Pittsfield High School - Saukee Yearbook (Pittsfield, IL)

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JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS PRESIDENT—DICK BILUNGS VICE PRESIDENT—GEORGE TOTSCH SECRETARY—CLINTON GOODIN TREASURER—DICK FRAZIER ADVISER—MISS MARY McGUIRE This year's junior class, which consists of 73 students, under the guidance of Miss McGuire is enjoying a pleasant year. At the beginning of the year we elected our class officers. They are: Dick Billings, President; Jr. Totsch, Vice-President; Clinton Goodin, Secretary; and Dick Frazier, Treasurer. Our representatives on the Student Council this year are Patsy Paxton Wayland Willard, and Sally Ferguson. In October we chose Carol Cook and Patsy Paxton as our attendants for the Homecoming dance. On November 16, we presented a three act comedy, Teen Time. This play netted $300. Frosty to the Rescue”, an original play was presented to the lower grades. This money will be added to the $300 and used to finance the Junior-Senior Prom. 26

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CLASS PROPHECY March 12, 1970 A. D. Dear Diary: Man, what a day! As you know, Diary, this is the day I set aside to check up on the outstanding class of all times which, of course, was the Pittsfield High School class of 1952. I took off promptly at daybreak this morning in my Dun-Hardt Space Ship which was manufactured by Wayne Dunham and Lamoine Reinhardt. My first stop was at Poga Poga Beach, California. This is the exclusive hangout of those ghostly, rich, millionaire, playboys, Kenneth Mixer, Ben Newman, and Rodney Sackett. The playboys hadn’t gotten in from last night yet so I moved on. My next stop was in Hollywood. A big crowd was in town for the premier of the new movie, A Place in the Moon,” which stars Harold Roberts and Bette Hickman as the luckless lovers and John Motley as the villain. Don Simmons was the producer of the movie and Carrie McCartney was the director of the production. I couldn’t get in the premier so I went to another movie, The Perils of Patricia,” starring Pat Gard. After the movie I left Hollywood and headed for Las Vegas. The first place of interest I visited there was Petty's Poker Parlor. Looking inside I saw Bill Walton trying to teach Roger McCulloch and D. D. (the proprietor) how to maintain a poker-face. On down the street I viewed Estill Gerard and Ronald Smith’s coin cleaning company. This is where all the big time gamblers such as Richard Ervin and Wayne Baughman come to have their silver dollars polished. Next door is the Last National Bank. The bank's president is Glenn Grab it and bury it Meyer. John Edward Smith is the official cuspidor cleaner in the bank. Near the outskirts of the city I saw the Retired Gamblers Home which is owned jointly by Jean Gosnell, Imogene Edwards, and Betty Jean Vannatta. Leaving Las Vegas, I headed for Chicago. In the middle of the Majove Desert, I saw the secluded laboratory of the mad scientists, Scott Smith and Jerry Crawford. Not far away I spotted Wayne H Clark, a prospector, and his pack mule plodding along in the sand. As I came into Chicago, I saw a hand laundry business operated by Leta Reel, Carol Ann Sutton, Ann Sowers, and Eula Dickerson. A neon sign on the building read — Personalized Underwear, Our Specialty. While walking by a news stand I noticed in a paper that Bob Caton, J. W. Knipmeyer, and Beaver Ferguson had bought the Chicago Stockyards and were converting them into a skating rink. I also read that Charles Mussy Musgrave is to wrestle Tom Gruesome Grimes at Chicago Stadium tonight. Joann Iron Mike Williams is to wrestle Frances Dynamite Daigh in a ladies preliminary bout. It was rather cold in Chicago so I traveled downstate to Pittsfield. Something new had been added since I was in Pittsfield last. Richard Dexter, Dale Dolbeare, and Bob Ogle have built an exclusive night club there. Bob Biddle is the bartender in the club and Farrel Jones is the headwaiter. Earline Torchy Thurmon is the featured singer. She is accompanied by Frank Fingers Worthington on the piano. Live entertainment is also put out by the chorus girls, who are Darlene Tootsie Totsch, Ardeth Cuddles Cox, Shirley Poopsy Plainer, and Mildred Bubbles Belford. After looking the club (and chorus girls) over, I ventured down to the new Pittsfield High School building. Junior Back teaches Physics there and Bob Foster is the new Ag. teacher. Leroy Robertson is still trying to graduate. I found out that Janice Vander Stoep and Carolyn Eagle (recent divorcees) have bought the New Pike Cafe and renamed it the Old Maid’s Roost . I also heard that Phil Mink bought the supermarket and converted it into a gin, garter, and girdle factory. Mary Fox and Donna Patterson are down in Mexico training to be bull fighters. Bob Wade, I was told, is down in the South Seas catching tropical fish for his Florence Fish Factory. I didn't get any information about Jack Bagby and Bill Brace except that they were seen heading South after hearing rumors that a tribe of wild, untamed, women had been discovered in South America. On hearing this, I downed thirteen Nervine Highballs and came home. Respectfully yours, BILL BLAKE P.S. My Space Ship ran out of fuel and I had to walk the last three miles home. 25

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JUNIORS JUNIOR CLASS—top row: C. Arnold, D. Billings, E. Buddemeyer, P. Capps, V. Cardiff, M. Carnes, J. Carroll, H. Carter, B. Caton. 2nd row: N. Chamberlain, M. Cook, C. Cook, G. Criss, C. Daniels, D. Doyle, B. Ducey, M. Duff, H. Fenton. 3rd row: S. Ferguson, R. Fish, T. Fritzpatrick, R. Frazier, A. Fuller, C. Goodin, G. Gratton, R. Graves, D. Gray. 4th row: R. Hall, R. Harpole, J. Hayden, D. Hayden, L. Hemphill, H. Hileman, D. Hillman, S. Howell, C. Jones. 5th row: B. Keller, M. Knipmeyer, E. Lacy, R. Litvan, J. Metternich, C. Mink, D. Moore, R. Motley, L. Myers. 6th row: D. Neese, G. Ottwell, P. Paxton, M. Predmore, D. Reel, R. Ruble, R. Sanderson, D. Saylor, S. Sigler. 7th row: P. Smith, M. Smith, L. Sparks, J. Swearingen, N. Thomas, L. Thrasher, L. Tibbs, G. Totsch, W. Willard. • th row: D. Williams, G. Williamson, L. Willis, L. Winters, B. Wright, G. Yelliot, M. Yokem. 27