Tishomingo High School - Indian Yearbook (Tishomingo, OK)

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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

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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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j mzzzMzmmmzagnam!»! THE CLASS WILL We, the Class of I960, sound and sane of mind Do here bequeath a lot of things to those we leave behind. We leave our Senior dignity to Juniors large and small, In hopes that they will foster it and save themselves a fall. We leave our honored faculty the knowledge they have gained Through answers which have startled them and sometimes even pained. We leave the wads of chewing gum which to the seats adhere To those who like to talk too much or feel the need of cheer. Our pencil stubs and scribbled pads, our bottles low in ink, We leave as inspirations rare to all who write and think. We leave our record with its fund of news, escapes and glory. To any author who will blend it all in epic story. Ruth Ann Lucas leaves to Colleen Self all her high school days of fun, And Senior football players leave their jerseys in care of Clyde Gunn. Charles Blackwell leaves his personality to that Junior boy called Don Keel. And the Senior boys leave to the Junior boys their way of making absentee excuses sound so real. Linda Rush leaves to Linda Thomas her secret of how to always look so neat, ” And all the Seniors leave to the Juniors their notes on how to cheat. ” Mickey Rowe leaves to Thecia May his technique of selling a Journalism ad, And Riley Rhodes leaves to Jamie George the right to be the first with the latest fad. Herbert Legg leaves to Jackie Pirtle his old basketball suit, And Carolyn Belcher leaves to Clarice Boyd her technique on how to always look so cute. Jim Upton, (Twinkletoes) leaves to Maurice Boyd his football shoes, And Gary Peters leaves to Kay Cobb his little book for collecting Senior dues. Bill Erichsen leaves to Dean Sweat and John Gray all his cheat sheets he's been savin', And the Seniors leave all their parking places in front of the school to Dickie Craven. Sammy West leaves to Virgil Reed his chair in the typing room, And Otis Gilbert leaves to the first lucky (?) one the right to be the first senior groom. Mary Eaves Babs Herd leave to Margaret Lokey some of their cute giggles and smiles, And Mike Simpson leaves his chair in the old speech class to Wendell Miles. Jenice Ruth leaves to Virgie Reed all her high school days of sorrow. And Leoma McCarthick leaves her old English IV book to Tommy Morrow. Bettye Gaddis leaves to Jo Ann Ringwald the secret of how to always be so good. And Mary Autry leaves her home economics receipts to Nela Carol Hood. Diana Smith Buddy Simpson leave to Mary Hart and Dwaine Wood their nice looks, And all the Seniors leave to all the Juniors their well'r used books. Sherry Thomson leaves to Joyce Brawley her technique of ridding herself of pests, And Lynn Wood leaves to Jimmy Boyer and Johnny Sneed the right to pass English IV tests. Shirle Haddix and Linda Colbert leaves to Jo Ann Thompson the right to drink a coke between classes, And Anne Glenn leaves to Charles Wyatt her chain for their reading glasses. Frances Folsom leaves to Doris Gilbert the right to be the married girl of the Senior class. And Ruth Garrison leaves her speech book to Benny Nichols and hopes that he too will pass. MelvinRussen leaves to Lavois Herndon and Don Bynum the right to be the first out of the doors, (after the bell of course), And Frankie Thompson leaves to John Williams his art for raising those basketball scores. Hugh Todd leaves to Bobby Sharrock the right to be the football star, And Tommy Brogdon leaves to Myrt Walton his little ford car. The Seniors apologize to all the underclassmen for all their nasty little pranks. And to our teachers we leave a grateful note of thanks. Carole Calhoun leaves to Willie Mae Mann her typing skill, And we leave to Flossie Harbert the job of writing next year's will. Aloma Sue McGlocklin leaves to Mary Nan Stamps all die Defender work and some in the office too. And we, the Seniors, leave to Wayne Maxwell next year's prophecy writing to do. The graduating Senior Class of 1960 hopes that all of your school years will be as successful and happy as this year. We are leaving, with some sorrow and with some cheer, too, but to everyone of us we are leaving be- hind something very dear. n Mm ............................... niPWfJuy wmw ipnnnwt i'lP mn am