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

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EXCALIBUR-1945 21 ing a swell business. While waiting for John, Marjorie Keipper buys old cars and fixes them over, she then sells them for a higher price. One more wreck will see her a millionaire. Marjorie Knittle mar- ried when the war was over and lives in Tokyo, Ohio, on a farm with her husband and children. Joan Ladd hooked a job as third saxophone player in Phil Spitalny's All Girl Orchestra. Howard Lamb fol- lows the fairs and sells taffy apples, cotton candy, and bird whistles. It's a small cir- cus. Gloria Langdon and Buck did as everyone else and married and are now Ubiding their time in Florida. David Linser had such pretty eyes that you see his picture in all the magazines advertising Murine, for your eyes to sparklef' Lois McNamara and Betty McClure are a featured dance team and have been booked at the Van Wert Strand Theatre for three solid days. Jim Maher took over his dad's coal yard and he says he's making so much money, he can retire when he's 95 years of age. Because of her over- powering voice, Marjorie Meyette adver- tises Wheaties over the radio. Mary Mihm tests all bicycles made at her own factory. She does this by taking every bicycle on a trip, thus she is always traveling. Because he liked mathematics so well, Gerald Mil- ler is an Income Tax Collector. Jack Monroe is chief cook and bottle washer at the 'tYou Gain or We Losel' Restaurant. Bob Murray has been doing a knockout business selling his Black Market Gasoline. Keith Nelson owns a notebook factory. He got his start by recovering and selling all those he had in high school. Sue Partin is and has been vacationing in Florida ever since school in '45. Gae Pfeiffer is the horse trainer for the horses that run in the Kentucky Derby. Marilyn Phillipy and Herb Baker married and are now run- ning the Dew Drop Innef, It seems like the fellows have taken over the maga- zines. Murlin Pollock is advertising Pep- sodent Tooth Paste because of his winning Smile. Bernita Ray took Claire Booth Luce's place in Congress because she is such a fast talker. Since Paul Reed was presi- dent of the F.F.A., he thought he had better keep his pride of office by staying on the farm. Bob Reidenbach is playing pro baseball for the Van Wert Scuds. Helen Replogle is giving one hour lessons on guitar playing in Dry Gulch Canyon, Utah. Dillon Rhodenbaugh can be seen daily beating the trodden path of his mail route. Betty and Donna Rickard run the If We Can't Help You, You Can't Be Helped Beauty Salon. Bonnie and Colleen Rise test parachutes. If they don't hold Bon- nie's weight, they try Colleen. Madame Jene's lballet schooll famous duo is none other than our own Jeannie and Joanne Ross. Ruth Ross is chief book-duster at the Brumback Library. Patty Roth is the proof-reader for Funny Books, Inc. Bob Ruhlin is established in a large concern with Winifred Schaadt as his secretary. Gerald Saam is the motorcycle cop in downtown Middlepoint. Jackie Scarpella is hog-calling champion of the United States. She won this honor at Little Rock, Ark. Paul Schuum is head historian of the Glenmore University of History. Betty Schaeffer joined the Cadet Nurse Corps and was last heard from in Berlin, Ger- many. Paul Sherman is now being fea- tured as Father in Life with Father. Ar- thur Shook and Virginia Stripe teamed up and are now doing the Tango at the Little Theatre in Daisy fMiddleburyJ. Bill Schreck is still the biggest wolf in Van Wert County. Helen Siders is making some little pink and blue things cafghan blocks for the Red Crossl. Dorothy Sigler was selected queen of the Mardi Gras and is still in New Orleans, the toast of the town. Ruby Sites cleans wallpaper in Paulding. Glenn Smith has just completed his fifth book of the set, t'How Not To Get Along With Women? Bill Soldner is still finishing his term at Sing Sing. He hopes to be released soon. After 37 attempts, Frank Sinatra was finally drafted so Bob Stripe has taken over the spotlight for him. David Summersett got so used to long walks, he is now a guide in the Swiss Alps. Wilbur Sunderland, whose ambition was to be a mechanic, is now a first class one and rides in the 3-day speed races as a mechanic for Bud Harding. Pat Swisher and Don have their own soda fountain in Lima. Marjorie Tindall is the Million Dol- lar Baby in the 5 and 10 cent store. Clar- ence Todd gives imitations daily on the radio. Send in your request today. Bill Tomhafe is drummer for the Symphony Orchestra with Ailene Tozzer as vocalist. She took Lily Pons place. Al Unterbrink has his own little filling station and bowling alley combined at the corner of Kear Road and Shaeffer Street. Joe Vaske has taken Van Johnson's place in the Bobby Sox Brigade. Eugene Wable was working in a war factory but is now directing traffic at the corner of Holly- wood and Vine. David Wagstaff had such shapely legs in high school that he is now taking the part of a chorus girl in the Follies. Ivan Walters dances with Betty Grable in their famous Apache dances from coast to coast. He is the envy of all his friends-and hers. Rachel Williams and Doris Williamson are in charge of the Van Wert Swimming Pool. One runs the stand, the other sells tickets, and both run the life line when someone goes under. Ilo Williamson is head life saver at the Ole Swimmin' Hole? Joan Williman took the place of Billie Rogers, Woody Herman's famous girl trumpeter, and is doing very nicely. Joan Wilson designs hair styles for the 'tUpper 400.'l Paul Win- hover and Ray Winters can be seen peek- ing in windows. Both are members of the Window Cleaners Superbv of New York City. Bill Winsley went to Canada when school was out and became a lumber- jack. Carolyn Wyatt dusts the seats and sweeps the carpet every night at the gaand Rialto Theatre in downtown Ohio 1 y.

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20 EXCALIBUR-1945 CLASS PROP!-IECY Looking back over the many years since we were dignified seniors of Van Wert High School, we remember well our aims and desires. Some of them were fulfilled and others-well-!!!???!! We find, as you will see, that the war af- fected the lives of many. Rosalie Adams, whose greatest desire was to be a nurse, is now employed at Lockheed Aircraft and to her friends is known as Rosie, the Riveter. Pat Agler worked in the Equity so long she finally got enough experiences in this line and is now running a chain of stores of her own. They are all the Agler Dairy Stores, Wileta Anderson became so skilled at vol- ley ball that she is now on a tour of the country teaching the losing teams her 'itricks of the trade. Mary Ashburn is, and has been for ten years, singing com- mercials on the radio. Richard Babcock and his wife are hap- pily married and living on their farm at Middlebury. Dick Barson is now a famed chemist, rated in the same class as Ein- stein. Ray Bates was drafted before school was out and when he went across, he met a Madamoiselle. He is still in France. Joan Becker never found her ideal so she is running an Old Maid's Home in Con- voy. Earl Beverly took over the spotlight when The Duke stepped aside. He is known as Boogie Beat Beverly, world's greatest ivory dealer. The man shortage is still critical so Ruby Billieu is now a jockey in the Crack Pot Derby. Gene Blue took Fred Astaire's place and is do- ing all right on Broadway. Guy Boyer is an undertaker and his first customer was his wife. tHe got over-anxious for a customer after five years.J Billie Jean Brubaker owns her own dress shop. No woman is in society unless she wears a dress designed by Billie.', Dick Brubaker stumbled on his life work. He is a con- tortionist in Paul Byer's Circus. Mary Lou Buchner is also employed in the circus as a trapeze artist and tight rope walker. Phyllis Burley models dresses at Macey's Department Store. John Bury is now the head of the D.S.C. tDistrict Street Cleaners? of Van Wert. Dorothy Campbell is the author of the current best seller, How to Have Beauti- ful Long Hair? Bill Carter is featured with Carter Brothers at Madison Square Garden as roller skating champion and acrobat. Betty Chambers has her own shoe store whose slogan is, We sell shoes to fit the head, not the foot. Kenneth Clay took over the St. Mary's Blanket Company right after he graduated. Peg Coupland went to Miami University and her I.Q. was so high, she was hired there as the Latin instructor. Mary Dannecker is playing Cand sell- ingb popular sheet music. The place: Mur- phy's 5 and 10 cent store. Patty DeBolt and Jack Lininger married as soon as school was out and went on a tour of Eur- ope. Doyt Dickson, who was known as Speedy, is now known as 'fSpeedy, The Killer Clady killerb. Jessie Dilworth is known as Dr. Sawbones Dilworth. She can be found at the Lima State Hospital. Ruth Dodge is a model for Chen Yu Nail Polish. Delores Downing is happily mar- ried and living near Berne, Indiana, on a farm. Janet Eichar is a twirler for the army-navy band. Kathryn Eschbach is running the You Gain or We Lose Res- taurant in Arkansas. Don Ferguson has taken Tyrone Power's place on the screen. Dick Finch is head stable boy at the Van Wert County Fair Grounds. Virginia Fink- housen is secretary to the secretary to the King of England. The queen of the Follies is none other than our own Betty Fisher with Bill Flanagan as her Business Man- ager. Dorothy Fleece is a barber because she can't stand long hair. Jim Forwalter, who lost all his teeth trying to get a front seat at Schine's to hear Frankie Carle, has decided to become a dentist. Art Frer- icks now owns half of the Brumback Lib- rary through his pull in school. Joyce Frick and Dick Metzger were married and now own their own little grocery store in Dixon. Harry Fryer took Harry Hopkins' place in the White House. Elnora Gallant is a model for a Junior Size Clothier in New York. Mary Gal- laway has her own All-Girl Orchestra now. It goes on tour from time to time when it gets a bid. Barbara Garrison is in the same class as Bach, Handel, and Chopin. Mary Garver is in charge of the switchboard at Central Mfg. Company. Pat Gekler is making a tour of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station looking for ther man. Bob Grandstaff is now a Pro Basketball Star for the Zollner Pis- tons. Jeanie Graven went to Lima State Hospital for treatments under t'Sawbones Dilworth and is still trying to recuperate. Janet Grill is head dietician for Delores Guthrie's Flea Circus. Robert Halliwill is the present World's Champion of the Soap Box Derby. Alda Jean Harper finally received a promotion and took Miss Hardy's place at the library. Barbara Hennermann is now the auct- ioneer for the Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company. Pat Hines is the Pharmacist for the Hines and Son Drug Store. Elmer Hisey is the new cement mixer ldue to war conditions, they use Elmerb. Howard Hoffman is night watchman for the Penn- sylvania Railroad. Vernon Horther checks attendance at the opening of each Congres- sional meeting at Washington. Richard Hughes is head usher at the Strand Theatre. Don Huhn discovered a way of using the clinkers out of furnaces. Graydon Jerome is known as the Real Scientific Brain. Richard Johnson and Robert Jones went into partnership and bought Purdy's Garage and are really do-

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Ackom Allen Allen Atchinson Bailey Baker Baltzell Balyeat Barnett Bartlett Basil Bates Bauer Baxter Beck Becker Bennett Bernheisel Bodenbender Bollinger Bricker Buecker Carpenter Clifton Conley Conley Cryer Curtis Darling Davies Davis Denig Dixon Doner Egan Eisenhauer Flannagan Flickinger Foreman Gaddis Gluth Grandstaff Gribler Grubb Hammond Harman Hofmann Holland Hudson Jones Kampf Kesler Kiehl Kintz Klausing Klewer Kreider Kruse Learned Lininger Iunior Class History Beautiful Ohio staged an autumn pageant in techni- color for the juniors starting their third year in Van Wert High School. Realizing the responsibili- ties and increased extra- curricular, civic, and war activities ahead, elections were the first thing on the agenda. The class of 1946 elected James Showalter as class president for the third time, Barbara Bernheisel, vice-presidentg Jane Woten, secretary, and Donald Un- derwood, treasurer. Student council represen- tatives were James Showalt- er, Mildred Becker, and Richard Mosier ifor the third timel, Phyllis Schaadt, David Gluth, Robert Lininger, and Kenneth Bartlett. The ten juniors who went out for football in 1944, con- tinuing the class' excellent football record, were James Showalter, Ronald Oswalt, Robert Balyeat, Robert Lin- inger, Roger Lininger, Rod- ger Palmer, Kenneth Bart- lett, Gene Kesley, Forrest Thomas, and Charles Sauls- bery. Our class ring committee, composed of James Showal- ter and Janice Purdy, gave us excellent selections from which to choose. The junior class play. a comedy, Foot Loose, was greeted by howls of glee from the younger members of the audience and much appreciated by all. The mem-