , . . , , - . i . . . . , , .