Steamboat Springs High School - Galleon / Sailors Log Yearbook (Steamboat Springs, CO)

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In Salt Lake City I ran into Vance Gates. From 1948 to 1965 he was a professional hobo. But I guess he grew tired of that job and after two years of college in ’66 and ’67 is now owner of the “Gates Rubber Co.” in Salt Lake. Edith Reynolds married a rich man and lives in Ogden. I saw Margaret Anderson, the famous movie star and short story writer in Hollywood, but since the authorities were hot on my trail and I wasn’t sure my Plymouth would start again if I ever stopped, I left town without speaking to her. Going south I passed by Ramona Jason’s farms. Poor Miss Ferguson. It is twelve years ago this fall that her husband died. Every year since then she raised 800 acres of onions by herself. I read in Margaret King’s newspaper, “Galloping Gossip,” that Admiral Terry Scott of the U. S. Navy and his brother, R. D. (Bob) Scott, who has just returned from South America with sixty alligators, are having a reunion in Los Angeles. I also read that Miss Marian Barnes, after having accumu- lated a fortune by gathering snails along the coast and selling them to French restaurants, is retiring. It was while I was eating lunch in a small cafe that a large, muscular woman came in and sat down beside me. Yep! That’s right. Miss Verna Hidy of the F. B. I, had spotted that gray 1932 Plymouth coupe outside, the same one that she used to dodge in Steamboat. Well, here it is only two days later and I’m back in cell 7757, Sing Sing. The senior party was one of the most outstanding parties of the year. Much hard work and original thinking made it so. The theme of the party was “Candle Light Club.” This theme was carried all through the party—decorations, etc. Individual tables adorned with candles and small lunch cloths surrounded the dance floor. The center piece was a huge bunch of pastel colored balloons, which were let down at midnight. The excellent music was furnished by Bob Scott’s records. The whole gym was decorated in red and white, with a lane leading to the dance floor. At the door each person drew a number for the door prize. Ruth Cruse was the lucky girl, and won an Eversharp pen. The program was super, also. Barbara Brunner sang two numbers, and Doris Birkett played a piano solo. Two floor shows consisted of the Andrews Sisters (alias Kenneth Kinsey, Dick Waggoner and Bob Lager) who sang “And Her Bathing Suit Never Got Wet;” and Don Kinney, Vance Gates, Terry Scott, Dick Waggoner, and Nonna Chritton enacted “In the Merry Month of May.” Refreshments of sandwiches and cokes were served during the evening by waiters chosen from the senior boys. DONALD E. KINNEY, No. 584831