Malakoff High School - Tiger Yearbook (Malakoff, TX)

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CLASS PROP!-IECY Early one morn1ng 1n January 1960 I drove down to the Malakoff post 0ff1CE After narrowly m1ss1ng several streaml1ned streetcars, I made my way 1nto the beaut1ful new post off1ce bu11d1ng, located 1n the center of th1s bustl1ng metropol1s of 100,000 and asked Postmaster Truelove for my ma1l The only ma1l l rece1ved that morn1ng was the 1960 1ssue of Who s Who 1n Amer1ca Here was a good opportun1ty I thought to f1nd out what had becomd of all my old school chums of the class of 48 So I went home made myself comfortable 1n an easy cha1r and opened the book The f1rst name I saw was that of Alton Allen He and Jacquel1ne were happ1ly marr1ed and the wery proud 1f bew1ldered parents of 12 ch1ldren Alton 1S manager of the new 50,000 watt Stat1OnK A N D He IS also ass1stant basketball coach at M H S Joe Barnett Jr 1S next Joe 1S dr1v1ng a bus between Tyler and to court Kat1e and ask her for the f1ft1eth t1me to marry h1m Mary Barnette has changed her name to Magee and she and her husband are now runn1ng the Crescent He1ghts Nlght Club Pattye Cole hasn t marr1ed yet and 1S teach1ng school 1n Tr1n1dad As soon as school 15 out each year Pattye aga1n starts the nearest th1ng to perpetual mot1on yet developed her chase after Claud1e Buddy Crawford and Betty Jean Dodson fmally got marr1ed When Buddy 1511 f playmg pro1ess1onal football for the Athens Armad1lloes he and Squat run the newly decorated Rodeo Cafe wh1ch now seats 2.000 people eas1ly Charlene Douglas IS a model for Ne1man Marcus 1n Dallas Her spec1alty 1S bath1ng su1ts Her p1cture frequently appears n popular magazmes and espec1ally 1n Esqu1re B111 W Johnson has taken over the coachmg dut1es of H C J C 1n Athens Last year h1s M H S I I I I , . ' C ll I . 1 ' II 0 ' I , J . , Q ' I , , . . . ' , . . , ' H . . L . Q Waco, with a forty minute rest stop in Trinidad so that Joe can run up I , . . . . . . . D . . . , . . o g 1 ' a I I I . ' n o .u gg . gg I I . . I I I I . I . O I O

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CLASS WILL Rex King and Alton Allen want to leave the songs they have made popular 1n M H S to Santiago Garcia and Malvin Bowling, with the ex ception of Remember Me which is the exclusive property of Joyce Rbbertson Shorty Maguire leaves his most precious possessions package of Lucky Strikes and a package of Vicks Cough Drops to Mr Richards if he promises not to use them for a period of fifty years Slorty Just hates to see young people smoke Betty Jean Dodson leaves her cigarette holder which she purchase ed upon the advice of her physician to keep away from cigarettes to Sis Featherstone Bettys best g1rlfr1end Jody Price leaves rowdiness and noise making ab1l1ty to Ruby Jewel Cook Billy Wayne Johnson and BuddyCrawford leave their beautiful mas culine voices to Horace Hanssard and Johnny Fitzgerald Last but certainly not least W V Mike Robertson and Reagan Rogers will their stock of funny books and blood curdl1ng wolf calls to Claudie Casanova Mullins and Beverly Baldy Lindamood Sworn before me this day as being the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me Hannah Ye Scribe Dorris Rose . . A v . , a Q . ' D. her dignity and jokes to Mary Ellen Yatesg John Earl White wills his Lf Z l X AI X it -. s 'I I

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CLASS PROPHECY F1g6I'S won the Class AA football champ1onsh1p so B111 has gone on to h1gher honors Rex K1ng 1S now workmg on the Grand Cle Opry program He plays second f1ddle to Roy Acuff but IS soon to have a f1rst f1ddle spot s1nce Roy 1S gett1ng pretty old The next few pages were m1nus any of my fr1ends but I soon came across the name of James Dan1el Magu1re whom we used to know as Shorty He 15 an outstand1ng sc1ent1st workmg under E1nste1n, and has perfected a mach1ne to put atoms back together after they have been crushed Next 1n the book came James M1ller James wa1ted pat1ent1y around Malakoff t1ll Gerald1ne graduated and then after a b1g church wedd1ng and a honeymoon at Cayuga they moved to Lubbock where he 1S head of the b1g construct1on company that 1S bu1ld1ng a ser1es of underground factor1es Nors1ne Owens 1S another of the students who marrled very soon after graduat1on She and Mr Terrel res1de 1n Chandler and the1r S1X boys are all dest1ned to be great basketball players wrote a book ent1tled The Pr1vate L1fe of D K Rogers Wh1Ch to date has sold over two m11l1on cop1es Com1ng up next was Trav1s Robertson our old fr1end Demon He 1S head man at Robertson s Grocery Empormm but a few n1ghts each week he manages to go fox hunt1ng At least that 15 what he tells h1S w1fe the former Patr1c1a Evans of Fort Worth I doubted very much 1f the next boy would ever be successful but there was h1s name M1ke Robertson M1ke 1S a famous comedxan and has made anumber of mov1es but h1s heart st1ll belongs to Chau cer and Whan that Apr1lle Lt Col Reagan Rogers was next 1r l1ne Reagan Jomed the army soon after graduat1on and has stead1ly worked h1s way up He marr1ed the former Betty Jean Dodson after severalfusses and spats, and they now have four lovely daughters all red headed ' ' ' ll I9 . . , . . , ,, ,, . . . . . . . ' I . ' . A . I . . , Joanne Price is one of the wealthier members of that class. She - un ' - . . ,U ' ' ' ' ll II I I I . , . . , Q , . I . ' . - li ' Il I g - 9