Williams High School - Tusayan Yearbook (Williams, AZ)

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THE TUSAYAN who chased butterflies were off their beam and put Curry and Massey in the booby hatch. Joyce Simms, still not over having won the Oratorical Contest in Constitution, decided to find a job as a great speaker. So she finally acquired a position at a rocket-ship railroad station announcing the arrival and departure of rocket ships. That way she gets to talk all day long and never says anything. Keys, Hogue, and Grace opened up a magnificent theatre. It’s quite different from those on earth. They are running silent pictures. With all three of them gabbing, the customers couldn’t hear anyway. Nancy runs the bubble gum counter. Billye Joyce cashiers, and Dorothy is the bouncer. Being a bouncer is no trouble at all for her because since ’48 she has put on another 98 pounds. Jeanne Vick became a pop-corn girl at the theatre. She was happy. It was a big change because her job on earth as a soda jerk had been so hard. Now she is just a plain jerk. Wyche and Lovitt began a partnership business of their own. With Billy Gene’s brains and Stanton’s clever ability to ski, they immediately invented a pair of jet-propelled skis. The only thing they didn’t think about was snow—there isn’t any on Mars. George Violetta seemed to be trying to keep his occupation more or less a secret. For days at a time he was gone, but when he returned he always had plenty of money. After a careful investigation, it was found that he had a job of filling up the holes on the moon. People are beginning to get a little worried about him because an ancient belief on Mars says that people who spend too much time in the moonlight get loony. We’re net worried because he was that way before he went to Mars. Angelita Pozas, better known as the “Chemistry Genius,” had by coming to Mars, realized her greatest ambition because chemists were greatly needed. In no time at all she was famous all over Mars, because one of her experiments blew up and distributed her over the entire planet. Phillip McDonald and Charles Thurston decided to become piano tuners. While training they spent two weeks at the school and three in the hospital. It seems that every time Phillip pulled a chord it broke and wrapped itself around his neck almost choking him to death, and Charles was always breaking his fingers and occasionally an arm. But in a few years, when they have completely recovered, they will have a steady job as Jose Iturbi’s personal piano tuners. Sheila Williams and Mary Pendleton purchased a pair of scissors, a razor, and a couple of bottles of deluxe shampoo, and set up the first (Continued on Page Thirteen) 11

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THE TUSAYAN CLASS PROPHECY On May 31, 1968, the Class of ’48 met in Williams, Arizona, for a class reunion. The class met at the new restaurant cn Bill Williams Avenue and the meeting was called to order by the former senior class president, Marc Smith. In his opening remarks Marc said, “We are gathered here today, twenty years after our graduation from Williams High School, for our first class reunion. Nearly all of us have been out of touch with each other for the past twenty years and, therefore, I am going to ask each member to stand and tell the rest of the class in what occupation he is now engaged and what his plans for the future are.” At this point A1 Jo Suncelia stood up, all 330 pounds of him, and «aid, “President Marc, I have talked to every member of the class before the meeting started and I find that none of them are satisfied in their occupations. None of them want to talk about the years that have passed since they graduated from high school. Another peculiar thing is that none of the girls have ever married. Every member of the class wants to leave the occupation he is now engaged in, and wants to go to some new frontier to start life over.” A1 Jo’s speech met with a great show of enthusiasm from the class of ’48. and even Marc himself admitted that he was tired of playing profession 1 football and would like to make a new start. Frank Holladay then rose and stated that he had been promised a job as a conductor on the new Outer Space Streetcar that would make its maiden trip to Mars in two weeks, a short distance of about 50,000,000 1 8 miles. He suggested that the entire class get in touch wifh the new street car company and move en masse to Mars and start life anew. This met with a hearty reception and the rest of the meeting was spent in getting details from Frank. Two weeks later the class of ’48 met in the Mojave Desert where the Outer Space Streetcar Company had erected a station. Every member of the class was well supplied with materials, goods, ar.d equipment to set up businesses on Mars. The Outer Space Street Car departed on time and the Class of ’48 was launched on a new life. On arriving on Mars everyone immediately begin to look for new jobs and places to start a new life. Right away Carl Curry and Gary Massey found a very exciting position. Due to the fact that they had always been lovers of nature, they secured a 2-year contract to catch butterflies of a r. re species. They were entirely invisible except for their eyes, that is the butterflies were invisible, not Massey and Curry. What a job! But they both seemed very well satisfied until the Martians decided that people 10

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THE TUSAYAN SENIOR CLASS HISTORY In 1944, forty-two freshmen eagerly entered high school. Our first act as high school students was to elect officers for our freshman year. Marcus Rawlins was elected president; Stanton Wyche, vice-president ; and Donald Cameron, secretary-treasurer. After we were vigorously initiated by the sophomore class and a dance had been given in our honor, we were full-fledged members of Williams High School. As such, we gave the annual Hallowe’en Dance. May of 1945 brought our freshman year to a close. One year older and one year more intelligent, we entered our sophomore year. A1 Jo Suncelia was elected president; Wanda Rippy Gruette, vice-president; and Virgil Crockett, secretary-treasurer. As sophomores, we were better acquainted and began to take more interest in the various school activities. Six of us were on the Viking Staff and six girls were in the Drum and Bugle Corps. We were represented by seven members in the Dramatic Club and by two in the Art Club. A1 Jo Suncelia and Marc Smith made the football team. As a whole, our sophomore year was well rounded and one of our best in high school. The year ended on a tragic note, however, when Donald Cameron was drowned at his Red Lake home in May. At last we were juniors and upperclassmen! How long we had waited for this day. We elected Frank Holladay as our president; Virgil Crockett, vice-president and Wanda Rippy Gruette, secretary-treasurer. That year proved very successful for us in every way. Our play, “Shiny Nose,” was one of the best in many years. A1 Jo Suncelia and Marc Smith made the All Northern Team in football. Joyce Simms, Dorothy Hogue and Jeanne Vick were cheer leaders and Billye Joyce Keys and Charlotte Anne Wilson were twirlers. Five members of our class were initiated into the Thespian Club and several girls were in the Christmas Cantata, “The Heavenly Child.” Our Junior Prom was given on May 18 and we ended the year by entertaining the seniors on our annual junior-senior picnic at Oak Creek Canyon. Our last year in Williams High School began in the fall of 1947. This was a very busy year for us and we were well represented in all activities. We had seven classmates on the Viking Staff; Mary Pendleton and Charlotte Anne Wilson were co-editors. There were several of us on the Tusayan Staff with A1 Jo Suncelia as editor-in-chief. Our class was represented in the Rifle Club, Ski Club, Art Club, Thespian and Dramatic Clubs, and the “W” Club. Marc Smith made the All State first team, and A1 Jo Suncelia made the All State third team in football. Charlotte Anne Wilson won a National Typing Contest and four others won typing awards. Joyce Simms won the Oratorical Con- 12