1950

Black and Gold

Fairmount High School

Fairmount, Indiana

Advisors   Juniors    Sophomores   Freshman

Senior Class Officers

Standing left to right:

Phil Underwood, social chairman; Reva Brown, treasurer; Janiece Payne, historian; Joyce Wigner, social chairman.

Seated left to right:

Eddie Thomas, president; Ray Turner, vice-president; Marilyn Blair, secretary.

Top row left to right: Marilyn Blair, Philip Gordon Brewer

Bottom row left to right: Allen Caswell Bryan, Reva Irene Brown

Top row left to right: Patricia Joan Compton, Bill J. Druck

Bottom row left to right: Fred Duling, Elizabeth Ann Jarvis

Top row left to right: Paul David Fox, Martha Lou Mitchener

Bottom row left to right: Jane Sue Nose, Jim Fulkerson

Top row left to right: Ray Eugene Turner, Dixie Sue Parrish

Bottom row left to right: Estaleen Painter, Richard Heater

Top row left to right: John W. Hearn, Victor Lee Hilton

Bottom row left to right: David Milton Worl, Janiece Sue Payne

Top row left to right: Carol Ricks, Murle Stanly Holloway

Bottom row left to right: David Jones, Jr., John Halstead Jessup

Top row left to right: Max Franklin Kirkwood, Dickie Ben Lee

Bottom row left to right: Wilma Jean Scott, Elmer Metzger

Top row left to right: Charles Lewis, Mary Carolyn Sheets

Bottom row left to right: Paul McCormick, John Richard Kinch

Top row left to right: Paavo Einard Pogue, James Smith

Bottom row left to right: Paul Marvin Smith, Joyce Ann Wigner

Top row left to right: Mary Louise Velasquez, Kenneth Paul Spence

Bottom row left to right: Morris Edward Stewart, Eddie Thomas

Top row left to right: Phil Underwood, Ralph Harold Vetor

Bottom row: Roy Lee Yater

Top row: Bobby Tolbert

Bottom row left to right: Bonnie Delene Phillips, Paul Van Ness

Class Prophecy

  • This is station HUITC (High Up In the Clouds) reporting to you concerning the graduating class of 1950.

  • Dick Heater is now running a shave and haircut shop in the big city of Rigdon, Indiana, with shaves as his specialty. Phil Brewer, prominent auctioneer of Rigdon, is one of his regular customers.

  • Wilma Scott is still patiently waiting for her ten-star admiral who is to be discharged from the Air Force.

  • Congratulations go to Jim Fulkerson (K. Y.) who was voted No. 1 coach of the year in Indiana, having piloted the Fairmount team to a state championship five times in ten years.

  • John Jessup has just been elected president of the United States, the first Republican president since Herbert Hoover. Dickie Ben Lee faithfully consults him on all important business matters. Eddie Thomas is now vice-president of the U. S., following in the footsteps of Alben Barkley. He is not married yet.

  • You remember Davie Jones, don't you? Well, Davie stayed on after the trip to New York to play with the New York Yankees. He makes on an average thirty hits a season. Jim Smith, who umpires many of the Yankee games, has invented a radar system that tells who gets to home plate first, the runner or the catcher.

  • The speed-king, Paul McCormick, has recently qualified for the Indianapolis 500 mile race. "Speedy" got his start with his explosive hotrod at dear old F.H.S. Murle (Dope) Holloway is his special and essential super-duper mechanic.

  • Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smith (Red Brown) have all the modern conveniences in their new home including a miniature boxing ring. They employ Tony Riley as their referee.

  • Janet Sue Nose is still as busy as ever furnishing bail for Max Kirkwood, who still can't read stop signs.

  • Fairmount's new town marshal, David Worl, is especially lenient on speeders and reckless drivers as he remembers the days of his youth.

  • Rich oil-magnate Carol Ricks hasn't decided which of the two graduation "gifts" to accept. You can't wait forever to decide, Carol.

  • Famous hair stylist, Estaleen Painter, is now employed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Among her customers are Rhonda Fleming, Cornell Wilde, Peter Lawford and Elizabeth Taylor.

  • Remember that glamorous "blond" from Fairmount Bend, Joyce Wigner? She is now modeling for the John R. Powers Agency in New York.

  • Mr. and Mrs. Jack Howell (Martha Mitchener), Mr. and Mrs. Clymer Jones (Mary Carolyn Sheets), Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Parrish (Mickey Jarvis) just flew to Hawaii for their summer vacation. They left their brood of children in care of Charles Lewis, who has taken up baby sitting as a hobby when he is not running track on the U. S. Olympic team. My, what a team he does have, too!

  • Dixie Sue Parrish owns a equestrian (horses to you) farm in the Kentucky blue grass region. Other familiar faces seen around the stables are her stable boy, Ralph Vetor, and jockey, Bob Tolbert. Bob has just won the Kentucky Derby, with Ralph cheering him on to victory. Apples are Bob's diet as he is not allowed to gain weight.

  • Mr. and Mrs. Barbara Dragstrem (Roy Yater) and Mr. and Mrs. Barbara Middleton (Vic Hilton) are still residents of Fairmount. Roy and Vic keep the home fires burning and wear the stairs out answering distress signals from the nursery.

  • While skating around up here, I just ran into one of our old classmates, Bonnie Phillips, who is juggling cups and saucers on a big passenger plane. As you have probably guessed, she is a very capable airline stewardess.

  • Another one of our '50 graduates certainly has moved up in life. John Kinch is now the head of the Walgreen chain of drug stores, and he is thinking of having the name changed to Kinch Drugs.

  • Bill Druck has become the manager of the largest woodwork manufacturing company in the world located in Philadelphia. His products can be found in many of the famous art museums all over the world.

  • As I journey through the clouds to France, I see Pat Compton is managing a top-notch woman's shop in Paris. She designs dresses two years in advance of the styles.

  • Daniel Boone II (Phil Underwood) has become a multimillionaire by trapping mink in Alaska. By the way, that is where the money is coming from for the new school building which Fairmount is now constructing.

  • Professional basketball star David Fox is now playing with the Anderson Packers. He has taken Reece Tatum's place.

  • Elmer Metzger is the owner and manager of the E. & M. Supermarket in Fowlerton. It has just been rated the most modern market in the state of Indiana. His good friend, Allen Bryan, is the government profession at Fowlerton University.

  • Fred Duling (Fred the Fender Bender) spends most of his time ironing out bent fenders at his modernized garage in Fowlerton. His wife, the former Janiece Payne, is his efficient helper and keeps busy by having a keg of nuts and bolts ready for his use at all times.

  • I don't think my eyes deceive me, but i do believe I see Morris Stewart down there taking care of the triplets while his ever faithful wife is feeding the chickens.

  • Kenneth Spence is still running around in his old '50 Ford, selling Fuller brushes to the women who don't slam the door in his face. He says it is a paying job, though.

  • Mary Velasquez runs a new kind of business. Remembering the time she went home on the school bus by mistake, she now rents out cars to people who forget theirs; one car at one end of the line and another at the other.

  • Last but not least, John Hearn is a very capable stage manager for a great play house on Broadway and enjoys pounding the nail very much.

  • You may have wondered how I have managed to give such a complete report. I, Marilyn Blair, with my x-ray eyes have observed all of these goings on while skating around in the clouds with the skates I received for my 18th birthday.

 

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