Clear Lake High School - Cardinal and Black Yearbook (Lakeport, CA)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY 'Where to Muss? asked Frances Blshop stoppmg her space-o-crulser nn front of the bewtldered lookmg woman who had lust stepped off the I 02 rocket from Earth I dont know maybe you could help me Im lookmg for a good real estate a ent 9 Say' You havent been here before have you' Everyone that has ever vusuted Venus knows of Don Farnsworth He never lets em leave wnthout trying to sell them something Frances glanced agam at the woman In the back for somehow she looked famulnar Arent you Becky Ross my old classmate from way back an 1955? Well' Golng to llve up here now? Yes I am If I luke ut Arent you Frances Bnshop? I havent seen my old frlends for so long I probably wont recogmze half of them She sughed All these new thmgs rockets a flymg car called a spaceocrulser modern lookmg buuldmgs so dlfferent from the Earth of 25 years ago She recalled how everyone had dns agreed wnth her old bellef that space was unconquerable Buuldnng a space shup and flynng to Venus CMars was too commonplacej had always been a topnc of much dlscusslon In the Physucs class of 55 and fmally the day came In 1956 when the progect was fmnshed The entlre class of 55 was re assembled and they left their homes and frlends to start a new clvlllzatlon all except Becky who belueved they would never make It and so she refused to go Here you are Becky Frances Interrupted Beckys reverse Practucally the moment Don stepped on thus planet he made a cool mnllnon by subdnvldung nt and selling lots wlth hrs partner Ron Ware Both of them are very ruch but they wull try to take every cent you have Dont you let em' O K Thanks Franny Becky paud her fare and walked up to the block long office bulldlng She found Ron out but Don puffing on a smelly cigar and fllcklng the ashes off wuth a specual leweled ash fllcker was very defumtely In and promlsed to fund her a cholce home Of course you want to llve un the clty Thats where nearly everyone IS except for Stanley Conrad He s got a mllluon acre pear ranch out In the valley Hr., brought the famous Lake County Bartlett pear up from Earth and has quute a prosperous ranch as he clanms exclusrve rughts to that partncular brand The gets on Dons spaceocrulser roared as the machine rose Oh whos that? Becky asked seelng a tall dark haired woman emerge from what looked luke a very modern versnon of the Whute House Thats Gall Busch Shes the first woman president of Venus although Impeach ment proceedungs have been started agamst her several tnmes for reasons nobody ever seems to know I thunk nts lust something to keep the government amused Jon Kempe IS always tryung to run agatnst her but he never qulte makes It Jon has become quite a polltlcal figure In the past few years He became famous when he became engaged to Ruta Henault and didnt lavlsh glfts and money on her Everyone flgured that a man that wouldnt do that must be pretty outstandmg Ruta? Has she been engaged? Has she been engaged? Nearly every man around has been engaged to her at some tume or another She s now the ruchest woman on the planet gets her dough by collecting the fabulous gifts and money they grve her She lnherlted her fortune when her husband a rnch onl prospector dled of a heart attack when one of hrs wells made a bllllon dollar strlke She ts lookmg for another husband and everyone IS very anxious to marry her but they usually cant afford to after a short engage ment perlod So they have to break off and she sues them for what Inttle money they have left Her excuse IS breach of promlse Well thats really surprlslng Oh my goodness' Who or what IS that? Don laughed Frltz Budde was staging a mock ray gun battle with hlmself on the Caputol lawn In the dnstance they could see a tall man wearing a whute coat and horn rnmmed glasses come boundnng up wlth a butterfly net over hrs shoulder On closer observatnon Becky saw It was Mr Watson Frutz has escaped agam that s all explanned Don He went Insane over the loss of has money when has engage ment with Ruta broke up She sued hum for breach of promlse and the sum was really terrlflc Mr Watson runs the Insane asylum to console hnmself as he says the people In there are more sensuble than the tduots who try to run our govern ment He Cant understand what has happend to has perfect socuety Now I Il take you through the slum section Don turned off over a narrow alley We have some very good lots In here cheap If you re Inter Oh Don for heavens sake' Now who lnves there? She pomted to a Iuttle tumble-down shack wrth what seemed luke a dozen children runmng around It In the front sat a man who looked suspcclously luke yes lt was none other than Larry Hlnman sleepmg In the sun undrsturbed by all the racket around hlrr' Don stghed sadly. And he could have done so much wlth humself he moaned , . ,, . . . . I ' I 11 1 - 1 ' , . 11 11 I . 1 ' 1 ' ' - 11 ' ' , 1 - - 11 1 ' ' - 1 . . 11 H . . . , - 1 ' 1 1 ' ' , . 11 - . . 11 - 11 ' ' ' - , 1 . . . . , . - 1 . . . - 1 . 1 4 I , . 11 11 - I ' ll ' 1 ' ' , 1 I ' I 1 1 11 11 11 - . . , . - 1 1 ' 1 11 - - - 1 ' , . . . I A . . . . ,, . , , . 11 1 11 - - 1 - 1 1 ' 11 1 - 1 - - - . , ' . . , . . , . . . , . . . , . 11 - 11 11 . , . 1 I . . , I - . ' 1 - 1 - 1 11 11 1 . . . ,, , - . , . . . . ,, . . , , . . , 11 - 11 - . . 1 - ' . . , 1 - - 1 11 11 1 - 11 11 - - 1 - 11 1- I 11 1 - 11 - - I 1 ' 1 - .. I , , u. - 11 - - I 11 , .

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T953 and we were now upperclassmen The hsghlsght of the year was sponsor sng the .lunsor Prom whsch was very successful Due to concesssons at games dances and candy sales funds were rassed and the formal dance was held at Laural Dell Lodge wsth Don Lampson s band playsng sn accordance to our theme Indsan Love Call Delores Ksmball was re elected cheerleader and Evelyn Muhlhauser was chosen Buzz edstor Camslle Garner was elected Msss Football Our able leaders sncluded Pressdent LARRY HINMAN Vsce Pressdent BARBARA ROSS Secretary Treasurer REBECCA ROSS Executsve Commsttee GAIL BUSCH Advssors MRS ROGERS MR OLIVIER Our Junsor year under way we were off to a good start when Venn Marschall Bob McNesll Gene Chantler and Nevel Lyons were gsven letters for thesr efforts sn psonshsp for our school Helpsng sn the cause and earnsng letters were Gene Chantler and Jsm Morgan Wsth four Junsors on the squad the B team had one of thesr most successful seasons Ron Ware Larry Hsnman Venn Marschall and Don Lange greatly snfluenced the Bs successful season When st came to track the same four held up our class s reputatson sn the track fseld Lettersng for the thsrd strasght year were Frstz Budde Nevel Lyons Jsm Morgan and Lee Bucknell In football we were well represented when they passed out the letters Those recesv sng them were Don Farnsworth Venn Marschall .lsm Morgan Ron Ware Jsm Larsen and Bob McNesll T954 found us Sensors preparsng for our future lsfe Larry Hsnman was elected as Student Body Pressdent and Camslle Garner was elected as Cheerleader Genevseve Lee was chosen Buzz edstor Our sensor beau tses were elected by popular ballot as Queens for Football Camslle Garner Basket ball Delores Ksmball Track Rsta Henault Baseball Barbara Ross Gasl Busch agasn entered a speech contest and placed fsrst sn the contest spon sored by the Lakeport Lsons Club In our last year sn sports Nevel Lyons Frstz Budde Venn Marschall Bob McNesll and Jsm Morgan recesved letters for football Lee Bucknell the only sensor on the B basketball team was elected as captasn for the year Four of our classmates helped our A team to a very successful 20 4 record Contrsbutsng to the cause were Gene Chantler wno was chosen team captasn Jsm Morgan Ron Ware and Venn Marschall Chosen to represent our class were Pressdent LELAND BUCKNELL Vsce Pressdent GENEVIEVE LEE Secretary Treasurer EVELYN MUHLHAUSER Executsve Commsttee GENE CHANTLER Advssors MISS WAYNE MR WATSON I ' - r ' V I I ,, I . . I . I I I I football. Two of our classmates helped win the Northwestern League A cham- ' . ' ' ll II ' I ' I I I ' ll I II ' , . . .. . , I . . I I . I ' . I I ' I I . , . , . ' ll I .- - I I ' , J , 1 , - I I I I I I ' I I 1 f , . I . .. I I I I E, , .

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It us sad very sad You see he convunced Shurley Smuth of hus love for her and they were marrued Poor Shurley' As Larry never worked she had to support theur eleven chuldren Funally she couldnt stand ut any more and so she decuded to do somethung about ut She trauned all the chuldren to tvvurl batons They are now luvung off the money won by her champuon twurlung and drull team Before Muss Wayne moved back to Spaun wuth her matador husband they used to appear at the bull fughts Muss Wayne met her true love when he kulled the meanest bull on the planet after a long and bloody battle It was love at furst sught Wesley used to accompany the twurlers wuth hus barutone but that was un hus less successful days Becky then notuced a man un the street who appeared to be sellung duapers Now who us that? Thats Darrell Creamer He used to be Venus Chrustuan Duor and desugned the most exclusuve clothes on the planet untul a rather unfortunate uncudent ended hus career He let Gene Chantler Don Lange and Nevel Lyons talk hum unto desugnung a dusappearung fabruc All the women wore dresses of thus cloth to a large dance and halfway through the evenung the dresses uust dusappeared Sunce then decent woman has spoken to hum He was engaged to Ruta at the tume and she sued hum after the engagement was broken and un thus way she gauned possessuon of hus vast fortune Now he us pennuless and destutute tryung to eke out a luvunq by peddlung baby clothes Whatever happened to Don Gene and Nevel? Don was Rutas furst fuance after her husbands death They were very happy untul Don realuzed he was losung all hus money He has trued many ventures un busu ness sunce then but was thrown un uaul recently when he was arrested for tryung to sell the scales on a gold fush s back to Frutz Nevel was a successful lupstuck salesman untul he lost hus uob by unsustung he prove to hus customers how kuss proof hus brand was He was un many shady deals wuth Don and they are now sharung the same cell The two of them cause the warden Betty Robunson endless trouble wuth theur uduotuc schemes of escape Its very touchung to see how they refuse to be defeated un theur purpose Betty us the toughest warden ever seen on the two planets but she us gentle wuth these two as she us convunced that they are not un theur proper place they belong wuth Frutz Old Chantler has really made a place for humself up here Do you remember graduatuon and how he was always hopung to make the team? Well he amused us by umutatung some of the players as the trup up here was long and rather borung He us now the top comeduan on Venus sort of a muxture between those old Earth stars Jerry Lewus and Mr Peepers Who us that poor man? asked Becky noddung toward an obvuously drunk person slught of buuld reelung along the sudewalk tryung to read a horror comuc book That's Gary Cossey the mad cartoonsst Hes now un one of hus mulder stages He was a very famous cartoonust untul hus engagement to Ruta but he turned to drunk to forget all hus troubles after he lost hus money Now he s makung a munt by drawung lurud cartoons for horror comucs and hes very famous but hes one of these people who never lukes to show hus money They had turned unto one of the better sectuons of the cuty and passed an enor mous mansuon Who luves there? gasped Becky quute overcome by the splendor of the estate Thats Ruta s wunter home Across the street un that dunky luttle four story one block cottage Iuves Loretta Smythe Ruta s lawyer who has won all Ruta s breach of promuse cases except one That was Jon s and she lust could not force hum to pay the sum that was asked You see Venn Marschall us the uudge and he gets very tured of all these cases He always goes to sleep un the muddle of them and wakes up after they are over He funds thus much easuer on hus nerves Devona Walker us Ruta s maud She knows when shes well off' The amount of money she makes un a month us equuvalent to the average mans yearly uncome Now we are approachung the Unuversuty of Venus founded by the very famous Leland Bucknell A look of prude crossed Dons face He marrued Evelyn Muhl hauser and together they founded thus great unstututuon of hugher learnung Lee us presudent of the college and Evue us Dean of Women Were all very proud of these two As they approached the beautuful campus they were startled to see two college men wuth theur arms full of fulmy punk blue and whute luttle nothungs come streak ung toward them They were recognuzed as Jum Morgan and Bull Van Gunda dressed un the latest college fashuon In close pursuut were Camulle Garner and Barbara Ross dressed sumularly to Bull and Jum Bermuda shorts and socks durty whute buck shoes and the whute pupes wuth curved handles suutable for theur sex Brung those back' 1 ' 1 ' ' . .i ' 1 ' I ' 1 I I - n . 1 a . v 1 I ll , . 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