Northern Heights High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Allen, KS)

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()fass yfis toru The history of the Senior class of 1960 started four years ago, before the school was even built. In those days, half of the class started as green Freshmen at Admire, and the other half at Allen. Those starting at Admire were: Norman Pearson, Betty Dickson, Kenneth Moore, Marilyn Miller, Gene Tucker, Sandra Maxwell, Verle Stephenson, Mary Jennings, Paul Parks, Theda Pine, Jim Hooper, Viola Moser, Joe Kirk, and Shirley Jones. Dick Davidson, Faye Bech- tel, Phyllis Day, Nancy Frizzell, Don Day, Phyllis Marsh, Larry Pracht, Jim Albin, and Richard Rowley began their high school careers at Allen. In 1958, twenty-one Sophomores had the privilege of being the first Sophomore class in the new building. Shirley Jones and Jim Albin had left the group. Class officers that year were: Don, President: Norman, Vice President: Marilyn, Secretary-Treasurer; Paul, Reporter: and Dick and Betty, Student Council Members. Sponsors were Mrs. Victoria Daily and Mr. Jack Smith. The next year, the class gained two members and lost one. John Voorhees and Winona Gar- rett joined us, while Verle Stephenson left at mid-term. Phyllis was elected President; Norman, Vice President; Jim, Secretary-Treasurer; and Dick and Betty, Student Council Members. This was the year that the Junior play, Finders Creepers, a mystery-comedy in three acts, was presented. Norman, Kenneth, Sandra, Faye, Paul, Marilyn, Phyllis, Jim, Betty, Dick, Theda, Larry, Phyllis, and Richard had parts in the play; and Don, Viola, Mary, and Gene were part of the stage crew. Gifts were presented to the directors of the play, Mrs. Daily and Mr. Fred Schmidt. Probably the high point of the year was the Junior-Senior Banquet and Prom, held April 18, 1959. The Junior Class enjoyed preparing the decorations for the Top Hat Club,” a nightclub which served as the theme for the occasion. The library was decorated in silver and royal blue, with quartet tables and a bar at one end. By September of 1959, Larry Pracht started school at Council Grove, John Voorhees moved, and Marilyn Miller was married. We gained one new classmate this year, Jim Fitzgerald. Twenty happy Seniors began their last year at N. H. H. S. Highlights of this year were publishing their first paper and die annual, magazine sales, the Senior Play, the Junior-Senior Prom, Bac- calaureate, and Commencement. 1960 will go down as a year that will be long remembered in the minds, and hearts, of every member of the class of '60. CORONA GIFT SHOP MORRIS DRUG CO. EMPORIA WELDING SHOP PALMER'S BARBER SHOP Emporia, Kansas

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Seniors -As We See Them

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(’ ass 7Jrophecu The year is 1970; the place: the D-Bar-D Ranch in northern Lyon County. Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Day are sponsoring a big barbeque for all the members of the class of 1960. Don, our former class president, has done rather well these past ten years. He is now president of the Kansas Cattle Breeders Association, which keeps him pretty busy. He is not too busy, however, to feed his five young sons, who have inherited their father's healthy appetite. Standing next to his wife is his cousin, Phyllis Day. She has never married; but she has an extremely good job in Philadelphia, Pa., as assistant manager of the ABC-TV program, AMERICAN BANDSTAND. She is an expert at her job, and she will tell you that she gained all her experience by watching the program every night during her high-school days. Phyllis is talking to a boy we all remember very well from high school. It seems that he has struck it rich, for he is sporting a diamond stickpin in his tie. Who is it? Why, it's Norman Pearson! Norman now owns and runs Norm’s Pool Snooker Parlor in Osage City - that is, when he is not out riding his string of polo ponies. Over there helping himself to some barbequed beef is Paul Parks. Our old friend Paul is a CPA, which he took up after having trouble accounting for some of his deeds in high school. He and Mrs. Parks are living in Emporia now. loe Kirk is next in line. He and his pretty blonde wife (his former high school sweetheart) have three sweet children and are engaged in farming south of Admire. To pick up pin money, every Memorial Day Joe goes to Indianapolis to compete in the 500 mile race. There's Gene Tucker standing under a tree with Kenneth Moore. These two young men have succeeded in starting a prosperous dairy. Kenneth milks all the cows, while Gene hotrods the milk truck all over Lyon County. Now we can see Jim Fitzgerald coming over to talk business with Norman Pearson. Jim looks very handsome in his uniform of Navy blue. They say Jim has a girl in every port and one can certainly believe it. His arm is so covered with heart-shaped tattoos that you can scarcely see his muscles. At the picnic table, some of the girls are sitting and enjoying the feast. There is Sandra Maxwell and her handsome husband and their new baby son. Sandra met her husband when she was going to college at Emporia State. He is over six feet tall and he was the star basketball player there. Sandra enjoys being married to a man she can look up to. Just look who is driving up in a brand new 1970 Cadillac convertible! Mr. and Mrs. Richard Davidson! The new car was purchased for the Davidsons by the grateful alumni of Kansas Uni- versity. Dick is coaching there; and since he started, in 1965, K. U. has never lost a basketball game. Across the table are the two working girls in the class, Theda Pine and Mary Jennings. They are private secretaries to the new governor of Kansas, Jim Hooper. They manage to keep visitors out of the governor's office while he does a few laps around his desk, just to keep in shape. IRELAND'S SHOE REPAIR EMLEY'S BARBER SHOP