Galveston High School - Galvestonian Yearbook (Galveston, IN)

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IN OUR YOUNGER DAYS W. .L, TOM WILSON DICK FICKLE JIM BEECHY JIM DeWITT MARILYN JOHNSON RUSSELL SCOTT JOE WISLER CAROLYN CLARK BETTY DONAHUE KATHY GREER SUE BROWN NANCY HART LAURA BONE

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SENIOR CLASS PROPI-IECY San Francisco, California December 31, 1973 Dear Mr. Zieg: Since it has been nearly 20 years since May 7, 1954, I thought you might like to hear about the people in my class since we have graduated. Iust to inform you how I found this all out, my sister-in-law, Betty Donahue, who is now married to Bob Gillam, was looking through our old annual with me and since it was so close to New Years Eve, we decided to have a party for our class and their wives or husbands. As the party started Laura Bone and her husband, Harold Cook, came in and while we were talking Laura said they had a nice farm with 500 head of cattle. The next to arrive was Marilyn Iohnson and Dick Fickle, who are now married. I suppose you know Dick owns the Fickle Pickle Factory, at Indianapolis. Tom Wilson was talking or bragging about his 600 acre ranch in Texas, where they found oil on all but 250 acres. Russell Scott, who is a big photographer for Look magazine, was showing some of the pic- tures he had taken and they were all of girls in bathing suits. Nancy Hart, who is the great Madam Riley, the famous dress designer, and her husband, Ronnie, came late as usual. Ronnie is half owner of the Pennsylvania Railroad, so they had no trouble getting here. They brought their son along. He is sixteen and stands 6 feet 3 inches. Ioe Wisler, who now owns the Barber Shop Ballroom here in California, is really doing great. His wife is one of the biggest performers. I saw Kathy Greer and Charlie Hunt go into the dining room and I thought I would take a peek, and there they were, litter Bugging. I asked them where they learned to dance like that and they said that they had a dance studio of their own. Iim DeWitt was a little late: it was because one of the machines in his Ham-Salad Factory broke down and had to be repaired. Iim Beechy and his wife Ioyce were a little late because they had to wait on commercial passenger planes to take off at the Walton Airbase. lim owns a private plane. He also owns the Beechy Garage in Walton, Indiana. Last to arrive was Carolyn Clark who didn't think she was going to get away from the hos- pital. Her husband just couldn't get away, he is the great Dr. Kinsey who has been in the news again lately. Since Don and I have a big resort, I take great pleasure in asking you to come and spend a week with us, free of charge. I close with best wishes from the Senior Class of 1954. Sincerely yours, Marion Sue Brown, Donahue. P. S. Happy New Year! Page Eight

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY In September l95U, twenty-tour green Freshmen got aboard to take a long boat ride through high school. At the start of the first part ot our journey was Miss Oppenhiem, our sponsor, to go along with us. As we got aboard one by one she named each of us, lim Beechy, Laura Bone, Dee Brown, Sue Brown, Carolyn Clark, lim Darland, Betty Donahue, Oneta Erwin, Dick Fickle, Kathy Greer, Bob Gillam, Nancy Hart, Charlie Hunt, Carol Hodgson, lane Hosier, lean Hosier, Marilyn Iohnson, Bill Patterson, Iudy Porter, Loudell Rockwell, Russell Scott, Richard Stover, Torn Wilson, and Ioe Wisler. As we started to leave we elected Marilyn johnson, president, Ioe Wisler, vice-president, Loudell Rockwell, treasurer, Russell Scott, secretaryg Dee Brown, reporter. On our journey we had some special events which were freshmen initiation, Sunshine initiation, class party, Sweet- heart Ball, and a biology tour to Turkey Run. We stopped our boat for a rest, then it was time to go on through our Sophomore year. We again had to elect new students to help so we elected Iim Beechy, president, Laura Bone, vice presi- dentg Marilyn Iohnson, secretary and treasurer: Tom Wilson, reporter, and Dale Kingseed as our sponsor. In the middle of our trip Dale Kingseed had to go help Uncle Same so to take his place was Mr. Bojda. As we went along, Richard Stover, Loudell Rockwell, and Carol Hodgson decid- ed not to finish the trip with us. We still went on with our trip, so we ordered our class rings, had a class party, and Sunshine convention. To refill one place Iim DeWitt wanted to go along with us but still three more got oH. They were jean Hosier, Oneta Erwin, and Bill Patterson. To go on with our trip we decided that Bill Shipley would help us through this year with Tom Wilson as president, Laura Bone, vice president, Iudy Porter, treasurerp Marilyn Iohnson, sec- retary. To keep us going we had our Iunior and Senior reception, autumn prom, and our class play l-Ienpecked Husband , and Betty Donahue was queen oi the Sweetheart ball. Bob Gillam and lane Hosier decided to get oft and let us go by ourselves. As we pulled into the last station to end our trip we had our sponsors, Mr. and Mrs. Zieg, Tom Wilson, presidentg Laura Bone, vice president, Sue Brown, treasurerg and Marilyn johnson, secretary. We stopped long enough to go to the Harvest Moon Prom, had our pictures taken at Adamsville, had our Class Play, guidance day, and Sunshine Supper for the girls. From our crew members, Nancy Hart was our Halloween Queen and Marilyn Iohnson, Sweetheart Ball Queen. The ones leaving us in our senior year were Dee Brown, ludy Porter and Iim Darland. It was about time for our journey to be over and as we were getting off the boat Mr. and Mrs. Zieg called out Nancy Hart, Sue Brown, Betty Donahue, Kathy Greer, Marilyn Iohnson, Carolyn Clark, Laura Bone, Dick Pickle, joe Wisler, Charlie Hunt, Tom Wilson, lim Beechy, Iim Dewitt and Russell Scott. Page 1 Ten