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Dear Gentlemen or Ladies:
By now you have prob-
ably become aware of the
success of the Donegal
High School Wrestling
Team this season. If by
chance you have not, let
me tell you about some of
our team and individual
achievements this year.
The wrestling team had an
undefeated season with a
record of (10-0-1), thus
winning the Lancaster-Leb-
anon Section II title. Also
credited to our success was
the team championship in
the Class AA Sectin II
tournament held at Lancas-
ter Catholic High School.
This is the first time a
Donegal wrestling team has
held this trophy.
Not only did we have
success as a team but our
wrestlers won a numerous
amount of individual a-
wards. In the Christmas
Tournament we had three
champions in Mike Grein-
er, Jerry Garner and Pete
Splain. Also in this tourna-
ment were one second and
one third place winner.
On February 25th in the
sectional tournament Jerry
Garner and Jerry Ruhl
placed first. Included with
these winners were two
seconds, one third and two
fourths. Jerry Garner was
our only District Ill cham-
pion and with this finish
moved on to the State:
Tournament. To top off an
already fine season we
placed three wrestlers on
Dear Editor
It has been very evident,
the past few weeks, that a
need for trained Friendly
Visitors exists in the Col-
umbia, Marietta, and Bain-
bridge areas. As Volunteer
Coordinator for the Office
of Aging, all requests from
senior citizens for visitors
come to me. I must then, if
I do not have such a
volunteer, recruit, train and
place them as soon as
possible so the needs of
our clients are met.
This is why I am sending
the enclosed information to
you and requesting your
assistance in printing a
plea for interested people
in your area to come forth
and volunteer now.
The training is done in
any location, by me, in-
dividually or in a group—
whatever the people desire.
Kindest regards,
Mrs. Jacquie F. Burton
Volunteer Coordinator
[The Friendly Visitor
offers contact with the out-
side world for the elderly
Letters
the first team All Star.
These wrestlers were Mike
Greiner, Arlen Mummau
and Jerry Garner.
For these achievements,
the Donegal Wrestling
Booster Club is in the
process of awarding the
wrestling team, Indian-
ettes and cheerleaders. The
awards for the varsity
wrestlers will be a pocket
watch with an inscription of
—DHS Wrestling Champs,
1977— with their names
and weight classes also
included. The junior varsity
wrestlers will receive iden-
tification bracelets and the
Indianettes and cheerlead-
ers will be awarded charms
with the inscription —DHS
Wrestling Champs, 1977—.
The total cost of this
endeavor will be $1,400.00
and at the present time the
Booster Club has only
$350.00 in its treasury.
Therefore, we are asking
you to help us show these
young men our apprecia-
tion for a job well done. If
you feel your organization
or group would like to
donate financially, please
send your check, payable to
the Donegal Wrestling
Booster Club in care of
John Wagner, Wood
Street, Mount Joy, PA.
Thank you for your kind
consideration of this a-
wards program.
Yours truly,
Eugene D. Funk
Head Wrestling Coach
person who is homebound
or limited in his/her ability
to get out and relieves
loneliness and isolation.
The program is intended
to enable an elderly person
to maintain living in their
own home, thus avoiding
institutionalization.
Friendly Visitors are
volunteer men and women
of all ages and background
who have a sincere desire
to give friendship to the
person 60 years or older
who is assigned to them by
the Office of Aging.
The volunteer must be
willing to make a commit-
ment of one hour per week
for Friendly Visiting after
attending a 2-4 hour train-
ing session.
Volunteers may call 299-
7979 after April 21 and
speak to Mrs. Jacquie Bur-
ton, Volunteer Coordinator,
for the Lancaster County
Office of Aging, or write 50
South Duke Street, Lancas-
ter, PA 17602, and request
an application for volunteer
services. ed. note]
Bob and John Eshleman pose with their creations. The
motorcycle John is sitting on won a prize in Hershey
recently. It’s almost totally rebuilt and a beautiful job.
100 mph art
Most works of art hang
quietly on a wall. Some,
though are different. The
creations of two local men
are capable of speeds in
excess of 100 miles per
hour and noises of many
decibels.
“We don’t get too much
collision work here —it’s
mostly custom,’ says Bob
Eshleman, who constitutes
half of Eshleman’s paint
and body shop near Mari-
etta (the other half is his
brother John). Their work
goes beyond auto dent
repair and paint job patch-
ups, the bread and butter
of other body shops.
The Eshlemans’ bread
and butter? Samples: a
motorcycle gas tank paint-
ed, in loud psychedelic
colors, with a picture of a
heart broken in two and
pierced by a dagger (‘‘The
customer had just broken
up with his girl,”’ explains
John). Another gas tank is
encircled by a hissing
snake. A tornado rips
across the prairie on the
hood of a car, and an air
scoop is, appropriately, de-
corated with a rendering of
an ice cream cone. The
back of a van portrays the
front of that same vehicle
coming over a hill.
These exotic renditions
are inevitably done in
brilliant, metalic colors,
with occasional glitter. The
Eshlemans’ creations can
really knock your eye out,
and the subject matter
might blow your mind
—many people get their
weird ideas for design
motifs from comic books or
album covers, according to
Bob Eshleman. The most
impressive thing, though,
is the detail and artistic
flair that goes into the
paint jobs.
“I’ve always been inter-
ested in art,”’ says John,
who early on showed a
predilection for working in
utilitarian mediums —as a
boy he decorated T-shirts
with magic markers.
The Eshleman brothers
seldom use a paint brush.
They work with tape,
masking various areas and
spraying with an air gun.
“Some people make an
outline with chalk, but that
takes too long for me,”
John explains. Working
freehand, he manages to to
create flowing curves and
hairlines. The brothers
don’t use decals.
The body-work side of
their business is equally
artistic. When the Times
arrived, the Eshlemans
were sanding a motorcycle
frame. Filler had been
applied and smoothed in
such a way that the original
metal tubes, an ugly dino-
saur skeleton, was trans-
formed into a flowing
series of sculpted curves.
So far as he knows, John
is the only auto customizer
in the country to work in
bas-relief. His own custom
Harley-Davidson Sportster
motorcycle has a half-inch
high sculpture of the
Cheops pyramid on top of
the gas tank and raised
sphinxes on each side, an
estimated 60 hours’ work.
The bike won first place in
a show at Hershey re-
cently.
When we asked him how
fast it would go, he replied,
“Don’t know —and I don’t
want to!”’ The speedometer
reads to 160, but the bike
isn’t ‘‘quite that fast’ in
reality, he thinks.
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The flames licking off the front of the auto in the
background were sprayed on after paper and tape masks
were applied to determine the pattern.
The Eshleman brothers
also restore antique cars.
Sometimes they put in as
many as S00 hours, strip-
ping the body to it’s bones
and carefully sanding, re-
priming, and painting.
“You might think that
someone would have to be
nuts, spending so much
money on an old car,”’ says
Bob, ‘‘but actually it’s a
good investment. Old cars
go up in value while new
ones are going down.’’ Bob
feels that older models
were better made and are
capable of lasting longer
than newer autos.
The Eshlemans ar
This shot shows John Eshle
sometimes called upon to
decorate things other than
cars and motorcycles. They
have painted bicycles, skis,
and a calliope truck, as
well as several signs, done
on sheets of glass.
In business for the last
four years, they are always
learning and developing
new skills. Going thru his
scrapbook with the Times
reporter, John exclaimed,
“This early stuff we did is
pretty simple compared to
what we’re doing now.”
We'd like to see some of
their more complex work in
another four years.
2:
man’s prize-winning Harley
from above. Note the bas-relief sculpting on the gas
tank. The seat is custom, hand-sewed from leather. The
horn is not original equipment.
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