Vanlue High School - Scarlet and Grey Yearbook (Vanlue, OH)

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CLASS OFFICERS Iiinrnie Ttioincrs . . .President Ted Struck .... Vice President Iotin Ctiitcoot ............ . . . . . . Secretory-Treasurer Betty Fletcher ...... Reporter Miss Ornorn . . .... Sponsor

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CLASS HISTUHY It is the year l953, and the goal we have been seeking is at last attained. We entered our freshman year in the fall of 1949 with an enrollment of twenty-six. We chose as class officers, Bill Cook, President: Ronald Hatch, Vice President: Georgia Farmer, Secretary-Treasurerg Betty Fletcher, Reporterg Norma lean Walters and Iimmie Thomas, Student Council Members, and Miss McChesney, as our class sponsor. As sophomores, we chose Mr. Nonnamaker as our sponsor. Class officers were as follows: President, Iohn Chilcoatg Vice President, Iimmie Thomas: Secretary-Treasurer, Norma Iean Walters: Reporter, Martha Fruthp and Student Council Members, Willis Bibler and Marita Lay. We chose green and white as our class colors, white carna- tion as our class flower, and Enter to Learn: Go Forth to Serve as our class motto. During the junior year we chose Miss Oman as our sponsor: Willis Bibler, Presidentg Paul Thomas, Vice President: Ronald Hatch, Secretary-Treasurer: limmie Thomas, Reporter: and Dale Shaffer and Georgia Farmer as Student Council Members. We presented the comedy Paper Plates for Papa as our junior play. It was a great success. We had many good and trying times preparing for the customary Iunior and Senior Banquet. This completed a year's work. Now the climax-the senior year with twenty students entered as seniors and Miss Oman chosen as our class sponsor. The officers were: President, Iimmie Thomasp Vice President, Ted Shuckg Secretary-Treasurer, lohn Chilcoatg Reporter, Betty Fletcher, Student Council Members, Norma lean Walters and Ronald Hatch. We promoted various activities of which the three most important were the senior play, Willie's Week-End , the year- book, and the class trip to Washington, D. C. We as seniors have reached the goal for which we have been striving and will remember the happy times we spent together' -Paul Thomas CLASS PHUPHECY As I dissolved the white powder in water arl'd drank it, the young chemist told me to think of everything I wanted to see in my glimpse of the future. I followed his advice, setting my mind on my former class- mates, many of whom I had not seen since Commencement. The first scene that developed before me was that of a large glass-enclosed room. It looked like that of a large labora- tory. But waitl The light-brown-haired, white-coated chemist bending over one of the tables-he looked familiar, but I couldn't place him until a dark-haired young lady fwhom I immediately thought was a very able assistantl entered the room and said, Professor Chilcoat, your experiment-- Then seeing me, she stopped. Oh, do come in. Here is an old friend of ours. Don't you remember-. But I couldn't stay long, because there were many more friends I wanted to visit. The next scene I saw before me was an office. There were several men seated around a long table, and a young lady was at a desk near the table taking notes on what was being said. Two of the obviously successful business men I recognized as former classmates of mine. Seated at the head of the table was Paul Thomas, whom the others addressed from time to time as Mr. President. To his left was Lowell Bayes, whom I recognized by the remarks he was making. I gathered that the group was considering some new investment for their booming business of The Flying Limousine Company. Then that scene faded, and in a large department store in the same city I saw Martha Fruth, who was a leading stylist and designer. She told me she was going to marry a young man and return to Vanlue to start housekeeping. I was surprised at the next scene I viewed. It was in Holly- wood. And who should I see but Laura Lambright! Since graduating, she had studied to be the only woman director in Hollywood. She was giving instructions in scenery, costumes, and so forth, in preparation for the picture. The star? None other than Ronald Hatch. l found out later he was playing the part of Tarzan. The head camera-man was Ray Perkins, who was sitting in a'chair with his name across the back of it taking life easy. The scene faded and I found myself in Arizona, where I found Wanda Risner, who was a housewife. She told me she and her husband had moved to Arizona because of her hus- band's health. Wanda informed me that Betty Fletcher was one of the leading citizens of Findlay, Ohio, and that she was married to a senator of the state. And much to my surprise, the magic powder took me to Vanlue, I noticed the large, new elevator and saw a sign that said BIBLER AND SHUCK ELEVATOR. But come to think about it, Willis was always an elevator man, and as for Ted, that wasn't too shocking, because he had worked in an elevator before. My next visit was to the Vanlue Newspaper office. Since the population had increased to 5,000, I presumed there was a need for a newspaper. There was none other than Tommy Prater as editor-in-chief, and Jimmie Thomas as the assistant editor-in-chief. Norma lean Walters was living near Vanlue, now a farmer's wife enjoying life as a housewife and mother of four children. I looked around a little and another surprising scene met my eyes-that of a court room where a solemn, black-robed figure behind the judge's desk was Cyes, it was hard to be- lievell Dale Shaffer. He was very interested in the case being presented by the lawyer, Ben Pelphrey, who was the leading lawyer at Vanlue now. Bill Cook I found in a town near Vanlue where he was a County Agriculture Agent. In the same town I saw Frank Corwin, who was a millionaire now, operating a super market. The final scene I was permitted to see before the effects of the powder wore off, leaving me free to go back on duty at the hospital, was in the home of Georgia Dee Farmer. She was having a party announcing her engagement to a well- known man of the community. And now I must go back to work at the hospital where Charlene Pratt, as head nurse, will direct me in my duties. -A Victim of the White Powder