Wapella High School - Retro Yearbook (Wapella, IL)

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PAT GAHERTY F. F. A. 1,2,3,4; Chorus 2; Junior and Senior Plays; Retro 4. BOB RUSSELL F. F. A. 3,4, Reporter 4; Track 3,4; Manager, Basketball 3,4; Senior Play; B. A. A. 4; Retro 4. BESSIE WILSON F. H. A. 1, 2, 3, 4; Retro Junior 3; Retro 4; Class Secretary-Treasurer 4; Chorus 1,2; Junior and Senior Plays. DOROTHY SUMPTER F. H. A. 1,2,3,4; Senior Play; Chorus 1; Retro 4. DAVID WILSON F. F. A. 3,4; Junior and Senior Plays; Track 2,3,4; Retro 4. GEORGE MOORE Basketball 2,3,4, Varsity; Baseball 3, 4; Track 3; Senior Play; B. A. A. 4; Retro 4. DON DE MARIE Baseball 1,2,3,4; Track 3,4; F. F. A. 1,4; Senior Play; Chorus 2; Retro 4.

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JIMMIE BELL Basketball, Varsity 1, 2, 3,4; Baseball 1,2,3,4;F.F. A. 1,2,3,4, President 4, Secretary 3, Reporter 2; Track 2,3,4; Class President 1,2,3, Vice-President 4; Band 1; B. A. A. 4; Retro 2,3,4; Retro Junior 2,3. NORMA WILSON Transfer, Texas 1, Missouri 2; F. H. A. 1,2,3,4; Retro 3,4; Retro Junior 3; Chorus 2; Junior Play. JACKIE KARR Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4; Band 1, 2,4; Class Secretary-Treasurer 1,3; F. H. A. 1,2,3; Retro 4; Junior and Senior Plays; Pep Squad 3; Retro Junior 3. JOSEPH WHITE Chorus 3,4; Retro 4. DOROTHY CAMPBELL F. H. A. 1, 2, 3,4, President 4, Vice-President 3, Ch. Degrees 2; Chorus 1,3; Class President 4; Junior and Senior Plays; Reno Junior 3; Retro 4. ROLAND SCHUMAKER Basketball 2, 3, 4, Varsity 3, 4; Baseball 2, 3, 4; Track 2,3,4; Band 1,2,3, 4; Chorus 1,2, 3,4; F. F. A. 1,2, 3, 4, Sentinel 3, Secretary 4; B. A. A. 4, President 4; Junior and Senior Plays; Retro 4; Dance Band 3, 4. RONALD FRYMAN F. F. A. 1,2,3,4, Vice-President 3,4; Basketball 2,3, 4; Baseball 3; B. A. A. 4; Track 2,3,4; Retro 2,4; Class Reporter 2; Stage Manager, Senior Play.

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lAst wiLL An6 testament KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, the Senior Class of 1955, being of sound mind and body (?) do hereby declare this to be our Last Will and Testament. I, Jim Bell, will myself to the best looking girl in high school. I, Pat Gaherty. will my place as comedian in the class plays to Jim Summers. I, Jackie Karr, will my ability to type with my long fingernails to Doris Linderman. I, Dorothy Sumpter, will my ability to stay slim to Tony Spaulding. I, Ronald Schumaker, will my ability to get the coach off the subject in American history class to Ed Reynolds. I, David Wilson, will my nickname to Jim Durbin. I, “Romeo Moore, will my ability to date girls to Don Duncan. I, Joseph D. White, will my good grades to all the seniors in the future. I, Bessie Wilson, will my ability to draw pretty girls to Jack Morris. I, Dorothy Campbell, will my ability to milk cows and do all other farm work to any town girl who would like to be a farmer’s wife. I, Norma Wilson, will my ability to take part in class discussion in American history class to Lynn Spaulding. I, Ronald Fryman, will my ability to go with four or five girls at the same time to Jack Morris, for he seems to delight in the company of the ‘‘fairer’’ sex. I, Bob Russell, will my ability to be Coach’s right hand man and get along with him to Ronald Oakley. I, Donald DeMarie, will my ability to sleep in classes to Jerry Gaherty. We, Jackie Karr and Dorothy Sumpter, will our ability to make money for the Senior class to anyone who knows how. We didn’t. We, Dorothy Campbell, Norma Wilson, and Bessie Wilson, will our ability to live together and get along our senior year to any girls who can stand each other that long. We, the Senior girls, will our acting ability to die Junior play cast, and hope they have as much fun as we did. Senior Class of 1955. Signed by the said Senior Class of 1955 and by them declared to be the authentic Last Will and Testament of people who soon will not be all here, and attested by us witnesses thereto, in the presence of each other, at Wapella, Illinois, this 18th day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifty five. Bessie Wilson Pat Gaherty