Clay City High School - Claytonian Yearbook (Clay City, IL)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY H Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Stay tuned to the gossip program, brought to you by the makers of Dabber Face Powder: the powder which gives you that dusty look. This is a program for the people, by the people, and about the people. Tonight we are revealing the exclusive inside story of the present day where-abouts of the 1947 graduates of the Clay City Community High School. Every one thought that Bill Billingsley was going to be a basketball coach. Actually, he married Barbara McCraw and moved to a little town in the Ozarks called “Dead Broke.” He is now manufacturing “Billingsley's Dead Broke Dew.” Bill Boor has become an engineer on the local B. and O. Railroad and who do you think carries his lunch to him? Yes, that's right: Patsy Hiser, who gave up her brilliant career in the drug store to be by Bill's side. My, isn't love grand. Roscoe Brown and Carroll Lewis recently made a Missionary tour through South Africa. There they collected numerous native cos umes, tattooes and acquired a golden suntan. Upon their arrival in the states, they were mistaken for cannibals and can now be seen on exhibition at Forest Park in St. Louis. Tommy Manville doesn’t seem t0 have anything on Donna Lee Pierce, Taylor, Bokenkamp, Berger, Flexter, McFadden, Rinnert, Cordell, who is obtaining her eighth divorce to marry Count Hcrnblower of Bopwop. Prim, bespectacled, Bonnie Coggan, foot loose and fancy free, is teaching figures at her beloved home in Sailor Springs. Her side kick, Carmen Shore, is excavating to see what can be found under the school building. Happy digging, Carmen. I hope you find something of more value than that last sulphur spring Mary Colclasure Ya es, a famous model, acquired a severe cold while poking for a calendar artist. She is new suing the studio. Bob Crackel is the top man in his profession. He went to Hollywood and Lana Turner happened to stroll past accompanied by two M. G. M. producers. They heard Bob’s peculiar wTolf call and immediately signed him to a life term contract. Now, every time yru see a Western on Seturdav night and hear a wolf or coycote howl, you'll know that it's Bob. He's a howling success. Thelma Fulk and Martha Turner are now advertising Sta-rite garters for the Eugene Hardy Company, of Gam City, Arkansas. Dorothy Gardner and Lucille McKinney have become par ners in a beauty salon in Hong Kong, China. Dorothy massages, treats, and scalps while Lucille McKinney scrapes all the loose “dandruff from the pockets of ’he millionaire customers. Rosa Mae Gill, private secretary for P. U. Penny, lost her job today. It seems that she was sitting on the boss’s lap when his wife wa ked in. Truman Grove and Lindy Hosselton surprised us most of all. Truman has developed such a muscular physique that he has taken up weight lifting as a career. In the near future, he expects to be given the honorary title of “Superman.” However, Lindy has taken up—you can’t guess—knitting! He joined a knitting club and is in a state of rivalry with hi? fellow-men to see which can finish his doily first. Everyone is excited over the contest but we hear that the odds are in Lindy’s favor. Roberta Rule Hosselton, his loving wife, knows how to knit too. In fact, she was the one who insisted that he learn. She says that it isn't as dangerous as basketball. Leila Hubble has secured a dangerous job. She is a midget auto racer. She planned to be a physical education teacher, but decided that it wasn't dangerous enough. She is the only woman in her profession. (Good work if you can get it, girls.) CLAYTONI AN---- - 47 19

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SENIOR CLASS WILL 8 James Kenneth Nail: (Continued) Leaves his line to any poor fish who is sucker enough to bite. Leone Neff: Cedes her domestic skill to Norma Jayne Murvin. Mildred Neff: Refuses to leave anything. She is saving everything for her future husband, Eldon. Loretta Pettyjohn: Wills her quiet, reserved manner to Patty Staser. Alice Jean Phillips: Shares her love for a “Bob” with Norma Jean Moore. Colmore Rinehart, Jr. Bequeaths his clarinet ability to Jabez Coggan. Roberta Rule: Awards the title of queen to the next lucky Senior girl. Carmen C. Shore: Leaves her capability of handling Senior class meetings to the next Senior class president. Russell Stanley: Unwillingly presents his cow-boy boots to Charles Billingsley. Jo Ann Striegel: Bequeaths her pleasant disposition to Patty Miller. Martha Ellen Turner: Confers her ability to argue on Clarabelle Gray. Jean Walker: Happily yields her low voice to Ricky Schwartz. Bill Weaver: Wishes to leave his experience in the navy to anyone desiring to join. Fern Williams: Offers her sympathy to all poor spellers. We, the undersigned, do hereby affix our seal and signature to this document in granting our last will and testament this twenty-sixth day of May, A. D. 1947 . Signed: THE SENIOR CLASS. WITNESSES: Donna Lee Bufkin Jo Ann Striegel 19------- CLAYTONIAN--------------------------------47

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY (Continued) After serving as a truant officer for a year, Bernie Mitchell decided to try her hand at modeling evening gowns (called skirts in our days) for Edwin Moats, who formerly starred as Romeo, the great lover, in the stage play, “Romeo and Juliet. This play ran successfully for 10 years in New York. Norman Moseley gave up his career as an accountant to test mattresses for Stix, Baer, and Fuller. Jim Nail is now teaching in the small town of “Diddy Wa Diddy, U. S. A. He is the first man to specialize in girl's basketball and we hear that he is a huge success. Mildred and Leone Neff married their childhood sweethearts and they are presently living on neighboring farms south of Clay City. Loretta Pettyjohn and Alice Jean PhiPips surprised us most of all. Loretta has become a lady wres'ler. The 20th of this mon‘h she has an engagement in New York's Madison Square Garden to wrestle for the championship. Her professional name is, “Pretty Powerful Pettyjohn. Alice has joined the F. B. I. in Washington to become a lady spy. She is known as the second Mati Hari and is soon going to be sent to Russia to watch Stalin. Jo Ann Striegel has revised burlesque in the New York night clubs. She is now working in the new “Woo-Woo Club, owned and operated by her husband, Neal Warren. Her professional name is “Torchy which goes well with her 3 feet long dark hair. At the present time “Torchy is being featured with Colmore Rinehart's, “Twenty Solid Senders. Jean Walker gave us a pleasant shock. She now mod-Is 1967 style bathing suits on Miami Beach. Bill Weaver developed his career from high school training. He vas treasurer of 'he class, you know. He decided to go 'o Chicago to see a big bank that contained a large sum of money. Upon seeing all this money belonging to some one else, something snapped in his brain. He bought a second hand sub-machine gun from Dillinger's widow, and proceeded to rob the bank. Chicagoans have lived in terror of “Machine Gun Weaver, ever since. Russell Stanley went out West in '47 and bought a small cabin in Wyoming. He r.as been very successful. A radio producer saw him sitting on a barb wire fence, singing, “Boots and Saddle He can now be heard on W. D. Z. with, “WHY, OH WHY DID I EVER LEAVE WYOMING. as his theme song. You all remember the famous giggle of Fern Williams. Danny Kaye heard her and decided that with some training, she could become a radio comedian. “Fern’s Foolish Follies, is now one of our favorite radio serials. Tonight, on my way to the studio I passed a farm in my new’ 1967 Studebaker. (it looks as if it's going sideways) and happened to notice that there w’ere two old men in the field. They were a couple of old fashioned fellows with beards, who plowed with a sway back mare. It was with some difficulty that I recognized Maitland Flexter and Edwin Gibbs. That concludes our program for tonight, radio audience. Tune in tomorrow night, same time, same station. Until then, I remain your Clay City Reporter, Richard Kilroy. This is station N.O.S.E.Y. 5261947 on your dial. 19------CLAYTONIAN 47