River Valley High School - Shield Yearbook (Marion, OH)

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PROPHECY The year? 1963, time surely has flown. I've just finished supper and settled down in my favorite chair to look at this week's Life . I see that it has a pic- ture of a football star on the cover. Wait a minute, that isn't any ordinary foot- ball player, that's JACK WHITEAMIRE, the famous quarterback for Notre Dame. You'd think anybody with Jack's money would have made good in the political world. Well, one never can tell! As I turn the page I see that NONA RIGDON'S world famous dog kennels were raided by a group of fleas. Poor Nona, one would never have thought she would have gone to the dogs after being around birds the early part of her life. Well, well. What's this? Why a picture of a mansion built by that famous multi-millionaire, MYRON ARMBRUSTER. The caption under the picture says that Myron hit the jackpot on one of those You Take All quiz programs. And here I thought Myron would be a professional artist. I see that the next page is entitled Agriculture . I wonder if there is any- one here that I know. Why, of course, I should have known that was GEORGE DEICKERT pictured with his 2000 head of Holsteins. It was rumored that George wanted to be a dress designer. Speaking of dress, I see that BETTY WEIR has gone far in her Modeling School, she has 541 pupils enrolled at the present time. I thought Betty wanted to be a grade school teacher. I see the last page has some pictures from Ohio State University, and I be- lieve here at the bottom is a picture of JIM KIRK, the Dean at State. Jim surely has advanced rapidly, everyone thought him to be the romantic type, and as such should be married by now. But he's still a bachelor. Probably prefers to spread his charm around. Life surely has some famous people. I wonder if I could find any news about some of my famous classmates in the Marion Star . Wow! Look at those muscles on that fellow. Why it looks like, of course, it is DENNY SPAR- ROW, the world's greatestwrestler. Whyjust the other night Denny took on three men single handed ffriends may call at the Timson Allen Funeral I-Iome.l One might have expected Denny to follow in his father's footsteps. I see here that MARY LOU COCHRAN has donated two thousand dollars to a fund for elderly, homeless cats. It seems that Mary Lou was too busy with her career as a nurse to get married. Here's another name on the next page that seems familiar. Yes, it's PEGGY WALTER, famous doctor of Walter Reed Hospital. It seems Peggy has developed a new cure for fatigue. fThe cure is less workl. Speaking of less work, I see that PATTY SHONK gave up her job as baby sitter and is going to enlist in the Waves. Ship-A-Hoy , Patty. I-Iere's another item, Mrs. Hinnamon, formerly SUSIE REED, was elected chairman of the Mothers Club. This was Susie's greatest ambition all through her high school years. Why, look at this ad. Honest John Boger -- your friendly Cadillac dealer . John surely has come along way from that '36 Plymouth. And here's another ad. Just look at this dashing fellow whose picture appears in the ad. It's Rod- ney fBuy it by the truckloadl Dice. I-Ie's the new owner of the ex-Resler Eleva- tor. Rodney's life ambition was to follow in the footsteps of Solon. It is really wonderful to be able to relax at home and catch up on all of one's old classmates. But the Star always carries a good bit of news about the good old class of '53, partly because VELMA LYON is the editor. Velma actually achieved her grade school ambition of being a paper girl. Guess I'll just curl up and take a nap now, after catching up with all the news of former classmates. Maybe I'll have a dream of even greater fortunes for the famous members of the class of '53, 12

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CLASS WILL With all due regard to those who may think us otherwise, we, the exceedingly intelligent and superior members of the class of 1953, after struggling through twelve years of severe mental tor- ture to attain this high and esteemed accomplishment, believe it is now our right and duty to set forth this last will and testament, thus declaring null and void all other wills previously made by us. We here and now, being of able body and sound mind, do will our sole possessions to the following worthy people and groups. I, BETTY WEIR -- will my red hair to anyone with nerve enough to wear it. I, PAT SHONK -- will my nickname Hogan to Beverly Harper. I, NONA RIGDON -- will my right to swear under my breath in typing class to anyone who can get away with it. I, JIM KIRK -- will my little black book of girls addresses to Bob Hill. I, DENNIE SPARROW -- will my right to argue with Miss Laibe in history class to Dick Stafford. I, JACK WHITEAMIRE -- will my 20-70 vision to Joe Green. I, RODNEY DICE -- will my ambition at athletics to Frank Mc- Donald. I, VELMA LYON -- will my hot temper to Lois Levien. I, PEGGY WALTER -- will my athletic ability to Rosei Medley. I, GEORGE DEICKERT -- will my right to bust up school property to Mike Murphy. I, JOHN BOGER -- will my right to get kicked out of Marion by the Police to Gene Ault. I, MARY LOU COCI-IRAN -- will my right to be late every morning to Jimmie Cain. I, SUSIE REED -- will my right to be a cheerleader four years in a row to Mary Hunt. I, MYRON ARMBRUSTER -- will my right to speak out in class without being called on to Ronnie Groves. To the teachers: MR. RETTERER -- we leave x the unknown quantity with the hope that someday he will find it. MISS LAIBE -- we leave a new notebook for history notes. MRS. NEILSEN -- we leave all the old eraser dust left on our type- writers. MR. WALLS -- we leave a new bottle of smelling salts that has some kick to it. MR. HARPER -- we leave a wide-awake, intelligent, and talkative Physics Class. MISS SCRANTON -- we leave a suit of armor to protect her from flying erasers. MR., LINDSAY -- we leave our old pencil stubs to keep the school's records with. ll

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