Alamo High School - Fort Yearbook (Alamo, TN)

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MOST COOPERATIVE Joan Cox Wayne Boswell BEST PHYSIQUE Terry Reasons Sandra Cox MOST STUDIOUS Bobby Holden Jean Cox MOST VERSATILE BEST ALL-ROUND Royce Hardin Mike Hopper DING DONG DADDY AND ST. LOUIS WOMAN Mike Privett Ruth Hughes MOST ATHLETIC Royce Byrd Mike Hopper QUIETEST JET PROPELLED Lillian Gibbons Helen Klyce Donny Young Bobby Holden LOUD SPEAKER Darry Johnson Eleanor Williams BEST DANCER Sammy Kee Lynda Tyler MOST RAMBUNCTIOUS Ann Duncan Mike Privett MR. MISS FRECKLES Sammy Kee Patsy Taylor - 20 -

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WILL Ob this the twenty-third day of May, In the year of out Lord one thousand, nine hundred and fifty eight we. the Senior Class of Alamo High School 1957 53. on leaving this foggy hinterland of chalk dust and paper wads, do wish to show one last time that streak of goodness which 0« class has ever been noted for. hi a state of nervous frenzy, the class does hereby make these individual and collective bequests To Mr. Strange. We leave our undiluted gratitude. His faith in us (tho it win always be a mystery) has inspired us. So, in our own bumble way. we would like to improve our school. Thus we do hereby bequeath to the school--one large roll of adhesive tape so that if the Board of Edu- ts ever cracked or broken. U may be repaired immediately. To the Faculty, we leave them. (They are hysterically glad that we are leaving them, at last.) We would like to thank them for imposing heavy assignments on us. giving us the training which will no doubt some- day prove Invaluable to us. And we respectfully request that they make assignments equally long, and dull; to the underclassmen whom wc desire passionately to tee full of knowledge, as we are. To die Custodians. Mi. Harrison. Sr. and Mr. Boswell We leave un- sightly dents in the radiators where we have leaned on cold days, and boles In the lawn where we have frolicked 00 warm days. (We had planned to leave you the extra long ladder in the gym to you could get those spit bells from the celhng in study hall, but we couldn't get It out while Coach was To Junior High, we leave the Imptrtng story of o a experiences. We hope they will profit by our mistakes and rise to far greater tights of edu- cated joy. We bestow upon the Junion all those extra apodal privileges and freedoms we have enjoyed so much. To die Sophomores, we leave the fun they will have trying to sell magaxlnes far the Junior and Senior Banquet. To the Freshmen, we bequeath that mystical sophistication all seal on ive. bur you can't have it yet. because we have hidden It In a safe place We leave Coech and Mn Lambert, broken hearted became they have sponsored us so long. We just don't know how they will get along without DONNY YOUNG Waves his 6' J to Jeffy Tucker. DARBY JOHNSON graciously bestows his title Miss Garbage Can to any sweet young thing beautiful enough to win It from him. RUTH HUGHES leaves her lay-sway plan on Mg earrings to Charlotte Haynes. ANN DUNCAN leaves her famous book shot to Jean Prather. ROTCE BYRD leaves her glamerous moles and winning smile to Deity Baxter. LYNDA TYLER bequeaths her love far Keanie s Band to DeWitt Colvett who wants to go Into the nightclub business. JOAN COX leaves the office in a wild stata of confusion. JEAN COX leaves with Bobby. BOYCE HARDIN leaves her ability to talk all period, never turn in a lesson, and make straight A's to Dooms Cooke (but confidentially she d rather stay than leave Donnie.) TERRY REASONS leaves Ms sparkling smile, good humor and polite manner so C L. Miller (Wc found this hard 10 believe, and we cannot imagine Terry without theec qualities ) HELEN KLYCE leaves her naturally ciely hair so Mn. Lambert. ELEANOR WILLIAMS leaves her oor bed haMt. wild frlvti . to Unda BOBBY HOLDEN, by special request bequeaths Ms powers to spot uni- dentified flying objects to Robert Doe Colvett and to anyone else who has a pair of binoculars DARRYL SKIPPER leaves Ms executive abilities and Ms only red hair to Emma Joan Isabelle. CAROL YOUNG leaves her peroxide bottle to Loeva Avery who always wanted to have blood hah. JACKIE PERRY, much to the tenth and eleventh grade girls sorrow. PATSY TAYLOR bequeaths her freckles to Richard Miller. WAYNE BOSWELL leaves Ms Mckles so Dosmy Cooke who can't seem to Mt the F sharp note either. JOHN 'Man DILLON leaves Ms charmin' smile and Ms one A 00 thai history test to Jimmy Byrd, who looks like hell be dumb In Msmry and will certainly need the smile 10 nay in good with Mr. Black. JAN NANNY Is leaving all her Brownsville beaux except Weed or Reed or something like that, whom she will not part with on any grounds. LILLIAN GIBBONS leaves her Mousey (that's what Mr. Letnood thinks) way to Janet Far low whom we hope will take a Mat. MIKE HOPPER leaves Ms way with the girls so George Nelson. Though, we must note that If George gets any better with the girls, he may be glv lag Mike pointers. MIKE PR1VETT isn't goli to leave, he has Mr Black too attached to SAMMY KEE leaves Gay Hardin and lt s breaking her heart. DON HUGHES leaves the chimney oorner as empty as it was befan Norma came in» hit lift. SHIRLEY HOLLIDAY leaves her ChineM Checker board so Gay Hardin. SALLY HOLLAMON leaves her nag with Betty Kenner who promised not to sell him to the glue factory. JAMES MASSEY has already left a tooth at the Golden Gloves fights, so he is taking everything with Mm. BILLY WEBB in the F.H.A. ooe of Ms pig pens with M| admirers SANDRA COX leaves a first aid kit to anyone else who is clumsy enough to fall down every day in Phyi. Ed. PATSY GOODE disgraced ■ all. She was so selfish the took every- thing with her. And when we family caught up with her the had also taken 5 Inches of Linda Eason's height and a large part of Julia Scarce‘t basketball player's aMUty. We do hereby appoint as oar sole executors, Mr. sod Mn. Lambert, on this seventeenth day, second month, of our Lord's Tear, Nineteen Hundred and fifty-eight.

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY At we were sneaking through the old haunted house one night we stumbled over something In the dark. We found that it was an old lamp. As we were rubbing the dust from our found treasure, a puff of smoke issued from it and to our surprise a voice spoke to us from the night. We were granted ooe wish, so we decided we would like to know what would happen to us and our class- mates in the next ten years after we graduate. Mike Hopper is with the Chicago Bean now. he’s the chief water boy. Don Hugne7“has invented a machine that bags and carries the groceries to the customers’ cars. The study of life isn't Wayne Boswell’s main strife. We all know he'll be looking for a wife. Jackie Perry, popular boy singer at A.H.S.. is the feature attraction of Spike Jones’ band, which will be changed to Spike Perry’s band. A tall good-looking fellow with a book in his hand smiles at me from the smoke. He says. I’m the author of this book. ’How To Get Out Of High School in Six Easy Yean. Why! It’s Donnie Young. CwnrlU be the fat Udy (WsSTb Tln the circus. Her husband owns the circus. Royce Byrd is basketball coach at old A.H.S. She’s lost all her ball games and her boy friend too. Terry Reasons is a boxing instructor on WMDC-TV. a fifty-thousand watt clear channel station. James Massey is the new heavy weight champ, while we all thought he would be a tramp. Susie Hollamon has top billing. She’s with the American Rodeo Associa- tion. and has a thrilling act. bare back riding. Jel nJ ce and johr DiUion are still in Alamo and are members of the high school faculty. Helen teaches shorthand, her favorite subject, and John teaches History. We saw ourselves attending a banquet. Three demure ladles, dressed in black remained silent throughout the evening. Finally they arose and an nounced that pleasures had not lured them from the 'straight and narrow path.” They had cast their lot with the Salvation Army. It was our old classmates Jjhirlej iollada . f roljfoun and Ruth Hu he . Royce Hardin sold her first painting for 400.000.001.01. to The Louvre In Paris. You’ll never guess who is now taking Miss Littlefield's place as Home Economics teacher. Well, it’s none other than ndajr ter. Just outside of Alamo is a Urge farm. Who’s that feeding the hogs) Dari Jikl ger, of course I Teanor Williams is still unmarried, but she has had many proposals from her male patients at Western State Hospital, Bolivar. Tennessee. atsjMr -l£! lounges on a beach in Florida. She’s a model and drives a CadllUc convertible, solid white. We had a hunch that Mik rivett’s speed would get him somewhere. He’s bell-hop in the Urgest hoceTuwUamo Jan Nannev. who's so shy and sweet, a famous fan dancer you will be. Patty Goode will go into a business in her older days, as a baby sitter. Lillian Gibbons, we saw you with servants all around. Madame returns and I'm afraid you'd better meet her. for you are a maid. Parry Johnson, we saw you in front of a swanky apartment as a sweeping member of the sanitation department. Sammy Kee just says. “I'm still here in AUmo. doing as little as I can. 1 live by myself-never had no use for Wimmen. Just work and wine. Ann Duncan has married and has 15 kids. She'll auction them off to the highest bio. Bobby Holden is manager of the McKelUr Airport in Jackson. Jean Cox is his secretary. Joan Cox is working at Truex Chevrolet. Billy Webb is a farmer back on the Und. He milks 20 cows, but not by hand. - 21 -