Beebe High School - Badger Yearbook (Beebe, AR)

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Old Home Day The great lay had finally rolled around and you should have seen all the fancy dresses and suits and everyone trying to out talk the other. The reason for this gala occasion? Well, you see the Senior class of 1949 is having an Old Home Day” in 1959 and. of course, all the old class was present. There was more excitement for the first thirty minutes than I've seen in the last 10 years put to- gether. After the first greetings were exchanged, everyone was trying to tell everyone else what had l ccn hap- pening to him. RUTH HARRISON and CHARLES EDWARDS were the first I talked to and they were bubbling over with joy because Charles Jr. was cutting his first tooth, and ERMA NEAL was telling everyone that her third husband had finally consented to give her a divorce. LAMOINE BASS and. THELMA HILI. who arc cigarette girls at the Stork Club were run ning around chatting al out the new Broadway hit. BILLY MAX HEFNER was trying to convince LEE LYNCH that he needed two tractors on his farm instead of one and Lee kept saying he didn’t even have one. The startling, sensational, uprising star of radio. GLADA McGIBONEY was present all richly attired in the latest styles and still trying to hook herself a man and this time she picked on the poor, unfor- tunate. BILLY LEMAY. I overheard a very lively conversation between EUELL LYNN ADAMS who is coach at the Univer- sity of Arkansas and JOE SIMS who is coaching the Ricchirds down at Ha en. It seems Joe was trying to explain a new play to Euell Lynn, who was always slow to catch on to anything new. MARY ANN FRYAR, the distinguished owner of the Mademoiselle Fashion Shoppe in Detroit, was there in full force and so was her assistant, who is none other than ALICE MAE HOGGARI). It was pretty hard for HOLLIS ALLEN to get away from the Grande Ole Opera long enough for the reunion and he wouldn't consent to come until WALTER HIGH FILL promised to have everything taken care of. CHARLIE OLDS had just won the title of Rab- bit Catcher , and was pretty elated over it. He had thirty-three of his rabbits with him to show everyone. MARY DEE (FRANTZ) SPENCE it seems, has ! ecn having a little trouble with Kay. and she was sobbing her story to everyone. Irorrowing Kleenex left and right. RUTH ELLEN HARRIS had a hard time get ting away from the Waldorf-Astoria where she is em- ployed as dish washer and she met her old friend BILLY RAY FISHER on the train who is famous for cooking succotash on the diner of the Missouri Pacific. Everyone on the line calls him “The Succo- tash King . ROYCE DANIEL, three times governor of the state of New York is leader of the new progressive party and his motto is “All for one and that one me , he was candidate last year for President and was defeated hv one vote cast hy his campaign man- ager. WILLIE MAE THOMPSON. DON HESTIR. orchestra leader and composer of distinction and his charming wife KATHRYN CAMPBELL, leading soprano of the Cosmopolitan Opera Company arrived around 10 o’clock in their private plane Uuic piloted hy none other than JUNIOR WAYMIRE. While I was standing around I happened to see BUFORI) MOODY, editor of the largest daily paper in the state and except that he had grown a trifle stouter and looked more cheerful than ever, he had not changed one hit since his high school days. Oh yes. he did have printers ink on his face. CHARLES HENRY, the town auctioneer, just now announced that BOBBIE RUTH BASS will serve refreshments since she is proprietor of the delight- ful Old Home Tea Room. Just as we were sitting down to eat JUNIOR OSBORN announced he was going to play us There’s a Ga-Ga Girl in Guatamala . on his violin. He plays very well and just returned from a concert tour of Europe. After the violin solo MILDRED VANPELT had to tell us all about her pet shop and all the queer little pets she has. even she didn’t know the name of some of them. Next LUELLA BRYANT tells how she Inrcame famous in Hollywood. She is a famous movie actress and has acquired a foreign accent. Now she's drop- ped the accent and talking as she used to talk—Often! Then the author of all those delightful short stories. JAMES HALL read one of his stories to us and gave a charming little talk — three hours long. Our attention is calleri hy Lyndell Mosley to the beautiful flowers on the table which were a gift of BETTY JEWEL FIELDS, now the leading florist of the town. Then a prosperous looking young man appears and says he is a Broadway song writer and the au- thor of many popular song hits. It is JOHN PERRY and he played and sang for us three of his composi- tions. After the refreshments a figure rides toward us and he is wearing a stunning uniform and looks very handsome and seems to know it. He stops his horse and we sec it is BOBBY LOUIS LANE who is one of those romantic heroes, a Northwest mounted po- liceman. BOBY BECK has been acting very peculiar and suspicious all day when someone whispered and told me that he was a detective and was carrying a magnifying glass in one pocket and a pair of hand- cuffs in the other. It has been a real delight to sec all our old friends so young and prosperous, so generous with their money and talent. In short, it has been an Old Home Day to be proud of anti the old home folks should be happy to have such celebrities as these for their very own.

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President Vice President Secretary Treasurer James Hugh Garrett, Jr. Sims Dean Dailey W. J. Short, Jr. . . Joe Ford (Starting from back at left): Nipper, Taylor, Harrison, Garrett, Thompson, Hill D., Watson F., Thomason E., Carpenter, Taylor R., Noble, Fields, Choate, Ball, Nunn, Williams, Thomason A., Patterson, Martin, Hill J., Fisher, Busick Bobbie, Carlisle, Covington, Busick Betty, Liles, Kirk, Pruitt, Rye, Short, Bass, Redus, Jennings, Risk, Rainbolt, Huffaker, McKinney, Plummer, Moore, Mor- ris, Wood, Burns, Penrod, Ford. (Not present when picture was taken): Austin, Kirkland, Allen, Dailey, Doss, Watson J., Welch.