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

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99 fxcalihzr-IQ44 Vernon Palmer was noted the perfect sailor just before the end of the war and he's still living on his laurels. Georgia Pierce always secretly admired the navy and so she married a Marine. Dick Poling is a traveling salesman. He sells Super Earthworm Plows. June Poling sings for her living. She is the commercial for Martyrls Little Heart- burn Tablets. Bonnie Preston went to Washington and now runs the elevator in the Washington Monument. Holland Resor runs a semi-lnonthly paper in Beaverstown, Arkansas. Mildred Richey directs traflic on the corner of Hollywood and Vine. She wears dark glasses to weave an atmosphere of mystery about her. Barbara Rise works in a nursery. She has charge of the baby trees. Marcella Rogers owns her own little beauty salon. However, her customers suffer because she spends most of her time beautifying herself. Paul Ross is an orator. He orates as her works his way around the world on a tramp-steamer. Barbara Schreiner is now a lady fireman, having released Wayne Scott in order that he could join the Armed Services. She says her biggest thrill occurs when she slides down the pole after the alarm sounds. Coralie Severns is a transantarctic flyer for the lceburg Clipper Lines. Harold Shaw learned to swim while in the Navy and now he's trying to catch up with Esther Williams. Helen Shindledecker is a noted auctioneer. She can be heard every Saturday night on the Fortunate Hit Parade. Richard Showalter took over Earl C:-1rrol's Girls and is now producing The Showalter Follies of l954. Bill Siders now owns la group of skating rinks and is making a huge profit. Ellen Siglerls face is seen. on the backs of all the magazines advertising Bull Drum Beatrice Tobacco. Ima Smith received the Showalter cup for being the tallest showgirl in his chorus. Margaret Stetler is modeling for 'gLife'7 and we hear that one of the leading photogra- phers claims she has classic features. ,lim Stover has changed the style from bow ties to string ties and is known as Frankie the Secondf' Ronald Stuck's latest screen hit is Dumbo', and he really went over big! Harlen Taylor is known to one and all as the bearded lady with the S'Bungling Brothers Circusfl Betty and Marie Towsey own the largest restaurant in New York known as the 6'Dropp lnnef, Emma Truax devised a new soft drink called the Sledge Hammer and her slogan is L'Uur Sledge Hammers knock ou coldf, y June Waitman went to a Normal School for Teachers and she is now teaching Latin at her Alma Mater. Cora Mae Walters is a featured soloist with that renowned orchestra The Buggy Bumpers. Dorothy Walters took up engineering and she is one of the few women electrical engineers in the country. Barbara Waugaman is known as the fastest woman in the history of canoeing. Her time is 2:15. Phyllis Webster made a home in Nevada. She has made four trips to Reno so far. Margaret Wherry is starred in the radio serial '6Life ls Usually Terrible which is sponsored by Soapsy Sudsies, Inc. Richard Whitcraft is the designer for all the leading conlparfies who handle the extra-large sizes in women's clothing. Barbara Wilkie struck it rich. She was digging in her back yard and lo-and-behold! she found a silk mine. Betty Williams turned authoress and her best novel is L'Butterflies and Fishing Nets. Wilbur Williamson is better known by the name of Halabozookski, the famous magician. ' Allen Willmert recently went to Changrala to take pictures for Paramountls News of the Weekfl James Winsley owns the largest gambling house in San Francisco, The Hook 'Em.', Junior Winters concocted a new candy bar which -he calls Winters' Winter- green. Vivian Wise is a Congresswoman and spends all her time introducing-,pew bills. t'Most of them to her husbandl . Don Young is the model for the--Atlas ads sinbe Charles Atlas became muscle-bound. Don Youtzy became a light-house keeperbecause he didn't like crowds. Robert Zinsmcister manages a roadside stand called the Garleage Dump. For Senior Survey see page 79. fs' I - - U' Ja ,. .. . . 'f. , , ' fa.. 6' 'U

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fxcalihzr-i944 91 Mary Jane Eschbach organized her own all-girl basketball team and they travel all over the country. Marjora 1, Babel Fiser married shortly after graduation and now she is the glowing parent of a batch of little f'Turtles. Gene Foreman is an engineer on the Penn- sylvania railroad. He also blows three blasts as he goes through Van Wert. Clide Ford grew about twelve inches when he was twenty and at the present time he is the strong man for Bungling Bros. Circus. Bill Fox developed a new hamburger. Yvonne Gallapoo was voted the Perfect American Secretaryu last year which goes to show that the small can be mighty. Tommy Gallaway took up farming and now he's president of the National Farmer's. Association. Philip Gluth was a Chemist but he had a little trouble with one of his formulas and blew up a rather large laboratory. Since then he has been an outcast from his profes- sion. Slie Cooke has made dress designers. Shirley Temple's beautiful clothes are all creations by Gocke. Helen Grant has a much harder time than Babe Fiser because she's trying to raise a pack of Wolves. Some job. Doris Green became so accomplished on her violin that she plays 4th violin in the Jickville Civic Orchestra. Hilda Green left town the summer after we were graduated and none of us have heard of her since. We heard she was a street car conductor. Eleanor Hall decided she wanted to be a librarian so she bought her own library and rents out books for the special rate of 351.11 per book for 24- hours. Patty Harr has her own beauty shop and we hear her mud packs are really wonderful. Mary Hofmann is Dean of Men for Plow and Harrow Agriculture School in Texas. Ruth Houser spends all her time reading and memorizing. She is determined to memorize the Encyclopedia Britannica and at the time of this writing she has only three volumes to go. Roger Humrickhouse is now staff artist for the Babes In The Woods Nursery Schoolf' Dick lreton has just been made Major General of our armed forces at Gagasto, East Africa. Catherine Johns is the new manager of the We Dye Without Mess Laundry Shoppe. just think, she has to wash twice a day. Thelma Kiehl, because of her strong voice, is a professional scrcamer for 1 Love a Mystery. Pat Kimmel, alias Dave-Said-ln-His-Last-Letter, has become a professional filibuster for Congress. Clarence Klausing struck oil out in his back yard and now is known as America's No. l Playboy. Eleanor Klewer for tl1e last eight years has been painting commercial signs in Shorthand even though very few people are able to read them. John Kreider produced a non-squirt grapefruit, and he is now called the second Burbank. Yvonne Leatherman made lifesaving her career, and she now owns a chain of outdoor swimming pools throughout Northern Canada and Alaska. Gladys Leiter is an understudy of a script girl for G. M. G. Films Inc. Frederick Lillick always had a secret admiration for trains so now he is the conductor's assistant for Pushman Cars. Ralph Lintermoot decided he liked Delphos so well that he finally made his home there. He runs a gasoline station for a living. Virginia McGrew always wanted to travel so she became a foreign missionary. When last heard of she was trying to convert the South Sea Islands. Jacqueline Mahan, always noted for her stunning clothes, now wears dungarees most of the time. She and Shorty work day and night trying to eke out a living on their two-acre farm. Rebecca Manship took a course in Public Speaking and since 1950 she has been giving lectures all over the country on Once l Too Was Shy But No More. Virgil Maxson finally settled in Kentucky where no one expects anybody else to have too much pep. James Miller liked the Navy pretty well but after the war he went prospectin' for gold in the Rockies. We hear he hasn't had much luck. Dummy Miller stuck to the Marine Corps, and now he is a hard- boiled sergeant. He gets a promotion every three or four years. Marilyn Miller became a nurse shortly after graduating and is now occupied in restoring shell-shocked war veterans back to their normal mental attitudes. Arthur Milligan took up Home Living in college, and now he is the Home Ec. teacher at his Alma Mater. James Moore has his own business concerns. He trains Seeing Eye cats for old maids. ,Ioe Morgan is happily married, and, together with his wife and family, he runs a bakery in Middlepoint. Jerald Muntzinger owns eight large farms, and a small community is being started under his name. Virginia Olberding and her husband are the proud parents of a whole set of Quiz Kids. In her spare time Ginny presides over the Ladies' Aid. Dorcas Owens was recently made the editor of the Chicago Slambune. ltis a very nice set-up because her husband is one of the candidates for mayor of Big Town.

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