Elsberry High School - Smoke Signal Yearbook (Elsberry, MO)

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At the High School, I stepped into the gym, to find Coach Charley Hammack on duty. He told me if I would step into the office I could meet Professor Joseph Wayman, the new Superintendent of Schools. At the desk where Isabel used to sit, I discovered Coletta Overton who has been the capable secretary for the past five years. Sylvia Emerick Cox is head of the English Depart- ment. I was invited to lunch at the home of the Jim Ross . Mrs. Ross will be remembered as Joyce Davis. She turned on the television set. We saw “I’ve Got a Secret”. On the panel Deanna Green who has replaced Fave Emerson in that show, was answering questions. It is said that several months passed before the viewers noticed the change! There was a commercial for a new motion picture, “The Great Lover”, starring Yvonne Lawson, who has been called the Missouri Mamie Van Doren. Downtown at the Miller Furniture Store, I saw a sleeping man on a comfy-looking bed in the window. It was Jon Palmer, who has been for several years the Midwest’s best-known mattress tester. He says it allows 18 to 20 hours of sleep each day. A little farther down .the street was a big, brightly-painted building housing the Sharpe Chevy Sales. Sure enough, it was owned by our old friend, Gary Sharpe, I went in to see him, and found him cheerful and properous. He said that the only way he could always drive new Chevies was to own a garage full of them. I found out that Barbara Lonsberry was visiting at home after a tour of all the major theatres of Europe. She is known as the “Female Benny Goodman” and her clarinet playing is famous all over the world. Her sister-in-law, Joyce Lovelace Long, plays the drums in her band, and is said to be the only woman who can play drums like Gene Krupa. Lewis Trescott has a big shop where he rebuilds wrecked cars. “Wrecks”, he says, “are cheaper by the dozen”. Julie Steavenson Wayman is the mother of a happy family, and has an orchid-growing greenhouse for pastime. Mrs. Evelyn Taylor Pflasterer keeps books for her, when she can get time off from her family, which by now numbers nine. I spent some time thinking what a wonderful class that had been in 1956, but I had yet to hear of the most illustrious of all--Darlene Rimel. She says, “Missouri has always been called the ‘Show Me state. Now, we’re going to show them”. Written by John M. Harris COMPLIMENTS OF MILLERS FUNERAL HOME MISSOURI EDISON CO. GAMBLE STORE LACROSSE LUMBER CO. GENE’S SERVICE STATION 14

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Juniors DENNIS BANGE JOSEPH BANGE MARY BLACK BETTY BLAIR LUCILLE BRAND BILLIE BRAY DANE BROOKSHER JACK COX LOUISE CULWELL GLENN HAGEMEIER LYNN HAGEMEIER RONNIE HAMMACK ELINOR HARBISON ALTHA HARRIS WAYNE HERRING v ICKIE IRVIN JOHN JOHNSON JERRY LAGEMANN RUTH ANN LILLEY JOHNNY MARTIN HOUSTON MONTGOMERY BILLY BOB NORVELL LOUIS PENNY WAYNE PFLASTERER DONALD PRESTON JERRY RAY APRILE RUNGE EMILY SUDDARTH ROBERT SUDDARTH JOHN SUTTON ROBERT TAYLOR SUSAN TEMPLE NANCY VANN JIMMIE VAUGHN LINDA ARMSTRONG (picture not available) SUE COLLINS 1 6 BILL DeGERLIA COMPLIMENTS OF GOOCH CHEVROLET