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

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SENIOR CLASS WILL We, the members of the Senior Class of 1958, bbing of sound mind and body, do hereby give those gifts of. fg| nature and of man which we have long owned and cherished. I, Larry Houser, bequeath my red hair, dynamic personality, and straight 1 average to Irene Soriano. I, Rico Olvera, bequeath my blond hair, blue eyes, and athletic ability to Marion Bennett. I, Janet Maders, bequeath my gracefulness, black r hair, and ability to tolerate teachers to Bert Teskey. .§| I, Emmy Teskey, bequeath my below average grade, , Tarbaby, and my seat on the school bus to Bonnie Sears. I, Verna Warren, bequeath my ex-boyfriends, green f.. Chevy, and my ability to avoid school work to Mernie w. • ••' McLeod. ■hhhhil Deep Water'Tarbaby! Emmy's First Steps Flirty Verna' Janet Track Star Little Mother,Verna

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-■ f,THli HISTORY OF MAYKR , (continued) Page The price 'of a ticket on the stage between;Pre-g ott% mid Phoenix war 12,‘;0 one way and $22.00 .round; Tlie Oeorgo Brothers owned the Mayer stage line lh ey:t?| held the ‘mall contract for both routes. , However ,r vhVr: :n valuable expire w s carried on the' stage,; it wash's ■i cdQd around by railroad through Ash Fork to' Los.. Angeles back to Phoenix. The stage coach was held up only pnce. during its runs while the George Bro thers •‘owned.,it h|®j By that time the railroad had reached Prescott and was preparing to build down to Phoenix. When the railroad had reached Phoenix:the stage'line found that its sun was setting. The railroad got;both'J the mail contract and the passengers and the stage was'J put into retirement. In 1898 the Santa Fe Railroad built a spur' .track from Prescott to Mayer and the old ox and mule teams ygms gave way to the iron horse. Several years later tracks were run out to the Crown King Mill; and mines ;tn the Bradshaw Mountains. in 1909 Joseph Mayer die leaving to his son. W. J. (Burr) Mayer a young town and the interests.‘1 As the new, recently completed Black Canyon'Highway , travels along the out-skirts of Mayer froi vPres gJ t:a » Phoenix, it brings Mayer nearer to the larger towns Arizona. The trin that used to be made by stage from; Prescott to Phoenix in 2b to 30 hours is now' made Jin. 2 |g| or 2-£ hours. This brings many visitors to Mayer n.qtr- W only because it is an ol ‘.mining town with a historic past, but also because of the ideal climate and.beautiful scenery that is found in town and surrounding country Today Mayer lies near the Big Bug River with .Ita,..- cottonwood trees, and is guarded by a symbolic ;smoke stack. The smoke stack symbolizes the d§7S f imi irS and prospering people of the town of the days goriet.;'pyv However, Mayer has survived the d ays,of .hpr'ps.p the depression as it was sown with too permanent ;avSeec; ) • o •’ i a ’ up arid wither. It now no s ties in its foothills -- w still richly endowed with landmarks of he .past, an tea lly gaining' improvement for the future. ‘ ' ; . I « a

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 In December, 1985, we «re paging our old friends and fellow students of 1958. The seniors of '58 graduated and have rare Jobs, and are very happy. Here for example is the very successeful Rico Olvera; he is now playing basketball for the San Fransico Georg- % ettes. Having a way with animals, he has nine movie star poodles and lives with his singing wife, Judy Canova. In a distant ci$y Emmaline Teskey is very famous along with her partner Professor McDoodle. Subject: Raising , Horses. F6n recreation she stars in every movie on T.V. that has a horse. She has become one of the most eligible horse-raising bachelorettes in the country. |j| In a breezy island off Hawaii is Major Lawerance Houser Commander of the entire island. Larry, (as we called him) keeps all his Jeeps, motorcyles and tanks all soupedup in case of emergency. The emergency....Mermaids may attack the island and cut his red hair. It's late in the day now and Verna Warren came into the picture with a squatty millionare who is unknown to anyone within our quarters. Verna is now very suc- cessful in politics and hss argued the nation into selling light bulbs to the r company in England. Here comes Janet Maders who has married the Governor oi New York and has succeeded in passing urgently need- | ed aws. For example, Janet is responsible for having a lav passed to tax bachelors for not wishing to marry. She is a member of the Knitters Committee of New York. She spends most of her time trying to find a babysitter, one who doesn't mind bubblegum and dirty diapers around the hous.. —'■ A