Anatone High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Anatone, WA)

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enum Wchtoeq September 4th, 1951, six students entered high school as scared, green fresh- men. The members of the class were Donna Combs, Leah Schneider, Tom Vantrease, Lonny Eller, Dick Scheibe and Dwayne Hamilton. The boys played basketball, and Tom took an active part in boxing. Donna was elected one of the three yell-queens for basketball. The two girls took part in the senior class play. Our class advisor was Mrs. Taplin and class officers were: President, Dickg Vice President, Donna, Secretary, Leah. School in 1952 found us with a new member of the sophomore class, Tom Ste- wart. The freshmen that year were royally initiated. The boys took part in both basketball and boxing and Donna was elected yell-queen for basketball. Leah and Donna took part in the junior class play. Our class advisor was Mr. Bell and class officers were: President, Donna, Vice President, Dick, Secretary, Leah. At the beginning of the year 1953, we had lost a student, Tom Stewart. Shortly after the first six weeks we gained a new fellow classmate, John Bruce. At the begirming of the second semester we gained another new member, Frank Rosaia. The members of the junior class took active parts in the junior and senior class plays. The boys played basketball and Leah was elected yell-queen. Tom and Dwayne dropped out of school the last semester and we were sorry to see them go. Our class advisor was Mr. Meneely and class officers were: President, Tom Vice President, Donna, Secretary, Dick. There were six students to begin our senior year, all very proud and sometimes doubtful as to what the future held for us but determined to conquer and climb tho' the rocks be rugged. The students were: Leah Schneider, Donna Combs, John Bruce, Dick Scheibe, Lonny Eller and Frank Rosaia. At the end of the first semester we lost Dick on account of a leg injury and this was a great loss to all of A. H. S. The boys and girls of the senior class took active parts in the junior and senior class plays. Our advisor was Mr. Meneely and class officers were: President, Donnag Vice President, Johng Secretary, Leah.

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FRANK ROSAIA LEAH SCHNEIDER Basketball 4 Paper staff 1, 2, 3 Track 2 A Editor of Paper 4 Baseball 3, 4 Class Plays 1, 2, 3, 4 Senior Play 4 A is Annual Staff 2, 3, 4 Paper Staff 4 Y Student Body Officer 3, 4 Chorus 3, 4 Yell Leader 3 Carnival Queen 4 We, the members of the senior class, being of sound mind, do hereby make this our last will and testament. The class, as a group, leaves its good times and ability to get along with the teachers to the juniors, hoping their year as seniors will be as enjoyable as ours. Leah Schneider wills her ability to catch and hold a man to Darlene Dodd and her ability to handle everyone else's money to Jerry Hendrickson, Frank Rosaia wills his ability to talk constantly and say nothing to Gordon Morris and his height to Betty Johnson. John Bruce wills his quiet, dignified manner to Gary Onstot and his ability to keep one woman happy to Bob Alexander. Lonny Eller wills his car to anyone else who likes to walk and his school sweater to Billy because he wears it all the time anyway. Donna Combs leaves her job of punching lunch tickets to Dale Lohman to give him something to punch besides Frank and her ability to look innocent whenever neces- sary to Clyde Boggan.

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enum ?-zapiecq It was December 17, 1981. I had come back to my Alma Mater, Anatone High, to see again old rooms in which I used to study. You can imagine my shock upon finding instead of good old A. H. S. , a college, Asotin County Institute of Agriculture. After relieving my shock with two or three malted milks at Rosey's, the largest night club in the town of Anatone, and owned by Frank Rosaia, one of my old classmates of 1955, now one of the most prominent personalities of Anatone, I went up to the college to look around. The first building of the campus as I went through it was the Chemistry Building, named Eller Hall, after Lonnie Eller, I learned by reading the gold plaque just inside the door, that Lonnie, now known as Sir Eller, had worked up from pumping gas at the Anatone Garage, and now owned the largest chain of gas stations in the United States, the Old Klunk Company, named in honor of Lonnie 's first car. As I walked on up the hall I was suddenly startled by a man of the age of about 30 or 35 running wildly down the hall screaming at the top of his lungs, there she blows, there she blows. As he went by I recognized him as being John Bruce. I followed him out- side and down the street about 3 blocks before he finally slowed down. About the time I caught up with him an explosion nearly knocked me down. After I recovered from this I asked John about himself. He said that he had started out as a jet pilot, but since the jets these days go so fast even the pilots can't keep up, he had quit and become a pro- fessor of chemistry at the institute. He also explained that one of his experiments had just gone bad and that it had exploded the B-Bomb, which stands for Bruce Bomb, that he had just developed, After talking a while, he invited me to dinner at his home on Dogpatch Street, Upon arriving at his home I saw another of my 55 classmates, Donna Combs, now Mrs. Bruce, who besides being a housewife was also a motion picture star. Her latest picture was Dogpatch Days, in which she had played Moonbeam McSwine and had done a wonderful job, because as John said, It just fits her personality, That evening after dinner they took me to the ballroom at Rosey's for an evening of dancing. As the evening progressed I noticed that one of the better looking women on the floor and also one of the better dancers, was none other than Leah Schneider. UPOII talking to Leah I leamed that Tom Ellis, her husband, had become a millionaire by selling green lipstick made from seaweed, and that she and Tom had settled cbwn and were now living in a penthouse on top of the Third National Bank of Anatone, She in- vited me over for dinner the next day but I refused her and ran as fast as possible out to my new purple Cadillac convertible and drove back to my home in New York.