Loogootee High School - Black Gold Yearbook (Loogootee, IN)

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SKMOIt CLASS NtOPIIBiY On May 7, 1971, Patty and I, working as newspaper reporters for the Loogootee Tribune, were call- ed into the office of our editor, Denny Phillips. He was wanting to run a special news editorial on our graduating class of 1961. It was our first big break and we wanted to make good. We were going to have to work hard for the editorial was to be published on May 19, the day of our graduation anniversary. We knew we could not accomplish this task by ourselves so we turned to the F.B.I. for help. Who do you think was appointed to help us but our old classmate, Betty Evans. Our story started in our home town where we knew what the kids were doing. Peggy Fish is a Phys. Ed. teacher—she teaches body conditioning. Ronnie Daugherty is now the official popcorn popper at old L.H.S. Roger Gentry is president of the Beatnik Club (commonly known as the Way-Out Club) of Loogootee. Ronnie Fullerton, who became a Latin teacher, is still skipping through the halls of L. H.S. flirting with the girls. Jim Melton owns a big farm just outside the city limits of Loogootee and is quite a success. To get the rest of the information for our story, we had to rent a helicopter and travel all over the United States. You'll never guess who our pilot was! Camilla Jones. She said she really likes her work. Our first stop was at Plainville. Wayne Dillon now owns and operates his own gas station in Plainville. Wayne informed us that Danny Hoffman owns a big chicken ranch on the outskirts of Epsom. We went to the ranch and found Paul Moffitt working as his foreman. Danny told us that he is having trouble with his hens smashing their eggs. Could it be that Paul is always late to pick up the eggs? We then traveled to Las Vegas. We stopped at the Pizza Palace for dinner and were surprised to learn that Marilee Atchison and Suzanne Strickland were the owners. Mari lee and Suzanne cameout and talked to us and told us the bad news that the Palace was being closed the next day for illegal doings in the back room. They also told us that Jo Ann Harris and Gary Fox were co-owners of most of the gambling cassinos and beer joints in Las Vegas. We visited their offices and found Carolyn Hembree working as their private secretary. She obtained this position on the recommendation of her high school shorthand and typing tea- cher. Carolyn informed us that Shirley Woods was working in Las Vegas as a divorce lawyer. I bet she keeps busy! Betty tracked some of the kids down in New York. Sharon Jones was the first one we ran across. She was deep in politics. She announced her intentions of running for the Presidency in November. Just think! She will be our first woman President! Sharon told us the news that Joe Montgomery had just been appoint- ed as Ambassador to Russia. We hope he doesn't do anything to harm our relationship with Russia. Sharon said that one day when she was downtown in Macv's she ran across Doris Stranqe. We went to Macv's and found Doris working as a model—she was modeling men's socks. We asked Doris if she knew of the whereabouts of any of the old classmates. She said we would be surprised to learn that Karen Jordan has traveled more than any other woman in the world—she is the elevator operator in the Empire State Building. 21

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY We, the class of '61, with fifty-four students, entered Loogootee High School in the fall of 1957. Mr. Purcell was chosen to be our class sponsor. Under his guidance we sponsored a sock-hop. We also enjoyed a party at the American Legion Home and a class outing at Spring Mill State Park. The class officers were: President...... Vice-President Secretary...... Treasurer...... Denny Phillips . .James Krodel . Patty Barber . Jo Ann Harris Only forty-seven of us returned for our sophomore year. During this year we sponsored a sock-hop and sold magazine subscriptions. The class officers were: President........................James Krodel Vice-President................. Denny Phillips Secretary .....................Joe Montgomery Treasurer......................Danny Thomas In the fall of '59, thirty-eight of us returned for our junior year. Our class rings were received and the year closed successfully with a Junior-Senior Banquet and Prom, which was given with the guidance and help of Miss Crooke and our class sponsor, Mr. Purcell. During the year a sock-hop , a chili supper, and a bake sale were held. The class officers were: President........................James Krodel Vice-President...................Sharon Jones Secretary........................Mary Lou Cox Treasurer........................Ruth Goode Denny Phillips At last, we have reached our final year. In the fall of 1960, forty of us returned as seniors. We had several moneymaking projects, which included sponsoring several candy sales, a spaghetti and meatball supper, Christmas cards, a movie, and others not mentioned. Now as the year closes, we are looking forward to our class trip and the banquet and prom. We will long remember our high school days, our baccalaureate and commencement and our class sponsor Mr. Purcell. The class officers were: President...... Vice-President Secretary...... Treasurer...... Denny Phillips Joe Montgomery .. Sharon Jones ----Patty Ellis 20 Karen Jordan Betty Evans

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From there we traced down Jimmy Krodel in Stanford. We went there and expected to find Jimmy loafing around. We were really shocked to find Jimmy working as a clown--in his own circus, no less! We also learned that Herb Frye worked in Stanford. He is the swimming instructor in a girls' school. Lucky boy! Our next stop was Chicago. We stopped at a big tape manufactory managed by Frosty Fields. He told us that he decided to go into the tape manufacturing business because of all the tape he had seen used at L.H.S. on the basketball team. He told us that Bill Bohlinger owned a little shop on Fifth Avenue. We went to the shop and there on a big sign out in front were the words, Pierre's Beauty Sa- lon. Surely this wasn't Billy! But it was. We found out that Don Hall owned a big plant that man- ufactured Goose Grease, the best grease there is for hair. While at the Goose Grease plant, Don told us that Mary Lou Cox was working in his laboratory trying to invent something to take ink out of cloth. She got tired of throwing away good clothes because of ink stains. We traveled to Indianapolis and found Don McGuire working at the Fox. He sure has moved up, hasn't he? From Indianapolis we went to Cape Canaveral, where Ruth Goode has become head pro- fessor. We arrived there just in time to stop her from shooting Prof. Gary Mosby to the moon. She said he was trying to invent a rubber rolling pen, but she would put a stop to that. We drove around the base and ran across Mary Ann Truelove, (Cropp now). Mary Ann said that Sammy Truelove was teaching at the Base High School. He teaches Drivers Training, of all things. Sam told us that we had really missed a lot of excitement. Pvt. Roy Duncan had just been arrested the day before for try- ing to sneak into the Wacs barracks. We journeyed on to Louisville and stopped at the Louisville T. V. station where Jim Pankey work- ed as a news commentator. He had just received a phone call from Patty Cox informing him that he had forgotten to turn on the switch and there was no sound. Jim's broadcast consisted of the news that there was a big fire at the port in Norfolk. One of the firemen in the picture was Verlan Davis. We never expected Verlan to become a fireman. Now, we had found all of our classmates but two, Kay Sheetz and Robert Seals. Betty had learned that Kay Sheetz was now a housewife and was living in Ireland. We went to see Kay to find out how she was. While there, Robert Seals appeared at the door selling Fuller Brushes. He said he thought that would be a good way to find a wife. He came to the wrong house this time. We were now just 10 minutes from our deadline. We hopped in our helicopter and headed for Loogootee. We walked in the office with our story 2 minutes before the deadline. There in the office stood our class sponsor, Mr. Purcell, muttering under his breath. Patty and I got a promotion for our splendid work, but boy, were we bushed! 22