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...townsfolk still recall the class of 1960 as something special. It set a regional record for Merit Scholarships (13), and its football team went undefeated in the Central Kansas League. Breon Mitchell went on to Kansas University and a Rhodes scholarship. "Folks here," remembers Rita Joyce, "could never understand why Breon studied English and philosophy. They figured he should be using his brainpower for engineering or physics." Breon, like much of the class of '60, moved away from Salina and now teaches at the University of Indiana. Sandy Van Cleef studied ballet, married a mortician and settled in Magnolia...
Salina had no such boutique when the class of 1960 graduated. The faces in the Salina High School yearbook have such a faraway, unformed look that some of them, only ten years later, may wonder if they were ever entirely that young. The homecoming queen that year was Rita Joyce Cook, who appears on a full page of the yearbook crowned with baby carnations, a heart-shaped diamond pendant around her neck. With two others, she was judged "Most Likely to Succeed." Rita Joyce got married after graduation, had two children, got divorced, earned a teaching degree and moved...
...MARY RITA SMALLEY...
...would be candidates. Close physical resemblance to the slain figures is non-essential, since the three civil rights workers looked different in several photographs anyway, but Ritchie is searching for approximate look-alikes in general appearance to the principal characters-Andy Goodman, Mickey Schwerner (who tended toward overweight), and Rita Schwerner (who appeared small and spindly). He is also anxious to interview any black students from south of the Mason-Dixon line, since there are many roles to be cast for young Mississippi blacks, including the part of the lead character, James Chancey, Ritchie will be assisted in his selection...
Married. Rebecca Welles, 25, daughter of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, a recent drama graduate of the University of Puget Sound in Washington; and Perry Moede, 22, a sculptor; both for the first time; in a private ceremony in Tacoma, Wash...