Broken Arrow High School - Arrow Life Yearbook (Broken Arrow, OK)

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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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