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

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Life is a Picture: Paint It Well Lewis (Carroll) and our friend, Roscoe Brown, Soon will be ministers of wide renown. In later years, of our High School queen we’ll sing, Roberta Rule, and Bill Billingsley (her king). Fern Williams and Rosa Mae Gill, we seldom saw apart. They were always nice people, even from the start. Edwin Moats and Bob Crackel, in tinkering found great fun. We always said that they had what it takes to make things run. In the history of the 1947 seniors in basketball. Bill Boor and Lindy Hosselton were part, though not all. Smiling Bonnie Coggan, we never will forget. When a child, she liked “math,” and so, she does yet. And Jo Ann Striegel got lots of letters, but, gee! She knew a boy who went over the sea. Please remember James (Jimmy) Nail, (and I’m sure you will). His big grins and practical jokes, the teachers remember still. If Alice Jean Phillips should ever a famous secretary be, You can credit it all to her work at old C. C. C. Call on Loretta Pettyjohn if you should need some aid. For, of friendly labor and hard work, she never was afraid. There were Lucille McKinney and Bernie Mitchell, each a true friend. Their giggles and 'heir laughter, we will remember to the end. Up in the air in ligh's on Broadway, his name should appear. You know tint Colmore Rinehart plays his clarinet as he did here. Pussell Stanley, as you should know, was a dude, But, since cowboys are gentlemen, he was never rude. Even our Dorothy Gardner was a sweet and simple soul. We were always glad to hear her answer to the roll. Patsy Joyce Hiser was a girl who was talented when she drew. When her pictures appeared in our paper, I guess we all knew. Also Bill Weaver, who had sailed the deep blue sea, And brought back merry tales to tell to such as we. If Truman Groves and Gene Hardy were here, I’m sure you’d know Why they were such good friends, and why we liked them so. Norman Moseley was a tired boy, wrho grew to be very tall. And he got up to come late to school, or he didn’t come at all. Thelma Fulk and Martha Turner were always sort of quiet, Never quarreling, never starting any kind of a riot. In the Senior Class of 1947, Jean Welker had a part. Her good friends. I’m sure, will never leave her heart. Then, Leone and Mildred Neff were sisters who loved to sew. And, by working very hard, theyTl earn a lot of “dough.” When Donna Bufkin wishes to wed, as you and I know, She can just look around and, “Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe.” Edwin Gibbs and Maitland Flexter are farmer-boys now, Pitchin’ hay, plowing fields, and milking the old cow. Leila Hubble, you will hear folks say, And Mary Colclasure, won fame in G. A. A. Last of all is Carmen Shore, who’s writing this little verse. I hope that you’ll enjoy it, and think it could be worse. 19 CLA YTONIAN 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

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CLASS MOTTO n “Life is a picture: paint it well.” “LIFE’S BEGINNING” ■w Be still and listen—the last bell has rung, Echoes fade of the last song sung. Put away your cap and gown, Lay aside your new won crown. Go and seek for yourself a name. Do not rest on previous fame. The greatest men were once like you. They were young and life was new. Be still and listen—the last bell has rung. The door is open; Life’s begun. CLASS FLOWER White carnation CLASS COLORS Blue and white Leila Mae Hubble. 19 CLAYTONI AN - 47