Tuskegee High School - Tuskala Yearbook (Tuskegee, AL)

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A PRCPH ECY F0 While riding home one afternoon after school, I noticed a trailer on the side of the road. A large sign out front proclaimed the following: Madam Lucifer--Knows All, Hears All, Tells All. I suddenly decided that it would be fun to have Madam Lucifer tell me her version of what the Seniors would be doing 20 years from now. So here are the predictions of my far-seeing friend as to what my classmates and l would be doing in the year 1983. 1. Gay Bowers is now employed at the Gay-Love Department store owned by Phil Godfrey and managed by Tommy Bradley. 2. Frank Porter is having to work very hard these days so he can pay alimony to Brenda and support his present wife, Linda McLean. He has a part-time job as a Fuller-brush man and he's really enjoying his work. 3. Taleeda Sharpe has invented a new dance called The Charles Bell Stomp. lt's done with the accompaniment of many little Bells. 4. Admiral Howard L. Jones was lost at sea when he tried to water-ski behind his submarine. The sea will never be the same again. 5. Diane Spratlin Kirk, whose husband is President of the Better Plumbing Bureau, is at home busily producing numerous little pipes and corks. 6. Wayne Fortner is now Chief Grocery Sacker at the ASLP. He was finally promoted when Charlie Bell retired at the age of 103. 7. Patsy Taylor has been working at the Big Bear for Evers and Evers and Evers. 8. Ricky Walker is running for Governor of Alabama. He finally graduated from the John Patterson Trade School and insists he has all the qualifications. 9. Crash Cooper is one of Ricky's biggest supporters. He's also running for Lt. Governor. Crash is a little late in getting started on his political career, because he has been busy completing his education. 10. Gary Cooper has signed a new contract as boss guitar with George Daughtery's Combo. They travel around with Ricky and Crash helping them get votes. 11. Frances Louise Wadsworth, having finally decided between her Andys', is contentedly milking cows and feeding chickens in the big metropolis of Roba, Alabama. 12. Jimmy Stillwell is in New Guinea trying to sell false teeth to the cannibals. 13. Brenda Lambert, better known as Big-Un, is still trying to improve her figure by riding bicycles down to the Pike with Tom-Tom and Greff. 14. Bunny Spratling and Jean finally got back together and they're declaring to everyone they meet that the second honeymoon is much more romantic than the first. 15. Sharon Pettyjohn is running for State Senator. One of the main policies in her platform is the entire abolishment of all roads leading from Tuskegee to Roba and Tallassee. 16. Edward Willcoxon is the top scientist in the country. He became famous with his two great in- ventions: instant cars and instant girls. 17. Nancy Fisher has started her own baseball team, the Roger-Dodgers. Their home base is Notasulga and its rumored they even get free publicity in the big Tuskegee News. 18 Edward Braswell is busy writing books. His latest is Simple Rules for the Young Man on His First ' Date or in other words How Not to Fall Off a Girl's Front Porch After Kissing Her Good Night. ll6l

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mere 'Yrwvfw' 'f THE LAST WILL A D TE TAME T CF THE SENICR CLASS We, the members of the Senior Class of 1963, being of sound uiind and body, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our cherished Last Will and Testament. We, the Senior Class, do bequeath the following to the individual underclassmeng We leave our kind, kind heart and sympathetic ways to Coach Duke, to pass on to next year's coach, in hopes that the boys engaged in next year's P.E. class will survive. We do bequeath the facu1ty's kind ways and patience toward us to next year's Senior Class. We bequeath the Seniors' appreciation to the faculty and to Mr. Wadsworth for the understanding, friendship, patience and willingness to help. I, Gary Cooper, leave my ability to play the guitar to Dennis Morgan so that it, along with his singing ability, will help him in becoming another Elvis. I, Brenda Lambert, do bequeath my ability to get into trouble and still be innocent to Tom Preer and Jeff Gregg. I, Linda McLean, do with great sincerity bequeath my ability to flirt with Senior boys to Brenda Parnell. I, Wayne Fortner, leave my nickname Red to Sam Noblin. He fits! l I, Jimmy Stillwell, leave my stage name Sundown to Bob T. in hopes that he may be a star one day. I, Sandra Beasley, bequeath my ability to get a man without drowning him in tears to Loyce Carroll. I, Jimmy Green, leave my hopes of growing up to John Riley Willis. I, Frank Porter, being of very sober mind, do hereby and forthwith bequeath my love of mathematics to Tom Preer. I, J. T. Dyson, leave my music ability to Goofy Davis, Ramrod Cannon and Egor Parker, to be divided equally. I, Edward Willcoxon, leave my ability to keep a Chevrolet running to John Riley Willis, Randy Coley, and Paul Godfrey. I, Sharon Pettyjohn, do bequeath my ability to stick to one boy more than three days to Gloria Knight. I, Freddie Ledbetter, leave my ability to study hard and get out of school to Donald Martin, in hopes that he'l1 finish next year. I, Edward Btaswell, bequeath the athletic ability left to me by Joe Slaton, who received it from Michael Johnson, to Eddie Raymon. I, Howard Lanier Jones, do bequeath to any young man who wants it, Lake Martin, and I hope that it will be as fruitful to him as it was to me. I, Renni Huddleston, leave my title Most Popular Girl in the Senior Class to Jane Hornsby, in the hope that she will cherish it as much as I did. I, Charlotte Sistrunk, leave my friendly personality and happy disposition to Joyce Youngblood. I, Faye Dixon, leave my natural blonde hair to Lillian McFarland in hopes that hers will never fade away. I, Allan Segrest, bequeath my position as assistant principal to Pete Johnson in hopes that he can do a better job than l did. I, Ricky Walker, bequeath my ability to shoot snooker to Wayne Mcfjlendon, in hopes that his nickname Fish will soon be forgotten. I, Gay Bowers, do bequeath my love for Linda McLean to Brenda Parnell. I, Mamie Morgan, bequeath my ability to be cool, calm and collected around boys to Lillian McFarland. I, Mary Anne Yarbrough, do bequeath my ability to be quiet, at times, to Patricia Weaver. I, Steve CCrashj Cooper, leave my unability to break jaws to Brownie Sides, in hopes that he won't break anybody else's. I, Berry Willis, leave my ability to sing to Charles Roy Russell so he won't have to whistle all the tinie. I, Franklin Tally, leave one can of Prince Albert to be placed in the trophy case in memory of Frazier Hearn who is no longer with us. I, Michael Terry, do leave my ability to hold on to the steering wheel to Billy Glass in high hopes that he will make it across Perry's Bridge safely I, Nancy Fisher, do bequeath my old fashioned ways of being myself to Kathy Varner. I, Alice Bryant, leave Mrs. Yonce to the Junior Class, in hopes that they get by with more than we did. I, Diane Spratlin Kirk, bequeath my diploma to Becky Benson in case she doesn't get hers. I, Billy Selman, bequeath a portion of my English knowledge to David Jenkins so that he may graduate next year. I, Taleeda Sharpe, seeing that all else has failed, do with sympathy leave my music ability to Jean Hall. I, Nellie Dobbs, leave my title of Quietest to Dorothy Payne, in hopes that she will one day quieten down. I, Charlotte Walters, bequeath my natural, friendly smile for everybody to Joyce Youngblood. I, Benjamin Barnett Spratling, III, leave my very best cow halter to Pete Johnson or Roland Vaughn, whoever shows the Grand Champion in the world renound Roba International Livestock Exposition. I, Frances Louise Wadsworth, bequeath to Judy Johnson my giggly gavel as representative of the high office she has attained. I, Lavinia Tyson, leave my ability as cheerleader to Sandra Sistrunk hoping that she will enjoy being a cheerleader as much as I have. I, Patsy Taylor, leave my ability to cheer one entire football game without combing my hair once to Jean Echols. For the Last Will and Testament today, we, the Senior Class, would like to leave to the Junior Class our title Dignified Seniors.

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E SENICR CLASS 19. Mary Ann Yarbrough has created quite a problem at St. Maggie's. It seems every time she walks down the hall all the men patients' temperatures go up 10 degrees. 20. Allan Segrest finally got to be principal at T.H.S. He's really doing a fine job and has added several new courses. One of them is I-low To Succeed After Trying For 20 Years. 21. Freddie Ledbetter has settled down to one girl, Gloria Knight, and they run the Dari-Delite, which was left to Gloria by a former owner. 22. Alice Bryant is in the courts in a big legal hassle. It's rumored she tried to put out her own line of Bobbie Brooks. 23. Lavinia Tyson is now Middle-Weight Champion of the World. It seems she won her title protecting a certain boy from a few of his fans. 24. Michael Terry graduated from the John Patterson Trade School with a degree in hair dressing. He devotes most of his time to keeping Lillian's hair its natural color, so that now her hairdresser will be the only one that knows. - 25. Faye Dixon has replaced Dale Evans as the Queen of the West. They say she's mobbed by her many male fans every time she steps out of her mansion in her hip-slung riding pants. 26. John Dyson, having finally discovered girls, is trying to get Gay Bowers to leave her job at the Gay- Love Dept. store and come to work at Lakeview as his private grease monkey. 27. Mamie Morgan, after all these years, still hasn't gotten over her crush on Billy Selman. So now, she runs the Little Texas Spinster's Club where all the girls at T.H. S. that had crushes on Our Hand- some Guy go to live with precious memories. 28. Jimmy Green married Shirley Owens and they have a vegetable garden in Roba where they're raising spinach, turnips, and other Greens. 29. Charlotte Walters and Calvin Sears finally got married. At first they said they were going -to wait until he was 21, then it was 31, then 41 and so on for many years. But they finally made it and the lovely old couple have gone to the Golden Age Rest Home in Montgomery for a long, leisurely honeymoon. 30. Franklin Tally is still piping sunlight in to the natives at Society Hill. 31. Sandra Beasley is the typical housewife and is very busy bringing up all her little Beasley's Blessings. 32. Berry Willis is the new singing idol of the nation. He got his start on Rocking With the Deuce , a variety show in Columbus, Georgia. 33. Linda McLean, better known as Lip, Poopsie, and Picklepuss, after chasing Hamp Boles, Thomas Lawrence, Frank Porter and Heaven-Knows-Who-Else, finally caught Frank and persuaded him to marry her. 34. Charlotte Sistrunk is serving a long sentence in jail for bigamy. They say when she couldn't make up her mind between Charles Russell and Donald Martin, she just married both of them. 35. Nellie Dobbs is a missionary somewhere in South Africa and is busy teaching the natives the ancient dance rituals of the Baptists. 36. Billy Selman, famous for his great atheletic career at T.H. S. , is now chief water boy and assistant bat boy for the Tuskegee Institute Golden Tigers. 37. Reni Huddleston had her classmates worried for a long time: she just never seemed to get over the fact that Donnie married someone else. But Jim, Cooter, and Richard have helped her snap back and she's now her happy self in Panama City running Reni's Roost, a nice family-type resturant. I don't know if any of these predictions will come true, maybe we'd better hope some of them don't. But, nevertheless, I do hope that the next 20 years will bring much luck, happiness and the best of every- thing possible to each and every member of the Senior Class of 1963. I 17 1