Tuscumbia High School - Memories Yearbook (Tuscumbia, MO)

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Class Will We, the Senior Class of l95l of Tuscumbia High School, of the County of Miller, and of the State of Missouri, do hereby make, publish and declare this as our last and only will, revoking all wills heretofore made by us. We, being in sound mind after four strenuous years, will the personal qualities to our long suffering undergraduates To the janitor, all the paperwads, pencils, books, etc. left behind to burn. To Mrs. Rice, the Senior Class wills their ability to be happy, and also the ability to get the Annual out before the end of school. To Mr. Crews, all the tones, one-half steps, whole steps, and scales in music, and also all the noise made on the back row by the boys. To Mr. Wyrick, all the direct and indirect lights, and also all the old tennis shoes and basketball equipment and chewing gum left behind. To Mr. Brunner, we will all the manners he taught us in Today's Problems Class, and also the ability to keep a crew cut. To Mr. Lee, the Senior Class wills the field trips, shop work, and all he had taught them about soils. f To Howard Adcock, Donnie Myers wills his parking place at the gravel pile. To .Tack Lupardus, LeRoy Patterson wills his ability on the basketball team, and to Don Myers his parking place at Warren's. To Paul Lovell, Ronald McDonald wills his ability to get along with other people, and all his smartness in Health Class to Elaine Caby. To Harold Wickham, Dexter Burks wills his ability to flirt with all the girls. To Dorrell Wilson, Danny Hasty wills his ability to drive recklessly and wills Alta Tyler to Ronald McDonald. To Duaine Kallenbach, Otis Musick wills his ability to get along with girls. To Marge Humphreys, Mary Myers wills her big mouth and to Gaynelle Kallenbach her quiet ways. She also wills to Marie Wickham her backyard swing which was handeddown to her last year. To Darlene Albertson, Marian King wills her ability to get a man and keep him, which was willed to her last year, and to Marie Wickham she wills her ability to get along with the kids at school. To Kathleen Doherty, Doris Hendry wills her place on the basketball team, and to Elaine Caby her ability to get along with teachers. To Peggy Bilyeu, Patsy Reed wills her tennis shoes, and to Donna Turner her ability to make noise in study hall. To Kathryn Graham, June Beard wills her ability to play basketball, and to Jo Ann Beard her tennis shoes so she won't have to buy any. To Gaynelle Kallenbach, Eloise Wood wills her ability to play on the basketball team and to Dixie Sooter her singing ability. To Karen Fischer, Earline Thompson wills her fingernails and also to Gaynelle Kallenbach her ability to chew gum with her mouth closed. ln witness whereof, We, the Senior Class have set our hand and seal hereto this eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one U95 ll. I 1 ' ll

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Senior Class History In the fall of 1947, twenty-three Freshmen took their first big step in life. We were all scared, but now that we are graduating, we are glad that we had our eye on the goal and have kept climbing. The twenty-three members of this Freshman Class were as follows: ' June Beard, Bonnie Carico, Bonnie Burks, Barbara Burks, Dexter Burks, Betty Burris, Danny Hasty, Avis Helton, Harold Hill, Tennyson Jarrett, Robert Jones, Mariah King, Ronald McDonald, Donald Myers, Harold Musick, LeRoy Patterson, Patsy Reed, Earline Thomson, Gerald Wickham, Eloise Wood, Nancy Wood Omega Workman, and Velda Wright. Our group elected Robert Jones, President: Gerald Wickham, Vice-President: Barbara Burks, Secretary and Treasurer. Tennyson Jarrett and Omega Workman took the spotlight as candidates for the king and queen contest. ,Later in the year we welcomed to our class, Mary Myers, who came from our neighboring school at Iberia, and Doris Hendry who came from our nearby town of Waynesville. We then had a total of twenty-five Freshmen. During this Freshman year we presented the play entitled, Coming Around the Mountain. Mrs. Hazel Smith kept this class under control. A smaller group consisting of nineteen returned to Dear Ole T.H.S. in 1948, to begin year two in our upward climb. The members leaving us were: Barbara Burks who moved to Illinois: Robert Jones who went to Osage: Velda Wright who was lost in the Sea of Matrimony, and Harold Hill and Nancy Wood who left us dur- ing the summer. Omega Workman left us after about a month's stay with us--thus leaving us a total of eighteen Sophomores. Class officers for this year included President, Gerald Wickham: Vice-President, Marian King: Secretary and Treasurer, Omega Workman: and Reporter, Patsy Reed. After Omega Workman left us her vacancy was filled by Avis Helton. During our Sophomore year Mary Myers and Marian King had the honor of being chosen as cheerleaders. Our king and queen contestants were Marian King and Danny Hasty. Mrs. Ruth Barron sponsored our class this year. 1949-'50 was our busiest year, but we had seventeen jolly Juniors to take care of the task. We lost Tennyson Jarrett this year. Officials steering this group con- sisted of the following: President, Marian King: Vice-President, Mary Myers: Secretary and Treasurer, Bonnie Carico: Reporter, Danny Hasty, and Bulldog, Gerald Wickham. This year Mary Myers and Bonnie Carico were chosen as cheer- leaders. We had three members of the Girls' Basketball Team. These three were Marian King, Eloise Wood, and Bonnie Burks. Doris Hendry, Bonnie Carico, June Beard and Patsy Reed were substitutes. For the Boys' Team we had Don Myers, Otis Musick and Dexter Burks on the A Team and Ronald McDonald, LeRoy Patterson and Danny Hasty as substitutes. Our Junior Class play was Bessie the Bandit's Beautiful Baby . Three of our class members fPatsy Reed, Bonnie Carico, Gerald Wickham, were members of the Junior-Senior Play-- The Haunted Chair . The Junior -Senior Banquet, which we had been working for and the Seniors had been waiting for, took place at Campbell's Lake House. This year Mrs. Fancher kept us on the right road. ln September, 1950, we began our last year at T.H.S. Patsy Reed presided over the fifteen returning students: with Eloise Wood, Vice-President: Bonnie Carico, Secretary and Treasurer: and Mary Myers, Sergeant-at-Arms. Missing members were Avis Helton and Bonnie Burks who were lost in the Sea of Matrimony. Patsy Reed represented our class as one of the four cheerleaders. Donald Myers and Patsy Reed represented our group as king and queen candidates. Our Senior play entitled Which Shall, He Marry was presented in February. Rex Wyrick sponsored this never-to-be-forgotten Class of 1951. 10

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Senior Class Prophecy THE BIG ROAR EDITOR: DANNY HASTY Born to the former Miss Bonnie Carico were three little red-headed sailors. They were born at exactly 3:00 yesterday morning and all are doing fine, including their proud papa. Our local editor, Danny Hasty, has just returned from the Indianapolis Speedway where he won the National Championship for hot-rod racing. As most of us remem- ber, Danny's ability to turn corners on two wheels dates back to his high school days. Corning soon to the Metropolitan Opera House is Otisian Harolde Musick, the great tenor soloist. It is a well-known fact that this great singer got his start in the high school at'Tuscumbia, Missouri. Oddie, we knew you'd get something out of music class! A graduate of the Gooiey Grinders School of Painless Dental Surgery is Ronald McDonald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy McDonald of Ulman, Missouri. If the anesthetic isn't strong enough, Ronald, just give them a whiff of that perfume! Miss Patsy Reed, the well-known Grand Ole Opry star is home visiting her parents. She has just replaced the late Minnie Pearl. We have just received word that the famed engineer, Gerald Wickham, has com- pleted a Trans-Atlantic bridge from New York to Paris. Gerald is quoted as saying, ' The strain and worry caused me to lose forty pounds. ' A new girls' physical education instructor, Miss Mary Myers, has been employed by our high school. Also a new boys' instructor, Mr. Jerry Setser has been employed Just can't keep those two apart! The former Miss Marian King and her small son, John, Jr., left home Thursday for Fort Intelligence, to be with the husband and father. Winner of the National Safety Council's Best Driver of the Year Contest is Miss Eloise Wood, an ambulance driver from the Cure or Kill Hospital . Happy driving, Eloise! Madame Doris Hendrya, The Big Roar fashion coluxnnist, has just returned from New York, where she attended the previews of the latest Paris creations. Woo, woo, says Miss Hendry. Dexter Burks, the great Historian, has just published a book entitled Learn Arnerican History in Six Months. Professor Burks has a wide source of knowledge along this line. A noted lecturer and p-p-p-public s-s-s-speaker, Donald Myers, will give a lecture at the City Hall, Friday, .Tune 19. A large crowd is expected to attend as his subject, Constructive Thinking Along Educational Lines, is an interesting one. Earline Thomson, often called Annie Oakley, the Second , has won first prize in the annual Sportsman's Contest. She won this for her fine marksmanship with a I2-gage shotgun. Voted best housekeeper of the year by the Swishy Dish and Housekeeping Maga- zine is June Beard fAhartj. She was selected from numerous applicants. All that cooking practice at the carnival is helping you out now, isn't it, June? We are glad to see our town expanding. Among the new buildings taking shape is the Bue-pont Garage, owned by LeRoy Patterson and Sons. All those flat tires you fixed on lonely country roads late at night were good practice, LeRoy! 12