Niangua High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Niangua, MO)

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Class Prophecy Well, here it is 1969 It's time for that Class Reunion we seniors of 59 planned on having The Job of getting in touch with everyone has fallen on my shoulders, since I'm used to tracking down people being a detective and all First on my list was Iudy Claxton She ls livmg in New York teach ing commerce in a leading college there J'udy's roommate is another of our old classmates, Hallie Deckard Hallie ia a wa1tress in an expen slve restaurant In her spare time she goes tishmg Fishing for a hus band that is It wasn't hard findmg Sandra Hightower fMrs Herald Dillj She is happily married to the shop teacher of Niangua H1gh School You think she'd have her hands full takmg care of their three children, but she finds t1me to teach the f1rst and second grades at N1angua I found Mrs Iack Bertoldie Uudy DBVIS, livmg in Marshfield Iudy has a full t1me job looking after her three boys who are only five weeks old They are triplets 'md when one stops cry1ng, another starts 1n Mr and Mrs Darrell Hlghtower CSh1rley Mathis! are livmg in Wlchita, Kansas Shlrley manages a laundry in order to help pay the b1lls You see Darrell is a race car drlver and usually spends the blggest art of hls t1me ln the hospltal After her f1fth d1vorce, Jeanne Hall has declded to marry her h1gh school sweetheart, Larry Mltchell Larry owns a big chicken ranch 1n Oklahoma Ieanne says she s ready to settle down to just ralsmg Chicks Mrs Darel Oberbeck lPaula Ferrlerl 1S livmg on a farm near Conway Paula is a beauty operator and has her own beauty shop Her time ls two rowdy boys I finally got in touch Wlth Dalton Perryman and Ioe Dyche, who are work1ng at Cape Canaveral, Florida The1r Job 1S secret, but I an safe ly say that they are respons1ble for some of those fly1ng objects you see up 1n the sky Howard Kmg IS now a radio announcer at Madlson Square Garden 1n New York Richard Hutton d1d l1ke we all expected him to He is a well known basketball star better known as Speedy Smith Clara Shockley is happlly marr1ed to I1m Totten She 1S qulte busy Just tak1ng care of the1r new home 1n Ill1no1s and the1r six little girls Erma Randolph of all people, 1S a mov1e actress Her newest p1c ture, WHY? , co starring Elv1s Presley promlses to be a olg h1t on Broadway Rex Manning is still givlng all the glrls a wh1rl with his qulck smile and cute ways He's got a new nickname now It's Romeo II Anne Grizzell finally got Ion Medlock straightened out How? marry1ng the guy, of course He's so busy doing the housework and er rands she thinks up for him, that he doesn't have time to get out of line She rules h1m wlth an iron hand so I ve heard . 'U . . 'd I ' ' h p divided between taking care of the shop and TRYING to take care of her . . By ' ' ll ll I

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Surprismgly enough Dorothy Dav1s 1S still single She owns a big home rn Beverly H1lls Dorothy is a model on week ends She flles to Las Vegas where she glves the people a rough time She runs off w1th chips hidden in her mink coat Barbara Vance 1S a fashion counselor She makes frequent trips to Parls to learn the newest and latest ldeas 1n fashrons Judy Smlttle is the owner of a famous roller skatmg and recreation house known as Dance With Iudy 1n Wyommg Iudy marrled a travel ing salesman It was easy to locate Fern Dinwlddie She is a secretary for a de tectlve agency 1n Arizona, and a very good secretary, I mlght add How do I know well I work for that agency, too Yes, I Sharon Mathis fmally got to be a detectlve I can truthfully say that was the hardest job I ve ever worked on and I d1dn't even get paid Class History Our class started out as freshmen in 1955 w1th 30 in the class We elected our class Off1CeIS Iudy Davis as presldent, Iackle Nunn as vice presldent, Erma Randolph as secretary, Sharon Mathls as treasurer, and Rex Mannmg as reporter Mrs Jackson was our class sponsor We also elected our carn1val queen and prince charmmg candldates, who were Erma Randolph and Iackie Nunn, but we re sorry to say we lost the race Losing this race d1dn't keep us from crowmng Anne Grizzell as annual queen Wlth Dean Alexander as her escort The next September we started back to school w1th 26 sophomores president, Rex Manning secretary treasurer Linda Alexander and re porter, Erma Randolph Mr Guido Morris was our sponsor Our candi dates for carnival king and queen were Rex Shaffer and Karen Davis A ga1n we were defeated by the semors Our candidate for the annual queen was Dorothy Davis The seniors agaln defeated us 1n th1S race We went into our Jumor year with a decrease of only one We choose our class offlcers Lmda Alexander as president, Rex Manning as vice president, Anne Grizzell as secretary treasurer, and Iudy Davis as reporter Mrs Melton was our class sponsor Our queen and prince charming candidates for the carnival were Paula Ferrier and Dalton Perryman Thls year we were defeated by the freshmen Our jumor play Grandad Goes Wild was a great success It was directed by Mrs Iackson On February 5 1958 we ordered our class rmgs from Herff Iones Company Our Iunior and Senior Banquet was held in the school gym on April 29 Our last year, beg1nn1ng August 25 1958 brought along a lot of e vents We were the publishers of the school paper and also in charge of preparing an Annual Our class offlcers were Paula Ferrier as pres1 dent, Darrell Hightower as vice president, Howard King as secretary treasurer, and Erma Randolph as reporter Our sponsors were Mr Dobbins and Mrs L1lley We elected our Carnival Queen and Prince Charming cand1dates, who were Shirley Mathis and Ioe Dyche, but we are sorry to say that we were defeated this time Mr C H Lenhart, of Lenhart Studlos 1n Aurora, came and took our senior pictures on October 15 the time of this writing we are still looking forward to our Senior Play, Sen1or Tr1p, Iunior and Senior Banquet, and most of all Graduation . I . . . I l ' ' Il n ' ' ' , , . ' I 0 I I , . I The officers for that year were as follows: president, Karen Davis: vice 7 ' 1 7 ' Il ll u I D I I I . ' ' . At . , ' .