La Cygne Rural High School - Swan Yearbook (La Cygne, KS)

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Sgnivfb .Tfwfpfwvq As we wander through the hills of the Ozark country in 1962 we come upon 'Turkey Ridgew, the highest mountain in the world, where we can gaze upon the prosperous seniors of 1952. As we look around we see: Robert Guthrie has just finished research on his next best seller, nThe Human Brainn. Writers sometimes use ficticious things. Richard Wade is now on the All-American mountain boy basketball team which is playing at Fox Trot. Wilma Jean Miller got tired of waiting for her husband so enlisted in the Wacs and is now stationed at Possum Creek. Her duty is private secretary to General James Boyd. Betty Hoover is now holding the dust pan for janitor Jack Boyd at the Barefoot Girls Beauty School. CShe didn't trust him to go alone.P Joan Modesitt, whose ambition in high school was to be an air line hgsiegs, is now flying with her husband, being hostess to her plane load o 1 s. Hilma McRae is managing her general store on the mountain side-- specializing in nKey Work Clothesn. Minnie Low Master is now married and living in Arkansas. She always liked the name Edwin, so meet: Edwin-one, Edwin-two, Eddie-three, and Baby Edwina. Dale McClanahan after ten years of strenuous thinking has decided to marry. CWhere's the gal?J Gary Massey is now coaching the nSkunk Hollow Ninem and is using a mountain for a back stop. Donna Karr is managing a home. Of course, she has some stair steps Cand I don't mean the kind people climb.J Marcia Zim erman is running a nursing home for the veterans of the McCoy Fueds. Bettye White is working on the WChicken Gazetten Kwhich has started to set since she became employed by them? and has a column called nthis may not be true, but I'll tell it anyhow.' Dale Funk is now dealing in the donkey business. He has the assistance of a lot of little red heads. They think donkeys are safer than cars. Betty Massey has just nMassey curedm her tenth husband and is traveling up the mountain in search of another one. Davie Driskell is now running his own moonshine still and is ably assisted by Kathy who also has the care of fifteen kids. Berle Trinkle is running a pool hall with time out each year to hide during Sadie Hawkins Season. Naida Twogood attended Uhow to Catch a Man Collagen for four years and has now caught one. Clncidentally, it was leap year.D She is now living one of those 'lived happily ever aftern lives. Bill Gomerdinger is now landing from one of his flights. He made the fastest non-stop flight from one hot spot to another. Is he a Ranger?? Wilma Sherman is supervising a little log cabin school house. We see her now celebrating the birthday of her youngest student--ML. Malvina Cutburth is now sponsoring a shorthand school for old men that always signed their names with x's. ' Phyllis Gage is a social worker. 5he's promoting a reform movement motto is, WA little brown jug under every bed , or something like whose that. Duane Capehart has his own radio program. His theme song is nFeudin', fussin', an' a-fightin'.n Barton Jones is chasing razor-back hogs through the hills in his Pontiac. Donald Brown is specializing in the farming of corn, of course he grows it for the neighbor's stills--he doesn't care for it.

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fa 'IU' 1952 We, the Senior Class of 1952 being of sound mind fsound as everl and body do hereby declare our last will and testament to whom it may concern--the future seniors, wise or otherwise, our beloved teachers: and various others who have wished us well during the four years we have occupied--in body and occasionally in mind--this school. I, Duane Capehart will my ability to talk all of the time and say nothing to anyone that needs it. I, Phyllis Gage will my slim figure to Phyllis Maschler. I, Davie Driskell will the care of a certain junior girl to Melvin Arnold. I, Dale McClanahan will my height to Donald Hays which he will no doubt need some day. I, Melvina Cutburth will my qu1et,cignified ways to Shirley Boswell. I, Wilma Jean Miller will my honor of being home-coming queen to Pat Petock. I, Richard Wade will my basketball ability and my feminine ways with the girls to Duane Tracy, providing he uses his own girls. I, Betty Massey, leave my ways and means of jollying the boys to Daisy Showalter. I, Barton Jones will my eagerness to skip school to anyone that can get by with it. I, Hilma McRae will my interest in school work and my disinterest in boys to Alice Ann Sherman. I, Betty Hoover will my pretty blond hair, knack at fixing it, and my interest in ex-students of LRHS to Sue La Master. I, Gary Massey leave my intelligence to Ronnie Boone. I, Berle Trinkle am in too big a hurry to get out of school to make a will. I, Bill Gomerdinger leave all vacant benches and cozy corners in the halls to Bill Pratt. I, Marcia Zimmerman will all my perfect American History papers to Raymond Potts. I, Dale Funk will Ruth to any boy that thinks he is able to take her away from me. l, Minnie Low Master will my place of mShortestn in the senior class to Norma Jean Wilson. I, Naida Twogood will my place as FHA president and being able to get along with Mrs. Handley to Carol Purvis. I, Bob Guthrie will my mischievous ideas and my ability to carry out these ideas to James Karr. I, Joan Modesitt will my eagerness to learn to Junior Clay. I, Donald Brown will my shyness to Melvin Scott. I, Bettye White leave my happy-go-lucky ways to Bessie Cutburth. 1 I, Donna Karr will my bookkeeping ability to the future bookkeeping c ass. N I, Wilma Sherman will my good behavior in all my classes to Susie orton. In closing this will we leave to everybody all that we have failed to make an account of, but especially our good nature and our ability to take a joke. In the presence of these witnesses we hereby set our hand on this twentieth day of May in the year of 1952. lldhulcu CZLQQ,

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