Echo High School - Echoes Yearbook (Echo, OR)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY One bright September morning four years ago, fourteen freshmen galloped up the stairs. They were Mary Arnold, Joe Correa, Bill Esselstyn, Dorothy Farrens, Mildred Penney, PauLine Rauch, Bob Schiller, Chester Vohs, Frank Bowman, Dale Eliason, Patricia Stoughton, Louise Tolar, Helen Young, and Shirley Coleman. Vfe were a very eager group then but we found about four weeks later that we were just green freshmen,11 and that the sophomores would hold us in our places. In our sophomore year. Dale Eliason, Bob Schiller, Chester Vohs and Frank Bowman left, but we v ere benefitted by the entrance of Milton Dallman, Mary Crow, and Wilma Brown. Being sophomores we were able to show the freshmen who was boss. At the beginning of our junior year we really felt important until the senior class made us realize that we v ere just members of the Student Body. We remained subdued for the rest of the year. Milton Dallman moved away, Mary Lois Cotton joined us, and Patricia Stoughton changed her name to Dick. For our senior year we gained Janey Center and Maxine Nofsinger. We lost Mary Arnold to Hermiston and after two months Maxine moved to North Powder. The class now stood with Joe Correa, Bill Esselstyn (our men), Dorothy Farrens, Mildred Penney, Pauline Rauch, Patricia Dick, Mary Lois Cotton, Wilma Brown, Mary Crow, Janey Center, Louise Tolar, Helen Young and Shirley Coleman. In this year vie discovered that we were really the ones as we had no higher class to dictate to us. SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY It is 1965, and it has been a long time since we've heard the thunder of war around the v orld. No, no more do we hear the thunder of guns but the thunder of a divorce trial in Reno, Nevada. This great emancipator of women is none other than the one and only, incomparable Joseph Paul G. Correa. Joe is giving Tommy Manville rough competition in seeing who can end up with the mostes wives. Although Tomny has eleven to Joe's nine, Joe has the advantage of his youth over Tommy. Those chaps must like wedding cake. Our Joe knew he was going to need all the witnesses he could possibly get to testify to his sound character. So, he wired all of his old classmates of Echo High School, class of '45, to come to his aid. He had clo.se at hand a certain concert pianist who plays his favorite funeral march to get him in the mood. Ah, yes, one with very brilliant red hair, by the name of Madame Maria L. Nottoc (that's right, turn it around and it's Cotton), our own little Mary Lois. Of course, her recent 250 pounds has nothing to do with my calling her little . She was dismissed from the stand because the witness chair was incapable of taking care of her wide range. They had to chase the second witness down over in India. It was Vfilma Brown on one of her snake hunting expeditions. She is trying to find the ones with the most personality for her side-show business of charming her charming little pets. Her testimony was of little value because she said Joe was just another snake in the grass as far as she was concerned.

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY (Concluded) The next witness was Congresswoman Shirley Eleanor Coleman. Miss Coleman has just completed an exhausting four-day filibuster to keep the Republicans from passing a bill for the new Redeal Plan. Her testimony about Joe's upstanding character (whenever anyone is near to hold him up, or hold him back, I might add) was convincing, but not half as convincing as Mary Crow, the next witness. Mary is Editor of the new fashion magazine, Milady. Her snappy clothes caused quite a sensation in the courtroom. Next came Bettem High Wild Bill Esselstyn, a very old and dear friend of our pal Joey, Bettem , the fixer for all sports where a bet can possibly be laid, is little known in these Reno parts, so far be it from me to run down his character. If only he could fix this trialJ Next was Louise Tolar, a professional lady-tramp, who after an exhausting hike (to say nothing of the swim) around the world went into seclusion for a long rest. She came out only because for her dear friend Joe she would do anything. And now a person ot v orld fame. She hears from people all over the world. Bringing their sorrows to her, they come from every direction. She irons out people's lives through her newspaper column, and brightens their horizons with her Is Your Heart Lonely? Club. Most people know her as Dry Your Tears, Everything Will Be All Right Jaijey Center. Her testimony was received well because she said Joe was one of her most respected members. The next witness was the energetic assistant to the assistant vice-president of the W.C.T.U., Miss H. P. Young. Her testimony backfired because Joe came to court smelling of alcohol, only it seems it turned out to be rubbing alcohol. Joe was feeling rather low at this period because he wasn't getting as many you-poor-man glances as he felt were necessary for the good of himself and his bank account. Next, in bounded gymnastics director of the Bend-Down Club, Mildred Penney. Her testimony was of excellent value, but after the court had done fifty sit-ups their resistance was gone and they had to accept it. Joe found all but two of his dear old (how we hate that word) classmates. He found the Pauline Rauch in Cheyenne at the annual round-up. She makes it her habit to be where the money is, and helps the people get rid of it with her slight-of-hand tricks. Yes, that gal knows her marked cardsi It seems the judge knew Pauline previously, so her testimony was of little use. Joe's last chance was Dorothy Farrens, a most respected citizen and Democrat, but it seems that the warden couldn't possibly part with her. She's the best button-hold maker in the whole prison. Well, Joe's cause was lost and he had to part with some of his money, but he is consoling himself with a cute little hat-check girl. Undoubtedly she will become the tenth Mrs. Joseph Correa.