Wheeler High School - Wheelerite Yearbook (North Stonington, CT)

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II1 XXH LII LRIIE P g even mates let s trx to see them all XMI H1lda told me that lack So1e11en ls ll Hollx xx ood domg a nexx d mee 1lICtL116 R1 I'I'19lTllJ61 that funnx xxo1d xxe u ed 111 the ll dau 11 te1 bug ' It stem he -15 pelfected 11 1917 XBISIOH ot Ins old tec1 nn ue B 1xl Gee1 m I'116Cl xxell mt mox ed axxax and no one has heud 11on1 he1 slnce her laet Cl1Llghf91 xx1 H1 11111' J1mm1e Wheeler you knoxx had that sad acc1dent he xxaw dmcmg xx1th a gnl 111 the R1tZ Ca1lt0n Root and xxxunff 1e1 dl0LlIld so X10l6IltlX she fell off the 1oof Porn Ilmmle he S 1JldCtlCillX 1 llbllilll Pendleton H111 xx IS 1 Jlllhlx m 1 o x N that xxe met the lx m1 1 on of the class We xxe1e xx utmg fo1 CllHll0l xx hen a p1ettx xx Oman came xx alklng doxxn the lnghxxax obx1ouslx out of sorta She asked the man at the fillmg wtat1on o end fixe gallonx of gax up the road to he1 huxhand x C31 that xx ax sex e1al m1l9s ba k Xl lthout lookmg up at Us she sald VI hen XUUI husband xxas lnactlcallx born at 1 uae Ntatlon youd th1nk hed haxe Nenxe enough to keep lub tank filled She turned and faced us XR ell fancx meetmg x1u txxo here It xx ae the end of our Search dea1 Nlargfuet Lmphlett Just one more note about ou1 tllp Ex er once that day 1n the Worth Stonlngrton Ch1mhe1 of Commelu Geltrude had h 1l 1 xtl xnge glelm 1n her eve I th1nk shf down t mtend to stax met C1e1t1 ude H1111 much longer DORIS ROPERT GERTRUDF IVIAINE Retrospect II II 1 101 11111 1 11 11 71 111111 111111 111 1111 1 11111 11111 flllll 1111 1 1 yt 11111 1111 1llllIV 1 1111 1111 1 Ill 1111 111 1 Ill II 11 1111 11 1171111111 11111 11111 111111 11 1 111 1 Ill 1 Illll fill 1 Il I1 III Il 111 1 Ill 11' 111 111111 V 1 1 1 1 1 II 111111 Il I Illll 1111 It 1111 111111 Ill 111111 Il 1 1 11 H1' I N ues . I., 15. V' 5 .1 1 H '11, . . Y 1 , - . yy 1 ' 1 2 . ' . - 1 5- 1 K, 1 ' L. ' 1 1 .Y I l I S l A 5 I ' Q .' 1 - ' Ot VT., -I'-t .- 71: E, X , S , hc I. A, . ., 5. 5, .. ' C . . , . '- . . .' ' ' . , 1 - Y' ' . . , ' as r . .. . . . 1 . ,.. . , 1 Q 9 . a . , . , Y 1 1. . S . A. .. U, 2 V Yi Y 1 1 l I . i 1 v 1 I . Y V . Y ' v 1 N 1 C . L y A . ' .' - .. 2 ' 2 ' '-11. 1 , '- . ' 1 ' 'y -' -'Z H I 1 ,' fi . ' Y 1 K - V. - ' x ' ,, v , ,. c 1 . , . 1 , - . . Y - . -. 1 D 1 ,. . . A1 . . Y Q K 1 .4 I. I 1' A I I' l . 1 1' ' , I ', jg A' '1111 ', 1 1 ' ' 7, Y , ' ' . , 2 1 ' ' 3 ' x 1 I It 'z .' i1 a T1 Q' Fa I Il our x':1x' 1 .' '1 11 ' y . ' .' 1 E2i.'t ' ' I l UU tv .5SlIl,2,' I ' lf y . 1 .' ' DI I .' I X ' ' 1 2' If ss. ' - , Q , vz ' ' 1 ' , - 1 ' 3 1 J 1 1? , JAMES WHEELER. X .lx 11111' 101111 .11111 11' 111111 1 1'1.x'1' 11 F '11 1 11111 sf xx' 11111 ZCII-1' 1 1111 1 ' 11 ' - 71115 ll 1'Yl'1l 11111111 1 1' 1 for fllt' f11'f111f U14 XII' 1.v','1111,1i11, V . X111 'U' ' . 1 111' 11111' 1111 r'11'u' ff 11 11111 '1 f71Il1 lf'l1' 111.1 1111 11' I fu-1 I z'1f 2011 '1 11 1 Ill 11' 11 '1' ' 1111 11 1' 'xx' D' '11 If T11 .1 111 111' .111111 1 1 1111 1' 111 11111' 111111: N11 51 11 za 1 11 ' -1 11'2L'111' 111- 11 ' -r1'111'.x T11 111111 111 11111' 18111 f11'11z'11 11 ' 11 ' 11 ' ' III, .' .1111 1111151111 L111' '111111 '-1'1'.x' ll-1' P15111 ' ' '1'11 111 511' 11111 101' 11111 11' 1' F1 '.x1v1'1l 1 'ff11'1'- ' ' ' 1 rl 1 1111111111 11,1 ' 1111.

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Page Six Th' IYHEISI FRITE Class Prophecy It was the 2 1n the date 1972 that suddenly 1ecalled the red letter year of our graduat1on f1om Wheeler School Geltrude still Gertrude Mame and I w ele puttlng our affaxrs 1n order for a trp across the country-our l1,fe long ambx tlon We had stopped ln Nolth Stonln ton s new department store for some la t m1nute shoppmg How long It had been smce we were there' Romance busmess and other dutles had kept us away for many years What changes we found' There was a hauntmg fam1l1ar1ty ln the face of the g11l who walted on us and I asked her her name She sald Bextha Eastland I was named after my aunt My fathel owns th1s store Of cours Bud Eastland s daughter Just then Bad hlmself came up to us handsome well groomed but w1th the same good natured smlle we remembered He lnvlted us to have luncheon w 1th h1m and he told us then what had started hlm 1n the busme s world You remember I was voted the best lookmg of our class Well after that I became lnterested 1n clothes and here I am today Hls Wlfe was a New YoIk g1rl who had seen DOSS1b1Ilt16S IH h1m anl had helped hlm to reallze them It was at Buds suggestlon that y e stopped at the Chamber of Commerce of flee for some tlaxel folders A scholarly lookmg man smlled at us from behmd an 1mpos1ng desk Well Dorls stlll the best dressed woman Ma1r1age hasnt changed you a blt It was Jlmmy P1' mer Success IH busmess had led h1m to th1S fine posltlon An attlactne w ldow er he had a gleam IH hls eye as he watched Gertrude We stopped at the old school w hen J1m m1e told us that Mr and Mrs 'Ham w eu now runnlng lt How appx op1 late that that should haye been the w o1k of ou1 x al edlctorlan and salutatorlan' Both Ralph Junlor and llttle Janet w ere aw ay at co' lege but thelr plctures show ed two hand some young people Our trxp went comfortably unt1l we reached Chlcago There we had motol trouble At the Cadlllac SGYVICE statlon we found that we would be delay ed seI e1al hours so we went slght see1ng Out on the Boulexard we saw a magn1fice1t house undel constluctlon A man wlth bluepunts was dashlng around but y stopped h1m to lnquue who had deslgned the house The man gave a whoop of su1 p11se and sald D01 IS and Gertlude from old Wheelel' Well It was Ward Grly and the house w as one he had deslgned f01 hlmself Hls w 1fe saw us talklng and we dldnt haye to guess hard to 1ecogn17e that charmmg blond In the aftelnoon Ward and h1s Wlfe took us to the great settlement house that we had heard so much about and there we met the woman who had made hu self famous and lox ed for her phllanthrop IC work Phy ll1s Jackson She st1ll used he1 malden nam ln publlc l1fe but we were overjoyed to hear that her old school romance had ended happ1ly ani latel we met anothel old Wheelel alum nus Class of 43 It was on one of the Great Lakes on shlpboard that we ran 1nto B111 Barker Resplendent 1n unlform he greeted us co1 dlally but he was watchlng some gulls that wele flylng oxelhead Rememb 1 my hawks he suddenly asked Only too w ell I 1ecalled the almost mother loxe be laxlshed on those bn ds Callfornla was beautlful We declded to spend a month on one of the large xanches and on 1nqu11y found 1ust the ac commodatlons we wele IO0k1Hg for Tne prop11et1ess a stunnmg tall woman met us and suddenly gatheled us both ln her arms H1 a' we cr1ed Yes I am Hllda but not Wllkmson any mole How much we haxe to talk about' Walt tlll you meet my husband We d1d and we e we surprlsed' That nlght 1n our room Gertrude sald Vtexe seen so many of ou1 old class . I , 4 V ll 79 ' 1 ' ' v A 9 v ' f s 1 - ' Q I . . Q . . . . ' ' , ' ' v v v -V , ,, 7 - . . . 3 M v 'I . . - ' K , LI - u ' - ,, H . , ' i V . . 1 - ol- Y . H ' . . , D I I . 9 1 Q 1' v. I V ' pp I I I , I I I , I c . -' ' c ' 7 v l 4 I . , - no I . c. ' . Y m. x . U .. V A , 1 1 ,, . v A . - . , c v ' 1 . Y . i Y. . ' n 1 u L 1 ' L , 1 , Y . , Y Q . L ' as , L 1 . , I - 4 ' I . ,, 4 . . ' . I Q, ' ' 7 1 . Y - v a 1 7 7. - - Y ' I '- , , . . . 7 . L D A - y. . . Y Y . . , I , I . I , ' ' I ,sr ' e , ' n , ' , , I , I . , I I' , I ' ' I - 7 4 1 x A ' rr - ' , ,, ,, v , I , I I . . . . . . N . . I k I v . . , . , ' X I , . I ' va I' '.. I I - 4 .I v 1 I y 1 L - , f I L n 1 v . -. ' V ' ' 1 ' H a ' A n n C Ax ' V . . . Y , va . . U . Q . , , - , X I . , , i I - - y , . I - B ' , ' 3 L I' I . . . n s I Q s c Y L Uv C I' ' ' ' l L A L p ' ' ' . . ' - I .i . 4 1 'c Q, ' I A' .. 1 V ' 1 v 1 . ' . .' Q s 1 ' , I I , , . , 1 I - 1 ' ' u ' ca 'ld n Y - se . I . . . I . I . I ' 3 , , , ' y ' ' v 4 .' r , L ' . I I n 1 . v Y ' V , . . .C - . , , , ' v r 'I 97 ' v I. . A , w v . Y ' ' ' v v y Q I . , I . . Y V - . . , Y Y . In 7 1 , 7 . -

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ll11XXHI'FlE,RIlF Class H Lstory Our good shlp set S311 ln 1938 Wlth a creu of 20 Samuel Church Dax 1d Fleld B9lXl Geer XNa1d Gray D1xon Hemph1l Phxlhs Jackson John Llndbolg Ernet Malne Ge1t1ude Malne Janet Maln Ken neth NIa1n Ralph 112.111 James Palmer Do11s Robert John Sax age Dor1s Schmlt Jack Sorensen Florence Thorp Bernlce Watson and Hllda W1lk1HSOU The membe1s of thls crew elected as then Pllot Kenneth Mun CoP1lot Jack Sorensen F1rst Mate Do11s Schmltz Sec ond Mate Ralph Maln I Aftel a pleasant voyage and most of our members haung, taken part ln the oper ettas OlCh6St13 baseball and glrls actl 1t1es me dropped anchor near a South Sea Island and Samuel Church Daud Fleld I'rnestMa1ne Islol ence Thorp and Bern1ce Watson vs ele captured by the natlx es As ue pulled out of th1S port we dlscox ered vse had thlee stowaways B111 Barker xx ho folmelly attended Westerly Hlgh School Hauy Eastland who had attend ed Rockx 1lle Hlgh School and Margaret Umphlett fl om Pelqulmanes County Hlgh School Heltford North Carollna From th1s crevs Dlxon Hemphlll was chosen for ou1 Pllot Do11s Robe1t F1rst Mate and Wald Glas Second Mate In 1940 vte started out on another crurse vuthout D1xon Hemph1ll Kenneth Mam and John Saxage Later Dor1s Schmltz w 1sh1ng no longer to accompany us d1V8d ox e1boa1d foltunately vue were neal sho1e so she leached her destlnatlon safe ly James Wheelel slgned on from W1nd ham Hlgh W1ll1mant1c as a Jumor As Pubhc Speaklng vs as or en to those Jun1o1s and Semols xx ho deslred to enter SIX of our Ju'11o1s paltlclpated W1ll1am Barker Beryl Geer Do11s Rob It Jam s VVheeler and Hllda W1lklHSOF Phyll1s Jackson was gnen a cup as '1 1evxard for Vtlltlllg the best essay on th Hlstory of Wheeler Ralph Maln also re celxed the honor of hax mg h1s name on the scholarsh1p cup Durlng th1s vovage we elected W1ll1am Balk r as Pmlot DOFIS Robut Co Pllot Janet 'Ham Fnst Mate Wald Gray Sec ond Mate The glrls elected Hllda W1lk1nson as our athletlc manager and Marg, uet Umphlett as athletlc treasurer As we xentured on ou1 last xoyage we elected our captaln and hls assrstants for our Hnal CFUISQ Wllllam Barker agalll came out on top for our Pllot Phylhs Jack son as Co Pllot Janet Maxn as F1rst Mate and James Palmer as Second Mate Janet Maln vsas elected athletlc treasurer The last casualty to the crew was Joh11 Lmdborg who went back to a shore Job Our Semor boys held a strong part ln baseball W1th Wllllam Barker as man ager Jack Sorensen as shortstop and Ralph Maln at first base the opposlng Slde had to really work to Wm About mxdsxax of the xovage the sh1p xtself was oxerhauled and the educatlon department of the crulse changed hands MARGARET UMPHLETT HILDA WILKINSON Page Iilgllt ' , , , , 0 1 i . w . . v. V I . . . - , , , , 1 . . , . I . . , ' I ' - , , , , , U , ., 1 1 1 1 - v '. ' 1 fs ' Q ' 1 v ' . ' ' ' 7 5 - v 4 v 9 y ' 1l 1 1' . ' 1 v 1' O4 O A a y v v v - V 1 L . . 7 . W I . . . 1 , , 1 1., , 1. , , 1 1 4 1 , 1 . ' I I' 1 11 Q I at L n' n Q A ' I , Z Q 1 - , I I 1 1 - y 1 , I 1 7 ' 1 1 . .1 y 9 - - , 1 1 f q , ' Q .1 1 . U - 1 1 1 , 1 I , 1 ' , 1. v' y- ' 1 ' - 1 ' 4' -s . 1 - 1 - ' ' 1 s ' v - 7 1 v s 1 ' 7 'yv 41. , 1 , 1 , 1 1' . . . V V A . . . . Q . , , , 1 7' ' 1 I r r' ' 1 , , . , c . L, . , . . 4 . . . . , J 1 , , 1 1 . 1' I I 1. .Y . ' I I 1 I , V . . Y . . .Y . , 1 11 1 1 V 4 . . . . . c 1 - . , 1 . Y 1 4 . ' . I c 1 , 1 an - . . . Y ' 1 ' s - ! 1 1' , v 1 - - 1 ' . . . Y . 4 ' v V v 1 ' ' 1 ' 1 v 1 , . 1 . D Q. 1 . A . . Y . Y ' 7 A , c V , . 1 . ' 1 1 , 1 1 , Y Y 7 . . . 7 v . , . Y. . . . ' Y y . K a . M v 1 Q I 1 1 v V i I v v . , 1 1 . 1 'I Q . . . , - A K I A K.,