Royerton High School - Panorama Yearbook (Royerton, IN)

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I. 1, I, it, in Mr. I, Mildred Heintzelman, will my ability to have a steady boy friend to Nancy Shreve. Ronnie Ratliff, will my ability not to get my Civics to Bobbie Miller. Carolyn Williams, will my shorthand book to any girl who can stay awake while reading Isenberg's quiet assembly. Jean Angel, will all the senior waste paper, that Mr. Stebbins is always complaining about, to the Senior Class of 1954. I, Jean Addington, will my seat in the assembly to any cold-blooded junior who can stand the radiator! I, Delma Wagner, being of sound body and questionable mind, do hereby will my civics book to any junior who will take as good care of it as I did by never reading it. I, I, Roger Benner, will my civic book to Lewis Heaton just for the asking of it. Judy Houk, will my trig book to any junior girl who likes to be the only girl in the class. Ralph Smith, will the right to go to the lakes on the 4-th of july to Gerald Robling, if I, he doesn't have to stay all night in Warsaw. I, the right I, James E. Dawson, being of blank mind, do hereby will to my sisters, Pat and Faye Dawson, to take care of John Stebbins in,anyway they see fit. Robert Tracy, will my tuba to anyone who will carry it. , I also will my bookkeeping book to anyone who is willing to put in long hours of pushing a pencil. I, Bill Wilhelm, will my old Dobbs to Dick Bunner. To future band members, I, Mary Jo Madill,will the right to turn left on right flank signal whenever they please to do so. I, Charlotte Snider, will to anyone who can stand goose pimples and wear cardigan sweaters all week, my seat in the assembly. ' I, Nell McCoskey, will my desire to be a good basketball player to Monica Wright and wish her luck, that she might get fouls when her guard slaps her. I, Sara Morgan, having nothing to will, will it to Sharon and Kay who couldn't use it anyway. I, Charles Robertson, will my size 28 football pants to any player who cannot find a pair when suits are handed out next fall. I also will to John Wolfe my seat in civics class. I, Joe Ann Lawson, will refuse to will any will to anyone because I have no will to will. I, Don Nelson, will to Bob Miller the right to take a three-day vacation providing he has per- mission. I, Donald Alexander, being of sound body and questionable mind, do hereby bequeath to any junior who wants it, my ability to be moved around in the assembly. I, Merilyn Rowland, will my scribbled shorthand notes to anyone who has plenty of time to figure them out. I, Lila Johnson Dalton, will to Estell Dalton, my ability to meet good-looking Cubans on the train while en route to New York. I, William Lawson, will to Dick Bunner the right to sleep in the assembly or classrooms at any time. I, Ralph Meyers, being of unsound mind, do hereby will all my artistic ability to anybody that can get along with Miss McCoskey. I, Harold Smith, being of weak body and questionable mind, do hereby will to any junior the key to the darkroom to sleep in.

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6la4470dl I, john Burt, will some of my tough luck in sports, that I had in the past, to anyone who wants it. I, Carol Robinson, being of feeble mind and weak body, will my absent-mindedness to any one who can get by with it as I have. I, Ted Fancher, will the old number SO to next year's guard. We, Janet Armstrong and Merilyn Chisman, do hereby will to any junior girl the right to get engaged in her senior year, if she can hook herself a man. I, Bernard Hottinger, will to a certain freshman girl who has the initials P. B., the right to go out with any senior boy she may choose. I, Barbara I-Iolbert, will Gilbert Gunckel the ability to get along with teachers as well as I did. I, jim Ray, being of sound mind and weak nose, will to Chick Robling the right to have his nose broken three times! I, Robert Anacker, will No. 41 football jersey to any sucker that can stand the consequences. I, James Fuson, will to anyone, football jersey No. 27, who can sit on the bench and yell as much as I did. I, Byron Humbarger, will my evil disposition to Mr. French. I, Lois Gilland, being of sound body and questionable mind do hereby will my seat in the assembly between two radiators, to anybody who can stand the draft. I, Virginia Addington, will to any junior who is willing to play my old beat-up symbols in the band. I, Gloria Eller, being of unsound mind, will my majorette job to any girl with nerves of iron. fYou'll need them!!j I, Janet McCord, hereby will my inability to understand people to anyone. We, Don Gray and George Thornburg, will our ability to play intramural basketball to Stebbins' Boys. I, Patricia Dixon, will to Sally Shelby the ability to sit in Civics class, never say a word and get straight B's. I, Charlie Richards, hereby do will my white gym shoes and professional name fCharlie Hud- sonj to anyone that can fill them. We, Betty Moore and Phyllis Long, will to Beverly Riggin and Beverly Wehlege, our con- fused brains and broken fingernails, accumulated in filing class. Now that sports are over, I, Don Rees, will my flat feet and head to match, to Morris Turner. I, Clarence Gibson, otherwise known as Gibby Gabby Gibson, do hereby will all senior rights to the juniors. I, Mary Buchanan, will to anyone my desk near the register in the senior row. I, Beverly Fogle, do hereby will to Pat Goode the right to flirt with any boy she pleases. I, janet Ertle, will to Kay Hurst the right ro get into trouble. fBoy trouble, that islj I, Peggy Dungan, hereby will my nice, warm seat by the register to anybody who wants it. I, Susie Jackson, will to Barbara Foltz the job of keeping peace with Mr. Stebbins, about all the paper that gets on the floor and radiators next to the senior row. I, Don Meyers, will my football jersey No. 38 to Forrest Durnal, if he doesn't get it dirty. We, Shirley Collings and Elaine Hesson, will to any coming senior the privilege to look at magazines and sleep in the assembly as long as they have their Civics done first.

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dw pwikw Ladies and gentlemen, this is your television special events editor bringing you the tenth annual Homecoming of Royerton High School over RHS-TV. This celebration was begun back in the school year 1952-53 and has grown to be one of the grandest spectacles of all times. Festivities last for one full week and wind up with the final football clash of the season and a formal ball in the newly-constructed combination auditorium and ballroom. The Senior Class of 1953 is being honored this year. Let's see what the members of the '53 class are doing now. Here's one of our best know classmates, Senator from Indiana, James Dawson. Peggy Dungan is Jim's private secretary. We have two former athletes turned politicians. Bill Wilhelm and Byron Humbarger run the city's garbage collection. Their campaign slogan was Bill and Byronis Best Garbage Collection. Sarah Morgan also has government connections. She owns Morgan's Minks for Government Gifts. Royerton School houses eleven 1953 graduates. Bob Anacker is head football coach of the undefeated Redbirds and Jim Ray is assistant coach. Both Bob and Jim played pro football until two years ago. Tonight they led the team to a 52-3 victory over Gary Froebel. Ronnie Ratliff is teaching math, Jean Addington is head of the English department, and Jean Angel is teaching the first grade. Shirley Collings is the physical education director. The television station, RHS-TV is manned by some '53 graduates. John Burt is newscaster and has a special program of The Pre- vention of Alcoholism. This program is directed by Herschel Brown. Yours truly is special events editor and -Mary jo Madill is fashion editor. Betty Moore has charge of all commercials, and make-up director is Mary Buchanan. Roger Benner and Don Myers were contractors for the beautiful new auditorium. Quite a number of our group are happily married. Don and Merilyn fChismanj Nelson have twin boys, Mike and Ike. Don owns '.'Donnies' Used Car Sales. Ted and Janet fArmstrongQ Fancher are living in Los Angeles where Ted owns the T 8t I Washing Machine Co. They have a five-year-old boy. Carolyn QWattersj Willliams is in Nome, Alaska. Dick is a school teacher. There are five little Williams. Art and Charlotte CRouschj Snider live in Texas. Art manages all the Sinclair filling stations and Charlotte is the Superintendent of the Houston Hospital. Lila Qjohnsonj Dalton is also in Texas. She and Fielden own a beef-cattle ranch. Barbara fGo0dej Holbert is here in Muncie living in one of the old Ball mansions. Shorty is president of the Indiana Welders Association. Lois Gilland married Fred P. Clink, the millionaire coal dealer, and is residing in Hawaii. Pat CDixonj Mathias was the third Dixon sister to marry the third Mathias brother. She is general manager of Walgreens Drug Stores.