Bristol High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Bristol, IN)

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ofadf ,UU all e6f6U'l'lQl'li We, the Seniors of '53, being of keen mind, have agreed upon these, the following, as our last will and testimony, hoping that all will benefit by it I, Jerry Haymaker, will my intelligence to Benny Chaney on the Installment Plan, 201 the sophomore year, 301 the junior year, and 501 the senior year I, Dudley Daniel, will my height and ability to stay out of trouble to Roger Findley I, Eugenia Mabry, will my quiet manner to CeCelia Wood I, Shirley Fletcher, do will and bequeath all my nick names to anyone who is unlucky enough to receive them I, Norma Rund, will m ability to go steady for four years to Cynthia Hooks I6 Stanley Poe, will my ability to stand up for 'Civil Rights in all my classes to anyone who has the nerve I, Gene Sheely, do will and bequeath to quiet James Burgett my ability to torture and exasperate the teachers and still keep their friendship I, Alice Thompson, will and bequeath getting to be yell leader in my senior year to Joan Hommel hope you'll get it I, John Belden, will my ability to hit a home run to Glen Crandall I, Phillip Porter, will and bequeath my 'Crazy Legs,' to Robert Shireman, I hope he uses them to his best advant- age I, Marilyn Stillabower, do hereby will and bequeath my gay lovable characteristics to Maxine Day so that she may be in a good mood every day I, Shirley Utterback, will my dancing ability to Char lene Wheeler I, Edward Basham, do hereby will and bequeath my wavy hair to Buzz Brown and hone that he will keep it combed I, Bill M ere, willmy ability to move fast and to sleep in class to Donald Price I, James Mabry, will my ability to leave school and go to Columbus to join the reserves to Phillip Jones I, Harold Board, willmy ability to leave school as soon as the 3 15 bell rings to anybody who can get by with it I hope they have better luck than I did I, Lois Utterback, will my ability to bring my report card back on time to Dorothy Hensley I, Mark Sloop, will my ability to draw cartoons in Ing lish class to Richard Morris to keep him busy I, Olla Mae Brown, willmy ability to run the mimeograph machine to whqmever gets stuck with the job O L . ij sooner than I did. -- b

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C4156 ljshalory On the first day of school in September, 19hl, twenty three bright eyed boys and girls, with hair all combed to perfection, entered the first grade of Union School Mr E M Bryant was our most understanding teacher Those who entered school that day, were Olla Mae Brown, Audry Dunham, Jerry Haymaker, Janice Moore, Richard Morris, Ida Murray, Stanley Poe, Norma Rund, Norma Siddons, Shirley Sledge, Mark Sloop, Merrill Smith, Frankie Starnes, Alice Thompson Lois Utterback, Shirley Utterback, Charlene Wheeler, Earl White, and Maurice Moore Janice Coffman, Magdeline Harris, George Green, John Jones, Dorothy Hensley, and Doris Eads joined us later, completing our class of twenty nine When we returned in September, l9h2, we were minus George Green, Shirley Hommel, Thomas McCoy, Norma Siddons, Frankie Starnes, Charlene Wheeler, Earl White, Maurice Moore John Jones, Dorothy Hensley, and Doris Eads During that year, Theda Parmerlee, Victor Brandriff, Carolyn Cook, Shirley McTarsney, Donald J Johnson, and Olaphine Green joined us This made twenty six in our class M s E M Bryant was still trying to teach us Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic During the third year of our schooling, Miss Catherine Boaz, now Mrs Catherine Bridges, took over the task of teaching us Now we d1dn't need our parents or sisters or brothers to bring us to school since we were full fledged scholars and knew our way Our fourth year of school was very exciting and in teresting We had the same teacher, Miss Catherine Boaz We were in plays, learned our lessons well, and played Skaggs, Anna Parker, Eugenia Mabry, and James Mabry joined our class, but we lost several Mrs Mary B Harris taught us in our fifth year Multi plication tables and long division were hard to learn and memorize Spelling and reading were harder Several class mates left us and we added some new ones Ada Wiles, Robert Rainey, Richard Smith, Tilford Hash, and Phillip Porter Guess who taught us in our sixth grade' Yep! Mrs Mary B Harris! By this time reading, English, writing, spelling, social studies, arithmetic, health, music and citizenship were getting harder by the day William Query joined our class Well what do you know? We were now in the seventh grade and considered the teen age group Our principal, Mr E S Houston, signed our grading cards Our main pro blem in the seventh grade was adjusting, so that we would be in the right place at the right time We felt quite big since we now associated with the upperclassmen Pat ricia Gill, Marcella Housman, Cletic Shaw, and Marilyn Stillabower joined us that year, bringing the number in the seventh grade to twenty four Our eighth year! Were we sorry? Oh noi We would soon be in High School and expected a little respect from the underclassmen Betty Ralrdon and Harold Board joined our class continued an looster page 9 . S. 9 grown-up games during our fourth year. Gene Sheely, Leroy

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l,Zj,laf7,S6MTgf On the eve of the year 1973! The junior class of 1953 were wondering what had happened to the seniors of 1953 we decided to board our diamond studded space ship and see Betty first rocketed up to a large estate where we read on the mail box the name Mr and Mrs Oliver Panhandle the Mrs being the former Shirley Utterback We entered the stately mansion to find that Mrs Panhandle was running a ballet school on her side and Oliver had a veterinarian office on the other side They said they were getting along just fine with their seven girls and their seven dogs and cats we were sailing along in our space ship again when Mary yelled 'There goes Bill Myers driving along in the same old car he had when he was at Union, only he 1sn't driving quite so fast But we followed him into town and he stopped in front of a big garage with a sign that read Myers k Sons we asked him how long he had been in the business and he told us about five years We wished him good business and As we were zooming along we saw a place we didn't know existed As we cut the power of the rockets and landed, Judy spied a large read aloud to us a We knocked on the appeared After a house for eligible mansion on a hilltop Over the door she sign which said WOLLA'S BACHELOR HAVEN ' door and none other than Olla Mae Brown long talk we found that she ranaboarding bachelors Olla was not yet married, but informed us the great day would come as soon as she picked one of the bachelors at her boarding house We next landed at Atlanta, Georgia, where as you all know, they hold the Miss America contest We were not at all surprised when Carolyn informed us that Marilyn Still abower was one of the candidates Marilyn scared us almost to death when she slipped as she came out, and slid all the way down the platform She won by a landslide She told us she was undecided about her male friends, but she said there was a 30 round boxing match being fought that night and that we might be interested since one of the 1953 seniors, Philip Porter, was expected to win. We stayed over and went to the arena which was packed with about 15 000 000 people we noticed they were all cheering for Porter, since he was a newcomer to the heavy weight division Kby the way he's gained some weighty we were really down in heart when Philip was knocked down in the first 29 rounds, but in the last round he made every one of the 15,000,000 people stand up in surprise as he knocked out his opponent an won the fight Betty landed our ship at s large farm owned by Edward I' . So O e e ' Q O O O ll O O O went on our way. C O O 0 L 0 I O I Q Q 0 I 0