Wawaka High School - Pow Wow Yearbook (Wawaka, IN)

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SENIOR CLASS WILL-Continued And now we leave the class to the oncoming seniors. We also leave you our carved and scarred desks. May you do better! Signed: Class of 194-8 CLASS OF 1948 LATER ON As we gaze into our crystal ball we see the future-naturally. First we see 'Lois Marie Damon, who incidently has changed her name to Weaver, hustling about their home in Wawaka taking care of all the little Weavers. She was always determined to be a good housewife and she seems to be doing a good job of it. As this picture fades out we see that of Beulah Arlene johnson and QE Lucille Donley take shape. They are busy in the office of the newly built Municipal Hospital in Wawaka. The doctors seem to be well pleased with their medical' secretaries. Next we see Marionlcinei Franks busy supervising traffic in the Wawaka freight yards. He is now married and has three children. He is enjoying his job because the freight yards are so large and it gives him an air of supremacy. We now seem to see four feed mills, one each in Kendallville, Brimfield, Wawaka, and Ligonier. The sign on each one says Merrill Blosser Frick and Sons. He evidently has a thriving business by the looks of his properties. He and his wife are living in Wawaka where the main office is. Now we see someone who is just a trifle bit too large for our crystal ball to manage. Oh yes, ifsgzis Solomon Fulford who is now head foreman at Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Company at Brirnfield. On the sideline he and his wife are raising chickens and pickles. His children don't seem to like to pick pickles-Wonder why? Our crystal ball now produces a picture of Donaldggimgvfr who has recently purchased a 120-acre farm on the out- skirts of Goshen. He got his wife from the office of the Mogul Rubber Co. where he was recently employed. They have no children as yet. Once again we get a vision of the Wawaka Municipal Hospital where we find Josephine Louise Gappinger, who has been promoted to head., N x nurse. She has not yet spoken the marriage vows. Pops, what's this? It looks like grease- spots on our crystal ball. Oh, yes, it's Robertgydgi-Q2 who is head grease monkey at the Wawaka Garage. He is seriously thinking of buying out the garage. He has his eye on one of the medical secretaries at the hospital. Keep Looking, Bob! Our next vision is not so clear because it takes us so far, far away. We find Fredrick Wayne Moore running a very fine

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CLASS OF' 1948 LATER ON-Continued looking restaurant on Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. His wife is head cook and his children are waiters and waitresses. We now see -D-cg Eilene Wysong as head of the art department at Wirk's Garment Factory in Ligonier. Her husband is one of the foremen. Her twin daughters are now in the second grade in Ligonier. It is rather hard to'get this next scene as it is wh Eugene Troyer and his youngest son coming in for a landing at his airport. Now that he has stopped we find that he seems to have a very pleasant occupation. His air- port is in connection with a gas station along Road 6 near Wawaka. Our last vision is that of a farm just across the road from Troyer's Airport where we find Edward Evans Mawhorter doing his spring plowing. His wife and son are out at the barn milking the Holsteins. The crystal ball is not to be held responsible for any change in the above predictions., CLASS HISTORY Only seven of the thirteen Seniors started at Wawaka School under the guidance of Mrs. Ruth Schwab johnson. They were: Merrill Frick, Donald Gangwer, Edward Mawhorter, Marion Franks, james Fulford, Doris Wysong, Lois Damon. Lois later spent one year in New York but decided she liked Wawaka best. Others beginning in 1936 were: Ruth Dunlap, Jeanette Hale, Betty Fulk, Norma Smith, Thomas Magers, Donald Meroney, jack Smith, Gwan Kimrnel, and Richard Pusti. In the second grade jim Gleason and Donald Meroney left the class in order to help enlarge some other schools. When school opened the following fall we had another loss, jack Smith had moved to Wolf Lake. The fourth grade found the class minus one more member, Richard Pusti. Lyle Klemn joined us in the fifth grade. Max Musselman was temporarily with the class. Robert Haney, who got his start at Wolf Lake with Blanche Erdly as his teacher then went to Merriam, some way wound up at Wawaka for six and one-half years. Then in the sixth grade Lyle Klemn and Jeanette Hale left. As the year went by, jack Wallace came and Doris Donley added defense to the feminine side of the class. 1 Then came the junior High years with the North Elkhart gang raising the seventh grade crew to 19. North Elkhart School graduates were: Dean Wysong, Arlene johnson, Norma Day, and Sally Donat. Dean Wysong, Ruth Dunlap, Dean Kline, and Sally Donat left