Tishomingo High School - Indian Yearbook (Tishomingo, OK)

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CLASS PROPHECY I was sitting in my lush New York apartment sipping a cold limeade when the man on my wall to wall tele- vision set said, And now it's time for This is Your Life with Ralph Edders. This kind of startled me out of my gloom.-Ralph'Edders came on the screen with a big book in his hand and said, Folks, tonight we have a story that symbolizes America itself. Tonight our special guest is the first man to make a landing on the moon. It is none other than the pilot of the first spaceship to make it out of the city limits of Brooklyn, Gen. Melvin Taylor. And Melvin came out. This rather surprised me, for you see 1 went to school with Melvin. They showed how he made his famous flight. They also showed his co-pilot, Gen. Warner French, and some of my former classmates—for instance. Dr. Joseph Colbert, the designer of the spaceship. The commercial was interesting, too. It featured a sexy song, sung by The Body Janice Pults. If you don't know her, she's the famous movie star of the movie, THE GIRL CAN HELP BUT WON'T. These two incidents got me to thinking about the rest of my classmates. So, I did some research and here's what 1 came up with. . Fletcher Wheeler was, at that time, the only man to ever play football for the New York College for Women and 1 heard that he was having a ball. You know, of course, that Mary D. is the head coach there. Roy Biggs, I found out, was running a modern dance studio right here in New York. He always was graceful. One of his best students is the famed television star, Gracie Payne, of the famous show, PAYNE IN THE HEAD. Jerry Simpson is doing all right in the movies. He plays Uncle Scrooge—he always was tight. Mike Mclver is also doing all right in the great city of Hollywood. His latest hit is Frankenstein’s Return. He's the first one to play this role without a mask. By the way, he took his bride (Tennie Roberts) out there with him. Fredrick May gave his life for his country. He was the first man to kiss Jane Mansfield without a life jacket. Joe White is working on an experiment that will change the world. It’s a shrinking fluid that shrinks anything. He should try some himself. Randall Wood, Jackie Graham and Wendall May run a small paint and body shop in Oklahoma City. Randall is married to one of those Self girls from Tish. John Upton, the winner of the Indi- anapolis 500, gets all of his work done there. Carl Yeats is scoring on the big continent as this generation's big poet. I never would have picked him as a poet, but I would have picked Gussie Lucas as he was always a deep thinker. Joyce Miles is still playing basket- ball with the Harlem Globetrotters. , Ann Burch is an opera star and Shirle Beauford is her pianist. Phyllis just sits out in the auditorium with Dur- wood. Ann Brogdon is over in Germany playing the squeeze box for some polka band. Billy Glover is the nation s head flagpole sitter. Incidently, Glover’s eyes were used for the movie, THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE LOADED, and he was! Glover is hitched now to one of Tish's little girls, whose last name was Boyd. Phil Ballard and Joe Duncan are private detectives in Hollywood. They solved Hollywood’s unsolvable case, the Jerry Lawley case. Jerry killed his wife, Donna, because she accused him of running around with a girl named Nancy Blue. , . Jan Davis has a great act in the circus. She swings by her feet (size 11) and picks up a handkerchief with her teeth. This is a great act because she is forty feet off the ground at the time. (She always did have a long neck.) Her husband. Junior Boulton, is her partner in this amazing act and Jean Boyer is tagging along. Kletta Maxwell is in tlie same circus as the thin lady. She must have changed alot since school days. Nancy Warden is the business manager of the Boris Karloff, Inc. She always did have a business head. Keiller Parks is working for the same firm. He changed his name from Keiller to Killer. I hear there is a romance be- tWeen these two. Billy Francis and Kenneth McCarthick are still singing at the Thompson each Sat. night. Billy is the manager and Kenneth fixes seats for him. Jay Taylor is still working at Smith Whites, only now he is the big owner. William Hathaway is running a quiet (can you imagine anything quiet with Willie around?) little bar over on the east side of New York and Gene Lafitte is his pianist. Willie is happily married to Kay Cobb (whose father fi- nanced the bar) and Gene is married to that little Glenn girl. James Jackson, who is now a professional drunk after he traded die Brooklyn Bridge for Grand Canyon, is their biggest customer. Virginia is still married to Joe. LaDonna McGlocklin still drives her Ford around and wishes. Jeanne is still stripping cows with Richard down in Oklahoma. Matha Shaw is going to have another Bambino, her tenth. Wendell Reaves and that little girl he was going with tied the knot. He is now one of the deputy sheriffs in Tish. Ray is still the dashing hero he used to be. He has a thriving business in Tish. and is the newly elected Mayor. Natalie Pollock is still the nitwit she used to be, too. Last that I heard of her she was trying to set up a rest home for Sal Mineo and Elvis Presley. Jimmy Hart does commercials for Brylcreem nowadays. He mar- ried some Tish girl, but diey separated and he went back to Carol. Milton Gilbert is playing the guitar in some institution. I don't know whether he is entertaining the patients or whether he is one of them. Anita Deaton runs a little cafe in Tish. She's the mother of six. Martha Massey and Willie Henry run a small dress shop in Los Angeles, California. Martha does the talking and Willie does the doing. I don't know about Wil- lie doing the doing but Martha always did do the talking. Those two prairie dogs, Carol Autry and George Cardinal, are two of America’s key scientists. They're work- ing on a key that will open any lock. Well, that just about wraps it up for my old classmates. I would like to call my graduating class die class diat fell upon the human race. It was the laziest, noisiest class to graduate from any school, but they were a great bunch of guys and gals.

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CLASS WILL Regina Allen leaves hei Senior Cheerleadership to Mary Davis. Ann Burch leaves her right to be Sr. Majorette to Elaine Baker and Andra Armstrong. Nancy Warden leaves Neomi Bearden the right to be the only red-head in the Sr. class next year. Kletta Maxwell leaves her artistic ability to Shirley McCause. Martha Massey leaves her right to run off stencils to Linda Warden. Jean Boyer and Shirle Beauford leave their typing ability to Yvonne Cole. Jackie Graham and Bill Glover leave their place at the SMOKER to Junior Boulton. George Cardinal and Keiller Park leave their place in the AMERICAN HISTORY CLASS to Mickey Kennedy. Johnny Herd leaves right to GOLDBRICK all through football season to Cappy Dobbs. Billy Francis leaves his drafting ability to Billy Beckham. Anita Deaton leaves to Peggy Martin the right to be the only engaged girl in the Senior Class. Gene LaFitte leaves ANN GLENN to George Kyker. John Upton and Kenneth McCarthick leave their typing erasers and sideburns to Gerald Smith. Melvin Taylor and Topper White leave their HAMSHACK to Doyle Scarberry. Willie Henry leaves Barbara Hamilton the right to marry an Indian. Jim Hart leaves his ability to get admits from Mr. Howard to Curtis Pryor. Joe Duncan and Philip Ballard leave their SAFE DRIVING AWARDS to Bill Corbin. Mike Mclver and Gussie Lucas leave the right to get thrown in jail after Christmas to Bobby Dishroom. James Harrison and Ricky May leaves to Johnny King the right to be late for school every morning. Carrol Autrey, Carl Yeats and Jerry Simpson leave their singing ability to Clay Shannon. Joseph Colbert and Joyce Miles leave their dancing floor to Florence Stevenson and Lola Bryant. Tennie Roberts and Janice Pults leaves Ramona Ledgerwood and Annette Park their feminine figure. Ray Bauman and Roy Biggs leave Glen Chapman all of their LINEMEN OF THE YEAR awards. Jeannie Vandevier, Virginia Ritchey and Matha Shaw leaves Barbara Miner, Betty Dennis and Charlene Sloan the right to be the married Senior girls next year. William Hathaway leaves June Eddins and Latrica Harbert his Number 72 football jersey. Fletcher Wheeler and James Jackson leave their HOG CALLER to Gene Thomas. Randell Wood and Wendell May leave their TOOL-BOX to Johnny King. Jerry Lawley leaves the QUARTERBACK position to Bill Mclver. Phyllis Bennett leaves her 4-H place to Mary Allman. Natalie Pollock leaves to Donna Calhoun the right to laugh at any tiling, funny or not. La Donna McGlocklin leaves to Jane Coles the right to win first place in photography at Ada. Jan Davis wills to Mary Jo Massey the position of playing post guard next year. Gracie Payne wills to Ruth Coles her old shorthand book. And I Milton Gilbert will to Charlene McCarthick the privilege to write the Will for 1959.