Ashland High School - Blue Jay Yearbook (Ashland, NE)

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Class Prophecy Luvung on the moon us a very unterestung lufe From thus planet far above the earth I have been conducting a search for my former classmates on my former home planet the Earth Wuth the help of newspapers sent to me from Earth and my powerful telescope I have ended my search of many years One of the furst things I found out uS that Glen Rosenboom us a mussuonary un the South Sea Islands As we know he acquired thus desure to wander un Ashland Hugh School He wandered and the teachers wondered where he was most of the time However he us doung a very commendable uob teaching the natives of the jungle how to read and wrute He has not yet married but according to the chuef of the Ubagot trube there us to be a formal wedding ceremony next week Who should knock at my door the other day but Bully and Ruthie lnee Lundl Scott They came unto the house followed by theur many carrottops It seems they converted Lund s old faithful Model A unto a rocket shup and brought the whole family along for a rude They gave me some of the latest dope on my 48 classmates In an umpressuve ceremony un Chicago Harlow Todd was awarded the Daniel Webster Medal for Oratuon Hus speech was entitled The Haunt of Mankund Another headluner us Bud Tillman who received natuon wude recognutuon for attending Sunday School every Sunday for twenty years without mussung once Thus record compares favorably to hus record of attendance un the old red schoolhouse LaVerne Neumann ran 99 yards for a touchdown un the Rose Bowl game thus year He won the game for Nebraska but ut was due only to the fact that famous Come Huther look that we all remember I was overjoyed at receuvung a long distance telephone call from Mrs Catherine Marcy lnee Balloul She seems to be a very competent busuness manager for her husband as her call was to unquure whether or not anyone had dued recently on the moon We had a very unterestung get together and after two weeks conversung we funally saud our Au Rivers Charles Finney has been un Washungton makung speeches to Congress on the Plught of the Farmers Thus come as a surpruse to us and we wonder when hus opunuon changed Don Morrus us traunung Pistol on hus ranch un Wyomung As you know Pistol us Trugger s new colt belongung to Roy Rogers Max Welch spends most of hus time un hus sunken bathtub since hus returement He won S50 OOO with thus jungle Take ut from a dope There s no suds luke Sudsy Soap Don Slama has been voted the natuon s No I bus druver Hus druvung experuence came from druvung kuds to and from school Glenn Wagner seems to have taken over the leadershup of the Women's Chrustuan Temperance Union He became theur udol after hus successful campaugn to dry clean Nebraska He has been recommended for thus posutuon by popular vote of the socuety I , . I , . ' 1 ' I ' 1 I Il Il I . I r ll his wife, the former Shirley Raikes, was standing in the end zone flashing her II . II I ' ' I II ' Il ' ' ' I ' 1 ,, . 1 - ll , . . , . . . .

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PROM KI NG Frank Beckman Attendant: Marcella Thiessen JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET Moy 8, 1948 Blackstone Hotel - Omaha, Nebraska ' , I. A-, ONE NIGHT IN HEAVEN Toastmaster-William Grauerholz Lord's Prayer ............. .... Darlene Sowards Somewhere Over the Rainbow .... .... R ene Jo Squire Cutting Capers with Cupid ................, .lock Anderson Star Dust .................................. Girls Trio Darlene Sowards, Rene Jo Squire, lnHeaven ....... ....... Angels of Mercy ..,. . . Stella by Starlight. . . . . Jacqueline Lewis .Catherine Ballou . . .Dolores Gode . . .Gene Birdsall Moonlight and Roses. . .... Willard Woitzel The Sky Pilot . . . .... Supt. P. D. Pyle PROM QUEEN Rene Jo Squire Attendant: Glen Wagner

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A very modern space shnp lourneyed up to see me the other dav lts passengers were none other than Jerry and Ruth Strenght Knee Newshaml Ruth has been a very lnfluentlal factor on her mllllonalre husband In the last census ut was found that he had more of everythlng than anyone else nncludlng children Everyone on the moon was very fnghtened recently when some unknown oblect whlzzed over at great speed Reports were sent out for the flymg dlscs but at was found to be a baseball thrown by Wullard Spech nn a major league game After the nntroductlon of televnsuon the popular crooner Vernon Merrn man has swept the bobby soxers off thelr feet A contest conducted for the women wnth the most quiet ways was won by Manlyn Edwards She was then bestowed the natlonal tltle of Mass Hush After a slnglng career of many years Gene Burdsall and Rene Jo Beck man lnee Squlrel have retnred from the stage Rene Jo wrote a book The Turkey and l Since she us not llvlng on a turkey farm we fngured the turkey could be none other than her husband Frank Lots Johnson us leadung a very quuet lufe slnce her marriage right after graduatuon from AHS She has been resudlng on a farm by Wann Luculle Fox us now an New York maknng sulver fox fur coats lf you want qualnty get a fox by Fox Also un New York are Margaret and Kathryn Leddy who have become promunent In the fashuon world It seems they have guven up marruage for a career of desugnnng clothes at Macy s Roberta Young has been busy un her campalgn for presndent She galned much polutucal expernence In her Soclal Sclence classes at Ashland Hugh School What do they do on a ralny nnght nn Rao? Naturally they watch Senonta LaVone Vance dance the rhumba ln the swanky Rao Nnght Club owned by Wayne Laughlnn She ganned her talent dancnng at class parties no? Maxune Barger and Donna Kuhlman recently swam the Englnsh Channel and won the much coveted gold cup They cut lt nn half as they sworn an relays Cnnderella Bonnue Dean marned the remaunlng Rockefeller brother Her weddlng outshone by far the weddung of Princess Elizabeth wav back when Tom Deleskl has started up a shoe manufacturing company to make shoes for all people who wear over snze l2 Jack Anderson IS his partner nn the nnterest of elevators on shoes of all people under 5 6 tall Beth Stanley ns teachlng the methods of excellent pug breedung an her 4 H club Henn s newest assustant us Ruth Vosler Her new beauty parlor us located at 48th and 5th Avenue In case you re ever an New York and need a going over l ll bet you can t guess who are the propruetors of the New Fushlng Lodge at Memphis Lake None other than lva Mae Stanke and Darlene Merrlman As of now the largest flsh were caught by the expert fishermen Floyd Cox and Donald Deal The fnsh welghed respectnvely 70 pounds and 75 pounds As Floyd and Don are the well known mnlllonaures of the rubber lndustry they spend all theur vacations near Ashland Knlttung Spinster Susue Sums as the newest candudate for woman presl dent Instead of klssmg all the babies she meets she passes out bonnets she has knitted ' I ' 1 1 1 ' , . . . . ,, . ,, I - . . ,, ' 1 ,, . . . . . ' 1 , . I ' I . . . , ' 1 . , . - ' 1 ' 1 . 1 11 ., . . . . , . . I , , . . . 1 1 . , - ' 1 1 1 ' ' I