Ossian High School - Oracle Yearbook (Ossian, IN)

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SENIOR CLASS WILL We, the senior class of 1942, being of sound mind and body, and of excellent judgment in matters both educational and otherwise, must, as every student does sooner or later, pass from this scene of learning, commonly known as Ossian High School. So, in order to follow the custom of a time such as this, the class wishes to make its last will and testament. Hear then, all ye who have ears, the follwing document, duly drawn and sworn to: Item I. We give and bequeath to our beloved faculty our sincere gratitude and appreciation for lead- ing us to the best of their ability through these four years of learning. Now that we are about to depart from their presence, they will be able to spend their nights in peaceful rest and slumber lwe hopel. Item II. It is the desire of each of the big-hearted and generous seniors to leave a certain individual trait to a member in the under classes. May these fortunate recipients appreciate and use to their advan- tage the valuable possessions which are now to be bestowed upon them. 1. Golden Archbold wills two and one-half inches of her height to Tommy Haiflich. 2. Jean Bowman wills her diamond to Bessie Weikel. 3. Tommy Brown leaves his title as the world's Champion liar to Cocky Cover-dale. 4. Harry Button wills his extensive vocabulary to Bob Miller, 5 Harvey Caston wills his excess weight to Bill Bryant, 6. Eloise Dawson leaves her briefness in stature to Luella Springer. 7. Edward Duncan leaves his pleasing voice to Miss Knull and sincerely hopes it will be of service. 8. Robert Farr wills his love of speed in any form to Roy Bushee, 9. Im0Jean Grandstaff wills her timidness to Helen Dettmer. 10, Arnold Grewe wills his one-arm driving ability to Mr. Murray. 11. Vera Grewe wills her afternoon nap in Mr. Hedges' class to Alvin Miller, 12. Mary Lou Grim wills her beautiful Castle of Dreams to Janet White. 13. Ralph Hatfield wills a box of stogies to Kenneth Schwartz. 14. Marcille Hedges leaves her position on the honor roll to Ned Archbold. 15. Marcille Helfrick wills her position as Mayor of Poe to Phyllis Ake. 16. Joan Hoover wills her ability lor inabilityl to juggle three boy friends, to Jean Weist. 17. Edward Horman leaves his beautiful blue eyes to Jack Hammon. 18. Betty Jo Isnogle wills her love of the Lancaster boys to Joan Pape. 19. Carl Johnson leaves a bottle of his best wave-set to Russell Coverdale. 20. Gilford Johnson leaves his pretty, wavy hair to Rex Hatfield. 21. Hannah Jones wills her ability to roll them eyes to Audrey Mackey. 22. Betty Kay leaves her pretty white boots to Mr. Griffin. 23. Marlin Keidel wills a big wad of chewing gum to Marilyn Trzynka. 24. Ruth Kincaid wills her ability to hold her man to Lavon Bauermeister. 25. Phil Lydy wills his rubber boots to Mr. Moore, 26. Bill Mahnensmith Wills his dainty ears to Ansel Beck. 27. Delbert Marble leaves many brokenhearted freshman girls for Dwight Foulks to comfort. 28. Bob McAfee wills his abundant grey matter to the Keifer twins. 29. Marcelle McCague leaves her expressive eyebrows to Marcille Werling. 30. Joan McLain leaves her curly hair to Bob Lewis. 31. John McMullen wills his book of etiquette to Junior Foulks. 32. Bob Mercer wills his woo-woo technique to Junior Urshel. 33. Max Middaugh wills a twenty-five-cent defense stamp to Miss Glass. 34. Evelyn Miller wills her fiirtatious manner to Joyce Byerly. 35. Eileen Monroe wills her book on How To Become an Actress to Naomi Springer. 36. Jessie Neuenschwander leaves, wondering if anyone will ever learn how to spell her name. 37. George Panas wills his A conduct to Tom Toor, 38. Mary Pape wills her talent for writing letters to Norma Claire Hedges. 39. Betty Resler leaves her ambition to become an old maid to Evelyn Mills. 40. Lucy Rogers wills her golden hair to Emilie Keck. 41. Anna Bell Slain leaves a great big smile to Mr. Romine. 42. Virginia Slane wills her love for tall, dark, and handsome boys to Marjorie Hiser. 43. Chester Springer leaves his desire for a girl to Bob Rupel. 44. Ernst Springer Wills his ability as class president to his little brother, Norman. 45. Frederick Springer wills his man-about-town manner to La Vern Leeka. 46. Raymond Springer wills his skill at basketball to Albert Harkless. 47. John Spuller wills his He-man physique to Norman Young. 48. Wanda Stoneburner wills a bottle of peroxide to Pauline Courdway. 49. Geraldine Way wills one freckle to Alice Werling. 50. Billy Wilhelm leaves Betty Kay still trying. 51. Bob Yergler wills his dancing ability to Tommy Hunter. 52. Pauline Valentine leaves her cute dimples to Helen Ake. We hereby constitute and appoint Max King and Paul Farr as executor and administrator of this, our last will and testament. In Witness Whereof, We, the class of nineteen hundred and forty-two. testators, have to this, set our hand and seal, this twenty-first day of April, A.D., 1942. Eighteen

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CLASS HISTORY OF '42 In early September of 1930, thirty-four young, happy pupils boarded the great 'tAir- ship of Knowledge at Ossian High School. In April of 1931, Miss Gladys Meyers and Miss Anna Louise Spake, our pilots for the past year, landed the airship and let us out to stretch our legs and romp around. After four months' vacation we started the second hop of our journey, with four new passengers, they were Golden Archbold, Evelyn Miller, Nellie Prough, and Mary Louise Rutenburg. During our first year's journey we lost two passengers, Junior Urshel and Norma Dean Wiekel. This year our pilots were Mrs. Martha Melching, Miss Kathrine Edris, and Miss Helena Mahnensmith. With a good tail wind, we entered the third year of our journey with Miss Ardola Lechner and Miss Helen Archbold acting as pilots. During our summer's vacation Golden Archbold had moved away, but in spite of the loss, we gained another passenger, Imo Jean Grandstaff. At our fourth stop, Robert Hall, Herman Bushee, Betty Jo lsnogle, and Dorothy Schuenaman joined us. Miss Helen Archbold and Miss Esther Hoopengardner were our pilots. Piloting our fifth year were Miss Marie Alsman and Miss Helen Archbold. We left behind Elizabeth Talerico, Roma Decker, Robert Hall, and Billy Trellender. Those board- ing the plane at this station in our course to knowledge were Golden Archbold, Robert and Emmett Courdway, Blaine Knight, and Mareiel Hart, Fred Wall opened the throttle to begin our sixth lap. We were sorry to lose five of our passengers: Dorothy Schuenaman, Mary Louise Rutenburg, Jay Fox, and Blaine Knight, but also we were glad to welcome Kimsey Anderson, Edward Duncan, Florence Brindle, and Rowena Davison. When we entered the seventh grade, going was hard at times, but we managed to pull thl'OUgh- Our pilot WHS MiSS Helen SIT1311. Our newcomers were Ruth Kincaid, Stanley Haiflich, Betty and Wayne Flickenger, Robert Farr, Robert Yergler, and Mary Louise Rutenburg. This year we lost two passengers, Joan Lewis and Florence Brindle. In the eighth hop of our journey we lOSt two passengers, Wilbur I-lelblig and James Parker. But we took on four more passengers, namely, Eloise Dawson. Hannah Jones, John Lee, and Marvin Ostermeyer. We were piloted this year by Mr. Joe Bowers, ln the ninth leg of the journey we were again piloted by Mr. Bowers. This year we lost several classmates: John Lee, Eugene Smith, Marciel Hart, Mary Louise Rutenburg, Pauline Mackey, and Rowena Davison. This loss was supplemented by the many more we picked up, they included Loren Taylor, Jack Harris, Harvey Caston, Marlin Keidel, Delbert Marble, Eileen Monroe, Marcille Helfrick, Edward Horman, John Spuller, Robert McAfee, Carl Johnson, Gilford Johnson, Erma Simmerman, Anna Bell Slain, Harold Trzynka, Ernst Springer, Frederick Springer, Chester Springer. Raymond Springer, Halden Krauter, George Panas, Betty Jean and Dale Rinehart, Emmett and Robert Ccurdway, Tom Brown, Raymond Keck, Warren Adams, Harold Grim, Wanda Stoneburner, Virgil Teeple, and Vera and Arnold Grewe. Our tenth year we were piloted the first semester by Mr. Joe Bowers, but when he left to take a position in India at the end of the first semester, the pilot's wheel was taken over by Miss Frances Snoddy for the second semester. We lost Herman Bushee, Duane Archbold, Bernard Walsh, Jack Harris, Loren Taylor, Kimsey Anderson, Stanley Haiflich, Joan Lewis, Virgil Teeple, Emmett and Robert Courdway, Marvin Osteimeyer, and Warren Adams. However, Marcille Hedges joined us. The eleventh year of our journey came, we were again piloted by Miss Frances Snoddy. This year we lost Juanita Pape, Roy Bushee, and Erma Simmerman, but Harry Button came from Chicago to make up part of the loss. At last our HAirship of Knowledge came to a happy landing. Miss Evelyn Knull, Mr. Kenneth Griffin, and Mr. LeRoy Hedges guided us through our last year. Geraldine Way came from Liberty Center to make our group completeg also we were sorry to lose several of our passengers-Harold Grim, Betty and Dale Rinehart, Harold Trzynka, Halden Krauter, and Raymond Keck. During Christmas holidays Mary Ellen Confer entered into matrimony. With a class of fifty-two we landed our passengers for their last ride in the Airship of Knowledge. We regret the one casualty of our class, the death of Wilbur Helblig. Seventeen

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IN YEARS TO COME It was on the day of June 16, 1960, that Mary Pape, Ralph Hatfield, and I met on the corner of Broadway and Forty-Second Street. What a surprise! To think-the three of us were in New York! You wouldn't have recognized us. Ralph had lost all of the curl in his hair that he had in the days of '42: Mary was not the same jolly Pape she had been in her high school days. Of course we decided to eat together. We chose the Astor Hotel, which was widely known in the city of New York. While enjoying our shrimp cocktails and lobster dinner, we had a very interesting conversation. All of us told just how we had spent our lives since we had been out on our own. Mary had had quite a struggle, as her husband had mortgaged everything on their estate and then deserted her. Ralph was on a furlough, and a top sergeant in the U. S. Air Corps, and I-, well, I am just an old maid who has inherited my uncle's estate and then thought it best not to marry. We were watching the orchestra leader when the waitress brought on the second course. Mary im- mediately recognized her as none other than Virginia Slane, who had graduated from Ossian High School in 1942. We were very happy to have met one of our old schoolmates and we had a very jolly visit with her. Time seemed to fly, for it wasn't long until the proprietor of the hotel came and told Virginia that he was paying her for the work she did and not for visiting. We bade her good-bye and she returned to her work. This gave us an idea that we would like to look up all of our old schoolmates and see how many we could find. Ralph suggested that we go to the New York City Chamber of Commerce and get a directory to see how many of our classmates lived in New York. When we reached the City Office. we found that Phil Lydy was the Mayor of New York. He said that he was having love trouble among Imo Jean Grandstaff, .Ioan McLain, and Wanda Stoneburner. Phil told us that Wanda Stoneburner was a second Kate Smith, Joan McLain was a cigarette girl, and Imo Jean was a tap dancer who was starring on Broadway. Ralph was called to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, and was supposed to be there at 9:00 a. m. the next day. He invited Mary and me to go with him. We crawled into his airplane and we were on our way. We arrived just at the said time. Mary and I went into the airport terminal while Ralph was taking care of his business. Soon Ralph returned and told us that he had just met Max Middaugh. who was the pilot of a stratosphere liner, We were just leaving when a girl, standing near a big T, W. A. plane, attracted my attention. I walked over near the plane and found that Jessie Neuenschwander was a hostess on this plane. She told us that Mr. Robert Yergler was her eInDl0YeI' and that he lived OH 3 feneh neal' Denver, Colorado. We decided that we would visit him next. It W2iS very late- S0 We Cleeieled to Spend that night in Pittsburgh. I was looking for a taxicab number in the phone book when I discovered several names that I thought were familiar. First on the list was GeOI'ge Penne- l Wanted to See George. but time being short, I called him by telephone. I was much surprised when he told me that Eloise Dawson was his wife. He said that she was a dress designer on Fourth Street. He also told me they had two sets of twins. Someone else wanted the line, so I closed my converS81i0h with Ge0FSe' l then Called UD Gilf0rd JOhI1SOn. who was 3 preacher at the First Baptist Churchs He said that he had been united in marriage with Ruth Kincaid that afternoon. I wished them manv happy ClaYS legelhel' and Went OH to the next person on my list. I had quite a long talk with Marcille Hedges, She was running a slaughterhouse in Pittsburgh and she knew more about livestock than any veterinarian I had ever Seen. That is all the names I found. so the three of us decided to call on Robert Yergler next. We boarded Ralph's plane once again on a non-stop flight to Denver, Colorado. We reached our destination just in time to be Mr, and Mrs. Yergler's guests for dinner, We found Mrs. Yergler to be the former Miss Lucy Jane Rogers of Ossian: the butler appeared to be a Frenchman. but after close observation, Mary dis- covered that he was another classmate of '42. none other than JOhn ElliS lVIC1VIL1llen. He tO1d us that Jean Bowman was the maid and that John was her devoted husband. I looked out of the window and saw a man reaching into a horse's mouth: this proved very interesting. S0 I went out to see what was happening. When I got out there. I found that Bill Mahnensmith was a veterinarian and was trying to remove the horse's tonsils. Bill told us that Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Caston lived only a few miles away and that we should be sure to call on them. We paid them a visit and found Joan Hoover to be Mrs. Caston. They had fourteen little Castons, four girls and ten boys. I can assure yOu that there was never a healthier SFOUP nf Children than these. They lived on a little forty-acre farm heal' Denver. We journeyed on to Salt Lake City and found that Frederick Springer had become a famous sculptor and that Betty Resler was one of his glamorous models. Naomi MCCBFZUG WHS elS0 employed in this respect. We went out to lunch and while reading the morning paper, we found that Tom Brown was suing Betty Kay for divorce. We decided to go to Reno, Nevada, to see our schoolmates and see if we could not do something to settle the trouble. We arrived at Reno just in time to attend the court session. As we were listening to the session, we saw several Others of our classmates take the stand. Torn was suing for divorce because Betty kept stepping out with Delbert Marble, Bill Wilhelm, and Bob Farr. Harry Button was the judge and after the session he told Tom and Betty that they must go back and live together for one year and if they did not get along. 3 div0rCe Wenld be granted T0 them. We We1'e very happy to hear the judge's decision. We rushed up, and they seemed to forget their troubles immediately. fDelbert tried to make a hit with me, but as I was against men. I held my own.l We left for Hollywood early the next morning. When we arrived, the first person that we met was Miss Mary Lou Grim. She told us that she had been in Hollywood for three years. She also told us that Arnold Grewe, Evelyn Miller. and John Spuller were movie actors. She said that AI'HOld and Evelyn were married and had 8 little baby boy. John Spuller was single and the most popular man in Hollywood. She also wanted to know if we had heard about Marcille Helfrick running for president. According to the newspapers. I judged she had a fair chance of being elected. 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