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60607 P70 4 Dear Mr. Robinson: We know it seems like a long time since we dedicated our yearbook to you ten years ago. 1 As time has gone by, we have chosen our occupations and prepared for the great futures ahead A- of us. It is surprising to know what the different members of our senior class have done. John Marquiess is now a famous archaeologist studying the Aztec ruins in Mexico. Jim Megee recently became Mr. Kimbro's assistant when the new high school auditorium and classroom wing were completed at B. A. H. S. Phyllis Kerr is making her debut this fall in Carmen at the Metropolitan with Toby Blankenship, now Mrs. Jim Dall, as her private accom panist. Jim will be stage designer for the production, giving up his old job as D. E. teacher at B. A. Shirley Bickel is a professional lady wrestler. Deatl Watson and Bob Winingham own California's largest speed equipment shop. Their team won the Indianapolis 500. Frank Banfield has replaced Otto Graham, Don Lee and Billy Vessels in professional football. Jim Lofton is now a big name in professional basketball. Paul Gene Hamilton is Oklahoma City's largest real estate dealer. Shirley Tarlton and Joan Monroe have gone to Hollywood hoping to replace Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, respectively. Joan would only have to change her first name. Joe Montgomery has his own TV variety show, Red Montgomery. Dawain McNabb has won the World's All-around Cowboy Championship for three years straight. Raymond Neal is getting rich in the dairy business-Jerseys, of course. Mr. and Mrs. Dwayne fGeorgej Harris have taken over the TV show, My Favorite Husband. Mrs. Harris is the former Anna Belle Houser. Euvon Loyd is running a home for poor old decrepit dogs. lrene Taber is the wife of a well-known Naval Officer. Derald Kennedy is an engineer in South America. L.C. Showman has invented a new type of classroom chair which cannot be upset. B. A. H. S. just bought forty for each room. Hollis Murphy is building modernistic homes in a new residential section of Broken Arrow. Harold Poplin is his parmer. Lendell Martin is playing baseball for the New York Yankees this season. Sidney Cummings is married to a Wyoming rancher. Mary Connery is playing the bass fiddle for Leon McAuliffe and his band. Take it away, Boon! Sheilia Hopkins is occupying Bed 27 in Raney's Home of elderly people. Melvin Douglas is having a battle of the bands tonight with Guy Lombardo. Nancy Francy runs a home for old maids in Sand Springs. Kay Jennings is now on an investigation committee in Congress. Wayne Ledbetter has just returned from a rocket trip to Mars. Clarence Drummond has taken over George Barris' famous custom body shop in California. Ted Barron has a 30, 000 acre ranch near Ft. Worth. He says, Man, man! Dig them crazy cows! Gerald Blissit is state manager for Griffith Theaters. Janice Hudson just received a beautiful 1964 Lincoln as a birthday gift. Susanna Couch is exhibiting her latest paintings at Philbrook. Her Murals in the new auditorium are the pride of B. A. Dennis Caldwell has realized his ambition as staff sergeant in charge of the 45th Div. HQ mess hall. Lou Hocker ovms and operates the Broken Arrow Ledger, now a daily. Jerry Crawford is an assistant manager of Continental Oil Company. Russell Coates is still attending the University of Oklahoma where he teaches a short course in unionology. Robert Ingold is 'now athletic director of that booming cow town, Oneta. We hear that he is raising his own football team. Shirley Lemon is helping get things in order by being the town's one and only attorney-at-law. Kenneth Kindley is a world famous jockey. Philip Sparling is assistant line coach at Mich- igan State. Kenneth Parnell works as an experimental mechanic with GMC race engines. Deloy Pollard is an official of American Airlines with Carolyn Howard as his secretary. Pat Ibison finally got a new Mercury now that she is Mrs. Jim Parnell. Orpha Kellams and Bill Wheeler have just come back from their honeymoon. Bill has a contract to paint the walls in the high school classrooms. Louise Kemp has opened a new book and gift shop in Tulsa. Joe Tom Reed owns a large food market and ice plant in B. A. Maxine Peterson is a registered nurse at the Mayo Clinic. Jim Robertson and Perry Warren are rich oil men. Barbara Wagner demonstrates home permanents on TV. Gayle Livesay sells a new type of eyelash curler on the same program. Barbara Olson and her husband are large stockholders in Douglas Aircraft. Lois McMath owns and operates a new drive-in theater near Broken Arrow. Bill Cobb plays his saxophone with Artie Shaw's orchestra. Jay Dean Jennings manages the Safeway Store at Yale and 11th. Molly I-Iollabaugh just received an Oscar for her splendid performance in the movie, The Tiger's Claw. Ronald Williams is making a million with a preventive for the common cold. J. C. Duensing is Tulsa's new chief of police. He recently arrested Hershell Caple for disturbing the peace, but it was a case of mistaken identity. Hershell couldn't be that noisy unless he has changed a lot! LeRoy Lemon owns all of Union's up-and-coming banks. He became interested in banking while working in the office during his high school days. Well, that is all the news from the Class of 1954. How are the Robinsons? ls Mike beginning his career as a football star? Sincerely yours, The Arrow-Life Staff of 1954
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I O Sauce Well We, the members of the senior class of 1954, being composed of generous geniuses, having good judgment and sound memory, first in the minds of the underclassmen and teachers, and realizing we are leaving B. A. High with our diplomas under our arms, do 1 1, hereby bequeath these articles of our last will and testament. Article I: To our dear old Alma Mater, we leave our thanks for the memories of the things we did here and the remnants of our school spirit which will long be strong in our hearts. Article ll: To ollr faculty and administration, we leave our thanks for all that they have done for us. We also bequeath them quiet halls during senior week and wish them a pleasant vacation. Article III: To the lowly juniors, we will the following prize possessions: Frank Banfleld, his place in chemistry tn Pat McNeely: Toby Blankenship and Phyllis Kerr, their assigned seats in Miss Clason's class to Sudle Sherrell and Finetta Cowden: Gerald Blissit his bottle of peroxide to Bill Lee: Ted Barron, his technique in crowning the football queen to Bob Cypert: Shirley Bickel, her bywords to Lanell Nichols: Dennis Caldwell, his locker to James Summers: and Hershall C aple, his blue 88 Olds to J. W. Bean. Mary Connery leaves her collie, Rudy, to the band: Russell Coates, his cowboy boots to whoever wants to be heard coming down the hall: and Bill Cobb, his agricultural knowledge to Nile Clark, Willard Treat, and Don Owen. Susanna Couch leaves Mildred Gilliland the office window to be decorated at Christmas time: Jerry Crawford leaves his car, not his girl, to his brother Dennie: Sidney Cummings leaves her ability to be Band Queen to Jimmie Lee Dodd: and Jimmy Dall wills little brother Larry his neat penmanship. Melvin Douglas leaves his band to Kenneth Crowder: J. C. Duensing his football helmet to Jim Mahaffey: and Clarence Drummond went thataway leaving nothing. Nancy Francy leaves nothing also because he graduates with her: Lou Hocker leaves the piano in the band room to the junkman: and Molly Hollabaugn wants Ella Jane Scott to have her '35 Chevie and her nickname, Hot Rod. Paul Hamilton wills his way with the girls to Buck Ewton and Bill Simms. Sheilia Hopkins wills her crazv woman part in the speech play to Evelyn Christian, Anna Belle Houser, her ability to get a good-looking boy friend to Judy Lyle: and Dwayne H3HiS. his ability to date the Annual Queen to Jackie Brooks and J. W. Scott. Carolyn Howard wills her chemistry notes to Paula Showman, and Janice Hudson her job as Arrow Life sports editor to Lillie Benedict and Josie Bryan. Robert lngold leaves his football uniform to Ted Eakes, Pat Ibison, her Mercury to Charlene Peterson: Jay Jennings, his sparkling personality and big brown eyes to Bob Finkel: and Kay Jennings, her trips to Miami to any junior girl lucky enough to go with a college man. Derald Kennedy gives Virginia Greer his ability to play the uke: Orpha Kellams wills her chore of furnishing gum for the crowd, to Betty Jernigan: and Kenneth Kindley leaves his B's in English to LeRoy Ogle. Louise Kemp wills Shirley Waller the book reports someone willed to her last year, that she never could get, and Wayne Ledbetter leaves his angelic Q?J ways to Leroy Manning and Jackie Stone. Shirley Lemon leaves nothing to Connie Tucker since she thinks Connie already has everything. Don Lee hopes Ronald McHenry takes his place on the All-State football list, and Jim Lofton leaves his basketball skill to Dempsey Hardgraves and Tom Biles. Gayle Livesay gives Margaret Ogle and Dorothy Thompson, all three of her crowded lockers: and LeRoy Lemon wills his 8:00 D. E. class to anyone who likes to get up that early. Euvon Loyd leaves her old pickup to Seletha Gourd- Patricia Smith, Patsy Hale, and Frances Dill: Dawain,McNabh-wills hiS bisz black hat to Henry Brandt. Lendell Martin wills his correspondence courses to any deserving junior: and John Marquiess wills his flashing smile to Stanley Cobb, Charles Gam, and Lesley Geren. Lois McMath leaves all the Coweta boys to Mary Richards, Geraldine Foster, Wilma Ewton, Martha Keele, and Martha Tomey: fexcept Paul Waynej. Jim Megee leaves his quiet ways to Glen Warren and Harold Stafford: Joe Montgomery, his red hair to Carl Gragg: Hollis Murphy, his curly hair to Glen Mathews: and Joan Monroe, her graceful posture to L0l'il'lC Poole. Raymond Neal is just glad to leave. Barbara Olson leaves her ability to keep house and go to school no Carol Drew. Kenneth Parnell leaves the twin pipes on his car to someone dear to his heart: Deloy Pollard leaves his knack of filling his car with girls to Richard Haynes, Jim Cook, and Eugene Luster: and Harold Poplin wants W. D. Tomey to have what is left or ms Model A. Maxine Peterson wills ner long hair to Barbara Comer or Opal Goodnight. Joe Tom Reed leaves his height to Elden Robertson: Jim Robertson, his perfect attendance record to Oliver Knoche and Bob Wattam: and L. C. Showman, his socialite shoes to Bill Lernon, Charles McKinnon, Bob Martin. and Vance Beaver. Philip Sparling wills Tom Tucker his dirty football socks. Irene Taber wants Betty Buchannan to have her job as head cheerleader: Shirley Tarltlon leaves Peggy King her little mouth and quiet ways: and Perry Warren wills his careful driving habits to Bill McLean, Bill Tharp, and Gene Raney. Dearl Watson has nothing to leave, as he needs his talents, if any, himself. Barbara Wagner wills her fondness for farm life to Louise Adney: Bill Wheeler leaves his opportunities to work for Mr. Kindell to Ray Metzger: and Ronald Williams wills his good study habits to Joe Weirick and Edgar Harris and a part like his ln the senior play to Owen Tockey. Bob Winingham leaves his stock car racing abilitv to Howard Williams and Norman Holloway. Signed, sealed, published, and declared as and for its last will and testament by the Senior Class of 1954. ja if 9 secretary M6 'J mmm A flax!! ,
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