(FORTUNE Magazine) – Want some early glimpses at the talents of chiefs of FORTUNE 500 companies and other big CEOs? Take a look at the excerpts above from high school yearbooks -- which report on their ambitions, their hobbies, and the assessments of classmates and teachers. Sometimes their peers perceived more than the young men themselves as to how the future would pan out. While General Electric's Jack Welch predicted he'd be an engineer, albeit a famous one, his peers noted managerial skills from the way he ran the class's finances. Jocks abounded among the CEOs pictured here, and it shows in the metaphors that AT&T's Robert Allen, Texaco's James Kinnear (both happy to play football, basketball, and baseball), and Weyerhaeuser's George Weyerhaeuser (basketball, soccer, and track) use today. Weyerhaeuser's classmates said he was ''bound to be successful'' -- hardly a long shot given that he runs the paper and building supply company founded by his great-grand-father. August Busch III, CEO of family-controlled Anheuser-Busch, was voted ''most likely to succeed.'' Tongue in cheek, the editor ran a picture of Busch with a mug of Budweiser beer. Among the clues of character? Ted Turner of Turner Broadcasting System, widely known as the ''Mouth of the South,'' won an oratorical medal at Chattanooga's McCallie High. Hobbies? Boeing's Frank Shrontz and Digital Equipment's Ken Olsen were camera buffs. Walt Disney's Michael Eisner, Morrison-Knudsen's William Agee, and Rubbermaid's Stanley Gault were aspiring thespians. As the sheikh in My Man Godfrey, Gault was hailed in his yearbook for the way he ''slunk around the stage creating sensations whenever and wherever he appeared.''