Rock Creek High School - Aceonean Yearbook (Huntington, IN)

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0 J THE GYPSY SAYS--- The Class of 1960 decided to take a world trip in 1969 to reunite with the Class of 1959, Naturally our cruise was taken on the A, C. C, B, S, Starting on our Journey we met none other than Larry Surface We talked to him for a few minutes and he in ormed us that he had his own band for the Acenrk Larry told us that he and Nathan Brown were confirmed bachelors n the ship and Nathan was his best Drumer Boy Nathan remarked that he was also the minister on the ship To our surprise Roger Uptegraft better known as Upte was the professional Spoon player for the Acenik W ater learned that he was married to the former Karen Tootles Crosbie and they were doing GREAT but were neiving some trouble from their eight year old daughter Billy Jean Glenda Vaught and Betty White were living in society at the royal suite Since Glenda s husband left her and er five boys with the Ship s Artist and Conversattonalist Betty she had been drinking her sorrows away' Jackie Reber the brunette beauty was the outstanding Model on the ship Although Jackie wasn t married she a that she was still looking and had turned down many good chances After attending the fashion show we ran into Harvey Gus Brown Chatting with htm longer than we should ave we found out that he was married to the former Kate Woodward Gus said that he and his seven little RICK HAWS were the ship s neatest loafers Karen Brown and Diane Summers were partners at the Scientrst s Exhibition Hall They said they would never et marrled since they couldn t flnd a chemical formula for males As our Journey was coming to a close we discovered that we had not seen all the kids of 59 Well there was othrng to do but scratch the earth trl we found them Our first stop was Russia Khrushchev Mikoyan and Pam Peeper were debating on Dam s race horses' Pam was ositive that she had the best horses in the world We questtoned Pam to see rf she had turned communist but she 11d she would always be loyal to Markle Speeding down to Athens in our T Bird we were looking for the other frfty niners No rt couldn t be but am of his own, and so far he and Pat were doing tremendous with three boys y We had seen all the members of the class of 59 but seven On our way home we decided to search for the others, After arrtvmg rn Markle and resting for awhile we started looking We didn t have to look too far until we saw ern Pursrfull tn a tomato field He was too busy to talk to us but we chatted with his wife the former Caren Run- on She said they had a small farm and were very very happy Gary Bowman had his own farm close to Rock Creek I-le was still shy as ever but maybe not too shy He and arbara had been married for six years and had three sets of twins' Sputtering down the road a little ways we saw a huge white barn In big bold letters Dave Purslfull was in J ribed Dave didn t have much to say except that he wasn t hitched yet His beautiful hetfers were trying to eep up with Pam s horses with lots of success Melvin Crago is now Manager at Johnny s Melvin was complaimng as usual that his business partner George lower wouldn t work always took vacations and he had made off with the loot We knew our soft hearted George ouldn t do such a thing though' We decided to go take a swim at the Y To our surprise Janet McBr1de was there teaching the youngsters how cheers Janet was as sweet as she always was She told us that she and John were thrilled with their two W1ll s There was one more person on our list Jerry West was still remembered by us all although we didn t get to see im Hts mother said he was attending Purdue University and made very good grades She 1nformed us that Jerry was wgaged to Joyce Eckelbarger We know Joyce and Jerry will be a perfect match' The Class of 1960 decided they would be delighted to do this again sooner if possible HEYDE BROS Wmten by Wllma FOX Compliments of Gas For Less on behalf of the Iumor Class CLOUD S BARBER SHOP Huntington Indiana Warren Indiana Q , . ' . , . ' - . ' . . ' ' ' . e J ' ' ' . ' '. re- . . . . , . . . . . , . . . ' ' . , . . ' , . . . . , . ' id ' ' . I H I' U A I t I 0 D H ' l H A H ' 5 I I . ' I . ! ' A ' ' y . . . . . . , , . . . . , . ,, . - . . ,, I , , ' 1 was----------Herb Resler was the coach of a basketball team in Athens. He told us that he was working for a ball . ' . ' ' . . . 0 I . . . ' . , . I I I 0 r - - ' E . , v . . . , ' . . - 2 ' . ' . ' . . ' J 1 1 . 9 T . U ' I I - ' 1 1 A I 1 1 , . . v I I I ' . - ' I 3 , , U . 1 . . to :ad . . ' ' A ' '. . I . , . , . ' . , .

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT Gary Bowman w1l1 my ab1l1ty to get l1p goodles to Rrchard Anderson Gus Brown wtll to Ne1l Snyder my abtlrty to study chemlstry Wlfh my book closed Karen Brown wrll all my plans for losmg werght to Judy Stephans Don t worry Judy w1th these you can t help but GAIN werght Nathan Brown w1ll my ab1l1ty to talk 1n Mrs Wrllram s study hall wrthout berng caught to Karen Crosb1e Melvrn Crago wrll the abrlrty to get A s wrthout studyrng to Wllma Fox Janet McBr1de wrll my abrlrty to study shorthand to next year s class George Mower wrll to Ron Hrte the ab111ty to not get along w1th the gtrls Pam Peeper wrll to Glorra Ralston my typrng eraser You ll need rt 1f you take second year typrng Dave Pursrfull w1ll the chrome off my car to George Broom so he can customrze hrs car Vern Pursrfull w1ll the ab1l1ty to keep between the two dttches whrle drrvrng w1th one hand to Ro Ashby Jacqueltne Reber w1ll my hetght and frgure to Roberta Barley Herb Resler W111 to Dave Naab the abrlrty to play basketball all through next season wtthout an 1nJury Dtane Summers w1l1 my abrllty to skrp class wrthout berng called on the carpet to 11m Randol and Tom Smrth Larry Surface wrll my abrlrty to be rn and out of band 2 tlmes wrthout anythrng belng sard t B r bara Seabolt Roger Uptegraft, wrll to Tom Smrth the ab1l1ty to Sat and not garn werght Glenda Vaught w1ll all my excess werght to Josre Lrne Jerry West wrll my ab111ty to keep my mouth shut to Sharon Robbrns Betty Whrte wrll to next years offrce grrls my ab1l1ty to l1ck glue off stamps and envelopes w1th out gamrng an ounce We the semor gtrls wxll Mr Moore to the Junror g1r1s Take good care of htm We the senror boys wrll to the Jumor boys the ab1l1ty to take flyrng lessons under Mr Ftsher next year LOON CREEK VALLEY FARMS D E Whmery and Sons Rural Route Srx Huntrngton Indrana l'1 I, , u Q . U ' - ' ll ' ' . I, , ' ' . Q ' 9 . I I, , . . . . . . . , . . I, . , . . . , . . . , I' . ' . . , ,, ,, , . I, , . . . . , . . I, , . . . . , . , . I' . ' . ' . . . I' . ' . . . . . . . . , I. . , . . , . . I' 1 , . . . I, . , . . . . . , . In s . n , U I I l l . , O 3' I' . . . . . . . In 1 I , I I . 1. . ' ' ' ' . I' . ' . , . . ' .. . , -

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A.. i . it I gtg ,I r' . ,aY:..A- -V-, HALL O-F FAME N I 4 .', .uk I 4 L...... 'LW ,I I , ,,., , .,,,,, .aaa Roger Uptegraft - Decathlon Champ Neil Snyder - Sportsmanship Award 45.15 ,It Janet McBride Senror Merit Award SMITH FURNITURE CO. 312 North Jefferson Huntington, Indiana g Janet McBride --- --- Most Popular Roger Uptegraft ---------- Best Dressed Karen Brown---Most Likely to Succeed Karen Brown ------ Salutatorian Diane Summers---Valedictorian Compliments of A 8a W DRIVE IN Huntington, Indiana