Ephrata High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ephrata, WA)

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Sziwluai Being of sound minds and bodies, we, the members of the Senior class of 1947 do hereby give, bequeath, and devise to those left behind, these rights and properties: U I, LEE BLANCHARD, will my bubble gum to anyone taking Social Problems. Mr. Iohnson loves to see bubble gum in class. I, ERMA CHANCE, bequeath my bottle of perox,ide to SHIRLEY MARTIN. fBy the way, be careful, it burns.l To MAY PIXLEE I, IUNE CREWSE, leave my ability to ride a horse. I, LYLE EAKS, will my job as janitor to VERNON HARMON. I, IACKIE HARER, leave FREDDIE to FRANCIS HART. To LOA IEAN SCHULTZ I, WILMA IONES, will my ability to get to school periodically. To IUNE MCDONALD I, KENNETH KNIGHT, will my easy life as a Senior. To DAVID NOTARAS I, IOE LITEL, will my boxing gloves tand my teeth I left in the lockers.7 I, WALT LYONS, will my hate for all Women, in any shape or form? to DONALD HOPE. I, NORMA ROBISON, will my ability to get excused absences to NANCY NOBLE. tThey're really handy, NANCYJ To WILLIE WOMACK I, HENRY ROMIG, leave my ability in being a bachelor. tLive up- to it, WILLIE, leave the gals along.J I, BONNIE IONES, leave my job as sports editor to RAY SMITH. CHope you get the stuff in on time like I didn't.l I I, DONALD BLUHM, will my efficient secretary capabilities to CLARENCE BORUFF. To DON MCGONEGAL I, HARRY DRITTENBAS, will my second year Latin tGlad to get rid of it.i To BOB BURD I, ALBERT TRIEBER, will my baby blue eyes and red nose. CYou can use them at Wilson Creek, BOBBYJ , I, NORMA SALLEY, will my blond hair C????D to MARY RUCKER ttake good care of it, MARYID I, BETTY HILL, will my ability to sing blues songs to DORIS SWANSON. To IANET LUNN I, CAROLYN PORTER, will my ability to speak Spanish and my bangs tThat's what I think they are.I I, DARRELL HAYES, will my clean white cords t?l to TOM BICKFORD. tDon't get them dirty, Tom.l To PAT MANSFIELD I, IOE KUHNS, will my driver's license tnow you'd better learn to drive, PATH I, CLAUDINE IONES, bequeath my ability to be the first Senior girl to be married, to SHIRLEY AFFLECK. To HELEN KING I, DONNA GUFFIN, will my man trapg DON I Won't will to anyone. To IACK BAKER I, IANICE SCHILL, will my ability to drive a car and also my ability to buy gas enough to go over there and back. CI hear you can use it sometimes IACKJ I, PAULINE HEER, bequeath my shorthand book and my ability to write notes, to LEWIS BENVILLE. I, IOYCE GUNDER, will my beautiful rosy blush to BOB PAYSSE. tWoncler if he'll use it.l To CHARLES NUNN, I, GARVIN STEWART, will all the excess gum under my desk tiust don't get caught chewing it, COOKIEJ I, DON EBBUTT, will my height to FRED WIKNER. To DONALD BRITT I, WALT NICKS, will my blond curly hair. A To IACK HARVILL I, IACK ADAMS, leave IANICE SCHILL. CTake good care of her, IACKJ Ha! Ha! I, PATRICIA CONNE, leave my knowledge of Commercial Law to IACK NICKOLS. CI hope you use it IACK, you need it.P I, MARION LEMON, leave my tall man or men to GWEN BLANCHARD. tTake it easy GWENJ To RAY LOAN I, RALPH THOMPSON, bequeath my big book of knowledge. To all the Iuniors, the Seniors will the fun of being Seniors and our old homeroom, the teachers, the school, and the Sneak. We leave with hopes of not returning and hope you have as much fun as we had. Signed '7Ae .Seniou 22

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1- i ---------------- - ----------- -- -1- The Sophomore year Was our first in Ephrata High. Officers for the year were: President, Don Bluhm: Vice-President, Harry Drittenbas: Sec- retary, Betty Hill: Treasurer, Harold Kroqness: Student Council, Marion Lemon and Gary Adams. Second semester-President, lack Adams: Vice.President, Pauline Heer: Secretary, Harry Drittenbas, Treasurer, Erma Chance: Student Council, Betty Hill and Darrell Hayes. We beqan our second year with Al Trieber as President, Pauline Heer as Vice-President and Don Bluhm as Secretary-Treasurer and the Student Council members were Henry Romiq and Erma Chance. Second semester officers were: President, Walt Lyons, Darrell Hayes, Vice- Presidentg Carolyn Porter, Secretary-Treasurer and the Council mem- bers were Albert Trieber and Pauline Heer. We put on the Iunior-Senior play, The Groom Said No. The officers for the last year were Pauline Heer, President: Ralph Thompson, Vice President: Patt Conne, Secretary-Treasurer, Student Coun- cil, Donna Guffin and Walt Lyons: Kove Representative, Garvin Stewart. Second semester-Ioe Kuhns, President, lack Adams, Vice-President: Don Bluhm, Secretary-Treasurer: Student Council, Bonnie Iones and Lyle Eaks. We put on the Senior class play, Kiss and Tell. It went over as a qreat success. We greatly appreciated the lovely banquet and prom put on for us by the Iuniors. 21

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'7ime Mwwhea Un Let us look ahead into the year 1957. As we peep into the private lives of our former graduates, fClass of '47,, that isJ from Ephrata High School we see many things of interest happening to them. We, the three best known peeping Toms of Ephrata, look into the windows as we pass by and stop in astonishment at what is going on in one small establish- ment. Why it's none other than Ralph Thompson, and he is working on another experiment. Although he is known as one of the leading scientists of our time, we, rush by, for you never can tell what will happen with Thompson and his experiments. If you ever hear of a whole town blowing up you'l1 know than Ralph was there. When we reach the residential section we hear a terrible row. Then breathe a sigh of relief. Well, have you guessed it? Lyle and Patt are having a little argument over who is to wash the dishes. They seemed to get along so well in 47, but it seems that after ten years of married life, things change. H1rry Drittenbas is sitting at the table taking it all in. Harry is a good friend of the family, also Godfather to all the kids. Instead of the customary one child to a Godfather, he is Godfather to six. It ceztainly seems appropriate, too, as Harry is the family physician. We decided to go in and have a visit with them. Harry gave us a lot of information about some of the other classmates. He told us that Donna Guffin had gone back to her old job as soda jerk at the drug store. She was still the same old Donna. She had decided to give up her career as lady senator and go back to her old love of mixing up things. Food, I mean. Donna also had another job on the side. She was Cirolyn Porteris agent. Porter was still trying to convince every- one she was a great artist and all the houses in town had her paintings in them. Donna gave away the paintings with every big sale at the drug store. The sale had to be as big as ten cents before you could get one. Then she wondered why the drug store kept losing iris business. Harry also cold me that Don Ebbutt and Lee Blanchard are lifesavers at the city swimming pool. They are quite thrill- ing to watch when going in for the rescue. Lee pushes Don in and they both swim out for the victim. Then Lee puts the rescued person on top of Don and tows him in. It works every time. They are quite popular and always have a large audience to watch them. Well, we had to leave Eakis house and continued on with our walk. We strayed up to Ephrata Heights and who do you think we saw? Of all people it was Salley. That's our gal. She was sitting up there with her long range telescope still looking for her man. We interrupted her long enough to have a short talk and she told us some more things about our old class. She said her old friend Hank Romig is a crooner in the Big Vaudeville in town. He is the star of the program, along with Marion Lemon and Erma Chance who have a great routine. They sing duets while playing the piano and dancing all the same time. They are very good and always draw a large crowd. Speaking of shows have you listened to your radio Iately? If you have you probably have heard the sad story of lVIinnies Many Men. The star of the show is none other than Bonnie Jones. Her supporting cast is Joe Kuhns and Darrel Hayes. They all were discovered by a talent scout when they participated in the Senior play and had been acting ever since. We saw a picture of them and you should see Darrel's mustache now. Nothing could compare with it .... Not even A1 Trieber's. Oh, by the way have you heard about Al? He and Walt Lyons, are running for Senator. It's pretty hard to decide which one is going to win. Pauline Heer is campaigning for Al though, so it does make a difference. Pauline is in tha movies now and has turned down an offer with them for five hundred thousand dollars. She says she is waiting for something better. Who knows .... maybe it's a sen- ator. By the way have you seen her last picture, NThe Little Giant, Garvin Stewart is her leading man. Garvin is every boyis idol in the U. S. and all the boys wear platform soles and heels patterned after his. They all want to be giants, too. Don Bluhm, they say, is doing quite well as a salesman for Fuller Brush, but I hear that he makes more selling the towels that Walt Lyons swipes from the hotels on his campaign trips. Say that reminds me, Joe Litei went to New York on a business trip the other day and went to see Jackie Hater, who is modeling for Powers. Joe hasn't come back since he saw Jackie modeling. They say he forgot what he went for. We finally left Salley and went back to town. We were crossing a street when whiz! we were almost run over . . . It was a taxi and it stopped to see if we were hurt. The driver stepped out and 'we just about faintecl. It was our old pal Janice Schill. We asked her what she was doing driving a taxi. She said that she worked for Jack Adams and Walt Nicks who really owned the taxi Co She was really their secretary but with help so scarce she had to drive too. She told us to get in and then drove us all over town. She informed us about the rest of our friends. June Crewse teaches school. She enjoys children and likes teaching the first grade but she truly wishes that something could be done with the behavior of Joyce Porte: s twins. Joyce, the former Joyce Gunder, just doesn't have time to disci- pline them. She and her husband own a trucking business and Joyce drives, while her husband does the secretarial work. June also teaches Claudine Jones, girl. She went to see Claudine the other day and was pleased to see that she has been chosen by the Good Housekeeping.Magazine as the perfect housewife. In the same issue of the magazine Betty Hill is pos- ing for a telephone ad. It seems that Betty had been seen by the supervisor of the telephone company and had been chosen to model for their ads. Norma Robison also works for the same company and on her sdays off she twirled her baton with the band in the city park. Do you know who the leader of that band is? Kenneth Knight . . . we never knew he had such talent in those days, did we? He looked very happy and also very handsome in his band uniform. Also in the band is Wilma Jones. She does very well on the tuba. After she graduated Wilma became famous for her book, Learn- to Play, the Tuba or, Ye Gad, Where Is She. Janice finally took us home and as I was the last one to get out I had to pay the fare. I realized just how much the city had grown and how long we had talked when I saw it. But ii seemed worth it to learn so much about my friends and companions of 1947. 23