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

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Time: 2000 A.D., all the Seniors of '54 are lined up in front of the Pearly Gates after a long, well-lived U1 life. They are anxiously giving an account of themselves to St. Peter, who is taking it down in his Book of Life. Fearless Fosdick Agler had been hired by Martha Brown to find her husband who went out for a glass of milk KH and had never returned. jack Aurand was Lex Barker's chief competitor for Tarzan movies. Kay Bagley had a fashion shop in Middlepoint. Her most outstanding creation was a space suit that was out of this world. Colleen Baird was head gal on the Sunday night program john's Other Head. The name of the business of Vangie and Ric Bar- rientos' was How to Improve your Figure or Physique. Ric took care of the figures, while Vangie handled the physiques. John Blake was the big wheel of Van Wert's Y.M.C.A. His total membership was 57. Half of these were his own. Poor Marcia was all worn out--after washing all those Y towels. Elaine Bollenbacher Blair was in business with her husband hatching little Green Beetles. jim Bowersock's biggest supermarket was Bowersock, Bowersock, Bowersock, and Bowetsock. It was opened and operated by Bowersock, Bowersock, and Bower- sock. Ooops! and Bowersock, Carolyn Bradford's laugh was in great demand, so she was hired by comedian Kenny Hope Knittle to sit in his audiences and giggle. Karen Brockert's new recording of Come Under the Bridge passed the million mark. Kay Brown was voted the neatest lapful in Ohio. Gail Burget was a good-will ambassador between Van Wert and Rockford. Richard Carter was married and raising a lot of Carter's little pills. Bev Case had the honor of being the only girl sax player in Billy May's orchestra. She really enjoyed her work. Shirley Collins had fulfilled her lifelong ambition of being a physical education instructor. She taught at West Point. Yvonne Copeland was still puckering on her horn called Frenchie. Ron Crowe was head designer at General Motors. He designed cars, not heads. Maurice Dempsey never fully recovered from the shock of being selected as Miss Armstrong's favorite pupil. Bill Atlas Dias carried the weight of the world on his shoulders, since he graduated from Joan Shaw's Modern Institute of Muscle Technology. Dig this! Gerry Dierks was owner of Dierks' Diggers of Dirty Dirt. Carol Doner had her own flower shop, Poesie's Posiesf' She had quite a number of little Poesies. Lewie Dustman and Tom Kiggins had patented a new hair tonic. Their motto is Curley Mops for Baldy Tops. Marianne Edwards was on the famous T.V. program, My Friend, Peachief' Reha Elston gave driving lessons. Her specialty was parking. Carol Unterbrink was working for the famous Jan Farlow Dancing School as an instructor. Elaine Fast was top scorer for Larry McDaniel's all girl basketball team, The Petunias , who had just won their second straight game, defeating Cavett 516 to 11. Clara Furrell was water-boy? Dick Giessler had just written a sequel to the Lost Week-end. It was slightly longer, and titled The Mis- placed Month. Writing ran in the family as Fred Giessler published a book on The Proper and Safe Methods of Driving. Gale Gilliland had been piloting his 1925 hot rod in the Indiana Speedway. Bill Gingrich rose from the position of chief cook and bottle washer to chief bottlewasher and cook. Bill Gipe, better known as Cueball , was well known as a creator of men's hair styles. Jane Good had been helping Uncle Sam by raising a crop of little Marines. jim Hall was back in the saddle again, taking Gene Autry's place. Kay Halliwill perfected a medicine which she called Kay's Kure for Krazy Kats. Shirley Height and Sally Worthington were famous historians touring the country just looking for the facts. Ann Helman had established a new Starr Common- wealth Home for Boys. Mary Lou Herminghuysen was extremely busy trying to find an easier way to do nothing.

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- David Hertel, a famed psychiatrist, retired after the hnance company confiscated his couch. Betty Hines had given a new idea to her brothers, so now the Heinz Brothers have 58 varieties instead of the monotonous 57. Loretta Huffine was enrolled in a night school on How to be a Model Farmer's Wife. Nancy Imler was voted Florence Nightingale of the year. Inez Jenkins and Tatiana Rouse were translators of the U. N. Assembly. Their most proficient language was pig Latin. Mary Jerome was first cornetist for the Marine Band. Dean Johns was president of Dean's Delightful Dozie Mattresses for which Bob Shupe was chief tester. Joanne Johnson, disappointed in love, had joined the French Foreign Legion. Alice Jones had a chain of drug stores. Her com- petitors found they couldn't keep up with the Jones. Ollen Jones was one of the Jones Boys, about which the whole town was talking. Bev Keipper made a fortune manufacturing Bev's Bubble Bath. Milo Kieth and Helen Mace had eloped to Madagascar where they were making a living running a frog farm. Beverly Kesler was made head waitress at Grace's CMeffordD Greasy Spoon. Eva Kesler was secretary of the Department of Li- braries of Ohio. Because of his great aversion to the female sex, Trav Kouts had withdrawn from society to become a hermit in the wilds of Ubangi. Barbara Lalonde published a book- How to Preserve, Not Pickle, Your Looks. Bob Lippi made a fortune in Spain teaching toreadors how to sing. Ronald Lowe reached the high position of manager for the Fort Wayne Daisies. Sharon McCollum and Kathleen Moore had never ceased arguing about the evaluation of Nabisco and Sunshine products. CWise up, Sharon. Signed-Kath leen.D Delores Martin was famous for her bubble dance done wit? new plastic bubbles that will not explode, crack. or ade. Jerry Martz bared the secret of his life in a startling 150-page expose-he was born. Carol Miller was running a glue factory in Colorado. She wanted to stay away from it all, and this helped. Ginger Miller was editor of Boy's Life , having had so much contact with the opposite gender. Stan Miller wrote a book on the rules of basketball, which dribbled for 1001 pages. Steve Moyer had received a patent on a new school seat with leather head-rests. Dan Murphy was voted as having the nearest lap in Ohio, Judith Nash gave Rise Stevens a run for her money. Judith finally got ir. The money, that is, Joy Preston wasrsolo cymbal player in Jim Yahn's famous Yahnnie's Yoglers of Melodious Melodies. Kay Preston Murray was selling bird whistles on the Alaskan Highway. Pat Prichard had her own show called Pat's Pet Peeve Program. Wells Purmort did research work for Dr. Kinsey. Joe Raabe invented a new foam rubber tilt-back lounge chair for choir rooms, especially designed for those who have tender backs. Sue Rager had her own All Ghoul Choir with Roxanna Smitley as soloist. Chuck Richey achieved his desire of becoming Dean of Women at Marysville, a fashionable institution for exceptionally talented women. Stan Scott was noted for having the largest gas station in the world. He had a total of 369 employees-all girls. Janet Shaeffer had taken Miss Armstrong's place as Master Mathematician. Joan Shook could be seen nightly at Binkey's Bar-B-Q, cleaning up on the slot machines. Shirley Speakman has quietly taken a back seat while her football star husband, Dan, proceeds to the top. Ben Spearman was scraping gum from the bottom of seats of Radio City Music Hall, having had so much experience at V.W.H.S. Ben Spieth was selling violets and hand-painted neck- ties on the corner of Main and Jefferson. Mike Spray was headed for Burp's Peak in his custom built rocket ship. John Stuckey and Francis the Talking Mule had col- laborated and were making a movie called Francie and Johnnie. Sandy Sullivan Baltzell was a private nurse to Dr. Pepper. Phil Tanner was buying all the peoples property after persuading them to leave the cities because of the hydrogen bomb. Shirley Tomlinson was editor of Merry Males' Mag. Bill Waldron was last seen arguing, as usual, about what an authority he is on American Government. Jack Waldron succeeded Cliff Clevenger and was the strongest advocator of depolluting the Town Creek. Joan Wells, world famous hypnotist, had recently married the Maharajah of Portugal. Martha Wermer and Mary Wermer had changed the name of their TV program from Who's Who to Which is Which. Lester Wisener has written a best seller- Money without Work. Margaret Young had created a new shoe that will make you three inches taller. Her theme song is When You and I were Short, Maggie. Shirley Zinsmeister was found in a secluded corner of Cairo charming her snakes with her clarinet.