Beebe High School - Badger Yearbook (Beebe, AR)

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NANCY WARREN Glee Club; Trio; F.T.A.; Commercial Club; Library Club; Lit. Editor of Annual. RALPH WILSON FFA. RAYMOND WRIGHT FFA; F.T.A.

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BETTY SUE PERRY Commercial Club 50, Pres. 51; FHA Sec. 50, 2nd Vice-Pres. 51; F.T.A. 51; Vlce-Pres. 50; Annual Staff; Treasurer Peppy Peppers. BILLY PRITCHARD Commercial Club; FFA; B Club; Basketball; Football; Track; Ass't Sports Editor Annual. DONALD SLAYTON Commercial Club. CHRISTENE POLK Glee Club; Commercial Club; Basketball; Journal- ism Club; FHA; Peppy Peppers. DON RABB Basketball, B 50, A 51; Track; Commercial Club. ELIZABETH SLOAN Student Council 51, Pres. 49; Honor Society 50, Sec. 51; Commercial Club 50, Reporter 51; FHA 50, Sec. 51; Glee Club; Ass't Editor Annual. DOYLE SLAYTON Commercial Club. PmOTOCtKAPw Nor At'An A8L t ROY F. SPRINGER Football; B Club; Track. JEAN SORY Basketball. BOBBY THOMPSON FFA.

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SENIOR PROPHECY I am a reporter for The Arkansas Badger (formerly the Arkansas Gazette), and one day in December, 1971, my boss CARL BEVILL, assigned me to cover a reunion that was attracting much attention. It was the 1951 Senior Class of Beebe High School. They met in the brand new VANDAMENT Memorial Auditorium. It was quite a big affair, since it was financed by those great financiers, DOYLE and DONALD SLA TEN. They made a fortune by keeping such correct books. I arrived at exactly the right time--dinner was ready to be served. The Master of Ceremonies, DR. THOMAS NELSON NOBLE, Professor of Campusology at Yale Univer- sity, called on REV. CARL PENROD to say the prayer. Brother Penrod is pastor of one of the largest churches in Seedtick. The two lovely hostesses for the occasion were running around making everybody happy. They were Miss JOY RUTH LYNCH, LOIS RAY EDWARDS partner in the Hadacol Corporation, and CHRISTENE POLK, the Miss America of 1965. Guest speaker was the honorable WILLIAM H. OWEN, JR., President of International Business Men’s Association. His topic was My Years of Bachelorhood. During this wonderful speech there was quite a commotion at the side table occu- pied by the notorious Sing Sing Gang who had come with their parole officer, BOBBY JOE FISHER. It seems that Little Rat NORTHCUTT had stolen a $50.000 pearl from the necklace of socialite MAXINE NOBLE and had hidden it in a chicken leg that gun moll BETTYE JANE JOHNSON had eaten by mistake. Bottle Neck DOSS and WILLIE The Killer COOK were beside themselves with fury. VELMA JANE OAKLEY, television songstress, sang The Thing, this was followed by a tap dance by the famous JOHN McKAY, Miss EMMA GRACE BURNS, who has given her life to the better me nt of poetry, read us an original of her own, entitled, To My True Love. (BARBARA, her sister, was thrown out by Guard MARVIN MARTIN, because her ten children tore up RAYMOND WRIGHT'S beloved guitar.) The program was interrupted as news flashed in that BILL PRITCHARD had just com- pleted his tenth trip to the moon. The program continued with the Metropolitan Ballet Team giving an exquisite dance featuring JOHNNIE FAY BAILEY, MARION MYRICK, and EVELYN BUMPAS with NANCY WARREN accompaning them on the banjo. I wandered around finding out all about this famous class. In the lobby I found WAYMON HEFNER. President of the C.I.O., organizing a new labor union. His lovely secretary, PHYLLIS BARENTINE was assisting him. Congresswoman CAROLYN FRYAR and Senator HORACE L. BRYLES continued an