Harmony Grove High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Benton, AR)

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It was rumored several years ago that our frrend Geraldme Dobbs would someday become Queen Well she drdn t make queen but she sure got the Krng Whrch one? The one 1n the Arr Force D1dn t he ICIIIC9 Now Geraldrne has a Job of pohsh 1ng all h1s medals Now I venture back to earth to the small town of Benton Arkansas I see a very tall man and an extremely short woman The strange thrng about th1s IS that they are followed by eleven black cats No that 1sn t cats they are PANTHERS Seems as rf joan Garrett and Trm have rarsed a football team of therr own It rs possrble you may be walkxng down the cracked srdewalk of Benton Arkansas and who do you run rn to? None other than Doyne Ray Hogan You see Hogan was never the roamtng type so he 1S spend1ng hrs lrfe slavmg for the State Hospxtal Chref d1shwasher I thmk promotron has gone out of style Tell me d1d that rrng turn green before the weddrng bells sounded for Glenda M1tche1l No I guess It d1dn t because I see her now a famous dress deslgner but she has trme for her small famrly of ten chtldren Her famrly cons1sts of Ray Glen and Faye and seven more who are not old enough to name themselves yet The planet of Uranus lS surrounded by many shrps from all drfferent planets We would be surpr1sed at th1s s1ght but we re told that Larene Ph1ll1ps ltves here These are only some of her admrrers Seems she has the same trouble that she drd back 1n 1953 keeprng the boys away from her door I see John Smrth strll carrymg a torch for an old hrgh school flame By tlus tlme one would thmk they would be marr1ed But as everyone should do they are savrng money for a new home and wrthout a doubt John IS st11l the proud owner of a lrttle gray Chevrolet I take a lrttle trrp to Nome Alaska and frnd two of my former classmates Bobby Tallent and Lucrlle Whrtley They are sk1 rnstructors rn some famous resort there I guess Bobby decrded to be true to the one woman rnstead of a dozen or more Now I see Kathryn Tanner smgrng her heart out at the Metropolrnan Opera I suspect ed somethmg lrke thrs when she and I went to school together Of course Mtss Tanner makes her home tn Lrttle Rock Arkansas I see Charles Vandergrtff st1ll a shy lookrng old man I wonder what put all those wrrnkles In h1s brow Oh' he was a basketball coach at Harmony Grove Hrgh School for frfteen years I suppose that would put wrtnkles rn anyone s face 1 u 11 ' 1 11 - 11 - . 1 ' - , . - 1 . . . 1 I . 1 1 1 . . , . . 1 1 1 1 1 . . . . A . . . 0 . . . 1 1 1 . ' 1 , . 1 . . . . ,

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SENIOR CLASS PRO PHECY If the senrors outlrve the Jumors maybe frfteen or twenty years from now you may see our lovrng faces although you may stare and squmt at frrst I m sure you w1ll be able to recognrze the face of the only people who have acqurred those gum countenances In case you strll can t tell our age and haven t gotten all out of lrfe we w1ll tell you how these wrrnkles loose broken teeth and bald heads were acqurred Perhaps you w1ll look upon us wrth scorn but I am sure there w1ll be prty rn your consolrng vorce you learn a httle about the lrves of your elders If you w1ll bear w1th me on a httle Journey through space I w1ll try to prophesy what has become of the 1952 53 senrors of Harmony Grove Hrgh School I w1ll do thrs by means of my crystal ball The vrsron IS very clear now I see Forrest Bruce boardrng a supersonrc Jet space shrp accompanred by a VIVBCIOUS blonde whrch he met at an Interplanetarrum basketball tournament Seems as rf they are gorng on therr honeymoon Now I see another vrsron It IS the year 1972 I see a happy housew1fe srttrng at a funny lookrng contraptron wrth all krnds of hands Now I see what rs happemng The frrst button she punches prepares supper The next button has s1x hands and rt rs wash mg s1x 11tt1e boys named Ed Eddre Edward Edmond Dan1el and Iunror Now I Now I go to Mercury whrch rs reserved for pool halls exclusrvely The old sayrng You can t teach old dogs new tucks st111 goes but the game IS drfferent now Too rough for old man Ioe What w1ll your WIVCS say'7 I go next to a troprc rsle somewhere rn the South Pac1f1c But why should I go there I see no one that I know There seems to be nothrng there but sarlors Walt 1 see 3 famrlrar head of ha1r I would know that harr anywhere That IS Betty Io Carodrne My crystal ball reveals to me a glass house on Mercury Insrde the house I see Poca hontas No I see Shirley Collatt What IS that old battered up gray heap of Junk s1tt1ng rn front of her house? Why that 15 John Sm1th s car I belreve they are strll gomg steady Back to earth my gaze now turns I don t see anythmg but I do hear a loud talktng and laughter Now I see a Wall Street Stock Broker I can tell that vorce anywhere It rs none other than Edward Danrel I see a drstant planet It rs the new planet Thurman so named and drscovered by the great astronomer phrlosopher and artrst Irmmy Dan1e1s I see her now srttrng at the w1ndow of her platrnum trrmmed Jet sketchrng prctures of 11tt1e Herman and brother Thurman Ir . , , . . . . . . . . . as know who this is. Of course, it is June Callahan. . , . , . , , , . D I '

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