Fantastic Names From The Past: 1957-1958 Edition

We're back -- with more fantastic names straight out of vintage yearbooks! Today we're looking at some California books o' the year from 1957 and 1958. Out of roughly two thousand students featured within, there are approximately 92 Sandys, 102 Dicks, 59 Judys, and 173 Bobs. How they all managed to discern each other, I'll never know. What I do know is that at least a few parents who birthed babies circa 1939-1941 must have thought, "You know what? Our child is going to have a moniker that means something! And ya know what else? We're going to send our baby to a high school where even the principal has a fantastic name!"



Eaton O. Bemis, thank you for setting the bar so, so high. I hope you were right proud of all your students. But especially these ones....


Clebert Bergeron

Virgil Tollefson

Bertha Barber

Truman Warsham

Aloha Norton

Martha Memmer

Karen Wynekoop

Haroldene Freeman

DeWayne McCormick

Bob Koob

Donna Dangler

Skip Ross 

Geneva Potepan

Davina Mogyorody

Garland Higgins

Joycene Laytart

Myrla Jule

Wanda Schwendt

Walt Slack

 Fayrene Lancaster

Parnell Waslien

Morris Mosby

Jules Canute

Gary Sexy

Gary Goodenough

Sandy Strain

Lyle Zerby

Jereanne Beardsley

Buddy Ay

Georjean Foraker

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 My picks for the Top 10 Fantastic Names Of 1957-1958:


10. Pete Pfleger

9. Sunny Dillingham

8. Vic Numbers

7. Ray-Nan Enders

6. Doil Ellington

5. Virlee Stickels

4. Pudgie Baldock

3. Wincie Yeargain

2. Corliss Filbert

and

1. Dick Elliott Doody

For those of the above still with us, please enjoy your eighties.

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