Clayton High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Clayton, IN)

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Paul Settles became a champxon Jxujmtsu performer 1nsp11ed by the d1rect1on of the Semor Play Charles Mosxer went 1nto a trance 1n Enghsh Class and hasn t recovered yet James Easton got a Job as bouncer for the Glue Room 1n New York C1ty Everett Pyle 15 now known as Hot Lxps the Kmg of Swmg He has h1s own orchestra and IS seen over telewxsxon statxon D R Y TV Ronald P1ggy Mart1n 1n sp1te of all the doctors could do passed away because of malnutrxtxon shortly after graduatxon Mary Wmgler became a pr1vate secretary and xs typxng all of Mr Trurnan s letters for hxrn Paul Elmore fulfxlled hxs hfelong amb1t1on and became the personal photographer of Hedy Lamarr James Abney has des1gned a new car It IS Jet propelled and equlpped w1th radar to warn of comxng telephone poles trees and d1tches Dave Hxcks became a playwrxght and xs followmg 1n the footsteps of h1s beloved Bessxe Graham organlzed a newspaper company 1n lnd1anapol1s and ran the Star the News and the T1mes out of busmess Elvm Cr1smore fmally real1zed h1s hxdden dream and went to Pans Now he 15 Monsxeur Elvln the Haxr dresser Russell Penrod marr1ed h1s h1gh school sweetheart and took her to New York where he IS the chef at the Waldorf Astorxa Margaret Unger po1soned her husband and became a w1dow whxle she was 1n her early Z0 s Then bemg lonely she took up plumbxng for a pastxme Betty Alltop gave up teachmg after trymg to cope wxth the Semors of 51 and IS now running an old folks home for retxred baseball players and thelr wxves Mr Charles Baldw1n changed hxs name to Hector and went xnto the movxes So much for our Class of 51 I was xery glad to recene your letter and especxally glad to hear that you d1d become a nurse Maybe mf you f1n1sh off too many pat1ents you can come to my ranch for a vacat1on unt1l xt s safe to return l ll be lookmg for you Yours Gmny 15 Shakespeare. He is looking forward to the day when one of his plays will be published.

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IX qc O gi O F ,Jw Lane Crow Ranch Wyoming Dear Liz l vsent home to Indiana for a month s vacat1on recently and while Iwas there l went to the Wharnum and Daly Circus in Indianapolis lmagme my surpr1se when I discovered the tight rope walker was none other than Audrey Settles our old classmate She had married soon after graduation but she soon grew tired of taking care of the brats so she ran away and Joined the circus Wo. got to talking about our classmates and it seemed that she had seen most of them in her travels Those she hadn t seen I had heard from so we had a very pleasant v1s1t talkmg over old times on his second million Lyle Main became an engineer He is now working on a blueprint for a new Brooklyn B1 idge The old one mysteriously disappeared on the night of May Z5 1951 Bill Neely became a missionary and went to the Hawaiian Islands where he spent his entire life trying to convince the Hula girls that dancing was wrong B111 Vkoessner became a great orator and is known as the Darling of Speech Teac her'-. Harmon Lewis became a race jockey and married the bookie Phyllis Chambers The last we heard of them they had bought a yacht and were on a trip up the river 14 IN AWA f f ll . U4 X Ralph Williams became a math teacher and made a million dollars. He is now working

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lb S LAST 5 xr WILL AND fff TA Mem Class W111 We the Semor Flass of 1951 of Clayton lndxana bemg of sound bodxes and partlally sound mmds do hereby publxsh and declare thls to be our last w1ll and statement to dlspose of all our earthly real and personal property l James Abney wlll my chauffeurmg abxlxty to Don Hxcks Vlfxlham Burnett w1ll my bookkeepmg book to Bob Shearer so he Non t haxe to work Elvm Crxsmore wxll my abxlmty to play Pmg pong to K1m Snodgrass Phylhs Chambers wxll my abxlxty to sew to Frances Burnett James Easton Wlll my ab1l1ty to loxe the g1rls to Henry Rodenbeck Paul Elmore w1ll my muslc abxlxty to Gordon Weakly Bessxe Graham wxll my bookkeepmg book to Delores Heckathorn I Davzd Hxcks w1ll my four years of expeuence to some arnb1t1ous Freshrnan so that he won t haxe to learn some ot the thxngs l had to learn the hard way l Harmon Lewxs w1ll my perfect school attendance to Frank Barnes I Lyle Main wxll my abxhty to get along wxth teachers to IX ark Cnddxngs 16 l l I, ,. . , . . 1 , U 1, . . , . .. . - . l L . I . .. I 1, , y . n , K t I, , ' . ' ' . l, .. ' ' , ' .'. '. .