Mayer High School - Cat Tracks Yearbook (Mayer, AZ)

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Who's Who at Mayer High, 1949-50 Number Pupil Identification Birth date 1 Paula Hayes in a daze (over boys). October 21, 1932 2 Juanita Soriano at school manano. March 27, 1930 3 Clara Bensch in Ernie's clench. June 7, 1930 4 Bill Sam Kellis knows, but won't tell us. December 22, 1932 5 Sonya Hickey clever and tricky. August 7, 1933 6 Leo Dalton movin’-“not haltin’. November 25, 1931 7 Harry Cox mines onyx rocks. June 4, 1933 8 Iris Maders of Larremore's Crusaders. February 24, 1933 9 Clyde McDonald some girls he’s fondled. July 15. 1933 10 Billy Larremore the flirty Sophomore. April 3, 1935 11 Betty Bensch good common “sensch”. December 29, 1934 12 Robert Quain another brain. April 4, 1932 13 Lonnie Smith any girl's myth. October 7, 1932 14 Kenneth Nelssen he's very well, son. January 15, 1932 15 Pedro Soriano a perfect soprano. May 29, 1931 16 Jim Tom Kellis can't agree with the fellas. March 27, 1935 17 Louis Olvera for the gals he don't care-a-J June 21, 1931 18 Edwin (Pat) Orr who doesn't he care for? March 18, 1936 19 Barbara Hubbs she cooks and scrubs. March 15, 1936 20 Tom Quain the school’s real pain. April 5, 1934 21 Marie Biggs who boogies and jigs. October 13, 1935 22 Caroline Hernandez she likes the candies. July 19, 1935 23 Robert Nelssen who’s ideal is Wilson, December 18, 1933 24 Shirley Smith who's that she's with? May 25, 1935 25 Billy W illiams smiles by the jillions. September 5, 1936 26 Paula Schnebly her freckles are pebbly. January 4, 1937 27 Billy Cox strong as an ox. April 28, 1935 28 Norman Dawson he's never bossin' November 24, 1933 29 Richard Posey cute, mouthy and nosey. July 12, 1935 30 Pauline Olvera with the tiara. April 10, 1935 31 Carl Lips has all the chips. June 27, 1934 32 Joan Hayes with winning ways. October 7, 1936 Pictures of the following pupils are missing. Wayne Adams in A. S. C., Tempe, Arizona June 10, 1932 Dorothy Clark July 4, 1933 Margaret Clark August 16, 1935 Mario De Leon February 3, 1935 Louis Hayes January 21, 1934 Harold Lips, Jr. April 2, 1933 Leonard Manson March 28, 1935 Elisa Rodriguez June 9, 1935 School colors---Maroon and Gold 6

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Autobiography Of a Graduate I, Paula Jack Hayes, was born into what was later to become the atomic age on Sunday morning, October 21, 1932 in Sedan, New Mexico. I had aged but a few hours when my Mother, my Father, my Grandmother and my Grandfather Hayes went into a huddle over what names I was to be given. Because many, including-me, had decided that I was to have been a boy, instead of giving me two boy's names, viz., Paul Jack, we compro- mised on Paula Jack. Thus I got my girlish-boyish name. Six weeks before I reached my sixth birthday 1 started to school. I shall never forget the rides to school with my sister in the school bus. I shall never forget the good times we had in those days, nor will the good times ever pass from memory. In 1940, my Grandmother and Grandfather Cosby moved to Mayer, Arizona. They had been gone but a few months when my parents---especially my Mother---became lonely and decided to follow her parents to Mayer. Altho we left some good friends in New Mexico I was too young to worry about that. When we arrived in Mayer in June, 1940, we lived up Big Bug near my grandparents. Later we moved into town so that my sister and I could go to school in Mayer. It was not long before we became acquainted with the boys and girls and began to enjoy our new environment immensely. I lived in Mayer until 1945 when we got the urge to move to California. We left Mayer in August, 1945 on our way to California. As soon as we were settled in Shatter, California I started to school at the Richland Seventh and Eighth Grade School. I was then in the eighth grade and had never been in such a spacious building. We remained in California but four months before deciding to return to good old Mayer. From all states, people who have once lived in Arizona, are drawn back to Arizona just as Mayer acted magnetically on us. On December 22, just in time to enjoy Christmas in the best state in the union, we arrived in Mayer, happy to see our old friends and to meet new ones. Every year since then I have watched the Senior class being graduated while wondering whether or not I would ever get my class ring (which I am now wearing proudly), my diploma, my cap and gown, and all else that comes with commencement. When my sister quit school to be married I wondered whether I might do the same and fail to get my diploma, but I am now almost ready to quit-u-ate, and somehow, it makes me feel more satisfied because I have spent four years in learning things which I hope to be able to use advantageously when I begin supporting myself. I am especially happy in being the second of sixteen grandchildren on both sides of the family who has completed school. Like too many others I have had scraps with the teachers and pupils now and then, but they have been forgotten and are only pleasant memories. I would gladly re-live and would probably change a few things, but even time itself cannot erase the pleasant memories associated with Mayer High School, After my Junior year was completed I was thrilled in being elected President of the Student Body and leader of singing in Assembly. I have enjoyed all my teachers and hope they will not forget me too soon as I shall not forget them. I believe the achievements of which I am most satisfied are my work in English, Typing, and my two years of Spanish. As an alumnus I want to continue to be a booster of Mayer High School. 8 ---Paula Jack Hayes