Fort Meade High School - Fomehiso Yearbook (Fort Meade, FL)

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June 21, 1963 Dear Diary, Here it is time for our class reunion. While all my former classmates are talking over old times and having fun. I'll still be here in jail. Yes, I’m serving my time for clowing up the schoolhouse on graduation night. I wasn't the only one who had a hand in it, but I was the only one whose hand left any fingerprints. Since I can't go to the reunion, I had EARL COLLINS, who is now a private detective, bring me his file of newspaper clippings about our former classmates. I could at least read about the things they’ve been doing for these past ten years. Here are the facts: MAX LOGAN is campaigning for president. He’s still using his slogan Vote for Logan— the biggest little man in politics. WINIFRED GILLISPIE is president of the world's largest correspondence club. She's giving up eating to devote more time to her writing. SHELTON JACKSON has an observatory on the moon. Wonder what he observes? LA VERNE GUEST won the Featherweight Championship of the world wrestling in Madison Round Gardens. BARNEY BASS is running a funeral home now. He has introduced his new Lay-Away Plan - - you pay him in advance and he'll lay you away, in time. MARY ETHEL MCMILLAN is singing her theme song, A Sloppy Lagoon in a swanky new place built by BILLY JERKINS called Jerkins Juke Joint. MARJORIE HANCOCK and LAREACE POWELL are manufacturing double-jointed specta- cles for two-faced people. SHIRLEY HOWZE and LUCILLE IVEY have quite a fashionable business in New York. In fact, it's the only filling station on Fifth Avenue. MORRIS LUNN and JOHN GORDON have taken over John's father's feed store. At the present they are having a sale on Vitaminized Supersonic pellets for run-down turtles. After receiving his degree from college and getting some practical experience in a circus, BOBBY MITCHELL is well equipped to handle every situation in his position as principal. KENNETH PARRISH is still trying to perfect a tricycle with four-wheel drive. IMOGENE SIMMONS and VIOLET ROGERS have retired in a suite on the top floor of the newly completed Skeleton Hotel, owned by BOBBY DEVANE. They made their millions on Imogene's new breakfast food, Simmons Slurpy Slop, the world's only silent cereal. It doesn't snap, crinkle, gurgle or pop; it merely oozes silently out of the bag. EDNA MAE RIVERS and JOYCE DAVIS have their hands full running a kindergarten for people in their second childhood.

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WINIFRED GILLISPIE leaves her ability to write love letters to KATHRYN COCHRAN. LAVERN GUEST leaves 20 lbs. to JO ANN DAVIS. MARGIE HANCOCK leaves her sweet and quiet ways to MARIE ARD. SHIRLEY HOWZE just leaves and wonders how she made it. LUCILLE IVEY leaves her ability to like a boy and keep it a secret to JACKIE McDOUGALD. MARTHA MILLING leaves her ability to always; know the latest gossip to MARY LLOYD. MILLY NEMEC wills her ability to stick to diets to JO ANN BARNETT. MARGIE PAINTER leaves her MARILYN MONROE figure to PAT HARRIS. IMOGENE SIMMONS leaves her quiet unobtrusive ways to MARY ELLEN OLIVE. DOT LUNSFORD leaves her small body to SHARON LASTINGER. DOROTHY WILLIAMS leaves her ability to keep a secret to GLENDA GILLISPIE. BYRON MABRY leaves all his unused concussions to BUZZY THOMPSON in hopes that he won't LAVONNE WALDEE leaves all her younger boy-friends except Byron to anybody that wants them. I, CHARLES LEE, leave my parking place next to the Ag. Building to MR. SAWTELL. The foregoing instrument, consisting of 3 pages, was on this day, June 8, 1953, in our presence, signed, sealed, published, and declared by the said Senior Class, the testators named therein, as and for their last will and testament, whereupon we, the undersigned, at their request and in their presence and the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witness- es thereto: WITNESSES: (Seal) CLASS of 1953 end up with a head as flat as his. CHARLES LEE Class Lawyer

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FRANK SCHOONOVER and DOROTHY WILLIAMS are married and he is now working on another invention. His latest was a typewriter with fluid drive. ALICE HEDDEN and LILLIAN WINDHAM are really going places as painters. They're painting the yellow stripes down the middle of the highways. BILLY WEST is coaching the Fort Meade Miners now. They've won the Ridge Champ- ionship for three years straight, (just like old times) LUCIAN HENDRICK has a ranch out West. Out West of Bowling Green. JUNE PEACOCK go so tired of going back and forth to Reno, that she finally bought her a house there. A. J. Smith, the famous lawyer, was her thirteenth husband. JULIUS DEAN is in the movies now. His latest film was Tarzan Versus the Tapeworm. ” No, he wasn't Tarzan or even the tapeworm, but a stand-in for one of the monkeys. JUNE KURISH has received world fame because of her latest hit song entitled Sweet- heart, If You Don't Love Me Anymore, Try to Let Me Know By Saturday Night, So I Can Get Another Date. LAVONNE WALDEE has just returned from a fashion show in Bongo Bongo, Africa where she picked up some catchy ideas. She and BYRON MABRY naturally got married and he keeps the house while she works. Speaking of marriages, CHARLES LEE and MILLY NEMEC now have eight children. They lived with Milly's folks for six years, but tired of that. Now they run a fruit stand out on Charleston and are living with Charles’ folks. MARTHA MILLING is really attracting attention as a florist. The other day she cross- ed a dandelion with a snapdragon and now she's spending all her profit building a cage to keep it in. BETTY LOU CANNON has the whole world excited over Cannon's Chocolate Covered Chlorophyll Clumps. PEGGY DOTSON and JOYCE MCQU1EN do a little number in a Miami nightclub that really brings in the customers. (Comedy, no doubt?) MARJORIE PAINTER is lecturing on 3134 Ways to Outwit a Husband. JEAN BARNETT and DOROTHY LUNSFORD keep quite busy helping their children with their homework and knitting. OLIVER REEVES runs a baby-sitting service all over Florida. In order to finance this business, he is writing a book of poetry. J. C. ROWELL is president of the S. P. C. M. U. O. (Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Mentally Unbalanced Oysters.) My strength fails; I can write no more. Leo Durrance Class Prophet