Paradise High School - Panther Yearbook (Paradise, TX)

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 aviatress of the plane in which our two stars rode. That is one girl that is attractive any way you look at her whether it be in an aviatress suit or an evening gown. Myrell Harris is a very famous tap dancer, known to her public a9 Jane King. Her eyes seemed to beam with light as she told me she was acting on Broadway. Ellon Paye Kaker has made herself famous by being a great Volley Ball Coach, one that is in demand. She is the volley ball Instructor at the University of California. Oh, yes, that athletic girl I used to know has recently set the woman's record on the race track. People used to call her Lola Pearl Nall, but she is known today as That Lightning Bug”. Two 6f our girls who were Industrious can now be found in Del Rio. 0ne, Connie Ruth Ray, the song bird, can be heard over XRL every morn- ing before breakfast. The other, June Crouch, is the Journalist of The World Today. She mokes a daily speech over station ABC, commenting on the present day problems. Wilma Ruth is still married to Joe Hogue. They live In a large furnished home in Cleveland. She seems very happy with her husband and children. Ozelle Hartsell having been made chief Secret Service operator is doing fine work in dooming up th4t smuggling ring in New York. She is a dead ringor for Jane Arden of the funnies. I have just completed reading the latest book hit Sister to Gone With the Wind written by a most noted author, no other than Althea VJhlttenberg. She is today one of America's most noted women writers. Time continuos to march on. In twenty more years, it will be interesting for each of us to read of our progress again.

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY The Riradise Annual banquet of I960 was held at the new brick Baptist Ghurch and was an extreme- ly successful event. To my surprise the class mates of the 1939- 40 senior class were nearly all present, some had never really wondered away from the Shepherd’s fold of paradise. I was chosen to secure informa- tion as to the progress of our classmates. Glancing around, I beheld a beautiful woman, Marilyn Paschali, who had made her home in Paris, Prance. She is very much responsible for our styles of today. On the other side of her, was that famous vice-president, Ray Houston Phillips, you have beer.'reading so much about in the papers lately. He is a candidate for president for the next election. Travis Rav Porter is head of the oil company'that has developed Texas' greatest oil field around Paradise, Texas, he lives in New York City at tho present. Hoyt Kelley, who hr s spent most of his time correcting peoples mistakes is now in Germany, and is one of Hitler s favorites. He, was pro- sent at our banquet with that winning smile of his . Eilr. Bryant is the secretary of the P'irst Hat ions l Br.nk in Detroit. Lv n though there is a lot of work to be done, she still has time for her practical jo:ces and wise cracks. Marcella Paschali and Dillic Louise Stutt flew straight from Hollywood to bo present at our banquet. They aro two stars that have reached the heights in headlines. Their lust picture was We Live ut Once. Jean Davis, to my greatest surprise, vac the

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 LAST WII.L AND TESTAMENT OF THE SENIOR CLASS We, the Senior Class of 1940, of Paradise High School, County of Wise, State of Texas, know- ing the ups and downs of life, declare this to be our Last Will and Testamont in tho following way: First---To the Junior Class, we will our scats in the study hall and the problems of publishing the Panther Scratch and tho El Sato. Second--To the ball players of 1941, we will all our ability to play ball, hoping they will go further than we did. Third---To the Sophomores, we will the gift of trying to convince our dear teachers that they are in the wrong, hoping they will be more successful than we. Fourth—Juno Crouch wills to tho next typing students her love for typing 3peed tests. Fifth—-To the Freshmen, who are not well acquainted with high school, we will our ability to get our work up. Sixth---To our beloved sponsor and superinten- dent, wo leave our many books hoping ho will find some one ol3e who will make better use of them than we did. On the 3rd day of May A. D. 1940, we, the Seniors of Paradiso, 3igns this as our Last YiTill and Testament. id