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

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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

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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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Another member of the class, Harold Tetwiler, had athletic ideas. He decided in his senior year that he wanted to play Pro football. Well, now he's a Pro, but not football. Corporal H. E. Tetwiler is chief man in charge of kitchen police duty in Herring-in-the-Borge, Inner Mongolia. He won Olympican championship in potato peeling and therefore recieved his high rank in this specialized field. After Paula Ebsen was graduated she took a trip to Germany to see all her relatives. She planned on returning and taking another trip around the USA. While she was in Germany, the Russians invaded. She escaped though, and hid out in the farmhouse of one of her cousins. She decided that as long as she was over there she might as well be of some use so she became a female spy, a second Mata Hari. So far she hasn't been caught. We lost one member of the class at the first of the school year in '53. Ed Griffin, better known now as E. W. Griffin, is now a famous politician. He decided that as long as he was in Missouri he might as well take after another noted politician from that state. And last is Dick Gordon. During his high school career he was great in band, colossal in dramatics, and had a very high average in school work. He was consumed with ambition and longed for bright lights, champagne, cigars, the theater and plush night clubs. Dick is in Hollywood now—you may have read about him in the papers. You might have seen him in the news reel or when the academy awards were passed out. He was the guy you saw way down the center isle leaning on a broom. 13