Greenbank High School - Mountain Breeze Yearbook (Greenbank, WV)

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 His Ozark Cousin , Written by J. Dan Fairman was chosen as this year's senior play. The maine reason we got this hare play waz that it pertrayed a bunch of hill billies jest like us'ens. Coarse thy was a fake in it cause the people in the play wuz reely a hunch o' college folks what just let on to be like us hill peeple to teech there city cuzzins a good lesson seems the citty slikkers writ this here family a letter in which they showed that they thot the family was plenty iggnerent. futhermore they was commin to visit th dumb relates. Well sir the dumb relates jest decided to dress up and be as dumb as the slikkers thot they wuz. fore the play wuz over them kids hed done made a moon-shine still, hed a shot Gun weddin, Fit a big fude with the nabors and rased Kane in General, coarse the cuzzins ketched on To' the trick at last but it larnt en a reel lesson, at the end they was quite a bit of bein' in luv, and that sorta thing, the cast and proppity peeple is pitchered above and they wuz all dang good!!!

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I BETCHA IHIIi MB Fer the last fore yrs. we bin winnin more bets than you can shake a stick at. We bin forcastin the wheather with 100% accuracy. We even knowed to the very day when the Dunmore bus was on time (only onctI). We knowed who was gonna win in ever athletic contest, and whet days there were'nt gonna bee no schull on account of snow. So we betcha we know whuts gonna happen to the Seniors. Ten yrs. frum now, I betcha Jim suTton is bald- heded as a hin-aig. His wife, Colleen has worrited him sew much. I betcha Phil daVis is gonna bee valley dictorian of Notre Dame's undertaker class. I betcha Doris haMrick married up with Edsel hiNer to save paying fur his car whut she busted. She ain't payin fur the telephone poll at all, though. I betcha Gargy puFFenbarger goes to the pin fur bigamy fur marryin Bill geiger and virGil summerField both to onct. Thet gal never could make up her mind. I betcha Carol Right is married in 4 yrs and has a little ornery Doff ever yr. I betcha Betty jean and Brown er still afeudin or thet jug of Mountain Doo; thet she katched en with. I betcha this summer Barbara slaVen an gene Christ will be a'singin a duet and tyin' a not in the ole church at Arbovale. I betcha 4yrs frum now Louise tallMan is the biggest gossippe in Circlesville, at least thets whut her hubby Roscoe says. I betcha Ella nora hill is Miss America of 1959. her prize-winnun talent was singin' Let Me Go. Lover I I betcha in 5 yrs Peggy shEets is daed, cuz when she cum back frum college die found Marvun married to a gal frum Clover-Lick. 1 betcha a yr frum now, Lyndell suTton and his wife nancy Gillispie are millun-airs he on account of makin and she on account of sellin Moon-Shine to Donnie Cromer, James oliVer, Hope Bolton, and Garma wenger. I betcha 2 yrs frum now, Keith traCy is arrunnin Pistol Pete’s General Store at Durbin. I betcha 5 yrs frum now, Reverand John cassell and his wife joyce Arbogast are inAfreica prechin' the gossipell. I betcha next fall Lois wooddEll is in Japean enter- tainun' the troops, amonst which is Frank nelson. I betcha 3 yrs frum now, Doris McLaughlin is singin’ on Station MRS advertisun BROCK candy bars. I betcha 10 yrs frum now, Katheryne mullenUx will be devorced frum her forth hubby, and will be lookin fer anudder, she says men are a dime a dozen, (8 cents to go.) Ibetcha 9 yrs frum now.betty Thompson will win the title of the tallest woman in the world but Roy car- penter says he likes em tall. I betcha in June Connie and waynEwill tie up a not, an standin by givin instuctions. was Mrs. Jim Rider, the former Violet hoover. I betcha in 5 yrs Ben tayLor will p i o 1 e t the first rocket-ship to the moon. He reports of seein' Homer vanRner and Thomas wyatt surrounded by beautifule moon-beams thar. I betcha 2 1 2 yrs fru m now, Dorothy lamBert is a Sophomore at V. M. I. Boy, I betcha she is havin the time of her life, die reports of seein Gene kessler and George hoover who are just where we thought they would end up (in the army prison.) I betcha 8 yrs frum now, Jerry taylor is the greatest- speech maker the world has ever known. He has now won 47 metals, and 37 trophies, and bin rotten-egged 10 times. I betcha eddie Monk is the fattest boy in the world. Thet boy alus did have a big appetytite. I betcha 1 yrs frum now donnie Nottingham will be heavy-weight champion of Dunmore Mt. He has knowcked out in the first Round, Calvin Galford, Harold Neighbors, and Allen Nottingham. They boy shore am tough! I betcha Rod gainer and franklin vanDenvender are rally doin the town in style 10 yrs frum now. These too boys found gold in Cheat Mt. while they was coon huntinll Now the entire mt. is covered with claims done staked but they is got the biggest un. Helpin them enjoy the riches is too right-purty gals--Jo Anne benneTt, and Patty siMmons. I betcha 8 yrs frum now. Merry jean is havin the time withe thet eighth Galford youngin and she says hits her last un. I betcha 3 yrs frun now Lorene thoMas will be a Lie- Dectytorspecylist, so as she kin try hit out er hubby Blair graGG. I betcha Evelyn mace ends up alivin at Marlinton, as a spy fer the Marlinton Copperheds. She likes thet snaky place so much! I betcha 4 yrs frum now, hope Bolton will be cover- gal fer a new magazine, called the Read-Hed , of which Charlie Gray is the Tighter of which sum folks call em the eddytor. Don't know which un he ish. I betcha 3 yrs frum now, milDred greatHouse is Marciano's ooponet fer the heavyweight bout. She kin shore lay the punches! Referee alan Moore says she’s the greatest since Dempsey. I betcha 6 yrs frum now Letha harper and donald Mullenux are patients in alice Hiverly's Health Home fer the unhealthy. They alus were heafty things before they done went thar. I betcha barbara Gum will be the first un in the class to get hitched. She and Pete bennett eloped Graduation Night. We betcha Green Bank becomes the most notyed high-schull in the Unityed States on account of the repetytation we will give it. We betcha Mr. Harris becomes so proud that he’ll grow a new hed of hair. And furthurmore, we betcha they ain't never gonna be a class as good as we air. And if you wanna bet anything in this ain't right, we betcha you’re wrong. And we betcha Doris and Georgia writ this by hand.

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