Fairfield Community High School - Reflector Yearbook (Fairfield, IL)

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THE REFLECTOR FUN 8s FEATURES Finit Mate: A fine lookout you are! What are those lights to the starboard? Russell Terrell Knew in the Navyl: It looks to me like a drugstore, sir. Ray Lee: I'm reading here that Drake sailed around the world on a galleon. Glen Piatt: Boy, they got real mile- age in those days, didn't they? Mr. Parsons: Bob, why don't gou get busy? I think you are a little afraid of work. Bob Daniels: Me afraid of work? Why, I can sleep iight here beside it. Clyde Robbins: What are you doing with that little baby turtle? Jim Book: Well, Miss Karr claims these things live to be two hundred years old and I thought I would take this one home to find out. Mr. Olson: Jim, tell me how you would make a piece of stove-pipe. Jim Curry: Well, I'd just take a hole and wrap tin around it. Papa: Daughter, haven't you gained weight? Daughter, just home from college: Yes, Papa, now I weigh a hundred and forty pounds stripped for gym. Papa lhorrifiedl. What! Who in thunder is Jim? Pastor: Bob, last Sunday you asked for prayers tor Anna Bell: would you like this repeated this Sunday? Bob Friedman: No, thank you kind- ly, reverend: Anna Bell won Monday by two lengths. :Clyde Turner: You believe in help- ing one another, but you :till wont lend me two bits. Harold Tucker: No, because you al- ways Want to be the other. Mr. Holt: What happens when a body is immersed in water? Marshall Kenshalo: The telephone rings. Stewart Meinsohn: I know all about that town. By actual count there are thirty-seven dives and taverns, and I am proud to say that I haven't been in one of them. Paul Gurly: Which one is that? Passenger on a slow train in Arkan- sas: I ask you, conductor, why don't lou take the cow-catcher off the engine and put it behind this car here? As it is now, there ain't a thing to hinder a cow from strolling into a car and biting a passenger. Mug Anderson complained to his sergeant that he had a splinter in his linger. You should have more sense, was the harsh comment, than to scratch :our head. Ben Rountree: I have to have a raise, sir. Three companies are after me. Boss: Is that so? What companies? Ben: Light, phone, and Water. Visitor: How old are you? Little Boy: I'm at the awkward age. Visitor: The awkward age? Little Boy: Yes, I'm too big to cry, and too small to swear. Ist drunk: Shay, guessh what I had for breakfasht. It beginzh with an Un . 2nd. drunk: Nanner? lst: Nope. 2nd: Norange? lst: Nope. 2nd: Well, what? lst: Negg. Leland Rawls: Kas he looks at report cardlz Well, I'm as famous as George Washington. Lowell: How so? Leland: I went down in History. Miss Marlin: Bob, you're the most valuable man in the class. Bob Friedman: How's that? Mirs Marlin: Well, you talk in your sleep and keep the rest of the class awake.

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ll' THE REFLECTOR FUN 8 FEATURES Best looking girl-Doris Musgrave. Best looking boy-Max Barnard. Best athlete-Paul Gurley. Most loyal girl-Wanda Waters. Most loyal boy-Vlrll Cunningham. Biggest flirt lgirll-Martha Mann. Greatest ladies' man-Stewart Me.n- sohn. Wittiest boy-Phil Martin. .Biggest bluffer-Bill Knodell. Best all-round girl-Dorothy Hollin- ger. Best all-round boy- Rainbow Puc- kett. Most conoelted girl-Freda Bruce. Most conceited boy-Bob Johnson. Best sleeper-Marshall Kenshalo. Best loser-Robie Feam. Best dancers-lboy and girD-Mar- jorie Simpson and Neal Laws. Best dressed girl-Elizabeth Bonner. Best dressed boy--Bill Frankel. WHY AM I HERE? To smile at Roxie six more hours a day-George Lasater. To return the smile-Roxie Bruce. To annoy the teachers-Jane Tate. To kill time-Dick Wampler. To lind something to make me grow -Doris Kearfott. To make myself look important- Lester Steiner. To take care of my sister-Molly Musgrave. To make a good impression-Barbara Dickey. To carry on harmless flirtations- Ann Hovey. To keep peace in the family-Harold Barnard. To give my worthy opinion-David Zimmerman. 'lo beam training for the World's Best Majorette' title-1Cloma Jean Trotter. To make school a pleasure-Miriam Rector. 'Io fascinate everyone- Dutch Lang. Ditto-Veda Hallam. To find a Clark Gable -Nadine Rose. To enjoy myself-Elva Goodman. To .ftart a Chewing Gum Club - Betty Baskett. To learn how to act sophisticated- Adair Felix. To secure more and better patrons for Jerd's P001 Hall --Charles Smith. Teacher: If a group of .cheep is a flock, and a group of cattle, a herd. what is the name for a group of camels? Mildred Borah: A carton. DO YOU REMEIWBER WAY BACK WHEN- Fairiield High School didn't have a year book? Bill Knodell didn't guess? The girls didn't have short dresses? We had locker room enough to hold all our books? Fred Puckett wa:n't called Rain- bow? When the Seniors didn't stay a whole day? Freda wept because there were no more men to conquer? Bob Daniels understood an assign- ment? The Freshmen weren't green? Miss Ballein wasn't constantly telling us about anklets? Bob Friedman prepared his lesson out of clazs? Judith Zimmerman didn't know Walt ? Mr. Ivers talked about history in history Class? Dorothy Brown had her shorthand written or read? There were no apple polishersv and no teacher's pets? Miss Marlin appreciated the ability of us Seniors? Jerry Coale was without her better half? Naomi Hatlett hadn't found the one? Bill Hart was short and fat? Freda Thompson, Doris Haegele, and Rose Sanders could do something be- sides giggle? The boys outnumbered the girls? Mr. Hake preferred the color of pink to blue? Doris Musgrave wasn't talking about Neal? The students of Fairfield hadn't met the great Duke ? tWhate'ver did we do without him?J There were no Guses or Georges for us while away the tirners ? Fresh Con October 15: Gee, we've been here four weeks. Ditto: Is that all? I'd swore it was a month. Teacher: Your answer is as clear as mud. Dorothy Hollinger: Well, that covers the ground, doesn't it?

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