Wapakoneta High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Wapakoneta, OH)

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3. The Queen Speaks 5. The Queen’s Court HOMECOMING 1 2 Sitting on “Top of the World” 4. Approaching the Throne 6. The Grand Entrance 22

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RICHARD ARLEN VEIT BOBBY LEE WALLACE I have so much more than Gregory, All’s fair in love and football, why should I fight it? ALBERT CLIFFORD WEBB I don’t want to be a millionaire, just live like one. JOHN WEBB His only crime is killing time. MARILYN JEANNE WEBB A ring on the finger is worth two on the phone. MELVIN EUGENE WERLING The man who waits for things to turn up has his eyes on his shoes. BARBARA ANN WOLFE MARY SOPHIA WRIGLEY Contentment is the greatest blessing She can play to beat the band! ?f the human race. NORMA JANE ZWIEBEL Those who talk least work the best. n

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OUT OF THIS WORLD Let us climb into our supersonic rocket ship in this year, 1973, and make a visit to some of the graduates of the class of 1953. Progress has been rapid in the past twenty years, and most of the class now live on the nearby planets. First we will visit Venus which is nearest the earth, and continue on our way to Mercury. As you would expect, Venus is known for her pretty girls and most of these are secretaries. As we descend our rocket ship which is piloted by Warren Musser, Anna Schroer and Ruth Roediger assist us. They are what is known as spaceship stewardesses. At the hotel we check our bags and chat with Shirley Kuck who is a secretary here. Our first trip of course will be to the F.arth Consulate, where we find Dick Veit, Ambassador to Venus. His private secretary is Sharon Hoegner. Dick offers to take us on a tour of the capital city, Venisia. At the high school we are surprised to find Mert Copeland is principal and Bob Schilling is superintendent. While we are chatting over old times with Bob and Mert, Nancy Headapohl and Emma Jane Abe appear and inform us that they are secretaries here. As we are leaving we meet Roberta Brackney and Marilyn Elsass on their way to work. They also play in the Venus all-girl orchestra. Dick says this is his favorite. It is getting late now and we must leave Venus. Ruth and Anna strap our safety belts, and we are off for Mercury. Mercury is a very hot planet, being only 36,000,000 miles from the sun. Because of this, she has seasons which last only three weeks. It happens that we arrive in winter. Winter here is much like that in Florida, and we find quite a few businessmen vacationing. Earth Consul on Mercury is Dan Brown, who used to be class president. His secretary is Nancy Metzger. Nancy advises us to go to the beach where we find Jon Anspaugh, a big business executive, sunning on the sand. With him are Tom Schnell and Carl Schumann who are partners in a mechanical engineering project. Bill Benz-ing and Earl Bowersock come out of the water to greet us. They are both successful chemical engineers. Mercury Beach is a lovely resort, but we must leave now as we promised to stop and visit with Gene Tippie, another mechanical engineer, at the Hotel Solar. Then Ruth informs us that we must get back to our space ship if we want to make Mars by spring on that planet. Mars w’as the first planet to be settled by earthlings, and so many of our classmates have been here quite awhile. Since Mars is very light, and an athlete here can easily leap a twelve foot wall, it is not surprising that this planet serves as sort of a training camp for sportsmen. Of coure the Earth Consul is Charles Brading and he tells us all about his favorite baseball team, the Marsian Reds. In Marshville, as the capital city is named, it seems there are two rival football teams playing this day. One, the Comets, is coached by Deane Agner. The other, the Meteors, has Vernon Brentlinger as its coach. Head cheerleader for the Comets is Miriam Prieser, and since Mim is an old classmate, too, we decide to root for that team. The game ends in a tie, however. Marshville has a new roller rink which is owned and operated by Mary Jane Behm. Across the street is Bob Wallace’s “School of Football Techniques.” We have to stop and chat with Bob and we find that his secretary is another classmate, Dorothy Barth. We’d certainly like to stay longer on this Sportsman’s Paradise, but Anna tells us that we must be leaving for Jupiter. Jupiter is 1200 timec as large as our home planet, Earth, and therefore has a lot of surface. Jupiter’s seasons are three years long and so for a span of about seven years her climate is ideal for farming. When we arrive, she has just finished three years of summer and her farmers are very prosperous. Earth Consul here is Jack Selover, whose secretary is Dolores Fisher. Because of the vastness of the planet, in order to visit our classmates, we must charter a private air rocket. The first plantation at which we stop is Melvin Werling’s. He calls his place MELabar Farm. As we make our tour of the beautiful countryside, we come upon an estate which is partially farmed and partially covered with basketball courts. Jack explains that this is the home of Leroy McFarland, retired professional basketball star. He used to live on Mars, where he now spends his winters. The next farm at which we stop is Ken Orchard's. Ken specializes in growing straw for hay rides. On our way back, we stop and chat with F rank Rostorfer. He is head of FFA on Jupiter. We thank Jack for the nice trip and again ascend our rocket ship. As we near the next planet which we are to visit in our travels, we find ourselves in a deep and mysterious fog. Of course we are nearing Saturn, which is noted for its ‘halo’. On Saturn there is a new solar clinic and medical practicioners come here from all parts of the universe. Earth Con- 33