Versailles High School - Portal Yearbook (Versailles, OH)

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CAST OF “THREAD OF DESTINY” THE MONTGOMERY FAMILY —23—

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THE THREAD OF DESTINY A Comedy-Drama in Three Acts Presented by the Senior Class FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1952 AT 8:00 P. M. CAST OF CHARACTERS Fanny ............................................ Vada Scherer George Washington Johnson Dick Paulus Betty Montgomery ............................... Shirley Clark Edith Sherman ............................... Gail Pitsenbarger Mrs. Montgomery ............................. Nancy Trittschuh Colonel Montgomery ............................ Delaine Gehle Virginia Montgomery ............................ Evelyn Pohl Beverly Montgomery..........................................John Brandt Sally Ann..........The Fairfax....................Nancy Fields Laura Lee.............Twins Jane Miller Tom Randolph ................................Tom Baughman Martha .......................................... Lurene Simon Susan .......................................... Margaret Drees jane .................................... Marianne Langenkamp John Merivale Morton ........................... Joyce Swallow Marcella ....................................... Barbara Millet Marion ...................................... Thelma Speelman Mammy Dinah...................................... Wanda Pepiot Peyton Bailey .................................... John Stuck Uncle Billy ................................. Howard Kremer Louise Lawton..................................... Mary Finfrock Ralph Francis .................................... John Barge Madge Young.....................................Jane Pequignot Miss Melissy .................................... Josie Marchal DIRECTORS Mr. Homer Fields Miss Beulah Jones Ticket Committee—June Matthieu, Jeanette McEldowney. Ushers—June Matthieu, Jeanette McEldowney, Pauline Mangen, Alice Berger, Delores Didier. Costumes Makeup—Mr. and Mrs. Allen McLain. Stage Manager—Charles Parmenter. —22—

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY As we left our homes on our way to the Great Darke County Fair to be held at Versailles this year, we decided to take a round-a-bout way and stop off to see some of our old classmates that graduated with us way back in ’52. While passing through Ansonia we saw Mrs. Jane Miller Steed trying to get all of her eleven children into the car so they could get to the fair early enough to get a good seat in the grandstand. Continuing on we stopped by a truck with a flat tire and were surprised to find it was Bob Plessinger still single and trying to get home in time to get dressed for his big date. After helping him we drove on into Brock territory and who do you suppose the first people we saw were? Nancy and John Brandt out taking care of their prize hogs. We discovered that they wouldn’t be able to attend the fair that evening because they were having company from upstate, Mrs. Vada Fisher and her husband, and since they had eight children between the two families all agreed that it would be too nerve racking to go to the fair that night. Dick Frantz lived next door to the Brandt’s but we were disappointed in finding that he had gone to Europe for the week-end taking his secretary, Nina Tegtmeyer, with him. Traveling on towards North Star we were distracted by a car making a lot of noise to pass us and when it finally succeeded we found that it was our old classmate, Barbara Rindler, now owner of the Rindler Moeller grocery. She was rushing home to get supper but when she recognized us she stopped for a very few minutes and told us some of the news from her vicinity. It seems that John Stuck has been called to Washington to help the government officials on some new scientific experiments. Pat Pepiot has moved to North Star and now is managing a large Thrift E market all by herself while Delores Coons is the head clerk and Ina Dunwoody is the advertising manager. All three are happily married but prefer to follow the popular style of career women by sticking to their maiden names. Delores Didier has now become the head nurse at Monarch in the city of Sidney while Virginia Ford-Selan-der has just been elected the first woman mayor of North Star. As we sat watching Barbara speed home we decided that it would be useless to continue on to North Star as we already knew the news and would undoubtedly see some of these people at Versailles. Thus retracing a few miles we found ourselves in the thriving metropolis of French-town. As it was not 3:30 p. m. we were suddenly surprised to see all the pupils from the large, new, and quite modern Frenchtown school come racing down the steps of the school house, followed by Paul Shimp, their principal, rushing toward the subway station to take the 3:00 o’clock train to Versailles. While watching the few lower grade pupils that did not take the train we saw two little girls that resembled Bernice Hemmel-garn and Esther Kramer very closely. Following them to the cars they entered we had a pleasant chat with the two mothers who were in no hurry at all because they had to wait for their husbands to do the evening chores before they could start out to see the County Fair’s sights. Before too long we headed north toward Yorkshire and long before we entered it a large sign was visible—“Kremer’s Feeds, Yorkshire and McCartyville”. Entering the city limits we saw a little boy, who later turned out to be John Barge, building a very complicated bridge over the gutter of Main Street. He said that he wanted to be a big engineer like his daddy and build bridges across the Grand Canyon. After the boy had directed us to Kremer’s Feed Store and Elevator we were overjoyed to find that Howard, our classmate, was the sole owner and operator. As he took us on a personal tour through the buildings we saw that (Continued on page 77) —24—