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

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GRANDPA'S TWIN SISTER A COMEDY - DRAMA IN THREE ACTS CHARACTERS Grandpa Hatcher . . . . . . . . . Dean Tomlinson Maggie ..... Louise , Betty Edgar . Clara Ralph Wyatt . Henry Collins . . . The Widow Williams , Adam McPherson . , Time of Presentation . Stage Manager . . Director . . . . . Our story took place in the Spring. Grandpa enjoyed poor health and the thrill of ordering people about especially at his medicine tirne, He worried over how to es- cape the persistant efforts of the Widow Williams to catch her fourth husband-the others being peacefully rested under the sod. Living with Grandpa was Clara and her hen- pecked husband couldn't even call his own tongue and words his own, she wanted to let- Edgar act as Grandpa's guardian in charge of his money, of course. Then, there was Louise, his grand niece, who wanted his money, too, and her prospective bridegroom, Henry Collins, who wanted Louise only if she had the definite prospects of being an 30 . Mary Alice O'Leary . . . . Louise Goodwin . . . . Shirley Davies . Albert Van Wynesberghe . . Margaret Reidenbach . . . . Carl Wollenhaupt . Maurice Perry . Rosey Griffin . . . . . Billy Fair . . November 12, 1949 . . . . Frank Bartal Miss Maryetta Bowyer heiress. There was Betty, his granddaughter, who didn't want any thing from Grandpa, but she did want Doctor Wyatt to stop consider- ing her a child and to pay some attention to her for herself alone. There was the cook, Maggie, who wanted ahusband and was will- ing to pay a mail-order Matrimonial Bureau ten dollars for a suitable prospect. Grandpa decided to play his own twin sister so that Widow Williams could not trap him. Grandpa finds Wido Williams a husband, who is Adam McPherson, Maggie's Mail- order husband. Maggie stays on as a cook, and Grandpa was going to the Abner Hatcher Hospital as soon as it was built to have peace.

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IIIASS PIIUPHHTY I went to the library one day to get a very interesting book. As I went through the shelves of books upon books on end, I finally came to a little book of Green and Gold with the title of Ridge Class of '50, which looked very in- teresting to me. I took the book to the librarian to check out for me. She looked at me in a strange manner, but I knew what I was doing, or at least I thought I did. As I went home on the busy bus, I won- dered if I had made the right selection. Of course I had. I could hardly wait to start reading the book, so I started right away. It had twelve different chapters each which was about a different person. The chapters had an out- line at the beginning, so I will try and give you a little preview of the book, The first chapter was about Dean Tom- linson. It told all about his life through school and then after school. He had farmed and lived in a large mansion on the Lincoln Highway with Phyllis as his wife. What a life, I do believe, they had! The second chapter was about Shirley Davies. She had long pigtails all the way through school and then finally she had them cut off. When she got out of school she didn't live so far from Dean, but instead she lived down the Marsh Road in a nice little house with several children and, of course, Dale too. The third chapter was all about Carl Wollenhaupt. What a life he did live while he was in school. He dreamed of the time he could walk over his farm and say, This is my farm of which I am proud. Well, who wouldn't be withanice farm and home on the Mendon Road! The fourth chapter consists of the life of Margaret Reidenbach, a very tiny girl, but she seemed to do all right in school. After she graduated she took the position as a private secretary, What a life that would be if she had lived it,but she married instead, a tall handsome youth, 31 The fifth chapter took place just off the Lincoln Highway. It is a nice dairy farm. Bill Fair really took a great interest in the dairy and had so many cows you couldn't count them all. He ran out of names for them. Oh! no, we didn't forget his wife either as her name was Helen. The sixth chapter consists of the life and living of Louise Goodwin. It is very in- teresting to be sure, She lived near Rose Lake in Michigan and has a very large house, Behind it a little cottage where she keeps her friends over the week end. Oh!her hus- band you would like to know about is Maurice , who is a college professor from Oklahoma. Now, I am justhalfway through the book. The next life was Frank Bartal. He was living in a large city, where he has an auto mechanics shop. He was doing quite well for himself. Mary Alice O'Leary is the next famous person's life of which I read. She lived in Van Wert, on Fourth Street in a very large house with her husband, Chuck. Oh! yes, I read that her mother was a grandmother too. Albert Van Wynsberghe was the next, Honest Abe' well maybe. One must never commit himself, but he lived in Indiana and is working as the foreman in a large plant there. He was doing very well. The nextchapter told of Maurice Perry, He had a very large farm on the Lincoln Highway, and a small house in which his wife, Janet, took very good care of him. Rosey Griffin from the South is next. Her life consisted of going back and forth from the North to the South, What a life, traveling! She liked to.travel very much, as that way she got to know more people. The last chapter was the life of Esther Byers. She was a telephone operator in Texas. She likes her work very well. Now, as I close the little Green and Gold book, I see what life can mean to each one of the Class of '50,