Ovid Central High School - Ovidian Yearbook (Ovid, NY)

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CLASS PROPHECY Time: 1956 Scene: The Alumni Banquet of the class of 1946, held at Ovid Central School auditorium. As we are gathered together today, we see the changes which have come into the lives of our fellow classmates. A few are seated around the table, but the rest are still straggling in as in days gone by. As we visit our old Alma Mater, we find that Miss Jane Simpson has followed in her Mother's footsteps and is hopelessly struggling to teach the Freshman which Miss Mannix left to her when she went to New York to teach dramatics. fHer latest hit A Case of Springtime now appearing on Broadway.J Here comes Miss Barbara Bowers. She is now the nurse in charge of the psychoneurotic patients at Willard. She has a chain of grocery stores extending from Ovid to the moon lby radarj as a side line. Bobby is still patiently waiting. Just keep smilin' kiddo. Oh, yes, here comes General Cassidy. He is now the Commander of the U. S. Army Air Force and he will now tell us of his many harrowing experiences. Now entering are Joe Finn and Don Munson, the present owners of the Sure Hit taxi service. A few of those seated are Miss Jane Hayes and Miss Shirley Albro. They have iust opened a tea shop called Dew Drop Inn. Miss Helen Doane is at present a tight rope walker with Barnum and Bailey. Dick Jennings and Phil Lynch are the owners of that famous Drape Shape modeling agency. With them is their outstanding model, Mrs. Edward Carroll. She is the former Miss Jean Lyda, the Miss America of 1956. Miss Esther Blake lbetter known as Betty Hutton the secondl is now singing with Bill Reed lKrupa the secondl and his Swingsters appearing nightly at the Starlight Roof of the Ovid lnn. They will now favor us with that smash hit song number one on the Hit Parade, Don't Flag the Train with Your Petticoat, Mother, The Engineer Might Give You the Slip. lf anyone in the audience would care to invest in some slick chicks, iust call Davenport, 00-2 Short. The owner of this Chickery Chick Chicken Farm is Miss Christine Goslicki. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Clarke lformer Marie Wagnerl have iust dropped in on their way back from their honeymoon which was spent at Hector Falls. Mr. Clarke is Dean of Men at Cornell University. Get up off your knees, everyone, this is iust an informal visit. Miss Harriet Van Vleet is the Dean of Women at Cornell, where she is giving the Co-eds quite a bit of competition. We are now drinking a toast to Miss Joyce Worth who has iust been elected the first Woman Senator. Miss Beatrice McDonald crashed Hollywood in her heliocopter and made such a forceful landing that they decided she was the catch of the year and signed her to a 30 year contract. She is now appearing in the picture The Men in My Life directed by the one and only Royce Green. i'24i

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We were very proud of our Senior rings which we received shortly after Easter. Along with our many studies we sponsored a bake sale, a stationery sale and a vic dance to make money for our Junior Prom. We held the Prom in April and had charge of the Senior Ball in June. In our Senior year there were 34 members in the class, 24 less than in our Freshman year. Our class officers were: President .......... ...... A lan Clarke Vice-President ........... ..... R oyce Green Secretary-Treasurer ..... ..... R uth Nielsen Mrs. Franklin was our class advisor. We, being The class, set out to show ourselves off. It's a good thing that shoe rationing stopped because we were rapidly wearing our shoes out travelinj around the halls. l'm sure each one of us remember the long talks that Miss Mannix gave us about being Seniors and not to go riding along on the crest of a wave any more. We really have done one thing this year that we are very proud of and that is to sponsor a Benefit Dance for Billy Duncan. Billy had been in the hospital recovering from serious bu rrzs for about 8 months and we decided to give him a Christmas present. The community clubs g :ive us some money to put with what we made from the dance so we had a total of 5215. We h sive thought of Billy as our protege since this and are proud to dedicate our yearbook to him. We had our Senior pictures taken on Valen ine's day and since then have been very busy working on the year book. The boys from our class who are in service are: Robert Baldorf Gerald Baynes Walter Evans Henry Jordan Lincoln Lathrop Irving Lewis Herbert McCutcheon Neil Kenyon James Young Our Honor Students are: Valedictorian ..... ...... A lan Clarke Salutatorian .... ............ R uth Nielsen Third Honor ..... ....... H arriet Van Vleet Fourth Honor .... ............. J ean Lyda As we look back over the years we realize what a wonderful time we have had in high school and also realize that it has gone much too fast. We are looking forward to the future through rosy glasses and hope that we will not be disappointed. i'23-l

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Miss Gwen Coleman iwith the E like the mustardl has iust returned from another of her sight seeing tours to Nagasaki and thereabouts where she shows the bulging eyed tourists the points of interest concerning the atomic bomb of 45 . The next thing as unbelievable as the atmoic bomb was the graduation of the class of 46 . Over in the corner we see Connie sitting on her husband's lap taking the part of his secre- tcrry. She trusts no other women. Marilyn McGuire made such a hit with the crmy with her new slush pump invention, that General Cassidy made her his co-worker. She i: now general in charge of the WAC's. Miss Dorothy Quinn that l said it and l'm glad girl has her own very successful radio program now. During the day she appears in such serials as John's Other Mother-in-law ishe's the Mother-in-lawl and Blot on My Past. ln the last one she is the Blot. Miss Ruth Nielsen, our Editor-in-Chief has really put her writing ability to good use. The book of the month club of which she is in charge has just put forth to the public her latest novel lt Comes From a Good Source. Miss Harriet Ross taking over Lorenzo Jones' place as inventor has just invented a new de- vice to wave the eyebrows. Miss Betty fhalf-pintl Kinne has iust recovered from an accident and is hobbling around on a cane, she being so small she was run over by a small boy on a scooter as he did not see her. We now see entering Mrs. Donald Robinson the former Miss Clara Ann Maguire, accom- panied by her six little girls. Mr. Robinson is on important business in Hollywood visiting Bing Crosby. Here comes Mrs. Robert Lewis now and her Fleet. Mrs. Lewis is the former Dixie West. She now lives in Ohio with her husband Skippy and their five sons. I just got a glimpse of our class red-head, Josephine Tobey. She and her husband have iust closed the deal which gave them the right to live in the Caywood Court House. She is the iudge who tries all the criminals while Johnny sees that the iail is kept spic and span. We see Dolores is still trying to make up her mind as to what her career will be. She is try- ing to decide among dramatics, secretarial, doctoring, nursing, movies, teaching and many others too numerous to mention. At present she is hoofing it at the Copacabana Club chorus third in line from the left. Clarissa has iust come in and she tells us that Bill White finally returned from the seven seas. They expect to be married in the near future. We regret to say that Captain Ray Van Nostrand U. S. Navy, the former husband of Marie Bell, daughter of the famous Admiral Bell is in Reno at this time and will be unavoidably de- tained. They are beginning to call him Tommy Mannville the second. Once again, like all good things, the Alumni Banquet must come to a close. We see that a good time was had by all. flt says here in fine print at the bottom of the page.J BY Dixie West Clarissa Stewart Barbara Bowers Clara Ann Maguire Class of 46 if 25 at