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Permanent home for our annual reunion

I received an interesting and good News Letter from classmate Richard W. Smith (HARPO) that offers us an opportunity to establish a permanent solution for an Annual Meeting In Zanesville.

Here is the main part of Dick’s Message: “I am a good friend of Vince Adornetto and we can have his whole restaurant from 11:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. on a Saturday as he doesn’t open until 4:30 P.M. on Saturday. He puts out excellent food and we can have a buffet and all the drinks we want during these hours for $35.00 a couple and $20.00 for singles. There are two (2) nice motels within two blocks of the restaurant at 953 Market Street. The idea of a meal and afternoon social event also provides for those who wish to stay for a longer visit if the choose. The price is in effect from 11 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. Other details such as music, decorations, memorabilia and so forth would be the responsibility of the reunion committee.”

Since the majority of the living members of the class live in the immediate area of Zanesville and surrounding counties, this proposal could become the permanent solution for an annual event for those who are able to meet, thus could plan for the  same format and location each year. Members can decide to support this recommendation after receiving a mailing that will include a list of deceased members and other news. The same mailing will be posted on our Internet web site at http://www.zhs41.net

Send me your e-mail address and comments 
If you have an email address please send it to me (zhs41taylor@aol.com) with your comments. For snail mail:
 Dick Taylor
 88 Covington Lane
 Palm Coast, FL 32137 
386-446-8436 fax 1-386-447-1955

Jack and Violet Cohen, formerly of Zanesville (Cohen Jewelers), now of New Albany, Ohio celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July 31st, 2005. They both are still active in their family business on the campus of Ohio State. Their store Conrad's OSU Gifts is located at 316 W. Lane Avenue in front of the Holiday Inn. 


Cohen store- OSU campus


Margaret Prouty
just a pic...
Bond Young

Thanks for your clever and interesting letter about our Lash 60th reunion. Sadly I must report that my beloved husband and classmate John Young passed away in December 1998. he had been ill for a number of years, but it was still a shock to me and a great loss. God willing and the crick don't rise, perhaps I can make the celebration of survivors on the 29th, 2001.
Loren (Bud) Imes

I have been retired since 1985 (from school band directing). My wife and I have traveled quite a bit in Europe and Asia since then. I am still playing my trombone professionally for shows, dances, etc, mostly around Indianapolis.
Best Wishes

Elaine Cassidy

We came to beautiful Venice, Florida 17 years ago and I am widowed but have been blessed with good health. I live on a golf course and play regularly. Venice is the ideal spot to have many friends come visiting. Have three wonderful children and they love company as well. Come see me.
Bob and Sally
Sadly, Bob's wife Sally has passed. She was a very special lady and attended several previous Class of 41 reunions.

From Grayce Burhart

Its nice to hear from you. Hope the reunion is a success So sorry I would not be able to attend as we already have already made plans For September 29th.Seems like the years are flying by all too fast. Thank you for the picture of the high school.

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Betty
Greetings from the land of eternal spring. Thanks for the invitation and picture of Lash High. I can't come to the reunion because my sight is very bad. If I sit near the TV screen I can get CNN and the soap operas from Mexico. Some of them are very good. I visit my daughter in Houston once a year. One daughter and two sons live here in Guatemala and I have 11 grandchildren. 
God bless you all.
Harry and Bobbi Taylor
Not too much to write about our private lives because of Harry's health. I take short vacations with friends or daughters. Harry likes to read a lot. My favorite activity is golf. We have three married daughters and six grandchildren, and five adopted great-grand children. Lots of luck with the website.





















Bobbi in 9th grade class- 
Grover Cleveland Junior High
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Harry at Roosevelt Junior High
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Bill and Connie Burlingame

The Burlingames moved from suburban Honolulu to up country Oahu where it is cooler and quieter. They spent their time watching their two granddaughters, now 15 and 12 grow into teens. Spent a lot of time on the golf course, and also traveled a lot. Made an annual duty trip to Ohio, and also visited many other states while going to military reunion or visiting friends or relatives. Went to England and Scotland twice as well as most of the European countries including Russia, Baltic States and Scandinavia. Will depart in January for a cruise in the far east to visit Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Japan. All of their family is in Hawaii, with the exception of one son who is in Texas. Their health is adequate with medications for both and a Pacemaker for Bill.

Frank and Ann Lee Tresenrider 

Retired 1986. Navy 1942-1946, and married in 1948 to Ann Lee Lamb, from Rose Farm, Ohio. Married 53 years and have two daughters Debra Ann and Vickie Jean, producing a combined number of four girls and one boy.  Frank is active in the Shrine and sings with Shrine Chanters and served two terms as  president of the group.. Worked at Demers Watch and Clock repair 24 years and at R.R. Burton Optical Instrument Repair.

Don Higginbothham

Retire in 1985 after working in Financial Institutions. My wife, Burdeen Fincel the class of 1944 and I will celebrate our 54th anniversary the 18th of October, 2001. We spend our winters at our condo in Dundedin, Florida along with our Bichon Frise and lots of company. We are blessed with good health and good friends. Special thanks to Dick T for keeping us up to date on the web.

Carolyn Young Lee
 Our activities during the last 5 years are not much. My health is good but Bob has been having a few problems. This past year, our one and only granddaughter married. Outside of that not too much excitement. Hope you have a good time at the reunion and sorry we can’t  be there this time.

Sincerely

Carolyn Lee

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Dick Gibbons

Moved to Orlando in 1959 to work on newspaper here. Virginia and I celebrated our 52nd anniversary April 2001. We both volunteer at the sheriffs department here. We did volunteer work in Haiti for over 17 years/several months at a time. Virginia was an RN and I became a paramedic. Worked on cardiac ambulance and at Sea World for short time. We have traveled all the 50 states since we retired in 1981. Worked in state and national parks as campground hosts. Have three children, Barry is a nurse practitioner. Cathy works for the state of Florida and retired as Lt. Col from the Army and David has a business like Mailboxes Etc. here in Orlando.

Cliff Jones

Bettie and I moved to Florida in 1956 and have been here most of the time since. We have 12 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. After 50 years in the ministry, I still teach my class every week. We have traveled extensively, but there is no place like our home in Winter Park, Florida. Our health is good, and we are looking forward to an enjoyable reunion in Zanesville

 
Edith Adams Anthony

My husband Ross and I have been in Texas for 2/1/2 years. We live in Frisco, about 20 miles north of Dallas. Our daughter June suggested this area as it would be better than Michigan winters. We enjoy being just being 8 miles from her and 2 girls 11 and 4 years old. Our summers here are much warmer that we like. We spend summer with two sons and a daughter in Michigan. 

Also visit a daughter in Glenwood Springs, Colorado and a sister in McComb Ohio. Frisco is the fastest growing city in the U.S. We live close to a new Mall called Stonebries. Our young neighbors are all friendly, guess we are a novelty at our age. I enjoyed reading, knitting and playing bridge. We attend a Lutheran church meeting at a grade school only a block from home. I look forward to visiting old chums in September.

More Cliff.. 
I enlisted with Edgar Tillman in the Army Air Corp in January 1943. We became Radio Operators and I shipped out to the Ferry Command and Air Transport Command.  On my first trip I took a C47 to India.  On my second trip to CBI they kept me and for the next year I flew the Hump into China. I had
lots of real close calls but made it home in October 1945 and discharged with 82 points. 

Our first son was born while I was in India. I was awarded the Air Medal, Oak Leaf Cluster, Distinguished Flying Cross and Presidential Citation.  I was one of the lucky ones flying 79 missions in the old B24 and C109.  I crossed the Atlantic by plane four times and was never aboard a ship. It all seems like a dream now.

Clif Jones
Harry Heim and wife visiting an old friend- his B-24 bomber. Didn't he just "fly in" to visit? The three guys- Art, Bob and Bob
Art Joseph and Bob Forker will be especially missed...
Marion (Davis) Barner

Dear Dick,
First of all, thank you so much for the two CD’s of past reunions. It was great listening and watching all of the activities. It sort of got me all ‘fired up’ to get to the reunion coming up in October. After I heard about everyone getting together in October, I dug out my old Comus and have been pouring over the pages and have matched pictures to the ones deceased. It is hard to believe that there are that many who have not made it to age 80!!!

I do wonder howl was not on the mailing list for the past several reunions. It may have happened when we sold everything in Elyria, Ohio twenty-three years ago and moved into a motor home and started touring the country. We were also looking for a place to call home out of the ice and snow. We almost settled in Louisville,Ky, which is where my husband and I met. I was an Army nurse and he was assigned to the Army Hospital there.

But Florida, the sunshine state held a big attraction also since we had a daughter and family already here. Finally we put the motor home ‘in moth balls’ and decided on Palm Harbor. After a few years, the other daughter and family left Elyria and moved here within a mile or so of us. Since my husband died four years ago, it has been a real blessing for inc to have the girls so close.

I was back in Zanesville about 10 years ago when Bethesda Hospital Alumnae honored us 50 year graduates from the School of Nursing. All of those horrible numbers make me seem old butl sure don’t feel old!!!

I am very hopeftil that I will be able to come to the reunion---at least I am planning in that direction. ‘When it gets a little closer to the date, I will know for sure. It is still hard for me to believe that it has been 63 years since I saw most of our classmates.

Thanks again for sending me the two CD’s I do appreciate it.

Marion (Davis) Barner

Mary Spelsberg's (Dusty's) 80th Birthday bash held December 7th, 2003

Reprint: column from September 1946- School paper on Mary- aka "Dusty"

 

A Star Is Born!
COLUMBUS, 01110 - A bright and shining light has emerged from the campus of Ohio State University here to take her place among the new generation of working women known as “career girls.”

Mary Caroline Whitacre, originally of Zanesville, worked two summers at Radio Station WHAR while in college, but now has begun her full-time job in radio.

Working as an on-air talent and in program production, Miss Whitacre’s first job is the realization of a long-held dream for the dark- haired beauty and recent graduate of OSU’s Department of Radio Speech.

“I have always loved show busi­ness. As a child, in the summertime, I listened to the radio soap operas, read “Modern Screen” magazine, and went to the movies whenever I could,” said Miss Whitacre, affectionately called “Dusty” by her OSU classmates. “I remember when I was ten years old, walking three miles in the rain to movies from our modest rural home. I held tight to my dime, admission price to the Weller Theatre for a Saturday or Sunday afternoon of dreams and fantasy.”

Miss Whitacre is the daughter of Price and Marie Whitacre of Zanesville, owners of the Whitacre Typewriter Exchange. Mother Marie is a great mechanic and Price a good salesman. Things are going well at the store and they have now fulfilled a desire to “live on the Terrace.

Miss Whitacre has appeared on the local social scene in the company of William “Bill” Spelsberg, a senior at OSU and of Clarksburg, WV.
“He’s a good dancer!” reports Miss Whitacre. “And that counts for plenty! He wants me to work until he graduates and then go back to West Virginia with him to raise a family.”

“Well, with ambitions like mine, he’ll never talk me into a situation like that,” she laughed. “I am on my way to Hollywood.”

September 1946

   
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