Tishomingo High School - Indian Yearbook (Tishomingo, OK)

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LEOMA McCARTHICK “If those quiet people you'd better watch. Pep Club, 4yr ;F.H.A.t 3 yr ; Basketball, 1 yr. SAMMY WEST They say I'm a ladies' man. Annual Defender Staff; Carnival Queen Escort, Senior yr; Best Dressed Boy. Senior yr; Football. 2 yrs; Basketball, 2 yrs; Band, 4 yrs; Demolay. 1 yr; Track. 2 yrs; Junior Play; Student Council Rep- resentative. 1 yr; State Band. 1 yr. EUNA MAESCARBERRY Wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine. Pep Club. 3yrs;F.H.A., 1 yr; Interscholastic Meet. 2 yrs; Carn- ival Queen Attendant, Freshman yr. FRANKIE THOMPSON The man behind the scenes.” Football, 3 yrs; Basketball, 4 yrs. LYNN WOOD Why should the devil have all the fun. Football. 2 yrs; Basketball. 1 yr; Track, 2 yrs; In terse ho las tic Meet, 1 yr; Football Queen Es- cort, Senior yr. RILEY RHODES All the other great men are -dead and I feel a little sick myself. Junior Play. Football Manager. 2 yrs; Basketball Manager. 2 yrs; Track Manager. 2 yrs; Wittiest Boy, Senior yr.

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JEN1CE RUTH Not much day life, but just let the sun go down. Basketball, 2 yis; F.H.A., 4 yrs; Pep Club. 4 yrs; 4-H Club. I yr; Softball. 2 yrs. BUDDY SIMPSON He's so-o-o-o good looking. Football. 1 yr; Baseball. 1 yr; Basketball, 3 yrs; Best Looking Boy. Senior yr . Carnival King At tendant. Sophomore yr. MIKE SIMPSON Beware! I may do something sensational yet. Football. 1 yr; Basketball. 4 yr; 4-H Club, 1 yr; Baseball. 2 yr. 'Ml HUGH TODD Mr. Footbair Football, 4 yrs; Basketball. 2 yrs; Track, 4 yrs; 4-H Club. 3 yrs; Lettermen's Club. 4 yrs; Junior Play; Tri-Hi-Y Club. 3 yrs. All Around Boy. Freshman yr; Foot- ball Co-Captain, Senior yr; All District, 1 yr; All Conference, 2 yrs. SHERRY THOMSON What they don’t know won’t hurt them. ” Freshman of the Year; President, Junior Class, Secretary-Treasurer. Pep Club; Pep Club. 4yrs;F.H.A., 3 yrs. Basketball, 1 yr; Most like- ly to Succeed, Senior Class; Hon- or Roll, 1 yr; Prompter. Junior Play. MELVIN RUSSELL Always a Helping Hand. Defender . Indian Staff; 4-H Club. 4 yrs.

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THE SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Jim and 1 were on our way home from a Dig business trip in New Orleans when we decided to take a few days off and stop by Tishomingo to see some of our old friends. It was the summer of 1977. My Continental Mark III was cutting up a little and we thought we'd better stop to have it checked. Brogdon’s Body Shop was what the sign said, so I went in and there was Tom, working on a car. We got to talking and I asked whose car he was working on. He said it was Herbert Legg's, and he informed me that Herbert had taken over Pearl's Pool Hall. He had enlarged it and now owns the nation's largest pool hall. He is a Iso quite a pool shark himself. After a while we decided to get something to drink so we went down to the Dairyland. We pulled up and the car hop came out. It was none other than Sammy West. Sammy and Babs had taken over the Dairyland and Babs was working inside. As we were sitting there, up drove Anne Glenn. 1 walked over and talked to her for a while and learned that she and Gene were married and had bought out Armstrongs. She said that she was keeping books down at the store. I learned from her that Carole Calhoun Hart's eyes had won her fame. She is now in the movies playing in buggy shows. She always did like to bug people. Anne said that she had to go back to work so I went up and got in my car. I sat there and watched the traffic for a while. Things certainly had changed. Jim and I decided to go down and talk to Herbert and see how his business was. There was Herbert, Gary, and Otis playing pool. When they got through, we talked about our old days at THS. Gary told us that he was living in Big D and that he had his own line crew. He told us that he had acquired a large mansion, but he was still batching. He also told us that he had taken over the Oldsmobile agency in Dallas, so that he could always keep up with the other Oldsmobiles that came into his garage. We sat around and talked for about an hour, and then Otis got up and saia uiat he had to go back to work. He informed us that he had bought Moore's Grocery Store, but that he still liked to sack those groceries and go coon hunting pretty often. Herbert told us that Mickey Rowe had taken over the Capital Democrat and was working on the paper then. His journalism days must have paid off. We decided to go over and see him for a few minutes so we said good-bye to Herbert and left. When we walked into the newspaper office I could hardly believe my eyes. There was Carolyn Belcher waiting for the papers to come off the press, so that she could deliver them. It seemed as though her little brothers did so good in the business she would try it for a while. She told us that she was making a pretty good living for herself now. We walked in the back room and there was Lynn Wood operating the linotype. He still typed with those same two fingers which made him so popular in Typing I class. We waited around until Mickey closed up the shop and then we went up to his mansion. He went in and made some coffee and we sat down to watch television. It just so happened that Queen for a Day was on and there was our old friend Diana Smith. She always liked to be the queen of something. She was telling her sad, sad story about how her hound dogs had been poisoned. She always was very fond of dogs, even back in high school. It seems as though she had a few (26 of them) and her neighbors didn’t appreciate their barking so they poisoned them. Well, she got her wish and her 26 dogs were replaced. Mickey came in with the coffee and said that the Globe Trotters were playing. We switched channels just in time to see them giving the line-up for the Globe Trotters. There was Frank Thompson. We watched the game and it was a good one. Frank sacked up about 45 or 50 points and was high point man. By the way, during the half, a commercial came on advertising Melvin Russel's lawnmower shop. It showed some pictures of his shop and it looked very nice. It was about 7 o'clock and we decided to go down and see who was in town. When we got down there we drug main street and decided to drop in at the drug store. There was Mary Eaves, still behind the counter, jerking sodas. We sat around and drank our cokes, and learned from Mary that she had taken over the drug store, but every once in a while she just had to jerk sodas. It seemed as though she just couldn't get from behind that counter. We were sitting in the drug store when in walked Bill Tom Erichsen. He told us that he was a commercial fisherman now. He was having a little trouble with the authorities. It seemed as though he wanted to put his nets in the lake (and did) and was in court over it now. He told us he had nothing to worry about though, be- cause his lawyer was none other than Charles Blackwell. He said he just about had those authorities beat, with the help of Charles, of course. Mary told us that Sherry was working in Dallas now. She is the head executive for a large cosmetic firm there. Well, we decided to go to the show. When we got there (it took us about 30 minutes because Tish had grown so much) we saw Linda Rush and Jenice Ruth going into the show. We talked to them and learned that Jenice had finally hooked Benny and was now a happy wife and mother. She was living in Kansas City, but was only home for a little vacation. I suppose Benny was babysitting while she was at the show. Linda said that she now had her very own chain of Rush Grocery Stores and that she was doing pretty well for herself. She told us that she owned stores in every town in Johnston County and some in Marshall. We went on in the show and there was Aloma McGlocklin taking tickets. She told us that she and Ruth Ann Lucas owned the show and Ruth Ann still fixed the drinks and the pop corn. We got in the show just in time to see the cartoon, and guess who was the star of it. It was Ruth Garrison Marshall. She always was funny; and I thought that girl would go places. We saw a few shorts of some football games and Hugh Todd was playing for the Colts. It showed him making a couple of touchdowns and he was pretty swift. As we were leaving I stopped and talked to Ruth Ann about some of our other old class mates. She told me that Mary Autry was married to Charles Cotter. They were living in Ada where Charles was teaching school. About leaching school, she said that Buddy Simpson was teaching biology at N.U. (Nida University) and was making a good living for himself. BuF’Rfike was hill following the wheat harvest, although he does at least have his own equipment now. Frances Folsom was also teaching school. She teaches Commerce at T.U. (Tishomingo University). We left and drove down the street and saw a sewing shop. The sign read Gaddis and Haddix. It looked like a real nice little business. It was getting about 12 o'clock and all of us decided to go up and spend the night with Mick. We stayed up nearly all night talking about the things we did and the fun we had at THS. Being with some of the old gang sure did bring back pleasant memories. We finally got to bed about 5 o'clock. The next moring Jim and I decided we had better get back to Miami, Florida where our house construction company was located. We had a multi-million dollar housing project awaiting us. We sure enjoyed our visit with part of the old gang. We only wish it had been possible for everyone to have been in Tishomingo. Riley Gene Rhodes