William A Wirt High School - Sandscript Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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As we capered away across the velvet lawn, laughing fiendishly and thumbing our collective noses at the poor unfortunates we had left behind, another piece of paper caught our eyes. We picked it up, and found that it was a GARY POST-TRIBUNE for June 7, 1956. Its blazoned headlines read, CLINTON MILLER GRADUATES! The news items read as follows: PRANCES ARVIDSON has opened a hamburger stand in California—The name? Wimpy’s SEARL C ALA WAY, famous architect, is going mad trying to figure out how to draw the corners on a roundhouse. WILBUR MONAHAN is head coach at the Pi Kappa Pi Girls’ School. LEON DAHL is running an escort bureau for lonely bachelors. WALTON WYSONG is technical advisor in the new movie epic, The Adventurers of Wimpyman in Boone Grove.” IRENE BALDAUF has married Clark Gable, and is living in a house of Seven Gables. MYRON WOLT has taken Frankie’s fans by his beautiful bathtub singing. Crosby fans think he’s all wet. WILD BILL” DUNIVAN is the president of the national movement for the preservation of buffalo. CHARLES CRAWFORD is the odds-on favorite to take the 500 mile race at the Indianapolis Speedway. He is sponsored by the American Squirrel Growers Association. JACK HAMILTON has become Hollywood’s new sensation. He replaced Donald Duck. DAVE IRWIN is acknowledging the art critics’ plaudits for his new exhibit called Thoughts in a Dill Pickle Dream” from his padded cell at Logansport. JIM STACK has been re-elected for the fourth time as mayor of Stackville, formely Miller. The army is feverishly searching to find the map of the island where they left LOUIS POLING ten years ago. MAURICE THEWS is carrying fifty-seven courses of the International Correspondence School. He’s a mailman. ART LARSON, Philosopher of the Moderns, has startled the world of youth with his theory on the relation of the common motor car to successful social affairs. STEVE PARFENOFF, only aviator in the class of ’46 has developed a co-axial, counter-rotating, super-duper propeller for the Flying Wing. He’s all up in the air about it. BOB SKOGSETH, after high jumping seventeen feet, tried to pole vault. He was shot down over Chicago. ALLAN RALPH has been arrested for crashing a meeting of the Skyscraper’s Club—an organization of girls over six feet tall. ARTHUR Red” IDDINGS has finally found a job. He’s painting the Iddings Girls for the Hobo News. BOB GARDNER has moved his wolfing operations to the

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Mostly Seniors? If You Cannot —Page 32 Will Help You

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J-a.it =1 V'dl anl J-e±tament While strolling near the south door of the school, we found a well - thumbed Racing Form. Out from its tattered pages fluttered a grimy sheet of paper. Upon closer examination it disclosed the following: We, the members of the Class of ’46, being sound mentally and physically, do upon leaving behind the halls of education which we have inhabited for twelve long years, give to those who stay the following gifts: MARY ALICE McGREW leaves her title Stuff” to Joyce Hinchman. HARRIET MORROW leaves the commerce room to any- SEARL CALAWAY leaves his steady hand to Harry Gibson to 'fix’ eligibility slips. CHARLES CRAWFORD leaves his knack for driving like a bull elephant to John Schcck. LEON DAHL leaves his 'stop-light blush to Johnny Whited, who should, but doesn’t. WILLIAM Wild Bill” DUNIVAN leaves the thrill of killing buffalo to Kit Carson. BOB GARDNER leaves — the girls — alone. ART LARSON leaves his car to the Smithsonian Institute and its motor to the Physics Class. LOUIS POLING leaves his way with the women to Jim Weaver. ALLAN RALPH leaves the fullback spot to anyone who can fill it. Get back in line, Hunt! BOB Spook” SKOGSETH leaves Shirley — again. one who wants to spend her life there. DELORES NABHAN leaves to the astronomy lovers, her heavenly body. MARY NASH leaves her conversational ability to Norma Lindstrom, who speaks when spoken to, maybe. KATHLEEN NASON leaves an essay on Ditching”, How To Get Away With It”, or, There’s Many A Skip ’Twixt the Brain and the Drip”. PAULINE ROBINSON wills an autobiography titled It Can Happen Here”, or Ten Days in a Classroom.” VALERIE SOLLORS wills her sunny disposition to Lyn-dal Elstad. BEVERLY TOBEY bequeaths a treatise on Teachers, and Their Cultivation.