New Palestine High School - Avalon Yearbook (New Palestine, IN)

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Last night in the gym of good ol' NPHS the class of 54 had their cl rss rc mf 4 mm class PHUPHECU -,gl M union My how people change 1D 20 yc 1rs' lt seems only ye stcrday we were s11pp1ng through the halls w1thout passes and no matter how hard we tried we always were caught but those are just fond mernor1es now Let me tell you of some of the achievements our class has made 1n the last twenty years As I was talking to Ceceilia Lease last night she told me she was now star House on the side Jerry Grissom better known as Gruesome Grissom' gave me free tickets to see her wrestle in Madison Square Garden in New York Girls are you fat forty and flabby? Don't starve yourselves to death let Dav1dson's wonder drug do it for you Yes we mean good ol' Danny the brain of our class Mary Bundy now married took over Buckley s Restaurant and lt 1S now Bundy s Baby Burper w1th pickup and delivery service Trooper Phil Pike and Phy111s f1na1ly made the grade Phil just arrested Chaney's daughter and Phylhs 1S teaching shorthand to Mrs Rush's daughter Ah sweet revenge B111 Carter's sex appeal finally paid off He now lives in Bagdad w1th h1s harem of forty wives Maryellen Folkening after giving up on becoming one of B1ll's forty wives is president of the Lonely Hearts Club Our little Sue Holden the one who said she would never marry was the first of the class to weaken She met her husband in her clinic I-lolden's Freckle Farm Lee Endsley after making a stab at Hollywood decided to come back to his flfteen acre farm S1gning all those contracts was Just too much for poor Lee Raymond Means has the most noted flock of sheep in the state You can smell them from any corner of the county Do you remember our only redhead in the class Betty Mattingly? She dyed her hair black and became a spy for the FBI She was always good at tracking down men Georgia Barnard finally got her man a sailor who used to be a football player Two hundred pounds of man WOW' B111 Daugherty inherited five million dollars and bought out the globe trotters N1ce going B111 Janett Settles just cou1dn't get driving out of her system She lS sole owner of a taxi service and drives only L1ncolns and Bu1cks Charlotte Clark has made great progress in her desire to be a nurse She 1S now head nurse at Mayo Clinic Phyllis Kleiman started out to be a nurse but wound up being a veter1nar1an She speciallzes in cattle and hogs Lula Sleeth and Carolyn Bowles have given up the idea of catching a dream boat They now are co owners of the Sorrowful Soclety of Sad Spinsters Joan Vahle is now teach1ng thlrd grade at NPHS after attending Ball State where she obtained her MA degree 20 Lffj V! ' XX 1541 gil X7 A fo 1141 K J I .rf-5, Q1 M 1 ,L X XXG77 I lx x y, X ' ' 1 r ' . . ,- ring as weight lifter in the Sealtest Circus and singing at the Metropolitan Opera . . . ' . ' 7 I I ' I ' I , . . . . . D . , . . . 3 ' I , . , . W .

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CLHS HISTUHU 8 UHLEHDHH CDH T Our flrst semester ended January 9 The County Tourncy was held Jlnuary 13 14 16 The Jun1ors honored us w1th a lovely receptlon ln the gym Apr1l Z7 Baccalaureate was held at the Mcthod1st Church May Z Class nlght was held 1D the gym May 4 And thus we come to our Commencement whlch was held May 5 Th1s 1S a day whlch we have looked forward to for twelve long happy years but as we enter upon the threshold of thls great occas1on we look back w1th re gret at lelvlng thls school and all the happy memorles we have 'I o the teachers plrents 1nd frlends who have helped to make these twelve years such a success we extend our apprec1at1on and thanks Carol Bowles Maryellen Folkenmg L-1ll Daugherty CLHSS SUNG QTO the tune of P S lLove You J We're the class of 54 Wc've been through school So we know more Now 1t's tlme to close the door On dear old I-hgh School Past away the years have passed And now we've reached the end at last Maybe we d1dn't ablde the rule Of dear old H1gh School Thanks to the teachers and all our parents For all the help we had We m1ght have caused lots of worry and trouble But do you th1nk we were really so bad? Noth1ng else for us to say, And so we'l1close, but by the way, Thanks agaln to everyone, Our l1ves have just begun Ruth Ann Rosenbaum Cece111a Lease 19 S 7 . - 9. 3 C-6 HST Rf ,Q ,4 - xp W, a fl ll . 'f-' Q 2 Q 1 M 1: ll ll

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CLHSS PHUPHECUCUH T Mclx 1n Curry has a farm down 1n Rush County where he has been the corn k1ng for the past f1ve years lt's imamng what a good wlfe w1ll do for 1 m Beulah True lfter work1ng 1n Ashworth's Restaurant for so long flnally owns lt and has renamed the place Beulah's Slop Shop Emma Jean Thomas got a Job as secretary for a large f1rm and fmally m1rr1cd her boss Now who lb boss? Dlck Poulos has been scoutlng around for just the rlght glrl for hxs new buslness Vkolves Inc Verruce Mearllng 1S now head dlrector of Block s F3Sh1OH Board Corrlne l olley m1rr1ed Charles Matlock after he ret1red from the servlce and they are happlly ralslng the1r own llttle army Betty Carter after worklng 1n her lab for s1x years f1nally d1scovered a potent for mak1ng short people tall Ruth Ann Rosebaum 1S a correspondent for the lnternat1onal News Servxce It seems her bra1n1ng on the C M pald off Delores Farmer has a part t1me Job at Ayres whlch she took to help her husband support the1r twelve chlldren John Brown has been 1n the army and 1S now plannmg marmage Shlrley Johnson IS st1ll flghtlng for the rlghts of her three klds 1n good ol' Joe Herron Jolned the clrcus after marrylng Joan Sh1rley Johnson R1chard Poulos 5. as f ,Lf R '--:rw vb Ilfllb S .-- if X CLHSS PUEW We the senlors of New Palestlne H1gh Are saymg now our last goodby We have come to th1 dear school for many years And the teachers have helped us ban1sh our fears We have stud1ed hard and have had much fun And have kept the teachers on the run They have taught us day by day To loxe honor and obey They have marked our path of duty clear Yes have helped us 1n plannlng our career Teachmg us the arts of hfe In overcomlng pa1ns and strlfe We have worked for years rnasterlng those twelve And now the memory of then' hardsh1ps fades As we f1nd we have reached the golden day Ready to start on 11fe s great hxghway Joan Vahle Phllllp P1ke Z1 grades I A V. ' ' Q , 2 , . rv - . K 1 ' E . I v . Y Y I l I I J' . J f . . 4 I . . . , . Y E . 0 .nn V X rv-r , 0 ,L 4 -f L nv- I N.. 0-.1-f ' 'Q -L , y - R-fx 91' . 4:18 ft , rf Pffzfmf' 7x1 if- fff .n . - f 4 rf' 0 - g - - 1 .. A--1. 1- - - -I N., v iv- N QL ...r 1. auf, 5--fam 1 'JW -c N K 1 fe ' ' ff 9' .1, f L ' . , '- -x., ', - ,, ' -it, x - - '--:L T:-.-L? 7 Y I . C , Y I ! 7 ' I 1 1 ' Y 2 . I .