Ranchester High School - Rustler Yearbook (Ranchester, WY)

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SENIOR WILL We, the Senior Class of Ranchester High school, City of Ranchester, County of Sheridan, State of Wyoming, being of sane mind and sound memory after twelve years of hard . study, do hereby publish and declare this to be our will and testament. ARTICLE I To the Ranchester High School we give the honor of having such a happy, ambitious, digni- fied, good-looking and jolly Senior Class as ours. ARTICLE II To the Faculty we leave the memory of our brilliant class. ARTICLE III To the Juniors we bequeath the library for their future “hang out” (but they seem to have already taken to it pretty well). ARTICLE IV To the Sophomores we bequeath our typing ability. ARTICLE V To the Freshmen we bequeath pep and school spirit so that they may be able to promote school activities as successfully as we have for the past four years. ARTICLE VI Individual bequeaths: I, Evan Dierks, bequeath my watch to the next typing teacher. I, Lois Paustian, bequeath my unique giggle and grin to Art. I, Babe Schilling, bequeath my beautiful blonde hair to Molly. I, Gladys Masters, bequeath my original and classy sneeze to Wilbur. I, Charlotte Johnston, bequeath my music to Elmo. SENIOR CLASS OF ’38 Lois Paustian, Gladys Masters.

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SENIOR PROPHECY In June. 1948. while traveling over Europe, we two chanced upon a town that resembled the old town of Ran- chester. We had !eft Ranchester ten years before, after graduating from high school there. We decided to land In this town and look it over. While walking down the street (by the way. there was only one street) we saw a sign that read thus: “Prince Allah Bendo. the Great Crystal Gazer.” Of course this gave us the idea to go in and consult this great man to see just what our old classmates of '38 were doing. After the Prince had us seated before him, he began to gaze intently into his crystal and alcng with m?.ny ges- tures and exclamations this is what he told us: Evan Dierks, he said, was about to take a seat of honor in a large white house. Thinking it was no less than a statesman. Gladys remarked that she knew Evan’s gift cf gab would get him places. When Gladys interrupted the Prince became very excited and said that the noise had caused the crystal to cloud up. and we would have to give him five more dollars before he could continue. So after adjusting things with the Prince, he began. “No. it’s not a white house, it’s—a red building, a very small building under a water tank—I believe it's—why. yes, it's in your old home town of Ranchester.” Evan had become mayor cf Ranchester. It was hard to believe, but he always did iike the home town and said that some day he wanted to settle down there. Continuing, the Prince said Elenora Schilling was in Hollywood. Babe an actress? Lois said she always knew Babe’s blonde hair would get her places. The Prince went on to say that she was married and settled down. After igning her movie contract she decided she didn’t want to be an actress (Babe always did have a mind of her own) and being swamped with proposals of marriage, had at last settled down after being married three times. Next the Prince said. “Charlotte Johnston is in a town, it eems to be quite a large town—No. it’s a very small town.” The picture was again fading: he rubbed the crystal with his coat, ah, it was getting clearer again. Charlotte was sitting at a piano—there were many people around he . Thinking she was in seme great concert orchestra, Gladys remarked that Charlotte always was a good pianist. Gladys’ voice must have had a very bad effect on the crystal be- cause it again faded and the Prince had to have five more dollars. The Prince then resumed the story and said that he had been mistaken. Charlotte had been a music teacher in our old school for three years, had married the pro- fessor and now had children of her own to teach. With this we went from the Prince’s room with Joy in our hearts, knowing that the Class of ’38 hadn’t done so badly after all. —Lois Paustian. Gladys Masters. Better late than never” should be “Better never late.