Alfred Almond High School - Alcen Yearbook (Almond, NY)

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VOL. XIII ALCEN CIRCUS QUARTERS lender Jhe (f3icj Jop JUNE I 3, 1967 WHERE IS BUBBLES? The circus opening this week will miss the fabulous Betsey Bubbles Burdett and her dance of the Seven Bubbles. Jean Hot Garters Erskine will be replacing her. The grapevine has it that Bubbles has run off with her manager, John Mulligan. ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Bud DeLavergne famous for his huge bulk as the Fat Man , is going to hold a large party for all the circus employ- ees, celebrating the thirteenth year of the circus. Jack Harvey, famous for his spaghetti and meat balls, will be the chef. Ruth Carnes will assist him and serve some of her delicious pastries. We can only hope her cream puffs turn out better than the last ones. She says the only mistake she made was using ten teaspoonfuls of baking powder and the re- cipe called for only three. She wondered why they rose so high. SKYSCRAPER FALLS Phil Skyscraper Baker had a terrific fall last evening and was discovered to be wearing stilts. He is actually a midget and not the tall man he claim- ed he was. He tripped over Lois Heers, the giraffe trainer, who was doing her daily push- ups. She was said to be suffer- ing from shock, for he almost stepped upon her. MONKEYS VS. CLOWNS Star clown, Ernest Stuart, is working hard at a new act. It’s going to involve some monkeys trained by Ernest Pierce. The two men feel it should go off with a bang. They want the act to be tak- ing place while Sally Zimmer is doing her bareback riding, but Sally doesn't seem to agree. She says monkeys are bad enough, but clowns are another thing. LOVE IS DEEPER THAN PEANUT OIL Gladys Chips Pierce is being held by Police Chief, Ken Stebbins, for questioning in the attempted murder of her husband, Norman Payne. She pushed him into the vat of peanut oil which she uses to make her world-famous potato chips. Dot Diver Ormsby dived into the vat and pulled Norman, who can't swim, to the surface, saving his life. Said Gladys, roll- ing her eyes at Chief Stebbins, She saved him, and she can have him. Dot's only re- gret was that she lost her nose plugs when she dived. GOOD SHOT Jugglers, Stacy Pierce and Ruth Watson, were practicing the other day when Ruth lost control of one of the tenpins and hit Stacy on the head. He went out like a light. As he was coming to, he said all he could see was stars ( it must have been everyone in the circus. ) All Ruth could say was that it couldn't hap- pen to a nicer guy. COBRA CASHES IN Camille Charmer Cro- foot is mourning the death of her pet cobra as the result of biting him this afternoon in a fit of rage. It is said that circus owner Russ Allen re- fused to give her star billing over Doris Van Duser, the the bearded lady. She is being consoled in her tent, so we hear,, by Don Lewis, who burn- ed a whole batch of popcorn to rush to her side. Russ Allen's only comment, when contact- ed by this paper, was, Good one. RACE TO A WEDDING Dick Flash Wasson brought a fitting finish to his midget- racing career by winning a race this afternoon. He was racing neck and neck with Fred Lead- foot Van Orman, former track star. This was Flash's final race, because he is giving it up to wed Mary Ellen Hargraves, trapeze artist, this Sunday at the track. Said Mary Ellen, He can't have me and his rac- ing, too. Fred stated that if he hadn't had a hole in his sneaker, he would have beaten Flash by a mile. BEASTS GET THE BETTER OF MAN Marvelous Marvin Patton, world-famous lion tamer and feature attraction of the circus, barely missed death today when he was attacked from behind by one of his lions. He was saved by his wife, Patty Ide, who kayoed the lion with one swift blow. Patty has been Eugene Muscles Briggs sparring part- ner. When Patty isn't available Muscles boxes with the circus kangaroo but he doesn't like to because the kangaroo usually wins. HOAX DISCOVERED Ronald and Donald Brundage were ousted from the grounds today. Supposedly Siamese twins, they were found sepa- rately by Detective Margie Dunn. She was quoted as say- 24 ing, I always get my man. Circus doctor, Paul Spencer, was the first to suspect the twins when he discovered that they had different colored eyes. BEBOP TO PARIS Circus band leader, Ed Palmer, announced today that vocalist, Bob Newman will have star bil- ling in the August show. Along with Bob, there will be Hot Lips Jerry Stockweather, who will play his famous bebop num- ber on his magic clarinet. Bob will return to Paris later in the fall for further study. Palmer hopes to have him back in the show early the following spring. ADAM'S APPLE OBTAINED Dave Fenner is recuperating from a bad fall he suffered when he toppled into a tub of cold water belonging to Sid Clair and his candied apple stand. It seems that Balloon Man , as Fenner is sometimes called, was chasing some balloons that had . slipped away from him. As he fell into the tub, he swallowed an apple, and finally obtained an Adam's apple. Poor Sidney reports that Dave must have swallowed more than one, be- cause he's missing a dozen. Compliments to the Class of 1954 THE COLLEGIATE Alfred, New York

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FIRST ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: V. Buchanan, S. Bird, D. Barron, B. Decker, S. McLane, S. Thomas, S. Roberts. SECOND ROW: N. Warren, P. Clancy, B. Allen, D. Farley, A. Parish, R. Armstrong, J. Gilmore, K. Parker, M. Campbell, E. Bittner. THIRD ROW: L. Carnes, R. Burrow, R. Zimmerman, D. Palmer, R. Post, L. Ryan, A. Hurd, L. Sutton, A. Barnes. FOURTH ROW: W. Mills, J. Warren, B. Straight, S. Aldrich, J. Salisbury, B. Rogers, C. Faisst, K. Grantier, J. Bushnell, R. Mullen, L. Marvin. ABSENT: R. Atken, S. Easton, K. Mensinger, C. Dunn. On Field Day, the election of officers for the Class of 55 took place. The class officers were: Beverly Decker, president; Merrillyn Camp- bell, vice-president; and Brian Rogers, secretary-treasurer. Their ad- visor was Mr. Salisbury. A project carried on by part of the class was the school paper, the “Double A“. It was under the editorship of Lyle Sutton and Virginia Buchanan and it proved to be quite successful. The juniors are the first class to wear the newly standardized class rings. 26