Beech Grove High School - Hornet Yearbook (Beech Grove, IN)

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ASS xt 2 iw ir My, how the old Beech Grove Park has changed! Lights are shining, the band is playing, and the midway is a hall of excitment. As we go down the crowded Midway we see the booths and side shows with their barkers, who are ready and willing to take just one tenth of a dollah for one to see the greatest show on earth. Let's look around before we go into the Big Top. We go into the fortune teller's booth, sit down, and wait for Madame La Smiley to reveal the future. In she comes bedecked with bangl es and e ar r ings , smelling of jasmine and root beer. We wait for Madame to get into the right mood before she goes on. At last she speaks, You will find many of your friends here today. Some will be tall, some dark, some handsome. They will have changed a great deal since their high school days with you, so beware! We start to leave but Madame stops us at the door. Cross the palm with silver, commands Madame. We don't have any change so we give her an old Dewey button. We doubt if she can tell the difference since she hasn't seen money for so long. After we leave the tent, we are startled to hear sirens and bells close by. Just for curioslty's sake, we wander over to the noise. A big red faced man is shouting and waving his hands, Come one, come alll See the greatest dare-devils of all time--Norvel, the Marvel, and Tom, the Atom Bomb, the masters of motorcycle riding. Watch them as they get dizzler by riding their cycles along the side of a wall parallel with the ground! A little farther down the Midway is a stand with a bold sign out in front stating, Dr, James Fox's combination snake bite tonic, furniture polish, hair oil, and rat poison comes to you all in one bottle for the surprisingly low price of thirty cents. The trial bottle is free, of course. It ls almost time for the show to begin in the .Big Top and we must buy our tickets. As we come close to the box office, a familiar sound greets our ears. It is the booming voice of Kenny Moneymaker, the Big Top barker, who is trying to get the people to see the greatest show on earth. Behind him on the platform are seven beguiling dancing girls, covered with bracelets, necklaces, and flowers. As we draw closer we recognize them to be none other than Pat Alexander, Shirley Atherton, Elva Fallowfield, Jane Rutledge, Betty Ruesch, Mary Ruth Gillespie, and Mary Kleine. We get our tickets and step into the semi-darkness of the tent. Just as we start to find our seats, the usher comes toghelp us. As soon as we get nearer the lights, ,we see that our usher is another classmate of ours, Walter Eland with his trusty flash light. After forty minutes of frantic searching, we reach our correct seats, and just in time, for the spot lights have been directed to the honored box in which some of our more famous classmates are seated. The band, which is being superbly conductedby Bill Houze, strikes up the Beech Grove War Song while the ring master, Don Russell, introduces all of the dignitaries beginning with Don Kavanaugh, owner and president of the circus, and his vice president, Jim Oliver. Then Kenny Anderson, who is now ambassador from the United States to Kentucky, and Leontine Melnis, ambassadress also from the United States to Latvia, are introduced. Seated next to her is General. Lucille Shelton, head of the Women Marine's Corps. Inback of them is Gunnln' George Neely, five time winner of the Five Hundred Mile Memorial Day Classic. With him is his mechanic, Melvin Lentz. Next to him is Dorothy Ammons, who owns not only a large chain of garages, but also an interest in the Beech Grove Tribune whose editor is Richard .Campbell. By Miss Ammons is tCont'd on page 52, f p12OPI-IECY A