Okmulgee High School - Torchlight Yearbook (Okmulgee, OK)

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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

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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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Forty-Niners' Will David Adamson regretfully leaves Joyce Tollison. John Allen leaves his ability to hold clown the first chair in band to Rupert Hammond. Lauretta Allen leaves her quiet ways to Marlene Rathbun. Mary Lou Armbruster leaves to join David Sharp. Bob Bailey leaves all the girls to next Year's Senior boys. Ann Baker leaves her beautiful wardrobe to Clare Ru Mueller. Jim Barton leaves D. O. for full time work. Ken Barton leaves fond memories never to be forgotten. Edith Bennett wills D. O. to anyone who wants an afternoon of outside work. Bill Benson regretfully leaves Betty Sue Williams. Barbara Bishop leaves her answers in Eng- lish Lit. to anyone who needs them. Richard Bohnsack leaves his sweet pranks in English Lit. to Russell Jones. Jim Boss leaves his diminutive size to Dickie Disiere. James Burruss leaves with Betty following and French not far behind. Johnny Carpenter just leaves. Esther Carter leaves her silvery voice to Betty McGuire. Ednabelle Child leaves her demure ways to Patsy Kane. Mercedes Chronister's quiet dignity goes to Doris Coleman. Danafay Cline leaves B. Day to all of next year's Junior Girls. Catharine Cook leaves her two tone hair to any dissatisfied dish-water blond. Pat Corbell leaves her exceptional ability to play the piano to John Ray Nelson. Catherine Cottingham leaves her honor roll grades to Jim Hamilton, who gratefully accepts. Don DeStieguer leaves his booming voice to next year's speech students. Bill Dilldine takes his pointless jokes with him, thank goodness! Ted Duensing and Edna Jackson need no will, for they leave with each other. O. E. Earnest bequeaths his studious ways to Dan Henshaw. Rosamond Edwards leaves her sweet smile to Joyce Baker. Wayne Eshelman leaves his boisterous ways to Larry Jenkins. Clarence Floyd leaves his charm to J. C. Tipton. Charlene Franke leaves her oboe to any- one who can stand it. Jean Frazee leaves her job as student direc- tor of the Senior Play to next year's fortunate person. Beverly Remy leaves her flirtatious ways to Kathryn Hightower. Walter George leaves Miss Dillman a well deserved, quiet study hall. Tom Gilmer leaves his astronomy to any- one with brains enough to understand it. Eddie Gilstrap leaves, but probably will return next year. Myra Dean Goolsby leaves her pleasant attitude to anyone who can live up to it. Dwight Gower leaves his subtle ways to Bob Wheeler. , John Graham leaves his photography to Miss Finklea, with pleasure. Betty Gravette leaves her eyelashes to Bill Strother. Nancy Greaves leaves her shy way of blush- ing to another bashful girl, Nannette De- Vinna. Mary Lou Haley wills her senior spirit to all on-coming juniors. Gail Hance wills her eyes to Ann Wilson. Walter Harkrider leaves, with no com- plaints. Bob Hatter gladly leaves Miss Wade all the stage settings. Edward Hill leaves, singing Far Away Places. Sammye Howard leaves her ability to talk fast to John Capshaw. Shirley Huffman leaves her giggles to Mr. McMillan's Sth Hr. history class. Dolores Hughes leaves her quiet temper to Janice Locke. James fButchJ Hull takes his camouflage suit with him. Jimmy Hull leaves but takes his cute red hair. Sam Huss takes his Buick and leaves. Phillip James leaves his freckles to Frank Whittaker. Billie Jean Jenkins leaves her skating abil- ity to Tommy Lou Gray. Norma Jennings leaves her dark com- plexion to Carol Lee Capshaw. Jerry Johnson bestows his shy grin to next year's boys. Raynell Johnson wills her blond hair to Corinne Parks. Wayne Freeny leaves Barbara to anyone who will take good care of her. Gene Ganus leaves his job at the Dairy Queen to anyone who wants to gain weight. Wanda Gassaway and Merle Goodson leave their quiet ways to Marilyn Shelton. Ailene Geasland wills her knack of keeping a job to anyone believing in hard work. Loretta Johnson wills her quiet manners to Adonna Morrow. Don Kaltenback leaves his artistic talents to James Samples. Tom Kenan leaves his quick wit to any- one who can keep up with him. Juanita Kilpatrick leaves her happy out- look on life to Shirley James. Ruth Langdon leaves her shorthand book to someone who takes it next year. fContinued on Page 662 Page twenty-one