Galena High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Galena, KS)

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Class Prophecy The following is a group of news flashes broadcast over a coast to coast hookup. May lO, l950. Sammy Davis, senator from Kansas, is trying to introduce a bill sanctioning polygamy, so that his best friend, Paul Gaskin. the city's Romeo, might marry both Dorothy Morey and Millie Mae Wenzel. Granville Olds and Robert Scott have sold thousands of copies of their latest book which condemns married life. Bill Jackson. just to please his wife, the socially prominent Marguerite Kinkade, is launching a campaign for mayor, agains his well known opponent James Shaw. under the pressure of his wife Margaret Qualls, also some- what socially conscious. May the best wife win! Juanita Overstreet, Colleen Shaw, Betty Jean Shaeffer, and XVanda XVebb are a success as Chorus Girls in George White's Scandals. ARE THEY SCANDALS! Marie Breden and Letha Haug, Red Cross Nurses, were rushed to the panic stricken area caused when l,ou Ann Stillson beat her husband, Johnny Stidham. for keeping close company with a Miss Lois Craig. Donald Anderson and Raymond Walker are reported doing fine in their hermit home in the hills, but their supply of white-corn and tobacco is running low. Raymond Fry, Wanda Havens. and Juanita Fuller were among an ambitious young group of reporters who made the headlines lately with a party which they threw honoring Mr. W. E. DeSpain, the newspaper executive, whom they hoped to impress. The Drop It and Pick It Up juggling act, under the direction of Miss Peggy Ellington. with John Allen and Clair Shaw as chief jugglers, and starring Gerald Martin as the trained seal, are visiting their old Galena friends. who are overjoyed to hob nob with such famous personages, Betty Benton. who is tops in etiquette, planned the season's most outstanding parties for debutantes everywhere including Thelma Link. Evelyn Farris, and Alene Sturgis, hangovers from 1940. Eudora Hill, famous for her contralto whistle, won the bathing beauty contest sponsored by that prominent business man, Claude Williams. Betty Jane Dixon has just been assigned stewardess by United Air Lines, and at the completion of her Hrst trans-continental flight, to her surprise or dismay, who should she find piloting the plane. but Olin Shetley. Neal Tremble, famous illustrator, has completed the illustrations for Jack Carlisle's best seller and has revealed that his model was none other than an old school mate, Helen Oyler. Bob Tollman. the mad chemist, has just completed an experiment which will revolutionize the sale of NVilbur Billings' latest farm product, a cross between a what and a which. Bob Summers, famous car hop. is progressing nicely in his newly established Hamburgee Shoppe at Chico, featuring Thelma Williams, Veda Oliver, and Lenora Parsons as car hops. Bob Hardwick, renowned criminal lawyer of New York City. who recently won the case of a belated dog tax for his defendent, Verda Ryan, is returning, plus billions, to Galena to take as his spinster bride, Katy Jones. Margaret Fowler is Bill Shaddy's chief stenographer in his copywriting department at Washington D. C. Mar- garet is looking forward to the stenographer's greatest advancement-marrying her boss. Marion Parker has just received her three years' teaching certificate and has accepted a position at Black Jack School House succeeding Nellie Davis who is retiring to her home in Peach Orchard to live with her fellow spinster, Katherine Starks. Margie Allen walked away with the International Shorthand Contest. Because of a broken finger. Margie was forced to write with her toes at a rate of 299.4 words per minute. Margie always was a fast walker. Hazel Gilstrap and Zola Hatfield, the famous husband calling team, succeeded in purchasing. for the price of one burst lung and one strained larynx, Leon Carlisle and Fred Frazier. Hazel Swan and Helen Rohrbough are still in the market for either wigs or toupees to cover the bald spot acquired from the worry and responsibility of writing the 1940 class prophecy. Remember? Page Twenty

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GERALD MARTIN 'THELMA WILLIANIS She carries a perpetual torch. Glee Club 4: Pep Club 4: Carnival Committee 4: Basket- ball 1. KATHERINE STARKS True wor-th is in being, not seeming. RAYMOND FRY Cloaked in silent dignity, he holds his own among us. Orchestra l: Glce Club 2: Poster Club 2: I-Ii-Y 1. 2. 3: Camera Club 1. Z. LENORA PARSONS One man and only seven niles a week. Glec Club 4: Pep Club 4: Prom Committee 3: Carnival Committee 4: Basketball l. MARGUERITE KINKADE Whey: it gets dark my lips begin to pucker up. Needlecrafr Club l: Prom C0111- mittee 3: Basketball Z, 3. 4. BILL SHADDY Sleepy, slow, and uncon- cerned, he sat in class and sometimes learned. Glee Club 2, 3. 4: Track 21 Prom Committee 3: Reporter on Scribbler and Galenite 4: Magic Club Z: Class Play 4. LOU ANN STILLSON Her voice was ever soft, gentle, and low. an excellent lhing in a woman. Orchestra l. 2. 3: Glee Club 1: Typing Proliciency 3: Letter G award, Typing 3: Letter G award in Summer School 3: Carnival Program 2: Prom Committee 3: Annual Staff 3. 4. THELMA LINK None more genial una' happy than shef' Glee Club 2: Cheer Leader 4: Prom Committee 3: Carnival Program l: Pep Club l. 4: Basketball l. 4: Magic Club l: Drum Corps l. True love never runs smooth. Football 2, 3, 4: Basketball 2, 3, 4: Glee Club: Annual Staff 4: Prom Committee 3: Class President 2, 3: All Star Center, Twin Valley League 4: Class Play 3: Track. WILBUR BILLINGS Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. EUGENE DE SPAIN The world wc1sr1't complete until I came. Basketball 1. 4: Track 1, 4: Annual Staff 4. NELLIE DAVIS Of a cons-tant, loving, noble nature. VERDA RYAN Good taste is the flower of good sense. Page Nineteen

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Class Will We, the senior class of 1940, in 61 individual and distinct parts. being about to pass out of this sphere- of education in full possession of a crammed mind, well-trained memory. and almost superhuman understanding, do make and publish this. our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills orlpromises by us at any time heretofore made, or mayhap. carelessly spoken. one to the other, as the thoughtless wish of an idle hour. As to such estate as it has pleased the Fates and our own strong hands and brains to win for us. we do dispose of the same as follows: I John Allen wills his love for the broom handle to anyone who will accept it. Peggy Ellington leaves her position as drum major to Billie Bradshaw. 1 Colleen Shaw's and Thelma Link's love for college boys goes to Mildred Beasley and Raye Martin. Donald Anderson wills his mechanical ability to Riley Clark. Lenora Parsons' love for a certain little junior boy is left in the care of Hilda Shaeffer. Wilbur Billings' poetic ability goes to Jean Clark. Jack Carlisle wills his ability to win in the mile run to Ed Enyart. Margaret Qualls leaves Ruth Esther Hasenplaugh her beautiful voice. To Warren Fieandt goes Neal Tremble's habit of blushing at the most embarrassing moment. Millie Mae Wenzel takes the prize at Ujitterbuggin' , so she leaves it to Dorothy Jean Qualls and hopes she does it well. Betty Shaeffer's position of carrying the announcements around to the rooms goes to Margaret Hampson. Leon Carlisle's love for sophomore girls is left to Eugene Dunnill. Betty Benton's habit of feeding the sewing girls in third hour cooking class goes to Pansy Tracy. Raymond Fry and Margaret Fowler, noted for careful driving, will that ability to Clinton Wade and Imogene Pittman. Lois Craig's love for the skating rink goes to Martha France. Paul Gaskin wills his duties as taxi cab driver to Maurice Martin. Bob Hardwick wills his love for a football to Earl Morris. Bill Jackson's quiet steps are willed to Leonard France. Betty Dixon wills her position as first lieutenant in drum corps to Marjorie Bennett. Clair Shaw wills to Nellie Lenz his slick way of reading funny books without being caught by the teacher. Eudora Hill and Zola Hatfield will their positions in drum corps to Lois Coberley and Inas Patty. Helen Rohrbough leaves her worrying over tests to Kathryn Corbus. To Gerald Tackitt is left Fred Frazier's desire to study for tests. Letha Haug wills her love for school and her American history book to Glendora Myres. Wanda Webb's ability to stand in the hall and flirt with boys is willed to Ruthalea Edmonds. James Shaw leaves that eye for the basket and his ability to keep one girl friend for three years to Charlie Hamilton. Margie Allen's disposition is left for Gwendolyn Clawson. Gerald Martin leaves his heart for Mary Louise McCullough. Eugene DeSpain's love for red headed girls goes to Harry Glades. Dorothy Morey's and Hazel Gilstrap's ability to play basketball is left to Helen Windle and June McGuire. Charles Davis wills his Latin book and knowledge to George Downing. Evelyn Farris' gift of gab is willed to Marjorie Anderson. Kathleen Jones' ability to grasp the meaning of a joke readily goes to Arnetta Porter. Claude Williams wills his height to Harold Gibson. Olin Shetley and Bob Tollman will their ability to keep late hours and come to school the next day to Gates Hatreld and Henry Lepard. Marie Breden's position as editor of the Blue and White is left for Carl Webb. Veda Oliver wills her love for chemistry to Rayma Cagle. Nellie Davis' ability to recite in class and always talk too much is willed to Bob Shaddy. Bob Summers wills his ability to drive a Model A with a bad tire and one arm to Leon Derfelt. Juanita Fuller's ability to tell some big story CU is left to Eva Shoemaker. Marguerite Kinkade leaves the position as librarian to Gyula Cox. Juanita Overstreet and Lou Ann Stillson will their positions as office girls to Helen Ryan and Helen Messer. Granville Olds wills his dramatic ability to Billy Lee and hopes he can help out in chapel programs with his ideas. To Eugene Ross and Max Shaw, Robert Scott and Johnny Stidham leave their ability to sleep in study halls. Wanda Havens leaves all her excuses for being absent to Juanita Geisler. To Bob Tremble. Bill Shaddy leaves his habit of flirting with the girl in front or behind him in study halls. Raymond Walker's ability to be a senior more than one year is left to Neal Stidham. Alene Sturgis leaves to Billie Stratton her ability to chew and pop gum. Hazel Swan wills to Lois Stinson her ability to play the violin. Verda Ryan leaves her knack of getting acquainted easily to next year's freshman class. Helen Oyler leaves her secret of being popular to Louise Moyer. Marion Parkers ability to run a typewriter is left for Waymeth Shetley, Katherine Starks' certificate for perfect attendance is left for June King. Thelma Wiliams wills her love for the Badger boys to Marceline Scott. Page Twenty-one