Wahama High School - Wahaman Yearbook (Mason, WV)

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Standing on the corner is one of the governments most valuable employees, ELAINE SAYRE, On foggy nights sne sings so lost aircraft can be guided to safety, The large building on your left is owned by PAUL ROUSH and CAROL ANN ROUSH, lt is a combination sporting goods store and dress shop. Well, well, here comes JOHN POWELL and PATTY ROUSH the dog kennel tycoons, Iohn says he was in it for the money and Patty said she just likes to hear barking dogs, JOHN ROTTGEN owns the large jewelry store on the next block, he bought so many rings for his girl friends that he decided to go into business for himself. CAROL ROACH works for him, but just as a sideline. She is really a professional gambler at the 'Blue Duce , a gambling house owned by BEN ROUSH and SAMMY ROACH, lf we stay until tonight we can go to the opera house, owned by JOHN POLSLEY to see the greatest drama- tical achievement of the year written by FRANK PEYTON, The title of the opera is The DesertRat , a story of a rodent. Some of the principal actors in the opera are: DOROTHY OHLINGER, DONALD NEWELL, PHYLLIS MCDANIEL, DORIS LITTON, and MARGIE JOHNSON, BERNARD HUDSON sells tickets and GERALD JOHNSON sells popcorn, Today they are having the championship ping pong tourney. JOE HENRY is pitted against his most bitter rival, CHARLES HILL, who is known better in his profession as Spike , JACK HESSON an ex-professional football star had to drop out in the semi-finals when DONNA BUMGARNER moved the table and broke his hip, l-le told sportswriter GLEN HARRAH that next year he was going to stick strictly to tiddley winks, MARY LAWRENCE is now managing the only two man baseball team in the nation, DORWIN CLARK and GEORGE OLIVER, They won their four-hundred and thirty-first consecutive ball game yesterday and are predict-

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Maas Bprnipiharin I wonder what the senior class of Wahama High School would be doing if they were to be put int0 the future. 1et's try it and see what happens. It is now the year 2053 and we find ourselves standing on a rocket runway, Who is that over there talking to the fellow with the space cadet uniform on, it's IOANN WOODRUFF talking to PAUL WASHINGTON Captain of the space cadets. l think we should go downtown to see what is going on. Did you see who that was that just went by, thatwas WARREN EUGENE WEAVER and his wife SHIRLEY WEAVER in their new hopped up rocketmobile called the atomizer , I believe I have seen that girl before, oh yes, I know now, that was LEORA YOUNG, queen of signboards, personally putting up an advertisement, And did you see what it said, it stated that Doc RAY WARD was spec- ializing in false teeth for children three years of age and under, You notice that the sidewalks are made out of sponge rubber, this type was invented by JACK SCITES for people that like to walk in their bare feet, Look who is coming down the sidewalk with two rayguns hanging at his sides, its the ruthless outlaw JACK STEWART and waikmg behind him are his wo body guards WLLFORD SCARBERRY and ARNOLD RoUsH, That girl directing traffic at the intersection is MABEL STEVENS, captain of the womens police forceg it is said she has one of the toughest police forces in the country, Some of her helpers are: OPAL JUNE ROUSH, SUSANNA ROUSH, PAY SHIRLEY, GARNET SHIRLEY, and FRANCES SPROUSE.

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ed to go to the top, DONA BECKER and tors BUMGARNER own that factory on the hillwhich was constructed by LOIS CLARK. Mrs. Becker and Miss Bumgarner specialize in making coffins for dead chickens, SHIRLEY HESSON is the local dress designer here, She out did the French bathing suit this spring by saving three yards on her own design. BETTY HOSCHAR, LOWELL GRIMM, and VERDA GILL are starring at that theatre tonight in a recently made nine-D-movie, They were selected for this picture because they were from Mason county. ELIZABETH CLICK now runs the largest dairy farm in the nation, She began working on the farm shortly after she was out of high school. The two fellows coming down the street are RICHARD ATHEY and TOM SCALLY, they are F,B, I. special agents, Last week they solved a case called the open tunbrella, The case was a mystery to them until they found out the only reason the umbrella was open was because it was raining, Is this the future of the senior class of 1953? Only time will tell,