Terry High School - Prairian Yearbook (Terry, MT)

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We had a very successful project in the form of the Amateur Hour held De- cemberlO. Senior portraits,skip day,Baccalaureate class night and commencernentwere a few more highlights of the year for us. Then we started out in our own individual paths to lead our lives as' adults. SENIOR CLASS WILL The thriving, thrifty, energetic, honorable, able, sincere, beloved, brilliant, and marvelous class of 1954 being of sound mind andbody,inpresence of our high and mighty sponsor, do hereby declare this our last will and testament thus with deepest sincerity and gratitude the Seniors leavethe following beloved possessions and legal bearings. To the faculty, we give our thanks and appreciation for their patience and good humor and hope they never see a class like ours again. To Willie Moarst we leave all our paper on the floor. To the class of 1955 we leave l 1fZ rows of empty seats in the assembly and also our brains. To the class of 1956 we leave all the material we could never use including the teachers. To the class of 1957 we leave nothing but sorrow and hope that they can get through it. Individually, we leave our possessions as follows: Margaret Hess--leaves the teachers pulling their hair. Don Lee--leaves all his girl friends to anyone that can afford to stay out every night. Pete Anderson--leaves his Tarzan-like build to Bob Kreig. Gary Laurence--leaves his hot rod car to Kenny Hughes, who needs a different one. Ronald Cole--leaves his mathematical mind to Clem Morast. Viola Berreth--leaves her quiet ways to Mabel Comer. Dale Hess--leaves his football ability to Larry Steinmitz. Joan Hoagland--leaves her gum chewing ability to anyone who can get away with them. Leroy Haidle--leaves his 2.0-2.0 vision to Fritz Tennant: Meriam Schmidt--leaves her mischievous ways to anyone who can get away with them. Diane Lauer--leaves her booming voice to anyone with strong enough lungs. lone Anderson--leaves her height to Gene Peabody. Odelta Tusler--leaves school Qpeace at lastl. Dale Liles--He's too tight--he takes it all with him. Coral Brown--leaves her comic books to anyone who is intelligent enough to understand them. 9

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SENloR CLASS HISTORY On wobbly knees Z5 pale but intelligent freshmen registered into Terry High School the fall of '50, We suffered throughintroduction and the mighty seniors told us that duringinitiation we were to appear as half man and half woman. We did it too! Friday night we presented a program of singing, skits, magic tricks, and hollow egg throwing. The Freshman Mixer officially ended our term as com- pletely inferior little beings that crawled around THS. We soon received our beau- tiful green and white pennant and presented it to the Senate. It was approved and hidden by the seniors. We found it neatly concealedin a ream of paper in the pap- er cupboard. We were then admitted to the Senate as a live class. We had chosen John Kleis, science ahd shop teacher, as our class advisor. Leroy Haidle was elected president, lone Anderson served as vice-president. Caron Dieruf was elected to the office of secretary-treasurer ,but soon those duties were taken over by Diane Lauer. Ronald Cole and Doris Keller represented us at the Student Council meetings. We presented two one-actplays, Pearls and Mary Comes Home From Col- lege. We raised money during our freshman year by selling at basketball and football games. Sophomore Another term started and we were but 24. William Ward, science and shop instructor, was our chosen advisor. Dale Liles was our presidentg Odelta Tusler, vice-president, Allan Strobel was sec- retary-treasurer, Leroy Haidle and Diane Lauer,Student Council representatives. The big affair of the year for us was our barn dance with bales of hay, milk stools, pitch forks, etc. decorating the gym. Basketball and football games and candy sales were our only means ofincome that year. Junior Eighteen lusty scholars returned to start their third term at THS the fall of ' 52. It was a big year for us! We elected our class officers. Meriam Schmidt, president, Don Lee, vice-presidentg Odelta Tusler, secretary-treasurer, Leroy Haidle and Diane Lauer, Student Council representatives. C. A. Latterell, of the science and English department, advised us during our junior year. Class rings were ordered early as we were all anxious to start sporting them. Our Josten rings arrived October 27. Our Junior class play Orchids and Onions , was presented November Z0 and Zl . 0ur prom , Rainbow Paradise was gorgeous with the beautiful moonlite water- fall, rose colored orchestra cottage, rainbow and glittering pot of gold, plus the blue and white streamers. It was declared an overwhelming success! We earned money through basketballand football game sales. Senior Sixteen of the last years juniors returned to THS and registered for our final year in high school. , C, A, Latterell, science and English teacher, was unanimously chosen as ad- visor again this year. Don Lee presided over our class meetings,Viola Berreth was vice-president, Odelta Tusler served as secretary-treasurer and Dale Liles and Diane Lauer were Student Council representatives. 8 - we 's 1:21-lawn-.- ---- -

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CLASS PROPH ECY Now here it is tenyears later,where we find Mr. C. A. Latterell taking a trip to see where his '54 grads are and how well they are doing. He is on his way up from Ohio, he stopped in Indianapolis , Indiana in time to catch the Indianapolis 500 where he found Dale Liles as a contestant. He owns the biggest and lowest hot rod ever made, it sits three feet down in the ground and stretches the length of the Indianapolis Speedway. Well, Dale won and after the congratulations, Mr. Latterell started west again. He got as far as five miles north of Fallon where he found Dale Hess going crazy trying to raise potatoes without skins. He de- cided not to stay long here so he took off and proceeded to the ISIJ for abite to eat and got no farther than the door before Mrs. L. Wolf, formerly Joan Hoagland, stopped him. She wanted him to stay for her evening performance. She's an opera star and hula dancer. But due to the circumstances beyondhis control he wished her well with her performance andjourneyed on to Bluffport where he found Viola Berreth, now a greatnovelist justfinishing her latestbook Green Grass ofBluff- port . After correcting her punctuation he started on his way to Terry where he was sure to find many of the students he graduated in '54. After along days drive he needed some aspirin so he stopped in at the Terry Drug store where he found Diane Lauer managing the Liquor Department. Her motto is Eat, Drink,and be Merry , After chatting a while he found out that Odelta Tusler, bold, determined, lusty, firm, valiant, vigorous Odelta has finally reached her goal, she is top lab tech. at the Terry Clinic, and that Margaret Hess owns the one and only How to Catch a Man in Ten Easy Lessons shop, known in Prairie County. He said he would stop in and see them and then be on his way to Zero where he found Ione Anderson- -correction Mrs. Elmer Rollins learning the electrical trade , even though she does get shocking results. She told him he would find Gary Lawrence near Shirley operating a fleet of deep sea fishing boats on the Yellowstone River. Af- ter stopping to chew the fat with Gary, he got to Miles City where he discovered Mrs. Glen Hogue driving for Hell's Angels and knowing it was Meriam Schmidt, he knew she'd always come out on top. Congratulations were again in store as she stumbled over to him for a few words. She told him to visit Leroy Haidle's combination oldfolks home and insane asylum for all the teachers he drove batty at THS. He visited Leroy, but got out of there in a hurry--Justin case. Thenhe went on to Billings, where he ran into Coral Brown Colver,who invited him out to her ranch, where Dick was staying home teaching their little dudes to round up the cattle on their big dude ranch. Coral told him that his next stop would be Oregon where he would find Don Lee. A short time later he foundhis oldmaster of cere- monies had just bought out the New York Yankees with his first returns from the Brandentaler, Lee, Lee, Lee gl Lee Corporation. Don asked him to come out and see his lumber mill where he found Pete Anderson,with Marion keeping the home- fires burning while Pete works for a raise at Lee's Lusty, Logging Lumbermen Inc. He asked where he could find Ronnie Cole but was disappointedto find that he was stuck in Korea, but doing very well for himself as five star general, with Verna at his side. He then continued down the coast of California where he is employed by the University of Berkley doing the research work on why teachers get grey hair. 10 .Www , , ,vm ,L h ,, .,:.-:.:::-gi-.. U ,. .. ,. . ,...........,,,-.-...4..--.l.. M .... .1-.em ---