ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BRUCE GARVER'S 6th BIRTHDAY PARTY
December 30, 1944

From BRUCE GARVER:

The children at my 6th birthday party, on Dec. 30, 1944, are listed below in the order of their appearance on the video.  A child is listed twice in succession wherever the cameraman has paused in order to film the same child from closer up or from a different angle.  For those children who did not graduate with the Worthington High School class of 1956, I have written a short description of each of them.
 
Bruce & Ann Garver together (a very brief scene from Christmas 1943).
Martha Huggard, who lived either on W. North St. or close by, who skipped 2nd grade in order to enter third grade in 1945-46 and who, to the best of my recollection, later moved away from Worthington with her family.
Sally Bell (Riebel), who in 1944 to ca. 1950 lived in Clintonville, who graduated from Chardon High School, Ohio, class of 1956; and OSU, class of 1960, and who now lives in Worthington.
Ann Garver (Bell), graduate of WHS, class of 1960, and of OSU, class of Dec. 1966.
Ann Garver Bell, close up.
Lewie Hard (WHS, class of 1956), who in 1944 lived on N. High St.
Bob Hartman (WHS, class of 1956), who in 1944 lived on W. North St.
Martha Huggard
Martha Huggard (close up and smiling)
Bob Hartman
Lewie Hard
Ann Garver (Bell)
Sally Bell (Riebel)
George Krauss, who lived at 111 W. South St., who graduated from WHS in 1955 and from the Colorado School of Mines in 1959.
Bruce Garver (WHS, class of 1956)
Sally Martin, who began first grade at Worthington in 1944, who lived on the south side of W. Short St., and who moved to southern California with her family in 1947 or 1948.
Buddy (John) Sanford (WHS, class of 1956), who in 1944 lived at the southwest corner of High St. and W. South St.
Bruce Garver

What follows are several views of the "O" gauge electric train layout operated by the children at my 6th birthday party, beginning with the model of the streamlined New Haven (NYNH&HRR) "Comet" (Mfg. by American Flyer in Chicago in 1935) along with a 1920's Ives passenger station.   What follows are brief views of Gilbert American Flyer 3/16" scale "O" gauge trains manufactured in New Haven, CT, from 1939 to 1942.