Okmulgee High School - Torchlight Yearbook (Okmulgee, OK)

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SE IUHS '13 .J 5 Page twenty-two Frances Waddle Ruth Wallace Par Weimer James Watson Mary Lee Williams Bill Witthaus Nellie Winn Norma Lee Wood E. R. Youngblood

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jack Smith Robert Smith Bette Smuthern XViliiam Sparks Betty Stout Mary jane Stroup Dun Swift Mary Frances Szalankiewicz Margaret Ann Thomas Lois Tollison Genevieve Torbett Louise Vivar SE IUH5 in as WP-' if A R F .ik-as-M ,J -iii Page lwcflzty-n 111:

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SE IUH PHUPHEEY Wanda Devary is editor of the Mounds Weekly Monitor. Members of her star staff are Barbara Bennett, Virginia Berry, Shirley Cole- man, Juanita Davison, and Nadine Fountain, who are all writing the juicy gossip columns they didn't write in the Torchlight. Frank Skinner, Joe Hassell, and Mary Lee Williams are now a star comedy team on N. B. C. Bob Greenwood is their announcer, while Norma Lee Wood sits at home listening to the sound of his golden voice. Doris and Dorothy Condrey stop the show with their accordion music. Kenneth Denton is still coming into Mrs. Hayley's English Lit class every noon hour. The Quiz Kinds of 1960 prove to be none other than John Parks, Richard O'Shields, and Bill Witthaus. Photogenic Jacquelyn Rich- ardson, Martha Arm Norris, Joyce Miller, and Louise Vivar are stars of Richard Peller's model agency. Jerry de Steiguer, Eugene James and Joe Hardridge are making a fortune by a patent hair curler they themselves used as seniors in O. H. S. Jack Smith and Charles Bradley are still entertaining students in Eng- lish Lit. Charles Fenolio, Wendell Scott, James Wat- son and Fred Bartlett have kept their ability to steer clear of women. Bette Southern, Dor- othy Reich, Blanche Beymer, Marie Jenkins are now co-operators of the local skating rink. Paul Botsford and Dorothy Drew are now Mr. and Mrs .... Ditto'Jane Ella Ludwick and Tommy Oliver. You see them out and around when they can leave their children with Registered Nurse Elizabeth Blevins. Bill Allison is the Sinatra of 1960. Geraldine Barnard is playing his accompaniment. Claire Hance, Bobby Hollis and John Harwood De- Vinna have finally given up their quiet, retir- ing ways, and now are managing a night club. Elizabeth Crowther, Norma Jean Morris, and Betty Stout are the future night club singers. Betty Davis, Ella Mae Kilpatrick, and Mar- garet Ann Thomas are now rearing their little broods under the care of the famous child specialist, Stanley Hopper. Bob Ely and De- wayne Greene have certainly come up in the world. They now have taken Pat's and Fred's jobs at the local pool hall. Wally Foster and Evedna McVay are now managing Radio City Music Hall. They both received their training here. Their glamorous cashiers are Pat Bulla, Mary lou Hancock, and Mary Jane Stroup. Genevieve Torbett owns a huge printing con- cern. Her assistants are Willard Franke, E. R. Youngblood, and William Sparks. Well, look! Bill Loar is now principal of O. H. S. Gloria Patterson is registrar. Some of Principal Loar's staff are Bill Chronos, iournalism instructor and Dean of girls. Freida Gulley also is teaching shorthand and Jay Pearse is Dean of Boys. Betty Jo Chism is tracking down English Literature. Paul Buckthal is now the principal of a select seminary for young ladies. His assistant is none other than Joe Brown. Jeatlene Reynolds and Willie Edna Bourland have worked up to stock room position at New- berrys. Paul Ganus is now training WAVES. Mary Sue Beebe, Mary Lou Biggs, Lillie Mae Davis, iind Elizabeth Erman are a few of the sea going asses. Lavina Barris is an operating expert at Okla- homa Natural. Wanda Bennett is conducting a cooking school for housewives. Among her apt pupils are Velma Devary, Ruby Dozier, Betty Ann Gainor, and Ruby Hammack. Reed Nevins is running for Congress in 1960. The guest orator, Robert Smith, is his campaign manager. Doris Gaines has a super beauty shop, spe- cializing in peroxide treatments. Among her best customers are Lois McCune, Barbara Ham- mer, and Laverne Ingram. Bernice Faught has made the Cabin a super night spot and her star waitress is Leona Jones. Nadine Nolen is a painless dentist. Grace Corn is her office assistant. Ginger Sloan holds the women's swimming championship. Career girls de luxe are Kathryn Nay and Mar- garet Milner. They now have a pent house in New York. Betty Luna leads a hot swing band. Her star trumpeter is Doris Kirk. Dorothy Devary is a super drummer. Ann Montgomery, Flor- ence Nightingale of 1960, is caring for Wes- ley Morton and Eugene Patton, who sprained their ankles while training their girls' basket- ball team. First among Boogie-Woogie artists of today is Marian Hale. Ora Mae Kiker, due to the influence of the 1944 senior play, now operates the Kiker Theater. Sue Pierce now manages a school of dance specializing in jitterbugging. Nada Lee Moon and Howard Peak are demonstrating type- writers. Dorothy Devary and Ruby Sanders have per- fected the ideal mouse trap, and are making a fortune. Due to the shortage of mops, Jewell Robinson and Wanda Rogers are selling locks of their hair for the cause. LaVerne Rogers is directing the Broadway production of Green Stockings, starring Frances Waddle. Pat Weimer and Nell Winn are now operat- ing a school for delinquent boys. Robert Cut- singer is selling ink blotters, working his way through Ruth Wallace's Ballet school. Don Swift spends his winters as Santa Claus in Lois Tol1ison's A to Z store. And now to draw the curtain on the class of '44. All we Want to say is there isn't any more.-EX- CEPT! Mary Frances Szalankiewicz has now married a man named Jonesl r Page twenty-three