University High School - Eagle Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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DIARY OF A FORTY-NINER September 20, 1968--Reading the Journal-Worldtonight I saw a picture of this year's Freshman Class at good old University High School. One face looked strangely familiar. Checking underneath the picture I found the name, Lee Barrow, Jr. Papa Lee, who now owns his own farm out by Lakeview, must be pretty proud to have the first of his ten sons entering University High. September 29, 1968--Ran into my old classmate, Nadine Blackwood, on the street today. She and her medical missionary husband are home on furlough from Timbuctu. Came home to find the wife had bought eleven brushes from the Fuller man, who left his card. Wasn't surprised to find it was C. I. Elliott. Glancing through the ads in Life, I came upon a familiar face. It was Marie Jeffries, now the Model Mother of the Double Dimple Smearless Bubble Gurn Company. An article in the Star tonight tells of Francisco Va1derrama's appointment to the newly-created office of Minister of Sports in the Columbian government. November 18, 1968--Came on a business trip to Washington, D.C., this week. Takinga short-cut back to my hotelthrough a dark street last night, almost fell over Angie Stavros down on her hands and knees with a magnifying glass. Seems she is first assistant to I. Edgar Hoover and very busy tracking down Communists. Wife and I were lookingnat toytrains for young son, Karl D. , today. The fanciest was the E.A. Stene-Atomic Electronic Educational Train, complete with atomic power. Listening to my favorite radio commentator tonight, Philter Phinchell, I was surprised to hear him announce that the famous opera singer, Margaret Latimer, will retire from the Met next season. She is buying out Dorothy Dix and will take over her advice to the love-lorn column. Everyone's talking about the new filibusteringrecord set by Senator Ralph Wiechrnan. He's been going fifteen days now against an appropriation to build a picket fence around our world to isolate it from the other planets. March 19, 1969--Wife and I have been looking at catalogues of boarding schools, where we might send daughter, Ruth Eleanor, next year. Have just about decided on Blackwood's Female Seminary for the Advancement of Learning, founded and operated by Carol Blackwood, Was startled to see the Man of Distinction in Life this week was none other than .Tim McCoy in white tie and tails. It is said that he now owns several race-tracks and awards a prize of a college scholarship each year to the boy with the best hot-rod. April 6, 1969--I see by the Journal-World that the former Donna King is back in town. I don't imagine she has much time to spend with her twelve children since she became such a popular lecturer. Must go to hear her lecture here next week on 'Child Psychology. Phil- ter Phinche1l's latest flash is that the great studios of Paramount and M.G.M. are to be merged in Hollywood under the leadership of Bill Slamin. Tonight the Star gives all the details about the American Women's All-Star Football Team going to the next Olympics. Pat Daniel, All-American football player of 1955, is to be the coach. Had been thinking of taking a rocket trip this summer and found a jet-propelled excursion to the moon offered at a fairly reasonable rate by Carl Sneegas inthe new issue of Holiday magazine. In the same issue was an ad by the Bill Naff Moon-Acres Realty Company listing for sale or rent lakeshore property around the crators of the moon, complete with private docks for space-ships. June 12, 1969--The .Tournal-World tonight carries a long article about Helen Brooks and her oldest son who both received Ph.D's on the platform at Columbia University today. A telegramjust arrived from Betty VanCamp. She and husband, Verl, who are now the top executives in the Montgomery Ward Company, have just driven the last nail in their new fifty-room mansion at Palm Springs, and are calling a reunion of the class of '49 to celebrate. .Tuly 4, 1969--Arrived this morning amid the popping of atomic-crackers, an appropriate welcome for the class of '49, Who should greet me at the door here at Betty's but dear old Miss Litchen. Poor Soul! She is in a wheel-chair and quite feeble. Sponsoring Senior classes at U.H.S. finally wore down even her iron- clad spirit. She says she is writing her memoirs. I wonder if, when the others get here, we could raise enough money to buy her off! 17

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1 -Li X -L.. X Y WE SHOOK THE FAMILY TREE We Shook the Family Tree was presented Thursday and Friday evenings, November 18 and 19. It was quite a riot and very successful. The audience waited for the curtain to go up promptly at 8:00 while backstage the chairs were shaking under the weight of several nervous actors and actresses. Everyone had stage fright, but the first night performance was unusually good. Pat Daniel played the part of Hildegard, and was the person responsible for shaking ' I hn the family tree. Bruce Perdue and David Johnson played her brothers. Susie o son 1 d Hilde ard's young sister Mother and Father were ably portrayed by Carl P aYe 8 - Sneegas and Margaret Latimer. Hildegard's boy friend, Freddie, was Lee Barlow. Marian Weeks and Joe Dunham played Lee's parents. The play was well received by the audience and everyone, including the participants, enjoyed it. The play ran for two nights to good crowds. Compliments of Bell Music. 16

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Bill Naff Shortstop Bill Moomau Pitcher sou, n Orval Craig Left Field 57's Gene Perry Third Base Lee Barlow Catcher This page sponsored by Ro11and's Book Store. 18