Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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SFfllOR P WOULD YOU LITO CRYSTAL BALL AND HAVE WHO LEFT THIS INSTI TUT I ON ALOnG. tUPHESy US AS WE GAZE JOIN US AS WE GAZE I TO THE CLEAR GLIMPSE AT THE ILLUSTRIOUS SENIORS IN THE SPRING OF 1943? WELL, COME WE SEE THE DUNCAN RAILROAD FORMAN, JAMES BENTON INIS THE ALL-WOMAN SECTION CREW. ROMANTIC JAMES! BOSS THE HIGH SCHOOL ROMANCE BETWEEN MAX AND ROSALIE HAS FLOURISHED AND GROWN INTO A LIFETIME PARTNERSHIP. ROS«LlE IS NOW THE SOLE RECIPIENT OF ALL THE FLOWERS MAX USED TO LAVISH UPON ALL THE Fa. IRER SEX. BOB CHmPMAN, LEAN, LANKY, AND SLIGHTLY BOW-LEGGED DkESsED IN WESTERN GARB, IS THE PROUD OWNER OF A STRING OF RACE HORSES. THESc ERING HIM A HANDSOME SUM AS HE PARTIC- IPATES IN ONE RODEO AFTER ANOTHER. HE -STAYS PHYSICALLY FIT BY PLAYING AN OCCASIONAL G .ME OF TENNIS. OR PAUL ELLEiGE, THE VERY PROGRESSIVE FARMEB, IS SEEN VING « JEEP AROUND OVERSEEING THE WORK ON HIS FATHER’S FARM WHICH HE HAS FALLEN HE In TO. THERE LIMIT SO GUN IT, PAUL. IS NO 35 MILE SPEED PE„RL HAS FOLLOWED IN HER SHE DOES STENOGRAPH I CAL WORK, BUT TYPE WHO SITS ON HER BOSSES LAP. SISTERS FOOT-STEPS IN THAT SHE ISN'T THE PROVERBIAL NOT THE HOME EC. COURSE HULGN HAD WHILE IN HIGH SCHOOL WAS IN VAIN. WE SEE HIM AS A BUBBLE-DANCER, THAT IS, ON K. P. DUTY, IN UNCLE 5«M'S ARMY. BUT HE IS JUST A SAILOR AT HE rcT--HE LCVES THEM AND LEAVES THEM IN EVERY PORT, ROSAMOND HaS DISCARDED HER NONCHALANT MANNER AND NOW LOOKS VERY PERKY IN HER Wr-AC UNIFORM. SHE IS IN THE SIGNAL CORPS DIVISION WHERE SHE STRUGGLES WJTH LIFE AND DEATH MES- SAGES, HOWEVEk, SOME MAY VERGE ON THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE. MAOMI, THE VERY VERSATILE PERSON WHO HAS PLAYED, SUNG mND TYPED HER WAY THROUGH SChOOL , H S ENLARGED HER INTERESTS TO INCLUDE MAKING A HOME FOk HAnOLD AND THE TWO LITTLE SOuDMANS. u THE LITTLE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE SC OFTEN WHEN fFFLEO TEfCHEr.-S LOOKED FOR HIM, IS NOW SCLE PROPRIETOR AND b.rtTENDER mT RAY'S PLACE AND THE 1943 ALUMNI OFTEN GATHER 0VE a REFRESHING DRINK, REMIND EACH OTHER HOW u°OD THEY WERE B CK IN D. U. H. S.

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REMEMBER THE SOOTHING SYMPATHETIC WAYS WILM? HAD WHILE IN SCHOOL? WELL — SHE IS NOW SERVINC HUMANITY- IN THE HIGHEST CAPACITY. SHE IS NURSE IN A LA ;GE CHILD GENS' HOSPITAL IN THE E ST . JuHN AND EVkN ARE GLORIFIED TO THE EXTENT THAT .iTHEY NOW Have WINGS, BUT THEY mT SILVER 'WINGS, EVAN PILOTS THE FLYc- ing Fortress while .Cohn does the dirty work, that is, he OkuPS buMBS OVER TOKYO AND SO CLOSE THAT THE SUN OF HEAVEN SQUIRMS. THEY DO SGML OCCASIONAL BLIND FLYING--AND GIPL3r YOU KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN, BETTY JC HAD QUITE PECULIAR NOTIONS WHILE IN SCHOOL. ALWAYS TAKING COURSES UUTLI NED “FOR BOYS, BUT NOW EVE.iY FEM- ININE CHtATUKE IS IN Nc SMALL way ENVIOUS uF HER. SHE PIL- OTS Htn OWN PLANE, STOPS OVER ON CONSTRUCTION JOBS, AND DOES THE FaSCIN.TING WORK OF A CHEMICAL ENGINEER, ToNY, THE Fi THEk WEIGHT, ADVERTISES FIS OWN PROFESS- SION, TAKING OFF A LITTLE HERE, PUTTING CN A LITTLE THERE. EDITH IS STILL POSSESSED WITH THIS DEFENSE IDEA. SHE RIVETS uN WEEK D-YS NO IS uN U. S. 0. DUTY CN WEEK ENDS. JOHNNIE JONZ HAS COME OUT OF HIS SHELL OF RETIREMENT LONG ENOUGH TO WRITE A SE.T SELLER. WHICH HE HAD CaLLED THE FUTILITY OF TRUSTING WuMEN. KENNETH'S BROAD KNOWLEDGE IN FORE I GN LANGUAGES HAS LANDED HIM A JOB WITH THE F. B. I . HE IS ONE OF THE If MOST CUN iv ING AND DARING SLUETHS. AND, BY TH: WAY, HE HAS DECIDED TH„T HE DEFINITELY PREFERS BKUNtITTES.