Rock Port High School - Bluejay Yearbook (Rock Port, MO)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY On a bright, sunny day in the year 1947, Miss Anna Proudfit stood in the doorway and counted twenty-four shining, young noses. Those who started on the long, winding stairway were: Jerry Ben- nington, Kay Greer, Jay Gore, Okie Davis, Rita Garst, Edna Lininger, Keith Otmian, Robert Howell, Kenton Krusor, Howard Bunton, Garry King, Mark Luhrs, Dick Salfrank, Bobby Taylor, Sharon F ahseler, Jerrianne Stites, T o mm y Stanton, Portia Oswald, JaI1iC6 TUdO1', DOH HI1dS0H, .TiII1II1Y HUdS0f1. Floyd Strange, Jerry Johnston, and Judy MoC oy. During our second grade, we found that we had several new classmates to borrow paper from. They were: Arthur Cook, Janice Mather, Judy Maness, Billy Nelson, Wilma Stanford, and Martha Graham. Miss Velma Inbody, our teacher that year, learned quickly not to turn her back on the class. Probably the most useful piece of knowledge we gained was how to tell time. We all learned to read a watch except Kenton Krusor, and he learned to read a sun dial. In the third grade we all took our turn sitting in the hall, and during the recess' we played a great game called Capture, Those who decided this game was too rough and left us were: Arthur Cook, Keith Ottrnann, Floyd Strange, Wilma Stanford, Martha Graham, and Judy McCoy. Our teacher was the very pretty, Miss Faye Stevens. Several of the boys proposed to her daily. When Miss Royston, our fourth grade teacher, was calling roll for the first time, she found that there were two new faces. They were Priscilla Bowers and Carole Lininger. During the summer Don and .Timmy Hudson and Billie Nelson moved away. As we entered the fifth grade room and greeted our teacher, Mrs. Nina Thomas, we found that Jimmy Smith and Margaret Huff had heard of our class and decided to join us. Although our multiplica- tion tables were difficult to learn, we all made it through that year without one person leaving our merry band. When Mrs. Salfrank, our sixth grade teacher seated us alphabetically, we found that three students were missing: Judy Maness, Jimmy Smith, and Portia Oswald. We had also gained five: Jeanie Welch, Kenneth Burgess, Myrtle Webster, and Lennis Million. The reorganization of 1953 brought in several new students to join us in the seventh grade: Wilma Stanford, Dan Boatrnan, Mary Brown, Marjorie Cook, Mary Lou Grubb, Carl Herron, Don Ingram, Connie Lauman, Roselea Patton, Sherry Pebley, Marvin Rosenbohm, Darlene Schmidt, Joyce Shandy, Betty Jo Thomas, Betty Turner, Shirley Perry, Jimmy Simons, Annette Bennington, Jane Cooper, Melvin Grubb, Peggy Harger, Alberta Herron, Judy Pebley, Virginia Roop, Beverly Schroeder, Max Thomas, and Cecil Cook. Because of our superior leadership, we had the best safety patrol system EVER seeninkock Port. Mrs. Pierce and Mrs. Shaw were given the privilege of teaching us. The entire student body was grieved to learn that during the summer we lost one of our students. She was Edna Mae Lininger. Mrs. Hills and Mrs. Linville saw that we all graduated from the eighth grade plus three others that happened to be passing by. They were Virginia Boulden, Dick Asbury, and Portia Oswald. As we started our ninth step to the top, we added to our list, Jerry Welch. We were all quite proud of ourselves that year, for we had four girls and four boys letter in sports. On our tenth step we stopped for a while, and out of thousands of out-of-state applications, we ad- mitted only two. They were Norma Jean Esser and Janice Schnegelberger.This was a slow year, but most of us made it. After hearing about all the work involved in giving aJunior-Senior banquet, Richard Asbury, Vir- ginia Boulden, Priscilla Bowers, Peggy Harger, Max Thomas, and Myrtle Webster gave up and left our flock. With all this loss of man-power, we gladly welcomed Nancy King to our ranks. This was a booming year and went surprisingly fast. Our Play The Perfect Idiot and oriental banquet were tremendous successes and everyone enjoyed them. Now that the Senior Play, Nuts in May, is over, we are preparing to take the last long step - that of graduation. Those who have been with us all twelve years are: Jerry Bennington, Howard Bunton, Okie Davis, Rita Garst, Jay Gore, Kay Greer, Robert Howell, Garry King, Kenton Krusor, Mark Luhrs, Dick Salfrank, Sharon Stanton, J errianne Stites, and Janice Tudor. We were sorry to have lost Judy and Sherry Pebley and Joyce Shandy at the beginning of the year. We were exceptionally happy to have Shirley Perry come back and take this big step with us, since she had started with us earlier. This is our history. We would, at this ti.me, like to forgive our teachers for all they have done to us these past twelve years. Although there could be thousands of pages written, and many incidents related about our class, we MUST be modest.

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Time is a strange thing. If mortal man is ever able to conquer this intangible thing, our world will., no doubt, be greatly changed. There are, upon the face of our earth, a few gifted individuals who have the ability to bridge this gap in time. They possess the skill of projecting themselves into the past, or into the future. I know onesuch individual! I have given my solemn pledge not to disclose this person's identity, yet at this timel wish to present to you a revelation of what this talented genius revealed to me. A short while ago, whether it was last week, or last month doesn't matter, I had the pleasure of sharing an hour with this philosopher. I put to him the question that has been on the minds of the members of the senior class for quite some time. Where will the members of the senior class of Rock Port Route 2 High School be, fifteen years hence? l-legazed into my eyes, and related the following information to me. One of the young ladies in the class of '59 will be a top chorus girl in the fatnous Copa Cabana Night Club. She will be known as bubbles, the toast of the coast. Prior to her fame and fortune, this individual was known as DARLENE SCHMIDT. J ANICE TUDOR, known for her prowess on the basketball court,will forsake an athletic career for the field of art. Janice will be successful in this endeavor. She will achieve her fame with the brush by painting 7 up on pop bottles. Although JERRY BENNINGTON was no brain in school, his eye for women will land hitn the big job of President, of Playboy Magazine. Even as a high school student, his interests werealongthis line. DAN BOATMAN will attend P.C.I.T. 1Phelps City Institute of Technologyb. He will be atrack man of great fame, gaining his greatest fame as being the fastest man in the high jump. ANNETTE BENNINGTON aspiredto becomea mathematician. However, she will toss aside this technical career to some extent. She will settle for the job of cashier in the Downtowner Cafe in Rock Port. KENTON KRUSOR had dreams of being a star quarter-back on some football team. He will be a star quarter-back for The San Quenten Spoofhounds.TOMM1E STANTON will star for Barnum and Bailey as Two Ton Tommie, the fat woman. CARL HERRON, who had planned to be a farmer, will become a lawyer, and in his most famous case, he will defend PORTIA OSWALD, charged with the murder of her third husband, MARK LUI-IRS. Carl will win the case and promptly become Portia's fourth husband. It will be rumored that Mark actually was murdered by Portia, who was furious because he was keeping company with BETTY JO THOMAS, who married into the Rockefeller family. CThat is, the Rockefeller family of Nish.nabotna.D HOWARD BUNTON will found the Bunton Summer Camp for girls. This will be a non-profit organizationg as far as money is concerned. BETTY TURNER will run the largest guppy ranch in existence, TheCircleT. BEVERLY SCHROEDER has planned to operate a string of super markets. She will almost achieve her goal. She will own almost all the fishing shacks in Brownville, Nebraska. JAY GORE has planned to go into an occupation which will place him near water. J ay will work for the New York Department of Sanitation, comtnonly called the sewer. KAY GREER will be side tracked from her nursing career and become the owner and head dealer of the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall in Las Vegas. J ANICE SCHNEGELBERGER will not realize her ambition to become a secretary. She will be the 1968 weight lifting champion--for the Russians. ROBERT HOWELL, the top student in our class, recently applied for a chauffeur's license. He will be successful in his ambition to become a truck driver. Robert will drive a truck for the famous OttmanTrucking Line. The owner of the line is not KEITH OTTMANN, from our class, but his little brother James. Keith will be elected Street Commissioner of Langdon. CONNIE LAUMANN, one of the more timid souls in our class, will become the greatest saleswoman in history. She will attain her greatest triumph by selling refrigerators to the Alaskan Eskirnos. HELEN DAVIS' hidden athletic ability will finally shine as she becomes the world's champion tiddly-winks player, winning the final round of the play-off withabroken tiddle. JANE COOP ER will become a world famous fan-dancer at CAROLE LlNlNGER'S fan shop at thecorner ofCalhoun and Main in Rock Port. VIRGINIA ROOP always wanted to be a world famous designer. Leave out the word famous and you have her future occupation, world designer. She will design globes at the Fairfax Globe Factory. NORMA JEAN ESSER will not become an everyday housewife as she had hoped. Instead she will be an espionage agent. She will sell Espionage egg-beaters. LENNIS MIl..LION will become a top performer in the circus. He will be able to spin his tops faster than anybody else. A budding young artist, MARVIN ROSENBOHM, will express his talent by painti.ng the yellow line down the middle of the new super highway. Although J ERRIANNE STITES grades weren't too good in school, she will win her fame and fortune as a snake charmer at Don's Club in Las Vagus. Don's club will be owned and operated by none other than DON lNGRAM,gentleman farmer from Rock Port, who, while sinking a water well on the south forty, struck oil. MARJORIE COOK will enter the diplomatic corp. She will be assigned as Rock Port's ambassador of good will to Tarkio. A very tough assignment. DICK SALFRANK, l predict, will become county sheriff and will be instrumental in breaking up Gun Moll GARST'S famous Spider Gang. GARY KING will become a big rock and roll singer preforming under thename of Gary, King ofthe Boppers.Fearless NANCY KING will attain great acclamation as a bullfighter. ALBERTA HERRON andSHIRLEY PERRY will collaborate to become the most famous bur- glar twosome in the country. Their dommfall will finally come, however, when they get caught trying to break into the Y.M.C.A. at Omaha. MELVIN GRUBB will become the heavy weight champion of the world. He will weigh a fantastic 550 pounds. I predicethatJERRY WELCH will become a test pilot. He will test pilot lights in gas heaters. At ourinterview, lhad mixed emotions of empathy and nostalgia. Possibly you do not believe that an individual has the ability to predicethe future. If, however, you are one of the imaginative individuals that makeup our world,you may followthe activities of this group and share with me the future that is theirs.