Beebe High School - Badger Yearbook (Beebe, AR)

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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

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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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argument started the week before in Congress over the proposed multi-million dollar bill that will put a new log bridge over Cypress Lake. F.B.I. Agent CHARLES P. LANGLEY arrested LOREAN MIDDLETON and BETH MITCHELL for taking valuable government papers from the brief case of Atomic Energy Commissioner JERRELL HEFNER. After this interruption JOYCE Boo Boo ADAMS. Queen of Burlesque, and her Broadway Bubbles entertained the group. The Bubbles include ODELL ALLEN, BETTY SUE CAMPBELL, ZEBALINE COLBERT, JEAN SORY, WANDA JOHNESE. and LAVERN JONES. The last number on the program w a s a superb exhibition by the Daring Daredevils from Barnum, Bailey, and BROWN (our KENNETH)Circus. The Daredevils are CHARLES LaFERNEY, ALFRED OSBORNE, RALPH WILSON, RICHARD CAMPBELL, JIMMY FLOW- ERS, and BILL NEAL. There were many celebrities present. HUEY GOWAN was recently named presi- dent of Princton, to succeed HAROLD GAMMILL who said he preferred raising cotton to teaching. General GLEN DOWNING, Chief of Staff of the U. N. Forces, wis there in full regailia with his aides Col. ROY SPRINGER, and Captain BOBBY THOMPSON. Miss FRANCES JAMES and WESLEY BRUCE astounded everyone by announcing their engagement after a courtship of twenty years. They plan to go to Arizona on their honeymoon. DONALD WAYNE ERWIN rode up in a newCadillac driven by his chauffer, CLEVE- LAND HARRELL. He has recently made another million dollars by taking over Jack Benny's place on the radio. DON'S chauffer gets paid fifteen dollars a month. The former Miss ELIZABETH SLOAN and her son, Arch Willard, came in from her twenty acre ranch with her neighbor. RICHARD D. RABB and his wife. One of the persons absent at the reunion was BETTY Break'em SUE PERRY, the number one criminal in the U. S. Miss PERRY escaped last week after robbing Ft. Knox. Dr. GEORGIA ANN HAMILTON reported that BILLY MASSEY was unable to be with the group because of a fist fight with Sugar ROY JONES, heavyweight champ of Opal. When the story of this class reunion was published, I was given, immediately, a grand Poolitzer Prize Award for having reported the most unusual activities of the most unusual class in the realm of High School.