Highland High School - Streak Yearbook (Highland, KS)

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ROGER LAVERENZ began a military career with four years at West Point after graduation. He was found to be a military genius and is now among the highest ranking officers in the Army. General Laverenz is known for his roughness. A young private said of him, I'd rather meet the enemy than General Laverenz. MARI ANN NOLL after graduating from HHS took four years of costume designing. Im- mediately after finishing the course, she and Mike set up a House of Fasion in New York City. Mari Ann does all the designing and Mike hires the models. Their Parker House originals are in demand all over the world. JACK FLINT is now considered one of the meanest men in his field. After winning the Mr. Universe contest, five years after high school graduation, Jack went into pro wrestling. His next opponent will be the world champion. Everybody knows Jackie as the Blond Bully. JEANNIE WAGGONER moved to the Lone Star State after taking a year's business course at Platt College. She got a job with an oil company, and has worked up to the position of joint- owner. She commented, Now that I am making enough money, I suppose that Jerry and I will be married. These 19 years of engagement have gone so quickly. Ijust hope we're not making a mistake by marrying too young. JIM ROWE replaced Harold Ensley fifteen years after he graduated. Jim's show is rated Number One in the United States. The highlight of his show is the five minutes he devotes to telling how to slip past the law and to get away with unbelievable things. Young girls are crazy over Jim's show. Jim is labeled the greatest thing since the Beatles. The young ladies watch Jim's show just to hear him sing his own theme song, and everyone is getting their head shaved to match Jim's baldness. JAN COLLINS was given 1000 acres of good farm land by his grandmother when he graduated. Jan has since led the life of a country square---I mean squire---just fishing and throwing his discus. After over 15 years of being engaged to Melinda Cole, he thinks he will soon marry and retire from heavy work. PRESTON HARNESS'S main ambition was to join the Beatles. After getting his hair in the right style, he learned to play a saxophone. Preston managed to get on the Ed Sullivan show. One of the Beatles saw the performance and they asked him to join them. , His group is now in the Siberian Desert, the only place they are allowed to practice. JOHN ALFREY joined the Navy soon after graduation and later decided to make it his career. In three years he will have completed his 20 years. He then plans to retire, buy his own yacht, and sail the seven seas visiting his girl friends in every port that he accumulated over the years. JOHN BLANTON did not go to college after high school graduation. He had learned a trade in high school. He is now employed in Hollywood with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. He is a sound effects man with the studio. Whenever the MGM lion has a sore throat, John provides the sound. He learned to growl like this in journalism class every time he was given an assignment. SAM TWOMBLY started farming with a small herd of dairy cattle after graduation. He moved to Wisconsin and there he met a sweet little milkmaid and it was love at first sight. Sam bought a milk company. His products are known all over the nation because of their unusually-shaped carton. They are shaped like dairy cattle with a faucet at the base. When the class of '64 entered HHS, it was made up of forty frightened freshmen. Our freshman year began with a bang in Freshman Initiation. The seniors didn't have much mercy and we were plastered with everything from corn syrup to shoe polish. Unpleasant experiences were soon forgotten at the dance that evening held in our honor. The officer which were elected for the freshman year were Leonard Rush, President, Don Scott, Vice -president, Becky Bauer, Secretary, Jan Collins, Treasurer, Mari Ann Noll, Re- porter, and Preston Harness, Sgt -at-Arms. Sponsors were Miss Seymour and Mr. Hullinger. During the year we lost several students. Gerald Blanton, Jimmy Simpson, and Junior Simpson left not long after school began. Carol Mason Stern was married in the middle of the year. For our Freshman class party, we went to St. Joseph by bus to see the movie, Can- Can . For projects that year we picked up corn and had a car wash and food sale. When we began our Sophomore year, our class had lost two members over summer vaca- tion. Larry Boeh and Jim Everett had transferred to Wathena and Hiawatha respectively. We had two new girls though. Beth Winslow had come to us from Lawrence, and Elaine Eby had transferred from Robinson. During the year Kenny Simpson transferred to Midway and Law- rence Keller dropped out. The Sophomore class officers were Don Scott, Presidentg John Blanton, Vice -president, Mari Ann Noll, Secretary, Jackie Flint, Treasurer, and Vicki Fritch, Sgt -at-arms. Mr. Rowland was our sponsor. As Sophomores we were entitled to two class parties. For one party we rented Skateland in St. Joseph and the other party we went to see the movie, Batchelor's Flat .

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Clam ipwpteaf KEITH LEWIS revisited Mexico the summer after graduation. While there, he met a beautiful senorita and they were married. This came as a great shock to Ianthe Percy. Keith says, My life in Mexico is wonderful. All I do is sit in the shade and watch my children work. LUCIA FORNEY and Barton Lackey were married and now have 3 little boys. Barton has al- ready started them in the right direction, he bought each a shovel and they have finished terracing the yard. DON SCOTT became an engineer. He graduated from K-State in '69. When applying for a job, he filled out the form marked, Engineer but failed to see the word, train . Don has been driving the Eagle for 10 years and says he couldn't be happier. SALLY DAVIS is the Women's Wrestling Champion of the World. She is happily married to a 97-pound weakling who is also her manager, trainer, and driver between bouts. RAYMOND SIMPSON bought Eagle Springs resort after graduation. He plans to redecorate the resort and clean out the pool sometime in the future. Meanwhile, he spends most of his time mushroom and paw-paw hunting. DR. REBECCA L. BAUER, head of the Foreign Service Department at KU, will fly to the Amazon River area to set up a public relations center for the natives. We wish her and her fiance', the Reverend Stewart, the best of luck with these head -hunters. MAYNARD SMITH surprised us by taking up speed racing. In 1976 he won the Indianapolis 500 and is now planning to enter the Grand Prix in France . His hobby is riding turtles in the Bronx Zoo. He says he likes to slow down and live once in awhile. JUDY DAVIS has just won her 3rd Academy Oscar for her performance as an exotic dancer in the picture called Fling . Judy started her career as an Apple Blossom Queen back in Kansas, then proceeded to win the Miss Kansas, Miss America, and Miss Universe titles in rapid suc- cession and is still known as Queen of the Film World. DAVID McKAY went into the watermelon business after college graduation in agricultural sci- ence. He developed a hybrid species of seedless melon which grows with a cellophane covering instead of a rind. Doniphan County is now known as the melon capital of the world. David is now working on a compact food which promises to stamp out hunger. ALICE DORRELL thought of flunking her senior year so she could go to school another year with George. After George graduated, they were married. They now live on his dairy farm where George works very hard to support Alice and their seven daughters. LEONARD RUSH'S plans of being a college and professional athlete were spoiled when his back was sprained from the weight of all his medals on his letter jacket. Leonard just shrugged and took up his other favorite sport fulltime ....... chasing girls. VICKI FRITCH began her career as a nurse soon after graduation from St. Lukes. She now divides her time between being head nurse in the 2000-bed Highland Hospital and being a loving wife to John, and her family, on John's share of the Rush Corporation. GARY BASKINS served as a missionary to England where he studied a foreign language. Gary said, English was always foreign to me. Karen, his wife, is a hair stylist in one of the large beauty salons in Sparks. She practices on her husband's oily locks in her spare time. DOTTY BOYCE took a nursing course after graduation. While on duty, a handsome Naval offi- cer swept her off her feet and they were married. Now she is happily settled on a large farm northeast of Highland and is kept busy feeding the chickens, cows, horses, dogs, cats, and her five children. DANNY BRYAN has become the head of the largest chain of private banks since J. P, Morgan. Danny started at the bottom as a bookkeeper and by careful juggling of the books has taken over as owner and President of 21 banks at last count. DOROTHY WOOSLEY'S work on the tobacco farm was so highly praised by the American Tobacco Company that they sent her to Cuba to see the tobacco operation down there. After eighteen years, Dorothy is still trying to get backto the United States. GLENN SUTHERLAND gave in to his love of books and became a science fiction writer. An unusual thing about Glenn's writing is that all of it has come true. Because of this unusual phenomena, Glenn has been appointed as the government official in charge of Interplanetary Space Relations. Last week he flew to Venus where he met with Venetian government officials to discuss the Milky Way. BETH WINSLOW changed her mind about a nursing career and entered the field of journalism. She has a syndicated column entitled, News About Town. She says that she is quite happy with her job since she always rather enjoyed being in on the know. LARRY BOEH wanted out of the Navy soon after enlistment, but it was too late then. He went to Europe on a six-month cruise. Three years later, when he got out of the Navy, he went back to Europe--France to be exact. There he is married to a cute little country girl 'and Larry and his six kids spend all day tramping the juice out of grapes for his wine -making industry. SUSAN SMITH took an IBM course after graduation. Her specialty was Univac. While working with the show, PEOPLE ARE FUNNY, which brings couples together electronically, she slipped her card into the machine. She began writing the man, who is a prospector and they were married in Alaska within a year.

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Upon entering the Junior year, our class gained two new faces. Both of them, Dollie Coots Davis, and Carol Murphy Olson were married within the year. Elaine Eby moved to Falls City and Mary Gormley was married to Harvey Potter. Linda Abbett quit school at the close of the year. The Junior officers were Don Scott, President, Mari Ann Noll, Vice -president, Elaine Eby and Lucia Forney, Secretary, Jackie Flint, Treasurer, Becky Bauer, Reporter, and Jeannie Waggoner, Sgt-at -arms. Our class sponsors were Mr. Minchow and Mrs. Garrison. We had a hayrack ride in the fall. Also in the fall, we presented our Junior Class play, Don't Take My Penny . We worked hard all year managing the concessions at all games. We also sold candy at school during the noon hour. The object of all this activity was to earn money for our Prom which was held May 3 at the Allen Fieldhouse. The theme was Moon River and the decora- tions were in yellow, white, and blue. The fun of decorating will be remembered as long as the actual evening of the Prom . The same year we chose our class flower, pink roses, class colors, blue and gold, and our class motto: 'Tis the set of the sail, and not the gale, which determines our destiny. As we began our final year at HHS our class had altered slightly. Susie Moore was at- tending Troy High School. We exchanged students with Wathena when Kay Davis left us and Larry Boeh returned. The senior class officers are Don Scott, President, Mari Ann Noll, Vice -president, Becky Bauer, Secretary, Jeannie Waggoner, Treasurer, Jackie Flint, Reporter, and Jim Rowe, Sgt-at-arms. Our sponsors are Mr. Hutchcraft and Mr. Nigus. Our year began with the Freshman Initiation dance which we sponsored. This always seems to be the liveliest party of the year. The initiation itself was quite altered since Fresh- men were required to wear beanies for two weeks and were properly initiated at a Pep Rally. Mail Order Bride was the show we saw on our class party in the spring. All lduring the year we worked quite diligently to earn money for our sneak trip. We sold raffle tickets for cakes, a radio, and a turkey or two. With this money and the money which we earned on our work day in April, we were able to take off by bus for Kansas City after school Thursday, April 9. We spent two days at the Hotel Continental seeing the wonders of the city. We took tours through the Nelson Art Gallery and the Chevrolet Body Plant. We returned home tired, but happy, Saturday evening. We were sponsored by Mrs. Joe Rush and Mrs. Eugene Waggoner in addition to Mr. Nigus and Mr. Hutchcraft. The Juniors honored the class at a lovely Prom, Moonlight And Roses held at the Maple Leaf in Hiawatha and the Allen Fieldhouse on May 2. We remember it as the most enchanting evening of the year. There are 30 graduating seniors. Baccalaureate was held Sunday, May 17, and Commence ment on May 21. Our days at HHS are complete, but the memories have just begun. Claw Wd! I, Leonard Rush, will my humble personality to Dean Butrick, my popularity with all the girls to Stephen Harness, my basketball ability to Harry Lewis, my driving ability to John Whetstine . I, Preston Harness, will my raven locks to Mr. Minchow, my ability as a fullback to Dwight Dillon, my masculine physique to John Jeschke. I, Beth Winslow, will my typing ability to Tim Torok, my slim, trim figure to Margo Caudle, my ability to spread the news at HHS to Mary Lynn Hargis. I, Becky Bauer, will my stilts to Wilma Lutes, my spot at the top of the Honor Roll to my two brothers, my Kayette presidency to Julia Baskins, my scholarships to Kansas University to Ed Stewart, my nun's habit to Miss Duncan. I, Dan Bryan, will my unprejudiced, unbiased, uncluttered mind to Doyle Irvin, my second- hand, slightly used insulated underwear to Ed Stewart for use on his many dates, my position as sports editor on the Kiltie to Janice Rosenberger, my friends' cigars to Dean Butrick. I, Glenn Sutherland, will my deed to the shack to Mike Parker, my science-fiction books to Mrs. Wolfley, my playboy magazines to Mrs. Volker for use in her reference library. I, Mari.Ann Noll-, will my Parker pens to Geraldine Simpson, my artistic ability to Tim Torok, my ability to handle six subjects to David Nuzum. I, John Blanton, will my parking spot in front of Crabtree's house to Jim Baker, my ability to get along with Mrs. Wheatley to Don Dawe, Tom Bottiger, and Doug Miller, my open- necked shirts to Steve Rorabaugh.