Clifton Fine Central High School - Mountain Echo Yearbook (Star Lake, NY)

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The I M 0 U TL I fi i n E c h O S 11 ll f f I6 lg-I A 15,3 , A ,ks ', af Q if ROBERT DORAN PATRICIA HOGAN Editors' Message Advisor You're typical teens . . . making fun out of work . . . sharing interests . . . going steady . . . about five weeks. You're typical high school students . . . go out for sports . . . baby sit . . . work in stores . . . get up at 7 . . . maybe 7:30 . . . you snack . . . drink cokels . . . watch TV while doing homework . . . you enjoy school but hate to admit it . . . study some . . . three hours a night . . . no, a week . . . average A . . . well, C . . . you make the grade anyway . . . just . . . but you're satisfied because you are a teenager. And so, here is your book. The Mountain Echo 'i which brings our school spirit . . . in classrooms . . . athletics . . . music . . . activities. , X l f In later years, while turning these pages, if you f should recall the many smiles, sorrows, and dreams X of '56, we shall be content. I Ze f LENA LEASE B usmess Treasurer KATHRYN LA PLANTE RALPH WEST, JAMES SMITH, THOMAS CAUFIELD

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Class Prophecy It is' the year 1986 and many have gathered in the Clifton- Fine cafeteria to attend the Alumni Banquet. We find that each member of that famous class of '56 is present. Let's find out what each has done since graduation. SUSAN YADDOW was the inquisitive type. Because of her intense interest in everybody's business, she is a star reporter. She is so alert that she once interviewed a criminal while he was committing the crime. ROGER THOMAS was a slow moving chap. He is a plumber's assistant-the one who goes back for the monkey wrench and can't find it. He, with his wife, VESTA PEABODY, live on a farm in Cranberry Lake. LINDA SMITH owns an exclusive beauty shop. People- men as well as women- will enter her shop looking like 60 and emerge looking like 16. Linda is a famous face lifter and she is a living example of her work. ROBERT DORAN is a famous inventor who has invented over a 1000 labor saving devices. One of his inventions is Boomerang collar buttons-guaranteed to return to the hand that lost them. MERLIN FOLEY, once a basketball player for the Syra- cuse Nats, is now a real estate agent. He has become rich selling Florida lots to the inhabitants of Labrador and igloos to the dwellers of the Sahara. TIM FORKEY has just given up his racing stables and he now lives on an Indian Reservation where he will have free hunting and no income taxes. DORIS RUSHMORE, a graduate of Potsdam, is the vocal teacher at our Alma Mater. She recently had a book published entitled H101 Ways to Catch a Ranger. NORRIS REED is a member of the FBI CFuller Brush, Inc.J. He has written a book, I Led Two Lives -a story of his experiences as a brush salesman and a counterspy for the United Butchers of America. RALPH WEST, a famous chemist, has isolated the germs of hayfever, love, hate, and laziness. He has also extermin- ated book reports, income taxes, and English teachers. POLLY BARDEN, the domestic type, is the wife of a leading citizen of Irish Hill. She is very active in the Home Bureau. ' PHYLLIS BONI has made good use of her voice. She can now be seen as the lead in the musical comedy, Cinder- ella's Scandal. After the banquet, she will fly to Reno to shed her third spouse. DONNA BASSETTE is the well known composer who has written many songs that have appeared on the Hit Parade. Some of her songs are: There's a Ga-Ga Gal in Guate- mala and 1 Hear You Knocking But I Can't Find the Key. WENDALL LASHUA is the owner of the Eat and Run Restaurant. He is also an undertaker and both businesses are doing well. HAROLD BOYD is America's champion pole sitter, mara- thon dancer and pretzel eater. Harold is also the world's undisputed channel swimmer. He once swam back and forth until his manager remembered to come and fish him out. JAMES WARD, the superintendent of Jones and Lauglin, is also president of the Clifton-Fine Central School Board of Education. ANN CLARKE-because of her ability to get others to work while she watches and her ability to answer all questions Csometimes correctlyl-is a school teacher. LOWELL KERR is a member of the Senate. In the forth- coming election he will be a candidate for the presidency. Lowell sponsored the bill, Be Kind to Seniors Week. JACKIE J ANACK, a noted orator, is quite busy with her lecture tours. She is best known for such stirring speeches as Sleeping Habits of the Night Owl and Identifying the 99 Different Species of the Beetle. JAMES SMITH had to rent all the rooms of the Lakeview Hotel to accommodate the many wives of his Harem. Jim went to Bagdad to explore and decided to become a citizen of the place. WILLIAM KERR is a wealthy salesman. Bill just recently returned from Alaska where he had success selling cars to the Eskimos. He belongs to the National Swindlers' As- sociation. EVELYN KELLEY is a designer of cross word puzzles, magazine covers and necktie patterns for a large department store. PAT HOGAN, another Clara Barton, is now working at the Oswegatchie Cat and Dog Hospital, operated by a former classmate, GEORGE PERSSON. WILLIAM BURNS is a poet of the new school. He is the author of such brilliant works as Owed to a Taylor, and Lines on a Lady's Face. JAMES COLE was the curious type. He volunteered for the first trip to the moon. He was amazed with life on the moon that he has already made plans to return. THELMA KING leads an exciting life. Tomorrow she will leave for Africa to accompany her husband, Bring 'em back alive Buckaroo, a big game hunter. VIRGINIA TITUS, the old maid of the class, is the pos- sessor of many degrees as B.S., M.S., Ph.D., F.O.B. and' S.O.S. For the past 10 years she has been Dean of the Dormitory College for Girls. CECILE DE LAIR is Betty Button, the well known and popular- actress. She has starred in many films-one of which, I'd Cry Tomorrow But It's Much More Convenient Today, brought her the Academy Award. This movie was directed by the noted ALVIN KELLEY who won an Oscar for his movie, Golden Locks and the Peroxide Bottle. .IAMES POMERVILLE is a civil engineer. His present job is to place a tunnel through the Rockies to shorten trips for Hollywood commuters. KATHRYN LA PLANTE has married into royalty. She and her husband, the Prince of Wales, live in a beautiful mansion on Guna-Guna Island. ART PLOOF is a foreman at the Newton Falls Paper Mill when he isn't at Chappel's still celebrating his graduation from high school.

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