Van Wert High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Van Wert, OH)

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BILL SAULISBURY DONALD SCOTT EDITH SHARP MAXINE SHERNIAN BETTY SHRECK . MARJORIE SMITH RICHARD STEINMETZ MERL STETLER DALE STRIPE RICHARD STUMP DOYT TAYLOR ORVILLE THOMAS, JR DORIS TINDALL PATRICIA TODD DONALD UHL DOROTHY UHL LAWRENCE VASKE ROSALIE WARNER GEORGE WECK BILLY WILKIE CHARLES XVILLIANIS CAROL WILLMERT MARIE WILLOUGHBY JOSEPH XVINTERS WILIIIARII WISE FRED WITTEN BARBARA YAGER JUNIOR ZINSLIASTER 'VIRGINIA ZOTZ

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is THE EXCIALIBUR ignihec! .Sbniomi ---- Seniors, finally! We've waited many long years for this. ' This year we had Catherine Hisey as the president of Student Council and Junior Grib- ler as Drum-major of the band. Eight new members from the senior class elected to the National Honor Society were: Marjorie Acheson, Catherine Hisey, Barbara Hunt, Roger Leatherman, Betty Ross, Leroy Royse, Emma Marie Saam, and Dick Steinmetz. The Senior class play Mystery at Green- fingersn by J. B. Priestley, showed new talent in our class. After entertaining the Seniors at Prom last ' year, it was quite pleasant to be entertained by EMMA MARIE SAAM the class of '42. Thanks, Juniors! This year Junior Zinsmaster was Editor-in-chief of the Scarlet Quill , and Miriam Gillespie was Editor-in-chief of the Excalibur. NVe feel that recognition should be given to Betty Ross as the representative to take the C. A. R. Citizenship Test. Our class oflicers this year were: Jack Hyer, presidentg Vernon Hoverman, vice- prcsidentg Bob Runnion. secretary, and Emma Marie Saam, treasurer. WILLIAM SAULISBERRY, Hi-Y, V Club, Student Council 4, Chorus 3, Spring Fever, Dance Or- chestra 4, Football, Boys' Intramuralsg DONALD SCOTT, Hi-Y, Band, Band Cabinet, Basketball, Boys' Intramurals, EDITH SHARP, G. A. A., Scarlet Quill Staff, Chorus 1, Prom Committee, Girls' Intramurals, MILDRED MAXINE SHERMAN, Girl Reserves, Chorus 1, Girls' Intramuralsg BETTY LORENE SHRECK, G. A. A., Girl Reserves, National Honor Society 3, 4, Excalibur Staff, Scarlet Quill Staff, Spring Fever, Chorus 1, Prom Committee, Camera Club, Girls' Intramurals, MARJORIE SMITH, G. A. A., Girl Reserves, Excalibur Staff, Scarlet Quill Staff, Chorus 1, Senior Class Play Committee, Girls' Intramurals, RICHARD MATTHYS STEINMETZ, National Honor Society 4, Band 1, 2, 3, Orchestra 1, 2, 3, Football, Boys' Intramurals, Invitations Committee, MERL STETLER, Boys' Intramurals, DALE STRIPE, Junior Class Play Committee, Boys' Intramurals, RICHARD STUMP, Spring Fever, Boys' Intramuralsg DOYT G. TAYLOR, Hi-Y, Chorus I, 2, Basketball, Football, Boys' Intramurals, Senior Class Play Committee, ORVILLE THOMAS, JR., V Club, Boys' Intramurals, Football Managerg DORIS MARIE TINDALL, Girl Reserves, Spring Fever, Prom Committee, Senior Class Play Committeeg PATRICIA TODD, Girl Reserves, Girls' Intra- murals, Senior Class Play Committee: DONALD JOHN UHL, Hi-Y, Spring Fever, Chorus l, Vice President 1, Secretary 3, Basketball, Boys' Intramurals: DOROTHY JEAN UHL, G. A. A., Girl Reserves, G. R. Cabinet, Excalibur Staif, Chorus 1, 2, Senior Class Play Committee.: GLENDORA ROSALIE WARNER, Girl Reserves, G. R. Cabinet, Excalibur Staff, Band, Band Cabinet, Junior Class Play Committee, Or- chestra 3, 4, Camera Clubg GEORGE F. WECKQ WILLIAM WILKIE, National Honor Society 3, 4, Student Council 2, 3, Band, Prom Committee, Dance Orchestra 3, 4, Invitations Committee, CHARLES WILLIAINISQ CAROL ENID WILLMERT, G. A. A., Girl Reserves, G. R. Cabinet, Excalibur Staff, Spring Fever, Orchestra, Girls' Intramurals, Senior Class Play Committeeg MARIE WILLOUGHBY, Girl Re- serves, Scarlet Quill Staff, Girls' Intramuralsg JOSEPH CARL WINTERS, Junior Class Play Committee, Football, Boys' Intramuralsg WILLIAM HAROLD WISE, Chorus I, Boys' Intramurals, FRED WITTEN, Football, Football Manager, BARBARA YAGER, G. A. A., G. A. A. Cabinet, Girl Reserves, G. R. Cabinet, National Honor Society 3, 4, Prom Committee, Girls' Intramurals, Mystery of Greenfingers, O. O. ZINS- MASTER, JR., Hi-Y, Excalibur Staff, Scarlet Quill Staff, Chorus I, 2, 4, Prom Committee, Treasurer 1, 2, 3, Boys' Intramurals, Boy Rotarian, King Ko Ko, Senior Class Play Committeeg VIRGINIA LOUISE ZOTZ, Girl Reserves, G. R. Cabinet, Excalibur Staff, The Mikado, Chorus 4, Band, Orchestra.

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Q0 THE EXCALIBUR Cfadff P019 QC? june 3, 1951, the Van Wert High School's graduating class of 1941 held a reunion. An almost unprecedented thing occurredg the entire class was present to account for their last ten years. They were seated in alphabetical order and instead of a speaker, each person in turn told what he or she was doing. Naturally Marjorie Acheson was first. Marjorie is designing floats for the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Waldo Baker was next. He has a large printing and engraving shop in Tacoma. Charles Baxter is working with Walt Disney in the animated cartoon industry and Mildred Bebout has a little canary shoppe in the block around the corner. Donna Beck is a nurse in the Chile missionary settlement in Peru. Robert Bell is the district attorney in Cleveland. Marjorie Black has developed the perfect mud-pack and she is certainly capitalizing on it. Jeanne Blanke is a dean. She owns a large beauty school in San Francisco. Herbert Boroif joined the navy when he left school and now he is an admiral in the Pacific fleet. Jack Brown is playing baseball with the Cincinnati Reds. Alice Carey is tumbling in a five ring circus. Robert Clay is singing hymns every Sunday morning over Station QLO. Armiline Click is a noted criminal lawyer and Rosebelle Coates is now living a quiet life in Van Wert, married to the owner of a large gas station. Anna Cook has made good. She is a world traveler and lecturer. Otis Coon is the chief sports writer on an Albany newspaper and Alva Cooper is traveling with an Indian medicine show. Martha Craig is a bareback rider in a Cheyenne rodeo and Patty Crouse has found herself a secretarial position in the governor's office in Columbus. Normagene Deal is working in a dress shop in Florida. Helen DeBolt is a stenographer in an office in Philadelphia. Hugh Elder is a wealthy farmer. He discovered natural gas on his farm in Pleasant Township. Virginia Eschbach manages the Y.W.C.A. cafeteria in Kalamazoo. James Fox has overcome his bashful ways and is now a high pressure traveling salesman. Elmer Friemoth has been made game warden of the district. Donna Gamble is a professional model in Los Angeles. Jeanne Gauvey is supervisor of an orphanage in San Antonio, Texas. Catherine Gentry owns and operates a dress shop in Washington, D. C. Miriam Gillespie has taken the stage for her career. She is in a production of her own, now showing on Broadway. Betty Gipe is married to a wealthy manufacturer. June Gipe has taken the final step too. She is now the wife of an army lieutenant. Bill Good is a great lover in pictures. His latest is Rip Ranger Rides the Range. Mary Maxine Gorsuch is resident nurse at West Point. Forest Gribler is head shipping clerk in an Oregon chewing gum factory. Deo Haines holds a position as auto mechanic in a large garage in Akron. Bonnie Hale is a private secretary in the Ford Auto Plant. Miles Harner is recreation leader of a boys' playground in Tripoli. Charles Henry is a designer of basketball and football togs for Apricottie and Snitch. Norma Hillery holds a position in the Social Security oflice in Washington, D. C. Catherine Hisey, Il concert pianist, has played for the President. Dora Leo Holland has taken over house- hold duties. She's married to a wealthy farmer. Jane Holmes models a new kind of hair curler in large department stores. Vernon Hoverman has turned professional. He is a pro-pool player. Barbara Hunt is demonstrating eye make-up and complexion aids. Jack Hyer owns a large meat shop in Toledo. Margaret Imler is a secretary in the United States Customs Office in New York. Jeanette Inwood is forelady at the Chewy