Ridgefarm High School - Bulldog Totem Yearbook (Ridge Farm, IL)

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WILLIAM STEWART BUSBY Annual Staff 4 T rack | Football i Manager Basketball 2 3 4 Junior Play J Vice-President Sophomore Class 2 Dramatics Club 2 3 4 BARBARA JANE BANTA Student Council Secretary F.H.A. F.H.A. Secretary It Treasurer Mixed Chorus Girls' Chorus Annual Staff News Staff Assistant Director Junior Play Senior Play Dramatics Club D.A.R. Representative ALFRED L. ELLIS Football Basketball Track Sophomore Flay Junior Play Senior Play Dramatics Club F.F.A. F.F.A. Treasurer Freshman Vice-President Sophomore Class President Annual Staff Co-Captain Football Student Council Boys' State 12 3 4 12 3 4 1 2 3 4 2 3 4 3 4 12 3 4 3 1 2 4 4 1 2 3 15

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RAY CALLAHAN LYNN E. McMAHAN Basketball 12 3 4 Football 3 4 T rack 12 3 4 Sophomore Play. Junior Play Senior Ploy, F.F.A. 3 4 F.F.A. Secretary 4 Class President 3 Annual Staff Editor Student Council 3 4 Black Mask 3 Boys State 3 Library Staff 1 4 Mixed and Boys Chorus 1 DONALD W. WHEELER Basketball 1 2 Football 4 T rack 12 3 4 F.F.A. 12 3 4 News and Annual Staff Junior and Senior Play Dramatics Club 4 Band 1 2 Mixed Chorut Girls Chorus News Staff Annual Staff Sophomore Play Dramatics Club HENRIETTA L. HOLADAY Girls Chorus 2 3 Mixed Chorus 2 F.H.A. 1 2 3 News Staff 4 Annual Staff 4 Junior Play 3 Senior Play 4 Sophomore Play 2 S 14

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The Class Prophecy While I was rummaging in the attic today, I found an old class picture, the Ridge Farm High School Class of ‘50. That picture was taken ten years ago. There has been a great change in the members of the class since then. At the right of the picture stands Bill Sams. Bill is now a crooner over television. Oh! for the good old days when crooners were heard but not seen. Bill has been wearing a mustache, one like the handlebars of a bicycle. Next to him stands Ronald Rowe. Ronald had been out of school about five years when he went to Kentucky and bought a farm, about seven hundred and sixty-three acres. The last time I saw Ronald he was sitting on a stump with pencil and paper trying to figure out, by using algebra, why three sassafrass bushes always came up in place of the one he had chopped down. Pat Downs next in line decided to be an actress. Her latest play, “Midnight in Ridge Farm”, has proved to be a success. She is playing opposite Guy Madison. The last open place along the road south of Ridge Farm has been filled up by a billboard with Pat's picture advertising a new freckle cream. Lynn McMahan has become reporter for the Ridge Farm Republican. She writes the advice to the lovelorn. Her column has become very popular, especially with the high school girls. Barbara Barnett attended a fashion school in Chicago for three years. Then she went to New York to study fashions. Finally she returned to Humrick to have her own style shop. It covers the whole block that used to be the business section in the city. Donald Wheeler stands next. Six years ago Donald became a reporter on a New York newspaper. Now he owns the newspaper. I received a copy of one of Ridge Farm’s newspapers the other day. The headline was “Local Boy Makes Good in the Big City”. The article told how Donald started his career with the lowly job of seeing that all the t’s were crossed in the morning edition and how he had worked his way up until he owned the paper. Down near the end of the line stands Alfred Ellis. Alfred is now running a health resort at the North Pole. He has quite a large establishment. The featured amusement at this resort is watching the Eskimos play tennis with frozen soap bubbles. The health resort is kept warm by that ingenious device, the radiocrarry, invented by Mr. Siegworth and his physics class in 1950. Mr. Siegworth was the science teacher at that time. And who is that studious looking gentleman at the right of the picture ? That is Gene Spesard, now a general in the army. General Spesard has the most and best drilled unit in the army. He now walks with a very slight limp. During the football game with Danville in 1956 he became so excited that he accidently stepped in the water bucket and broke his leg. 16