Versailles High School - Portal Yearbook (Versailles, OH)

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CLASS PROPHECY From our vantage point in the sky, we, Pat Pequignot, Janet Berger, and Marilyn Grisez, the first earthlings to reach the moon, look down on our classmates with our high powered telescope. The years since our graduation from V. H. S. have changed the plans of many of them, and it is interesting to see what they have become. First, we see Joanne Bulcher enjoying her work with the masculine patients at Walter Reed Veterans hospital, where she is head nurse. Under her are R. N.’s Mary Drees, famous for her bedside manner, and Betty Poly, who supervises the sun deck. Our telescope moves slowly, and we spot James Thiebeau and Cyril Voisard. They are living like kings with the money they made from their invention of an automobile that can sprout wings. (For use in heavy traffic). Next we come to Madison Square Garden, where the world-renowned Versailles Globetrotters, coached by Bob Brown, are playing to a capacity crowd of basketball fans. John Schwepe, their star, has just broken the world’s record by making 94 points in the first half of their game with the All Stars. Earl Hollinger is their shrewd manager. Jane Eving-er launders their towels with Ruffy Tuffy Hard to Bluffy soap flakes, manufactured by Virginia Schulze. Also in New York is Catherine May, who is the director of a select business school. At the first desk, we find Janice Kremer, who has spent twenty-three years trying to acquire enough credits to graduate. At the Metropolitan Opera House, Jack Goodall is singing the lead in “The Barber of Versailles,” a new opera by the distinguished American composer, Tom Hart. As we move to the Midwest, we find Clarence Grilliot growing prize tomatoes one yard in diameter. He owes his success to the marvelous fertilizer produced by Ronnie Hennessy’s 291,473,586 registered Hampshire hogs. In Cleveland, Dottie Littman is the head designer at the Tweety-Tweet Bird Cage Company, owned by Annie Shimp. Now the telescope swings to Versailles, and we see Ramona Nickol and Myrna Gehle running a race to see wno can nave the largest family. At the moment, the score it tied at twenty-five all. Harriet Westfall is bringing up a close second with nineteen, all boys. Also in Versailles is Lloyd Brenneman. He is still at the Poultry Producers trying to find a slick chick. So far they have all been flighty hens. Mary Yagle is secure in her job as the first woman superintendent of the Versailles Publil Schools. Paul Drees has his Masters Degree and is head of the English department. Don Yagle was impressed by the story of Rip Van Winkle, and has been asleep on the lawn of V. H. S. since graduation. —20—

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CLASS PROPHECY Moving on to Dayton, we find Arlene Stephan running a charm school. Her chief instructor is Teba Cain, who teaches poise, Pat Plessinger is a taxidermist. She is kept busy stuffing the pink elephants which have recently been brought back by the noted African hunter, Robert Johnston. Delores Knapke is Arthur Murray’s right hand gal. She is now teaching Luella Hartzell the latest dance steps so that she can keep up with her youthful husband, Tommy Manville. By the way, Luella is his thirty-third wife. As we move west, we find June Hixson at Notre Dame University. She is busy instructing the drum major of the band in the latest thing in twirling. In Chicago, we see Jim Grogean as the head of the successful Acme advertising agency. His assistant, Janet Harry, is the highest paid secretary in the United States. In the sports world, “Clobberer” John Mills has just taken the wrestling title from Gorgeous George. He has hired Roger Mong to calm his nerves after each bout. We see floating down the Misissippi a luxurious liner owned by Tom Frantz. His chief navigator is John Warner, who steers a straight course. In the dining room, Nancy Shade and Ruth Guillozet are in cute costumes, selling cigarettes to the diners. In the Southwest, we find the two Swallows, Bill and Pat, managing a carrier bird station. Their birds supply Jerome Barge and his oil well digging crew with the latest news. Still in the same territory, we spot Pat Baltes and Marjorie Berger on a n Indian Reservation. They are confronted with the problem of how to keep the children in hand when Jerry Oliver zooms through the desert in his Ford, equipped with his latest invention, sand tread tires. In California, we spy Doris Subler keeping her flock of kiddies occupied lighting the smudge pots in their immense orange grove. In Hollywood, we spot Richard Mescher and Dean Horner, two academy award winning movie directors. They are working hard on their new movie, “John’s Other Wife’s Mother-In-Law,” starring Mary Ham-maker, as the other wife. We also spied Margaret Gehron raising her hand to christen her husband’s new ship, the USS North Star. Wait—she has accidently hit the governor of California, Bill Pepiot, on the head. But it seems that he is alright and will be able to resume his duties as chief executive of that state. And now, having looked in on all our clasmates, we must turn our telescope to Mars and begin our scientific study in earnest. Janet Berger, Marilyn Grisez, Pat Pequignot. —21—