Tuscarora Valley High School - Tuscarora Yearbook (Port Royal, PA)

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June 20, 1950 Dear Mr. Gerhart: My present ambition is to fulfill your wonderment about our hearty class of 45 . Recently I was fortunate enough to take a tour through the United States, and here is the thing that is going to surprise you even as it did me then. Rare as it sounds, I met everyone of that class of 45” except you, our faculty adviser, and now I meet you by pen. Here was my trip ..................... While I was in Texas I saw Wayne Ewalt. He now is a cowboy on a large ranch there. Of course you remember James Sherlock; he is now supervising a great road contract in Florida. I went to a theatre in California and what do you know...there was Nelson Swartz as the comedian. While 1 was in California I also saw Letitia Wert, having just signed a contract with M. G. M. as star dancer for three years. In California I met Bradford Repner and his wife. He was making a painting of the Petrified Forests. Keba Ritzman is sole owner of a beautiful farm in Illinois. She is still set on a red head. Doris Koons is now married. She is living in Virginia. She has two of the cutest children. You should see them. Quite a few are still in Pennsylvania. Stanley Kilmer is private secretary to the Governor of Pennsylvania. Edmund Book and Carl McClure are farming in Juniata County. I was told they were the most successful farmers around there. Beatrice Boyer is married, and in her spare time she goes to a nursing center. -IB-

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Martha Peterson and Jane Maffett have proven their ability as successful house- wives . John Stitt is a machinery dealer. He is doing his part to help the farmers. Laird Gilson is still living in Port Royal running the dairy. As yet, Laird has not settled down. In New York there was Dorothy Boyer, now an accomplished business woman, out in her eyes...still that Gleam...for a certain Gene. Did you hear about Jean Shirk? She is the beautician for the Broadway Chorus girl. Kathryn Hertzler is now taking over the Kate Smith Hour. Tune in and see for yourself. Betty Meloy is that accomplished Maestro for which she has always dreamed. While visiting in the western states, there was Frank Hower supervising the National Lumber Company. Martha Yoder is now studying to be a Powers' model in New York. 1 hear she is leaving for the western states soon to join her husband Frank Hower. Benjamin Towsey is now a Pilot on a huge transport which makes daily trips from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. When I met Dorothy Fettig she told me she had quite a few experiences in civilian life, and has a steady job in a Philadelphia Bank. -19-