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

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HOWARD BERRY is now married to Carrie Baker, his high school sweetheart. He is now a world famous manufacturer of hobby-horses. They live in a New York penthouse. MARGARET DOOJLING, voted Miss Annie Oakley of 1960 is a world famous rifle and pistol shot with Lewis Humphrey’s three-ring circus. GENEVA CAIN wanted to be a home economist but was not able. So, she be- came a truck driver. She drives a big transcontinental from Frisco to Jersey City. ROBERT HOLT, Bob is now a hermit. After making and losing several for- tunes, he retired to a lonely mountain in the Canadian Rockies. There, a wealthy recluse, he spends his time composing symphonies and concertos. VELMA HAMPTON is now married to a college boy and is very happy. They are now living in Wisconsin where he is attending college and is studying to be a conservationist. Velma is working in a dime store trying to make a living while he is in school. VIRGINIA HURLEY: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Autenrieth, the former Miss Virginia Hurley, are now living on their six-hundred acre farm near Tebbetts. They seem to be getting along fine with their cows, pigs, chickens, and children. DONALD SWEETEN: This is a glad day for Donald. He is being released from the State Penitentiary after a nine-year sentence for killing deer on Cedar Creek. CARL THOMAS, who became enormously fat after his twenty-first birthday is still spending his equally enormous bank accounts satisfying his enormous appetite. ' • S' ’ BILLY TRAMMELL is back in his hometown of Guthrie after attending the . •.. • t . New York Baptist Seminary. He is pastor of Dry Fork Church and is a bachelor.

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Prophecy of the Senior Class of 1951 Classmates, it is a well-known saying, often proven true, that “coming events cast their shadows before.” Therefore, it is not so hard as many people suppose for one who takes the trouble to study the comings and goings of his fellow creature to be something of a prophet and to form some idea, more or less correct, of what their future course of action will be. Having for some time been possessed of a strong ambition for the brilliant career of a detective, I have, just for the sake of practice, or as a means of pre- paration, kept a sharp eye on all of you, when you were perhaps unaware that you were being observed or studied at all; so I feel that I can judge with some degree of accuracy of the lives into which your personal characteristics and inclinations will lead you in the years that are to be. The pleasure and satisfaction of looking into the future is always liberally mixed with pain. We long to know what lies before us, and yet when the knowledge comes to us we tremble, fearing that we may not be able to bear our part in the ordeals to come as faithfully as we should. The one question in our minds is sure to be, “Shall we be prepared for these honors, or these prophecies? Shall they bring you a word of hope?” I am sure you will each accept the simple offering in the same spirit as I present it: HARRY BAKER is now in Hollywood, making movies, having taken Clark Gable’s place. He is very good looking—similar to Clark with his mustache. He has been married three times. He is now living with his third wife, but there are rumors that they aren’t getting along so well. JACKIE BOMMEL, one of the fishermen of the class of 51 and is now to be found in a large fish market on Market Street in St. Louis. Jackie has won quite a reputation for his smoked herring.

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Class Will We, the Class of 1951, in the town of New Bloomfield and the State of Missouri, being in the usual mental condition and in much better temper than usual, do hereby make this, our last will and testament, rendering void and of no avail any former will or wills that may have been previously made by us during any period, or periods, of temporary optimism. We have no specific directions to leave concerning our funeral but we do hope you will come prepared to praise as well as bury us, forgetting the trifling faults that may have been ours, remembering only our manifold and remarkable virtues. We feel that our brilliant record and our unusual achievements will live after us; but not wishing to take any chances we suggest that a tablet on which shall be inscribed our several names and a few of our most astounding deeds be purchased and placed in the auditorium of the school in a position where it will strike the eye of all who enter. And now we open our entries: HARRY BAKER wills his mustache and side- burns to Carl Colter. HOWARD BERRY wills his height and his left hand basket- ball hook to Melvin Moore. JACKIE BOMMEL wills his build to Jerry Drinkard. Watch out, Jerry, don’t get too big. GENEVA CAIN wills her ability to write letters to Polly Yancey. You’ll have to write a lot to keep up with Geneva! MARGARET DOOLING wills her way of transportation to school to Mary Dooling. VELMA HAMPTON wills her natural curly hair to Hattie Bullard. Watch out, Harrie, roll- ing doesn't agree with it. BOB HOLT wills his maniac driving to Jerry Goboney. Watch it, Jerry, that Crosley is very small. VIRGINIA HURLEY wills her ability to get demerits to Mary Lou Yancey. DONALD SWEETEN wills his ability to go with the girls to H. C. Berry. CARL THOMAS wills his ability to get kicked out of class to Roland Meyer. BILLY TRAMMELL wills his ability to get along with the girls to Timmy Suggett. “I’m glad you can get along with them better than I did.”