Williams High School - Tusayan Yearbook (Williams, AZ)

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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

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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 SENIOR CLASS HISTORY test in our school. The Drum and Bugle Corps was invited to march at the State Fair in Phoenix. The Corps marched November 8th and was a credit to our school. Charlotte Anne Wilson was the majorette of the Drum and Bugle Corps. Dorothy Hogue. Billye Joyce Keys, Jeanne Vick, Nancy Grace and Charlotte Anne Wilson received awards for being in the Drum and Bugle Corps four years. Our Senior Hop was given on April 24, and we were the guests of the juniors at the annual junior-senior picnic at Oak Creek Canyon. Our school days ended with our graduation on May 20, 1948. Joyce Simms, Class Historian SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY (Continued from Page Eleven) “Barber Shop” on Mars. Their first customer was Ray Gerkey, who went along with the Class of ’48, but when the native Martians took one look at him, they shipped him back to Ohio, C. O. D. The latest reports from Sheila and Mary state that the “New Look” on Mars for men calls for beards and long hair. Charlie Smith took a pool table and opened up the first pool hall. He added a new wrinkle to the game by using square cue balls. Charlotte Anne Wilson and Emma Jane Riggins are attending night school. Of course, they go in the day time, too. They want to prove that one can be as smart in the dark as well as in the light. So far, they haven’t proved anything. While on earth Frank Carrillo was a great saxophone player. Arriving on Mars, however, he gave up his “Sax” and opened a beauty shop. He specialized in crew-cuts. Melvin Powell has recently become his junior partner. His main job is glueing ears back on, picking up hair and giving manicures. They have recently developed a new paste for replacing eye brows, noses, and sundry articles that might happen to be snipped off by mistake. Marc and A1 Joe rented a small gymnasium and opened a Turkish Bath. They specialize in reducing. A1 Joe was the best customer for the first six month for he was trying to lose at least 150 of his 330 pounds. Virgil Crockett, being the last one, just couldn’t find a job. He had walked from one end of the planet to the other and has worn the soles of his shoes completely off. Success had hit everyone in the face except him. Finally one day it came to him like a brain storm. He would become a bum, a professional bum, and without a doubt became better off than the rest of the class. 13 Billye Joyce Keys