Duncan High School - Wildkat Yearbook (Duncan, AZ)

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Senta Sponsored by OUR SENIOR CLASS this year is “quality, not quantity.” This class started its way toward graduation on a “tearful” September day ’way back in 1942. Those remaining from the kindergarten class are: Donna Allred, Martha Hill, Peggy Sanders, Kent Romney, Paul Francom, Mack Clark, Lester Waters, Bud Cox, and Frank Hicks. In the first grade, we were not very-successful in way of getting new kids, but in the second grade, Jewel Waters and Floyd Merrell joined our class. Also Wanda Baber spent that year with us. Here comes the same old story: in the third and fourth grades no one came into our midst. In the fifth grade Beth Barlow and Nancy Nelson joined us, the latter for only that year. Next, in the sixth grade, Larry Rapier, Candido Tellez, and Jesus Renteria made our class a little larger. In the seventh grade no one joined our class — not one soul. At last we reached the eighth grade. Were we proud! That year Lynwood Barringer joined us. Also we got back Nancy Nelson and Wanda Baber. We shall always remember the beautiful eighth grade graduation planned and directed by our wonderful teacher, Mrs. Mildred Clark. After graduation, we lost Beth and Lynwood, but not for long. The next year we were pretty low! “Frosh,” that is — but we gained Elwood O’Dell, Terry Tipton, and Donald and Ronald Wilson. By the way, we were of- ficially initiated into Duncan High School. For our class party, we threw a big “sock hop,” one of the most successful dances of the year. • As sophomores, we gained a very smart lad by the name of Dan Ellsworth, and Beth Barlow joined us again, this time to stay. We had a rag ball as our class party, another really successful dance. In our junior year, we were beginning to feel that we were big shots. That year we gained a very sweet gal named Joyce Hamilton, and Lynwood Barringer rejoined us. Our junior-senior banquet and prom was a huge success. Our theme, “Moonlight and Roses,” was carried out beautifully in an outdoor rose garden with a wishing well in the center. Mrs. Van Gundy and Coach Frealy were won- derful sponsors. Now, as seniors, with tears in our eyes, we realize that we have neared the end of that long climb. Not one soul entered our class this year, and we are left with a total number of 24. From here, who know what lies in store for most of us — but we shall always remember our school days together. BETH LYNWOOD SUITE'S JEWELRY Safford, Arizona DONNA WANDA

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TERRY C. TIPTON Student council 1; class vice pres- ident 3; president 4; F.F.A. 3,4; basketball 4; football 2,3,4; tennis 3,4. JEWEL PAGE WATERS Dramatics 3,4; school play 4; chorus 2,3,4. LESTER WATERS Student council 3; band 1,2 3 4- basketball 4; football 2,3,4; Letter- man’s Club 3,4. DONALD WILSON F.F.A. 1,2,3,4; Letterman’s Club 3,4; basketball 3; football 3,4. RONALD THOMAS WILSON F.F.A. 1,2,3,4; sentinel 2,4; basket- ball 2,3,4; football 3,4; tennis 3,4. 1 MARTHA JEAN HILL Spanish Club 2,3,4; chorus 1,4; tennis 1,2; volleyball 1,2,3.

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JESUS TERRY MACK JEWEL Sponsored by SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO. Safford, Arizona PAUL THE YEAR IS 1975, and we find that Elwood O’Dell has married a wealthy widow and is achieving his life’s only ambition: to travel the United States in a taxi cab. On his way he stops at MGM studios in Hollywood, California, where two of his former classmates, Wanda Baber and Larry Rapier, have leading roles in Death Among the Zombies.” The writer of the movie is Nancy Nelson who is dictating to her secretary, Joyce Hamilton. Elwood remarks to Nancy that her old friend Peggy Sanders is slaving away on her husband’s profitable farm. As he travels along the desert to Las Vegas, he sees a lone prospector who claims his name is Frank Hicks. As he enter Las Vegas, he points out a sign in glittering neon that tells of a floor show with Jewel Waters doing a dance on a dice table. At Las egas he takes a plane to Chicago. Nearing the city he sees a’mushroomed cloud coming from a building and later finds Lester Waters holding half a test tube. Later in his hotel suite he turns on the radio only to hear Kent Romney singing Doggie in the Window.” In turning on the radio he wrenched his finger and on a friends advice goes to a famous French doctor who turns out to be his old classmate Mack Clark. Dr. Mack puts -a cast on his finger and charges fifty dollars. As he goes back to his hotel room, he hears a big fight but further investi- gation finds only Donna Allred and Floyd Merrell arguing about which car is better. Ford or Chevrolet. Continuing his trip, he goes through St. Louis, but before leaving, he de- cides to go to the famous Barnum and Bailey circus as he has heard of several famous acts done by some of his class mates.