Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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While practicing weight-lifting last night, Charles Hunter suddenly disappeared through his living room floor. Nila Huston is official bubble-blower for the Lawrence Welk show-we understand. Dr. Stephen Inge's new book Go Blow Your Nose has sold two million copies in addition to having raised Kleenex Company's stock twelve points. Head chef at Howard Johnson's is now Carolyn Johnson. Her specialty—chocolate-covered meatballs. And Jeanette Johnson has her own style designing studio in gay Paree'. Be listening—Joyce Johnson is roving reporter J. J. sending back on-the-spot news reports from Sputnik. Francis Mule Johnson is now one of the famous Borax team. Glacier National Park is fortunate to have Sam Jones as head guide. He sends his regrets that he cannot be present for the reunion. Phyllis Keltz—famous for her needle work, has just completed needle point chair seats for the White House dining room chairs. Oh yes, Max Kennedy, always interested in electronics, is working on an invention—greatest of our time—called Tel-E-Phone. Max says this invention will enable us to talk clearly from one end of town to the other. Circus performer Jerry Keran is absent from the festivities. While trying an especially tricky dive from 300 feet onto a wet bath mat, Jerry missed it and is now imbedded in twenty feet of dust. Martha Lamb—Well, our Martha is an atomic scientist for the United States at Yucca Flats, Nevada, and Susie Lance runs a deer farm for the Doeskin Company. Roberta Latshaw puts the cold cream in Camay. No wonder it's so wonderful. Carole Ann Lindsey invented a musical tire pump to use on Roy Roger's Nellybelle. It works, too! Lehre Lindsey recently gave her stratosphere concert at Weekee Watchee Springs—a howling success. Loretta Ludington hit the jack pot when she perfected a pillow of her blond hair for boys who like to dream of blonds. Larry McClarey—in television; I'm sure you have seen his hands as he drives the Mark VII into the steel at the end of the Dragnet show. Having won Europe's most coveted track award, a pair of gold-plated track shoes, Phil McConchie refused them on the grounds that they would slow him down too much. Ronald McCulloch, always an outdoor lad, plays Jim Venture on TV. Fuzzy McDaniel, upon leaving engineering school, went to work for his grandfather, owner of a construction company. Recently Fuzzy inherited the company, and junked the reason for his sudden inheritance, a road grader. It is a well-known fact that Karen McKimmy cultivates her own book worms. After years of hard work, Richard Martin is the owner of the book store in which he served his apprenticeship. Diana Martin was recently selected honorary Marine Sweetheart. The Marines showed good judgment. Richard Mattingly claims that he has perfected a car that has to be driven by two people. Shirley Meeks has made high ceilings and tall doors a conventional part of home. Andy Minnich tells us he will take his undefeated basketball team, the Rockets, on the road this year. The Rockets face a rugged three-game schedule which should be tougher than last year's none. 27

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Admiral Art The Golden-Haired Warrior Fields recently avoided bloodshed in the Far East by Indian wrestling Mao Tse-Tung for the island of Quemoy. American troops are now pulling out. Larry Finley, although twenty-eight years old, still plays the little boy who asks the questions on the Mr. Wizard TV show. Jerry Fitzgerald relates a sad matrimonial mix-up. It seems he sold his long hair to buy his wife a watch band, but meanwhile, she had sold her watch to buy Jerry a set of hair brushes. Larry Fletchy Fletcher's one-man band, which has just finished recording background music for Harlan Bynum's new release, provided music at the reunion. Ned Forcum says he may not be able to return to his work as a medical missionary in India. He treated sixteen natives who had a rare disease before he left, and has received word that all sixteen died. Linda Ford recently married Mr. Dodge. Wayne Romeo Forsythe has made the reunion another stop on his lecture tour in behalf of polygamy. Carolyn Frazier is head polisher for the Apple Polisher Co., Inc. Barbara Galloway of the Galloway Library has the Carnegie Library on the run. Ernest Garwood, known in the hair-styling world as Pierre Mon Pudgy, has become famous for his new look, The Mickey Mouse Curl. Beverly Gaudard recently won the Talking Marathon and set a record of three weeks, ten days of non-stop talking. Renowned pirf-ball expert, Jesse Gaudard, showed us his new style which guarantees at least twenty games. Jesse breaks the glass before playing. Kelton Goddard has a seasonal job which pays well. He checks corn in Edgar County to see if it is knee-high by the Fourth of July. Delores Good puts the holes in Do-nuts for the A P Company. We asked Max Goodwin about his career as cover boy for Mad Magazine. Max smiled, gazed into the distance, and finally mumbled, What, me worry? Famous musician, George Gore, was limping noticeably. Finally, it was learned that while marching in the Rose Bowl Parade sometime ago, George accidentally got his foot caught in his tuba. Rock 'n Roll fan, Betty Jo Griffin, has spent $5,-000,000,000 on rock 'n roll records since her high school days. Chicago Bear end Dudley Hale tells us he made a spectacular play in a game last season. Ram fullback Crazy Legs was stopped from scoring the winning touchdown when he tripped on Dudley's face guard. Kay Ann Hale is in the ditch digging business, and her pastime is being a vampire because of lack of food. The millionairess Sharon Hall tells us how she made her money on her copyrighted book Sharon Hall Jokes. Remember what a good driver Gene Harmon was? Gene works for Borax, driving mule teams through Death Valley. Delores Harrison has recently added an album of her own songs to her song collection. Janet Henson better known as Professor Henson is the governess of Prince Ranier's children; and Joyce Higgins is the telephone operator for the almost extinct Pony Express. Lindell Hollis, who always liked motorcycles and football, recently revealed the secret of his overpowering drive as a Bear fullback when he showed the press his motorcycle disguised as a pair of football shoes. Sandy Holloway became supervisor of cosmetic specialists for the Max Factor Company. Diana Horn is both teacher and nurse for her fifteen children. Valerie Huffman? Well, she just took off from branding her enormous herd of cattle to come to our class reunion. Welcome back to Paris, Valerie. Jazz singer Bonita Humrichouse is with the Dave Brubeck bands. 26

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Annette Mitchell is Torch singer on the Hayloft Frolic. John Murphy is still waiting for the sale of the first copy of the book he wrote while still in high school. How to Win Friends and Influence Principals. Brick mason Ron Murray's latest feat is the new down-town office building which is easily identified by the busy executives hurrying in and out the windows. Ron forgot to leave a door opening. Mike Nail is a big star since he went into partnership with Mike Hammer. Marie Newton is known for painting life-size pictures of the Grand Canyon. Russ Nicholson told the crowd that he has developed a new puncture proof tire for his bicycle, made of steel. Eddie Noel recently attempted to swim Lake Michigan. When halfway across, he decided it was too far, and swam back to the starting point. Bob North who used to be a racing enthusiast now has several rods. Most of them are about two inches in diameter and longer than Sam Dugger's chain. Scoutmaster Dennie Ogle, trusted by all, is not at the reunion. He and his entire Scout troop have been missing for three days in the Ozarks. Hence a shadow over the reunion. Karen Parks is o-owner of the P W Root beer stand. We are told that Silent John Jarrish was caught in quicksand recently and found he had forgotten how to yell. May he rest in peace. We do miss him. We find that Ellen Payne is pizza maker for the National Convention of Certified Professional Secretaries. A note from Wayne Peters—reporting from his hot dog stand on Mars, says that business is poor but may improve if we can send him some hot dogs. Thelma Pine puts the pine scent in bath salts. Charles Pinnell who works energetically at Wit-mer's Furniture Company has invented a bed that can be made into a couch. In high school, we heard little about Roy Pitts, and we still don't hear much from him—in fact, we don't know where he is. One for Ripley—Donna Propst invented a rock n 'roll outboard motor that plays rock 'n roll while it putters along. And Sandra Propst puts indentations in golf balls for a song which she sings her self. Sharon Propst has invented the stripe which is found in striped tooth paste; an ingenious gal! Pauline Renfrow showed us her collection of bee feathers. After years of wandering, Bob Rice finally found his place in the sun. Now, he spends most of his time reclining there. Mary Rickets has released her new record of Beware of Low-Leaping Car-hops. Remember how we used to tell Bill Riley that he looked like Abe Lincoln? Well, it seems to have gone to his head because Bill has just returned from Gettysburg where he made a speech on the hallowed ground. Happy-Go-Lucky Joe Roberts is still in Dennie Ogle's Scout troop. . .you know where they are. . . if you read Dennie Ogle's prophecy. Bob Rouse tells a sad story—all about how he fell in love with a pair of bright eyes, then realized too late that it was only the sunlight shining through a hole in her head. Phil Sanders arrived—complete with his tape recorder, but in bad condition—having been run over while trying to tape the unusual sounds made by Don Daugherty's car. The only reason for Lona Rae Sandilands being able to attend the reunion is that she is recuperating from a fractured eyebrow. 28