Riverton High School - Electron Yearbook (Riverton, KS)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Through a modern device that enables us to look into the future by ear, rather than eye. we have collected these facts of our talented class of 1947. Brace your shoulders as you hear of our undesirable fates. Donald Allen just finished research on his next best seller, The Human Brain. Glenna Dell Barr is presently trying to crowd around Carmen Cavallaro. She passed Iturbi, but decided she liked the former's tempo better. Calvin Winfrey is now co-partner with Digger O-Dell, the friendly undertaker, in a huge undertaking business in Death Valley, California,-lots of business. Eugene Pulley, after hearing the song back in '47 about What Do They Do On a Rainy Night In Rio? decided to find out, and we hear he DID! Margarete Mann is now en route to Dallas in her new super-diesel engine-she is hauling crackers. Robert Watkins has suffered a nervous breakdown while finishing his Master's at Yale. Patsy Griggsby and James Coffman are dancing on Broadway. We hear the team will soon be Coffman 25 Coffman. Madge Roberts is living on a Stony Mountain in the cutest stony house with the nicest husband named Stony. Daniel Sears is head of the United States Federal Bureau of Bookkeeping and Accounting Statistician, Cesquirej, Washington, D. C. Earl Dean Lambert and Max McGuire are partners in a super-deluxe ranch in Wyoming. They specialize in pigs of the H'ammus Alabamus type. Wanda Kuns is scheduled for a lecture over station ICU..C.Me. The lecture will be on, Beasts-Including Men! Troy Coffman is attempting to teach the Capetown African Natives the painful art of roller skating. Bill Garber and his Swingaroos are playing at the Italian Casino in New York City. He has Tommy Dorsey, Harry James and Stan Kenton playing for him--Oh yes, Spike Jones. Gladys Marie Miller is designing clothes in Brooklyn, new fashion center, brief though they may be. Fred Dardenne is on the Boardwalk of Atlantic City, running the classiest little beach pool ever seen. Bud Garber finally ran Senator A. J. Cripe out of business in the Kansas State Senate. Inci- dentally, he is still trying to persuade Glenna Dell to marry him. Jane Marie Williams, now Professor Williams, is teaching speech at Notre Dame. It is purely coincidental UD , but their head coach's name is Ball. Robert Card, nationally known billiard champ will be number one judge to pick Miss America of 1960, and the little woman doesn't like it very well. Bunnie Hardiman's next fight is scheduled with Joe Louis. Bunnie is in very good condition and has Joe worried. Scottie May has a beauty salon in Riverton now and specializes in dying hair-by the way, she is now a dashing brunette! Alan Watson is a traveling salesman and he really gets around-selling helicopters! Wayne Messenger is having trouble with his small son, Rusty Jr., who will simply not behave in school. Maybe he got it from his mother?????? Helen Gibson is being tested by Warner Brothers for the star role in their forthcoming picture, The Class of '47, which is about us, of course! Donald Mishler is singing in the Metropolitan Opera in a quartet, with Fred Allen, Phil Harris and Jimmy Durante. Mish sings monotone, or rather baritone? Ray Anderson is research chemist for the Stunko, Stanko, and Stinko Synthetic Cheese Co. You know he always had a yen for chemistry? Lloyd Bowers, the new speed king of the Indianapolis Memorial Day Classic, set the pace at 130 miles per hour. Erma Myer, the only lady driver, was close at his heels. Mary Jo Wilson is following in the footsteps of Frances E. Willard and is on a tour, lecturing on prohibition! Robert Hite is a trapeze artist for Barnum and Bailey's new six-ring circus. Henry Watkins is chief engineer on the New Southern Belle, and can he roll it! James Southard is Naval Officer: next in rank to Admiral Nimitz! Ruby Jarvis is physical education teacher back at R.H.S. and also helps A'Coach on the line with the football squad! Howard Outt is America's new track star and will appear in the 1961 Olympics! Opal Sizemore and her husband, Harpo, are deep sea fishing in the Mississippi Ocean! Charles Crane and his wife, Irma Lea, will celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary-come Christmas. James Livingston, since his last divorce, which was his seventh, decided to enter Monkhood, next month to escape his natural fate????? Mary Hardy is preparing to go to Atlanta, Ga., to help pick Miss America of 1960. We wonder what she could be doing there????? Names of all characters UD whose names appear in this document are fictitious, and any re- semblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental!! !! !! Electron Page Twenty-one

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SENIOR CLASS WILL We, the senior class of Riverton High School, County of Cherokee, and State of Kansas, being of unsound mind and disintegrating memory after four strenuous years, do hereby make, publish and declare this as our last and best will and testament: hereby revoking all former wills, bequests, and devices of whatever nature by us already made. 1. I, Glenna Dell Barr, will the job of high school accompanist to Joseph Rea. 2. I, Helen Faye Gibson, will my ways with all the teachers to Steve Carnahan. 3. I, Russel Wayne Messenger, will with great pleasure my practically un- used seat in government to David Osborn. 4. I, Robert Dale Card leave all the dark corners in the halls to Harlan Mills l-l-and Joanne I I I I 5. I, Howard Outt, leave my eagerness to learn to Homer Jones. 6. I, Mary Josephine Wilson, will my fluttering eye-lashes and flirting ways with all the boys to Retha Bowman. 7. I, Patsy May Griggsby, will my ability to play volley ball to Joyce Watkins and the ability to run the court to my pal, Quills. 8. I, Charles Crane, haven't anything to will, I'm perfectly happy with everything I have. 9. I, Donald Verne Allen, will all my perfect physics papers to anyone who is dopey enough to take the stuff. 10. I, Earl Dean Lambert, leave my happy-go-lucky personality to Freda Bilke. 1 1. I, Ray Melvin Anderson, leave my fast fleeting feet to Luella Chevalier. 12. I, Fred Dardenne leave all my knowledge to each individual in the fresh- man class. 13. I, Margarete Mann, will my swell disposition to Chester Bilke. 14. I, Vera Madge Roberts, will my love for 'iStones to no one. 15. I, Robert Watkins, will my quiet ways to Clifford Hardy. 16. I, Alan Watson, will my keen sense of humor to Lawerence Whitehead. 17. I. Ruby Louise Jarvis, will my good jokes to Retha Bowman and Patricia Benton. 18. I, Wanda Kuns, will the Grandma parts in all of Miss Stairrett's future plays to Norma Driskel. 19. I, Max Eugene McGuire, am in too big a hurry to get out of school to make a will. 20. I, William Gene Garber, will my tenor voice to Jack Watson. 21. I, Scottie Ilene May, will my bottle of peroxide to Betty Frazier. 22. I, Opal Marie Sizemore, will all my extra dates to Louise Gibson. 23. I, Buddy Joseph Garber, will my baritone to Le Neva Mishler. 24. I, Bunnie Hardiman, will my place as one of R. H. S.'s best football players to Ray Williams. 25. I, James Earl Livingston, will all my female admirers, who no doubt will miss me greatly, Cin more ways than one!j to Bud Ball. 26. I, Donald Ray Mishler, leave my basketball suit to Otis Atkins. 27. I, Clinton Eugene Pulley, will my salesmanship in selling anything to anyone to Betty Williams. 28. I, Calvin Paul Winfrey, leave my long curley eye-lashes to anyone who will take time to curl them every other night. 29. I, James Cleo Coffman, will my height to Raymond Paul which he will no doubt need some day. 30. I, Mary Elizabeth Hardy, will Bob to any girl who thinks she is able to take him away from me. 31. I, Robert Ray Hite, leave my mental intellect to James Grimes. 32. I, Troy Alonzo Coffman, leave my sack of candy to the entire Neutral bus. 33. I, James Southard, leave part of our senior class's good looks to the junior class. 34. I, Lloyd Robert Bowers, refuse to leave Erma to anyone. 35. I, Jane Marie Williams, leave to Harlan Mills the job of looking after my interests at R. H. S. next year. 36. I, Daniel Sears, leave all my A's to anyone who can develop the art of apple polishing to my high standard. 37. I, Henry Watkins, will my love for the Army to Perry Saunders. 38. I, Gladys Marie Miller, leave my second hour study hall to Bill Kirk. Electron Page Twenty

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JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY Forty-live freshmen enrolled at Riverton High School, September 7, 1944. Their class officers were Jean Mast, President: Harlan Mills, Vice- President: and Bud Ball, Secretary and Treasurer. Miss Marguerite Hackney and Mr. Joel C. Livingston were the sponsors. Joanne Qualls and Bud Ball were Electron Princess and Prince. Our play, Brother Goose, was given May 4, 1945. Forty-five members again enrolled for nine months of the sophomore year. Sponsors were Miss Avondel G. Turney and Mr. Wyatt P. Laughlin. Harlan Mills was elected President: Bud Ball, Vice-President: and Virginia Bro, Secretary-Treasurer. The play, Too Many Relatives. was given No- vember 14, 1945. Forty-four students returned to Riverton to resume classes for the junior year. The class re-elected Miss Avondel G. Turney and Mr. Wyatt P. Laughlin as sponsors with N. J. Coyle as President: Walter Ballard, Vice-President: and Freda Bilke, Secretary-Treasurer. Among the plays given was the junior's, Don't Keep Him Waiting. Several members from this class were chosen for various honors: Bud Ball, Football Captain: Dora Lou Scott, Football Queen and Harlan Mills, Basketball Captain. Betty Frazier and John Connor were chosen as junior Electron princess and prince. Maxine Mooney was junior Sweetheart candidate and was first maid of honor. A large majority of the class participated in many other school activities. JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS President ............,.,.....,,,..,...........,.....,,,,,.,..,....,,,,,,. N. J. Coyle Vice-President .,,.,, ....,r W alter Ballard Secretary-Treasurer .....,..,. Freda Bilke Cheer Leader .,.,. .........,,,.... A lice Anderson Cheer Leader ...i, ,.,,,,................,. D orothy Pigg Sponsor .,.,.,,... ....... M iss Avondel G. Turney Sponsor ....... ........ Q Mr. Wyatt P. Laughlin Color ,M ........,,..,r,,,..,r.....,,,,,,.r,..i.,.,.. Red and Gray Flower ,,,. ,....,,r,,,.,..,,.....,,......,,,,,,,,..r,,,.,,......,,. R ed Rose Motto rr,,., ...... ' 'Take a Step at a Time to Learn Success Eleclron Page Twenty-Iwo