Williams High School - Tusayan Yearbook (Williams, AZ)

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 i -A i C. MAYES 77 ? IF 7 Compiled By CATHERINE MAYES I, Tony Alvarez, will the school to all the freshmen. I, Tom Augenstein, will my height to Jon Smith. He'll need it to make the basketball team next year. I, Mary Frances Benham, will my nicknames to anyone who wants them. I, Robert Brinias, will my ability to stay out of love to any smart guy around. I, Alice Burrage, will my ability to keep everyone guessing about my marital status to Betty Hancock. I, Luis Corona, will my great ability in Spanish to Arthur Santana. I, David Cox, will my glasses to Jim Walker. If he isn't tall enough to see the girls well enough, maybe my glasses will help him find them. I, Arlyn Cureton, will my ability to be true to my one and only love to Bonnie Willsey. I, Virgil Curry, will my shoes to Floyd Willet so that he can ski to school in the winter. I, Robert Dean, will my ability to go to sleep during a basketball game to Mr. Hengl. I, Larry Fowler, will my interest in the out of town ranch (east of Williams) to Lee Strange. I, Amparo Garcia, will my ability to be quiet in class to Glenna Blevins because she is so noisy. I, Cheri Gardner, will my ability to get along well with the boys to Nancy Peckumn. I, Bonnie Grantham, will my ability to catch a man to Patty DeVaney. I, Bruce Gum, will my Rod” to Royce Smith so that he and Dennis will both have tanks to ride around in. I, Clara Hardy, will my quiet nature to Sue Ann Peckumn. I am sure with her own qujet nature she will hardly need it. I, Wayne Hodgin, will my love for chemistry to any poor sophomore who will dare take it. I, Pat King, will my job as the official baby sitter of the freshman girls to Dale Payne. I, Robin LaRue, will my ability to giggle to Lucy Smith. I, Jerry Lee, will my ability to make a splash at Pep rallies to Joan Pearson. I, Irene Lucero, will my scatterbrains” to Bruce Thompson because Bruce has already got a head start. I, Catherine Mayes, will my ability to think, to reason and not to get excited to Auntie Carol Sutton and her nephew, Pork Chops Sutton. I, Laura McMahan, will my big mouth and carrying voice to Patty Nelson. I, Jimmy Mahan, will my flashlight that I use to go home from Lavonne’s to Irene Juarez so that she can at least find her locker even if she doesn't find anything in it. I, Harvey Major, will my driver's license to Ned Vigil on the condition that he can get it out of hock. I, Larry Meir, will my Willys to Henry Miller because that is the only thing that will slow him down. I, Raymond Montoya, will my passing grades to Eddie Sandavol. I, Hershel Mosier, will my freshman harem to Peter Gardner. Take care of them for me, Pete. I, Victoria Padilla, will my ability to argue to my good friend, Robert Jackson. I, Deanna Plummer, will my California interest to Glenda Gum. I, Bertha Sanchez, will my interest in history and civics to David Uban” Russell because he is already starting to take subjects over for me. I, Ben Sandavol, will my beautiful sounding pipes to Alvin Reed. His car needs something. I, Dolores Sandavol, will my interest in the Army to Emma Sanchez. I, Sally Southworth, due to the fact I have nothing to will, give nothing to Mr. King because he needs nothing. I, Gail Taylor, will my shapely figure to Cynthia Oppliger. I, Gertie Torrez, will my fancy hairdo to Carolina Saiz. I must warn Carolina that this hairdo has a peculiar fascination for boys. I surely have fun fighting them off though! I, Mary Ann Way, will my ability to see and talk in the dark room to Penny Perkins. I, Jim Whitaker, will my ability to get kicked out of study hall to Eddie Bochat. I, Jean Kelso, will my quiet voice to Jim Miller. Something someday may quiet him down. I, Joan Karger, just leave. I, Joan McCallister, will my ability to chase sailors to Betty Cochran.

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Second Team. Bruce Gum was All-Northern Honorable Mention. In March we presented a very successful play, The Baby Sitter. We closed our junior year in May. In 1955 we began our final year at Williams High School with 40 members. We lost Zola Fowler, Etta Proctor, and Bob Thompson. We were joined by Joan McCallister and rejoined by Clara Hardy, Jean Kelso and Joan Karger. Class elections were held and the following W'ere elected: Jerry Lee, president; Robert Brinias, vice president; Sally Southworth, secretary; Ben Sandoval, treasurer; Bruce Gum, student council representative. Three seniors were elected student council officers with Pat King as president, Tommy Augenstein as social manager, and Catherine Mayes as secretary-treasurer. Bonnie Grantham was appointed majorette for Drum and Bugle. There were 16 senior members in the Corps with Arlyn Cureton as head twirler, Catherine Mayes and Mary Francis Benham, head drummers, and Dolores Sandoval, head bugler. Laura McMahan and Gail Taylor played the cymbals, and Cheri Gardner, Victoria Padilla, Irene Lucero, Gertie Torrez, Mary Ann Way, and Sally Southworth were buglers. Alice Burrage and Robin LaRue were elected cheerleaders by the student body. A number of seniors were chosen as favorites this year. Gail Taylor was chosen best all-around girl, Sally Southworth was chosen most popular girl, Alice Burrage was chosen prettiest girl, Jerry Lee was chosen most popular boy, and Pat King was chosen best all-around boy. Bonnie Grantham was elected Miss Football and Sally Southworth was elected Miss Basketball by the junior class. In football, Bruce Gum, Pat King, and Tommy Augenstein were named All-Northern First String; Hershel Mosier was named All-Northern Second Team; and Jerry Lee was given Honorable Mention. Bruce Gum, Pat King, and Tommy Augenstein were given Honorable Mention on the All State Team. In November, we presented our senior play, A Cat Has Nine,” one of the most successful plays ever presented. In May, we joined the junior class and held the Junior-Senior Prom. Alice Burrage and Tommie Augenstein were chosen king and queen of the Prom. Our senior year ended with Baccalaureate on May 13 and Commencement on May 18. Of the following seniors who graduate this year, 20 of them attended the first grade together at Williams Elementary School. They are as follows: Gertie Torrez, Alice Burrage, Sally Southworth, Mary Ann Way, Dolores Sandoval, Victoria Padilla, Arlyn Cureton, Robert Brinias, Robert Dean, Tommy Augenstein, Pat King, Catherine Mayes, Amparo Garcia, Jerry Lee, Luis Corona, Jimmy Mahan, Jimmy Whitaker, Tony Alvarez, Ben Sandoval, Virgil Curry.

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FOWLER Class Prophecy By LAURA McMAHAN and LARRY FOWLER On May 1, 1956, the Senior Class of Williams High School was visited by the world famous scientist. Professor Peuter P. Potter. The Professor spoke to the class and explained that he was traveling around the country talking to graduating high school students to point out to them that this nation of ours is sadly lacking in the production of scientists and inventors. The professor went on to explain that the government had passed a law requiring that all graduating high school students enroll in colleges, in universities, or in special schools for the production of scientists and engineers. It is now May 1, 1986, and a survey has been made by the government to check on the results of the law that was put into effect thirty years ago. Each high school class has been studied as a unit and the following is the result of the survey made of the Class of 1956 from Williams High School. The first members of the class covered by the survey are Virgil Curry and Robert Brinias. These two men finished their scientific training course and immediately began work on a time machine that would project scientists into the future. As the government men entered the laboratory, they found an attendant watching a screen. He informed the government people that Curry and Brinias had completed the machine a year before and that they had taken off for the year 2086. The screen had revealed that Curry and Brinias had landed in the year 2086 with no difficulty, but had landed in a strange land in which all the men had been killed so that only women remained. The way the attendant explained it, Curry and Brinias soon broke contact with the time machine and had made no attempt to return. The next members of the class reported on were Gail Taylor, Sally Southworth, Laura McMahan and Alice Burrage. For the entire time since they had left school they had been conducting the same experiment and had enjoyed no success, although their idea was fundamentally sound. They had spent all their time teaching the Navajo language to carrier pigeons to be used during war time so that the pigeons could carry the messages and speak them when they arrived at their destination. Thus wear and tear on their legs made by the metal message carriers used in previous wars, could be eliminated. (All four of the girls knew one word of Navajo, and they couldn’t get the pigeon to speak it. The word was, Yatahay”). Larry Meier and Wayne Hodgin were next on the survey, and when the survey people found them they were shooting snipes in the city park. It was soon revealed that these two worthies had invented the bow and arrow. Of course theirs was different from the ancient weapon we know because their bow was built on wheels. They explained that they were now trying to get financial backing to develope their invention. Pat King and Jerry Lee were the next two members of the class to come under the survey, and it was found that they had spent the years teaching ducks how to write with a ball point pen under water. Their idea had two fundamental ideas. First, to produce educated ducks and secondly, to sell more ball point pens. By this time the government men conducting the survey were rather discouraged and planned to take a day off. So, on a bright and beautiful Sunday morning the survey people sneaked off to the amusement park. There they found something they had never seen before. Side saddles for old ladies who liked to ride the horses on the merry-go-round. One of the survey party shook his head sadly and said, This must be the work of the people we are surveying, so we might as well face it and find out who they are. It didn’t take long because Clara Hardy, Bonnie Grantham, Arlyn Cureton, and Joan McCallister were riding around and around on the merry-go-round testing their invention. The day was ruined for the survey people. They discarded their holiday plans sadly and decided to check the next people on the list. It was not long before they found the laboratory of Jean Kelso and Robin La Rue in the back of an abandoned brewery. These two half pints had spent their entire time trying to invent a potion that would make them grow, similar to the one in Alice in Wonderland.’’ Something was wrong with their calculations and experiments because they had both shrunk to a height of 3’ 6”. Bruce Gum and Larry Fowler were next on the list, and when the government people proceeded to the address where they were supposed to find these former members of the Class of 56, they found only a large hole in the ground. Inquiries in the neighborhood revealed that one day there was a terrific explosion and Gum and Fowler dis- McMAHAN