Versailles High School - Portal Yearbook (Versailles, OH)

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SIXTY-NINTH ANNUAL BACCALAUREATE AND COMMENCEMENT OF THE VERSAILLES HIGH SCHOOL BACCALAUREATE Sunday, May 20, 1956 8:00 P. M. Processional Senior Class Invocation Rev. Raymond Thompson Music High School Chorus Scripture Rev. Reuben Stauss Music Girls Chorus Class Sermon Rev. Reuben Stauss Music High School Chorus Benediction Rev. G. B. Menge

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Dan Hart is now head speaker at the annual Liar’s Club Meeting. He has also been very successful in revising his old song, “See You Later, Alligator.” The teen-agers are wild about it. Don Hemmelgarn and Joe Berger are still working to get Yorkshire on the map. And are doing a good job of it by building a factory which puts ov.Hnkless pens for thoughtless people. Donna Horner and Lavon Wright’s wedding will be an event that will take place at our fiftieth reunion. This will mark the end of the world’s longest courtship. Glenn Jenkins is still living like a millionaire from the proceeds of his book that has been a best seller for the last ten years. The title of the book is “How to Get Along With Women.” Mat Kelch is still teasing the girls and has even developed a remote controlled wav to stack lockers. Shirley Keller developed a new formula called Keller’s Kalorie Killer which guarantees that you’ll lose weight without dieting. Ivo Knapke is now farming the entire Darke County but he wishes to move to a more hilly country-side because he still believes that hillsides provide more land to cultivate. Marvin Keiser, the present Secretary of Agriculture, is helping Ivo prove his theory. Carl Langenkamp is teaching bookkeeping at VHS. Oh, yes, he was the onlv one who actually passed this subject in ’56. Cynthia Loxley is a very successful guidance councellor at UCP (University of Confused People). Hazel Marker-Nickol and Jean Miller are great coin collectors—by some strange coincidence, they’re almost all “nickols”. Jean has also written a book entitled “Blue Hearts and Pink Elephants”. Joanne Matthieu has become a world traveler since her marriage to a famous engineer. She is now living in Timbuktu. Ron McClurg has been a prominent lawyer and is thinking seriously of running for president in the next election. His worthy opponent will probably be Prosperin’ Paul Parmenter. Gerhart Mekelburg has been a very successful scientist. He’s keeping right up with Einstein—he plans to leave his brain for scientific research. Mary Meyers is the head nurse at St. Elizabeth Hospital. Her grandchildren have all attended Randolph High School. Carl Neargarder is the head of the science department at Russia College of Knowledge. All of his children graduated from this immortal institute. Shirley Oliver is a public relations officer who is in charge of keeping friendly relationship with Bradford, a new suburb of Versailles. Larry Pearrell, famously known as ‘Alfred Lord Pearrell’, is now retiring as the champion wrestler of the universe. His very capable manager and instructor was Bob Poly. The closest Pearrell ever came to losing the title was in a match with ‘Gallopin’ Gerald Swallow’. Ginny Pequignot is now designing clothes and has developed the new “G” look—one look and everybody says “Gee”. Roger Petitjean and Harold Pohl are owners of the Versailles Atoms For Peace Power Plant—makers of power units for your farm, home, and industry. Jane Phelan has become Speaker of the House and has taken a more common name—Smith. Judy Phelan has been successful in training all her children to be swimmers. Incidently, Judy’s granddaughter was the first to swim the Atlantic. Janet Pitsenbarger manufactures ‘Pitsenbarger’s Pickled Potatoes’, which have taken the place of potato chips. Class Prophecy (continued on Page 106) —21—

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SIXTY-NINTH ANNUAL BACCALAUREATE AND COMMENCEMENT OF THE VERSAILLES HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT Monday, May 21, 1956 8:00 P. M. Processional Invocation Music Salutatory Music Valedictory Music ......... Presentation of Awards Class Address......... High School Band Rev. Paul Getter Seniors Seniors High School Band L. F. Rhoades, Principal Philip E. Auer Pastor of Peace Lutheran Church, Galion, Ohio Music Seniors Presentation of Class B. D. Hensel, Superintendent Presentation of Diplomas Kenneth Subler Benediction Rev. Raymond Thompson MOTTO The past is forever gone; but the future is still our own. FLOWER Pink Carnation COLORS Navy Blue and White