Almo High School - Warrior Yearbook (Almo, KY)

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Senior Class History On August 23, 1948, our present Senior Class started with twenty- seven Freshmen enrolled. This was a day we had long looked forward to. We elected the following class officers: President, James Neale, Vice President, J. D. Grogan, Secretary, Sue Thompson, Reporter, Rosetta Wilson. We chose Mrs. Trucille Kemp for our sponsor. We were represented on the basketball team by James Neale, Harry Lovett and J. D. Grogan. Our classmate, Betty Ahart, was attendant to the Basketball Queen. We were honored to have another of our classmates, Sue Thompson, elected as cheerleader. As our Freshman play, we present- ed Funny Bratsf' We enjoyed our class picnic at the Kentucky Dam. At the beginning of our Sophomore year we had twenty-six enrolled in class. The following students did not return: Norma Jean Bennett, Barbara Burkeen, Frankie Lee Hurt and Wanda Collins. We were glad to have Bobbie Jean Darnell, Shirley Alexander, Sue Bonds, James Max Puckett, Sonny Lockhart and Billy Coursey join our class during the year. We were represented on the basketball team by Heyward Roberts, and James Neale. Sue Thompson was again elected cheerleader. Our candidate for Basketball Queen was Betty Ahart. We presented a three- act comedy, Pigtails. Our class picnic was an enjoyable event at the Noble Park. I We started our Jolly Junior year in 1950 with Mr. Milton Walston as our sponsor. The following classmates did not return: Bobbie Darnell, Carlene Moody and James Max Puckett. These students quit school during the first semester: Sue Thompson, Sue Nelson, Mary Edith Miller, Loreda Lawrence, Glenda Sue Ellis, Evelyn Willoughby, Betty Ahart and Heyward Roberts. We chose the following class officers: President, Sonny Lock- hart, Vice President, Fannie Mae McClard, Secretary, Peggy Jackson, Reporter, Billy Coursey. We were represented on the basketball team by Sonny Lockhart and Billy Coursey. We were very proud to have one of our classmates, Jo Ann Oldham, chosen as Basketball Queen. Our Junior Play was en- titled Zeke and Daisy. We enjoyed our J unior-Senior trip to St. Louis. Now that we are Dignified Seniors we have fourteen Seniors en- rolled. The following students did not return: Wilma Dean Jones and Rosemary Butler, Billy Coursey quit during the first six weeks of school. Our class officers for the year are Sonny Lockhart, President, James Neale, Vice-President, Peggy Jackson, Secretary, Rosetta Wilson, Re- porter. We are proud to have a classmate, Shirley Ann Alexander, elected as cheerleader. Our Senior basketball players are Sonny Lockhart and James Neale. Now that we are ending our high school years, we would like to thank each teacher for his help during the years. Especially are we grateful to Mr. W. B. Miller for his guidance during this, our Senior year.

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Class Prophecy It is twenty years after graduation and I am alone in my room at the White House, as my husband, the President, is touring Europe. I-am thinking of my schoolmates and wondering what they are now doing, when suddenly visions appear. First, I see Jo Ann Oldham, wife of a United States Air Force Chaplain and mother of two lovely children, living in Princeton, Kentucky. J. D. Grogan is going about his daily tasks as Professor of Campus- ology at Northwestern University. Mary Frances Lovett is touring the United States, searching for a male who is willing to become her blushing groom. Leland Peeler is employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is investigating the murder of a great magician, husband of the for- mer Lucille Turner, who claims it was merely an accident. Modene Duncan, secretary to the Lieutenant Governorbf Kentucky, has just announced her engagement and approaching marriage to the State's Governor. Sonny Lockhart, one time great in the N. C. A. A., has purchased the restaurant formerly known as Finleyfs Drive-In, where he and his wife are operating a successful business. Mary Lou Witty, a modern Kentucky novelist, has just written a book of poems which she calls Poetry For The Love-Sick. Peggy Jackson, 'glamour girl of the.1952 Senior Class, has finally settled down with her husband and twin sons near Dexter, Kentucky. . Rosetta Wilson is a lovely Calloway County homemaker and house- Eifetwhlp has recently become a news commentator of W. N. B. S. in Murray, en uc y. l i Harry Lovett, husband of the world's greatest ballet dancer, is driving one of the fastest race cars on the Indianapolis Speedway. Fannie McClard is now teaching Home Economics at Murray State College. She had intended to always be an old maid until she met a former classmate, Dr. James Ne-ale, a San Francisco physician, who stole her heart and hand. Shirley Alexander.