Salem Liberty High School - Stars Yearbook (Lower Salem, OH)

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CLASS HISTORY QCon t from page 14D In the fall Jean Schoeppner Sue Hall Donna Stauch and Shrrley Orr attended a one day conference of Journalrsm Assoctauon of Oh1o Schools held rn the Student Umon Burldtng of Oh1o State Unrverstty at Columbus Oh1o to drscuss the prmtmg of yearbooks and school papers Some of our classmates rmpressed by Census Bureau statrsucs that there are more marrrages tn the teen age group than um any other age group dec1ded to complete thetr school year marrled On Novem ber 13 1954 Mary Lewrs was marrred to B111 Franks On February 19 1955 Ruth Warner and Dorus Decker walked down the arsle The Jumors entertarned us at the Jumor Seruor Banquet May 7 1955 rn the h1gh school gymnasrum We completed Our h1gh school years by havmg Baccalaureate on May 1 and Commencement on May CLASS SONG Adleu my frrends the trme IS here When we must part w1th frrends so dear And soon across hfe s drearlest wake Our separate ways we ll sadly take But ere we part from Salem s halls tomght A song we ll smg for school and beauty brrght Then here s to our parents and here s to our frrends so true Who wrll thmk of us when lugh school days are through Chorus Rowrng rowrng over l1fe s stormy mam Many a trral shall come to us As we go on our way Rowtng rowrng over hfe s stormy mam Whenever our thoughts are homeward bound Then we ll return agam Our h1gh school ltfe was pleasant and free Our work now done should pleastng be And ne er a class has left these walls But tts happy days rt has recalled Then as we go rn other parts to roam Wrth happy thoughts we ll turn agam to home Then here s to our school and here s to our frlends so true Who w1ll be wrth us though h1gh school days are through Repeat chorus CLA SS MOTTO Rowmg, Not Drrfttng CLASS FLOWER Pmk Carnatton CLASS COLORS Pmk and Stone Gray I I D . - I U I I . ' ' - . I . . . . - l I I I Q I I I . . . - . , ' ' . . . . 11. Our speakers were Robert Myers, valedictorian, and Delores Brooks, salutatorian. I . I ' ' . , . . ' . - 1 D . ' D . . . , . I , ' . I . , . I I '

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CLASS PROPHECY Late one cold and slrppery wrnter evenrng Bonnxe and I were drrvtng home from our televrston show where we were brlled as the Fabulous Ntghtrngales at Nashvrlle Tennessee We were feelrng qurte groggy from lack of sleep All at once I screamed Bonnte looked up 1n ttme to see a telephone pole rushlng at us She slammed on the brakes and skrdded tnto the pole For a whtle everythlng was blank and ftnally when the haze began to clear away I saw a strange looktng frgure commg toward us I looked once bltnked and looked agarn thrs trme to recogmze the frgure of St Peter beckontng us to follow htm through the Golden Gate As we followed htm down the streets paved wrth gold he potnted out to us some of the marvelous bu1ld1ngs tn th1s Golden Ctty The one butldtng we were most tnterested ln was the Archrves Butldtng whrch St Peter s assrstant kept the records We came to a certatn spot tn the heavem where we could see the earth below us parttcularly the Untted States We were scanntng thrs former world of ours from above when Bonme saw someone who looked very famrltar At ftrst she couldn t recogmze htm but tt ftnally occurred to her that he was Robert Myers the tntellectual member of our class who graduated ten years ago Thls mornrng Robert looked worrted Upon closer scruttny we saw why he was golng up the campus walk to conduct h1S f1rst chemtstry class at Ohto Untverstty Bonnte and I began wonderrng what had happened to the rest of our classmates and what they were dotng We asked St Peter to help us fmd out about them He agreed to help and took us to the east lookout tower After gettrng accustomed to the great herght we were able to locate our old Alma Mater Much to our sur prtse we found the hrgh school larger and even more beautrful than tt had been ten years ago We looked through an open wrndow 1nto the home economtcs room hoprng to fmd Mrs Ullmann our sponsor stttrng at her desk making out the datly menu for her class We were agatn greatly surprlsed when we saw a former classmate of ours sttttng tn Mrs Ullmann s chatr Oh' Yes we remember now Juantta Wells went to Ohto State to major rn home economrcs and she had evrdently come back and taken over Mrs Ullmann s Job Wh1le we were lookrng around the h1gh school we glanced toward Wh1pple trytng to recapture a few mem ortes A terrtble racket caused us to look msrde The Whtpple Machtne Shop owned by Junror and Dale Lauer They were repalrtng Dorus Decker s racer which he had brought home from Indtanapolrs where he was star racer on the Indtanapolts Speedway Ruth Warner h1s wtfe was there wtth htm Just as she was wrth htm at all the races Stnce there were no more fam1l1ar faces around Wh1pple we turned sltghtly to the rrght only to fmd we are lookrng at Columbus the state capttal We look through an open door to recogmze Sam Wasson the governor drctatmg a letter to hrs prtvate secretary Dorothy Young Mr Governor rang a bell on h1s desk and a few mlnutes later the butler brought 1n some tea At fust we dtdn t recogmze h1m because he looked so dlgrufted but we dectded rt was Fred Gessel Smce Hollywood Caltfornta was always a popular place among us teen agers we thought we would vtstt there Two of our classmates had always wanted to go to Hollywood to become famous As we looked over Caltforma Bonnte thought we should try the btg nrght clubs and so we peered tnto several clubs for some trace of them We saw them tn Cuo s tap dancrng just as they had always wanted to do They were none other than Donna Stauch and 11m Barley The Dewdrops Therr act recerved a heavy round of applau SC QCont1hued on page 171 , . . a 1 - l ' I ' I ' Y 1 , . . I I . ' . I . . . . . ' . . , , , ,, . ,,. , . . , . . . ' in . , . I . , n I 1 I ' ' ' . ' ' . . , : ' ' . . . . , - , . . I . - . If - s H' - . . , . . . ' I I . . I I . , 1 . . ' . . . . , , ' . . I . . I . . . , ' . - . . . ' . I . . . . . , . . s . . s . I 1 ' 1 . . ' . . . - I . . . , . . , u nl ' -