Parkville High School - Luminary Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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CLASS PROPHECY As I sit here in the enchanting surroundings of Parkville High School I am about to deliver to you in word form, the prophecy for the graduating class of the school previously mentioned. I'm concentrating as to what these people will be doing twenty-five years hence. Yes, it's coming clearer into my mind all the time. There is Bill Hall, and what is that he's pushing? A hand truck, and on it is flour-- QAIRY FAIRY Flourl. Bill is thinking, wondering if he should really leave home and marry. Bill doesn't want to be hasty. Now I can see Dolores Bennett and on her finger is a beautiful platinum engagement ring, she has been engaged as a pipe cutter in the Wetherell Boiler Works. And who is this now? Ah! it's Dale Morrow. He is up the Congo Creek without a paddle, spitting BB'a at elephants. He surely looks contented with his work. Yea, and here is George Snider and in the garage business too. A man has just entered the garageg ignorant of the faultlness of his car which is due to the rag in his tail pipe. Ah! but George fixed him upg he sold him a brand new generator. And now entering my mind, a most exquisite fqg that of 'Janie' nook. sneu working in n night cms, 'Urns Hep Inn. She's singing that most popular hep-cat tune,--'Bounce Me Brother With the Bent End of a Busted Banana Beater.' OH! what a song--and what a night club! Whose is it,--who's could it be? 'The Hep Inn' belongs tc the one and only--'Dig Me DONALD lwith a solid beat, kick in their heads and stomp on their feet, hit 'em in the hack and slug 'em in the chin, come on you slick chicks and Hep On Inn! GO0D.' Aa I concentrate farther in-to the subject, I see Keneth Wilkins selling ladies ready to wear in the 'Fit Swell Ladies Shoppee.' Kenneth likes his work very well. Next, we have 'lilly' Chave another! Klaker settled down in the town of Weston with his wife and ten kids leading such a happy life. lhat's this? The lights dim, the curtain rises. I hear loud shakey screams! I know I'm in the 'Bally-who' Opera House starring-- Gertie Grafton. I know this because I hear the faint mumbling motors of ambulances parked out front. And this! The Barnum-Bailey Circus starring 'Twisto de antlo.' Jessie is doing right well for herself in this. Also coming into this picture is Kenneth Jones, all tied up in knots. lhy of courseg 1t'a all so obviousg he'a in love with Jessie. New coming to my mind, is Blanch and Ruth's Tavern in North Kansas City. The name has changed to Blanche and Dotty. !D0rcthy Aahbaugh just bought Ruth's half., How, coming into my mind is Bob Weir. He has on a black suit and a white collar. He's at church. He'a waving his arms. Can it be? Yes, 'FATHER lBIR.' Ah, yes, 1t'a lary Ann Riley and she's doing the Hula-Hula. Sha has just previously won a free trip to Hawaii where she saw a Hula dancer. It fascinated her so she decided to be one. Now she works in s Night Club where ahe's no second 'Hilo Hat1', but it keeps 'em buy- ing drinks. ' Ah-ha! I see a big poster. It reads 'Wrestling latches Tonight, Dynamo Doris vs. Cyclone Susie.' It ought to be a good fight, for-you know Doris holds the title of 'lisa Half-Nelson' of 1972. Now appearing is Eunice Lewin. She's running her father'a dairy. I see her now testing cream. Quite a testing machine. It runs a pint of cream through a sieve. If it doesn't run out twice as fast as it goes in, three gallons of water is automatically added. I believe this is a new machine but I'm not sure.

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GRADE SEVEN ROW 1: Janet Rogers, Philllp soydston, Billy Horner, Jim Van Putten, Ernest Eshnaur, Nancy Vestal. ROW 2: Barbara Mc Clung, Herbert Midwiuter, Faith Rohrbaugh, Thomas Brown, Blaine Morris, Patsy Shapard. JUNIOR H GH The first day of school to a seventh grader is really exciting! At last we have grown and become a part of that mystery High School. Many things are different. No longer do we stay in one room for all our classes. We travel around from room to room. The first week no one knot just where he or she was..We had about the same kind of subjects but all different teachers and different rooms. On the other hand the eight grade had it lucky. Th y already knew what it was all about. They went with ease from place to place. The first week we were introduced to our sponsor Miss lairs. We had class meetings and organized our class. Pete Carpenter was elected our first president. However, when he moved we elected Nigel Flanery as our President. The other class officers were lim Van Putten,V. Pres., Janet Rogers, Sec., Faith Rohrbaugh, Tres. we have had many good times. Our first party was a success. It was there that some of us made friends that we shall never for- get. The mural weimade in art just about d1dn't get finished, and the maps of the world we made for Social Science. We liked to beg Miss gard to sing but it seemed she thought notebooks were import- lhnt I. 50e GRADE EIGHT ROW 1: Nigel Flanery, Helen Patterson, Pete Carpenter, Clarisa Layman, Sally Lewis, Harrell Green, Rosetta Gates, ROI 2: Joanne Hon, Phillip Gresham, Roland Francis, Kay lagers, Larry Bnddle, Edward Sa borski, Marcia Dohrn.

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And herev, Hazel Martin, a teacher. A teacher of surgery. She teaches how to ready and cut up horses for the rendering pot in a lue facto . S There?Z Wayne Johnson. Yes, Wayne is climbing right up the ladder to success. It's a rope ladder but it makes no difference: the crowd is still cheering for when he reaches the top of this ladder, he's go- ing to jump off. Barnum and Bailey speak of him in saying, 'Hb makes the circus what it is.' ' I can see Bill Lawrence, he's all excited for he is about to re- ceive shipment of the '46 Dodge his Dad bought him for graduation. I can plainly see now the wheelbarrows are bringing it in. 'There's Bob White, he's talking to Kenneth Wilkins. Kenneth is telling him he can get a job for him but he'l1 have to start in the shoe department and work his way up. And here is Betty Oberdiek, sitting in the front room of her house and if I listen closely I can hear a pitter--patter up-stairs. It's raining out. The roof leaks and Betty's boy friend is an hour late. OH! And whathmn we got here? It's Ann Dohrn. She's giggling, and there's Virginia Hunt giggling too. AHl Ill They're tickling each other, must be funny people in some sort of an Institute. And now at last I come to myself. There's my office and on the door is a sign that says 'Keep Out' so best we stay out. ONE ACT PLAY The one act play chosen by our Play Director, Mrs. Fred Olsen, was the fast moving drama, 'SmoKescreen.' The leading character, 'Katy Luce,' las portrayed by Dorothy Ashbaugh. She was supported by Donald Shore as nsm0K6 Briggs' and George Snider as Detective 'Jack Burns.' It is the story of 'Katy Luce', a glrl from tn- other side of the tracks, who K1LLu her rlun oo, friend when she flnos Unat D6 has jilU0d her. About a week after her boy rriend's GBHUH she is visited by 'Jack Burns' of homicide who asks her help in a plan of his to pin the murder on 'Smoke Br1ggs,' s broken-down dope fiend. At first sne refuses out after a LIUULB threatenlng and coaxing uy 'Burns' she agrees to go through lata. Une pidlss Shortly after 'Burns' LGBVSS, nSmOK8 Briggs' Cwho in reality is a detective ulsguised as a dope fiendj appears on the scene. In the scene that follows, Katy in an effort to frame 'Smoke Briggs' exposes her oln guilt. At 2818 point 'Smoke' abandons his disguise BHC 'surns,' who use oeen ouuuauu llstenlng all the time, comes into the roam. Realizing sne is caught 'Katy' goes hysterical and IBIHLS Just as the curtain falls. This play was a crowd pleaser from start to finish and all who Ill it agreed that it was one of the most startling and surprising plays of the year. It was entered at both Dearborn, in county competition, and at the district festival in Maryville.