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SE IORS CF 1955 Oh here s to a class whrch rs eager and brrght We merrt your keen admrratron Wrth twelve years of learnrng we are dorng all rrght For accomplrshment we beat the natron To the Senrors of Converse of course we refer We re a goodly bunch none of us bad But now that we re endrng our school as rt were We feel rust a lrttle brt sad We have twenty four members a rrght healthy bunch And now our class roll we shall call For somehow or other we have a real hunch You d apprecrate knowrng us all Bob Brown our class presrdent does all he can To treat us all farr and alrke He thrnks wrth hrs trarnrng he ll be rust the man To take over for Presrdent Ike Our darnty Joyce Wrmmer rs rust a brt shy But she numbers her frrends by the score She says she won t marry trll she frnds a guy Who rs worth half a mrllron or more Now Ronald rs Brrght of that he can boast He rs rn hrs place often and early But he can t decrde whrch he enroys the most Playrng basketball or datrng Shrrley Alrce Johnson says she rs a basketball fan Her frrendly ways always attract us She knows that some day she wrll cook for a man So at Bessre s she rs gettrng good practrce Gene Walker rs really a drummer wrth style He has pounded out many a zoom You ll understand after you ve watched hrm awhrle Why hrs favorrte tune rs Sh Boom We have sweet Shonnre Francrs from out of the north She rs popular all over town She toots on her trumpet for all that she s worth And her favorrte color rs Brown Our center Bob Hullrngers speedy and tall He almost forgot to stop growrng But Gee When he once got hrs hands on the ball He really knew where he was gorngl Patsy Freeman says now she deserves a good rest She has studred as hard as could be So she has decrded shell rust try her best To relax but keep watchrng TV ln hrs dad s frllrng statron we are sorry to state That Bob Tucker may get a brt greasy But then wrth hrs snappy red car as a bart Hrs datrng should really be easy Our lass Janet Durkes from down on the farm Has that come hrther look rn her eyes And yet we rmagrne that part of her charm Comes from bakrng such swell cherry pres Dale Wolfe loves the sorl wrth a passron thats deep He wrll make a good farmer he vows He wants to rarse chrckens and turkeys and sheep And mrlk about seventeen cows Lewrs Mrller s a lad who rs plump and well fed Move over boys' Grve hrm more room Hrs hobby rs parntrng b t we v h ard t sa d That hrs ma make hrm help wrth the broom Frankre Bly rs real busy as sure as you re born She now and then gets rn a lam She dances and skates lead cheers toots a horn But her favorrte pastrme rs Sam For hrs playrng Ned Mrddlesworth s known all about Hrs musrc expresses deep feelrng But alas If a sour note ever dropped out lt would echo from floor to cerlrng There s a grrl we call Peaches she s versatrle qurte Her real for sure name Onda Amos To pep up the cheerrng bunch rs her delrght Her gymnastrcs have made her qurte famous Bob Neal rs our cut up He loves to tell rokes And he loved to play basketball too He put on a good show for all of the folks We thrnk he s a dandy don t you? Lrnda Lake Wrth her auburn harr looks mrghty frne And a splendrd cheerleader she makes For when she gets gorng they fall rrght rn lrne Our Lrnda has got what rt takes We have Larry Mygrant hrs nrckname rs Mrke He keeps all the grrls rn a trzzy Wrth baseball and basketball track and the lrke He frnds hrmself always qurte busy Her true love rs musrc trs sard We are glad rt rs musrc that keeps her that way fWrth a lot of assrstance from Ned D We wonder a lot as we re callrng our roll Why Tom Gray rs so thoughtful and moody As rf some deep problem was troublrng hrs soul The answer rs probably Judy We ve a lad who rs classy hrs name Denzrl Grrm And hrs hobby adrustrng hrs car When he gets rt all souped up wrth plenty of vrm He wrll cut loose and travel but far' Now few can make musrc lrke Barbara Brown Her tones echo softly and sweetly When she frnds a husband from somewhere around Her musrc wrll charm hrm completely Sam Clester that Romeo dashrng and strong Has more busrness than we could but mentron But as to hrs future we knew all along That Bly s Pharmacy holds hrs attentron And last but not least rs our rolly Sue Moore She has only krnd thoughts and good wrshes But we ll tell you a secret she has hrdden before She s allergrc to washrng the drshes So now for our school days the end has drawn near We know that there rs no returnrng For all of our roys and our frrendshrps so dear There wrll be rust a brt of sad yearnrng So schoolmates and teachers we brd you adreu To succeed we shall truly endeavor To our dear Converse Jackson we shall always be true And her memory cherrsh forever by Mrs Ovrd Doan 1 2 , U 3 2 1 1 s , 1 1 1 1 r j I I 1 I 1 1 g - 1 ' 1 1 1 1 - 1 . ' 1 1 , , . 1 1 - - 1 1 - 1 1 - 1 I 1 1 - 1 I I , I 1 . ' 1 1 - 1 ' I I 1 - . l 1 1 1 - I ' - ' We ve a lass, Bonnre Anderson, wrnsome and gayg 1 1 5 1 Q . 1 ' - 1 F I 1 - . - 1 1 ' l . 1 . 1 1 , 1 . 1 1 , 1 1 F 1 1 . A 1 1 1 - 5 1 , , . 1 . f 1 - 1 , . I 1 I Z 1 . . 1 . 1 . , ' ' l I I 1 1 I . - I I I 1 - I - 1 - 1 .
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CLASS PROPHECY The waves lazuly lucked the shore of a lonely usland un the South Pacufuc Moored close by was a battered luttle burch bark canoe In the dustance one could see the dum shadow of two vaguely outluned fugures An odd motuon arrested the at tentuon of the seagulls hoverung overhead lt was the motuon of the swungung of two bug feet at tached to two long legs crossed at the knees Any student of Converse Hugh back un 55 would readuly recognuze Bob Hullunger Besude hum was the dusconsolate fugure of Sam Clester Fufteen years before a strange serues of events started these lufelong fruends on an adventure that was to take them around the world After graduatuon the class of 55 went out to face the world In the natural course of events many of the classmates were separated Thus separatuon was the cause of Sam and Bobs pulgrumage around the world It all began when Frankue Bly became a dentust She decuded to devote her lufe to brudgework whule her husband Sam wanted to construct regular brudges Dut to a musunderstandung D Frank left the famuly to devote her lufe to tooth aches Now regrettung the quarrel Sam had em barked un hus canoe to search for hus wufe and brung her back Besudes the luttle Clesters were havung trouble wuth theur teeth' Sams old hugh school buddy Bob Hullunger had uouned Sam un hus search Bob had guven up hus promusung career of grammar textbook wrut ung to help Sam However the deserted usland had proved to be another dusappountment the shores of Australua they were suddenly hut by a huge wave They sughted a large boat Through the spray of water they could dumlf see red letters that read Its A Great Lufe Shon and Bob Inc Thus brought back memorues of school days They drew nearer Clumbung wearuly from hus seat behund the wheel they saw Bob Brown an older Bob wuth a tured patuent look on hus face lt seemed that Bob who had struck oul on the old home place had become a mulluonaure playboy and was devotung hus lufe to teachung hus wufe Shonnue how to water sku Fufteen years of pullung Shonnue behund hus boat had been quute a chore but Bob s devotuon was payung off Shonnue had now graduated from eleven foot skus to the nunes Bob looked frantucally at the tow rope where Shonnue had been She had tumbled off agaunl As he was about to hunt for her he spued hus two old classmates paddlung behund the cruuser The three boys were overuoyed to see each other ln the excutement of reunuon Shonnue was forgotten Tales were told of other classmates Whule on a world tour Bob had duscovered Tom Gray near a sudewalk cafe pauntung the puc turesque scenes of Parus Bob was untrugued wuth Tom s pauntung and had employed hum to decorate hus cruuser Dale Wolfe had been found playung hus trom bone on street corners Bob remembered Dales unterest un urrugatuon and had hured hum to dug dutches for a prouect un Aruzona Lastly Bob told wuth gusto of funancual backung of a TV star who was dazzlung the country It was Gorgeous Joyce woman wrestler Natural ly ut was Joyce Wummer' Her trauner and personal nurse was Janet Durkes Suddenly the boat gave a lurch They turned to see a dusheveled head peerung over the sude of the boat It was poor Shonnue Whule swummung sux mules to catch the boat she had planned her speech to Bob step by step as Mr Smuth had taught her Now however her anger was for gotten un her enthusuasm at seeung her two old classmates After much remunuscung Sam and Bob ex plauned the purpose of theur mussuon and the Browns decuded to help fund the mussung Frankue Gludung serenely over the waves they soon found themselves un the Bay of Bengal near lndua where they saw a huge sugn See lndua Wuth Bob Drawung closer they saw a safaru Leadung the safaru was Bob Neal a bug game snake hunter Followung was Bonnue Anderson who was tourung lndua charmung cobras wuth ner mystucal charms ln the rear of the strange processuon rolled a chartreuse Cadullac wuth the purple top rolled down Behund the wheel sat Bob Tucker who after all these years was stull followung Bonnue The boat moved onward to contunue the search Swutchung on the TV set un the cabun the group watched a basketball game Seated wuth hus team Denzul The two had made good' When the game ended they swutched to see a glumpse of News of the Day Who should they see but Barbara Brown mussuonary preach ung to a multutude of natuves un Afruca ln the background Sam spued Frankue pullung a tooth of one of the luttle savages They plunged on to Afruca Approachung the coast of Afruca they could hear the beat of drums A natuve processuon loom ed unto vuew Rudung un trubal spendor at the head of the processuon were Dr Frank and Barbara The uoy of reunuon was wonderful and Sam lost no tume un gettung Dr Frank on board to start the long awauted trup home lt had been a perfect tour now that Dr Frank had been found Bob and Sam had seen so many classmates durung theur travels that the group decuded to see how many more could be found Destunatuon thus tume was U SA New York was theur furst stop Walkung along 5th Avenue they saw a uovual fellow It was Lewus Muller sellung lught bulbs Louue unformed them that he belueved un a brught Ameruca Speakung of brught made hum remember seeung Ronnue Brught Ron nue who had wauted patuently untul hus daughter Ronda had grown up had funally managed to uoun hus wufe Shurley and theur fuve boys The brught boys were playung professuonal basket ball at Maduson Square Garden , ' . 1 1 - . ' 1 r ' 1 I . 1 . I - 1 n 1 T I , I I I . ,, . . . I r, . . . l . - . I . , . I . ' 1 1 1 1 I 1 I I Y DaY5 and mshts Pfissedf and as 'het' neared was Coach Mygrant and his grim manager, I . A - 11 Q 11 II I ' l ' ll ' ' I I ' , - . , . ' I 1 1 I . . . , I I ' I 1 , . . . ' ' I T 1 1 a I 1 . . . . , , , . . . . . ' ' ' - 11 -. - 11 - u - 11 l . . i ' . I . . D . . I I ' ' - ll f ll ' ' ' - I 1
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