Viper High School - Annual Yearbook (Viper, KY)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY THIS IS QUEERTVERY QUEER-BUT IT WAS I964. WHERE WAS I? THERE WAS A OONOERT HALL. I ENTERED AND FOUND A FAMILIAR FACE STARING AT ME. WHO WAS THE OONDUOTOR OF THIS CONCERT? OF ALL PEOPLE, IT WAS MAXINE GILLUM,AN OLD MAID GONDUGTING A OONOERT MADE UP ENTIRELY OF MEN. I ASKED MAXINE TO SHOW ME A HOTEL, AND WHILE WAITING IN THE LOBBY, WE SAW A STRANGE BUT FAMILAR FACE APPEAR IT WAS MRSGJANET BRASHEAR AND HER TWO BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS COMING DOWN THE STAIRS. FROM JANET WE LEARNED OF SARA PAYE. JANET TOLD Us THAT SARA OWNED A BEAUTIFUL HOME AND A BEAUTY SHOPPE, NOT FAR AWAY. STILL WE TALKED OF OUR HIGH SCHOOL DAYS. MAXINE BROUGHT UP TI-IE SUB' JEOT OF GOING TO A SHOW. SHE SAID THE CHARACTERS WERE OLD FRIENDS OF MINE. WE WENT TO THE SHOW AND THE FRIENDS WERE ALPHA CAUDILL AND JO ANN BRASHEAR SINGING HI LOvE YOU TRULYU. AFTER THE SHOW WE ALL WENT T0 A DRUG STORE AND WONDERING wHO OWNED THE PLACE, I SAW TWO INTELLIGENT AND LOVELY WOMEN OOME FROM THE MEDICINAL DEPARTMENT. HOW COULD IT BE? THEY WERE MISS BETTY JO CANN AND MISS JANE MOIN- TYRE, BOTH SETTLED AS OLD MAIDS AND HAPPY 0... MY MIND wANDERED T0 THE BOYS I USED TO KNOW. I THOUGHT OF RAY PHIPPS AND OF HIS OAREER. HE WAS CAPTAIN IN THE NAVY AND WAS FOUND WANDERING ABOUT THE SAN DIEGO DOOKS WITH A BLONDE. TALKING OF THE BOYS, WE THOUGHT OF BASHFUL JUNIOR MOINTYRE. MAK- INE TOLD US HE HAD GONE TO HOLLYWOOD TO REPLACE ROY ROGERS IN THE MOvIES AND TO TAKE CARE OF THE WIOOw LEFT BY ROY. ON MY WAY BACK TO KENTUCKY I ASKED MAXINE ABOUT SOME OF THE GIRLS THAT GOT MARRIED DURING THE SENIOR YEAR. SHE SAID THAT PAYE OWNED A NUR- SERY AND HAD FIVE BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN OF HER OWN. LITA WAS PRESIDENT OF THE HOMEMAKER'S CLUB AND WAS TRYING TO FIND A BABY SITTER FOR HER CHILDREN.MAX' INE TALKED OF BUTCH WHITAKER, WHO WAS OISTRIOT SU- PERvISOR OF THE ASAND P. STORES AND WONDERING IF HE SHOULD SELL HIS STOCK IN THE GJNCERN OR BUY MORE. MAXINE BROUGHT UP THE SUBJECT OF A REOENT If gg? Q!g,EQ3'QEE: :QE O65

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AND NEW SUITGICAL OPERATION, IN LEXINGTON, PERFORM- ED BY THE SKILLED AND UP'COMING DOCTOR, DON COMBS OF OUR I949 SENIOR CLASS. THIS OPERATION CALLED FOR TWO WELLTTRAINED GRADUATE NURSES. THE HOSPITAL HAD OHOSEN OUR DONNA LEE WHITE AND MARGARET WHIT- AKER, REGISTERED NURSES AT THE SAINT JOSEPH Hos- PITAL. WE EvEN THOUGHT OF OUR BASKETBALL FRIENDS. I REMEMBERED MERVIN COMBS. MAXINE SAID THAT HE WAS COACH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WILDCATS AND WAS HAPPILY MARRIED TO BOBBY LOU LYTTLE. ON OUR wAY BACK T0 OUR HOTELS, WE SAW A FA- MILIAR FACE CO INTO A STUDIO. IT TURNED OUT T0 BE SAMUEL LEE DAVIDSON THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR OF RADIO STATION WKIC, AT HAZARDB Now WHERE COULD LOUISE CREECH,MANUEL WHITAKER AND CHLOE Q. CAMPBELL BE? MAXINE TOLD ME MANUEL OWNED A BARBER SHOP AT THE MOUTH OF LEATHERWOOD. LOUISE, HAPPILY MARRIED, WAS HEAD USHER AT THE RI- ALTO THEATER AND CHLDE wAS THE FIRST WOMAN IN KEN- TUCKY POLITICS TO BECOME MAYOR OF THE NEw TOwN OF MASONS CREEKB AFTER I HAD DECIDED T0 RETUH4 HOME I WENT BY PLANE, PILOTED BY HARVEY COMES wHO NOW OWNED THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AIRFIELD. I KNEW NOW THAT THE SE- NIOR CLASS OF I948-I949 HAD BEEN, NOT ONLY AN INT- ERESTING CLASS, BUT A SUCCESSFUL ONE. BY LCRENE BREWER TALENT SCOUT OF I964 f '-- J