Salisbury High School - Sapan Yearbook (Salisbury, MO)

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Now we have arrived at that long dreamed of day when we as Seniors would uphold the standards of the Purple and Gold. But again we wish we were Freshmen and could relive the excitments and thrills we have had in High School. Eleanor Powell has left us this year and we are sorry she couldn’t graduate here with us today. We hope wherever we go, Salisbury High School will leave a place for us in it’s Alumni and that the future students here will uphold the high standards we have tried to for the Purple and the Gold. Seniors 9n SJheir JJontujer O Oays By Carl Rasmussen 15

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We the graduating class of 1956-1957, are proud to be graduating from such a fine school, but a little sad at the thought of leaving. We wish to reveal to you the history of our class. On September 1944, Miss Fannie welcomed eighteen youngsters to kindergarten. They were: Gerald Elder, Larry Laske, Dick Steging, Robert Vaughan, Billy Wilson, Bobby Green, Donald Freeman, Sandra Wescott, Jo Ann Cruse, Shirley Saulters, Helen Ann Fawks, Ester Grace Phelps, Sylvia Sue Knowles, Diana Sue Summers, Barbra Ann Winans, Donna Beth Bills, Eleanor Powell, and Ruth Ann Lusby. In the intervening years many have arrived or left until those graduating with the original class are, Peggy Clayburg, Shirley Clayburg, Rita Day, Jerry Eagan, Kay Fine, Le Ann Gaubatz, Helen Gooch, Pat Hauser, Donna Kothe, Gerald Linneman, Irvin Maddox, Delbert McCollum, Donald Peart, Jean Peglow, Carl Rasmussen, Marjorie Renne, Bobby Scheiderer, Anita Speiser, Eula Swetnam, Marjorie Thompson, Anita Washam, Lawrence Winn, Mildred Radar, and James Hofmann. In Kindergarten we played games and had picture books to prepare us for reading. After that we went to the first grade and we thought we had really accomplished something. Here we gained Marjorie Thompson, Delbert McCollum, Donald Freese, Lloyd Means, Buddy Bise, and Lawrence Winn and Jackie Saulters. We lost Wanda Grahm and Helen Ann Fawks that year. In the Second grade we entered into the mysteries of reading and writing. Here we gained Helen Gooch, Virginia Rasmussen, and Anita Speiser. We were sorry to lose Gerald Elder, Billy Wilson, Sandra Wiscott, and Ruth Ann Lusby. Our teacher that year was Miss Rosalie. Then on to the Third grade with Mrs. Bahr as teacher. We studied about a new subject called arithmetic. Here we gained Carl Rasmussen and Bobby Scheiderer and Charles Baldridge. We lost Ester Grace Phelps. In the Fourth grade with Mrs. Smith, teacher we took up the Palmer Method of Writing. Boy! did we think we were something. We lost one pupil, Bubby Bise. In the fifth grade we gained Gerald Linneman and regretted the loss of Donald Freese. Mrs. Jackson was our teacher that year. In the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grades we entered our first departmental work under the supervision of Mrs. Farthing, Mrs. Kressig and Mrs. Vance. Due to the consolidation of the district schools we gained several new classmates. They are Peggy Clayburg, Shirley Clayburg, Rita Day, Jerry Eagan, Le Ann Gaubatz, Donna Kothe, Donald Peart, Jean Pegelow, Donovan Penrod, Eleanor Powell, Eula Swetnam, Anita Washam. During the three years we lost Gerald Linneman, Then came the big day, the day of graduation from grade school to high. We entered high school in the fall of 1953 with the terror of initiation hanging over our green Freshman heads. We all looked foreward to that day we would be Superior Seniors ana initiate the future Freshmen. Gerald Linneman, Pat Hauser and Marjorie Renne joined us as Freshmen. We lost Donovan Penrod and Kenneth Hammons that year. Next came the Sophomore year, with all the excitement of high school activities. We lost Jackie Saulters and Charles Baldridge that year and gained Mildred Radar and James Hofmann. Then the Junior year with the Junior-Senior Prom keeping us all busy. Virginia Rasmussen left us that year. 14

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Dear Mr. Bachtel: Class fPronl opnecij It is now just thirteen years since we walked down the aisle on that fate- ful spring evening, and since this is the anniversary of that night, I thought you would like to know just what we are doing and where we are. Since my job with NBC places me in an excellent position to observe the doings of others it occurred to me that you might find a report on the doings of the class of 1957 interesting. With that in mind here goes. When I was informed by the Special News Events Dept, of NBC that I was tc have a part in the spectacular Around the World With Fats Domino, and that w« would be covering the entire United States during the course of the tour, I decided to look up all my old friends and classmates and see how fate had deal with them. This being my last night in New York before beginning the tour I thought that I would see a little of the town that had become so familiar to ir« in the past. Glancing through the papers to see what was billed high on the entertainment list, I found that Donna Bills and her All Male Revue was playing at the 3 2 Club. The Chicago critics called it hottest thing to hit the town since the fire; so taking their advice I was soon standing on the street cornei trying to hail a cab. Anyone who steps out into the street during the 5:00 rush and tries to sto a cab is either just plain crazy or just doesn’t want to live any longer. But after about 10 minutes I cornered one in a traffic jam and hopped in. To my surprise the cabbie was an old classmate of mine from 57 Delbert McCollum. After spending a few minutes with Delbert I arrived at the 3 2 Club and was ushered in by a jolly looking doorman who could be none other than James Hofmanr. The show was all the critics said it was and after leaving the 3 2 I went back to my apartment for a much needed good nights sleep. Before turning in I pick- ed up the paper and noticed that Donna Kothe and Rita Day were going to show their new spring fashion creations in the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria under the supervision of the internationally known Fashion critic Miss LeAnn Gaubatz. Fate had certainly dealt kindly with these classmates of 57! I arrived a little late for Fats was already there and was interviewing Anita Speiser who is known all over the world as the archaeologist who had discovered the lost city of Be-Bop-A-Lula in Central Mongolia. We finished in Kansas City late that evening and had dinner in the swanky Steeple-Chase Room owned and operated by two old friends of mine; Kay Fine and Helen Gooch. We talked for a while and I asked Kay if Gerald minded her keeping her maiden name while she operated the night club. She told me that he didn’t mind at all and that he was doing quite well as the owner of Purina Feeds Inc. I also learned from Kay and Helen that Jerry Eagan was the owner of a huge cattle ranch in Colorado and that a great deal of Gerald’s feed was consumed by Jerry’s cattle. After going back to the hotel for the night I read in the paper that Elwood Winn and Carl Rasmussen were being decorated by the mayor of Kansas City for their heroic efforts in stopping the huge fire in the stockyards and that the fire department was giving them lifetime bonuses and promoting them both to junior fire chief. Turning to the society page I found that Sue Knowles was engaged to be married to the Earl of Choptham and that Irven Maddox was marrying the daughter of the owner of the Kansas City Power and Light Co. Pretty enlightening match I thought. The next morning we boarded the plane for Los Angeles and arrived 16