Asotin High School - Panthers Purr Yearbook (Asotin, WA)

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 Rusty11 wi.Knr.R-Wills her red hair to K y Silver so she won't have to dye it, Woman-hater GORDON—Being of Scotch descent, he took everything he could when he went. Pokey TETWILER—Wills his speed to Howard Hopper provided that he doesn't use it to influence the coach. General TETWILER—Wills his rank in the army to Larry Denny,provided that he leaves the stars on his helmet while in combat. Seniors HooTi'e. Wu.scies

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 Senior C iaSS We, the senior class of 1953, being of sound mind (?) and body (hal),»pent all our money on the sneak so-o-o-o, inatead of dough, we leave to the juniors some unpaid bills left over from the sneak. To the sophomore class we leave our mathematical minds and answer pencils in the hope that they can get through geometry with greater ease than we did. To the frosh we leave our latest invention. The Little Gem Apple Polisher, which was invented by Dorothy Arledge. We have found this gadget invaluable during our four years in high school. To the faculty we leave our schoolmates in the hope they will find them as intelligent, fascinating, cooperative, and entertaining as we have been. To the coach we will our rugged constitutions so that he can pass them on to the future ball clubs. To Mr. Burns we leave a copy of the Washington State Driver’s Manual so that he will be able to get to Walla Walla and back without losing half of his expense funds. To Mrs. Vicker we leave a copy of Emily Post’s book on manners hoping that she will find it useful as a textbook in teaching next year's chorus. To Miss Weber we leave the sophomore class.If she can teach them an axiom, she deserves a Congressional Medal of Honor. To Mrs. Maxwell we leave the mess left over from the annual — all the old master pages, the worn out typewriter ribbons,and the used dummies—in the hope that she and the Junior Class will be able to salvage something from it for the 1953-’54 annual. Silent VANPELT—Wills his quiet ways to Donna Tyer provided that she promises not to argue with the faculty. Missouri GRIFFIN — Wills his loggers to Mrs. Maxwell provided that she kicks someone else out of class besides him. Boots LEWIS—Wills his guitar to Handsome Henderson provided that he learns how to play it and will serenade Sally Halsey every night. Slim PARSLEY - Wills her piano playing ability to Ralph Petty because she believes he is a musician at heart. Hootie HOPPER—Wills his ability to study long hours to Ralph Franklin,hoping that it will prevent him from flunking. Muscles TYER — Wills his athletic ability to Bob Meeker in the hopes that he can make the A squad. Hopalong HOLLOWAY — Wills her Chemistry note-book to Jim Bosley, as he will probably need it. Saddlebags EBSEN - Wills one of her Brahmas to Drexel Mathews so he will have something to beef about. Stringy SHPSS — Wills her good grades to Danny Shuss provided that he flunks chemistry. io

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In the year 1953 there were eleven graduates of good old AHS. Everyone had high hopes for himself, and for most of them things turned out as would generally be expected, I got word the other day of one of these classmates of mine. Bill Hopper. Bill set his sights rather high, but figured he might be able to make it. His ambition when he was graduated was to be a pitcher for the Big Leagues, preferably the Brooklyn Dodgers. Well, here's how things happened. The year Bill was graduated, as everyone expected, he married Ina Jane Parsley. Bill and Ina Jane both attended Whitworth and since they had to work their way through school. Bill didn't find much time for sports so InaJane is now teaching school and Bill works in a boiler factory. However, their oldest son, Claude Adolphus, has carried out the sports ambition of the family. Since he had a tough time in school (he had a pretty good average in the third grade the last three times) they started him on an athletic career, batboy for the Lewiston Broncs. Another guy, Ervin Lewis, better known as Stub worked real hard on dancing lessons his last year in school. He was planning on being a professional dancer on television. Well, the next summer after being graduated, about July, he got married and the next winter he started working on a ranch he and his Dad had bought. By the next summer he was a dancer, dancing around a hayfield throwing bundled hay instead of beautiful women. He's doing 0. K. though, as they struck out on their spread and now he's dancing for joy. There were three feminine members of AHS who, after they were graduated, decided that they wanted to see the world together. They were Dorothy Arledge,Charlotte Shuss and La Doris Holloway. Charlotte was working at the pea factory in Lewiston when she met a guy from WSC. Well, Charlotte traveled as far as Pendleton, Oregon. Her man is in the goat business selling goat milk to people in Ura-guay. La Doris got as far as Jerry, Washington where she met a man in che coat hanger business. All the traveling she does is traveling from farm to farm collecting old baling wire to make coat hangers. They now have 3,9242 bales of coat hangers . Dorothy got as far as Dusty, Washington where she is now running the Bucket of Blood Saloon, the towns only night club. Her husband is her best customer, although he seldom pays. They’re doing fine tho, 'cause Hollywood found out about it and since it is the only authentic western saloon in the USA, they use it for location in most of their pictures. Another member of the class, Jim VanPelt, studied very diligently in his Agriculture course at AHS. He worked as hard as he could at the FFA Shop learning all he could about farm work, welding,using the torch and, all in all, he studied very hard trying to learn Animal Husbandry. His instructor, George Burns,had very high hopes for Jim and said he had promise of running a big spread. This early training proved profitable as he is now one of the most fashionable hair dressers in gay Cloverland and is known as James De Le Hits. Alton A. Tyer decided at an early age that he wanted to be somewhere in the field of science, a nuclear physicist, or some such thing. He went to WSC and took electrical engineering. After that he slowly worked his way back east, trying to hit a big laboratory. Well, he hit one. For the last five years he has been chief test tube washer in the DuPont laboratory at Wilmington, Delaware. 12