Nevada High School - Nevamo Yearbook (Nevada, MO)

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TV tage Manager Art Carney ame Royalty ART CARNEY March seventh 1 9 6 1 DOB! HTS Rillllleri Thank you for your letter and for sending me the pictures. I guess I d1dn't really know what I was letting myself in for when I agreed to select the King and Queen for your 1961 NEVAMO. Everybody proved to be so attractive that I had a difficult time in choosing, and since photographs are not always too faithful and I haven't the advantage of seeing these young people in person I have simply done the best I can, and have selected Kay McKenzie and Lyle Catron. with good wishes to everyone, I an sin eere 1y yours, The 1961 NEVAMO is pleased to join other publications to pay tribute to the art of ART CARNEY. A native New York- er, Mr. Carney could probably trace his rise to fame back to a grammar school contest which he won with his imitation of Ned Sparks, the sour, cigar -chewing comic. Serving an apprenticeship with Horace Heidt, he developed his talent for mimicry in novelty songs, impersonations, and comedy hits. Later, he did sketches based on the news, Playing such famous people as Churchill, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower. After his war service, he made TV appearances with comedian Morey Amsterdam. When jackie Gleason first saw him act, he said, l knew that I would have to work twice as hard for fs- my laughs. Artie is a fine comic. Comedy, however, is only one facet of Mr. Carney's versatility. He has proved his ability to run the gamut from comedy to drama with brilliant successes on Broadway and television. When he played the philosophical STAGE MANAGER in Thornton Wilder's 0UR TOWN, the show-business paper, Variety, com- mented, Something extra special Was Art Carney's acting. For all of these reasons, and many more, the NEVAMO staff is especially grateful and proud to have our guest star, Art Carney, select the King and Queen for the Yearbook in Nevada, Missouri--OUR TOWN. 5

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0ur Library. City Hall, And Post lliiice Are t -- Na- 3 f' 1 7. 3, f' vfaifqf' 'iid A3 1,9 i ha ' -- r f . 7, RIGHT HERE ON HIGHWAY 54 is our new CITY HALL which was contracted in 1955 at a cost of 515146, 215. 75. Good thing, too, for the old one was on its last timbers. Guess you know we're well run here by a city council and a city manager form of government. ACROSS THE HIGHWAY from the City Hall is the PUBLIC LIBRARY,built in 1917 through community -wide action and the Carnegie Corporation. You might say we're regular readers here, for this library has 14,000 books, and people are going through those library doors every day except Sunday. THEY KEEP UP A STEADY STREAM through the doors of our UNITED STATES POST OFFICE too. Of course, now with drive- in mail boxes and people more opposed to walking, the doors are probably going to last longer. Anyway, this building was put up in 1910 at a cost of 560, 873.00. Last year people in this area sent and received almost 5, 000, 000 pieces of mail! NOW, WE'LL GET STARTED WITH THE STORY. We don't have that gift of look- ing into the future 3 we really don't have the time to gaze into the past, so we have to stay with the present. We wouldn't attempt to teach any great truth about life as Wilder did so well in his play OUR TOWN. Some of you and some of your children and grandchildren will be looking at this book years from now, so this is the way things were in 1960-61. AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, people had to start from ashes, and now this town has grown to a population of 8, 400. Two im- portant highways, 71 and 54, converge here, and we're only 14 miles from the Kansas line. You can't see all the ab- stract things that make a town, but the se concrete buildings play important parts in the lives of people of all ages around here. PUBLIC LIBRARY - ,, X 4 5 nk, I H Wir M y gy.. ,W-get F' A 1 .. ,-Q ' I Q. Zz. br' V ti s Q N. L' . J , ' f 'tgirl-5, A ink I, 3.3-5,55 R A ,rm . -- -f'.f-kaww '-7.. is . -ffffvfw 435--' , t2t,Q1.-'i.ef3','g:.l'- . fm. .Mum ixjfii' W ,, K gi,-P. 4, fy- i ' ,L.'.., '-,fi 4' ' 'R ., g::ki+i:fIi': 'aj r. bij