Rhodes High School - Aries Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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SENIOR PROPHECY CLASS or lANUARY, 1948 Below there is a prophecy Of future epitaphs. We nudged a few. One might be you, So easy on the laughs. Jacko Armstrong continues to grow up. College buckets raised to twelve feet. Roofs come off stadiums. Jeanne Case becomes women's physical ed teacher. Tells her motto to students. Shapely limbs-Many Hims. Roy Doc Bugay sits at home smoking his Slash pump while little blondes romp about the unsuspect- ing track squads. Lillian Blasik revolutianizes dime stares. Nothing above Sc and lOc. Raids on weekly sewing circles held at Bob Bren- ner's and Ray Eirich's. Annual Justine Cheselka Day Race to be held in January. Glenn Cowgill's coming out party will be held the night before the prom. Arlene Crouch is the proud owner of a big diamond ring-third finger left hand. - - - lDo we hear wed- ding bells?l John Cross gets two years in hoozegow for stealing kisses frorn Fanny Farmer. Shirley Cutting is opening a boarding house on Spring road for bachelors only. Ron Doehler makes his first million. Buys new Cadillac. Throws away keys and walks so no one can leech him for a ride. Gloria Daso now selling hand painted ties for men. Competing with ancient history museum. Frank Dydek blows up teacher's college with his own brand of cigarette. Ramona Di Lellis and Helen Pawlak have replaced Carmen Miranda in the cinema. Fred Engleman is a driving instructor for women only lBlondes preferred.l Love letters found in Cornel Wilde's mail box signed . . . Franks a million, Irene. Hector Hoot Man Fraser, just released from Klaas' prison, will resume booking at Thistle Down lHis job is to catch foul tips l. How many will fall under the pressure of Irene Good Head Hallahan's flashy blue peepers lMay all her little lrishmen be the samel. Jack Fuelling and Harry James. Carol Hillebrecht and Betty Ziegler now own Clague's. Have special rates for nightly hay rides . . . if they are included. Gene Politician Fullington opens men's stare next to Luke's. What time did you say Harry Schwarz closes? I Anna Hall and the King of Siam. Regina Hollen intends to marry a basketball player and raise five little maple-maulers for the future Rhodes quint. Absent minded office manager, Don Gecking, found flirting with his typewriter. lWoit till Jan sees this. She'll punch'm.l Low and behold, Josephine Lioi becomes Mrs. Pro- prioter of the Shack of Weeds. Larry Sol Gedeon will sell the same thing twice as cheap. Used clothes business hits new high lskirts exceptedl, Get Gedeon's Gotten Garments. Phil Giordano makes living from pennies in pock- ets of cleaning. Jean Lombardo transferred to Halle's floor clean- ing staff. All washed up, eh Jean? Mary Lou Loughead whips down l-litch-up Hol- low. Will pull up Short to alter. Andy Holz moves in at the end of fifty-fourth street. tlt's dark therel. Marion Masek lives up to her initial name . . . Marions Marryin' some day. Al Huy is the star attraction at a certain estab- lishment on Ninth and Chester. - The Matejka-Zaza, dare-devil racing team, are entering the Driving Class Special in the national air races next year lLess trafficl. Gene Einstein Jeffery becomes night watchman at Schuster's Atomic Brewery. Jeanette Meng has a husband who runs a Woke you up in the morning company. Wake up Jeanette. Tom Kasner named City Transportation Chief. Runs bus line to local brewery. Voted president of club at Rhodes, Tappa Kegga Beer. Dorothy Mikolack is the star saleslady in Wurlit- zer's cheese box department. lDon't squeeze too hard, Dot.l Tom Keppler, nationally known cheese cake photo- grapher, witnesses rise of hem lines. Betty Mushat might be showered with Reise . Ron Koepf, with flashy clothes and all, opens up new studio for Arthur Murray on Broadway in New York. E.J.H. is counting on Dot Owens knowledge of dis- tance men to help his cinder-slammers on. Milers included. X

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Bob Snooky Koons, the Pied Piper of JFR, chasing all available Janes. Maryellen Shaw knotted to Hide-siammer . Little Hanks take up baton. Don Kovach manages Cleveland Browns. Promot- ed to bass drummer in the Musical Majorettes lBe- comes saturated l. Grace Skintek gets married. Takes boxing lessons. Repays black eyes. Clyde Kuebler following in the footsteps of Poppa, taking everyone for a cleaning, especially in and African Dominoes. Elsie Happy Palos becomes vice-president in charge of Tootsie Rolls at Becker's. Ray Kuehn turns Big Wheel. Gets around. Shirley Mommy Russell is warbling Black Magic at the Black and Tan club Sunday nights. Meetless Louie Lautermilch has wards with president. Lydia Scherer writes a book called Manhunters . It may outsell Forever Gordon . Future president of the U. S.? Why, George Cutie Boy Lechner of course lhootl l Eva Scuba lsecond from right, first rowl hoofing it at The Palace. Al Leyerle is improving his cave mon tactics. Base- ball bat still good. One girl has fallen for him al- ready. Francis Stone will wield whistle and stick stuff in callege's group of many toots. Bob Tootsie Pool wants to be shut up alone on a little island along the Barbara Coast. Eva Schwerthoffer is getting an elderly man to wash family dishes for her. Hal Platt will ploy Lay That Pistol Down, Babe once too often. Wife blows his brains out. Dorothy Urban thrown from horse. Saddles up again. Rides to altar. Jim Scanlon claims that his jalopy is like any oceonliner. Takes a tug to get it started. Whose voice is that ringing from the public square tin cup district? lt's coming from under that black bonnet next to the oovillion. Why's its Louise Wolf. John Tarzan Scerbik will most likely swing from locks of ebony hair. He will fall and wreck his knee again and finally decide to resume feetball. Les Schubert turns golf pro so he can go around with an old bog. Old Doc Schumacher lifts price on feed. Less do-nuts on Becker's counters. Bob Krieger and Wally Onizchak have turned to Standord's back room. Doris Wiese is football coach for line at Yale U. Shows Ed P. how to ward off passes. lHer passes, of coursel . Glenn Seeman is modeling some two-hunk bathing suits for Woman's Home Companion. They're just rooty-toot. Gil The barber Skiba really cutting up lately llong skirts, that isl. Betty Logelin has a great weight off her . . . mind. She moved next to the Rye-Krisp plant. Dick Stause finally learns the ways of the broom lmarriedl . Steve Suredam signed by coach Bun Cook to the Cleveland Baron's line-up. He sweeps empty beer bottles from the ice during intermission. The Cecil and Zepp bar is open until two o'clock nightly. Located a few doors from the Broadview show. Audry Wolf seen with tin cup. She's trying to get a half-back. Dorothy Andrusko dropped from grid line-up. Fin- ally succeeds as left aut. Gunther Wulf returns home late to wife and rolling pin. Gerry Wynn becomes millionaire by betting on National Tiddley-Wink Finals. Pennies become com- mon exchange at Becker's. Ted Yurcak, the tree that grew in Brooklyn, found flirting with Sadie Hawkins. Ruth Schmotzer receives night diploma. Now read in the dark. Dorothy Harrison featured with Al Huy. Diamond Horsehoe reopens. More food. More waitresses. More girls. Less lights. Paul Yurko passes hat. Elmer Bodnar turns butcher. Expects meat to freeze at present high prices. Ted Fessler contacts moon. Receives station K-A- S-C-O over moanbeam. Jeanne Smith almost caught shoplifting cosmetics. Takes a powder. Services for this corn will be held in Rev. Willy Osborne's field of bones at the end of the ninth chapter today. Now we've wrecked your future Paul, Betty, Bob, and Dot. We'll stop it here. Not one more smear. All's forgiven and forgot.

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CLASS T'was a cold and blustery day, January 31, l944 when l25 wide-eyed young souls tripped up the steps of dear old Rhodes high. Frozen through, a few bold ones managed to question, Where's the audi- torium? And from there on it was happy days. Wasn't it wonderful how we romped at the Fresh- men party? Oh, those wonderful Student Council people. Some of our 9B girls got a chance to display their talents in With a Song in my Heart. Weren't those blonde wigs and wooden shoes cute? Our own Fred Engleman went out for Freshmen Football and brake his leg in two places. How? Climbing over a fence. Joe Gudlin was the first of our boys to get a letter in track. ln football it was Gecking and Armstrong and in basketball it was Armstrong. And incidentally, by now Armstrong has reached the height where he can place the basketball in the net without effort. ln the IOA, we got a couple of foreigners. They were George Lechner and Bob Krieger and they were all the way from Tech! And Brooklyn, New York gifted us with Ted Yurcak. Don Gecking and Justine Cheselka got to run the Student Council for a year. No class is complete without its athletes, both masculine and feminine. The first girl in our class to get in girl leaders was Mary Ellen Shaw. Following her in were Cheselka, Urban, Wiese, Mushat, Owens, Hallahan, Scuba and Smith. Breaking into the boys Leaders were Armstrong and Gecking, who both hold offices in it. Studying hard in languages brought about merits for a number of our kids. Those that made the Ger- man Club were Mary Ellen Shaw, Lydia Scherer, Larry Gedeon, Dick Stause, George Lechner, Louise Wolf, Dorothy Mikolack, Ted Fessler, Eugene Jeffreys, and .Albert Leyerle. The French Club members are Hector Fraser, Betty Ziegler, George Lechner and Dorothy Owens. A lone member from our class made the Latin Club, she is Jean Lombardo. We are firm believers in fun, however mere are four traitors in our class who actually study. They made the Honor Society and they are Lydia Scherer, George Lechner, Dick Stause, and Betty Ziegler, Bookies! Believe it or not, we finally became Seniors and every head swelled at least a couple of inches. Our l2B elections brought about all-around Armstrong for president and George Lechner as vice-president. Dorothy Owens taking the notes and Jeanne Smith tapping the wallets. HISTORY We had the thrill of seeing Mr. Hoffman, Mr. Moran, and Mr. Henderson return from serving their country. The girls took over from there. Our class also brought forth Mary Ellen Shaw as head majorette and Frances Stone as one of the majorettes. Not to forget all our great kids in the bond who added gray hairs to three different band leaders. We had lots of trouble with our l2B informal but boy did we have fun! And then there were those few energetic baakies who wanted to graduate early: They went ahead in the Twelfth and they are: Lois Leahy, Jean Skowran, Carol Sellers, Lenny Wisniewski, Bob Obojske, and Don Wires, Joy Overly, and Mary Ann Guth. Coming into our class from a half grade below were: Dorothy Andrusczko, Irene Hallahan, Marge Cecil, Gene Fullington, Phil Giordano, and Will Osborne. After a summer of freedom, we came back to find ourselves l2A's. What a problem! So we rounded up our class and elected George Lechner as president, Dick Stause as vice-president, Lee Pawlak, secretary, and Larry Gedeon as treasurer. Then there was our class picnic. And how did you look in a sack? The football team was honored by four of our boys. Jacko Armstrong, Don Gecking, John Scerbik, and Robert Paal. Who will ever forget our psychological tests ? Everyone was seen exercising their fingers across their lips for days afterward. Roy Bugay's voice still rings through Rhodes halls as part of the boy's Octette. And so it was with Ar- lene Crouch in the girls' Triple Trio. Many of us came into our own in Melody Fair F'Rinstance, Lee Pawlak and Ramona Di Lellis with their duet and Shirley Russell's solo. Need we say anything about the Hula Dancers? HUB ---- BA! Our class sincerely hopes that coaches Moran and Sawyer, plus the needed animals, will turr out more Charity Game contenders in the future. So as we close, we say: We know we have not made big history as Columbus or Magellan but we do hope that our class has helped in the progression of the history of dear old J.F.R. and what little that we could do, we did willingly . . . and so we leave you Rhodes to classes behind and hope that they may share in the fun and enjoyment that you have brought us.