Archer City High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Archer City, TX)

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CLASS HISTORY It was September, 1957, that the good ship Archer City High School stood at an- chor at the wharf of a new school year. It was the same ship that had carried many passengers to safe harbor in the Land of Great Wisdom, but this day was a gala day in its history. for some of the passengers were already aboard - Larry Canady, Harrell Cross. Fern Deen, Judy Glenn. Bud Lowack, Lena Petit, Tony Pollock, David Schiabs. Lee Roy Smith, Carolene Allen Pryor. Jeanie Bratt, Carlton Deen. Donna Findley, Tommye Jane Mullis, Jimmy Pitts, Brent Proffitt, Ronnie Reed, Gayle Stewart. Jerry Walsh. Gwen Yeager, Judith Thurber, and Butch McLemore. And we were about to set sail over new and untried waters in a quest for the Fountain of Perfect Understand- mg. As the ship stood at anchor, the last passengers began to arrive for the voyage which we all realized was to be the most important of our lives. We were enthusiastic and asked many eager questions about our voyage. Our Captain assured us that if we were diligent and persevering in out duties, we should easily reach our destination at the end of four years. So it was with hopeful hearts and smiling faces that we bade goodbye from the deck to those left behind in the Grammar Grades, steamed out of the harbor, and embarked on our Voyage of High School Life. We were young and socially inclined. so it did not take us long to become ac- quainted with our fellow passengers and the Crew. Our shipwreck fears were wiped away by the assurance that an able staff of Seamen had us in their charge, and in no time we were sailing smoothly over Freshman Sea. When we made port at Junior Bay. Rex Jarvis and Eileen Marsh boarded our ship. We then settled down for a long cruise, for our next port would not be until we reached the Isle of Seniors, where Suzy Abercrombie was waiting for our arrival. It would be interesting to tell the numerous delightful experiences of our voyage, the friendships we've made, the lessons we've learned, the innumerable pattings of various shipmates for other shores, with the why and wherefore of it all; but it actually has little significance except to ourselves - the few who still remain together to land at Commencement Wharf. We must not divulge the secret of our ship. We must not forget the loyalty to our class colors valiantly flying at the masthead. The best and most vital history of any person or thing is never given to the world. So it must be with the Class of 1961. But we shall go on writing new logs of greater adventures and more wonderful dis- coveries, for while the Voyage of High School Life is at an end. the Voyage of Real Life is just now at its triumphant Commencement.

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CLASS PROPHECY Mrs. Judy Glenn Reed, after a hard afternoon of bridge, has come home to get supper for her husband. Ronnie Reed. who will arrive shortly from his office where he conducts a thriving real estate business. Having opened her cans and spread out the cake and sandwiches which she has purchased from the home market on the corner, she sits down for a minute to rest and turns on her television set. The talk at the bridge table this afternoon has been of the old classmates of Archer City High School who graduated in the year 1961. and who had ar- ranged a reunion by television. So she turns the dial to the reunion of Class 1961. Gwen Yeager is now a teacher in a college in South America. She is a professor on the American way of having fun. We see Jerry Walsh and Suzy Abercrombie now celebrating their 25th year of going steady. They can't decide on the wedding date, We see Jeanie Bratt happily married with a whole houseful of little brats running around. We see Jimmy Pitts as the owner of a me- chanics shop where he sells used parts. It is called Used Car Parts from My Own Car. Donna Findley has acquired an extreme ha- tred of Germans which dates to her high school years while going to school with David Schlabs. She's now on an expedition in South America. trying to find Adolph Hitler to bring him back and get Adolph to prove to David that he was wrong. We see Frank Truelove as the Head English professor at Princeton. He says his life's am- bition is to be just like Mrs. Crowley. We see David Schlabs as a brilliant scientist who has just invented an instant beer pill. He is now working on an instant hangover remover pill. We see Rex Jarvis as the owner of the newly opened Blood-shot Eye, the newest expresso house in Archer City. Rex had so much fun growing beards in high school that he got on a beard kick and became a full-fledged beatnik. At present his heard is seven feet, seven and one-half inches long - a new world's record. Tony Pollock has finally gone into show busi- ness after selling out his four million dollar oil company. He is now in the side show of Barnum and Bailey's circus in which he owns 50 percent of the stock. Everybody step up and see Pollock, the Pot-bellied Pygmy. We see Gayle Stewart as the first woman ever to win the Indianapolis 500 mile race. Gayle claims she got her start in a certain coral colored 1957 Chevrolet. Brent Proffitt no longer lives in the United States. He wasn't satisfied with the limit of one wife per man in the U. S. , so he moved to In- dia where he is now the head of Proffitt's Ha- rems, Inc. By-the-way. Brent is now the owner 61' the world's largest jewel collection. which was begun in February 1961. Lena Petit is the owner of a thriving chain of drive-in restaurants in Archer City. They are called the Leaping Lener I, Leaping Lenet Ii. Leaping Lenet III, etc. , etc. We see Eileen Marsh as the new owner of the Wrigley Gum Corporation. She inherited this corporation after nursing Mr. Wrigley through his bad health for 34 years. Butch McLemore is seen as an A student at Harvard. His major is nuclear Physics. We see Tommye Jane Mullis as a housewife. Her family includes four young boys, who all have petoxidededuck tails with a point in the front. We see Lee Roy Smith as the modem-day Casanova. He now has the lead as Rhet Butler in the new filming of GONE WITH THE WIND. We see Fern Deen as the new coach for the Harlem Globe Trotters. She always did like men's basketball. We see Carolene as the chief cook in the experimental lab of the Betty Crocker Institute. She was always good at cooking up new recipes. Larry Canady is the new recruiting officer for the Air Force in Archer County. He is try- ing to get Tony Pollock to join the Air Force. We see Little Graham - I mean Harrell Cross as the winner of the third annual coast to coast walking contest. Congratulations, Harrell, for getting out of low gear. We see Carlton Clarabeue Deen as a great retired rodeo clown. He is now taking Nat Fleming's place as announcer for the Archer City Rodeo. Hey, CarltonI how come your leg is in that cast??? We see Jimmy Owens as the newly appoint- ed stage manager of the recently reopened Zeigfield Follies. He obtained this job because of his past experience in stage directing at Archer City High School. We see Bud Lowack as a famous psychiatrist in Dallas, Texas. He has become quite re- nowned as an authority on the problems of teenagers. especially their love life! We see Judy Thurber as a famous journalist for the Archer County Weekly. She edits the column Dear Judy and is quite experienced in giving advice. Experience is the best teacher.