Adamsville High School - Saladian Yearbook (Adamsville, NY)

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SENIORCLASS PROPHECY It's the year 1976 I , Helen Echelberry, now the wife of the famous Five-Star General, Gene Elwood Vernon, an returning to dear old Adamsville after 20 long years in San Antonio, Texas, along with our ten sons five sets of twins Ike and Hike, Elmer and Delmar, Pete and Repeat, Elwood and Plywood, Cecil and Decil As we drove into Adamsville, now a large city with a population of l6,000, my mind wondered back to A H S, and the happy memories of the Class of '56 We stopped for lunch at the Piggly Wiggly, a large drive in restaurant in Ademsville and the waitress was none other than Faye Ann Robinson, now Mrs Delmar Dutro. She informed me that she was now supporting their family as Delmar's large 'dill pickle factory' had gone under As we continued tallclng she told me that Shelby Hayes is now teaching Third Grade at A H S and is happily married to Jin King After we left they restaurant we had to stop to ask directions because the city had grorm so large we couldn't find Clyde Vernons We found the cop was none other than Don Adams Don is now a part time cop and owner of a Safety Pin Factory run by his wife, Joyce Moore As we continued on through Adamsville, I kept looking for familiar faces We finally found Vernon's and left our ten boys with their grandmother and left looking for a filling station, 'as our radio was on the blink Luckily we found a 'Fix It All Radio Shop' and to our surprise found it was owned by Bobby Sigrist and his assistant repair nan was Larry Hittle Larry is married to their bookkeeper, Rosalie Allen, and they have two daughters As we waited while Larry fixed the radio, Bobby and I gossiped about our old classmates at A H S I found that Sonia and Judy McCarty had moved to California They new own a 699 acre ranch and have started their family with six daughters, Bob told me that Shirley Lane, now Mrs Darrell Hoods, is running the cafeteria at Adamsville High School Bobby and I continued talking and I thought of Myrna He said she was nw Mrs Bob Church Bob runs the Big Bear Super Market and Myrna hasn't been promoted am' further than the basement as yet I got lv radio and we went on to the Quarter Filling Station The owners were none other than Eugene Wright and Dave Knicely, who are in partnership together As I was talking to Dave, I was shocked to find that he had married Carolyn Lyons after she had two-times Midge Prouty ltldge 1l now a famous plq boy in Hollywood and drives a mink lined Cadillac convertible From Eugene I learned about the other members of our A H S class Carol Hittle, now Mrs Gary Geyer, runs a dancing school along with her husband, who is the toe dancing teacher Gloria Durant, who married Dick Jones a few weeks after school was out, now has two children look like Gloria. Eugene Siddle is now master of ceremonies for the famous T V Show, 'The S6h,O00 Question is now married to Janice Uisecarver and they have twelve children Delores Bowden is now the fat lady in the Ringling Brothers Circus and :Ln an act with her hue band, Ivan Johnson, who is the fire-eating nan in the circus Norman Hutchison, now a famous scientist, is in Europe studying Zoology and is working his way through Chic State University in his spare time Maureen Matchett is now happily married to Rodney McNeish, the coach at Adansville High School We left and found the 'Henry Hotel , owned by our '56 Superintendent, Alfred Henry As we went to register Robert Windland asked us to sign The bellboy was none other than Rudy Antonets and helped us to our room In the evening we went to the dining room for our evening meal We were served by my old Home Ec teacher, Mrs Jo Patton, and the music was furnished by an orchestra with Hr Poole as director and made up of all his little Pooles As we left the dining room, the cashier turned out to be my olf commercial teacher, Mrs Crystal Boyer She chatted for awhile before we went to our room. To sy surprise the maids preparing our rooms were Louise Eistetter and Elisabeth Cochran We talked a few minutes They told us that they made more money doing that than teaching school The next morning we picked up our kids at their grandmother's and started on our long trip back to gens How happy I was to hear about all my high school teachers and classmates in this year of 197 Helen Echelberry O! 41 1 l X ll' J' C . O who e e e HQ Maureen teaches girl's physical education and also instructs the opera singing at Adamsville, . . O I O I 0 XJLV 5 ' 'Jw . 1 , ll . s 2 I1 . S WA 1 ,