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

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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

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THE EXCALIBUR 21 Chocolate Company. Betty Jones owns a beauty shop in Hollywood and originates the coiffures for many of the stars. Jayne Jones is now owner of a large book store in Duluth. Louise Jones is a private secretary in the Chrysler Motor Company. Patricia Kennedy is accompanist for the Early Morning Breakfast Club. Leonard Klewer has made a success as a cartoon artist. He draws many of the political cartoons you see. Jeanette Kline has a tourist camp in Wyoming. Donald Kreisher owns and operates a skating rink outside the city of Dayton. Richard Kreisher is now a tiller of the soil. He owns a large farm in Indiana. Ernestine Lake is the fat lady in a circus side show. Grace Landis is teaching interpretive dancing at Bryn Mawr. Roger Leatherman is a grave digger with a degree, an archaeologist for the Ohio State University Museum. Graydon Lee has become a married man and is twenty-fifth vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Walter Le Valley is now knocking at doors, a full fledged Fuller Brush salesman. Billy Lintemoot is the court recorder. Dale Long operates a dairy farm in the southern part of the state. Gene Longsworth has taken up farming in Iowa. Dorothy McCleary is the governess of a large English family of ten boys. Clara McClure is a second Bonnie Baker. She is vocalist in Bill Saulisberry's orchestra. Robert McCollum owns a chain of theaters, Mac Movies. Rosemary McCoy is another of the blushing brides happily married in Van Wert. Miriam McConnell is an artist, now drawing pictures for popular magazine covers. Betty McGrew, former aeronautic ace, is now famous for her Bounce with Springs Parachute. Anna Belle McNew is dealing in real estate. John Maney is the owner of a chain of shoe stores all over the country. Bill Maxson has made good in Hollywood, not as an actor, but as the owner of an exclusive night club. Janice Merriss is cashier in the largest ten cent store in Lima. Martha Miller is living in Fort Wayne, happily married. William Miller is a newspaper columnist on the staff of Junior Zinsmaster's Chicago daily paper. Helen Myers has tried her skill at the game of marriageg she is living in Connecticut. Jeanne Parks is working in a doctor's office in Toledo. Leo Pollock is playing ping pong professionally. Anna Mae Pond is secretary to the Director of the T. V. A. James Potter has become a success as a mechanical engineer, and is holding down a very good position. Gordon Rogers is the cattle buyer for Armour Packing Company. Doyt Rogers is a wood worker and furniture designer. Betty Ross just can't leave school. She is back at Van Wert High, this time a teacher. Leroy Royse is no longer an amateur but a professional photographer, taking Senior pictures for the 1951 year book. Robert Runnion is a photographer's model for shampoo and shaving cream. Emma Marie Saam is an Army Hostess at Fort Knox. Alva Salsbury turned to the engineering field. He is a draftsman at Randolph Field. Bill Saulisberry is now playing with his orchestra on the west coast. Donald Scott is another baseball player to turn professional. He has just been selected to represent the Chicago Cubs in the annual All Star Game. Edith Sharp is playing on a professional girls' baseball team. Maxine Sherman has taken up office work in Cleveland. Betty Shreck is a nurse in a small hospital in Kentucky. Marjorie Smith is married and is living happily in Dayton, Ohio. Richard Steinmetz is a mathe- matician. He is working with Einstein's sixth dimension. Merl Stetler has become the president of the system of Y.M.C.A.,s all over the country. Dale Stripe is an interior decorator. He has just finished redecorating the White House. Richard Stump made good in bookkeeping. He is now a certified public accountant. Doyt Taylor is a com- mercial air pilot, flying a giant transport plane. Orville Thomas is a dollar-a-year man