Buffalo High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Buffalo, MT)

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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.

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JUNIOR CLASS STANDING, Left to Right: Pauline Philpott, Carole Terry. SEATED: Ralph Wetzel. This page sponsored by - DELUXE CAFE, JACOBS, CITY BARBER SHOP, MASSEY FERGUSEN, RAHN'S FOOD CENTER, in Lewistown