Williams High School - Tusayan Yearbook (Williams, AZ)

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Back in the fall of '46, the class of '50 enrolled in Williams High. The thirty-six class members met to elect officers for the year. The first set of officers were as follows: Louis Pena, President; Bill Willsey, Vice-President: Junior Richards, Secretary-Treasurer. Our freshman class lost little time in getting acclimated to high school life. Following our initiation we soon took an active part in all school activities. We high pointed the year with the showing of the freshmen basketball team in the intra-mural tournament. Defeating the sophomores and juniors, we advanced to the finals only to lose a hard fought battle to the mighty seniors. As sophomores we started the year with the ritual freshman initiation ceremonies. This year many class members represented the class in all extra-curricular activities. Louis Pena was again elected class president. Geether Burrage was vice-president and Junior Richards completed the set of officers as secretary-treasurer. The year as a whole was well-rounded in activities. Our junior year marked the upper half of high school. Louis Pena again held down the office as president; Junior Richards was vice-president; Ruth Sanford was secretary; and Nick Lucero was treasurer. Eight juniors were members of the Viking staff. Six girls were in the drum and bugle corps with Janis Poison holding a spot as twirler. Seven girls were in the Glee Club and three were in the Art Club. The Tusayan had four of us on its staff. The Thespian and Dramatic Clubs had eight of our members. As for sports ten junior boys were on the football team with Junior Richards receiving honorable mention for All-Northern conference play. Five made the basketball team and the same number made the track team. We presented It's Never Too Late, as our class play, which proved to be a financial success. We high-lighted the year with our Junior Prom using Arizona Sundown as our theme. Our last activity for that year was playing host to the seniors on the junior-senior picnic at Oak Creek Canyon. As seniors we began at a very busy and rapid pace. There were six seniors on the Viking staff. Five senior girls were in the drum and bugle corps with Janis Poison as majorette, Majorie Huff, twirler, Patty Legan as head drummer, and Lucy Carrillo as head bugler. The same five girls sang in the Glee Club. Three of us were in the Art Club with Patty Legan serving as president and Janis Poison as treasurer. The Thespian and Dramatic Clubs had six seniors as members and the Tusayan staff included five of us. Six senior boys played their last year of high school football with Junior Richards named on the All-Northern first string and All-State second string teams. Ralph Southworth received honorable mention. We had five boys on the basketball squad. Bill Willsey made the All-Northern first string and was also voted co-captain. Junior Richards had the job as class president and Junior Pena that of vice-president. Nick Lucero held the secretary's position with Bill Willsey as treasurer. The class play, Great Caesar's Ghost , was a great success. Our senior hop was given on April I. Sixteen out of the original thirty-six that started as freshmen at Williams High, concluded their high school days at graduation May 18, 1950, after being guests of the juniors at the junior-senior picnic a week before.

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night to see Ruth box the Kangaroos. They next stopped at the Ocean Islands, where they left Luz Santana. When Luz got off the plane, he was tired from the long trip. Spying a shady coconut tree, he lay down under it and went to sleep. After he had been asleep for several hours, a coconut fell out of the tree on Luz's head. Being thirsty he opened the coconut and drank the milk. If you were to go to the Ocean Islands today, you would find Luz under the tree, sleeping and drinking the milk of a coconut. And there he will stay until he dies. Ralph Southworth had begun causing a lot of trouble- on the plane so when they went over the next island which was Eniwietok, someone accidentally pushed him out. Ralph, being the lazy sort, found that there were no cars on Eniwietok and opened a garage and lived there happily ever after. Evelyn Augenstein was left on Wake Island to begin her search. Evelyn, fast becoming old, was getting a little weak in her mind. She started driving a school bus although there was no school on the island. Every morning Evelyn would start around the island, stopping at every palm tree to blow her horn and open the door for the children. She would then take them to a small group of trees and telling them good-bye, she would let them out. In the evening she would do the same thing again. This was her daily ritual until she died still thinking that there was a school on the island. Their next stop was at Marcus Island, where they left Mike Florez. Mike was very happy on the island and began the search quite enthusiastically. What Mike didn't know was that the United States Government thought that no one lived on the island and was going to use it for an H-bomb experiment. While walking around the island one day, Mike looked up and saw a huge cloud of smoke coming at him. Not knowing what it was, Mike started to run. The last that was seen of him he was headed due south. They next stopped for a rest on Volcano Island. While they were there, Doyle Stiles went out to look the island over. While he was gone, the party decided to leave so they left Doyle. Noticing how primitive the natives were, Doyle became a missionary and began to teach the natives how to play basketball, using a coconut for a ball. Herman Lopez was left on the island of Saipan. Herman noticed that the natives wore no shoes and decided that he would start a shoe store. A few of the natives tried the shoes but did not like them so he had no business and there was no work. This Herman liked very much and stayed there the rest of his life. Billy Willsey was left at Manila. Bill, unable to understand the natives, decided to be a speech coach and teach the natives English. It was such a hard task that Bill soon forgot all the English he knew and was speaking the native language. They stopped at an island named Palmyra to eat lunch, and Ralph Vick wandered off into a cave and went to sleep. When he awoke, he found that his companions had already gone so he just stayed in his cave and became a hermit. They next stopped at the island Formosa, wher§ they dumped Nick Lucero. Nick was walking along looking for the pajamas one day when a bull took out after him. Nick turned and started charging the bull and the bull was so surprised he turned and ran away. This gave Nick a great idea. He then became a bull fighter, and today he is the champion bull fighter in Formosa. Wondering what to do with Nadine Ellis, Lucy was circling a group of islands trying to decide where to deposit her when Nadine accidentally fell out and landed in China. Nadine, still sad over her last love, opened a butcher shop. One day, while experimenting with the meat, she developed a new food which was called riceburgers. Her riceburgers soon became so famous that they replaced chop suey as the national food of China. Lucy then went on her way to Japan, where she was going to start her search. While she was searching for her friend , Lucy met a very charming silk merchant. The merchant helped Lucy in her research, and when they both decided it was no use, they were married. Lucy, still being sad over the pajama bottoms, would cry all day long. The merchant got tired of this bacause he wanted his wife to be happy so he made her a beautiful pair of silk pajama bottoms to match the tops. Lucy and the other members of the class were then very happy and lived on the islands they loved for the rest of their lives. Marjorie Huff Janis Poison

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CLASS WILL We, the Senior Class of this, the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, being of extraordinarily sound mind and body, and fully conscious of the fact, have no intention of doing the injustice to classes that are to follow in our footsteps by allowing our outstanding traits of personality to fade ignomin-iously from the hallowed halls of Williams High School. However, knowing that our class is the brightest which has ever graced the halls of Williams High School, we wish to perpetuate our fame, brilliancy, habits, and peculiarities by bequeathing to those whom we leave behind us our many worthy qualities. I, James Burrage, will four of my five years in high school to some poor freshman in hopes that it will help him a little. I, Marjorie Huff, will to Claudia Melick my ability to miss school in hopes that she will not abuse the privilege. I, Elmer Thompson, will to Kenneth LaRue the whole school—if he wants it. I, Bill Willsey, will three of my whiskers to Danny Schnell. I hope that next year he will have enough lucky whiskers to carry him to new successes in the basketball tournament. I, Janis Poison, bequeath upon little Jimmy Fredrick my five feet seven and one half inches, hoping that he will make the basketball team next year. I, Evelyn Augenstein, will my ability to catch a man to Joanne Bunney. I, Ray Bustamante, bequeath my pick-up (I guess that s what you'd call it) to the boys I haul around with me. After all, they would have to walk if it weren't for me. I, Louis Pena, Jr., bequeath my mad scientific ideas to my colleague, Hall Gibbs, knowing that he will put in his bid to have a new school erected. I, Nick Lucero, will my ability to get thrown out of classes and still stay on the honor roll to Ignacio Santana. I, Ralph Vick, will my exceedingly brilliant mind to Huey Morris, (not that it will do him any good) but I hope that he can use it to play football. I, Herman Lopez, will my ability to charm the girls to Frank Yarbrough, because he is getting to be a big boy now. I, Lucy Carrillo, will my locker out in the hall with all the pretty pinups, to Mary Lizardi, knowing that she'll be just as embarrassed as I was every time I opened it. I, Marilyn Dobbs, will my cheerful disposition to Jane Plummer with the hope that she uses it to charm the boys with as much success as I have had. I, Luz Santana, will my nick-name, ' Luscious , to Andy Rodriquez, knowing that he will make the best of it. I, Mike Florez, will my typing skill to some other poor sucker. I, Ralph Southworth, will to Hall Gibbs my puddle jumper , knowing that he will take as good care of it as I did. I know he will keep it full of pretty girls. I, Ruth Sanford, will my position on the Viking Staff to some poor junior, one who has nerves of iron. I, Junior Richards, bequeath my advice to the love-lorn to Jack Schwarz, in hopes that he and Sheila will patch things up by next year. I, Patty Legan, will my Midnight Patrol to all my buddy-buddies, hoping that they won’t let it die after I'm gone. I, Doyle Stiles, hereby bequeath my angelic disposition to Eddie Rekos, knowing that he needs a little help from heaven because all earthly assistance has failed. I. Nadine Ellis, will my ability to take correspondence courses to Herbert Baker with the hopes that Herbert will soon learn to write and be able to take enough correspondence courses to graduate from high school within the next ten years.