Parker High School - La Reata Yearbook (Parker, AZ)

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 7 o4e Section, Row I — Echo Coffey, Henry Washington, Camie Witzleben, Barbara Wilbanks. Row 2 — Norma McCoy, Loretta Stephan, Lida Paddock, Camilo Leon. Row 3 — Dale Cowan, Virginia Burgoz, Earl Langendorf. Row 4 — Cecil Florence. I I

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Settlor 'ProfeAectf It is now in the year of 1949, and I have just visited an old Indian Village. On my tours of the village I come across the old witchdoctor. Whereupon I asked him if he could get in touch with his gods and ask them what my classmates of '49 are doing now. He said that he could and proceeded to tell me about them. Cecil, he said, is now up in Las Vegas running a gambling casino after the Weber Bread Company ran Holsum out of business and caused Cecil to have to give up his job as Holsum distributor around Parker and vicinity. I find that Camie Witzleben is now in Chicago practicing medicine. He has iust gotten out of medical school and has found a good job as chief surgeon of the Veteran's Hospital. Could you give me a hint where Virginia Burgoz is and what she is doing? He said, Virginia is still in Parker, the proprietor of the Malt Shop where she had worked while in school. Without asking him he asked me if I knew Pedro Leon. Of course I know him, what about him? Well, he's been trying to sell us Indians his idea of a prefabricated house in- stead of letting us keep using our teepees. He's a high pressure salesman working for G. F. and Company. Dale Cowan, he went on, is holding a soft government job up in northern California. By the way, you all guessed right; he and Betty Jo were married and have three sets of twins. He also says that Barbara Wilbanks is up in Vegas working in a department store. She hasn't given up the idea of getting Cecil by hook or crook. Henry Washington, he says, is doing fine up in Fresno, California with his (action service) service stations, scattered all over California. He is still single and going strong. The old witchdoctor tells me that Norma McCoy is working in Los Angeles as a bookkeeper for Sears and Roebuck. Loretta Stephan, our young bride, he continued, is living at Stephan's Dude Ranch, The Oasis of the Desert, after she finally persuaded Fred to reopen the Ranch. She now has two children in school. Nita Shull is now the head waitress in the City Drug Store in Parker. The witchdoctor also tells me she is to be married to Bob Rhodes. The old doctor finally told me Earl Langendorf has a ranch in Montana where he is living quite happily with his family. Lydia Paddock is now head nurse at the Indian Agency Hospital at Parker. George Lomayesva is playing basketball for Phillips 66 Oilers now and it seems that his athletic ability will bring him a nice income. He says we will find Echo Mae teaching Dramatics in the University of Arizona. We find Malcolm Swick, chief of the council of the Colorado River Indian Reservation here in Parker. The old witchdoctor congratulated me on having graduated with such a won- derful class. He feels that we all will be happy and comfortable for the rest of our lives. After the doctor told me what he has, I'll believe in whatever he says or any hunches he happens to have. 10

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 la t TVctl eutct eatocnectt ttte (2£o44 f Inasmuch as we feel fhe day gradually approaching when school will be out; and since we realize that on that day our life cycle will terminate, and from that day on we will be social outcasts; that no one will speak a kind word for us; give us a single molecule of water to slake our thirst; nor uplift his hand to protect us from the raging multitude, and lastly, since we are perhaps deserving of the fate: Therefore, we do execute the following document: We the 1949 class of Northern Yuma County Union High School, of the coun- ty of Yuma, the state of Arizona, do hereby make, publish and declare this our last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills, bequeaths, and devices of what- ever nature by us made. FIRST: We give and bequeath to the 1950 Class of Northern Yuma County Union High School, our profound sympathy. SECOND: We give and bequeath to the present Junior Class, all our hot air and one-tenth (I 10) the nerve of the present Senior Class. THIRD: We give and bequeath to the lower classmen, our ability to get out of work. FOURTH: Individual Bequeaths: We hereby bequeath: 1. To Jack Garner, a refrigerator to condense some of his hot air. 2. Bob Gelvin and Donald Foster, a history of old Euclid. 3. To Ray Stephan, the privilege of trying out for geometry teacher next year pro- vided he furnish the necessary nerve. 4. To Marjory Hoover, a flunk in some subject. 5. To Zack Price, the idiotic laugh of Cecil Florence. 6. To all our enemies, the privilege of saying all they like about us after we are out of school. 7. To Melvin Gardner and Ralph Reid, one carload of watermelons and two shot guns. 8. To Mary Nell's beaux, the privilege of coming to school parties on probation. 9. To Bobby Gelvin, two reserved seats at the Parker Theater; one for him and one for Maggie. 10. To two bad boys we know, one pound of arsenic to be divided equally and used internally. 11. To Mr. Hoeft, the long and flowing tresses of Lydia Paddock. 12. To Lyle Murphy, the sweet disposition of Henry Washington. 13. To Janet Wagner, Barbara Wilbanks' much thumbed volume on How to Win a Husband. 14. To Jack La Mar and Pat Talla, Earl Langendorf's thirty volumes on How to Be- come Famous. 15. To Ralph Reid, Pedro Leon's new edition of the High Cost of Loving. 16. To Audrey Thompson, Echo Mae's book on etiquette. 17. To Zack Price, George Lomayesva's ability to play basketball. 18. To Mr. Motes, the balance of our class treasury to be used in buying a pair of rubber-heeled shoes for detective work. We feel sure he will need them in dealing with the classes which are to be our successors. 19. To anybody who needs it, Camie Witzleben's gift of gab. 20. To Jack Price, Henry Washington's bluff. Apply early and avoid the rush. 21. To the football team of next year, the ability of George Lomayesva and Mal- 12