Orford High School - Beacon Yearbook (Orford, NH)

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Class Gifts Sue De Goosh - We are presenting you with this miniature airplane, Let it speed you on your way to success and happiness in the air corp, Joyce Greer - We are giving you herewith a calendar, Not a day will be wasted if you keep track oi your dates with Harley on it, Joy Miller - Here is a watch, You won't be able to blame Stogy if you're late to a show or something now: Frank Lynes - Here is a new tractor, We hope it will come in handy on the farm in your future, Preston Joslyn - Here's a best seller on the latest discoveries, Preston, perhaps some day you will be Einstein's right hand man, ' Irene Davis - This megaphone is for you so that all your admirers will hear you when you speak, Russ Smith - We present you with this toy car, You can amuse yourself with it when your father's car is in use, Don't put too many miles on it, Gerald Pease - We are presenting you with a new car-see if you can keep this one on the main road, Jirn Brown - We have here a pair of dumbells so that you can keep your muscles in perfect condition, John Brown - We've got a joke book for you, You can learn some new jokes to tell your girls when you have nothing else to do, Clayton Huckins - Here are some toy wrenches, Maybe these will help you and improve your mechanical ability, Doug Lackey - We take great pleasure in presenting you with this toy cart, You had better get in the habit of riding around in this, just in case your car breaks down, lt can't last much longer: Janet Willis - May we present you with this package of gum, Take your last chew in memory to O, H, S, and the times that you got away with chewing gum in school, Here's to bigger and better chewing gum: Ted Landgraf - Here's a new Willis Jeep, one with a rnuffler on it, to take the place of your old one when you have a certain Senior out, Melody of High School School is just, And it's a must For educated folks, But for me- I'd rather see A math book ,,,full of jokes: Occupations are Too hard by far But the teacher's nice, Science heeds Bodily needs, And tells of ,,. melting ice, English smells Oi wet inkwells, O! suffixes and such, Of capitalization Of every nation, Or just about From these we gain, But can't explain, Why we long to learn, Why we love The moon above ls our main ,Hconcernf To my side, Forget your pride, Sing our favorite song Of gay school days And childish ways, Of study halls- ,,,and ping pong balls, Of trouble brewing, The rare gurn chewing: A basketball game, The political beatings Of weekly class meetings- ,,,fa love outline to pass the time ,,,as much: The eternal grip Of good sportsmanship ,,,may we remember long: 15 Shirley Joslyn '53

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The Prophecy Let us look into our Super-jet Futureglobe and set it to the year of 1960, As we look down South we see Joyce Greer in Florida happily married raising tropical fruits, And who is this we see parked along the road, Hurnmm-its a white Ford coupe, and who's in this white Ford coupe? You've guessed it: Joy Miller is on her honeymoon, Now let us set our Super-jet Futureglobe North to New York City and the Albert Einstein Laboratory, Mr, Einstein and Preston Joslyn are having a hot argument over evolution, And look who's at Harvard, Clayton Huckins, studying the culture and care of gooseberries, As we go out West to Hollywood who do we see but Jim Brown swinging from tree to tree taking the part of Tarzan, as johnny Weismueller didn't have enough muscles for the part, Irene Davis seems to be happy, also, as a hair stylist for M, G, M, On our way back from the West let's stop and watch a ball game, Sue De Goosh is pitching for the Bloomer girls, Before we turn our Futureglobe back to the present, let's wander back to our beloved home town of Orford, We enter the local hotspot, Bedell's Barn, There we find Russ Smith falias Smitty , still shooting baskets, When we passed Janet Willis' house we noticed she was sitting in her living room waiting for the blue jeep, Ted Landgraf is up at his house trying to get it started, Doug Lackey is across the river at the Tydol, still playing cards with the boys--can't get it our of his blood, Gerald Pease just went by with a load of grain for his beloved cows, Now let's make a visit to the old school, Look who's there: John Brown, practicing on the wiring of the school, he says he's an electrician, With a tear in every eye we have to wave good-bye to our Alma Mater, and Frank Lynes still sitting in Room 4, NAME William Baker Roland Bixby Joanne Brady Wesley Currier Barbara Cutting Jane De Goosh Shirley Dodge Richard Greer Frank Pushee lvan Smith Jean Smith Donald Titus Calvin W ate rbury 1949 Alumni Notes OCCUPATION RESIDENCE MARITAL STATUS Farming Orford, N, H, Single U, N, H, Durham, N, H, Single Housekeeping Ly-me, N, H, Married Laundryman Bradford, Vt, Single Housekeeping Montpelier, Vt, Married Bank Clerk Lyme, N, H, Single U, N, H, Durham, N, H, Single Store Clerk Orford, N, H, Single Farmer Lyme, N, H, Single U, S, A, A, F, Texas Single Housekeeping Kansas City Married Wilder Dam Warren, N. H, Single Farm Manager Lyme, N, H, Single 14

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