New Bloomfield High School - Beacon Yearbook (New Bloomfield, MO)

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Hazel Craighead wills her contagious friendliness to all next year’s poor frightened freshmen. Ruth Weibel leaves her hysterical giggle to Riley Keeling, but for the sake of the school we hope Riley refuses it. Letty Hickman gives, bequeaths, and leaves her instructions on how to catch wolves without an iron trap to Wanda Rich. Peggy Holt leaves her undivided attention in the Merchant Mar- ines to Henrietta Rice. Keep on your toes, Henrietta. It has been said, “They are hard to hold.” Pauline Bratton leaves all the slightly used gum under the 6th seat of the first row in the study hall to the unfortunate fellow that sits there next year. We, the senior girls of this years basketball team, and also our boys, do bequeath our ability to play basketball to Coach Barnard s prodigies of the coming year. Because we like generosity, we give our abilities to play without victories to the next four year s teams. Claud and Claudia Reiter bequeath their ability to get their names mixed to Harry and Carrie Baker. Betty and Letty Hickman leave their ability to look alike to Gale and Dale Nichols, as they think it very funny to fool their boy friends. Beware of the twins. Besides these enforced gifts, we leave--not of necessity, but of our own free will—our blessings, tender memories of our pleasant associations together, and our forgiveness for anything that we may not have exactly appreciated in the demonstrations of the past, and a pledge of friendship from henceforth and forever. And we do hereby constitute and appoint our sponsor. Miss Vau- ghan, sole executor of this our last will and testament. In witness thereof, we, the Class of 1946, the testators, have to this our will, written on one sheet of parchment, set our hands and seal this seventeenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred forty-six.

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CLASS PROPHECY Ten fleeting years have passed; Father Time has made his mark on each of our graduates. We fine them in far-off places, doing unusual things. Pauline Bratton is settled peacefully in the large metropolis of Fulton busily caring for Tommy and her brood of five hundred chickens. We find the former Lois Burre getting a suntan in the great Sahara Desert.Uncle Sam would not release Darrell to return to the good old U.S.A., so this is why we find Lois so far away. The same Hazel Craighead is now holding the position of Public Health Nurse in the Pleasant Ridge District. After ten years of happy married life in the country, George and Dorothy Ferguson and their twin daughters, Ann and Nan, are moving to Chicago where George is employed as an electrical engineer. “Out California Way we find Betty Hickman (still Hickman!) designing costumes for the Hollywood stars. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has obtained the services of an efficient bookkeeper, I etty Hickman. They spent several years seeking someone with ample qualifications. She and M.W.own a beautiful home on Capitol Hill. Peggy Holt is now working hard at being a private secretary to the Merchant Marines. She says her experiences at N. B. H. S. helped considerably. Callaway County Extension Agent is none other than Russell Holt. He spends his leisure hours at home with his lovely wife, the former Ola Spencer, and small son, Russell, Jr., who it seems is destined to become a farmer. Having just returned from a long vacation in “sunny Florida,“Betty Sue Sneed has res- olved to remain a Callawe gian. Claudia Reiter has recently received a promotion to hostess of the Stork Club in New a York City. She has many regular customers; one. Charles Pearre, is a former school-mate. Fleet Admiral Claud A. Reiter of the U.S. Navy returns to New Bloomfield nine years later telling us of his exciting trips to China and Belgium. Claud tells us that he has found the Belgian lassies far superior to anything N. B. H. S. has yet produced. After three years of teaching, we find Dorothy Schreen has realized her life s ambition to become a laboratory technician and is taking preparatory measures at the John Hopkins University in Washington, D. C. Her fiance. Dwight D. Rhodes, a congressman from Missouri, will aid her in getting an appointment in the D. D. T. laboratory. Vtrs. Glenn Boyer has recently resigned her position as teacher of the Liberty School in the Dixie community to take up her duties as a housewife. Nellie enjoys the teaching pro- fession, but she says she feels she sould devote the rest of her time to her family. The Jot ‘Em Down Store, located in Earthquake Hollow, is managed by Mr. and Mrs. Dorris Jones--the latter being the former Margaret Sparks. The former Frankis Stokes, now the charming young wife of Captain Donald Duff of the Navy, came to New Bloomfield recently, proudly displaying her three young sons, Donald, Ronald, and Kenneth. Recently hired dietician for the John Powers modeling agency is Doris Thomas. The menus keep both the girls and Doris in trim shape. Home Economies teacher at Missouri University, Ruth Weibel is also kept busy at home, cooking and keeping house for her husband who is a professor of sociology in the University.