Bristol High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Bristol, IN)

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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

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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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PROPHECY Basham and his wife Goldie Soapdish They told us about their 2,000 acre farm and the BLACK k BLUE CHICKENS R HEN'S CLUB Edward was President We had a restful night, Ed ward's ham and eggs speeded us on our way the next morning We were gliding along at a slow 1,000 miles an hour when our pilot, Richard Watson, set us down on another strange place Judy stepped out and all she could see was a small sewing shop So we all went to the shop and sitting inside was the nalways happy' Alice Thompson bending over a sewing machine Alice had scrubbed floors for three years to save up enough to keep her and her husband, and she could even afford a maid and her husband d1dn't have to work at all Before we left, Alice made each one of us an outfit fit for a queen, then once more we were on our merry way We flew over a high school that was lighted so we decid ed to land our space ship and see what was going on As we entered we heard a crowd cheering, a basketball game was go ing on Since Mary always liked basketball, we sat down and noticed that the coach of one of the teams was none other than our great basketball player Mark Sloop He saw us and came over and started talking, he said he had been coaching for about lui years the name of his team was the MORONS We bid him good bye and wished his team good luck little light headed so we decided that the high altitude was too much for her and that we had better land to take her'm a doctor Someone said that a psychologist would be just the thing So we came down on a small town named Chicago We then took her to a psychologist and got the surprise of our lives Who would be the psychologist? None other than that great senior of 1953! KW1th great speed, that is! None other than Norma Rund! She was already working on a patient This wasn't surprising Gene Sheely also one of the seniors of 1953 back at Union was her victim We asked the doctor why Gene was there She said that when he had been down in one of his many submarines the other day he ran into a school of mermaids and the shock was too much for him We flew over the fine Indianapolis State Fair Grounds We decided to land and take a look around the grounds Rich ard Watson spied the sheep barn sc we went in and saw Stan ley Poe talking to a group of boys When he got through talking he came over and began to talk with us He told us he was a MH leader We asked him if he was married yet and he looked very sheepish and said, no, the right girl hadn't come along yet We wished him good luck and said we had to be moving on We said it was about time to cool off our engine so we headed up Alaska way As we were drifting we looked down Charlene made out the name Jerry Haymaker on the roof of the barn of a vast ranch, she insisted that we go down and see if it was the same Jerry we knew When we landed, a short chubby man came to greet us. We recognized him as Jerry. We asked him why he had moved to Alaska and he told us he moved because the wolves were getting his white angus cattle We had not been going very long when Dorothy got a