North Salem High School - Echo Yearbook (North Salem, IN)

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Class Prophecy It is February 27, 1975 and the championship game of Indiana is about to begin. The North Salem Blue Devils and Barnyard Cats, the two top ranking teams of Indiana, are about to clash forces. This being such an important game, I though Iwould go and see it and by chance see some of my old schoolmates who graduated in 1950. The auditorium was beginning to fill with people as I stood in line to get my ticket. While I was waiting in line I turned around and my gaze fell upon that famous football star, Bill Owens. As you know after leaving high school Bill went to Notre Dame and played four years of college football. Then he came back to North Salem and captured the heart of Patty Klein and married her. He is now retired and he and his wife are living in Paultucket trying to raise their sixteen children. As I shoved my way into the auditorium I was startled to hear someone Say, Tickets please . I raised my eyes and there before me stood a slim, handsome, distinguished man, He said, Hello, don't you remember me ? l'm Don Ward. I asked Don how he had ever gotten so slim, fsince I had a little extra weight myselfl, and he said he worked for the Rye Krisp Company and after twenty years of employment there his boss convinced him to try the Rye Krisp reducing plan. Now instead of trying to get rid of weight Don says he is trying to get rid of the girls that are always chasing him. y I was trying to find a seat and who should holler and wave at me but the former Betty Davidson, now married to Vernal Leathers. As we chatted along, I learned that Betty had liked English so well in high school under her teacher, Mrs. Thompson, that she had decided she would take up teaching. She is teaching English at North Salem where her twin daughters are attending the third grade. I finally found a seat but before I could sit down I was tapped on the back by a skinny, raw-boned young man whom I didn't recognize at first. It finally came to me that this was the powerful Jim Wilson who had graduated with me. He then told me that he had been married to Norma Bruneless but had divorced her after their fourth child and had turned the children over to some organization. He is now working as a hod carrier for the Will Make It Stick Construction Company. Since my seat was now taken I decided I would go buy me a sack of popcorn before I looked farther. Ihappened to run into Earl Hicks, the most famous of all the basketball players of his time. He told me that he had married Janet Owens from Jamestown upon graduation and he and his wife had then gone to Poker Flat, Texas where he is a professional gambler. Just then I felt some sharp teeth sink into my leg. Bonnie said Never mind, it is just one of the kids sharpening his teeth. I finally found a seat on the twelfth row of the bleachers and I sat down to watch this important game. At the start of the game North Salem got the first two points. Just then someone started breathing down my neck. I turned around and what did I see? A big batch of bushy red hair. ljust about dropped when I saw that the red hair belonged to Bob Meyers. We started talking then and he told me he had become an electrical engineer because his wife, the former Shirley Hilt, thought it was a good paying job, and believe me he really needs plenty of money to feed the mouths of his eleven children. 12

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Class Will We, the Senior Class of North Salem High School, being in sound mind and memory, do on this 15th day of February of the year 1950, take this opportunity to will our most prized possessions to the teachers and fellow students of our school. TEACHERS To the Faculty, we will them a bottle of Hadacol to give them back their strength. JUNIORS To the Juniors, we will them the right to use our noisy lockers. SOPHOMORES To the Sophomores, we will them our place on the basketball team and our place serving lunch. FRESHMEN To the Freshmen we will our dignity. To The Under Graduates I, Juanita Lee, will my height to Louise McDonald. I, Eleanor Boston, hereby will and bequeath my English ability to Miriam Roth, my love letters and compact from Bill to Patty Klein. I, Betty Davidson, will my weight to Patty Frazier. I, Marhadel Wiles, will my job as telephone operator to Lenora Courtney and my ability to keep out of trouble to Joe Neff. I, Barbara Simon, will my ability of daydreaming to Patricia Porter and to Louise McDonald the right to date the college boys that she mentioned in my prophecy. I, Joan Lee, will my blonde hair to Wendell I-liland and dark shell rimmed glasses to Irene Woodrum. I, Sara Heady, will my natural curly hair to Clyda Brock and my height to Jean Livesay. I, Earl Hicks, will my basketball ability to Dick Anderson and my ability to get along with the girls to Dudie Van. I, Joan Pritchett, will my shortness and dumpy figure to Jim Blackmore. I, Don Ward, being of sound mind and health, will and bequeath my position as student manager to anyone who will take it. I, Bill Owens, being of sound mind, bequeath Denny Wilson my parking space in front of the school building and my ability to get along with the girls to Wendell Hiland. I, Jim Wilson, being of sound mind and body, do hereby will my ability to trade Fords to Richard Wilson also my locker to Joe Neff. I, Bob Meyers will my position on the basketball team to anybody who can make it and my locker for banging when class is going on to Wendell Hiland. ll

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The game was so exciting that it hardly seemed as though the first quarter should be finished. My popcorn had made me thirsty so I got down from my seat and made my way toward the concession stand. When I got to the stand I noticed a tall, gangling figure whom I thought I recognized. Whom do you think it was ? Eleanor Boston: I I spoke and asked her what she had been doing., She said she was teaching school. I then asked her if she was married. She said, No, my long lost love, Bill Owens, has married someone else and I am an old maid school teacher. As I was walking across the floor to get back to my seat, whom should I run into but Juanita Lee who was being followed closely by a man whom I recognized at once as Cary Grant. Upon questioning I soon found out that after graduating instead of marrying Wayne Kidd as everyone imagined, Juanita had entered Patricia Stevens Modeling School. She did so well that she was soon on her way to Hollywood, Cary fell in love with her on first sight. They are now married and living on a chicken ranch in Barnard where Mr. Grant is town marshall. They have been married two years and have four children--quadruplets of course. When I had finished talking to Juanita I again started on my way to my seat. Just then my attention was attracted by a fued between a set of twins. Becoming interested, Iwalked up to the place where the twins were fighting and who should be trying to break it up but my old classmate Sara Heady. I immediately congratulated her. She then told me she had married a very wealthy man by the name of Arthur Godfrey and had had the twins. Un- fortunately Arthur died but he willed his beautiful estate to her. She then became interested in singing and is now the top singing star of the Metropolitan Opera House. At that moment I heard someone whistling and shouting and I looked up in the crowd and I saw a girl waving her arms. I thought she was waving at me but at that same moment I saw a group of boys go by with a great big C on their ball sweaters. The girl ran down from the bleachers and I saw that it was Barbara Simon. The boys had already gotten out of sight so Barbara stopped and told me that since her sister Betty had gotten married she had started going over to Danville to Canterbury College and was now taking sister's place with the Canterbury boys. By the time I found my seat again the game was half over. I sat down and at that moment a stunning girl in a black satin dress said, Hello , Iwas surprised, for this stunning girl was Joan Lee. She told me that she now works as a fashion designer in New York and designs clothes worn by the movie stars in California. She told me she wasn't married but she is kept busy dating some very famous movie stars. The game flew by and my it was exciting. The score at the beginning of the fourth quarter was 40 to 10 with North Salem ahead. In the last three minutes I got up to put on my coat and I felt something cold on my neck. I knew someone behind me had spilled 13