Zephyrhills High School - Zephilsco Yearbook (Zephyrhills, FL)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of 1950, being of sound mind and body, hereby make and declare this to be our last will and testament. To our Alma Mater, ZHS, and all the students and faculty who make up the school, we leave this Zephilsco of 1950 and the Inter-Communication System. To the teachers we leave a bottle of arsenic to make it a quick death instead of the slow torture they are forced to go through. We also leave our sincere apprecia- tion to the teachers who have labored with us these years. THANKS for your guidance and understanding. To Mr. Luckenbach we leave a 20 gauge shotgun to use on students who are forever making him lose his temper. Also many Thanks for all he has done for us. To Mrs. Atwater, we leave our constant love and admiration. To the Junior Class we leave the responsibility and work of getting out the Annual for 1951. To the Sophomore Class we leave the ambitions we had when we were Sophomores. To the Freshman Class we leave four years of toil and sweat that it takes to graduate. Also fondest recollections of Goon Day. I, Virginia Wasner, leave my ability to stay wide awake in Latin class to Nelda Rae Cook. I, Jaynell LeHeup, leave to that adorable Junior guy, Walter Hill, my position as Cheerleader and my sweet southern temper. I, Lillian Kress, leave my ability to tame a wolf to Erlita Keen. I, Nancy Skinner, leave my secret crush on Skip Riley to Marilyn McClellan. I, Shirley Miles, leave my ability to catch a man to Patsy Doyle. I, Eleanor Ray, leave one precious date with Joe Paul Womack to Mary Greene. I, Agnes Forbis, leave my love of Plant City and my ability to become engaged to Bill Stallings and Thelma McKee. I, Bobby Clardy, leave my power over women to Jim Ferguson. I, Jook England, leave my ability to get along with the teachers to Mary Ann Vestal and my dignity and love of studying to Martha Mae Keller. I, Earl Wells, leave my quiet delicate voice and sophisticated manner to Barbara Sabin. I, Joan Cooper, leave my position in the Store Room to Guy Canady and my loud ways to Mildred Hill. I, Nancy Wasner, leave my shorthand ability to John Gardner and my bottle of bleach to Cora Lena Newsome. I, Elizabeth Stephenson, leave my ability to be a flirt to Betty Bohannon. I, Nellie Lott, leave my red hair and girlish laugh to Rex Gilbreath. I, Jean Lefler, will my job as Baby-Sitter over Jook England and Bill Nevins to Joyce Baker. I, Jack Bohannon, leave my ability to drive Mrs. Atwater's car to Jimmy Richards. I, Claude Kinard, leave my ability to skip school to Glen Davis. I, Cannie Mae White, leave my job at the Drive-In to Elizabeth Bryant. I, Odis Hill, leave my ability to go steady to Harry Wheeler. I, Mabel Greene, leave my ability to plow to Betty Jean Sullivan. I, Howard Cherry, leave my ambition to play football to Jack Lamb. I, James Hennesy, leave my ability to attract girls to Donald Welsch. I, Johnny Atkinson, leave my curly hair to Hilda Nesbit. I, Carrie Partridge, leave my position as majorette and the nickname Durango to Cynfhia Hinsz. I, Bobby Whitehead, leave my snappy walk and quiet ways to Jon Ferguson. I, Roberta Leeson, leave my ability to do vocal solos and my talent as a poster painter to Helene Rexroad. I, Philip Russel, leave my position in the band to Billy Marshall.

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grammar school and we also collected some money for the scrap and paper. Mrs. Nillie Price saw to it though that we got in our proper amount of book-learning along with all our other activities. Nancy Skinner had joined our group at the beginning of this year and we're sure just like us, she still remembers borrowing wagons and carts to collect our loot in. More big doings, for most all our class members were in the cast of the very delightful and highly successful operetta, Green Cheese. We had our first Big class party at the State Park this year and we couldn't have had a more perfect ending to our years of toil in grammar school. Now came a big step for all for we were in Junior Hi this next year! Mr. Gerald Hatch was our seventh grade overseer. Now we were really in though, because we changed classes and had different teachers and everything else JUST LIKE THE HIGH SCHOOL!! Johnny Atkinson came all the way from Michigan and Agnes Forbis came from Tennessee and joined our lit- tle band. (And with all the noise we made what a unique little band it was!) Bobby Clardy was our Class President. Some of our boys even went out for foot- ball this year and remember all the fun we had putting on our Assembly plays—especially the one about Swimming Pools” and the one about the three old maids (Jean Lefler, Jaynell LeHeup, and Nillie Lott)? We had lots of different home room sponsors in the eighth grade but Mrs. Mildred Mozena had us for a long time and then Mr. Nick Mangin took over for the reminder of the year. Joanne Cooper and Claude Kinard were new additions this year and Jean Lefler was Class President. Nancy Skinner and Will Roger England were selected as the Outstanding girl and boy of our class and given the American Legion Medals. But then, oh what a time came! Our Freshman Year and we were in high school. Our first year of four years of triumphs and trials, tears and laughter, heartache and fun! Mr. Vincent McGuire was our Frosh sponsor until the Junior Class kidnapped him. We were swamped with new arrivals this year who were none other than Roberta Leeson, William Nevins, Cannie Mae White, James Hennessy, Philip Russell, and Virginia Wasner, all now famous members of the Senior Class of '50: Jook England was this year's Class President. Mr. Malcomn E. Goforth started us off our Sopho- more year. Jean Lefler was our Class President and Lillian Kress was our class mate for a few weeks. Many of us took part in the Glee Club's Operetta, C ionita in which Nancy Skinner (A Sophomore, natch) had the lead. We all took an interest in the development of a Student Council here at ZHS and Jook England and Jaynell LeHeup were the two Sophomores elected to serve on it. Many of us served at the annual Junior- Senior Prom and Banquet and helped make them suc- cessful events! Miss Martha Jane Coler took over as our Sophomore sponsor during the middle of the year. Now came the beginning of our very wonderful successful Junior year. Mrs. Alice Atwater was our untiring devoted sponsor and Nancy Skinner our ener- getic President. Shirley Miles came to be part of our gang this year. We sponsored very successful and full of fun football dances, took care of the basketball concessions and many many other money making ac- tivities. Our biggest boast to our Treasury, however, was our most successful and hilarious April 22, 1949 presentation of Brides To Burn. A play which was a smash hit despite many setbacks. We had quite a time when Johnny Jones got the mumps but he recovered in time to play his butler role. However then Jook got the chicken pox and then the mumps so Bink Bar- field had to step into the role of Hap at the last minute and he did a swell job! Mrs. Atwater, the direc- tor was very proud and happy over the triumph of all her Junior Thespians. A lot of credit goes also to our hard working stage hands, ticket managers, and ad- geters. We all worked together for this and the re- sult was that our class gave the bestest Junior-Senior Prom and Banquet ever! The banquet was held at the Zephyr Hotel and the Prom at the Woman's Club. The theme for all the festivities was Hawitian and the Prom was highlighted by all the oodles' of confetti so generously supplied by us. All in all everything was just wonderful and we had plenty of food, music and fun!!! Our class gift to dear ole ZHS was purchased this year also. Doling out plenty of greenbacks we were able to have an Inter-Communication System put in here at our school. A marvelous gift which will continue to give service to the school in many many years to come. Then came our last year of Hi for now we were SENIORS. With all of us, including our new class mates, we were very crowded in our homeroom, the lil chemistry lab. Liz Stephenson and Lillian Kress, former classmates rejoined us and brand new additions were Carrie Lou Parttridg, Eleanor Ray, and Howard Cherry. They didn't complete our enrollment however because Nillie Lott, a former class-mate, and Nancy Wasner became Seniors after the end of the first semester. Our first big Senior event was Freshman Initia- tion Day. What a treat Goon Day was not only for the Seniors (and after the party that night, the Fresh- men) but also everyone else at ZHS judging from the response given this big day. The Class of '50 hopes that it has established a tradition of Goon Day here at ZHS and wish to thank the Goons (Class of 53) for being soooooo cooperative. Our Class play, The Baby-Sitter was given on February 13, after a lot of work and basketball. Miss Clement was our most efficient director. Other class activities were many and varied and all provided us with plenty of fun and fond memories. Easter Morning found the ZHS Seniors at Bok Tower for the beautiful services held there every year. Skip- a-way Day was just oodles of fun! The Prom and Ban- quet were wonderful occasions. Kid's Day and the Spring Festival belonged to the Seniors too! Then finally those final exams and then Graduation Week. Class Night, Baccalaureate, and then Commencement and we walked down the aisle of ZHS auditorium in our white caps and gowns and received our cherished diplomas. Now our high school days are over. Our annual, Zephilsco 1950 is our last tribute to all the learning, fears, joys, and triumphs of all our many hours spent here at beloved ZHS. As we journey onward through- out life our yearbook of memories will keep our ZHS School Days near and precious to us. They will not be forgotten by us and we hope we shall not be forgotten by all of YOU.

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Zephyrhills, Florida June, I960. Mr. Leon R. Luckenbug, Chief furnace keeper, Igloos Incorporated, Hot 'an Cold, Alaska. Dear Mr. Luckenback, Since you left the fair city of Zephyrhills and the graduates of the ZHS Class of 1950, things have real- ly been poppin’. Nearly all of the Seniors of that memorable year have made names for themselves in one way or another. For instance. Agnes Forbis, who always was full of rhyme, went into the poem writing business and has made a fortune on her latest work, Mary Had TWO Little Lamb. Another who got rich fast was Claude Kinard, who discovered a combination perfume for the ladies and fly killer. Made from limburger cheese, onions, and sour grapes, the perfume really slays 'em. Passing the Home Theatre Saturday afternoon, I noticed Nancy Lee Skinner taking time from her chores at a nearby dairy where she is a milkmaid to see that thrilling con- tinued, Freddie Takes A Wife. James Hennesy real- ly went up in this world. He's the one who turns the crank on that new fangled fire siren atop the water tower. Joan Cooper is happily married and just as talk-a-tive as ever. Roberta Leeson finally hooked Odis Hill too, although I don't think he resisted much. Odis is now head man of Hill, Gall and Hill groves. Jaynell LeHeup, the beautiful class genius, if you'll remember correctly, eloped only last week with some fellow she used to have a crush on from the north. Jay- nell, who was teaching school, couldn't match wits with those seventh graders. Jack Midge Bohannon, and Little Bill Nevins, class shrimps whose swivel hips and elusive running made them great grid stars at Notre Dame, are still playing pro football for the Lumber- jacks. Phil Russel composed that famous Russel's Last Russel , a drum solo, and was exiled to lower Slobovia. Poor Phil! But all is not dark. Johnny Atkinson and Mabel Green came through with flying colors; Johnny ousting B. F. as Mayor and getting himself elected. Mabel is his secretary. Bobby Whitehead surprised nearly everyone by becoming a professional orator and poemist. His latest poem, Fearless Fosdick Takes American men. Shirley Miles and Bobby Clardy are two more that hit the matrimony trail, Shirley going north to Gainesville to find her man, and Clardy to West Tampa. They sure fooled everyone. Clardy is a section hand on the A., C., and L. Strangely enough the Showmen of the class turned out to be the Wasner sisters, who do a Hawaiian song and dance act. Nancy handles the hula end of the act and Vir- ginia the vocal. Sometimes they're accompanied by Elanor Ray and her magic trombone. (Yes, Elanor took private lessons from Put W. to learn to play.) Our class sponsor, Mrs. Alice Atwater, is ten years older, but you'd never know it. She's still as full of life as ever and when last seen was headed for Wash- ington. She never gave up, bless her heart. Liz Stephenson is now a demonstrator for Sadler's Elevator shoes (her height you know) and her old side- kick, Carrie Partridg is head (one and only) majorette of the Zephyrhills Citizen s Band. Ron Bright has a huge paper route in Ft. Myers. Ron’s the boy who tired of us after eight years and left during the year. Re- member how we hated to see him leave? Earl Wells is chief copy boy for the Zephyrhills Blues, and his Boss, Boward Herg is currently running a story on Earl's engagement to Adelma Clark. Lillian Kress is daily turning down marriage proposals from George Heufel in favor of teaching complex mathematics. Howie Cherry REALLY went up. He's now head lines- man for Fla. Power Corp, and you know how high those poles are! Cannie White has added a new twist to her job as carhop—she roller skates around to the autos. As you probably know, Mr. Lookenbeck, the entire faculty was so sorry to see us graduate that they all resigned to weep in peace. Knowing you miss my shy, modest personage im- mensely and that you wish you were again arbitrator of my skirmishes with the faculty of '50, I remain the same quiet and organized JooK England, caretaker Zephyrhills Tourist Club.