Velma Alma High School - Hurricane Yearbook (Velma, OK)

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SYLVIA TILLEY, from 'way down South in Alabama, spends a good por- tion of her time around the Homemaking room. When Sylvia tackles anything, it's accomplished before she quits. BETTY TURNER is the girl with the pretty smile and pretty clothes. She's got brains, too. This wonderful com- bination makes Betty an all righft girl in anybody's language. KENNETH VOWELL spent two years in California and returned to V-A this year. Can't you see that California sunshine reflected in his smile? Thouaht we'd almost lost JAMES WASHABAUGH when Lynn Elmore's car threw them. James is a farmer boy, and Judy says he likes to tinker with machinery. The Comet's are losing one of their biggest guards when James graduates this May. JUDY Uudith Arlenej WASHABAUGH makes herself known on the campus in the most pleasant ways. She's been iust about everything - Girls State Representative, D.A.R. Citizenship award winner and Student Council member. When she gets to be an elementary teacher, those kids are just gonna' love her gay disposition. JAMES WARNOCK ioined the crowd only this year. His pop is Baptist minister at County Line, and James hopes to become a big wheel in the field of engineering. ..1A-.

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Q WENDELL STEPHENS may not say much, but it's because he's busy thinking. Someone kidded Wendell and told him when he had the first wreck he started a fad. Wendell has carried a SUE SOUTHERLAND is as handy as a pocket in a shirt. She can and will do almost any task---except that will help others. Sue is in Girls Quartette. She is also typist for the annual this year. cooking- -- Ii ht subiect load and worked in the agernoon this year. .Sass lsrii T .,,,. M.. pn, rafl DONALD STEPHENSON came to this ' school as a Junior from Fox. Don is a Rod Knocker, and a member of F.F.A. BETTY NELL STEWART is another who never raisesthe roof with loud talk, but she has a sweet personality and plenty of brains. Betty has been at Velma-Alma three years. - 'Ml CLINTON THACKER hails from County Line way. Brent Berlin says Clinton is a fair boxer. He has played football for V-A and is a regular guy. -15.. at . I t.

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mi, 5 T .9 M ' in fliiil. '.' . Q .1 :lag , -' isswi If J Twelve years ago a group of children who were to become the Seniors of l955, began their laborious ascent to the goal for which everyone in school is striving - the year when they will be Seniors. The original group was composed of twelve stu- dents, who are still with us now. These students were Don McClanahan, Ronnie Savage, Wendell Stephens, Billie Airington, Wynell Daniels, Ruby Roberson, Kenneth Vowell, Earl Chandler, Jerry Sanner, Wayland Loring, Gordon McCurry and Randall Pague. Carmeta Carson ioined the Dirty-Faced Dozen, making them the Lucky Thirteen. As we look in on our class in the second grade, we discover only one addition to the cradle, Gwen- dolyn Massie transferred from Santa Fe to become famous on the basketball hardwoods of V-A Hidt. As the saying goes, the third time is a charm, and sure enough,Clinton Thacker flew in and hit head-on with Betty Jo Clark. They have been recuperating in the halls of V-A ever since. Our fourth year really brought in a haul! Harris- burg and Santa Fe consolidated with Velma, adding Bob Berry, James McMurtry, Sue Southerland, Betty Dismuke, and Dorothy Parr to our happy, carefree group. Elais Ann Sanner floated in on that hot air from Texas to ioin Loreta Franks, who hitch-hiked from Taft, California. The fifth year we got quality, not quantity! Dolly Clayton came to us from Healdton, and Janice Smith raced in from McCloud. ln the sixth grade only one lonely gal came to us. Mary Jane Beard came to Oklahoma from Bunkie, Louisiana. Not far behind her came Dale Lansford, as usual, with Sylvia Tilley, .... two good students for our seventh year. Our class didn't change in the eighth grade, but when the Freshman year dawned, and our youthful faces appeared eagerly in the highschool, our class qos .till Senior C7444 NIA tory roll swelled considerably. Our new classmates were James Washabaugh, Betty Tumer, Duane Har- mon, Judy Washabaugh, and last but not least, by any means, Brent Berlin. The iourney into Sophomore Land found us to be more settled in the spirit of high school. The class began to bulge with new students. These included Bob Luckett, Lehman Hines, Frank Heidelberg, Betty Stewart, and Chris Rhodes, who walked over from lshudderi Fox. Seniors at last! Even now our class is growing- Donald Stephenson, James Wamock, Mary Payne, and Wanda McClain will ioin us when we walk a- cross the stage of graduation in May, thus writing the end of our days together as a class. -1 7. i