Jacksonville High School - Crimson J Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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lived, jive jargon found its mark and there it remained to enrich the vocab- ulary of every hep chick and good Ioe. Curtain A bubblin' bevy of beauteous babes wend their Way toward the hangout g overtaken by the wolf- pack, the conversation goes something like this: Says foe Mac Grojean, sidling up to a little P-38, Hello, luscious-how's about a date with a gentleman ???? in distress? fdistress is right-the poor guy has used this line on four dubious damsels already-and he's still tryin'll Says she to he, Make like a boid, Wolfman-you're on the off beat- fTranslation: Scram bud, you're not my type. l And this takes us up to our destin- ation. lnside, the juke-box jitterbugs are doing some fancy rug-cutting to the newest popular hit tune, Murder -a current favorite among the elite of our musical intellectll The evidences of Whimsy for just plain insanityl can be seen everywhere-well-worn sad- dle-shoes and ankle-socks, pushed up sweater sleeves, topped by long straight hair fwith the exception of a few rebels-like, for instance, Dixie the pixie Arnold, layne Cottontop Walker, and Roberta Brat Winstead, and some dozen or so others- Dot Crabtree, lackie Tankersley, Imo- gene lmboden, Betty White, Winnie Elliott, Betty Marshall, jean Davison, Lois Crowie Crowcroft, Bert Chris- tison, Helen Baker, Annie Alexan- der, Mary Fran Kennedy, Mary lane Hacker, and Liz Snyder-sporting feather-cuts or the next best thing to it, and then, of course, our radical Ctheres one in every crowdl, Anne UpsWeep Hudson - fonly kidding, Anne,-on you it looked goodll lt's practically an impossibility to distinguish these hep-cats one from the other. But over in the corner theres a gruesome twosome really in the groove. You can't mistake those twirl- in' skirts. lt's Mary the moron Pires and Phyl Me Too Stone. Speaking of talent, our class boasts of three mighty fine-and strictly solid - individuals. You're just not hep 'til you've seen Geneva Sammy Norvell or Betsy Waggoner cut a rug, and watched a piano respond to Betty lane Broyles nimble treatment. Over to your right, two booths back, Glen Gabriel Hawk and his 20-2U little squad are holding hands over a couple of cokes. lust across the aisle, a gabble-gathering is in full swing. We place these bundle- bunnies under one general heading, guy goony or Khaki-wacky fsuit your- selfl, and in two classes. Class Jil- The fag-hag Cthere's bound to be a fewll Class W2-The pucker-pointer- or a pigeon who paints her pan in pub- lic, Dig me, drips? COuchll ....,. my conscience! Ill The last stall , we see by now, is occupied by Marge Smooch Snyder and june Peppy Little, discussing the latest thing in mandates , no doubt fPunlll You see, they're up for grabs fTranslation: easy to date-but who isn't these days?l lf you really want to get the line on SENIOR FELLAS 29

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S lE N ll 0 R S Betty Rogers Carol Roy Bernita Rudisill Betty Rush Velma Schall Patsy Seaver Margaret Sevier Ruth Sheptenko Don Shumaker Aileen Simpkins Norma Skinner Frank Slagle Alan Smith Elizabeth Snyder Mariorie Snyder Doris Spencer Phyllis Stone Iacqueline Tankersley Bob Taylor Elizabeth Thurmon G. H. Timmons Gilbert Todd Bob Underbrink Helen Vieira Bette Waggoner

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SENIORS Pauline Walihan Iayne Walker Russell Walton Reta Wessler Mildred Wheeler Betty Iane White Bob Operman George Wilkerson lean Wilkinson Harlan Williamson Helen Heinders Roberta Winstead Owen Wholers lohn Wolfe Helen Wilding Dorothy Woodall Roy Wright Iohn Wurtsbaugh