Jackson Township High School - Blackboard Yearbook (Jamestown, IN)

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19 - THE BLACKBOARD - 51 CLASS WILL We, the Senior Class of Jackson Township High School, in the county of Boone and the State of Indiana, being of sound mind and body, do hereby on this day of April 1, 1951, declare and make public our last will as follows: To the Junior Class, we will all the headaches of printing an annual. Also to the Juniors, we will our seats in the assembly. To the Sophomores, we will the honor and privilege of becoming upper classmen. To the entire school, we will our picture to be hung in the office for a year then moved to the hall. To the eighth grade, we will the honor of being seated in the assembly. To the faculty, we, the Senior boys, will our noisy engineer boots. To the Junior girls, we, the Senior girls, will our senior skirts. PERSONAL BEQUESTS Virginia Ailes would like to will her figure to Shirley Williams. Marcia Brown wills her ability to keep her man to Helen Spivey. Ronnie Cornett wills his good disposition to John Demaree. Jack Hedge wants Chick Hiland to have his ability to play snook. Rex Goodnight wills all his girl friends, with a few exceptions which he wants to keep, to Sherrill Fitzpatrick. Barbara Froman wills her ability to make funny faces to Phyllis Brindle. Darol Mercer wants to give his big, blue, eyes to Rose Mangus. Martha Neff wills her ability to get along with Mrs. Lane to Etta Pearl McHargue. Louise Patton wills her good memory to Mr. Caldwell. Allen Ragsdale wills to some member of next year's Senior Class the headaches of being annual editor. dMarilyn Riley wants to will her long fingernails to Nora Jean Under- woo . Don Schooler wills his height to Mr. Palmer. Janet Vermillion wills her good personality to Eileen Ragsdale. Phyllis Woodard wants her ability to remain a telephone operator to go to Rhea Williams. Lessie Walker wills all her politics to Mr. Broshar. Evelyn Dennis wants Nancy Benge to have her dimples Ethel Hedge wills her little feet to Lowell Spaulding. Patricia Ottinger wills her ability to make conversation with strangers to Janet Reed. Witnesses: One Ghost Rider From The Sky The Thing Rudolph Written by Martha Neff

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19 - THE BLACKBOARD 51 PROPHECY To see ourselves-not as others see us-twenty years from now, is a task that would require more intuition than I possess. Even in normal times writing a prophecy is an absurd idea. I would, rather, like to think of my classmates as being successful in their life work. I would like to think of them being happy, living to an old age, crowned by a road of progress and enjoying, in their dotage, the memories of the good things they have accomplished for themselves and their friends. I might venture to take a look and a listen on a conversation twenty years from now. The speaker is a base ball player of some fame. Jack is asking Don Schooler if there would be a place to train his team on his ranch in Texas. Rex Goodnight speaks up and offers to move his circus animals off the ranch if Don wants to accept J ack's offer to train the Giants there. Cornett, the foreman of the ranch, suggested that the rock canyon could be cleared of cactus and it would provide an ideal place. It was a- greed, and the construction company, Ragsdale 8a Mercer, was called in. In thirty days Hedge was chasing flies up and down the canyon. That's how those boys were, I remember, in school. No sooner they got an idea than they were doing something about it. To carry our views further into the future we notice Phyllis Woodard, listed among the Bell Telephone employees as chief operator. Her able as- sistant is her high school companion, Evelyn Dennis. Janet Vermillion, a world traveler -and singer, has returned to her native land after receiving the ovations of Royalty and commoners. She is now teaching singing and language at the famous Froman School. The Froman School has turned out such greats as Martha Neff. who appears on television each Sunday night for Phil Harris. The Thing has proved to be a wonder, even in our land of wonders. Louise Patton and Patricia Ottinger, after graduating from Indiana University, were given citations by Pres. Wells for outstanding work in medicine. This led to their present positions with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Marilyn is living the life of Riley. She now operates her own finger- nail shop on Fifth Avenue. Ethel Hedge is still a small animated body but she is one who has developed her high ideals. She now thrills millions by her aerial antics. At forty she is still pushing a peanut across a nylon rope one hundred feet above the arena for the Brown dz Ailes Circus. She had to give up cross- ing the tight wire on a pogo stick because she doesn't have as much bounce as she used to. Lessie Walker is still in school. She holds degrees from five Ameri- can and one English Universities. She is still trying to enroll in Columbia or Wabash. She feels she should round out her education. Yes. folks, some of us have married and have children in this year's Senior Class of 1971. They are much more well behaved than we were because we have all used the Lane Preparatory School. Bring Them Up Right and Right Now , operated by our former teacher, Mrs. Dorothy Lane, in Jamestown, Indiana. Written by Barbara Froman

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THE BLACKBKOARD CLASS POEM His disposition is quite outstanding, He's the ball-player of our classg Ronnie can catch the eyes of a girl, But he has no certain lass. Darol is a versatile chap, He loves to get around, Work, is a word, that leaves him, Like a man six feet underground. As secretary of our class, She's always very handy, All of Louise's interests lie, In someone she thinks just dandy. No matter what her cares may be, A dimpled smile usually you seeg As Pat Ottinger goes about her work, And her duties she does not shirk. One of the senior boys so few, Is one well-known by me and you, Allen R-agsdale in salesmanship displays his stuff And on the ball floor can make it tough Martha can make all A's, Or she can make all C'sg But she is sure of stepping up, The heart beats of Donald B. He's tall and dark, And slightly handsome, When Don dates a girl, You should see him romance 'em. She loves to laugh and have her fun, And never seems to worry, Only when she sees Windy, Does Virginia get in a hurry. You couldn't say he was a scholar, You couldn't say he was a doltg We suppose all you could say, Rex is just an unbroken colt. We have a senior girl named Janet, Who planned a nursing career, Until Dick Morrison changed her mind Now a Wedding date may be very near.,