Lanier High School - Largus Yearbook (Bessemer, AL)

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To: Tammy Langford we leave the barn. To: Craig Logan we leave Keith Kuhn's ability to get out of jail. To: Anyone who will have it, Randy Bunn leaves the title Pooh Bear. To: Eric Horton, Mike Selman leaves his title God's Gift to Women. To: Coach Lazenby, Jan Lazenby leaves some Space. To: Kathy Spencer, Mike Dennis says he is graduating but not leaving. To: Tre Harris, Terry Defoor leaves his wild, wild ways! ! To: James Pierson, Chuck Nagle leaves his delivery boy job. To: Mrs. Coker, Eddie Bell leaves a hall pass. To: Leroy McKinley, Bruce Henderson leaves his weight watcher's membership. To: Paul Hill, Delsa Lindsey leaves her study habits. To: The junior girls, Becky King leaves her ability to get on the Homecoming Court. To: Gerri Buttram, Jimmy George leaves one last date. To: The school's security, we leave Coach Chambers two German Shepherds, a shovel and a rake. To: Lora Holliman, we leave a safe junior year. To: Roy Duncan, Matt Self leaves one last game of chess. To: Mr. Debrow, the seniors leave an after dinner bomb. To: Kim Moore, Randy Watson leaves his little fish. To: Mary Smitherman, Lori Dill, and Teresa Roebuck, Gail Short leaves a fight for the head majorette position. To: Jim Simpson, Timmy Tindle leaves a plug of Red Man. To: Mr. Bottsford, we leave another Jack Whisenhunt, if there is such a thing. To: Next year's cheerleaders, we leave a dream of organization and leadership. To: Al Vaughan and Shawn Sims, we leave a place in the Morman Tabernacle Choir. To: The art classes, we leave Linda Dunn's ability to scribble. To: Valerie Turner, Benette Yelling leaves her ability to catch a shooting star without really trying. To: Mrs. Belew, Mary Jane Foler leaves her voice. To: Leanna Steele , Jeralyn Rogers leaves her ability to keep a secret. To: Mrs. Davidson, Mike Carlee leaves a new pair of glasses. To: All his women, Anthony Pippen leaves handkerchiefs to wipe away the tears. To: Mr. Davidson, the class of '7'7 leaves a bottle of For Brunettes Only. To: Bernard Pippen, we leave the intersection of 8th Street and 6th Avenue. To: The new B.E. Students, Zelda Wedgeworth leaves her typing ability. To: Donald Lawley, we leave a way to skip and not get caught. To: Dick Wright, we leave nothing - he's got it all. To: The Juniors, we leave the best example of a graduating class, set by the Seniors of 1977! ! To To: Jess Lanier High School we leave an undying gratitude for the most important four years of our lives. The knowledge gained here will remain with us throughout our future years. We also thank our parents for their encouragement. CLASS LAWYERS Doug Burns J tj Chuck Nagle 0 O Teresa Turner V ' Mike Dennis Vicki Warmley To: All underclassmen, especially Freshmen, we leave the spirit stick. : Next year's Class Lawyers, Mike Dennis, Teresa Turner, Chuck Nagle, Vickie Warmly, and Doug Burns say Good Luck! ! 9

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the senior class of 1977, having completed our four years of High School, and having the satisfaction of still being of sound mind and body, do hereby declare this our LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. R To: The halls of JLHS, we leave memories both happy and sad . . . but they will be treasured forever. To: The 1977 Fighting Tigers the senior football players leave a place in the state playoffs. To: Minor High School, we leave thanks for the undying thrill of victory. To: The teachers, Io Ann Russo leaves a doctor's excuse. To: David Gunning, we leave a place in the 1980 graduating class. To: Mike Barr, Steve Loyd leaves his musical ability. To: Pam Brown, Vickie Davis leaves a love of her own. To: Coach Hobson we leave Hot Rod's job at the Bessemer Police Department. To: Mr. Thomas, Big Flick leaves his high heel shoes so - he can reach the top of the black board . To: Debra Collins, Cedric Stevens leaves his love. To: Frankie Manzella, we leave the starring role in Don't Let a Day Go Bye! To: Rosalyn Brundidge, Linda Chiles leaves her driving ability. To: Al Canzoneri, Jeff Wilson leaves his enthusiastic work in the Key Club. To: Edith Boone, Gail Thornton leaves a wall to wall mirror in the girl's restroom. To: Mrs. Holloway, we leave all the ingredients for biscuits EXCEPT buttermilk. To: Mrs. Crain, Katheleen Perkins leaves excuses, excuses, excuses. To: Brenda and Linda Audrey, the class of '77 leaves 348.00 to pay off their debts. To: Terri Dill, Ronee Thompson leaves a Colonial Dining Club Book and two tickets to the Birmingham Bulls Hockey Game To: Calvin Harris, Robert Hester leaves his 23 units to getaway. To: Maple Howard , Darlene Frazier leaves a bottle of hair food. To: The lunchroom staff, we leave a cookbook. To: The junior girls we leave Shelton Ivey. To: Cindy Self and Benjie Scalise, Marie Arflin and Chuck Nagle leave their spot at the submarine races. To: Mrs. Ford, Waymon Swiney leaves an English Whopper! To: Lisa Thomas, we leave scissors to take six inches off her dresses. To: Susan Childers and Barbara Steward, Teresa Turner leaves a lot of memories. To: All the coaches, the seniors leave a hey-hey-hey! To: Jeff Riley: Linda Dunn, Gina Barbour, and Fran Naro leave their ability to climb a tree while in a car. To: Robin Kimble, Mark Kurtts leaves a new little black book with lots and lots of pages. To: Calvin Thompson and Michael Seals, the Calculus class leaves the Calculus Blimp. 228

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CLASS PROPHECY This is CHRIS DANIEL, PAM SHORT, JAY BROWN and BRUCE HENDERSON doing an indepth research on the Graduating Class of '77 at Jess Lanier High School. It's been exactly 20 years since we departed from Lanier and we thought it would be interesting to see what our fellow graduates are now doing. Many of our classmates were adventurous and still are. For instance DAVID ALLEY has just returned from hunting elephants in Africa. Though he didn't get an elephant, he did find missionaries ANGELA COLLUM and GWEN CULWELL trying to teach brotherly love to the cannibals. Also it has been reported that a tribe of gypsies led by LEWIS MATHEWS is moving through the South. Among his followers are ALONZO HOLLAND, KEN CUNNINGHAM, ELSIE WILLIAMS, VERA BOYKINS, DEBORAH BILL- UPS, and MELVIN BENNETT, all in search of the Fountain of Youth. How about this for adventurous? Sheik TIM GEESLING added three more girls to his harem today. LINDA DICKEY, TORY DURDEN, and TONI GIARDINA are the lucky girls. They make an even 500. Speaking of sheiks, MATT SELF is still touring Europe with his harem . It wasn't hard to find President JAN LAZENBY. She's in Washington with her Cabinet. GLORIA WASHINGTON is Secretary of Affairs, LELDON LOCKART is Secretary of Defense, and MICHAEL SANDERS is Secretary of the Treasury. SHARON SMITH and RANDY WATSON are also in Washingtong she is a senator and he is her secretary . You can pick up any fashion magazine and see top models JULIA HAGERTY, MARTHA HAYNES, DAVID LAWLEY, and SHEL- TON IVEY modeling today's look: potato sacks! ! Remember how athletic some of our classmates were? Well, many have chosen the field of sports. BECKY KING is the World's Woman Wrestling Champion. Soon she will go against opponent CHERYL VICTORY. The Women's Olympic Basketball Team has recruited four of our former classmates. They are CHARLOTTE SEALS, WREN BRASHER, and KATHELEEN PERKINS, with TERRY WINNINGHAM playing center. And in an auditorium we found LISA KIDD receiving the Golden Glove Slugger of the Year Award! But the Class of '77 is not without a Super Star. TERESA TURNER is our female Bobby Riggs. Always with her to cheer her on to victory are her cheerleaders BOBBY WILLIAMS CCaptainj, WILLIAM WILKES and SAMUEL SIMS. In our search for our fellow classmates we found ourselves in a Hollywood studio where DARLENE MCGADNEY and JACQUE- LINE McSHAN, known for their violent tempers, were starring in a movie called The Grapes of Wrath. In another part of the studio we found MICHAEL GODWIN and SHARON GRAY, PATRICIA GRISWOLD and ANNIE DUNSON as the Pippettes. And in a local Hollywood Funeral Parlor JUDY NEVETT and ANNETTE BOWDEN were seen weeping over the bodies of their billionaire husbands, who died three days after the wedding ceremony. Rev. STEVE LOYD conducted both weddings and funer- als. Many of our fellow graduates decided to stay in and around Bessemer. The BESSEMER NEWS, for instance, is now being edited by JEFF WILSON and SHARON SHORT, and with the circus in town they have a lot to write about. The circus was formed by DEBRA COURTNEY and CARLA BOWLIN and is called the Ms. Circus. The daring young men on the flying trapeze are none other than MIKE MOBLEY, RUSTY MORRIS, ANTHONY PIPPEN and MICHAEL LACY SELMAN. They'd be great if they just weren't afraid of heights and looked better in tights. Other familiar faces belong to DONNY BEARD and MITCHELL BATES who are the lion tamer and lion, respectively. And what circus would be complete without clowns to keep the crowds roaring? Ms. Circus has two, RICKY HOLLOWAY and KEITH KUHN, but instead of roaring the crowds are snoring. Several new stores have appeared in Bessemer, Pop's Candy Shop owned and operated by RANDY ELLENBURG and D.G. D. owned by ANDREA DERAMUS ARONIA GRICE and VEDIA DUMAS. Bessemer has also added the BENNETTE YELLING Mental Hospital with MICHAEL LINWOOD SELMAN as it's latest addition. He cracked up after he found out that the Civil War is really over, but he won't be lonesome because MARY THOMAS, GINA BARBOUR and FRAN NARO have previously been committed. The head nurse is ZELDA WEDGEWORTH . MARSHA JACKSON, YVONNE LEWIS and CYNTHIA DENSON opened a charm school here and enrolled as their own first students. They flunked! In the courthouse we found Judge BETH BRITTON sentencing GAIL SHORT to 20 years for robbing MARK SAXON'S Bar and Grill. LINDA DUNN has set up a Driving Academy and her star pupil is Sister MONICA CUNNINGHAM. Speaking of driving, TAMMY BAKER is the 21st century Evel Knievil. Her new stunt is to try to fly over Division Ave. 230