Bippus High School - Bipponet Yearbook (Bippus, IN)

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when I arrived in Dallas, I checked in at the Torpy Hotel. I thought that the name sounded familiar, so I asked to see the manager, and who was the manager? You guessed it, none other than old Duck Torpy. Duck had had the run of this prosperous hotel since his dad had turned it over to him when he was just twenty-one years old. He excused him- self after we had talked for just a short twenty minutes, he told me that he had a date with a wealthy Texas widow and didn't want to be late. He told me that all his girl friends still affectionately called him Duck. I arrived at Joan's penthouse home in time for dinner. We chatted over our steaks and Joan told me about her interesting career. She hadn't had time for dates, she told me, so had never married, but since she had retired she was back in circulation again and was now engaged to marry a sweet old gentleman she had met in Dallas. She told me that she still liked to jitterbug and had just won a jitterbugging contest the week before. After I interviewed Joan and checked out of the hotel, I boarded a plane back to Bippus. When I got back to Bippus, I was famished, as I hadn't eaten since I had had dinner with Ioan in Dallas six hours before. I sat down in a booth next to a tall, grey- haired old man, and who do you suppose it was--Lance Steffen, another old schoolmate. He told me he had spent forty years in the army and had retired with a good pension and had been traveling all over the world ever since, Back in Bippus. I saw that the next name on the list was Ruth Prilaman, Ruth lived in the nearby village of Huntington. She had married Dick Bechtold, her old high school sweetheart, She and he were living quietly since he had retired as president of the Farm Bureau Association of Indiana. They often visited their ten children and eighteen grand- children who were scattered all over the tri-states, I had just one more name on my list, that of Ronnie Burton. I found that I would have to travel back south again, to Indianapolis, to find Ronnie. I found him, his wife, his sons, and three grandchildren getting ready to go to the race track to see what was now the 5, 000 mile jet auto race, As Ronnie had won the 500 and 1, 000 mile races in his earlier years at Indianapolis, he was still very much interested in racing. He told me he had four sons, and now, twelve grandchildren, all boys. I talked to Ronnie more about his exciting career while we drove to the race track, and told him what I had found his old classmates doing when I visited them. I hope you all saw the movie, The Story of a City, and saw my friends, the Class of 1957,

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SENIOR CLASS WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the members of the Senior Class of Bippus High School, being of sound mind, do hereby bequest and bequeath the following: We, the Senior Class, will our lunch table in the cafeteria to next year's Senior Class. I, Stan Sands, will my size 38 sweater to Jean Smith. I, Kent Bickel, will my ability to get along with Mrs. Swales to Dick Norwood. We, Janet Urschel, Kaye Michel, and Ruth Prilaman, will our ability to become en- gaged in our senior year to Judy Lancaster, Linda Fox, and Mabel Bolinger, We, Stan Sands and Ronnie Burton, will our ability to stay two days after graduation to Larry Coble and Dale Carroll, I, Max Torpy, will my '37 hot rod to Tom West, We, Stan Sands and Max Torpy, will our hair cuts to Mr. Bittner. We, the Senior Girls, will our volleyball positions to Karen Bickel, Norma Urschel, Karon Prilaman, and Diann Ziegler. We, Kaye Michel and Ruth Prilaman, will our ability to keep a library job to Jean Smith and Jane Herrberg, I, Max Torpy, will my ability to get to the schoolhouse before ball games on time to Coach Jack Sell. We, the Senior Girls, will our ability to play volleyball all four years to next year's Freshman Class. I, Max Torpy, will my ability to stay one day after graduation to Monte Schenkel. l, Joan Zinsmeister, will my ability to be office girl to Dawn Mooney. l, Janet Urschel, will my ability to stay out late to Judy Lancaster, I, Kaye Michel, will my ability to Patty Callison to place good set-ups to Margie Wohlford, I, Joan Zinsmeister, will my ability to pick up spikes in volleyball to Norma Michel. l, Janet Urschel, will my HOUR-GLASS figure to Dorolyn Strobel, I, Kaye Michel, will my ability to wear fifty-one sweaters to Judy Lancaster, I, Joan Zinsmeister, will my, ability to wear straight skirts to Jean Smith, I Kaye Michel, will my ability to stay out of trouble here at school to Dick Norwood and Dale Carroll. I, Lance Steffen, will my desk in study hall to Kent Krumanaker, We, Janet Urschel and Kaye Michel, will our ability to Mabel Bolinger and Linda Fox to take care of Judy Lancaster, We, Janet Urschel, Ruth Prilaman, and Kaye Michel, will our ability to get out of classes to work on the class history and will to next year's Seniors, We the l, Ronnie Burton, will my ability to get good grades in shop to Dick Norwood. Senior Girls, will our hard used typewriters to Mr, Ward, We the Senior Boys, will our hard used Shop tools to Mr. Jack Sell. We the Seniors, will a well organized Government Class to Mr, Bittner. We the Seniors, will our well used Consumer and Law books to Mr. Freed. We the Seniors, will to Mrs. Sell a new class to sponsor, We, the Seniors, will our good times together and our fellowship and success to the Seniors of 1958, We, the Seniors, will, , .leave,