Quincy High School - Pine Yearbook (Quincy, CA)

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SENIOR PROPHECIES What the crystal ball says about the Class of 1955 in the year 1965: Leo Jay Alexander has given the automobile business to the dogs and has just opened a used space ship lot on planet X. Vonnie Ames is the fat lady in the circus. Watch that figure, Vonnie. Sharon Sophie” Baker has been proclaimed champion lady wrestler of the Universe. Dee Barbea has finally caught that huge bear in the story. Help! Mary Barnes has been voted to have the prettiest legs in Hollywood. She can dance too. Vivian Bennett has a hot dog stand next to Jay's lot on planet X. Kenneth Bruning is stranded on an island with no one but Terry Moore. Don Carroll is now a beachcomber in the South Seas. Tim Cavanagh is in darkest Africa where he discovered a specie of tiger without stripes. Gene Clark now coaches the champion basketball team called the Mighty Midgets. Johnny Clark is the new heart throb of the air-waves. His flight to stardom began in 1954 when he thrilled his audiences with White Christmas. Betty Sapp Cornell and Mary Skene Taresh have joined to write a book on how to marry young and be happy for a lifetime. Diane Driver now plays french horn for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Bob Edwards, the Lonesome Polecat, has become the first star of color television with his passionate blue eyes. Mary Elliott is now one of the top Food Economists for the Betty Crocker Food Company. Bob Goans is proprietor of a new super service restaurant in Quincy, Pine Cone Deluxe. Sandra Gordon has just received the Pulitizer Prize for her fine collection of poetry called Lines from the Heart of S.J.G. Tom Gossett is living in Ayoob's Store window where he is chief mattress tester. Gaye Gray's long engagement paid off. She is now the happy and successful wife of C.P. Marvin Haney is a business man. He produces miniature speakers' stands for charm bracelets. Beverly Jackson has just made the first trip to the moon. Send us some green cheese, Bev. Carlita May Jeskey has just graduated from college, recieving her Old Maid's degree, and she is fighting a losing battle to stay single. Gary Kellard is a sponge tester in the Squeegie Sponge Factory. Alfred Lewis is supervising mountain climbing expeditions in the hills in his Model ” A. Martha Lewis has used her ready wit to become an outstanding disc jockey. Shirley Lowrey is head nurse at Plumas County Hospital; Elva Skemp is her assistant. Richard Main is P.G. E. Manager for the entire Feather River Wonderland. Jim Mault is a world renown expert in education in view of his understanding of the pranks of pupils. Bill Moore is a trapper in the North Woods, having mink-lined boots to keep his feet warm. LaRoy Morris has discovered that being retired is exceptionally pleasant. He made his fortune as a salesman. Jerry Myers invented a new method of skiing, using no poles. Aggie Poloni is married to J. P. Moneybags, millionaire. Loren Poore is campaigning for the office of U. S. Senator from California. Douglas Richards is the only outstanding sailor who gets seasick. Janet Richards has become president of Housewives Anonymous. Saundra Ryan is just a very happy housewife, raising 16 children, 25 dogs and 1 husband. John Sedwick is job-hunting after discovering that it helps to have your first million before starting on your second. Martha Seeber is comic editor for the Sacramento Bee. She knows exactly what Dick Tracy will do next. Sammy Stewart is still riding horses. He's on one of the few remaining ranches in the U. S. Claudette Tibbedeaux is planning to run for the Senate after being defeated as the first woman to run for President. Yvonne Tibbedeaux is now sales manager for Sears, Roebuck and Company. Jim Transue, a great humanitarian, has made millions of people happy with his generosity. He donates bottle caps from his empty coke bottles to charity. Bob Warner is the leader of a famous dance band, specializing in the Warner Wiggle. Clarence Wilson is the world’s leading hot-rodder, winning every race he is in. John Wininger has been an All-Pro selection in football for the past seven years.

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SENIOR CLASS Left to right: M. Seeber, G. Clark, V. Bennett, and M. Barnes. MARTHA SEEBER MARY BARNES- -VIVIAN BENNETT GENE CLARK----- OFFICERS -------------President ■------V ice President ---------- - - Secretary Council Representative CLASS HISTORY The mighty seniors, class of 55 , had a very good year. Twenty-four of the seniors started the Seventh grade at Quincy High School in 1949, and a class of forty-seven was graduated on June 2, 1954. Mary Barnes was crowned Homecoming Queen at the Homecoming game against Greenville, on October 30, 1954. The Senior Class float was a huge football shoe stepping on two Indians. Everyone had fun working on the float. The Senior boys on the Varsity football team were Alfred Lewis, John Clark, Bob Edwards, Jim Mault, Loren Poore, Jim Transue, Bob Warner, Clarence Wilson, Tom Gossett, and John Wininger. Many others went out for basketball, baseball, and track. The Senior Ball was held on December 11, 1954. It was well attended and greatly enjoyed by all. Life members in the California Scholarship Federation were Diane Driver and Tom Cavanagh. The Senior Class advisors were Mr. Crawford and Mr. Nichol.

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, Jay Alexander and Bob Warner, being so lovable and adorable (??), do hereby will our dynamic personalities and good looks to some of the homely juniors who really need them. I, Vonnie-linn Ames, being in good condition (for what, I don’t know), hereby will my ability to write an autobiography for English in installments and receive A’s for it to Linda Turner. I, Sharon Baker, will my English ability to Miss Mendosa and my bottle of peroxide to Linda Turner. We, Mary Barnes and Carlita Jeskey, being unbalanced in mind and body, will our legs to any chair in Quincy High School. I, Vivian Bennett, being of tired mind and dilapidated body, do hereby will to the school my first $10,000 to buy an elevator. I, Ken Bruning, without the ability to do so, will to next year’s seniors the fun I had in my senior year. I, Donald Ross Carroll, hereby will my good feelings toward McCarthy and his friends, Cohn and Schine, to Mr. Behm. I, Tim Cavanagh, being a senior of the usual poor mind and health one attains by the time he becomes a senior, hereby will Physics and Advanced Math in the same year to anyone energetic enough to do the homework I didn’t. I, Gene Clark, will my athletic ability to David Kennedy and Elgie Dean in order that they may put it to four years of good use. I, John Clark, do hereby will my good nature, pleasant personality, and outstanding intelligence to the members of the less fortunate Class of 1956. I, Diane Driver, being of unquestionably sound mind, do hereby will the qualities of fair play, good sportsmanship, and high intelligence, shown by the seniors, to the lowly juniors, who need them badly. I, Bob Edwards, being of dilapidated mind and a physical wreck, do hereby bequeath my kind heart and soft head to Mr. Simpson in the hope that some future senior gets by with more than I have. I, Mary Elliott, hereby will my ability in crafts to my sister, Barbara, hoping she will like Mr. Beck as I have, but hoping she will do the work I didn’t do. I, Bob Goans, hereby will my Advanced Composition book to any silly junior who wants it. I, Sandra Gordon, do hereby will my naturally curly hair to my sister, Sharon Bell, hoping it might help her in her high school whirl. We, Tom Gossett and John Wininger, being of sound mind(?) on this date, hereby will our ability to graduate and get our picture in everything in the annual and also our good looks to Jerry Howe, hoping he will be able to keep one girl during his senior year. I, Gaye Gray, will my ability to be bom, raised, and go to thirteen years of school (this includes kindergarten!) in Quincy to any student who is determined enough not to move in his senior year even though his parents do. We, Marvin Haney and Dee Barbea, do hereby will to Miss Mendosa her speaker’s stand in the hope that she won’t let next year’s seniors steal it like we did. I, Beverly Jackson, will my morning seat on the stairs to Marion O’Connell. I, Gary Kellard, will those first few days to all the new seniors next year.