Brownstown High School - Webb Yearbook (Brownstown, IN)

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THE LAST ROUNDUP As I was snttnng nn my armehanr one day I suddenly realized that nt was the 70th an nnx ersary of the day on whnch I had graduated from hngh school I pncked up the tele phone and called my old frnend and classmate Dorothea Foster cnknns of Phoennx Arnzona She was stnll looknng well and sand she felt cnergetnc so I asked her to come to my home nn Brownstown for a wnsnt and to talk over old tnmes She was 1 wndow of twenty years havnng marrned Davnd enknns back nn the year 1943 She arrnved an hour and thnrty Exe minutes later by plane and after many questions concerning each other s health we fell to remnnnscnng 'lhe question arose as to whether or not we could account for all the members of our class I told her that one of my great grandchildren had bought one of the new Self Cool nng refrigerators from a man named Ashcraft Upon uestnonnn hnm I had learned that he was the youngest grandchnld of Dansy Collnngswort n Ashcra t Dorothea sand she to the mnllnons that he ha made as president of the Unnted Anr Lnnes of America was to wed a famous socnety beauty whom she learned by further readnng was a descendant of Chrnstnne O nenl This lead to a dnscussnon of anr planes and the wonderful improve ments that had been made snnce we were young Speaking of anr planes made us remem ber that Reva Spray had marrned an aviator who had been knlled a few years later Neither one of us had heard of Reva after that What ever became of Kathryn Gossman7 Dorothea asked Oh I sand When the Prohnbntnon Amendment came up again nn 1950 she was one of the most ardent supporters in Indiana After the amendment was passed she was elected sheriff of Lake County Indiana Well that surely ns news to me sand Dorothea Have you heard about the at tempt to assassinate the presndent of China? I hadnt Yes she sand that was at ten oclock thns morning That made both of us remember the murder of our dear frnend une Denny She had been stabbed with a snlver dagger by a young Italnan who sand he loved her and could not bear to see her married to someone else Dorothea s eyes were monst and a tear stole softly down my cheek That had been back nn 1955 but the memory stnll brought tears to our eyes At this time I recalled having heard several years back about a reward of 310 000 being offered for the capture of a famous Hollywood gangster By following the story each day I learned that Fred Mannon was one of the detectives working on the case One of my grandchildren has a cancer I sand It surely ns a rehef to know that there ns a sure cure for nt thanks to Charley Sage He also invented a treatment which causes nmmednate recovery from nnsannty dndnt he7 Yes sand Dorothea I remember reading something about that He married the nnnnnnnnnnnnnllnnnnnnllnnnnnnunnnnnnunnnnnnnnnnnnnllnnnnn 1 9 3 4 uunllnnnnnnll nnnnnnn nnllnnnnnnll nnnnnll nn nu nn Page Snxlrnl unnn Illlll Ilnnnn nnnnnllnnnu Iln mn I had just read in a newspaser that Richard Smith, grandchild of Marvin Smith and heir 1 l ' i .i i ,

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SENICR CLASS WILL l1st Wrll and Testlment We the Senror Clrss of Brownstown Hreh School rn the yerr of our Lord Ihr rssert md rffrrm th rt berny srne and sound of mrnd and memory we do herewrth md hereby make publrsh rnd declare thrs our lrst wrll and test rment md bequeath the followrng artreles to the rrndermentroneu person ryees to wrt To the rneomrne Ire hrnen we lerye our se rts rn the assembly wrth all the ehewrnf eum rnclrrdrny, 14 wads of yurey frurt 73 of teaberry I0 oi dentyne and 31 of doubl mrnt 'lo the unrors we le rye 1 broken ywenerls s pen pornts md 7 used comprcts Ilo the Sophomores we wrll our well deseryed Old Shayrng Mue on the condrtron trrt they be If next yelr s freshmen elfrss rn the elrss tourney Ilhe followrny: yery personrl legreres rre left to the herern named Dorothea loster her No 8 shoes to Vrrlernrr Sehwern Mrldred Nrerman her sfrrlor dress to Hrrrret Wallace Drrsy Collrngsworth her blue eyes to Vrrgrnra O Nerl 'lhelma ohnson her Mae Wlest figure to Nlrxrne Robertson Geneyreye Bullock her I dont know to llorence Ixestner Lors Mrller her slender fleure to Inez Hall 'lwrnke Brooke hrs southern broygrre to lohn Nrerman rm Lockman hrs red harr to Omer Terkhorn Dorrs Woodmansee her quret ways to Ceorera Mackey Ramon Rembold hrs freckles to Theodore Mobley Kenneth Purkey hrs brek seat rn the assembly to Rrmo Haley Reya Spray her appetrte to Noble Trueblood lrrrell Boofer hrs robust form to Ldnr Vondelrngon Clark Wayman hrs fast walk to Lena Trdwcll Kathryn Gossman her long harr to Lourse Kennedy Wally Herrmann hrs appeal for the women to Edward Downey rm Mullen hrs bashfulness to the Mrller twrns Chrrstme O Nerl wrlls Bob Schwern to anybody Charley Sage hrs Hr Y pm to Wfanrtr Goss lred Man on hrs brother Dean to Catherrne Robertson Marvrn Smrth hrs checkered shrrt to Mrllrcent Doerr Bob Vermrlya hrs abrlrty to wrn law surts to Harold Smrth Noel Fosbrrnk hrs good nature to D C Spray Srgned sealed declared and publrshed by the Senror class of 1931 The well constrtuted and confirmed rnstruetor rn hoes rnseets and plmt drseases at Brownstown Hrgh School The duly elected authorrty on typrng and baseball at Brownstown Hrgh School s wrtnesses do hereunto respeetry ely set therr hands and seals thrs 'Oth day of M rrch 195 1 Harley Dzfque Robert Akers 1934 Page Fxffeen 'I ll ll ll ll ll III I THE WEBB II II ll ll ll ll ll .13 l r 'iz ' , Ziff K ' I' .t I. ' 1' 'L , fI I, L 1 V 4 'I Y .IL '. ,' I . I ' , 4' .5 . 4 . ,Q 1 y- .L y- I , U . Q, ,' . - V' ' 'l Y -1'-' '- - ' , 2 I . ,ks , ,I 1 I: a 'I L v. Q Y A . . l. '. .' 'Az ' '...' I ' H. ' I ,' Y , , V , 5- L .H -I., k , . , ,' K , : june Denny' wills her red dresses to Dorothy McQuiston. ,S : 5 ,y . A x .K ' ,' '2 N , ' h I 1 I 1 , 1 :KI 1 K Q A A K 1 1. ' . K y 5 5 A . .5 , . A 1 ' , V . .-I - - - . ' r I . A ', A , , I- ' 1 7 , y , . . ' ,' . r 7 X- , 7 s Y Is 4 . I .jj I' ' 1' YI4 . 4 I , I.I 'lI e ' I . ' 1 ' , ' 1 'f ' ' ' 1 n . 1 . 1' 7, I . 34 ' , I' I ' L ' . f , I 1 v I va ' 7 I I I: A Y. K , I. K V I L V . 1 I I ll I I I . , ', I I- I I2 : L 3 ' ' , I 1 V l I A ' 1 s I v I - I ' I y I 4 v v I an Y. . A H . ' V ' . K K . H Y i y y

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little girl who lnyed four mnlcs west of Brownstown dndnt he? I think so S1y wh1t ex er bee lme of lo ohnson 1fter she retired from the scr en ' I nsked Vifhy she s1nd I suppose you know thn she w ns xery popular for 1 whnle nn telcxnsnon After th1t she trayeled md she dned some tnme tgo nn lner home nn Pasadem fnlnfornnl Did Bob Vermnlyl eyer bunld up hns fortnnne again ifter the stock market ertsh of 19857 I don t thnnk so I sand I surely felt sorry for Geneyneye It ns so h1rd to loose all one s money nn hns old age I heard last night ox er my r1ndo wrnst watch that there m1y be 1 w1r nn Furope soon I sand If tlnere ns I do hope the United States keeps onnt of nt That surely w1s too b1l rbout Ixenneth Purkey and Iarrell Boofer being knlled nn the 1p1nese Amernc1n XX'1r Dorothei sind But I guess they died doing their duty I remember fC'lLlIIlg nn the Browrnstown D1nly Bmner m1ny m my ye1rs 15,0 1bonnt the delth of Ramon Rennbold I sand Hns death was caused by hns eltnng ten ehnek dinner pnlls He didnt know that each one was a complete ehneken dinner nn ntselt He thought they were pneees of candy I thnnk nm Lockman was influential nn passing that lnw Ixen nf he was 1 Democr1 I xot d tor hnm for Senator nn 1964 I alw 1ys dnd tlnnnk he knew more nbonnt goxernment tlnnn most people Do you hue any nde1 what bee mme of nm Mullen ' At the time I vnsnted the Two Centuries of Ireedom Exposition 1t New York I me hnm I sand He was selling tickets for 1n exhibit called Impossible But True It w1s at this exhnbnt that I first saw 1n anr rocket Dorothea s1nd I suppose you knew th1t XW1lly Herrmann went wntln one of those groups of people to Mars I sand No I lYlell'1tl1L'1l'el Dnd they arrnye slfelyf They never lne1rd of the rocket again It was entlner lost or else nt landed on some other planet Speaking of m1rvelous nnventnons I sand do you remember how famous Clark W1ym1n became when he invented 1utom1tnc wnngs7 He nlso invented 1 method of burning coal without any smoke Nenther of us could recall the date of the nm entnon of ufonvatnc wings untnl I rc membered reading nn 1970 thlt W Winston Brooke the Democratic governor of Geor gna had flown from hns home nn Columbus to Atlantl by means of automatne wings to tnke the oath of office That was about the tnme the two hour day came out wasn t nt? I sand I remem ber hearing at one tnme that Lons Miller was using her nnfluen e nn nts f1wor At that tnme she was nn a business of her own nn Indianapolis Say what ever became of Doris Woodmansee9 Why she married a carpenter Dorothea sand I heard someone say once that he specnalnzed nn bunldnng glass houses for nudnst colonies Haxent we mentioned all the members of our class now? I asked What about Noel Fosbrnnk7 Dorothea sand Oh I sand Noel has been dead for several years but hns youngest son ns stnll Invnng on the old homeplace about a mnle out of Brownstown The house has all the modern convennenees mechanical robots to do plowing hars estnng and chores and wnre less control of danrynng machnery They were also one of the fnrst people to feed chickens nsnnglass and get eggs wrapped nn cellophane Nenther one of us could think of any one else who had been nn our class so we de ended that we were the sole survivors After I had pushed the button for the mechanical mand we forgot about 1934 and went out to take a tew tap dancnng lessons After that we were going to spend the remainder of the evennng roller skating IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllulllllIIIIIIIIIHIIIII 1 9 3 4 IIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIlllllllllIlllll Page Set entern IIIII Il III 'Inn llunnn Ill n nunnlln Ilnnnnnnllnnnnnnll nnnnnll Ili . ,.. K- - I I , c . , 1 , 3 2 , ' k , ' .2 ' A ' , h A K A ,L 1. ' L 'A A - e 'A r 1 1 e rr , '- H ' V A. I IDU, .ini . H .4 1 I ' e ' A 'I A , e a , -Q A -l . ' e I 4 ' n I A, i e ' K Y t YL I 4 X - .II e l . H A if, ' I I . I. -1 I ' X. .e H 1 .' ' ' ' .' 1 -, . ', 1 nn'.i.',. 1 2 L .' , ' I ' V is - . '- sk ' , , . '. ,iq A ' , ' ' f , 1 v v ' - - ' , A ' I -A . y nv 1. . ' - .L vi There is 11 law' now requiring manufacturers to label all pills correctly , she said. n C l ' L' A fn Y! VA ' ' a . Y , 1 ,R -s . vi A-1 A I I -1 -IK l K I T A . A AL I 7 I' e T ' A I 1 L I I I V 1 I. I s. ,.', e ' 'L . ' N ' f D I ,K I T A A Il I I. A 1 A el A I X e t . ' i ' ' e e i 'i ' 1 I . , ' ' ' e ' . 's , z '- . 1 s ' n v 1 I I ' H A . . I Y . . 1 V ...X Y . il ,Yi ' 5 ll , ' i 1 - , . . V Y I . Q , . . , . 7 D V. 4, , I ' I Ae an n.