Fort Benton High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Fort Benton, MT)

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THE PIONEER CWIAICAOFT O IT WILL HAPPEN IN 1967 VELMA AMES, the skiing instructor at Shonkin Lodge, has just set a new world’s record in ski jumping with a jump of one foot one and one-half inches. LORNE RITTER is the newest Power’s model for the latest masculine coiffures of 1967. JACK ANDERSON and SYLVIA WOLFE, the most popular dance team of the hour, have created the newest dance craze, the Missouri hop. DR. LORRAINE BAKER has announced her recent marriage which, she believes, is her ninth. Because of ART BENNETT’S interest in the models he paints, his wife divorced him recently. MARGARET BIRKELAND RITTER’S ten year old mathematical genius has just entered college. GEORGE CALKIN, after years of research, has brought out a new hair tonic which is positively guaranteed to keep hair down; but, unfortunately, while experimenting with it on his own head, he became bald. WARREN STANTON has won the title of the world’s fastest talker. LUCILLE CALLISON has just won first prize for the tenth straight year for her sauer- kraut. She attributes her success to Loma climatic conditions. It has been reported that JACQUELINE CASTOR COLLINS and LENORE FRIELING were the cause of the prairie fire which ravaged the Carter area. They were arguing about who was the prize part ner of “CASANOVA” JAMES WOODS. WALTER WEEKS was just recently shot while serenading his girl, number 1000. Her father thought he was a coyote prowling around the house. The monkeys in the Bronx Zoo have just drawn up a petition for the ousting of their keeper, JUNIOR TOPE. He attracts too much of the spectators’ attention. ALICE GALBRAITH has started giving “snazzy” convertible coupes away to young men so that the girls may enjoy the same privilege she did in her “debutante” days. MARY GRAY and PROFESSOR STANLEY WHITEHORN, her husband, have won the title of “the Family of the Year.” Mrs. Whitehorn graciously stated, “Twelve children are a little hard on the figure and nervous system, but the joy of having a little arm around one’s neck is recompense.” CLARK HILTON is the women’s idea of the most manly physique. WILLIAM KOEPP has retired from college to draw his old age Townsend pension. BERTHA LUNDY is the first ballerina of the Ballet Russe. KEITH NEYLAND is the leading efficiency expert of Wall Street. MABEL STEVENS tried out a new dish on her husband, HAROLD KRSUL; she is now held on the charge of manslaughter. DARYL HAGIE is the chief doorman for the Chouteau Ho use.

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THE PIONEER LZ OND eI NLD ES Sa Oa eg re ane MARY NICOLOFF wills her even-tempered disposition to the future students of FBHS, who may profit by the knowledge that a smile wins more than a frown. JEAN REYNOLDS leaves her freckles to Jim Morger. EFFIE RITLAND leaves the ghost of endless whisperings in class rooms, halls, and library. We hope it won’t make anyone too lonesome. DOROTHY RONNING wills her twirling ability to Phyllis, just to keep it in the family. LORNE RITTER wills his shy nature to George Lippert. DON RUST wills his “slick tripping in the halls” technique to Dorothy Ritter. BETTY SCHMIDT leaves her husky voice to Freddy Katzenberger. BARBARA SCOTT leaves her height to Ronny Archer. You could use it in your boxing, Ronny. GERALDINE SCHUHMACHER bequeaths her place at the last table in the sixth period study hall to any underclassman who is looking for a “place in the sun.” ROSEMARY SCHUHMACHER wills her spontaneous disposition to Alice Elliott. CECIL SERIGHT wills his fifth year of English to Maynard Conway. WARREN STANTON wills his great interest in girls to Kenny Young. LEONARD STEINBACHER bequeaths his constant chatter to Norma Jean Montgomery. MABEL STEVENS leaves her blondness to Eva Nita Rupp. JOHN SULLIVAN wills his versatile wit to Noel Anderson. VIRGINIA SWANSON leaves her abundance of hair to Henriette Gray. Can you find room for it, Kiki? WILLIAM TOPE leaves his ability to act professor parts to Prof. Hagie. KENNETH VINION wills his “corn” to any barnyard. DOLORES WAGNER leaves a long whistle on passing, to the boys who are still practicing that technique. PATRICIA WACKERLIN leaves her ability to cope with studies to Ann Katzenberger. WALTER WEEKS bequeaths his tendency to “love em and leave ’em” to Eldon Adams. STANLEY WHITEHORN leaves his Einstein brain to “Skip” Johnson to use in the future. SYLVIA WOLFE leaves her habit of rolling her eyes ceiling-ward to Miss Hagie who doesn’t want it. JAMES WOOD leaves his lumbering gait to Theresa Drewiske. EDWARD DICKENS leaves us for the Marines. ARNAM WILEY bequeaths sadly the extra semester in which to graduate to any misguided student who thinks that playing pays. TOM McKENZIE bequeaths, much against his conservative desires, his horseback riding to Esther Humphrey. It’s a good pastime until the war is over, Esther. We, the Seniors of Nineteen Forty-two, do swear this to be our only and last will and do sign and affix our seal thereunto. THE SENIORS OF 1942.

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THE PLONEER 19 ORNS NO OY Ne DS Gee ee a Oe BILL LOUTHER is the chief streetcleaner for Carter. PATRICIA WACKERLIN blows soap bubbles which have become substitutes for balloons. PATRICIA “Muscle Bound Baby” ANDERSON has just retired after twenty-two success- ful years in the boxing ring. FERN KELLEY enjoys her life among the Arctic Eskimos. Her occupation? It’s teaching them how to make walrus and seal crepe suszettes. RICHARD MOSES has started a “Back to Nature” movement. His motto is “a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair.” TOM McKENZIE brushes the curls and curves out of the grain in the wood being used in making a desk for ARNAM WILEY, the chief executive of the Ostrich Animal Cracker Company. JOHN SULLIVAN has just been promoted and had a raise in salary. His position? He’s chief pencil sharpener for the Chrysler Corporation. JEAN REYNOLDS is the chief window opener-and-closer of the Empire State Building. BETTY SCHMIDT won the Nobel Prize for endurance. She’s just received the rejection slips on her latest unsuccessful novel, number 5599. GERALDINE SCHUHMACHER has just won wide recognition in the fashion field for her sister make-up and hair dye for the NICOLOFFS, who are known as the best dressed women in opera. BARBARA SCOTT is the new suspension bridge across the Grand Canyon. ROSEMARY SCHUHMACHER is the chief tester of playground slides and teeter totter for EDWARD DICKENS’S “Playground Equipment Corporation.” JOHN LIPPERT designs cuckoos for Bulova clocks. EFFIE RITLAND was declared the victor over DOT RONNING in a squabble over the respective merits of bringing the needle to the thread or the thread to the needle when threading needles. LEONARD STEINBACHER, the “Casper Milquetoast” of Dogpatch, has just received a compound fracture of the thigh when he tripped over his big toe. DONALD RUST shells peanuts for Planters. CECIL SERIGHT has earned the much esteemed title of the world’s authority on boot- straps. DOLORES WAGNER and KENNETH VINION, the ideal couple, have just completed their “Xanadu” on the Island. VIRGINIA SWANSON is a professional dueller. Her prize weapons? Water pistols. LURENE ANDERSON has just “landed” in the hospital with nervous prostration; she lifted her little finger. FRANK MANLEY has just developed a new hybrid cow which is reported to “give” whipped cream. FRANK CLARK, after trying various occupations, has returned to Fort Benton, where you'll find him sitting in the shade in the park.