Okanogan High School - Dog Tracks Yearbook (Okanogan, WA)

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'Greeley's Gas, one of a corporation of west coast service stations owned by gas magnate, Patricia Greeley. There, Boone Myers, a 'Greeley Gasn mechanic replaced the tire and we went on our way. After dropping Maydene at her apartment we drove past Glen Haden's orange grove. He appears to be quite prosperous. Janet turned on the radio just in tlme to hear that Vlrgil Holterman had broken the world's record in hot rod racing for the third consecutive year! Arrived home to sink into bl1ssful oblivion on our new Squealy mattress, put out by Phyllis Carpenter Inc. Set my R M. Martin alarm clock for seven a.m That gives me just enough time to catch the eight forty five plans for New York in the morn n May 2, 1975 Dear Diary: Arr1ved at the airport in plenty of time to catch my plane th1s mornlng. One of my fellow passengers was Miss Gail Dickson, famed cr1m1nal lawyer, who was flying to New York to act as the defence attorney for Rodgers Hamilton, treasurer of the Brotherhood of Sootless Ch1mney Sweeps. e was being sued by h1s union for swlndling union funds. Gail had received a letter from Mary Conner about the tr1als and Dame we got on the subgect of football and what a success Coach Winston McCulley had made of his 1974 football squad! He's at Notre Dame now too' We landed safely at Holeman Field, recently named for New York's filibuster1ng senator, Eugene Holeman. Eugene had filibustered for twelve hours to stop a bill for the reductlon of school hours, and the pre vention of detainment after school, Our ideas certainly do change as the years fly by! Went directly to the Park Ave nue Hotel where I was greeted by the manager's widow, the former Miss Rosemary Pelle Had an appointment with R W. Fritts, president of the New York Museum of Unnatural Hist cry. On my way through New York City's crowded streets, whom should I chance to meet but rookey policeman, Donald Schreckengost, directing traffic across Fifth Avenue. Drop ped into Sac's Fifth Avenue for a minute to say hello to Bob Taylor, head floor walker. Was pleasantly surprised to see Joan Sawyer modeling a lovely cocktail dress for middle aged ladies, especzally designed by Cheloye Bartholme Had d1n ner with Shirley Schmidt, president of the Bouncing Baby Home, and Janet Tate, ski resort hostess at Sun Valley As we were leaving we met John Van Binsbergen at a corner ta ble, waiting for his chorus girl wife. The three of us then went to Carnegie Hall to a Symphony Orchestra concert, fea turing as its guest, Miss Patricia Palmer, clarinet soloist. Returned to the hotel about twelve p.m. Have had a busy day and am fatigued, so I guess I'll hit the hay Good night, dear diary! 27 ll l 1 go ' H tribulations of being a fraternity house mother at Notre O I I I . . . - C

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PROPHECY These are a few extracts selected from the personal di ary of an unknown member of the l950 Class of Okanogan High School The d1ary was found in the debris of an apartment house that had burned to the ground, and is sl1ghtly lncom plete in some places where lt was damaged by fire and water May 1, 1975 Dear Diary: Was awakened at a very early hour by my faithful but frightful R M. Mart1n k Co alarm clock My morn1ng snooz es have been very rudely lnterrupted ever s1nce she lnvent ed the model that plays 'Wake Up and S1ng D1dn't get up untll I heard Wayne Cook, the milkman, come clanking up the steps wlth his da1ly dellvery of milk We owed him flfty cents so I thought I had better go down. Who'd ever have thought years ago that I'd be gossiping with h1m over the back fence? Thought I'd look 1n on our neighbor, the former Miss Shirley Herman. She was listenlng to the nBetty Crowd er Helpful Hints for Housewives program. We dhatted about old times at good old Okanogan High and Shirley mentloned that our old classmate and now a professional raln maker, James Cunningham, would soon come to town to relieve the drought It seems as though he has perfected a way of making rain w1thout a cloud News commentator, Frank Workman, 1n terrupted Miss Crowder's broadcast to say that there had been a stock market crash and that multl mill1ona1re ranch How time fl1es spent half the day goss1p1ng w1th Shirley, then went down town to make arrangements with'W. T Conner, wner and operator of the 'Conner Inc Flying Saucer Lines, to take a G1rl Scout expedition to Mars. He said he would pllot the saucer himself and asked me to 1ssue spec1al stratospheric safety instructlons to the scouts Stewardess Barbara Husum was to accompany the girls on the1r fllght The heat here 1n Los Angeles 18 terr1fic! Nurse super1n tendent at the Los Angeles General Hosp1tal, Joyce Hedlng ton, called and said that the high temperatures had snuffed out elght l1ves! Had a dlnner engagement with World Bank presldent, Maydene Jorgensen, at the Brown Derby where Floyd Self 13 now head chef Whom should we see there but the M1ss Amerlca of 1975, Marlene Steele, who rose to stardom through her performance in the smash h1t of the 196O's, 'Zoomer Girl Called a taxi take Maydene and me home, and were we surprised to find the driver to be Janet H11t8l we were just pul11ng into Beverly Hills when the tax1 had a blowout. 'We found ourselves conven1ently 1n front f 26 ' . Q . f V ll ' - O . . . - er, Gene Corbin, was hard hit and down to his last million. 0 1 . - . 11 . . l l , ' . to . . 0

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LAST HILL AND TESTAHENT OF TH SENIOR CLASS OF 1950 We, the senior class of 1950, being of sound mlnd an body, do hereby proclaim this our last will and testament We have agreed that 1f th1s school is to continue function ing, it is necessary for us to bequeath our many and varied talents to you, the under classmen We realize the school w1ll never be the same w1thout us, but with the afore said solution we hope it can struggle on. Knowing how reserved you are we take our thanks in advance. we hope you will re ceive these great honors in the splrit which they are given, and may you profit by them. I, Vlrg1l Holterman, will my ability to sleep mn fourth pe rlod study hall to any poor fool who hasn't sense enough to I, Eugene Holeman, will my third period library to Arno Hag erup, so that he may change the 'date dueu stamp any tlme he W1Sh88g I, Boone Myers, bequeath my ability to sk1p school and get oaught to John Skelton. I, Rosemarie Martln, leave the nlckname nJigabooN to Stanley Waddell 1n hopes that he will live up to lt as well as I d1dL I, Rosemary Pelle, will my knack for acquiring n1cknames and go1ng with boys by the name of Don to Lillman Thompson and Eloise Wylet, I, Patsy Palmer, will my trips to Chelan to Loise Pfelfer. I, Rodgers Hamilton, bequeath 30 pounds of my excess muscle to Bob Cubbage, in the hope that he may use 1t. I, Wayne Cook, bequeath my ability to graduate to my brotherg Whrren, in hopes that he may do the same. I, Glen Baden, leave my ability to get a woman at the snap of my f1ngers to Ralph Starzman who seems to be doing quite well already I, Shirley Sehmmdt, al1as Squirrel, will all the nuts I hid to Helen Sylvester, in hopes that she may find them. I Don Schreekengost, will my charming personality to any one who th1nks he can handle it as well as I have, I, Bob Fritts, leave my musical talent to Irma Fillmore, -28 ' d . o 'go to bed. , I