Tefft High School - Spot Lite Yearbook (Tefft, IN)

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CLASS WILL We the Class of 1959, being of strong bodies, weak minds and full of vigor and talent, do hereby declare this our last will and testament. I, Anita Jamieson, do hereby leave my ability to type 70 words a minute to my sister Irene, and my long hair to Harriet Osinski. I, Joanne Deardorff, will my quiet reserve manners to Alice Owens. I, Gladys Dobson, leave my ability to control my temper to Anna Faye Wireman. I, Barbara Jagoda, will my ability to start on the paper a week before and get it out on time to Nancy Ahlemeier. I, Patty Thomas, will my ability to be yell leader two years in a row to Gloria McCrum. I, Patty Elston, will my ability to keep slim and still eat to David Hensel. I, Frank Patrick, will my athletic ability to Leonard Chapman. I, Cora Bell Hittle, leave my ability to keep my hair short to Gloria Hanewich and Sharon Miller. I, Bufford Bailey, leave my dear old locker in the assembly (if it lasts another year) to Larry Hunter. I, John Katona, leave my ability to flirt with all the girls and not date them but, still have them crazy about me to Harvey Risner. I, Michael Prascak, leave my ability to teach the fifth and sixth grades to Raymond Risner. I, Everett Forner, leave my artistic ability to anyone who thinks that they need it. We, the senior class in a conceited state of mind WILL our charming personalities, our exceptionally good looks, our numerous talents, along with our ability to rule the roost to the juniors. We WILL to the freshmen our ability to get out of class at anytime for any purpose. We leave to the sophomore class of 1961 our ability to make money and our ability to spend it just as fast. To the entire school which we shall leave forevermore, we WILL peace and quiet, which we know they shall have without us.

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CLASS HISTORY Our class history began when eighteen of us started in the first grade together in 1947 with Mrs. Margaret Hershman as our teacher. In the first grade were Louise Kay Allen, Ronald Beiswanger, Donna Cawby, Joanne Deardorff, Kenton Eberhart, Robert Florence, Charles A. Howard, Barbara Jagoda, Anita Jamieson, Janice Krug, John Katona, Kenneth Morris, John McCullough, Sandra Sanders, Lowell Stalbaum, Earlene Wingard, Robert Calhoun, and Jacqueline McPherson. In the second grade Richard Contant, Larry Suit, Lois Sheffer, and David Womack joined us. During the year Lowell Stalbaum was promoted to the third grade. Lois Sheffer and Donna Cawby left us. Carol J. Salyer, Patsy Mulloy and Michael Bowler took their places. In the fourth grade we moved into a new room. Jack Bush, Robert Spradley, Eugene Raska, and Donna Cawby joined us, but we lost Robert Calhoun. In the fifth grade we did quite a bit of switching around. We lost Jack Bush, Richard Contant, Earlene Wingard, Patsy Mulloy, Robert Spradley, and Eugene Raska but we gained in their places Carol Michaels, Bernice Blankenbaker, and Alex Shepherd. Our class roll numbered eleven then with Mr. Wesley Meyer as our teacher. In the sixth grade Jack Bush and Earlene Wingard came back. Clara Caudill, Bufford Bailey, and Delmar Fitzgerald were the new ones. Everett Forner, James Wright, and Robert Spradley joined us in the seventh grade. Also Franklin Patrick joined us from Kentucky. In the eighth grade Patricia Thomas and Ray Wireman joined our forces. First year of High School, what a year! Clara Caudill left us but Barbara Allen, Gladys Dobson, Patricia Elston, and Cora Bell Hittle joined us. During the freshman year Barbara Allen left us. In our sophomore year Earlene Wingard and Larry Sul: left us and Julie Pefley and Mike Prascak took their places. In the eleventh grade Janice Krug and Julie Pefley were missing. Ronnie Beiswanger joined the Navy and Ray Wireman joined the Army. At the end of the first semester of our senior year Everett Forner joined the Navy. With this as our past history, the following will graduate in May, 1959: Bufford Bailey, John Katona, Gladys Dobson, Joanne Deardorff, Mike Prascak, Patricia Elston, Barbara Jagoda, Cora Bell Hittle, Frank Patrick, Patricia Thomas and Anita Jamieson.

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CLASS PROPHECY Shortly before dawn my plane landed in Tefft, Tefft, my dear old hometown, which I hadn't seen for almost twelve years. Yet as much as it had changed, I still recognized it as 1 got off the plane. So enthralled with my surroundings, I didn't hear the stewardess speaking to me. Excuse me, she said, turning around I found at my side, Patty Elston. Patty told me that she had been an airline hostess for four years with Tefft Transalantic Airlines. As we walked toward the airport lounge, Patty told me that Anita was working as a receptionist at the airport. Anita had changed a lot; but she still spoke so softly. During our conversation she invited Patty and I to her home for dinner that evening, so that we could meet her husband, who was the president of the airlines, and their two children. Bidding them farewell, I promised 1 would see them later; I left the airport and called a cab. It seemed odd that I should recognize the driver of the cab, but I did instantly, and the identification on the back of the front seat confirmed my recognition of Michael Prascak. As we drove, we passed a huge dairy, Mike told me that Bufford Bailey and Prank Patrick were the owners. Soon I was at my destination, the mansion where my dearest friend, Gladys Dobson lived. Gladys and her husband, who was a rich stockbroker, had four lovely children. It was so good to see them all again for it had been almost four years since they had been in New York at my home. Gladys was anxious to show me how Tefft had grown, so we went for a drive through the city. We stopped to see the new hotel that had just been built, and decided to go in the restaurant for a cup of coffee. The waitress came to take our order, and to my surprise it was Cora Bell Hittle. Cora told us that since her children were both in school, she worked short hours here a the hotel restaurant, her husband, Gladys told me later was a teller at the bank. Knowing time was growing shorter, Gladys and I started to leave, when who should appear in the restaurant but two most distinguished Navy captains. They glanced our way, smiled and approached us. Not until they were almost by us, did I recognize Everett Porner and John Katona. They both were stationed at the Navy Base here in Tefft, and lived on base with their families. Once more I was at Gladys' home, and just before I went to Anita's, I glanced at the Tefft Herald. The headlines read, City Police Chief and Wife Give Force Party, and there below the headlines was a picture of the Police Chief, and his wife, the former Patricia Thomas. Arriving at Anita's, I found she had invited the entire class and their families for dinner. Even Mr., I mean Professor Von Kannon, who was our sponsor when we graduated, was there. Professor Von Kannon was now head of the Commercial staff at Tefft University. Joanne and Glen Salyer arrived shortly after I, and they both looked wonderful. They lived about two miles from the hospital at Tefft, where GVn was the director of the hospital staff. I hated to leave my friends, but I knew I must get packed so that I could leave on the early plane back to New York. For I had been gone almost two weeks, while I attended a hair stylists convention in Chicago. As anxious as I was to see my husband, who was a lawyer, and my four children, I couldn't help but feel an ache inside of me as I left Tefft. Yet as my plane glided down the runway, I promised that I would return soon with my family. Looking down at the tiny spot called Tefft, the place I loved so dearly, I whispered softly, I'll be back soon, yes, Barbara will return.