Wright City High School - Echo Yearbook (Wright City, MO)

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Senior Class Prophecy The Year—1970 The Place—Basement of the Wright City Evangelical Church The Occasion—The Alumni Banquet The Toastmaster—Bob Hasekamp Bob Hasekamp, who had graduated from M.U. with honors in the field of agronomy had been selected by the Secretary of Agriculture to tour the world and study agricultural methods, had returned to teach Vo. Ag. in Wright City because he felt that the small school was the place to do the most good. Since he was president of the Alumni that year he had made special effort to have all the members of the class of '56 present and had been successful. He introduced the members of the class as follows: Elaine Bauman, who had been so thin and willowy in high school, had been employed by the Hershey Candy Company as a ’’taster” and as a re- sult had put on enough pounds that she was one of the regular clients of ’’Slenderella, Inc.” and made appearances endorsing their program. Wendell Weige, who was the star pitcher on the W.C.H.S. baseball team, had been signed by the Cardinals. He had played in their Rochester Minor league to gain experience and then into the Majors. He had pitch- ed a perfect game during the 7th game of the 1969 World Series and had consequently been called Mr. Baseball of the year. Melavee Schreckengast had worked in the office of the Acme Motion Picture Agency and had been selected as a stand-in for Marie Wilson and, after her retirement, had gone on with the program using the name of Mela Vee. If you remember some of her answers in high school, you’ll understand that she is well qualified for her part as the ’’rattle-brained” blonde”. Paul Godt was really the surprise of the evening. When he was call- ed into service he was asked if he could speak any foreign language. He rared back and said ”Yes, Spanish”. He was immediately put into the se- cret communications where he was so successful at writing code messages in Spanish that no one, not even Paul himself, could de-code them. Geneva Barton had gone into biological research. She had become so engrossed with biology in Mr. Jones class that she determined to pursue it further. For a time she did office work in St. Louis and attended night classes where she showed so much promise that she was given a scholorship to continue her studies on a full time basis. Earl Requat had had a very colorful life. He had done some stock car racing (you remember he had been practicing all through high school when- ever he was behind the wheel), and the thrill of danger had got in his blood. From the racing he had gone on to bull fighting, where for a time he was highly successful. However, one day he became over-confident and as a result he appeared at the banquet wearing a black patch over one eye and walking with a cane. This caused quite a flutter among the hearts of the ’’bobby soxers”. 13

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Senior Class Will We, the Seniors of 1956, being in our usual state of mind, and feel- ing the time of our departure from your- midst to be drawing nigh, feel that the time has come to draw up our last will and testament. Collectively, we leave to the members of the student body: (1) our best wishes for your future; and (2) our five positions on the boys basketball team To the faculty we leave: (l)our thanks for your pa- tience during our four years of high school; and (2) our assurance that the next yearfs class won't be like-us (you can take that either way). Individually we do will and bequeath the following. I, Geneva Barton, leave my loud mouth and forceful mien to Barbara Tomek in the hope that a happy medium will be reached. I, Elaine Bauman, wishing to be helpful and to aid her in over- coming an inferiority complex, will to Judy Barnett my way with the boys so that she may always have someone to sit with on the bus on ball trips. I, Bob Lewis, leave my little black book to Allan Hunt. The only number that I am not leaving at his disposal is SH5-3132. I, Paul Godt, leave to Buddy Taylor the job of announcing the ball games and furnishing transportation to Davis' and home to one of the guards on the girls' team. I, Bob Hasekamp, leave my chair in World History Jim Vessels and my position as editor of the Newspaper Staff to anyone who can't say No I, Earl Requat, being in my usual frame of mind, leave my speed record to Murrill Wohler, and his scooter and my ability to go steady to David Duebbert. I, Melavee Schreckengast, leave my knowledge of Senior subjects to Adele Eversmeyer in the hope that she may become less harum-scarum and rattle-brained . I, Charles Schnick, leave my absentee and tardy slips to Harold Rooher, Jackie Lee, and Neal Ordelheide. There should be enough for each one to have a plentiful supply. I, Ann Twiehaus, leave my love of school parties and formal affairs to Mary Jane. May she guard this trust well and in turn leave it to one of our ilk. I, Wendell Welge, do hereby leave to Jerry Churchill my basketball suit, whatever interest in girls I may not need in the future, and my habit of working hard on all class assignments. And lastly, I, Laverne Webbink, leave my nickname of Noisy to Alice Tremblay and Phyllis Sherrill. Let them practice diligently so that their voices can be heard without people straining their ears.

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Laverne Webbink was one of the big surprises of the evening. She appeared in a slinky, svelte number. She had her hair dyed black with a silver streak in it and her glasses had real diamonds in the frames. She said she operated a roulette wheel in Reno and the type costumes she wore had a great effect on the concentration of the players, con- sequently she dressed to divert their attention. Bob Lewis was just what you would expect him to be, a professional basketball player. He was with the colorful and romantic looking San Francisco Dons, during the last two years of his college days. From there he went to the Boston Celtics where he took Bob Cousyrs place. Bob had his own cheering section at each game and we leave you to guess who was the loudest one. The next member of his class to be introduced was Ann Twiehaus. Ann had become quite interested in hypnotism during the Bridey Murphy” epi- sode. She had gone to a spiritualist medium in the city with a group of friends just for fun and while under hypnosis had gone back to several previous lives. She had been a friend of Pocohontas and had helped her save the life of John Smith. Before that she had been one of the favor- ites of Henry VIII before he married Katherine of Aragon. And previous- ly had been a dancer in the court of Kubla Khan when Marco Polo was there She was touring the country with her hypnotist and giving demonstrations of the credibility of the age-regression theory. The last one to be introduced was Charles Schnick, remember he was always the last one to get to school, too. (Of course Charlie really needed no introduction either to his own classmates or to the other alumni). After graduation, Charlie had gassed up his jalopy and started out to see the U.S. He had got as far as California where he stopped to see Rand Brooks. He had liked the atmosphere so much that he had asked for and gotten a job as hostler for Rand and one day when Rand had been unable to appear for work with Hoppy Cassidy and Charlie, being of same coloring and size, was asked to stand in as ’’Lucky”. He was such a nat- ural that he was hired as a regular. From there it was an easy step to such roles as Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Matt Dillon, Sgt. Preston, Jake Pearson, Sky King, and the Range Rider. Remember, Charlie was well versed in the mannerisms of the local constabulary, having had various and sundry contacts witfi Sheriff Paul Wright and Sgt. Plumlee. Charlie had been late arriving at the banquet because he had been giving auto- graphs to wide-eyed boys and gaa-gaa girls. As you might suppose, he had been too busy to have any romantic episodes outside of his roles.