Petersburg High School - Flood Tide Yearbook (Petersburg, AK)

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add P010 QC? Petersburg Press Dear Edltor Once aga1n the Class of '52 1S together th1s t1me at the1r tenth annual 1'eun1on at PHS We have come from all paris of the world to attend th1s blg occas1on Some of us have achmeved our l1fe long amb1t1ons to become celebr1t1es JIM WHEELER a noted archeolog1st has Just returned from the jungles near the Equator after a search for the rare bones of the Hot Dog RONALD SARFF looklng very d1gn1f1ed 1n h1S new moustache 1S now 111 the used car parts bus1ness and r1des to work every day on a b1CYC1E they say bus1 ness 15 the best teacher Our f1ne d1nner has Just been 1nterrupted by a phone call for ROBERT LLOYD He 1S now beam1ng and Jub1lant because h1s parents have just glven h1m perm1ss1on to paddle down the Amazon on a log raft He always was the Tom Sawyer type an adventuresome lad LYNN O'HARE who 1S now a Skl 1nstructor 1n the Alps 15 so used to the snow that she came to the reun1on w1th a pa1r of sk1 boots on NORMAN OTNESS and IVAR HESTAD went to the floor w1th a crash the result of an heated argument as to wh1ch had caught the b1gge st m1n.nowdur1ng the last now a profess1onal referee and 1S good at fast dec1s1ons D1ck f1nally became t1red of h1s own arguments and made a career of l1sten1ng to other people JIM RHODES has g1ven a speech about h1S adventures 1n Spa1n as a matador and says he l1keS the country of WIDE women and song Just f1ne He always was one to peddle the bull and 1S do1ng very well for h1mself Two of our classmates are even go1ng to the Wh1te House ROY TORWICK and ELIAS REYES have just rece1ved the1r contract to bu1ld the new b1rd house on the Wh1te House lawn I always knew those two arch1tects would reach the top One of our classmates IS now on the screen IRENE WAS VICK IS lead1ng lady 1n the new travelogue and mov1ng p1cture Tour1ng the U S 1n a Bu1ck And now Just as the reumon 15 near1ng an end BEULAH REID VIRGINIA COOKE and LEE BENNETT come stornung 1nto the hall all out of breath It seems that BEULAH and LEE who are both av1d deer hunters became lost 1n the woods and found the1r way back to c1v111zat1on only when they heard the blare of VIRGINIA's automob1le horn on the road VIRGINIA's car had stopped and she was honlung for a1d All three ran back 1nto town so they would not Irnss the most exc1t1ng event of the year the reumon of the Class of '52 As for myself I have never left Petersburg and have just been accorded the honor of be1ng Mother of the Year By the way I have mne adorable ch1ldren MARY ANN MILLER fishing season. But they were quickly quieted by DICK STEDMAN, who is