Okmulgee High School - Torchlight Yearbook (Okmulgee, OK)

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Senior Class Prophet EDNABELLE CHILD has taken Marjorie Main's role in the refilming of The Egg and I. LOIS DEAN SMITH is now clarinet solo- ist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. PHILLIP JAMES is teaching an English Class at Vassar. His assistants are WALTER GEORGE and L. A. REYNOLDS. CATHARINE COOK and EDNA JACK- SON have gone with Al Jolson for their own television show. JENEANE WHINERY has recently changed her name Qto CAMPBELL, that isl. PATSY ROWDEN is manager of the Griffin Theaters. Her cashiers include BUDDY SHIPMAN, AYDEN WIMPEY, and DWIGHT GOWER. JIMMY HULL is the librarian at O.H.S. One of the new books in the library is BILL McKAY'S masterpiece, How to Get a Girl and Keep Her. NANCY RYON is fashion designer for NORMA JEAN JENNINGS, who has won the academy award for the most hair-raising screams. AUDREY NICKLE and JACK NEIGH- BORS are touring as the famous Toni Twins. BILL SLATON is busy baking cream puffs for GENE GANUS. PAT CORBELL, under the coaching of BARBARA BISHOP, has become a member of Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. MARTHA STEFFEY is manager of Kress and JUANITA KILPATRICK is floor walker. TOM KENAN is teaching O.H.S. speech classes. His veteran pupil is DANAFAY CLINE. MARY SMITH is teaching typing and MARY LOU ARMBRUSTER is the head of the Business Department. DOLORES HUGHES has attained her ambition to have a white house with blue shutters, Finalists in the national Baby Blue Eyes contest are BOB HATTER and RUTH LANGDON. BILL PARK, WAYNE SANDERS and WAYNE FREENY are making millions in- venting a hair rolling machine. JOHN ALLEN is mayor of Okmulgee. His next project is a swimming pool for the students. GAIL HANCE is MRS. JERRY SWIFT, and now employs MERLE GOODSON and I.-ALQRETTA ALLEN to run her root beer stan . ALLENE GEASLAND is manager of the STEWART-LUCKY Company. MARY LOU HALEY and SUSAN SCOTT are still box office girls. MARTHA MABEN is threatening RUB- ENSTEIN'S title at Carnegie Hall. NANCY GREAVES has her own radio program in New York City. CHARLENE FRANKE is appearing with PHIL SPITALNY and his All Girl Orches- tra as Honey-Bee and her Oboe. JAMES QBUTCHJ HULL is owner of a dancing school. DELOIS PETERS and LOR- ETTA JOHNSON are two of his best customers. JERRY JOHNSON and WAYNE ESHEL- MAN are with the Brooklyn Dodgers dodging coke bottles. DON KALTENBACH is in a new movie Frankenstein and the Strawberry Blond. ROSAMOND EDWARDS and BOBBIE JEAN RAFFETY are models for a vegetable company. EDITH BENNETT has been promoted to the Orpheum box office. CATHERINE COTTINGHAM is librarian at the public library. PAT MORGAN is still getting letters from Gary, Indiana. MERCEDES CHRONISTER is a decora- tor. Her latest customer is BOYD WOOLEY. BETTY GRAVETTE is organist at the Little Church Around the Corner. MARGIE PRIEGEL and SHIRLEY HUFFMAN are DR. BILL BENSON'S patients. BOB MURPHREE is a barker for the burlesque show with Barnum ac Bailey's Circus. BEVERLY REMY, his devoted wife lives in Pittsburgh. ' BOB ROGERS and SANFORD ROBIN- SON now own one of the largest meat- packing houses in Texas. SAM HUSS is their head butcher. JOHN GRAHAM and LEON THOMAS have their own photography studio. RODNEY ROSS was voted the outstanding mechanic in the automobile industry. KEN BARTON was runner up. STANLEY PIERCE is still taking dancing lessons from SAMMYE QASTAIREJ HOW- ARD. VELMA LOWE and ZULA SMITH are contented housewives. JOE WARRINER was initiated into the dentistry by yanking out one of RICHARD BOI lNSACK'S molars. SKIP LOOMIS and VAL DEVA O'- KELLY are running a restaurant which was called the Cabin back in '49. LYLE PETER and BOB BAILEY have an orchestra. TED DUENSING is the friendly under- taker, working for JEAN WOOD who seems to have followed her father's footsteps. MOZELLE PITTS and JEAN FRAZEE are chemists for the ACME Laboratories who are seeking to find a remedy for the usnifflesf' CAROLYN STEWART is a bookkeeper in FRIEDA MORTON'S dress shop. BOB SHACKELFORD is their cleanup man. K Continued on Page 642 Page nineteen

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Seniors Present Midnight, Midnight, a mystery comedy, was presented as the annual Senior class production, March 17-18. The plot centered around Grandpa Greenwood's old mansion. Julia Greenwood, played by Nancy Greaves, accompanied by her maid Ellen, Martha Maben, and her colored chauffeur Leonard, Skip Loomis, in order to get away from a New Year's party given by her niece, Claire Greenwood, played by Joanne Parks, goes to the old house which he had inherited from her father, Grandpa Greenwood. At the mansion she found the housekeeper Mrs. Wick, played by Pat Wat- son, and her grandfather's lawyer, Mr. Hard- man, John Allen. Later two reporters, Kate Bagley, Nancy Ryon, and Eddie Bower, Bob Rogers, who have been sent by the editor to get a ghost story, arrive on the scene. Claire Greenwood and her fiance Bob Morris, portrayed by Tom Kenan, also run out on the New Year's party and arrive at thc old mansion. While the characters are thus assembled a mysterious stranger, Mr. Smith, portrayed by Richard Bohnsack, enters carrying a beautiful night club singer, Paula Wtird, played by Norma Jean Jennings. Mr. Smith is believed to be a criminal be- cause he had pretended to make a telephone call to the hospital when, unknown to him, Page f1l'C7lfjl the telephone was out of order. Bob Morris, who just happens to be carrying a gun, holds Smith up. Smith calmly explains that he is a G Man and takes complete charge of the house. A secret room is found in the house by Mr. Smith. Concealed in the room with a set of counterfeit plates is Joe Howard, Jimmy Nay, who is Ellen's fiance. Joe overpowers Mr. Hardman and with the aid of Ellen makes good his escape. As the plot develops, Paula Ward discovers that Mr. Smith is not a G Man but a foreign agent. The whole mystery is solved when Hugh Nichols, a government chemist, portrayed by Stanley Pierce, explains that the counter- feit plates were merely a front for experi- ments which Grandpa Greenwood and joe Howard had been conducting on an explosive for the government who paid Grandpa 550,- OOO for the formula to be divided between Hardman, Joe Howard, Aunt Julia, and Claire Greenwood. The mystery was further explained by Eddie Bower, who is really a secret service agent, when he announced the capture of Mr. Smith and the innocence of joe Howard, who had been chasing Smith instead of trying to escape. Director of the play was Miss Sarah Kate fC0!llillll6ll on Page 521