St Xavier High School - Xaverian Yearbook (Junction City, KS)

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We the Seniors, class of '46, school of St. Xavier's, residing in the great metropolis of Junction City, situated in the county A Geary, State of Kansas, beir.g of sound mind ana memory, do hereby ill anu oequeath to the forthe ming seniors of 49 — our gay man- ner ana tne necessary talents to see them through their future year. To osie Johnston -- Bob Bellinger ills this famous portrait of Tom Jefferson — namely one three cent stamp to aid her in her international love affair. Mil Sargent bequeaths nis long lox and a gallon of wave set to Jon Kramer vith the hope that he will care for it faithfully. As one fat ooy to another. Joe Collins -wills to Dick Wright hss experience in playing basket all. Bernice roller wills her long nair ana her job of paying bills to ...argie Collins. Gerald Blair leaves his knowledge of women to ob «ioritz along itn a single word of advice - •'beware J All of the extra typing goes to Mildred Gillen with the com- pliments of '..ilm Roller. John oliver s everlasting task of cleaning typewriters after school is left to .alter »eaubauer. Dick Sangster wills to Craig Lowery nis lovable set of dimples. Ao Janet mcCormick goes the last half of Xorma .alters apologet- ics speach as w 11 a tne scratcnes an oruises suffered from basket- ball. Paul Spittles wills to tforb Licntennan his spirit ana determin- ation nev r to give up. (Getting out of classes -- that is ) All of rienrietta Alexander’s 5 7 and tier spectacles go to Jo nn Sangster. A penny inscribes with tne word KIKb and a queer dialect are given to Patty Javin by Davied .iller. ob Lathrop's inex.uaustable sense of humor plus his ability to foul in basketball is left to Tom .olters. %ntoinette kc onald wills her photography work to Lary Mash toward• The seat situated dieectly in front of Sister’s desk will be waiting for marcella iCGuire. That bright red ha r of -a oara Costello s goes to Zeke Mein, (Can t you just see it. ) The harvesting of Jack ’..hale’s so. beans is joyfully presenter to Shirley laley. uf course. Jack gets tne {roceeds. Laziness was willoy Kran Sullivant to Jonna Jawson. Perhaps she can make good use of it. And last, but by no means least, hay Sullivant's studiousness is left to Peg O'.ialle. . (oh. Peg - ..hat’ll you do?) In witness the eof, we the seniors of 46 have set our hands and hereto this year of our Lord, one thousand nine .hundred and forty- eight (1946). Thus we nave signed, sealed, published, and declared this as and for our last will and testimony.

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Tne Xavierian la coming out in a few days and I am elected to put in a column telling waat our former seniors are doing. So I got busy right away and started. The first person I looked up aa Betty Corbett. She nad been qy next door neighbor but they moved away two month» ago, after Betty had graduated. Howev;r, Kiss Corbett was ir. town visiting so I decided to look her up. Betty seemed quite pleased with her work, She was a Power's )«bd l. «She lixed her Job much better than her old one.........working with the ?.•?• • Betty gave me Plea Blair's address and ran right down to see him. This I nad to see. Flea nad opened his own business. He ran a laundry. He couldn't talk very long for he had several more wasning to do for a Ur , hrlckson, whoever that was. Plea gave me Jack Tanle'a address and although it was a long trip o ashing ton, I took it. Although Jacx was always good in booxxee; ing, I never tnought he would get to be an accountant for the U.h. Hint. But there he was not Knowing where the next billion was coming from. Jack had e helper, fcilma Boiler, lima was not there at the moment, ihe had gone over to visit Ir. Bobert latr.rop, who ran a clinic for sic minds. I decided to stop and see them before I left Y.'ashington. I ran over to the hospital and found them. Tne name of the hospital was Lathrop’s Lunatics. I asxed Dr. iathrop to give me sea idea or. how his business was run and he replied; Well, you see I always had a soft spot in ..j heart for lunatics because I was 1 i e that in school. Y 'ilma said she lixed her Job but was quitt- ing in order to become Uthrop's right hand woman. I learned a few days age though that word- ing with Bob was too much; she is now a patient. Back to Junction I came and stopped in at irynn's for dinner. I was most surprised to nave Norma Jean wait on me. -he w-.s the waitress tr.ere. ahe and Bob were still going togetner. Bob was the ccok tacre but tne dinner was good just the same. I got Bernice Boiler's address from Norma and found her name to be lire. Lricx- sonnow. I took it Bernice had a family for tnat was undouotadly tne -irs. nrlcfcscn Flea was washing for. ffhen the Lricxson door was opened I thought Bernice had charged until I dis- covered it was Joe Collins I was looking at. Joe had turned baby sittir. He nad always lined babies anyway......especially the older ones, ierr.ice hadn't returned when I left so I left word for her that I was there. From there I left to look up Dick Gangster. Dice's job sur- prised me a lot. He was a warden at the State Prison. He was doing very well and all the in- mates seemed to lixe him. Dicx too me to see Robert Bellinger who was a scientist tnere. Bob at the moment was revising the electrio chair. Die had a date that nignt, that is if Bar- bara wasnt too tired after pitening all day for the Dodgers. -he was quitting this fall hov- ever in order to play half back for Notre Daxe. 1 decided to tnxe in a little entertainment that evening and I didn’t expect to see any of qy friends out in California sc I took in a nightclub that night. I was looking around for celebrities when I s» led «r.tion tte cLon ld. -he made a beautiful cn rus girl. Another surprise of the evenix.g was seeing Lava ..iller. Dave nad turned crooner. He did croon oeautifully too, especially w:.en ne sang Two Loves Have I. After the snow I decided to wait ana talx to Antoinette, -ne was ir. a nurr; for sne wanted to g'O waton tne wrestling matenes. -he invited me along and on tne way over I asxed ner wn.re Henrietta Alexander was now. -ne re orted tnat Henrietta was ir tne wre tliig .raten that eve- ning. Henrietta did a wonderful job on ner opponent that evening. I had no pi ice to stay tnat night so Henrietta and Antoinette invited me to stay at their apartment nouse with them, 'hen tney went in to asx tne proprietor if it w:.s alrignt I was cuite surprised to find tne -r).):i- etor to be Fran «iuliivant. Thinx of nim running a hoarding nouseJ Oh volll look at some of tne jobs tne boys iicve. I asxed Fran about Raymond and learned tnat ne owned tne night club where Dave and Antoinette Sana and danced. I hurried to catch me train bacx to Junction the next day but before leaving I'decided to get some thing to remember Hollywood by. I stepped in a pet shop and saw tnat tne name was Sarg9nta . It didn't mean much until I was in the shop and saw Bill -argent sitting behind tne counter placing with two wnite mice. I questioned him about his business and was glad to learn tn .t it was only his hobby. ais r al business was in a band, -ome thing lixe tne aast Ninth Tru..T-tersAfter purcaasir.g tne two white nice I hurried back down to catch zy train. It hadn't come ir. y=t so I watched a crowd of '.P.A. workers fixing the sidewaix. Two of them I recognized. They were Paul -pittiaa and John Oli- ver. They were doir the most vo rx.... nothing. 1 learned Paul Spittles was to be married in a few days and I gave botn my congratulations and sympathy. John looxsd quite harpy so I deci- ded ne was still single. Hy train came in and so I hurried to get or.. I had succeeded in 1 cox- ing up all the students. They were doing everything from baby sitting tc v.r stling. ’Yhnt a combination! .But I xnew tne class of '48 vere just tne ones tnat could do it.