Randolph High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Englewood, OH)

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PAGE 36-RANDOLPH And Susie Curtis's blond hair! It was very becoming. She used to have it done at Becky Kessler's beauty salon. Norma Wirth was the head operator and Marlene Cox was her receptionist. They have established the finest beauty shop in and around Dayton. Miriam Mann was a very serious person. She became a missionary to India and flew over on a plane on which Shirley Weber was a stewardess. Miriam is very popular with the natives and has done some terrific work with them. Shirley is crazy about her job as stewardess, and I don't blame her. Here is the girl who was a caution-Barbara Swigart. She was really full of fun and was into more mischief than anyone could begin to tell. I am surely surprised at her job. She raises and trains dogs and is a very prominent judge of animals, also. Animals remind me of farms and I shouldn't forget to mention that jack Shoen- felt now owns a 5,000 acre farm. Dick Smith takes care of the chickens and has suc- cessfully developed a chicken with all white meat. jack was the first person to grow green beans and corn on the same plant so it would be easier to make succotash. Anna- belle Sherer has quite a job as their bookkeeper! Some members of our class are now very prominent in the medical field. Ellis Denlinger and Pat Wall have just discovered a cure for cancer. They have been widely acclaimed and are doing a bang-up business. Oh, my, Phyllis McDermott. She's a very well-known dentist in San Francisco and has developed a new kind of false teeth that don't come out once they're put in. That would be handy for some of us who are getting along in years. We're not as young as we used to be, you know . . . Coleen Coffey started out to be a nurse, but while she was still a student, she fell in love with one of her patients and got married. Oh, well, we all warned her . . . jon Stitz produces the television program for which Ben Smith is 'emcee. Ben replaced Arthur Godfrey and is a great success. The other night Janice Honeyman was a talent scout and introduced the prominent clarinetist who made jazz popular again, Karl Schroeder. For the guest of the evening, jim Volk appeared. Jim and his partner won the National Jitterbugging Contest in 1964. That's been a long time ago and jim has made himself quite well-known as a disc jockey. Here's a cute girl. Name's jane Avery and once she started working at the Day- ton Daily News, it didn't take her long to work her way up to editor. Sally Carles writes her gossip column and not long ago there was a story by her about Irma Thompson. Seems Irma married the King of Egypt. Ronnie Trowbridge is Jane's sports editor and has written many good articles, such as the story of Ernie Schultheis from high school clear up to the year he made All-American halfback when he played for the Cleveland Browns. On television the other night, Ronnie T. interviewed three graduates of '52. Seems Mervin Butts just returned from a very successful lion hunting expedition in Africa and Gail Deshong was proclaimed the world's only lady bullfighter. She is really a champion! Shirley Betz is known throughout the world for swimming the English Channel- both ways' without stopping! I just must mention Bob Kelley. I-Ie's really an important person. He should be since he was the first one to get a complete story from the Iron Curtain-and live to print it! Just looking at the 'Bobcat' has made me seem closer to my old classmates. Ah, yes, those were the good old days. We really had some wonderful times. Guess I'd better get busy addressing these reunion invitations to the best ever-Randolph's Class of '52, just think, only 25 years ago . . .

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EIHSS PHUPHIEY My, how time flies! Why, it's been 25 years since I graduated from high school! I have just finished talking to Paul Knoop on the 'phone about final arrangements for a class reunion. Paul graduated from college and became one of the greatest basketball coaches in the nation. lt's a shame he had to retire, but coaching is quite a strain for some- one his age. Now if I can only find my 1952 Bobcat, maybe it will help me remem- ber the names of all my classmates in the good old Class of '52. . . . Oh, here it is. just look at those hair styles! My, how times have changed. And the boys with burrs! It's hard to believe that we really looked that way once. And my interior decorating business was started not five years later. I'll never forget the day my shop was finished with Sue Zander, Interior Decorator, in neon lights above the door. But enough of this reminiscing, I must get these reunion invitations written. Bob Farrier. Let me see, do I remember him? Oh, why of course, he is manager of Macy's Department Store in New York and Mary Lou Foster was head buyer for the exclusive shop for ladies. Now she's married and has a son who is doing a terrific job as center on Ohio State's basketball team. Oh, yes, and Judy Zink. She's head set designer for MGM now. She always did like that type of work, but I understand she and her husband are having trouble because of Judy's working. Oh, well, those Hollywood people . . . I understand Sondra McKee is in Hollywood, too. She designs clothes for the movie stars and does modeling as a hobby. She must be a millionaire by now! Who can forget Bob Rose? He started the first automatic laundry in Englewood. And the way the boys used to tease him about his socks . . . Well, jim Walker. I thought surely he would take over his dad's automobile business, but he seems to be content to be driving buses and servicing Buicks for Marilynn St. johns enterprise. I guess jim finally married Bonnie Brumbaugh and I imagine they're very happy. Nancy Wilson has made quite a name for herself, too. She won the Olympic championship for ice skating 20 years ago. She teaches skating now and even though she isn't so young any more, she gets along swell. Good old Sunny Black is in partnership with Roger Oglesbee. They have a chain of frozen food marketsfrom New York to California. Bob Wenger was always rather quiet, and his occupation is surprising--he tests jet planes and Keith Albrecht is his chief mechanic. They have been responsible for many improvements in jets. Quite a pair! Speaking of mechanics, Louis Bender and Max Haney own a repair garage and I understand that Irene Barnes, Randolph's drivers' training teacher, takes the training car there for any repairs. lt must have been something when Irene tore out a transmis- sion while trying to teach her'class to shift gears. Embarrassing moments! I wonder if Norma Krug still holds the world's record for typing. She could type 175 words per minute for one hour. What a whiz! Lottie Webb was very good, too. She has been secretary to the President of the United States for the last eight years. Speaking of presidents, Bill Kingery is a great politician and has a very good chance of winning the presidential nomination. Let me see . . . oh, yes, jo Valley is a senator from Ohio. She just proposed a bill concerning taxes. Her secretary is a graduate of Randolph, also. Oh, what was her name? Why, of course, Clara Hanshaw.

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