Metz High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Metz, MO)

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PROPHECY lt was that wonderful year, 1973, the year that the Metz High School class of '63 was to have their 10 year reunion at Old Metz High. What a difference a decade makes! I guess I must have figured that those crazy, sometimes almost ridiculous, mixed up classmates of mine would never change. They did, and most of them were exciting, fabulous and famous personalities ing the world of success, Karen Johnson started out as Richard Nixon's manager, trying to get him back into politics. She did, and after several defeats, gave up. She's now running for President on the democratic ticket and has a pretty good chance, I hear, of becoming the first woman President. Her mot- to is, lf you can't lick um, join um. Larry Reed had changed so much, but once he opened his mouth and started talking about cows, I knew it was the same Old Larry. He told me that he was a big-time rancher down in Texas and raised Herefords, or Holsteins, or something like that. He never was prejudice to any certain breed. As I gazed around this gala, I spotted Linda Wingate and asked her to tell her story. Back in her senior year of high school, she received information from a modeling school, and just for fun sent her name in as a possible applicant. A man from Kansas City interviewed her. Linda had no intention of going to the school, but enrolled and now is glad she did, as she is the most famous model in the world. Of course I couldn't tell you about all these other famous people without mentioning Harlan Forkner. Yes, he's the same racing-car driver you hear about every day, winning the Minneapo- lis 500 and every other important race that ever took place. It's funny how we all could have sat silently by and watched the making of a great race driver. When in High School, Rosemary Kleen had at least three main ambitions, Q15 Get out of school, Q22 Be rich, with lots of clothes, Q33 Marry a certain young fellow. Along with the rest of us she began working to obtain her wealth but soon decided to marry her one and only. With this went her chance for elaborate clothes. Her husband came into a large sum of money, she sort of got her cake and baked it too. While working on the annual staff, Walker Rutledge became our capable photographer. No one was surprised to find out he had become as well recognized as the Earl of Snowdon was in England. Only Walker was a very good scubba-diver too, so he combined the two, and came up with a very unique profession. He confirmed the fact, there are no such things as mermaids. The Peggy Wilson was there. Peggy had always been quite a basketball player. Upon graduation she was admitted to the Globetrotters and has achieved fame and fortune at this job, A fellow named Raymon Hunt had been her trainer, while Peggy herself took care of the money- managing end of the deal. She had been used to the job of treasurer back at Old Metz High. We were all astounded when a Rolls Royce drove up in front of our reunion, we had decided it must be some kind of a mistake, until none other than Tommy Sumner stepped out. Tommy was a changed man with his custom-made, S5400 suit, S50 pair of shoes, 310, OOO cuff links, and 956, OOO tie clasp. He had been voted luckiest back in high school, and I guess he took it to heart. When Connie Jo White came walking in, all decked out in Air- Force blue, no one seemed surprised. She always did prefer that branch of the service. After graduation she decided to Join the Air- Force and see the world. When she was told she would be shipped to some little island in the Mediterranean, where there would be nothing but Air-Force men, Connie decided -....4..u.s4ar4.-4.. ' - - ...........i .g V - V - ,..... ,... ...ig-

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3.118 SENIOR HISTORY It was in the fall of 1960, when twenty- five, wide-eyed green freshmen stumbled up the stairs of Qld Metz High and began a four- year span that would be a treasured memory forever. Those heading our class were: Walker Rutledge - President, Tommy Sumner - Vice- President, Karen Johnson - Secretary, Peggy Willson - Treasurer, and Helen Lyons - Reporter. Mr. Hart was our sponsor. That dreaded initiation came and went, one of the hardships all freshmen must encounter, and all of us seemed to come through in fair condition. ' Not until the next year when we moved to the high-going rank of Sophomores did we get to pull our seniority and practically crucified our lower classmen. We chose that year as our leaders: Lawrence Cole - President, Tommy Sumner - Vice-President, Diane Weddle - Secre- tary, Peggy Willson - Treasurer, and Karen Johnson - Reporter, with Mr. Hayward as our spon- sor. We lost Dava Leer that year. ln 1961 Metz High had its first crowning of King and Queen in some time. Our candidates were Karen Johnson and Lawrence Cole. Although they didn't make it to the throne, they were great runners-up. Having completed half the expedition, we came back our Junior year with more confidence more responsibilities, more seniority, and fewer classmates. We lost four over the summer va- cation, who were, Pauline Pryor, Brenda Brown, Evelyn Pullin, and Rose Stanart, but we also gained Harlan Forkner, At the top of our 1962 Junior Class, making all the big decisions were: Tommy Sumner - President, Mary Ellen Dark - Vice-President, Rosemary Kleen - Sec- retary, Peggy Willson - Treasurer, and Alice Johnson - Reporter, with Mr. Jones as Captain. Again that year there was a King and Queen, our candidates were Peggy Willson and Raymond Hunt. Again we didn't get past the candidacy stage, but we did come in second. Our Junior Play, They Gave Him a Co- Ed, was a huge success, with Mr. Hart doing a professional job of directing all the way. On May 4th and 5th we took the seniors on the annual Junior and Sen- ior trip to Rockaway Beach. The trip was a big success, and everyone had lots of fun, The important year for a class, any class, is their senior year. And so our senior year fi- nally arrived. Guiding us through our final blunders and achievements were: Diane Weddle - President, Larry Reed - Vice- President, Joe Brooks - Secretary, Peggy Willson - Treasurer, Sharon Wadel - Reporter, and Tommy Sumner - Sergeant- at- Arms, with Mr. Marlow and Mrs. McGil1'as sponsors. Three major changes took place our last year. We lost our superintendent, Mr. Sivils, who had been with us since the beginning, our coach and our Home Ec. teacher. In their places came Mr. Grandy, who quite capably and very impressively took over the high of- fice of superintendentg Mrs, McGill to teach Home EC.: Mr. Yoder as coachg and also a very qualified math teacher, Mr. McGinness. We also lost three good friends and classmates during the summer, Linda Wilson, Helen Lyons, and Raymond Hunt. Since we knew this would be our last year to get the King and Queen candidates crowned, we elected Rosemary Kleen and Tom- my Sumner, and set out to win this battle. It was a long and bloody one, but we fought to the finish and finally won, On October 16, 1962, we happily took our Senior, Skip day to Kansas City.. We went to the American Royal and downtown. Now our last year is about to come to a sudden halt with eight seniors completing their full twelve years at Metz. We leave be- hind us a lot of friends and carry away with us a whole arm load of memories and a brain just packed with knowledge. I FAREWELL Farewell dear school. Farewell and good-by, because we are leaving you. Never again to step foot within your ivy-covered walls as one of your students. You may be a little weary from wear, but you stand very tall and erect and watch your children come and go. Some leaving with a tear in their eye, others with a song in their heart. We, like all the rest, are proud to have been a part of you, but this too must come to an end. So, good-by dear school, and --- farewell, forever. 4, ,.. . .,,,. , , . . . . ,, ' fu -..., , .. ...JY .s.-1. 1,-,5.,.+,a:..'.-.1-vu-zm.-U...-.-.i..-,..........-,...-..-..a.-......-....s-

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as to have must ie would rlities in Jolitics. iocratic Ier mot- about wn in :e to Back 1 just for Linda ie most g Harlan iinneapo- l have out of h the l only. money, fer. No 'as in came zrmaids, Upon iis job. money- iigh. decided Tommy nks, and t tO seemed sd to e little lecided ............... ...---.., .....?,-- r 4 v ., , 1 , V ,,, 1, ,l-3, W , L. i-,sa , -. Y. Y. ..........., she owed it to her country, and enlisted for life. Before long in waltzed that handsome, dashing fellow, Lawrence Cole. He just couldn't wait to tell us what a popular recording artist he is. Right away we noticed he was still the same hometown boy he'd always been. It seems as though he got a job playing his Sax in a band while trying to work his way through college to become a famous lawyer. One night the regular singer didn t show up, and Lawrence volunteered to fill his shoes. l?le's been singing ever since and thinks his new hit, Patty, don't try to capture my heart, it's like a seed in the wind, will sell three or four million. Sharon Wadel couldn't make it to our little get-together. We were honored to hear of her dedicated profession that prevented her attending. After graduation Sharon had become en- gaged to a very wealthy Texas oil man, a dream any girl would like to have come true. Sharon decided there was nothing novel about this, so she gave up a life of luxury to become a mission- .ary-doctor in South Africa. There, she is no less known than Albert Switzer. Bobby Henley, I had always known was very intelligent, especially in figuring out mathe- matical equations. We were quite pleased to hear that Bobby had become the Father of the Space Age. He evaluated how to go about getting to the moon and back again. We now have a national holiday named for him and hehas received every medal and award possible. I mingled around through the crowd some more and met up with suave, sophisticated Jewell Tourtillott. Being owner of a famous night club, had its effect on Jewell, He was now the I like everybody, everybody likes me type. He sure looked like the typical night club owner with his black suit and shoes, black bow-tie, small dark mustache, and very long cigarette holder. Alice Johnson, I found out was the world's best auctioneer. I thought she was only kidding when she told me, as Alice had always been on the quiet side. We asked her to give a demon- stration. Before she was through she had us believing we had bought such things as the Eiffel Tower and Empire State Building. While wandering around I noticed the man who had made the town of Arthur. Some years ago his father had started a garage-filling station-restaurant combination, so Frank Petty decided to expand--the business, that is. He started first by building a motel, and later added a swimming pool, golf course, race track, theatre, and watermelon stand complete with fishing worms. The last two projects went over bigger around Arthur. Joe Brooks, probably the most important businessman around today, was at our reunion too. He was now President of the biggest diamond company in the world. It was hard work and slow progression that got him there. Joe moved slowly up like everyone else had done, first getting appointed Vice-President and two months later President. I had always thought of Mary Dark as someday being a great stenographer, writer or artists- Here she was, ten years later, married. Mary likes the role and title, feeling that her life is richer than any of her wealthy, famous classmates. This brings me back to our Senior English class and the day Mr. Grandy asked us if we thought there was no success like success. At the time, I thought probably not, but after seeing Maryl feel a very definite yes, of course there is. I You might have noticed that I have not disclosed my occupation in life. After hearing all these exciting and fabulous stories from all these people, I decided just to slip out from the re- union and fade away into the sights and sounds that make my simple, everyday life. --- by Diane Weddle . . .. , .. . . ,. ., , , Avg, . r -U V. I