Anatone High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Anatone, WA)

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K l There were nine freshmen in the class when school opened in the fall of 1952. They all got through that first year very nicely and were still together as a group when the year ended. Bert Colpitts came from Troy and the eight who had graduated from the eighth grade were still here. These included Jack Hendrickson, Clyde Boggan, Donald Dodd, Bob Alexander, Edith Hamilton, June Ausman, George Downs, and Her- man Matson. The boys were active in sports. Clyde Boggan was president and our class advisor was Mrs, Taplin. When we enrolled the following fall of 1953 there were only six sophomores, having lost Herman Matson, George Downs and Bert Colpitts. Later in the first semester we were grieved again to lose June Ausman. The boys took an active part in sports and the girls were active in the Junior-Senior Playg Mr. Bell was our class advisor and Donald Dodd was class president. At enrollment time in the fall of 1954 there were seven juniors. Later that semes- ter we were sorry to lose Leonard Wilson who along with Jerry Buchanan was the addi- tional newcomer to our class. Again the boys took an active part in sports, and the boys and girls both participated in the Junior-Senior Play. Our advisor was M.r. Andrews and our president was Clyde Boggan. ' V Kg, 'K f 'Fl Jack Hendrickson Dx.. 7k wfgdfafb

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enum ?-zapiecq It was December 17, 1981. I had come back to my Alma Mater, Anatone High, to see again old rooms in which I used to study. You can imagine my shock upon finding instead of good old A. H. S. , a college, Asotin County Institute of Agriculture. After relieving my shock with two or three malted milks at Rosey's, the largest night club in the town of Anatone, and owned by Frank Rosaia, one of my old classmates of 1955, now one of the most prominent personalities of Anatone, I went up to the college to look around. The first building of the campus as I went through it was the Chemistry Building, named Eller Hall, after Lonnie Eller, I learned by reading the gold plaque just inside the door, that Lonnie, now known as Sir Eller, had worked up from pumping gas at the Anatone Garage, and now owned the largest chain of gas stations in the United States, the Old Klunk Company, named in honor of Lonnie 's first car. As I walked on up the hall I was suddenly startled by a man of the age of about 30 or 35 running wildly down the hall screaming at the top of his lungs, there she blows, there she blows. As he went by I recognized him as being John Bruce. I followed him out- side and down the street about 3 blocks before he finally slowed down. About the time I caught up with him an explosion nearly knocked me down. After I recovered from this I asked John about himself. He said that he had started out as a jet pilot, but since the jets these days go so fast even the pilots can't keep up, he had quit and become a pro- fessor of chemistry at the institute. He also explained that one of his experiments had just gone bad and that it had exploded the B-Bomb, which stands for Bruce Bomb, that he had just developed, After talking a while, he invited me to dinner at his home on Dogpatch Street, Upon arriving at his home I saw another of my 55 classmates, Donna Combs, now Mrs. Bruce, who besides being a housewife was also a motion picture star. Her latest picture was Dogpatch Days, in which she had played Moonbeam McSwine and had done a wonderful job, because as John said, It just fits her personality, That evening after dinner they took me to the ballroom at Rosey's for an evening of dancing. As the evening progressed I noticed that one of the better looking women on the floor and also one of the better dancers, was none other than Leah Schneider. UPOII talking to Leah I leamed that Tom Ellis, her husband, had become a millionaire by selling green lipstick made from seaweed, and that she and Tom had settled cbwn and were now living in a penthouse on top of the Third National Bank of Anatone, She in- vited me over for dinner the next day but I refused her and ran as fast as possible out to my new purple Cadillac convertible and drove back to my home in New York.

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Qfchtafzg When school started in the fa11.of 1953 seven bewildered would be high school stu dents enrolled. The seven that made up the Freshman Class that year were: Gary Onstot, Billy Eller, Dale Lohman, Frank Owens, Roy Watkins, Patti Stucker, and Jerry Hendrickson. In the middle of the year, we regret to say, we lost Frank Owens, who moved to Lapwai, Idaho, and we happily gained Betty Johnson, who came from Colton, Wash- ington. On a Tuesday early in October we were initiated into High School by the Sophomore Class and the same night the initiation continued at a skating party at Skateland in Lewiston. Next year the same seven enrolled and we gained Garry Wilson, who came from Oklahoma. On a Friday early in September we invited the freshman to their initiation at the school. The freshman took it all like good sports , ST, ae A ' mr f q.l JF .,,, V 1 1 x 4 51, f . ,- , ni i 1. , -4 Y' . .Q , - f 1 , Ulv',1'.'v, ' . . vmilfim, ir IX, A J fgr,-Q, jr, ,Lf.,,j,l,fA,,4,r,-.l,,,, ., g ,'-',-.,-- ,'-' I ,'f.uf,' ry.-,g,.' 1 f,3.f1.,5f, ff',,q.1 . .'-. f ,fl uf., -,wg .-, -' L' 'U ,f'fl'ff' 3-ffhf',f f'f J . 5 m ff-.'. , 1 ,5 . ,l1. as, Q L ,, ft 4 , ,gig UD nfvfo ivilusts Dale Lohman