Sylacauga High School - Syhiscan Yearbook (Sylacauga, AL)

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Bill Thompson is in the coaching business. He trains fleas for Ringling Brothers. Larry Carter has contracted to build fences around graveyards. He heard that people were dying to get in. Houston Adair went into the fishing business, but now he tells us that business stinks. Chef Horace Large's restaurant has the best food in town. Could be because it's the only eating place for miles around. Harold Bentley is in the soap-making business. We hear that he is really cleaning up. Explorer Annie Lou Jones, while hunting in the iungles of Africa, found only a'large, hairy animal. lt turned out to be Grady Cobb. Patrick Newby heard that the next war would be fought in the air. Hero that he is, he joined the Navy. Herman Gilmore is playing football for Sewanee University. When he came out onto the field, the coach said, This is the end. Francine Mclilvey has become a success in music. She is a piano tuner for Forbes. Jill Gardner has married a Tennessee Hillbilly. They have a lovely home way back in the hills. Miller Widemire has taken over Pop's job of selling ice cream in front af the school. Ed Bannister is top man around this part of the country. He has become a forest ranger at Horn Mountain tower. Coy Horne made millions in the printing business until the FBI caught up with him. Charles Hohl and Neita Hornbeck have finally received their naturalization papers. 'lhey are now full-feldged rebels. , Billy Spivey has become a book-worm. He always did like Little Women. lAny similarity to a book is purely coincidental.l Jim Rozelle always did like to tinker with machinery, but he finally tinkered with one too many. I think they call it the electric chair. Tommy Tate is an engineer for the Central of Georgia. Just like Tommy, always letting off steam. Billy Wayne Oaks has gone ta Hollywood to study, No, not women, radio. He's married, you know. Allan Miles, one of those frigid boys from Canada, has finally become a red-hot rebel. Jep Greer also owns a newspaper. So what, they only cost a nickel. Jimmy Coleman is in a serious business. Serious and Roebuck. Betty Bolton has grown to be eight feet tall, and is now playing center for the Quarry All-Stars Basketball team. Ann Brooks has married a farmer and has settled down to a happy life in the metropolis of Old- field, Ala. Bettye Culp, after her startling grades in Democracy, has become the first woman president. Bobbie Darby is still trying to find out what happens to that trombone when she pulls it back in. June Duncan has settled down with a Texas cattleman. But cows aren't all they raise. Freda Fallman has married a banker. We don't know his name, but his initials are Bill Smith. Mary Aline Foshee is a concert pianist. You can hear her from WSM from Nashville every Satur- day night. K..

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S NIDR CLASS PR PHECY Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye! On this 26th day of May in the year of our Lord, l95O, we are about the undertake the hopeless task of prophesying the future of our gifted seniors. Any similarity be- tween this prophecy and the actual truth is purely intentional. By our special gifts and powers we now roll back the curtain of the present and find ourselves in the year l958. .lo Parker is now a great detective. We thought she would get ahead in the profession, since she ball-and-chained a man even before she finished high school. h The truth has leaked out that Jo Ann Ausborn is a great poker player. She always was stacked rig t. Betty Motes' beauty salon is being remodeled into a beautiful saloon. Martha Jean Tate's husband is running a shoe shop. He couldn't be a preacher but is still sav- ing lost soles. Marguerite Hunt is still trying to reduce. Dr. Bill Pohl put her on a diet of milk, crackers, and let- tuce, but Marguerite doesn't know whether to eat this before or after meals. Pretty Donna Walley is a secretary now. Her boss said that she couldn't add, but she could cer- tainly distract. June Wheeler has written a best seller. She calls it My Memories. Her many old flames really make this a hot book. Joy Adcock has married a fellow artist. They are as happy as a pair of drawers could be. Betty Gortney, while in school, robbed the cradle. Now she is rocking it. Paul Whitehurst still has some of the high school adventure in his blood. His wife and kids expect him back from the moon any day now. Carolyn Rush always did have a knack for being the treasurer of everything. She is now the treas- urer of the United Saxophone Players, Walter Rozelle has his own German band. They play every night in a famous New Orleans night club, called the Club Qi. Stormy iBarbara Ogletreel sings with them. We hear that she often throws things out into the audience. Edward Guy is going into the trucking business. A sign on one of his trucks reads, I stop for railroads, blonds, brunettes, and will back up fifty feet for a red head. Charles Evans is doing quite well now, for he followed the old saying: Always cast your lot with a woman who has enough money to build a house on it. Elizabeth McCaffery, the world-famous biologist, has come out with her latest discovery: A honey bee has a stinger only .O3l25 inches long. The rest is only purely imagination. Farmer William Morris has a new twist on growing cucumbers. He turns the seeds inside out so that they will grow dimples instead of warts. Donald Merkel has never married, for he found out that the only two who can live as cheaply as one are a flea and a dog. Billy Smith was the city's efficiency expert until he put unbreakable glass in the fire alarm boxes. Virgil-Heath has found something to do with his head beside running into walls. He is now studying figures - in business college, that is. A. G. Caudle finally became a successful automobile mechanic. Have your tires changed at Caudle's Service Station. Douglas Farr is a big game hunter. He specializes in shooting the bull. O

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Faye-Johnson is a foot specialist. She sells shoes at The Leader. Mabel Lee has become a famous artist. Her favorite color is Red. lf you see a place called Lizzy's you'll know what has happened to Mary Elizabeth Looney. She owns her own dress shoppe now. Annette LaPier has settled down to a happy married life. Everything Piers to be doing all right. Because of her persuasive and forceful ways, Beth Thomas now has a iob training lions in a circus. Robbie Jane Warren and Ann Rogers are traveling together in Mexico. They seem to be making many hombres amigosf' Robbie thinks that it is her use of the Spanish language that attracts them, but we know that it is Ann's sweet smile. Janice Van Gompel has become a bookkeeping teacher. Can't you iust see her now - still making carbon copies of all her work so that others can use them? From now when you go to argue, steer clear of Betty Marie Mask for she is now one of the greatest women lawyers in the United States and has won every case she has taken. Although quite wealthy now, Barbara Stewart enioys driving one of her many buses once in awhile, for that is how she got her start. In high school we all thought Dot White's future would be washing dishes, for she was to be married a month after school was out. We were wrong, it's washing diapers. Margaret Ann Smith is working with colored television. She gets someone to embarrass her and her beautiful blushing cheeks do the rest. Betty McCaa is a world-famous missionary. She saves those people who try to work Algebra prob- lems. Yoli Roy has changed nationality and has become a famous Irish song writer. Her latest hit is Ah, Donny Boy. We would have made this more personal by writing with a pencil but down here they won't let us have any sharp pointed articles. JERRY TAYLOR LAMAR WHITE 's Al'