Belton High School - Beltonian Yearbook (Belton, MO)

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Senxor Prophecy IMAGINE yourself reading a Los Angeles Newspaper dated 1975 You would find an article such as the following GALA EVENT AT nDAVE'Sn Mr David Long, the owner of a swanky night club in Holly wood, Dave's , invited his high school graduating class to have a reunion at his night club This was the class of 1956 at the Belton High School, Belton, Missouri It was extremely inter estlng to note that every member of the class had become a success in their chosen field The first guests to arrive were Ted and Aletrice Schuman Ted is a plant manager for Bendix in Kansas City, Missouri Aletrice, a housewife, is designing hats in her leisure time Next came Mr James G Meador and his beautiful wife Mr Meador is now the lawyer for T W A Then Mr Frederick C Wear entered followed by Mr and Hrs J T Boehm who had been visiting in the Wear's home in Burbank prior to the reunion Mr Boehm is a prominent businessman in Chicago and Mr Wear is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed Aviation Corporation Among the guests were the former Miss Norma Sue Allen and Rosebud Groh They, together with their husbands, own a large horse ranch in Texas former Betty Jane Philips and Ellen Meador Betty Jane has retired from the modeling profession to marry a very eminent fashion designer Ellen devotes part of her time, aside from being a wife and mother, to being a fashion designer and artist in which she is very well known Prominent businessmen in attendance were Mr Terry McCush, Mr J P Khoche, Mr Frederick A Ashbaugh, and Mr George Thornton Mr McCush is a store manager for nBloomingdales in New York From Detroit is Mr Ashbaugh, the businessman who made a fortune in designing his new car J P Knoche owns scores of Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln distributing agencies Mr Thornton and his wife, the former Helen O'Ne1ll are now living in New York City Mr Thornton owns a number of gas service stations across the nation Margaret Yeates, Donna Mucke, and Barbara Branhamfmaiden names are used for conveniencel are happy in their chosen fields Margaret is one of the best dressed women of the U S in her WAC uniform Donna is the secretary to a top general in the Air Force Barbara is currently appearing with her husband in the comic television show, I Love Babsn At the last moment before the ceremonies were to begin, Dr T A Tracy and his wife rushed in Dr Tracy, the eminent surgeon, had been detained because he had to preform an emergency operation In this operation he employed a new technique devel oped by himself and now is used by the more skillful surgeons The reunion was enjoyed by all members of the graduating class of 1953. O n. n '...A ---Q-' -- 0 .Two roprosentatlvos if the fashion world were present-the . Q . Z . . - . - . ... D z u -.. .H

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We, I, We 9 LAST WILL and TESTAMENT SENIOR CLASS OF BELTON HIGH SCHOOL the greatest SENIOR CLASS ever to graduate from this institution of higher learning, believing that we went above and beyond our class of duty to make it great, feel obligated to will some of our possessions and destinctive traits to the lower classmen and teachers whom we hope will follow in our footsteps Being of good health and sound mind we hereby declare this to be our last will and testament in which we are thereby disposing of all our duties and debts to our dear old Alma Mater, Belton High School Terry McCush, leave my chartreuse straight jacket and rose padded cell to someone who needs it worse than I do, Miss Cox Maggie Yeates, bequeath my imperfections to the Perfect One , may they help him to be a normal human Ellen Meador, leave my love for our hero band teacher to the luckyl9J members of next years band Fred Wear, leave my athletic prowess to Jack Sikes Norma Allen, leave my love for nHowdy Doody Programsn to Don Howe 'Suckon Knoche, leave my ability to outrun Kaisers to that wild jeep driver, Vernon Mucke I also will him my pool shooting ability because ne needs it B J Phillips, leave my vote for Pogo to that Eisenhower supporter, Mr Hawkins Jay Boehm, leave my ability to get along with teachers to that nHalo areru of the Junior class, Chopper Barbara Branham, leave my fruitless crush on that Romeo of the Junior class, Homer Pratt, to a glrl who has all next year to try hooking him, Evelyn Greenwell David Long, leave my exceptional football ability to that great Freshman athlete, Jackie Wilson Rosebud Groh, leave nothing to nobody, because nobody willed me anything to leave to anybody Terry Tracy, leave my humble ability to be the local nwolfn, to that Casanova of the Freshman class, Deanie Daulton leave my KMINE?J Black Pontiac to nlax , so she can have car to go around those curves at 90 MPH Donna Mucke, aummwh leave my ability to leave school whenever I feel like it absenteen Elmer Walton Ted Schuman, to that nnon Aletrice Schuman, leave my ability to get a husband to all lucky Junior girls Fred Ashbaugh leave my Bookkeeping ability to that speed demon of the Junior class, John Porter 'Rockyn Meador, leave my copy of 'Football Etiquette' to the gridiron ruffian of the Freshman class, Richard Loftis Helen and George Thornton, leave our tendency to always agree to that cute Junior couple, Mary and Bruce SIGNED SENIOR CLASS OF '53 of I, I, n rn I, . I, . I, . I' , I, . . I, We H W. - I, O . I, . Ip If I, n I, - I1 I, , W W. n

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