Laurel High School - Laurels Yearbook (Laurel, MT)

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The 19.59 Laurels Class Prophecy Hash! Mr. Howard Pewitt, star fullback of Southern California, has just announced his acceptance of a Rhodes Scholarship to England. He is giving up athletics for more serious studies. Laurel! Miss Erma Shay has just announced the establishment of a turtle pond on her ranch near here. She intends to raise them. Hash! Lung Island. Miss Helen Stouffer, famous clothes designer, has just announced that for the fall fashions women will wear hats, shoes and dresses. Rosemary Spcckeen is coach of the Moss-main Mossers. They are going to play the Youngs Point Pointers Thursday nite. Flash! Park City. Miss Gertrude Gilles has just been elected superintendent of schools. She has been teaching around here for the past few years. Flash! Reed Point. Mr. and Mrs. Gene De Erance, she the former Miss Marjorie Smith, have gone on their second honey moon. Flash! Hollywood. Miss Jean Wilson stopped in Laurel for a few days to renew old acquaintances. She has been in California giving the latest of her fashion parades. Miss Wilson is a dress designer for a New York fashion firm. One of the most distinguished of Laurel’s sports alumni is Homer Wheeler, who is head coach at Yale for the coming year. M rs. Mayfra Wold Wright arrived in Laurel to visit with her parents. Mrs. Wright will be joined by her husband, Edward, in April and they will return to Panama Canal Zone where he is a government civil engineer. Miss Mary Zier has been appointed head of the nursing staff at the John Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore, Md. Hash! IFashington. Miss Margaret Frank has just been appointed Secretary to the President of the United States. She is the only person in the United States who can sign the President's name and not get sentenced to prison. The Bronx. N. Y. Miss Loretta Segler has just presented her husband with triplets. The oddity of this news item is that her husband is one of triplets. Miss Marjorie Dix has just been elected superintendent of schools at Billings. How we envy you. Flash! Harvard U. Bob Freund, football coach at Harvard, has just announced that his daughter. Pat, will play halfback at his next football game at Notre Dame. Flash! Livingston. 1 iss Marjorie Goldsmith, famous drummer of Laurel band, has announced her resignation from the band in order to be able to go to Livingston and drum for Miss Lorraine Allan. Flash ! Mr. Archie Durkec has just been made president of the famous “Scratch” club and has announced that the name will be changed to Itch.” Mr. Paul Mogan has just been made I . F. A. supervisor of Montana. Mr. Elroy McManus has just accepted a job as modeler in a New York men’s store. His attractive eves made him especially apt for modeling hats. T welve

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The 1939 Laurels Class Prophecy Attention, Mr. and Mrs. North America and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press. Flash! Missoula. The absent-minded professor, Arthur Albright, has just been presented a bundle from heaven by his wife, the former Jean Price. And here is an item about Ixirraine Allen who moved to Livingston where site has established a school for dancing. M iss Leone Barker, piano instructor at Wisconsin Academy of Music, is visiting in Laurel at present. I 'lasli.' University of II asliington. Mr. Art Barthoff, a student here for some years, will graduate this spring. He is famous for his “cords” which he has worn all the while and has announced Wed. 19, 1959 as the date when he is going to wash them. Admission 15 cents. .Ia l here is a flash from Laurel again. M iss Esther Batt, famous painter of western scenes, is visiting in Laurel. I'lasli! Sew York City. Bruce Bliss, formerly of Laurel, has just signed a five-year contract as whistler with Ted Weem’s orchestra. London!! Roscoe Branstettcr, the champion bulldog-gcr of the U. S., has just been released from a London hospital where he was seriously injured while giving a command performance before the King and Queen. I'lash! The Amazons. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bray have just received a visit from the stork, word received here Thursday stated. Mrs. Bray is the former Klnora Stevenson of Laurel. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Porter, who was the former Geraldine Cook, celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary today. An item of special interest in the rural community around Laurel is that Miss Freida Coulter has just arrived to supervise the electrification of the farms. Miss Marie Dickson, president of the Old Maids’ society, has just announced her resignation. Believe it or not, to get married! I'lash! Laurel. Alex Gradwohl has just accepted a position as commercial instructor in the Laurel High School, succeeding Mr. J. IX Fellows. Sew York City. Dr. Fred Hilgert has just accepted a position as surgeon general of the United States. Dr. Hilgert told the reporters that now he could take time off to get married. Bridgeport. Esther Lais has just announced the discovery of a new type ice cream. She calls it the mellow cream. Dallas. Miss Helen Leis from Dallas, Texas announced her intentions of going on a round-the-world cruise in, of all things, a rowboat! Miss Dolly Nelson, who has spent 20 years teaching cooking, is now going to take it up in the home. Flash! Mr. Russell Packard, the noted flyer, has just been reported off the coast of England. He is attempting a non-stop flight around the world. Miss Helene Roberts, now Mrs. Eddie Burke, has just sailed for Europe on her honeymoon. She told reporters they had wanted to take a good one so that was why they waited so long. The west part of Laurel. The famous crooner, Ed Russell, with his million dollar smile, has just signed a contract to play opposite glamorous Hedy Lamarr. Mr. Warren Slater has just announced at his home near Laurel, the annual Chick Growers’ Association will meet Friday. Eleven

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The 1939 Laurels Class Will TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Whereas, that body of intellects known as the Class of 1939 (also known to freshmen and other parasitical growths by names too revolting to mention). Having dominated Laurel High for four years, hereby files its intentions of graduating. Rumors to the effect that the faculty had contemplated dynamiting the school from under us are unfounded and should he ignored. WHEREAS: The aforementioned class, being of sound mind and body (mind b the rest of the faculty, hod by Bennett) hereby revoke all wills heretofore published by us and declare this to be our Last Will and 1 csta-ment. Article I We leave Mr. Graff and Mr. Bennett with their shoulders held a little squarer and smiling through their tears. To the Math department we leave A and B still out buying potaotes. To the Laurel Leaves we leave numerous vacancies in the various columns to be filled with the names of the more prominent Juniors. To the Alumni we leave an example of what they might have been had they tried a little harder. To the Faculty we leave the school devoid of athletes, actors, musicians, debaters, and all skilled labor in general. Article II To the future football team, aided by the Alumni, we leave that sacred trust, the goal posts. As the F. F. A. boys arc taking Alex Ro-bertus along, they haven't anything of note to leave. Bruce and Russell leave—arm in arm. Mary Zier and Marjorie Dix arc in deep thought of whether it is safe to leave their N. Y. A. boys to anyone else. Warren Slater and Ed Russell are wondering who will take their place in football next year; Mr. Bennett is wondering, too. M arie Dickson's great ability to raise cats has been showered upon Pat Judd—not that she gets lonesome. Frederick Logan Hilgert Jr. leaves 95% of the girls in a dazed dilemma somewhat resembling the condition inflicted by hot air. Margaret Frank leaves Mr. Graff frantically searching the ranks of the Junior girls for someone to take her place. Roscoc Branstetter’s ability to talk to himself is passed on to Jimmy Cusick. Helen Stouffer leaves her quiet reserved ways to Jean Bliss, hoping she will make better use of them this year. Freida Coulter wishes her little case of measles to anyone who will take them—she is through associating with such things. Arthur Barthoff wills his varied fantastic excuses to the person needing them most. Could it be Bill Gibson? Helen Leis wills her glasses to anyone who will wear them. Paul Mogan leaves with the same blank look he wore five years ago. Gertrude Gilles, Mr. Bennett's errand girl, leaves this school weary of body but not of mind. Mayfra Wold leaves David Kiedrowski to Cynthia Martini. Thirteen