Buffalo High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Buffalo, MT)

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CLASS WILL If there are any lawyers reading this will, may I respectfully ask them to refrain from being over-critical. I have not studied law, and the books at my command failed to be sufficiently specific, so I am not at all sure I have the exact wording required for a legal document known as a last will and testament. However, we who are about to sever our connections with the Buffalo High School have a strong desire to bequeath various things to certain people. As we understand it, this can be done only by drawing up the right kind of a will. We have no specific directions to leave concerning our funeral, but we do hope you will come prepared to praise as well as bury us, forgetting the trifling faults that may have been ours and remembering only our manifold and remarkable virtues. To our dear old school building itself, we leave the peaceful quiet caused by our absence and any apple cores, wads of gum, or crumpled notes we may have left about. To our principal we give and bequeath a sense of relief that we have at last been graduated, pleasant memories of our year together, and all the amazing knowledge and startling information that we have furnished him from time to time. To the rest of the teachers we bequeath our valuable sense of humor, without which we should have found school life painful indeed and which will do much to make it endurable for them. The smaller individual bequests are as follows: JOANNE WILLS TO Pauline, her place on the annual and paper staff, and her deepest sympathy. Marjorie, her cheerleading ability, such as it is, and her place in lunch line. Donnie, her ability to get to school on time. Carole, her shorthand notes, in hope that she can read them. John Earl, her comparatively good grades, in hope that he can improve them a little. Leona, her well carved up desk; maybe she can add a few scratches. CHARLES WILLS TO Ralph, his ability to crawl up ventilators and not get caught; for awhile. Kenneth, his desk near the window, so he can see who is coming and going in Buffalo. Pauline, his bookkeeping ability, whatever that is. Lilia, his ability to play fairly good ping-pong. Edward, his height to use for basketball. Loretta, his place on the honor roll. MERVIN WILLS TO Ralph, his physique. Raymond, his ability to get to class on time. Linda, his math ability. Edward, his place on the paper staff. Donnie, his ability to catch girls. Kenneth, his even temper.

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CLASS HISTORY Early one September morning in the year of 1949, five brave first graders entered the doors of the Buffalo Public School. Ronald Vestal, Tom Scritchfield, Jo Anne Wetzel, Mervin Philpott, and Everett Wilber were welcomed by their teacher, Miss Arlene Largent. Returning to school for our second year we find that we had lost Everett Wilber, but had a new student to take his place, Sheron McDonald. Miss Largent was our teacher again this year. Beginning our third year we were all excited because we were in a different room and had a new teacher. Miss Marilyn Warburton. This year we lost three students, Jo Anne Wetzel, Ronald Vestal, and Tom Scritchfield. But the faces of four new students appeared, they were Frances Kennedy, Jaunita Stokes, Stephen Songer, and Daniel Dolan. The fall of 1952 found us being greeted by Miss Warburton again, but we had lost two of our classmates, Jaunita Stokes, and Stephen Songer. Although we had lost two of our class we had found three new members, Arnold Sample, Joyce Kreamalmeryer, and Alice Rameriz. In the fifth grade we suffered the loss of three students, Joyce Kreamalmeryer, Arnold Sample, and Daniel Dolan. We had a different teacher this year, Mrs. Good- man. Mrs. Goodman was our teacher again during our sixth year. We found that Alice Rameriz did not return with us this year. Joyce Kreamalmeryer joined us again this year along with two new students, Charles Wiitala and Kay Talkington. During the year 1955-56 we found ourselves in a different room, and our teacher was Mrs. Miller. Kay Talkington and Joyce Kreamalmeryer left us this year and we were again joined by Jo Anne Wetzel. In the eighth grade we found that we had a new teacher, Mrs. Rose Lewis. We suffered the loss of Sheron McDonald, but David and Gary Lewis, Alice Rameriz, and Arnold Redwood joined us. In the fall of 1957 we entered the school house and started climbing the steps that would lead us to the rest of the high school students. This year we were minus three of our previous students, Gary and David Lewis, and Frances Kennedy. Our teachers were Mr. Erv Hageness, Mr. Fred Weoppel, and Mr. H. T. Wilson. As Sophomores, we found that Alice Rameriz and Arnold Redwood had left us, but we had a new student, Diane Steel. Our teachers were Mrs. Steel, Mr. Larke, Mr. Baker, and Mr. Aspevig. We lost no students during our Junior year but we had two new ones, David Miller and Diane Kauffman. We had two new teachers, Mr. Tierney and Mr. Kauffman. Seniors at last!! The 1960-61 seniors were welcomed by three new teachers, Mr. Iverson, Mrs. R. Burns, and Mr. Louis Stahl. Those answering the roll for the senior class were Jo Anne Wetzel, Mervin Philpott and Charles Wiitala. Commencement exercises were held May 24, 1961, at the School Gym and Bacca- laureate services were held May 21, 1961.

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CLASS PROPHECY In the year of 1981, Professor Louis Stahl put an ad in the Buffalo Daily News, stating that he wanted a person who knew the class of 1961 and their whereabouts. Being a learned man, I answered the ad and was promptly hired. He gave me the names of the three members of that class and I started my new job. The first mem- ber of the class, I was to find was the valedictorian, Jo Anne Wetzel. I didn't know where Jo Anne was, but I knew her dad was still at Eddie's Corner weighing trucks. Ralph informed me that Jo Anne was the head of the English Department at Eastern College in Billings. I immediately went down to see her, and she hadn’t changed a bit. She was still as pretty and charming as she was the day she graduated. She told me that she had married at the age of 23, the year she had predicted. Her husband was President of Eastern and they had three charming children. I asked if she had heard where Mervin Philpott was, and she informed me that he was down in Denver at an electronics school. He graduated with high honors and got a job as head electronics technician down in Cape Canaveral. It seems one day he was checking the wiring in a rocket with 20 young girl astronauts and the rocket was fired with them in it, so Mervin Philpott, class of '61, was the first man to the moon along with 20 young girls. The next day, I was reading the paper and saw where Chuck Wiitala's sister be- came engaged, so I went to see her. She informed me of Chuck’s whereabouts, so I followed her instructions and soon found him. Chuck looked very well, and though I exclaimed amazement at his job, he in- formed me that building a floating bridge across the Pacific Ocean was really a very good job. Chuck had been married to die same girl for fifteen years. She spent her time caring for their five children, plus running a local flea circus that Chuck had started when they were first married. As I started the journey back to Buffalo to report to Mr. Stahl, I found myself thinking proudly of the class of 1961. They had gone a long way, and were still climbing. VALEDICTORIAN AND SALUTATORIAN Jo Anne Wetzel was named Valedictorian for the class of 1961. Jo Anne has at- tended Buffalo School for eight years. Mervin Philpott and Charles Wiitala were named Co-Salutatorians. Mervin has gone to school at Buffalo for twelve years. Charles has been here for seven years.