Galatia High School - Galatian Yearbook (Galatia, IL)

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CELLSXS' Q-jZ O!05QCy In past years each class prophecy has taken us into the future, often into the world of space, satellites, and other planets. I wonder what the future of 100 years ago would have been like. Suppose we were the graduating class of G. C. H. S. in the year 1860, instead of 1960. What could our future have held? Let's enter the world of imagi- nation and look in on the class reunion at Galatia High in the year 1870. . . Don Phelps, our class president, was supposed to arrive early and help greet every- one else, but he was delayed when the star attraction of his Wild West Show fell off her horse and broke her arm. And just who is his star attraction? Why, none other than that expert horsewoman, Wanda Braden. Emogene Mee and I were having quite a discussion in the gym when Don came. She began telling him about her latest invention, shoes with wheels on them. She calls them roller skates. Who should come next but the two Carter boys, Billie and Glendle. They were very successful cattle ranchers--until Glendle discovered that people actually kill and eat little calves. Marty and Von, who were both married to wealthy riverboat captains and lived in New Orleans, came in together. Having mastered the French language, Marty greeted everyone with Bonjour, Doc. When someone said, Hello, Congressman Martin. I turned and saw Mickey. I should have known that he would become a politician. I learned while talking to Reverend Charles Holtzclaw that he had recently married Gloria Anderson to a colonel in the U. S. Army. They were living in Wyoming Territory. Sir Robert Dale Harris, who inherited a fortune from a relative in the East, came to the school immediately after having returned from a voyage to England, where he had married a duchess. Iona Sirach and Barbara Berrong left their husbands to care for their children while they attended the reunion. Their husbands jointly own and operate the Modern Mercan- tile Store in Vandalia and sell everything from bolts of cotton cloth to the most dashing of all carriage harnesses. Miss Shirley Malone, who gave up men because she learned that they are hopeless creatures, had become an old maid school teacher in Pennsylvania. Mike Triplett, Garry Hawkins, and Richard Wiggins, who were her star pupils, were her escorts for the night. Some people never give up. Wesley Heflin came a little late: because, as he explained to some of the fellows, he had been fined for reckless riding on his Kentucky thoroughbred, Mary Lou. The wealthiest stock, bond and Land speculator in the country arrived next. That could be no one but Brian Gardner. There were rumors that he was planning to buy a little piece of land southwest of here called Arizona. Shirley Braden surprised us with her accented You all. She married a plantation owner in Georgia.

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Gkss f SUSIE ANDERSON, will my seat on the bus to my brother, Ronnie. DONNA ANTHONY, will my habit of breaking in the lunch line without getting caught to Linda Hall. CARLA BARTER, will yams back to the vegetable garden in my back yard. BARBARA BERRONG, will my ability to stay single to my sister, Eunice. SHIRLEY BIRD, will my short hair to Marilyn Holtzclaw. SHIRLEY BRADEN, will my smile to Rita Ryan who doesn't need it. WANDA BRADEN, will my gift of gab to Doris Webber. BILLIE CARTER, will my good behavior to Ronnie Allen. GLENDLE CARTER, will my four years of agriculture to anyone who doesn't like it. EVA CLARK, will my shyness to Janice Weight who really needs it. MYRON COOPER, will my curly hair to my little brother who can use it. ANNETTE GALLEHER, will my love for basketball games to anyone who likes them more than I. BRIAN GARDNER, will my will to will wills, to Larry bop-bi-dit, Bell. BARBARA HALL, will my soft Voice to my sister, Linda. ROBERT HARRIS, will my quietness to Janet Wickham. MONNIE HARRIS, will my like for talking and laughing in study hall to anyone who can get by with it. GARRY HAWKINS, will my gum to anyone who can chew it and get by with it. fl can'tj WESLEY HEFLIN, will my dislikes for teachers to anyone who likes them. CHARLES HOLTZCLAW, will my four happy years at G. C. H. S. to Barbara. JO ELLA KNIGHT, will my four happy years of high school to my brother. SHIRLEY MALONE, will the boys at G. C. H. S. to the girls, but keep D. B. for senti- mental reasons. MICKEY MARTIN, will my rebounding ability to Harl Cockrum. IOAN MARTIN, will keep my memories of G. C. H. S. in my heart forever. EMOGENE MEE, will the best years of my life to G. C. H. S. - it got them anyway. JOE MORTEN, will leave. lhope! YVONNE OGLESBY, will my ability to understand chemistry to Mrs. Johnson. KAREN ORR, will my stick -to-it ability to anyone who is true. JEAN PERRIN, will my ability to talk all the time to Betty Dowdy. DON PHELPS, will my ability to stay out of trouble to John Winters. SHARON PRITCHETT, will my glassy blue eyes to Sandra Hawkins who needs them. PAULETTA RIEVLEY, will my love for homework to my sister, Kay. DAVID ROBERTS, will my ability to pass English to Fred Crayne. LINDA SPRINGS, will my memories of G. C. H. S. to anyone who wants them. EUGENE STEVENS, will everything Ihave to anyone who wants nothing. JUDY SUTTER, will my talkative mood to Lester Williams. MARTY SWAFFORD, will my giggles to anyone who is sad at heart. IONA ROSE SIRACH, will my map to Mississippi to Donna Bush. LAVERNE THOMAS, will my skill at basketball to Francis Wiggins. ELBERT THOMPSON, will my delightful personality to any sourpuss. MIKE TRIPLETT, will my new kickers to Ronnie Anderson. RICHARD WIGGINS, will my lady killin technique to John Winters. PHYLLIS WILLIAMS, will my lonely seat in library to anyone who is fool enough to take it. CAROLYN ZINN, will my sweet grin to Wanda Patterson.

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Gkss yjrop QC? Barbara Hall and Donna Anthony weren't on speaking terms. Barbara was managing a little dress shop in Jefferson, Missouri, and was doing quite well until Donna opened a similar shop next to it. Elbert Thompson had gone prospecting for gold in Colorado right after graduation. He became the owner of the richest vein of gold in Pike's Peak. And, girls, he isn't married! Joe Morten operated a barber shop in Boston. It is said though that his prices were outrageous. CTwo bits per haircut and shavelj Shirley Bird, author of that famous GONE TO THE WIND, was surrounded by eager admirers all evening. Linda Springs and Phyllis Williams gave us a demonstration of the most popular steps taught at their dancing school in New York. Carolyn Zinn came in from Baton Rouge where she owns a French hat shop. She said she utterly adores Frenchmen. David Roberts spent most of the evening discussing the speech classes that he teaches at Harvard University. Who was that? Oh, it was Eugene. He is a professional gambler you know--a very successful one and honest, too! Mrs. Pauletta Pankey and Eva Clark, the governess of her four children, were with us from Charleston, South Carolina. Laverne Thomas had married a homesteader in the Dakotas. She and Jo Ella came on the same train. JO has become another Jenny Lynn. Myron Cooper was wagon boss of a freight line from St. Louis to Oregon Territory. Karen Orr married and has five-year-old twin boys. They delighted everyone with their clever antics. Grrrrr! Sharon Pritchett had gone East and married the editor of the New York Times. She was his star reporter. Carla came with her husband, who had been a gallant Union leader in the Civil War and was now a politician. Monnie left her husband in charge of their hotel in Chicago while she and Annette Galleher, Miss Chicago of 1870, came to the reunion. Last but not least to arrive was our dear Judy. She had just finished her last per- formance on the stage as the star of the operatic production of GONE TO THE WIND. We had a long and exciting evening renewing many old friendships with classmates we 'hadn't seen in years. Don't you wish you could have been there? Joan Martin