Blaine High School - Excelsior Yearbook (Blaine, KY)

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The Typing Class. P -. E Cue 1 T X M' Look at those Legs Emmett's of course. F? Enjoymg Camden Park Outing. Get your eats here. Gee! What a Scene. fA business managed, iox-paying, free enferprin owned by members in the counties of Carter, Greenup, Lewis, Elliott, Rowan and Lawrence. 1 f . I U 0 1-ggmga -OWNED BY THOSE WE SERVE-

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IUUJPHECY' O Magic Mlrror on my wall Please tell me what the Iuture hold: Please transfer me, 0 Maglc Mirror to ten year: from naw, Interpret to me the llle my claumate: have lead Ah l llnrl myrelr ln an alrplane bound lor Vlenna Alan l llnd rlur lr a very eclal plane The passenger: are all very iamoua people I'm :eated next to a amous Metropolitan star The star tum: to :peak to lhe rtewardesr who I llnd :r the head stewardeu ol T W A Ml: Patsy Lyon The :tar la Nlna Ferguson Mil.: Ferguson lt on her way to Vlenna to a concert and to meet her husband Mlsa Ferguson and Mlrs Lyon tell me some thi a about my other claumate: at Blalne Hlgh School They tell me that Carrle kagg: l: tl-re moat famous alr craft pllot slnce Llndenburgh and r: now pllotlng the plane whlch we are now r.-ar l-le grnrluatea :rem Unlverxlty of Kentucky where he wat voted all Amerrean basketball player lor two conaecutlye yean The rcene changer l lrnd rnytelr rn Albuquerque New Merrren near the lamou: secretlve mllrtary base Nearby I :ee a very dlatlngulthed lookrng gentleman examlnlng a queer looklng space :hlp A: he approaches, I :ee to my rurprlre, that It lr mgar Ferguson who har become a leader rn the llela ol electronlcl He explained about the rocket and I llnd that lt ls deugned to make the flnt trlp to the moon behrnd the pllotlng ol Phillip Young, who ha: become an expert ln the flyrng ol rocket and let engrnet The llght larler 1 leel the warmth of the trnpleal runrrune nr the Hawauan Illanda 'rn my rurnrlre under the nalrnr on the whxte ranrlr or t.he beach nr the lnrrner Ml: Jeanle Mayer and her husband ann Wallln 'nrey are :pendlng a short vlcatlou here before he returna rn lur lnh ax vree Prerraent of the Arhlana on ar ltennlng Company Nnw l am at the Waldorf Artorla Hotel where a banquet rr berng gryen for honorable John Wllllame wh: hal traveled all over the world and galned lame as the world's greatert Lvangelrrt l gaze wrth awe around the crowd and be hold' l see many rarnrllar laces Seated at the rlghr ol the guert of honor rr MII Phyllu Young who ha: become noted lor her beautliul and dlstlnct hal: rtyllng l also llnd present at thlr banquet Dr cary Joseph Alley who u a member ol the Medlcal Stall at the Walter Reed Holpltal In Waahlngton l hear the best or rlrurnt rn the deep dark lunglet nl Alrrea l ree a lnne whlte mar: amorq a group ol natlve: To my axtonrahment I Ilnd lt to be Mllton Alley who has been stranded here lnr ture yearr wrthnut reerng a whlte peraon He ha: been working on a raft whlch he hope: wrll take hlm back to the U S no he Can tpend hlx lcrtleth brrthday wrrh Jayne Manalleld My heart leelr mth wonder ar l ree the grant beauty of the Statue ol Lrherty Ir lt the nolxy bury clry ul New York A large ugn catches my eye I read.: the Sturglll lanrerprlrer on rnyerrlgatrng l rlnrl Lhat It lr a hurlnen trtahllahrrrent operated Anna Lou and Evelyn sturgrll who reslde together ar ararlable old martlr rtrll wa rtlng for that rpeeral someone l lrnrl myself rn creenwleh Vlllage at an art exhlhltrnn l ree mme very beautliul portrait: I see a :lgnature lamrllar to me lt rr the :lgnature of Evelyn Steven: who ha: recelved Lhe Nobel Prlre lor her latest book Teenage Yeart She has also become the flrrt woman Commlsaloner of Baseball Robert Blythe has become Prerldent of the General Motor: Corporatlon after xartlrg out as a mere grease monkey He render ln Florlda wld-l hrs wlie and lamlly ol :lx As I gaze again I tee a resldentlal sectlon The name ol town lx Bellelnnte I :ee a lamlllar lace It l.: the former Alma Jo Wheeler I :peak to her rhe tellr me the ls marrrerl rn Gale Fytle who at the present tune rr rrerltrrrg rn Ashland Next I :ee a school bulldlng I :ee two ofthe teachers Leona Boggs ha: Iulillled her dreams The teacher with her l: Madellne Salyer The scene of the clalsmom vaturhes lrum vlew and I find myielt ln one ol the recordrng ttudloa or RCA Vlctor A very well known recnrrirr-lg anrat rr at vIDrk Cuttlng a record l llnd lt to be none other than Elmer Webb who slnce hil graduatlon Iron: Blaine High School has become one of the natlons leadlng recordmg :tart On my lan gaze lntn the rnagrt rnrrmr I Ilnd myrelr rn the mum nr a rnanng crowd lt ls an Ohm State football game berng played at Columbus Relereexng the game la perhape the greatert one ol all tlrne who lr nnne other than Charles Davld Thompson The coache: all lnsrrt upon hrm lor all the ball game: Seated next to me I llnd Cwenola Skagg: who rs now marned to the Preudent of the Armen arorarnnge Company ora Crlm They are rranrrng In cnlurnbur wrth thelr grrl and twln hoyr LASSPHSTYHTY As we started up the ladder ol I-hgh School erlucataon, the rmt rung was the lrealarnan year We began nur ellmh In 1953 thlrty nlne ln number We felt we were on rnp ol the world at heetrrnrrg rturlentr at lalarne Hrgh School Ar the year progressed we gradually but surely found lr wa: not an ealy talk belng lrethmen Thu year Evelyn Stevens won the Water Conservatlon esray contest for Lawrence County Wltll the next rung up lhe ladder we became sophomores Regretlully we leer caml Barker Freddy anrl Betty Mama We were new only thu-ty rut rn number Agarn we had an euay wrnner lrnm our school lt war Jack wrllramr who won the context wlth an essay of Forest Conservatmn Tl-us year we also had one ol our players Casale Skaggr, to make the varalty basketball team Ar we enntrnue our elrrnh, the next rung war the ,urunr year By thx: trrne we felt we had accumpllahed aomethl Again we loft :everal of our class mernherr They were Matrre Jane Al ey, Hager Boggs Delerrt Castle Kathryn Carter wlllrr Ferguaon Betty Trrpletr Rosemary May clnre Mae Hogxton and Glenn Varnver Thlx lelt ua unly twenty rn number Thrt year war one nr our greaterr yearr Several ol our eleer memherr aehreyerl hnnnrr ln sports, caarre Skaggs reserved the Bert Athlete Award and was voted captarn ol the basketball team Another member oi t.he class Charles Thompon made the vamty :quad ln club work tlut year the lnllorrrng people were elected otfrcera rn the Lawrence County 4 rl club: Cwenola Skagga prernrent, Carol Skaggs yree prernlenr and Caslle Sksgg: Sergeant at arms ln the dramstlc lreltl thll year we had our Junlor Play 'The Cuxter s Lan Stand' and at our Fall Camlval our clas: had The Grand Ole Opry Thr: year we took our annual Junlor Senlor :rrp to the natlon : caprtal, waahlngrtm D L And, nnw ai we puhlrrh thu hrttnry we are on the last rung ol the larlrler We are :ernon Tlua year we lost three member: Carol Skaggs Roberta Vanover and Ronald Lyon wrrh the radnerr nl lnarng these students we are also happy at garnrng two new atudentx, Jeanne Mayen anrl Elmer Webb and at the return of a former student Glen Va:-lover Agaln Came Skaggs wa: voted captarn or the yarrrty balketball team our renrnr year alm brought a grave tragedy to lhe commulllty whlch was t.he denructlon ul all hlgh school bulldlng by lrre It was even a worse tragedy for the Senror Claax because lt depuved u: of the honor olgraduatlng ln the Blame Hlgh School Audltorlurn of whach we all had dreamed In our mlndt exlrts the hope and dream ol a brgger and better :chool lor those who lollow rn our footrtep: We wlsh to drank our teachers for therr tolerance gultlance and aulxtance throughout the part four year: Blame 'THE BLAI Members Federal Deposlf Insurance Corporotlon OFFICERS C F Gomblll Presldent Port Dobyns, VreePreslden9 .I L Burton Asst Coshlev DIRECTORS C F Gomblll Port Dobyns I'I G Burton MoryM Burr C K Dobyns Coplinl S30 000 00 Surplus S30 000 00 frlemlly qervzce or over 50 IBUFS. 20' Pfull on gavrngs Phone OL 2 3772 Kentucky :P ' - ' e' I . I I A2 I E A ' ' -' the . . 'H ' . '- V H. G. Burton, Cashier e on In - g 'Nl T I ' ,

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The Only Bank in Sandy Hook THE PEOPLE'S BANK Member F.D.l.C. jOHNSON'S MOTOR SALES Used Cars and Paris 24 Hr. Wrecker Service Phone GR 4-2681 Niie-Phone GR 4-5791 Grayson Kentucky