Ravenswood High School - Nautilus Yearbook (Ravenswood, WV)

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and Bill Paxton have quite a business going. Gerry is modeling race cars and Bill is driving them. I figured those boys would end up like that! Isee Ravenswood's new cop is James White, and who's that hand -cuffed to the bars? Why it's Darrell Withrowg --I guess he's been Halloween ing again! ! Oh no, Joyce McDermott is the ringleader in cell 59. Poor girl 1T1uSt have worked too hard on the 59 yearbook! ! Alas and Alac! l Martin fLoverboyJ Hartley now has his own harem consisting of 20 lovely ladies and of course, he has leading them, our former head ma- jorette, Jean Ann Suck, and lover girl herself, Judy Amos. Iscramble for another newspaper hoping that this one will finish the story. Oh! ! Helen Sullivan and Diane Chambers were chosen as the busiest housewives in the neighborhood, they spend 15 hours out of every day talking over their backyard fences, of course they're Mrs. Fletcher and Mrs. Kimes now!! Stephen Seaman has replaced Benny Goodman, and he's plowing his way to the top! ! Now keeping the state capitol straight is Gary Owens as a filing clerk. He always was interested in figures! ! Who's this--? It's Charles Morgan walking down the railroad track in a barrel. He's just returning from Las Vegas, and it looks as if he lost everything he owned! ! Oh no! It's happened again! Larry Barker went over Niagara Falls in a barrel, but he lived to tell the story! ! Who's that getting out of the Cadillac, draped with white minks and leading a poodle? Why it's Diane Ingram. She's picking her husband up after the W, Va, Wildcats championship game! ! Guess who???? Written under a picture of two famous models. Why I remember them from RHS, Letha Jackson and Connie Laughlin! I ls your marriage failing? Stop in to see Helen Mullins and Lois Bowman, U.S. Professional Marriage Counselors. Well, I see there's a circus coming to town. Goodness! Just look at a couple of the acts! Michael Sayre, a snake charmer, and Alice Stephens and Velma McCune are sailing through the air as trapeze performers. Those girls always were pretty tricky! ! ! What's this big crowd for?'??? Oh, Isee. One way tickets for the Moon, and running to the head of the line is James Carpenter, Maybe it's because his wife is right at his heels with a rolling pin! 7? Vice President Chooses Private Secretary. Well, sure enough it's Deanna Easter. Can this be true? Demure, petite, Carolyn Estep is now making lectures around the world. No wonder she was so quiet in class. She was saving her breath! !. Who's that farmer plowing that field?? it's Nina Harmon's hus- band, Pete. Turning two pages Isee where Trans -World Airlines invite you to take a trip. Of course, you'll enjoy it, Carolyn Heasley is the airline hostess. Oh no! It can't be the June Suck we knew in high school who took Drivers Ed. She now drives a Greyhound from Abilene to Bos - ton twice a week!! Ann Slaven is now teaching readin', ritin' and rithmetic' at Sandyville. Jean Richmond, editor in chief, request everyone to subscribe to Modern Romances. Just as l figured! ! Roger Burr Rymer is the manager of the world's largest Bikini Bathing Suit Fac- tory. Well, lsee Eleanor Dumpy Sayre finally fits her name. She has consumed so much food from Dave's dairy that she now weighs two hundred pounds. Here's Irene Tregoning, Presi- dent of our '59 Senior Class. She's holding high office in the United Nations Building, she's chief window washer of the top floor. It's been nice learning what the graduates of '59 are now doing, but if you'll excuse me, I think I'll go for a swim!!! 19

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As I sit here on this small deserted island in the South Pacific, exhausted from a long desperate swim for my survival, a faint memory of the graduating class of '59 at Ravenswood comes to my mind. My gaze shifts over the long monotonous miles of sand. My eye is caught by a shimmer- ing object seemingly hidden in the sand. I gather my strength to crawl to the mysterious ob- ject. Pushing the sand away I find it is a treasure chest. The curiosity in my mind forces me to open the box. In it I find newspapers dated 1979, --how can this be? I just arrived hereg -- or did I? Have I been unconscious on this barren island for twenty years? The headlines of these papers fascinate me. What's this? James Noll Elected President? In smaller lines David Norman the Custodian of the White House. And now as I turn to the society page I see a full page picture of Vickie Johnson. She's having a Mourning tea for the girls of Wilson's Fan Club. On the other page the announcement of the Bridget Bardot and David Smokey Wilson wedding. Who was it that said Smokey would never get ahead? As my eyes glance on down the page Isee that Willard Dick Merical and the former Mary Sawyers are celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary. In the farm news I read that Tommy Combs and Virgil Walters feed their cows chocolate drops and they now own the only cholcoate milk factory in Jackson County. Bob Pyatt,our school photographer, is still taking pictures, he specializes in bathing beauties and, of course, his favorite is Cindy Champ. Who's that sitting on the sign reading Marine Recruit Station 40 Miles ? Oh, it's just Doris Suck and Barbara Fox trying to get to see Rony and Dick. What's this! 1-2-3 -4-5 -Sounds like two of our old business math students. Why, it's Vida Hardt and Sondra McGaverng they're counting dots on dominoes for a Domino Factory! Another item: Mary Bartlett and Betty Slaven are still advertising Big Bertha's and Sally Ann's for the Ravenette, However they own that place now! Ah! Here's another newspaper and look! ! John Weekley is making his first movie, Golly Gladys, and imagine he got his start in our Junior Play Finders Creepers at Ravenswood High. As I turn the page I see that Becky Fox is pulling her hair out trygng to meet deadlines for the New York Times. That poor girl is still meeting deadlines!?!? I ? Well here's Betty Bourgeois, bless her soul, grey and in a wheelchair, but still making her Saturday trip to WMOV for her program, Storytime. What's this headline? A modern day Rip Van Winkle awakes after 20 years and the Rip Van Winkle is none other than Ken McDole. That poor boy, I'd have thought he would have had his sleep out in high school!!! Now I'll turn to page five and see whafs new in sports. Well . . . here's our own Joe McCoy and Jim Bever playing football for the W, Va, Wildcats, --you see they're so good they're the only ones on the team, and they're sweeping the nation clean!! Look here! ! Dane Hannum, the pride of Mud Sock, and his lovely wife Suzie are leaving for a tour around the world. Hurrah! I Pat White has found a cure for aches and pains. It is Stay in bed 24 hours a day,tied so you won't fall out. Well, here's Pat Ab1eS and Janet Carmichael, --they're still teaching their first grade students. It seems that Gerry Milheen 18

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0 0 I, June Suck, will my ability to sneeze like a kitten to Jigger McGraw, I, Steve Seaman, will my interest in science to Mr. Cox's chemistry department. I, Smokey Wilson, will my belt to help hold up my pants to Phil Southall, and my football shoes to Dave James, and my share of the garage I was willed last year to Pete Gould. I, Bob Pyatt, will my quick short steps to Mr. Kessel. I, Eleanor Sayre will my real McCoy love for tall boys to Margie Weekley. I, Gerry Milhoan, will my ability to customize model cars to Don Brownlee, if he's got the nerve to try. I, David Nomaan, will my love for blondes, brunettes, and redheads to Bob Barnett, in hopes he will cherish it well. I, Alice Stephens, will my ability to take shorthand dictation to all first year students. I, Betty Slaven, will my ability to crack gum to Mr. Starcher. I, Virgil Walters, will my front position in the lunch line to any speedy enought to make it. I, Willard Merical, will not will Mary Sawyers because I reserve her for myself. I, James Carpenter, being of sound mind and body, will all the rust on my car to the Junior Class. I, James Noll, would will my brains to Don Brownlee, but I think I'll need them in college. I, Ken McDole, will my ability to annoy Mrs. Jarrett to any one who wants to fail her classes. I, Becky Fos, being of sound mind and body CI thinkj will my position as president of the student body to soniebody who wantsto age 10 yearsin one. I, Mary Sawyers, will my good times in a '51 Pontiac to anyone lucky enough to get the right driver for the Hghtguyj I, Vickie Johnson, will my talent for making up excuses to my sister who's already pretty good. I, Darrell Withrow, will my fun Halloweening to Coach Spano. We, Sondra McGavern and Vida Hardt, will not will our good times with two boys to anyone, because we wanttheniforoumelves I, Cindy Champ, will my inability to be jealous to all girls with steadies. I, Mary Bartlett, will my love for tall, blond boys with Fords to anyone who has been as lucky as I have. I, Michael Sayre. will nothing because I don't agree that you can't take it with you, I, Diane Ingram, will my height to Mike Smallwood. I, Letha Jackson, will my A's to National Honor Society. I, Pat Ables, will my big mouth to my sister Jo, who really doesn't need it, I, Bill Paxton, will my hot rodding to Edwin Haynes. I, Pat White, will my speech awards to anyone whose butterflies aren't stronger than they are, I, Lois Bowman, will my long fingernails to anyone who may need them. I, Helen Mullins, will my natural curly hair to anyone who doesn't like nightly pin-ups. I, Jean Richmond, will my unthinking ability to make simple mistakes in Home Ec. to Doris Carmi I, Janet Carmichael, will my pictures of Kenny Rossi to Pam Williams. I, Tommy Combs, being of little mind, will my ability to chew gum to Mr, Myers, I, Helen Sullivan, won't will my taste for Candy to anyone because Ihave a sweet tooth. chael. 20