Tuttle High School - Tiger Tales Yearbook (Tuttle, OK)

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Cfadd W listen one and all while I read this document as duly drawn up and SWOIII to by the graduating class of 1955 JERRY BROWNJ yields his privilege OfCOIIl1I1g one day and missing two to Jerry Sipe L XWRENJCE BARNES grants Forest O Hara his ability to hu11t out spoontrs and llls bfdlllb for cooking up big deals WA NADA CRUZAN yrelds her membership tn the Old Maids Club ofA111cr1ca to Barbara Snow and to Viola Nlckelf she leases her cheerleader s uniform UTIS BENNETT wills Joe Tom Bledsoe s slide rule and glasses to Bob Harryuian Otis just couldu t use them To An11 Latham BETTY BLACR gives her tiuudity but Ann says Betty 1s11 t very Illllld when working on the switchboard Who knows? ? I BILL COPELAIND IIIIPBYIS his pOS1L1OD at the Chrckasha Nlilhng Company to Ed Rich but not his position with Peg g Autry ALM-X BROWN bestows her red l1a1r to Billie Sue Hubbard who Altria thinks can use II A NN COX confers his way with girls from six to sixty to Donald Langston SHARON CHERRY grants the art of dancing to Edith Klippel and Annette Eades WABDA COX gladly gives those lonely Saturday nights waiting on a college man to Joy Cruzan and Mary Bar ton Cheer up girls you still have two years before james and Lee get that far advanced GENE STEVENS imparts his funder sizedj genius brain in physics to Rephord Plumlee To Claudette Haywood LILLIAN CRISP bestows the art of playing AND CARRYING the base drum Poor Clau dette she doesn t know what she s getting intol l I After much persuasion CLARENCE GOODMAN finally decided to leave his good standing w1th his favorite English teacher to Dellow Reynolds DEVOTA MCCARTHEY wills her melodious voice to Yuvonne Yockey who loves good singing JOE MCKINNEY yields his interest in Minco girls to Bob Watt and his athletic ability to Eugene Corley MARILYN lightening PERRY imparts her shorthand speed to Donnie Brown DEMPSEY MELTON bestows his ever ready hot rod to Modena Lovelace Oh Modena a word of advrce you ll have to have at least ten passengers before that Ford will even runl I I ALTA PLUMLEE leaves her II oo study hall to Bob Erwin She hated to but you just can t take it with you T C MARLOW wills his good looks and ability to play a guitar to Eldon Englebretson LEAH ROBERTS GARRETT confers her resistance against the temptation of quitting school for matrimonial reasons to Jean Caldwell and Betty Buck Since he won t need it anymore DALE LAWLESS bequeaths all rights and reservations to play hookey to anyone who needs II providing they can get away with ll VELMA STREBER S position on the girl s basketball team is left to Anna Mae Bennett and her sk1l11n mampula ting a Ford pick up to Delores Bowman MURLENE SIPE leaves her love of baby sitting to Henry Cooley who just LOVES to S1lW1Ih BABIES SHIRLEY WILLIS bequeaths her way with men to Luella Moddy ard regretfully imparts her priority on the front porch swing to Shirley Garrett MARY ELLEN SHOOK grants her speed in typing to Patsy Miller and her malorette suit to Mary Ann Hardesty She decided to keep her engagement ring If seems she s going to have another to match rt one of these days To Ross Stermer ROGER SHILLING yields the ability of finding soft topped desks on which to sleep and to Brlly Main his secret of writing fake excuses In Wrtness whereof we the Class Of 1953 have set our hands and seal this our will this twelfth day of May One Thousand N1ne Hundred Fifty Three 8 o 4- ' , I n I A E o I V C 7 I I ' W - -. ' ' V, ' . ' ' , s K l Yy' V' ' X I ' A U 4 A v v V In V I - LARRY FREEZE imparts his favorite recipe for making mulligan stew to Smoky Waldon. 1 1 ' 1 ' 1 ' ' ' ' 1 , - s 1' ' f 0 I l ' ' l A V- 5 - 1 - L . . , - A . ' , I . . , . . . . . V - - U 1 I - O I - . . ' . . . . . I A . . . - O I I ' I . I , I I I I i 0 V

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I' 'VS' f 1 up--, R jj C... 5. QQ A : f.v, A. W. COX Football I,2,3,45 Basketball 1,3,45 Baseball I,2,3, 45 Glee Club I,25 F,F,A, 1,25 Track 35 Football Captain 45 Senior Play. SHARON CHERRY Basketball 2,3,45 Softball 1,2,3,45 Band 3,45 Twirler 3.4: F.H,A, 1,2,3,45 F,H.A, Song Leader 35 Class Treasurer 35 Glee Club 2,3,4. MARY ELLEN SHOOK Basketball !,2,3,45G1ee Club 1,2,3,45 Soft-ball 1, 2,3,45 Band I,2,3,45 Twirler 1,25 Drum Majorette 3.4: F.H.A, I,2,3,45 F,H,A, Song Leader 35 Class President 15 Class Reporter 35 Pep Club 1, 25 Honor Roll Ig Junior Play, CLARENCE GOODMAN Chandler High School I.2,3: F,F,A, 45 Senior Play. en for add WANDA COX Band I,2,3,45 Basketball 1,2,3,45 Soft-ball I,2,3, 45 F,ll,A, I,2,3,45 Twlrler 1,2,3,45 Football Queen 25 Class Queen Ig Class Officer I5G1c6 Club 1,2, 3, 45 Pep Club 1,25 Senior Play, ROGER SHILLING F,F,A, 1,25 3,45 F,F,A, Reporter 35 Junior Play, JOE MCKINNEY Football I,2,3,4, F,F,A, I,2,4g Basketball I,2,3, 45 Baseball 2,45 Class Vice President 4, BETTY FERN BLACK F.H.-A. 2.3.4. ALMA LEE BROWN F.H,A, I,2,3,45 Senior Play, LARRY WAYNE FREEZE F,F,A, 1,2,35 F,F,A, Reporter 25 Glee Club 1,25 Judging Tealn 25 junior Play, 1 I' udrx flgxf '35

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pl92C It lb the year 1963 andl l1ave returned to thrs country to VlS1l class mates and frrends at Tuttle Oklahoma Asl came to Tuttle I went to the Chrckasha Mrllrng Company where B111 Copeland my old buddle and class mate 15 the manager He rs also the head of a famrly run by the former Peggy Autry After a v1s1t Wlth B111 l went to the Drug Store where Marrlyn Perry worked but ll seems Marrlyn rsn t work1ng there any more They told me she has a lrfe t1me Job at Sooner l ran 1nto Nlurlene Srpe and she told me she was now operatrng a beauty shop 1n Oklahoma Clty but was st1ll chasrng mrlk and bread trucks for a hobby 1 notrced a srgn advertrsrng T C, Marlow and hrs Oklahoma Outlaws rn the wrndow and Devota McCarthey rs hrs solorst but she would rather srng behrnd the counter of the Bowers Grocery l was talkrng to Roger Shrllrng and he sa1d srnce he IS marrred and runmng a grade A DBIIY he doesn t have t1me to go to Mrnco anymore I notrced a famrlrar lookmg fellow 1n a brg car come by Roger sa1d rt was Joe Mc Krnney the cowboy of our class comrng 1n from the Cheyenne Rodeo Joe 15 now the World s Champron bull r1der l was greeted by Lawrence Barnes as he come out of the bank He sa1d he was the state bank rnspector and rs mak rng money hand over frst As we were talkrng a W1lson 81 Co truck came 1nto town w1th Gene Stevens drrvrng Gene told us he wasn t marr1ed yet but he was st1l1 rnterested 1n grrls w1th long harr Com1ng back to Tuttle I had to VlS1l dear old T H S To my surprrse I found Wanada Cruzan teachrng the thrrd grade She told me Betty Black and Alma Brown were both work1ng tn Oklahoma Crty and somehow had acqurred the names of Mutt and Jeff As l was leavrng the school 1 ran 1nto another classmate of mrne Mrs Skaggs qformerly Mary Ellen Shookj who was on her way to the Pr1mary Room to strarghten out a few thrngs w1th the teacher after her l1ttle son had thrown a brrck through the wrndow After my VISII to the school I went to the Barber Shop for a shave and to my amusement l found Larry Freeze was the barber When I went rn Larry A W Cox head coach at Mrnco Hrgh School who st11l has a l1ttle t1me for the grrls Jerry Brown head of the Musrc Department at Edmond College and T C Marlow were all harmomzrng rn a Barber Shop fashron as they d1d tn Hrgh School I asked the boys about Clarence Goodman and Dempsey Melton I was told Clarence the romeo and practrcal Joker of our class could be found farmrng east of town but I forgot whom they sa1d he marr1ed They told me that Dempsey was owner and manager of the Melton Herford Farm here at Tuttle and they also sa1d Dempsey had taken a sudden lrkrng to the thrrd grade agam l was told by Velma Streber who ts now an arr lrne hostess for Trans World A1rl1nes that Dale Lawless rs drrector of Atrcraft Research Department 1n Wrchrta Kansas and rs workrng on a new super some model Velma rt seems Nas qurte rnterested rn Dale s work My next class mate to see was L1ll1an Crrsp who IS now the manager of a Medrcal Supply Company rn Dallas Texas Askrng about some of the other grrls she told me that Leah Jean Garrett better known to us as Leah Roberts was lrvrng rn Mrnco Wlth her husband and rs qurte busy w1th her famrly She sard Shrrley W1111S and Sharon Cherry weren t marrred and as a warnrng to all bachelors they had better stay hrdden because they also are v1s1t1ng Tuttle I asked about Alta Plumlee you know she wanted to be the prrvate secretary to the Presrdent But Lrllran tells me she gave up that Job to be a housewrfe for a vet I was told Wanda Cox started to school at Murry College, but marr1ed some graduate of the school before she frnxshed As I return to my agrrculture extensron work rn Brazrl, I frnd myself wrshrngl could 11ve over those happy yearsl spent w1th all my classmates at Tuttle Hrgh School C I - I ' Y I - 1 ' ' .. . . . .I . - - . A 1 1 , 1 . . 1 ., D . ., ., , . , ,,,, . , 1 1 , V . . Y . , . . , , . 1 . , . . , . 1 1 . 1 1 - 1 I I ' I 1 1 I 1 1 - - 1 1 1 , . . , 1 1 1 I - 1 I I - I . ' .. . , 1 , . I 1 1 . . .. , . , f I I I I