Dalton High School - Freeman Yearbook (Dalton, KY)

Page 18 text:

CLASS POEM To this old school We have to say goodbye. We are very sorry To leave old Dalton High. To this dear old school That we will never forget. We love the dear old place And the classmates we have met. We have enjoyed All the years that passed. But we are also glad That this is our last. We leave this school To all future classes. We wish best of luck” To other lads and lasses. By- Lucille Utley 14

Page 17 text:

CLASS PROPHECY San Francisco, California May 5, 1959 Dear Diary, It has been ten months since I made my last entry in my diary. Since then I have made a trip to the East as reporter for the newspaper, California Sun. I was pleased to receive a letter from one of my schoolmates, Ernie Ratliff, just before I left on my trip asking me to stop on the way east and visit her ranch. I did and I was very pleased with my visit. When I got on the plane in Arizona, to continue my trip, I was very surprised that the pilot was Dalton’s own Douglas Cullen. Douglas has gone far and he tells me he is soon to fly around the world. While listening to the radio on the plane, imagine my delight when I heard Ernest Holmes’ voice announcing commercials. When I arrived at the airport in Madisonville, I decided to look around and see how much the city had changed in the last 10 years. Walking into the largest department store in the city I collided with a distinguished looking individual with a cigar who I soon recognized as Roy Thompson. He informed me he owned the store and proudly showed me all sixteen stores of his merchandise. While in Madisonville, I went down to the Modern Beauty Salon and was surprised to see its owners were Jean Ausenbaugh and Lois Riley. While I was there, they informed me of an Alumni Banquet being held at Dalton. I attended the banquet and got to see Mickey Neisz who is now a school teacher at Dalton. Mickey is teaching three of Ann Hubbard’s children which are in school there. Ann Hubbard is married and has a faithful Dalton man, a lovely home, and children. Another one of my schoolmates I got to see was none other than Lucille Utley, Lucille is now a nurse at the Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. While in Madisonville, I visited a friend one evening and we settled down in the living room to see a ball game on her television set. To my surprise there at Madison Square Garden, was George Downing playing basketball for the Philadelphia Warriors. George is doing a great job in his career and that particular night he was high point man. By- Annie Mae Ramsey 13

Page 19 text:

THE GRUMBLER I don’t see why they chose me for a grumbler. I never grumble, but what’s the use of talking? Nothing is ever done right around here anymore. Of course, anyone knows they could have gotten better teachers for Dalton this year. Take that Coach Thornton Dever for instance. That horrible person made us run five laps around the gym one way, and to top that, he made us turn around and run five the other way. Now I ask you, isn’t that awful? That Corine Utterback! She’s another character. Do you realize she made us memorize about half of our literature book. It’s all unnecessary, don’t you think? That principal A. O. Richards! He surely is a pain in the neck. He won't even let us chew gum in time books, and another thing, he makes us get at least two problems every day before class or in class. He sure is hard on us. Esmer Wyatt, our typing teacher, won't even let us have one little old mistake on our typing. That’s getting to be awful. Oh! Lord! That Jewell W. Logan. He won’t even let us skip his class and go to the store. I think he has forgotten he was young once. Those cooks we have! They are awful too. They won’t even let us have more than two servings of food. The Senior Class this time surely is dumb. Well, don’t you know Ann Hubbard actually made an A-. Isn’t that terrible? Janitors! Did you ever in your life see such lazy people? They won’t even sweep the floor more than once every day. And to beat it all the bus drivers won’t let us carve our initials on the sides of the buses. If we don’t do this how will people remember us ? By- George Downing 15