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PROGRESS OF THE FORTY-NINERS In 1949 three Seniors left their commencement exercises and started on the road to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Through much research and costly detective work, this committee has managed to trace these forty-niners through the last ten hectic years. In the spring of 1949 one, Ruthie Dover, started immediately on the road to life in the pursuit of happiness but lost her liberty. She was married in June. The two remaining Seniors wished the bride good luck and took off in opposite directions. Five years hence, as of a certain spring day, we found: Crabtree's Creeping Cats playing their hearts out under the able direction of “Deed” Crabstree at a resort in the Crazy Mountains. So enjoyable had been their music that the dance floor had been repaired thirteen times to date. On an opposite peak, a week later we found on all sides small children wending their way upward and onward to a little red schoolhouse at the top. Standing in the doorway ringing the bell stood Marie Flugge, the superintendent, principal, and teacher of the establishment. Thus far we got and no further--for awhile. A dectective started at Buffalo and another at Billings to trace the third forty-niner, Ruth Dover Parnell. One citizen would say she went there and another would say she went here, thus confusing our “hawk-eyes.” However, success is always the reward for determination. Ruthie's husband had been drafted in the fall of 1949 and was still on the high seas. On this certain spring morning Ruthie 'was headed for France to invade Paris. In 1959, our tracing of the forty-niners completed, we found: Edith with a changed uniform, changed profession and changed name. Her orchestra uniform of maroon and gold had been exchanged for a trim, starched one of white. Her orchestra had been merely a side line as each year she had been collecting credits toward a major in medicine. Her name-change cannot be revealed as she is now an interne at the Mayo Brothers Clinic and was secretly married without the permission of her supervisor. Edith Crabtree (blank), adios. Marie, instead of teaching school 7,000 feet above sea level, can be seen piloting a plane 7,000 feet above land, as she is Federal Superintendent of 12
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CLASS WILL We, the Senior Class, of the City of Buffalo, County of Fergus, and State of Montana, being of sound minds and memories do hereby make, publish and declare this to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking all other wills and bequests of whatever nature hithertofore made by us. First: We bequeath to the Class of ’50 our dignified ways, our unequaled manners, and our brains; Second: To our teachers we bequeath our tiresome long assignments, our faithful instruction, and our undying gratitude for the help they have given us during our four years of High School; Third: To the underclassmen we leave our good behavior, our pep, and our school loyalty with the request that they not be mislaid; Fourth: To the Freshman class we leave our shorthand notes (hoping they can read them), gobs of gum which can be found stuck on various assembly desks and on the lunch room tables, ink spots, and last but not least, our good looks and winning personalities; Fifth: Individually, we bequeath: I, Ruth Joy Dover bequeath my dignity and bashfulness to Mary Piane; my ability to get along with people to my little sis, Mary Alice; and my bobby pins to Gertrude McDonald. I, Marie Leora Flugge, leave my shooting ability as forward to Elois Harrison, my job as editor of the Booster to Colin Dover and my place as soprano in the Glee Club to Gertrude McDonald. I, Edith Maxine Crabtree, leave my place as guard on the girls’ basket - ball team to Joan Fairbanks; my typewriter to Phillip Lilley, hoping it serves him as well as it did me; my height to Harold Dover and my flirting ability to LaVonne Gardner. Signed, Class of ’49 Signed, sealed, published and declared by them as and for their last will and testament, in their presence, and in the presence of myself, I have hereunto subscribed my name as an attesting witness to said document. Signed, All Gohne (Notary) II
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the Nation’s Public School System and in order to consult with the Secretary of Education in Washington, D.C., in the morning and be at a two o’clock appointment in Minneapolis on the same day, she flies instead of climbs and now has her own helicopter. Marie “Flugge” (not for too long as she has been engaged for some time), so long. And what of the adventurous Ruthie in gay Paris? She had long since returned to the United States. Her beauty salon can be found in the best part of Chicago. A gorgeous neon sign reminds the passerby that he can “go in very meek and come out looking chic.“ Her husband returned from the high seas a captain just recently. He and Ruthie are now enjoying a second honeymoon in Burmuda after a short argument as to whether they should go by plane or by boat. Ruth Dover Parnell, adieu. 13
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