Richard Montgomery High School - Rocket Yearbook (Rockville, MD)

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Patsy Dalton wills the expense of her long distance phone calls to the Dominion of Canada. Mescal Davis yills her ice skates to next winter. Neill Davis, being cupid, wills expert advice to Lou Campbell. Wendell Day wills his chicken farm to all the city slickers of R. M. H. S. Dot Duckworth wills her dimple to Barbara Payne. Martha Embrey wills her place on patrol to her able sub. Laura Fawley wills her height to Tom Bowman. Lorraine Federline wills her alto to one of the embarrassed tenors. Oscar Fraley wills his way with people to all those who love to argue. Patsy Fraley wills the bank back to R. M. H. S. Betty Gates wills the whole Commercial course to the doubtful 7th graders. Sue Giauque wills her muscles to Bradley Karn. Cindy Hamilton wills her soprano to all 7th grade boys whose voices are changing. Betty Heflin wills her long trip to school every day to Audrey Kitts. Eugene Heflin wills his saltshaker gavel back to the cafeteria. Helen Hutchinson wills her faithfulness to Delores Whitaker. Jimmy Louthan wills his knowledge of farming to Jack Prettyman. Dot Luhn wills the parking lot to all girls over sixteen. Harriette Matthews wills her baby-sitting Job to Douggie Harding. Clarence Mearson wills the bulldozer to Mrs. Reed’s future he-man. George Mellott wills his clarinet to Max Diehl. Larry Messick wills his Cadillac convertible to the Smithsonian. Evelyn Miles wills her fast pace to Widdy Cecil. Joe Ann Miles wills her secretarial assets to Jimmy King. Marie Mills wills her quiet presence in class to Carl Holland. Carolyn Mobley wills her long, tall build to Mary Fitzwater. Jack Monday wills his P. O. D. homework to Mr. Comly’s future problem Jimmy Moneymaker wills his name to the counterfeiters. Betty Mullican wills 4' 11” of her height to John Perry so he’ll be 5' tall. child, at least (continued to page 32)

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Ike Will IVe, the members of the Senior Class of 1949, thoroughly enjoying in unreliable mental status do hereby bequeath our following assets to the destitute underclassmen and do declare this to be our Last IVill and Testament: First: To Mr. Tarallo, our principal, we will our sincere admiration for his kind and capable administration. Second: To Mrs. Miles, our Adviser, and to Mr. Newhouse, we leave grateful thanks for their endless patience and fortitude. Third: To our able faculty, we leave heartiest appreciation for their labors in our behalf. Fourth: To the Junior Class, we will our trials and tribulations, our heartbreaking efforts to meet the Rocket and Tide deadlines. Judy Abbe wills Gilbert and Sullivan to Ernestine Brown. Annabelle Adams wills her impetuous ways to June Lynch. Gillian Bairsto wills her year of post-graduate work to Paul Violette. Harry Baker Wills his knowledge of romance to Barry Dickinson. Eddie Bissett wills his earning ability to Jimmy Nicholson. Eugene Bovey wills his motor bike to all those who have to walk to school. Buddy Briscoe wills his Willys to the junk heap because that’s where it will go anyway. Zebe Brodie wills his kid brother to the football team. Kenneth Brumitt wills his corn to the next year’s gardening class. Alma Burnley wills her television set to Mr. Newhouse’s classes for next year’s World Series games. Montine Calloway wills her snapshots to the Rocket. Jean Carlin wills her basketball position to the National Guard. Jane Alice Chinn wills those corny jokes to Pat O’Brien. Alice Clement wills her ability to get into unheard-of situations to Janice DeHaven. Wallace Comegys wills his deadlines to Bob Headley. Marion Copping wills her athletic ability to Elizabeth Keiser. William Crim wills the Filipino girls to the natives forever.

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ClaM prophecy After deep thought and much concentration on this weighty subject, we, the undersigned, mentally, socially, and physically exhausted students, hereby announce our prophetic results. Here we are in Rockville Union Station in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty nine, A.D. As we look around, we see Rockville has changed—for the better or for the worse—you shall see! Here comes Red Cap Oscar Fraley. He can probably give us the lotvdown on who’s who, what’s what, and how’s how. How’s business, Oscar?” “Fine, Peggy, fine.” “What’s happened to our classmates of ’49?” “That senior class has done amazing things! First of all, have you seen or heard of our new hot-rod run between the East and West coasts? The operators don’t seem to stay in one place long enough to be detected. However, I did see traces of Zebe Brodie, John Shattuck and George Ray. “Even though Joan Smith has been successful in her new Rocket Ship, she is now competing with Senor Larry Messick who has a South American slant on science. Lorraine Souders is to serve as stewardess for Joan. “Wendell Day and George Mellott are making millions in their field of photography. People are paying them not to print the pictures!” “Why here comes Pat Fraley with six children!” burst out Sue. “Why Patsy!” “Oh no! These aren’t mine. I’m just taking these Brownies to Scout Camp.” “By the way, Oscar, what happened to Annabelle Adams?” “Oh, she went to Egypt to learn to be a ‘mummy’!” “Betty' Vaughan has become famous through her television interviews of baseball players before each big league game. She hasn’t changed a great deal. We’ve been hearing this dug-out chatter for the last twelve years.” “What about our Student Government President, Gene Heflin?” “Oh ho! He grabbed Wallace Comegys and they’re now court stenographers in Arabia. I hear they stand at the door and pick up the likely prospects!” “Judy Abbe has gone to Japan to produce Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado. Speaking of Japan, Lorraine Pyles, Catherine Wright and Harriette Matthews have all gone to Judy’s neighboring country to cook for the starving Chinese. Kenneth Brumitt went to Africa to try to unite the Africans in a democratic way. He’s now become an African. Betty Gates, after becoming an Arthur Murray teacher, liked it so well that she has gone to Alaska to teach the folks up there how to jitterbug to keep warm. “I went to a baseball game not too long ago and saw Buddy Briscoe playing at third for the Yankees. Barbara Nichols was sitting in her box trying to control the Briscoe triplets.” “Say, Oscar, did Eddie Bissett want to work with agriculture ? Somebody told me he started in the carrier pigeon business.” “Yes, he crossed one of his carrier pigeons with a woodpecker so the bird could deliver the message and also knock on the door. He’s making millions too! “Alice Clement has been quite successful in secretarial work. Old age is creeping up for she is now on her last lap. “Cindy Hamilton and Jane Alice Chinn made their way over to Europe where they can practice their arts. There is a possibility of looking up Montine Calloway who is studying in Paris. Trouble is, we haven’t found out what. Speaking of art, Shfrley Zentz is using her artistic ability in making a new home. “Since Sibyl Parks has become librarian the Dewey decimal system has been done away with and the Truman decimal system is now used. “Pat Dalton has gone to Canada and is progressing with her French. She can now say, ‘Je vous aime, Je vous adore’—What more do you want! “Carolyn Mobley has gone to Australia to work for the foreign legion. In her spare time she is giving piano recitals. Gretchen Paffenbarger has recently made records of music so soothing that she uses them in her dentist office to enable the patients to forget the pain but feel the same. “Billy Redifer is one of the prominent Rockville lawyers of today. He is working on another case. And we thought he was going to be a prohibitionist. 30