Upper Arlington High School - Norwester Yearbook (Upper Arlington, OH)

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Joanne Parker-Calm and quiet, Arlington's outdoor girl. G.A.A., 1, 2, 3, 4: G.R., l, 2, 37 Torch, 1, 3, 4: Annual, 4: Science Club, 27 French Club, 3, 4. Ohio State University. Richard Ferdinand Unckrlch ln memory of a fellow classmate. Clyde Armstrong Xander- X, easy drawl, amiable. Roosevelt Iunior High, Springfield, Ohio, lg Springfield High, Spring- field, Ohio, 2. I-ll-Y, 3, 4 Nice-Presidentl: Track, 3, 4 lManagerlg Iunior Class Play, 3, 4 lStaffl: Minstrel, 3, 4 lStoffl. Iames Charles Carver - Ilm. industrious, quiet. Brown High, Cambridge, Ohio, 1, 2, 3. Hl-Y, 4. U. S Navy. Mary Margaret Pollard - Laughing Irish eyes, so competent, contagious chuckles. Iunlor Class Play, 3 lCastJ, G.A.A., l, 2 tCab- lnetl, 3 tTreasurerl, 4 lCab- lnetly Leaders' Class, 45 Torch, l, 2, 3, 47 Annual, 4 fEdltor ln chlefl: General Scholarship Team, 1, 2: High Life, l, 2, 3 lEditorlal Editorl, 4 tNews Edltorl: National Honor Society, 3. 4: Quill and Scroll, 4: Victory Corps, 3: French Club, 37 Monitor, 1: Cafe- teria Staff, 2. 3. Oberlin College.

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Robert Russel Betts - Bob. sense of humor, polite. Worthington High, 3. Hi-Y, 4, Track, 3, 47 Aviation Club, l, 2: Victory Corps, 35 Orchestra, l. U. S. Naval Air Corps. Suzanne Catherine Sims -- Suzie. twinkle toes, wasp waistline. Iunior Class Play, 3 CCastlg G.A.A., 27 G.R., 2, 3: Torch, 2, 3, 47 High Life, 3: Library Staff, 2, 37 Dramatics Club, 2, 35 Minstrel, l, 2, 3, 4 lCastl: Victory Corps, 37 French Club 3 lSecretaryl, 47 De- bate Team, 4, Monitor, lg Operetta, 1. Milwaukee- Downer College for Wo- men. Ioy Fern Schmidt - So graceful, cheerful, a farm- erette. lunior Class Play, 3 lStaill: Glee Club, l, 2, 3, 45 G.A.A., l, 2, 3: An- nual, 45 Library Staff, 2: Dramatics Club, l, 2: Min- strel, l, 2, 3, 4: Science Club, 2: Victory Corps, 3, Orchestra, l, 2, 3, 4, Oper- etta, l. Ohio State Uni- versity. Iohn Stanley BestvPlaylul, sense ol humor, proud pos- sessor ol the silver streak, l-li-Y, 3, 4 iSecretaryl: Track, 45 Glee Club, 2: Annual, 4, Minstrel, 2, 3, 4 lCastlp Science Club, 1, 2, Victory Corps, 3. Ohio State University. Nancy Marilyn Schutt - Beaming countenance, hap- py go lucky. G.A.A., l, 2, 3, 47 GR., 1, 2, 47 Torch, lg Dramatics Club, l, 23 French Club, 3, 4 iSecre- taryl, Monitor, lg Art Club, 2. Ohio State University. Robert Whitrnan Annis -- Bob. southern drawl, re- tiring. Lee Edwards High, Asheville, North Carolina, 1, 2. I-li-Y, 4, Glee Club, 1. 2, Band, l, 3, 4, Dramatics Culb, l, 2: Tennis, 47 Vic- tory Corps, 3g Orchestra, l. Ohio State University. Donald Wayne Ashby - Smash, poker player, sports writer. l-li-Y, 4: Var- sity A, 2, 3, 4: Annual, 4 fSports Editorl: Basketball, 3, 47 High Lite, 3, 4 lSports Editorly Minstrel, 4 CCastl: Baseball, 2, 3, 4, Quill and Scroll, 4, Publicity Club, 4. U. S. Naval Air Corps. Patricia Taylor- Paddle, Iunior Class Play, 3 lStafll: Dramatics Club, lp Min- strel, l, 2, 3, 4 lCastl. Ohio State University.

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TILL N Sho' nuff, Hairless Ioe. ah is always available- to mah friends-fo' a price. Especially ifn it's a story of our class of 1944 yo' wants! While still holding our mother's apron strings in September, 1932, we sign- ed up in the old wooden school building that stood between the swimming pool cmd Waltham Road. Those of our class that started at Upper Arlington that year were as follows: 5 V., lanet Bailey, Nancy Baker, Iohn Best, Bob Betts, Nancy Briggs, lane Campbell, Mary Campbell, Iack Carruthers, Sally Charles, lim Crane, Mary Lou Dumbauld, Bob F idler, Peaches Geohagan, Betsy Grossman, Lou Halley, Ed Hamilton, Sarah Heming, Martha Hobart, David Iohnson, Kiehner Iohnson, Katherine Ioseph, lack Leifeld, Charles Lewis, Robert Masters, loanne Parker, Peggy Parker, Sally Parker, Mary Pollard, Marion Sanbom, Ioy Schmidt, David Williams, Monny Bennett. As we started our schooling in the barracks of Old Camp Willis of the Spanish war, we certainly never pictured ourselves twelve years later in the barracks of another war. We spent most of our time those first years racing for the swings and teeter board at recess and standing in Miss Shedan's waste basket. ln the fourth grade we made our first venture into the drama with a production of the operetta, The Land of Make Believe. Remember those rows of crepe paper daisies and roses? Sounded like a windstorm backstage. After four years we were sent into the big building, as we had longingly referred to it. That same year the community built us a new gymnasium and an auditorium. The next year, our last in grade school, was saddened by the loss of one of the class's most respected mem- bers, Dick Unckrich. Our two years in junior high sped by quickly. During the fall you could always find us boys playing football in Miller's Park. Poss- ibly it was there that part of the foundation for our team of 1943 was laid. It seems as if that was about the period we fellows began to be seen in the company of the better half of our OW class. Why, we didn't even consider a guy one of the gang unless he could chin himself from the balcony of Carol McCullough's living room. Gosh. Hairless loe, Ah'm gettin' kinda all choked up. Reckin' maybe mah hand-writin' assistant Daisie Ilawgmeat. better take over . . . Like newly born babies we blinked our eyes and awoke to the reality of life cs we plunged into our first bewildering year of high school. Our officers that first year were president, Dan Carmackg vice president, Dan Pratt: secretary, Martha Schenk, and treasurer, lim Crane. Faithfully we attended every football game, every basketball game, every track meet, and in general, tried to emulate the almighty seniors that we hoped to be someday. Of course there were times when we slipped up a little, when our restrained feelings burst like balloons: for instance, the blackjack games with I. Bailey Bush after classy eraser fights in good old 120, and dodging the evil eyes of the monitors, then stationed throughout the halls. That was the era when we girls first leamed about saddle shoes and wore our sweaters buttoned up the back. Our Iunior Hi-Y team snared the city basketball trophy. Strange and curious new words were introduced to us by Miss Schultz: pulchra puella became a common phrase upon our lips. This was also the first year that we had any experience with a minstrel show . . . remember the girls' horrible orange costumes, , orange canes and Let's All Sing Together? An- ,fp other memory of our fresh- man year was that of Ianie Miller's form sailing by the mf ground floor windows two minutes before the tardy bell. Those were the days when we had hour periods and much of our time after school was spent in the Detention Room, 229. Eagerly we trod the next stepping stone to graduation. As sophomores, we decided to dis- band our pent-up scruples and really paint the school red! We chose lim Crane, president: Dave Larkin, vice president: Peaches Geohagan, secretary: and Don Brandt, treasurer. On the part of the boys, the Available Iownes Service