Laurel High School - Laurels Yearbook (Laurel, MT)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY At the reunion of the Class of 49 held in 1959, at the new modern $1,000,000 Laurel High School, the following facts were disclosed: Billie Lou Bartley and Willy Huschka are now happily married and growing winter wheat and little Huschkas in North Dakota. Kathleen Behm is Queen of Swat, taking Babe Ruth's place Thomas Bennett has stepped in Carl Anderson's shoes (size 14) as foreman of the local section gang. Joyce Bradford is now currently starring in the popular radio program, The Thin Man's Wife. Don Bradford is raising mules in Missouri to get a Kick out of life. Betty Brese is now teaching girls’ physical education at Katzenjamer school for boys. Peering through the dust we see Don Brester has just flashed by with his beet wagon and team. Don Brohaugh is still trying to pass his college entrance exam at the Mossmain School of Mines. Bert Brown is now playing professional football for the Green Bay Packers. Stan Burkley is now busting rocks at San Quentin. Harriett Decker is Mrs. Sweater Girl of 1959. Clyde Cromwell, after four years of law school, is now employed as Janitor in the Billings Court House. Loretta Deis is now in the Broadway hit, Andy Get Your Dice. Alvin Dorall now runs a North Dakota jack-rabbit farm. Eleanor Fisher and Helen Pomroy, professionally known as Bubbles Fisher and Queeny Pomroy, are now dancing on Broadway. Marlene Freeman, the former Mrs. Leslie Hage-man, Jr., has been granted a divorce on grounds of continual drunkeness and non-support. John Goodenbour, after ten long years, is still trying to get Mrs. Huschka away from Willy. Don Hodges is now artist for Esquire , for men . Joyce Gill is now superintendent of Deaconess. Virginia Hahn and George Roth are very happily married and are running the Hesper Bar. Ralph Hodges now owns I 10 interest in Laird's Radio Electric Shop. Helen Hoffman is now a successful hair stylist. Virginia Harlan and Laurel Stenersen are still trying to convince the bouncer at the Midway that they have reached the ripe old age of 21. Bill Kass and Jim Scribner are singing and taking collections for the Salvation Army. Tommy Kilpatrick is now Commander in Chief of all Billings Gazette delivery boys. Edwin Kehm is now taking Bill Price's place as chief handy man. Norman Lais is now a millionaire and is spending his time on his yacht, fishing and putting on shows for all the girls. Janie Lockwood, in keeping with her ladylike personality, is now running a popular girls' school, (Lockwood's Lessons for Ladies'). Betty Marshall is singing in one of the upDer-class dives in a mid-western city. Her theme song is I Get the Neck of the Chicken.” Darlene Moon hitched onto a star, Butch Jenkins, Hollywood heart-throb. Eleanor Mossman is now married to the President of Hesper College of Agriculture. Richard Nelson is now studying under the famous Dr. Rosselot, veterinarian. Honest John Orndorff is still trying to convince the women of L. H. S. that he is their type. Bill Paronto and Chuck Rosselot have their own dairy farm and still in the Ozarks. Their slogan is if you don't drink our whiskey, you can t drink our milk.

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SENIOR CLASS WILL (cont.) I, Janie Lockwood, leave my executive ability to any future ambitious soul. I, Betty Marshall, leave bookkeeping, still amazed. I, Darlene Moon, leave my ability to say no to my sister, Audrey. I, Eleanor Mossman leave nothing. Everything I have is at the Normal. I, Richard Nelson, will my name Swede to hootenanny 8-Ball Fredericks. I, John Orndorff, better known as Moose , leave my diminutive proportions to Lawrence Stenersen. We, Bill Paronto and Chuck Rosselot, leave in search of women. I, Jim Phillips leave the L. H. S. girls to get along as best they can without me. I, Helen Pomroy leave my steno ability to anyone who can write that fast. I, Neilon Prill, leave my musical talent to Jim Gass. I. Nancy Purchase leave my charm and baby-blue eyes to Kay Pewitt. I, Beverly Rider,' leave my ability to blush at everything to Joan Reichel. I, George Roth, leave to come back for Carroll next year. I, Margaret Scheeier, leave my ability to get along with peop'e to anyone that lacks that trait. I, Dick Shay leave my wolfishness to Bobby Dantic. I, Veda Slater, leave my long walk home to June Kroh. tt comes in handy sometimes, June. I, Bill Smith, leave my Pepsodent smile to Claudine Eberhardt. I, Bill Sorg, leave my athletic prowess to anyone that feels they can keep up the record. I, Richard Sparlin, leave my growing-up ways to Bernice Moren. I. Ro'emary Sparlin, leave my glasses to anyone that has nerve enough to wear them. I, Fred Starbard. leave my interest in business to Bob Kass. I. Laurel Stenersen, leave my athletic ability to Betty Jo Nelson. I, James Tinnes, will my questionable language to Wesley Henley. I, Robert Tinnes. will my way with Havre Women to the Havre boys. I. Pat Ward, leave my short hair-cut to Rosemary Toots Schmidt. I, Hulda Weber, leave still employed at the Dutch Mill. I, Jim Wilson, leave my ability to be expelled and reinstated in five minutes to Everett Moorman. I, Leo Yeager, leave my creative mind to Jumping Joe Garlock. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto subscribed our names and affixed our seal in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and forty-nine. I long to be a senior And with the seniors stand, A fountain pen behind my ear, A notebook in my hand. I wouldn't be a president I wouldn't be a king, I'd rather be a senior And never do a thing.

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY (cont.) Jim Phillips is still as reluctant to leave the mirrors as ever. Neilon Prill and his Desert Rats play nightly at the Friendly Tavern. Nancy Purchase and Jim Wilson have settled down in South Bend. Indiana and are raising their own Fighting Irish. Beverly Rider is now dean of women at Vassar. Margaret Scheeler married a cabin boy in the Navy. Veda Slater is teaching school in Spring Dale. Richard Shay is now in the Army with an old pal, Paul Gable. Billy Smith, a successful business man was seen lunching at the Ritz with his old girl friend, Pat Ward, a Power's Model. Rosemary Sparlin is now the singing cigarette girl at the Diamond Horseshoe. Bill Sorg and Janet Ness are now sending their own team to L. H. S. The shock of getting his diploma was too much for poor old Dick Sparlin. God Rest His Soul. Fred Starbard is now appearing in the popular production, John's Other Wife s Husband. Jitterbugging Jim Tinnes now owns his own dancing school. Robert Tinnes has just tired of his latest conquest and has filed for his tenth divorce. Hulda Weber now owns one malted milk machine at the Dutch Mill, after years of hard labor. Alma Fox just published her best seller, Love Life of a Worm. Duane Eberhardt is still working on the division sheets for the annual. Leo Yeager is unable to attend our class reunion. He went to Warm Springs for a bath and never came back. Class Colors Silver and Purple Class Flower Lily of the Valley Class Motto: Non Progredi est Regredi Not to go forward is to go backward.