Salisbury High School - Sapan Yearbook (Salisbury, MO)

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Class History Lately we have been thinking back over the twelve years we've spent attending Salisbury Grade School and High School. There were happy years as well as discouraging ones and we feel that we owe a great deal of thanks to our parents and teachers who urged us onward and tolerated us through these long and often trying years. In 1946 eight eager children started to kindergarten under the guidance of Miss Fannie. They were Anna Mae Burgess, Patricia Bryan, James W. Cruse, Ruth Ann Gebhardt, Gerald Laker, Mickey McGraw, Barbara Means, and Norma Lou Spellman. Later the same year, Barbara Means moved to Salisbury. In the fall of 1947, twenty new faces were added and we thought we were real important. The new pupils were: Kenneth Billue, Marvin Case, Carol Coy, Betty Ann Cruse, Beverly Drew, Bonnie Engle, Gerald Goins, Lowell Greening, Ann Jarvis, Donald Johnson, Judy Loth, Amy Meyers, Betty Moore, Donna Nickerson, Roy Pegelow, Frances Rasmussen, Beulah Williams, Rita Winn, Charlotte Woolridge, and Ralph Woolridge. Again our teacher was Miss Fannie. We lost Beulah Williams. September, 1948, found us all back to school ready for the second grade. Our teacher was Miss Rosalie. We had gained Earline Boggs, Bobby Brubeck, and Larry Moore. Later during the year we lost Amy Meyer, Patricia Bryan, and Bobby Brubeck. Our third grade teacher was Mrs. Bahr and there was an enrollment of twenty-two. We were joined by Catherine Bloss, Velma Cooper, and Jim Vallee. In 1950, we were really growing up. Our teacher was Mrs. Effle Lou Smith and eight new pupils were added. They were: Velma Britt, Bobby Brubeck, Mary Ellen Friesz, Howard Gebhardt, Phyllis Harlow, Jim Kothe, Ronald Lusby, and Janice Nichols. During the term. Bob Brubeck and Howard Gebhardt moved away. Mr. Keven White was our fifth grade teacher in 1951. We were Joined by James Bagby, Peggy Blacksmith, Barbara Fletcher, Barbara Holbrook, Roberta Minks, Beulah Williams, and Larry Weiseman. This time our teacher quit and decided to Join with Uncle Sam and his boys. Mrs. L. B. Vaughn finished out the term. By the time we were in the sixth grade in 1952, we were really aetting biq heads. This was the first time we got to change classes when the bell rang. Our home room teacher was Mrs. Farthing Mrs. Kressig and Mrs. Vance were our other teachers. This year we were Joined by Gay Lee Bush, Meta Faye Dugan, Richard Fry, Bobby Fulkerson, Mary Kaye Hilt, and Victor McGee. In the seventh grade there were a lot of new faces—Temple Ammon, Peggy Blacksmith, Bobby Brubeck, Carolyn Buffington, Nina Cambell, Linda Clayburg, Wilford Eastin, Deam Hammons, Georgia Harmon, Kent Harmon, Eldon Pentod, Judith Powell, Tommy Scott, Robert Still, and Kathryn Wilkey. We lost Peggy Blacksmith, Catherine Bloss, Bob Brubeck, Nina Cambell, Bonnie Engle, Dean Hammons, Mary Kaye Hilt, Gerald Laker, Gay Lee Bush, and Robert Still. Nlneteen-fifty-five was the big year. Soon we would be starting to high school. Our eighth grade teacher was Mrs. Vance and there was an enrollment of forty in the class. We gained Bobby Brubeck, David Drew, Lavelle Henderson, Lyndon Phillips, Buddie Pippin, Linda Kaye Ratliff, and Bobby Widdicombe. Later that year Bobby Brubeck, Gerald Goins, and Bobby Widdicombe moved from Salisbury. A short while after graduation we learned that Temple Ammon had passed away as a result of a long illness. In the fall of 1955, we entered High School; had to go through the torture of initiation, and it seemed that our nickname, the Green Freshmen, was really suited to us. We found that during the summer, we had lost David Drew, Buddie Pippin, Tommy Scott, and Beulah Williams, but had gained—Peggy Blacksmith, Donna Branstuder, Doris Crawford, and Sonny McSparren. During the term, Doris Crawford left. By 1956 we were beginning to get acquainted with our school. This year Wilford Eastin was missing. New faces were—Clarence Arnold, Gilbert Hayes, Robert Kleinmeyer, Raymond Miller, John E. Page, and Eugene Welch. Judy Matthews Joined us later on. Nine teen-fifty-seven found us back to the old grind again, but we had lost four of our former classmates—Peggy Blacksmith, Anna Mae Burgess, Petie Cruse, and Judy Matthews. Additions were Carolyn Freese and Lucy Vaughn. Judy Matthews came and left during the term. We also lost Carol Coy. At last we have reached our highest goal of becoming Sophisticated Seniors. During the summer we lost Donna Woolridge. Donna Branstuder walked down the aisle to become Mrs. Eagan and through a correspondence course, plans to graduate with us. Three pupils that went to Kindergarten in Salisbury are graduating—Ruth Gebhardt, Mickey McGraw, and Norma Spellman and out of the first grade, seven are graduating. They are Kenneth Billue, Marvin Case, Betty Cruse, Donald Johnson, Judy Loth, Frances Rasmussen, and Rita Winn. We hope the students that follow us have as much fun, as well as education, as we have had and want them to keep the colors of the Purple and the Gold shining brightly, always.

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LYNDON PHILLIPS F.F.A. 1,2,3,4 RAYMOND MILLER Basketball .............2,3,4 Track.....................2.4 Sapan Staff ............... 4 F.F.A.......................1 MICKEY McGRAW Dramatics Club .........1,2,3 Band ...................2,3,4 Chorus .................2,3,4 Band Clinic ................3 All State Band .............3 All State Chorus ...........3 Pep Band ...............2,3,4 All State Contest ..........3 DONALD JOHNSON F.F.A.................4 17

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Class Will DONALD JOHNSON wills his hide-away for smoking on the schoolyard to Charles Carter. MARVIN CASE wills his Air Force Academy position to anyone with enough ambition and willingness to work and appreciate it. CAROLYN FREESE wills her friendship with Frances Rasmussen to Karen Wilkey and Marlene Quinn. ELDON PENROD refuses to will Judy Kleinmeyer to anyone. He wants to keep her. EUGENE WELCH refuses to will this year's Sapan editor to anyone. JERRY MILLER wills his ability to get along with Mr. Davis to David Baer. JIMMY VALLEE wills his mild manners and even temper to Mrs. Lee. ROBERT KLEINMEYER wills his good habits in fourth year English to Bill Manion. DONNA BRANSTUDER wills her ability to be cheerleader four years to anyone who will enjoy it as much as she did. LINDA RATLIFF refuses to will anything. She will need it all to start married life. JANICE NICHOLS wills her good posture and pleasant personality to Sandra Farthing. BETTY CRUSE wills her friendship with Mary Green to Phyllis Roy, provided they keep it thick. BARBARA HOLBROOK wills her 6th, 7th, and 8th period office hours to Donna Bartholomew. CAROLYN BUFFINGTON wills her fast typing ability to Vernon James and hopes that he makes good use of it. LUCY VAUGHN wills her fifth period gab sessions with Louise Billue and Judy Kleinmeyer to Beverly Penrod. GEORGIA HARMON wills her giggles to Bonnie Brooks. RUTH ANN GEBHARDT wills her never ending smile to Sharon Kyes and hopes she'll use it. LAVELLE HENDERSON wills the ability to be the first boy in the Senior Class to get engaged to Boyd Jordan. KENT HARMON wills his quiet ways and good looks to Churck Walser. DICKIE FRY wills his wonderful sense of humor to Carroll Gaubatz. JIMMIE GUILFORD wills his ability to get Mrs. Adams goat to Billy Helmich. SONNY McSPARREN wills his strong physique to Dean Kleasner if he promises not ever to abuse other people with it. JIMMY KOTHE wills his big brown eyes to Mr. Meyr. Jimmy says he has no advice to go with them. He is sure Mr. Meyr will make good use of them. JOHN PAGE refuses to will his clarinet to anyone. He enjoys playing it too much to part with it. NORMA SPELLMAN leaves a special car for riding her old crowd uptown every day at noon. RITA WINN wills 1 a pleasant disposition to her (so-called) brother, Jim Hutchinson. MARY FRIESZ refuses to will Leroy to anyone but to make up for it she has consented to will mre » little sisters io anyone with hardened nerves and plenty of ambition. KATHRYN WILKEY wills her hard work on the 1958-1959 yearbook to next year's unlucky sucker. JUDY LOTH wills her undecided love life to Sharon Houston. LINDA CLAYBURG wills a can of elbow grease to the Home Economics Department. FRANCES RASMUSSEN says the only thing important (or so it seems to her) that she has is her diamond and she's not about to will that to anyone. CLARENCE ARNOLD leaves his baseball ability to George (Crow) Smith. GILBERT HAYES wills his ability to pester study hall teachers to Jerry Gabbert. LARRY WEISEMAN wills his driving ability to Bobby Vasser. And, along with it, his advice to Bobby is to improve on it if he can or at least to be slippery enough not to get caught. LYNDON PHILLIPS wills his ability to gather in the girls from the Northern part of Salisbury's district to Mackie Terry. “The only catch to it, so Lyndon says, is to hook them before they get to Salisbury. The wolves here are pretty greedy. KENNETH BILLUE wills his driving ambition to study and work hard in Hygiene class (or most any class for that matter). MICKEY McGRAW wills his hours spent in the Music Room and his good grades in Band and Chorus to Neil Tebbenkamp. Nell get busyl You have a lot of work to do to compete with Mickey. ROBERTA MINKS wills her very quiet ways to Patty Dodd. That is if she promises to keep them quiet. JUDY POWELL wills her Job of secretary and treasurer of the student council to anyone who will have better luck balancing the books. RAYMOND MILLER wills his ability to handle the basketball to Mike White.