Broken Bow High School - Warrior Yearbook (Broken Bow, NE)

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Class Prophecy The Indians of '47 have been absent from B. B. H. S. many years. Just to make sure that these brave warriors have not been forgotten and gone the way of the dinosaur, we are going to jump upon our pinto ponies and take you to the tepees of these unconquerable braves and squaws. Still living on the ole B. B. Reservation and keeping the home fires burning are Mary Streit-wieser caring for the hearthstone and Jackie’s peace pipe, Marydean Brindell tending little Linder injuns, and Norma Myers still anchored and looking with fond admiration at her big chief basking in the sun. Ah! it all looks so peaceful and homelike. Glad-heart Shirley Souders is busy being a coach’s wife. Trying to remember all those football plays and scores is really baffling. Jerry, Remote-Control, Borchers is managing a fine clothing store for the elite of the prairie. Donna Jean Broyles, Arlene Peterson, and Beverly Farmer are the speed typists of a big Morning Sun Corporation which is owned by the brain and the brawn, Marvin Broadbent and Ray McMurtrv, respectively. Now it is Saturday. The neighboring tribe challenges Broken Bow at the usual football game. Well! Look who’s coaching the Indians! Dick Wattles and his assistant is Roger Relph who is also the chemistry teacher in our old alma mater. Betty Ahl boasts of being the owner of the only creamery in the pueblo and she is one of the best cream testers in the entire clan. Shirley Keays is in the height of her glory. She is the first maiden of the clothes designing department for the Powers Girls. Her success may be attributed to the fact that she had had previous experience as a dancer in the Wicked War Chant Pow-Wow. Professor Jack Nelson is improving on the atom bomb. He is now taking the place of Einstein as the greatest brain of all time. Alfred Geeslin, John Gishpert, and Roland Cooks-ley are beating the drums and tapping the tambourines with the Philadelphia Harmonic Orchestra, thanks to their musical education back at B. B. II. S. under Chief Tutor Rounds. Bessie Pomplun is the debate-coax-hard-persistent and determined maiden, and from her high school experience we know that she really can make people believe red is white. Faith Mattox, Sara, and Evelyn Baker are living on small reservations. Each night while redskin hubby does the chores the squaws gather the eggs. The prima donna Rena Van Arsdale is whooping it up as the greatest alto soloist for the exclusive Metropolitan Opera Company in pulsating New York City. Jack Crouch has recently achieved the title of Virulent-Masculine-Featherweight Champion of 1970. Swoon! Swoon! Starring tonight is the crooner Bobbie Spanel who won the Nobel Prize for his rich and mellow rendition of “RED WING”. At one of the side tables of the MIDNIGHT MONSTROSITY is Betty Swift who has come to the village from her rancho for a little excitement. Herman Haefele for president! That is the tribal chant heard in 1969. Dipping his oars in the same political sea of contention is a great grandson of the Mayos, Frank, who is aiming at the same target as the invincible Herman. “Off we go into the wild blue yonder.” That’s what Shirley Piper and Shirley Pruner are singing since they have been brave enough to sail in “canoes with wings” as air stewardesses. Lavonne Snyder and Shirley Coble own a drug store at the corner of Bow and Arrow St., and their pharmacist is Gwen Chase, chief mixer of fire water. The motto of Shirley and Lavonne, who have worked here before, is “Don’t overdo it”. By pony express we hear that Leola Tyson is teaching Math at the University of Nebraska. She inherited her knowledge of ciphers from the great spirit, Waubeyon, or in our language, Professor Adams. Eugene Sherbeck, Merle McCaslin, and Paul Si-monton are operating dude ranchos in competition with their neighbors, the Navajos. It’s nice that they can be so near each other and smoke their pipes while asking the Gods to send rain for their crops. Duane Martin and his kootchy-kooey wife are operating a restaurant and boarding house just for the village high school boys. For extra pin money they weave baskets. Dr. Stockham wanted in surgery! Dr. Stockham! Well, Phil with his infectious smile became a surgeon and now he is working in one of the largest hospitals in the country. In this same hospital we find three of the girls, Mary Jo Moran, Margaret Hicks, and Man- 26 The Warrior ’47

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 B. B. H.S. REMINISCENCES

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CLASS PROPHECY (Continued) Carothers, now clad in white. We recall their traipsing up and down in the halls of the high school. Now they are running up and down in the corridors of Nopeming Hospital. Lula Jean Books and Shirley Evans are at the head of the Cosmetic Research Division to invent a face cream that will beautify sagging muscles of red skins in the same manner that anti-knock fluid works on a motor. Gretchen Lomax and Dorothy Dewey are still buddies and are on the stage doing the play, “TWO SISTERS FROM BROKEN BOW.” Marva Best is rearing little “SPOTS” and in her spare time she washes the clothes for the cleaners. Marva reminds Don, We have to pinch pennies in order to buy that new adobe hut . Floyd Ahl. Glen White, Vernon Shepherd, and George Govier are instructors. Those fellows just loved school so much that they couldn’t bear to leave it. Howard Dye and 1 Iarlan Tabor are tilling the soil just a mile from Broken Bow. Those big hunks of kindhearted braves couldn’t let the Indians suffer any lack of maize. Wesley Pracht and Vaughn Nelson are now two of the best and most famous architects we have in North America. Those fellows are planning to build a non-tip cradle that is better than any way back in 1947, and that will include every comfort for the papoose. Marion Yantzie is working in an office and is the typical office girl (you know, sitting on the boss’s knee). Her raven tresses and black eyes have drawn many a jewel from her big chief employer. Pearl Myers is still recovering from the shock she received while cheering in all the Sioux rallies. On to Hollywood—and there in the land of Setting Sun and Rising Glory, we find Mildred Adams, Adele Stedry, and Beverly Brainard who operate a beauty salon catering exclusively to the movie stars. “Ringling Bros. Little Sioux Lady”—but we used to know this “shy little prairie maid as Pat Mohatt. We jaunt to Grand Island. Nebraska, where we find Audrey Hickenbottom, the only woman pedestrian speed cop in the world. If she can’t catch the offenders with her motorcycle she shoots arrows into their tires. La Vona Prescott is the dean of women in one of the country’s leading schools for women. All the maids come to her to weep on her shoulder. ()ver the air waves comes the voice of an announcer who is relaying the latest developments of the football game, play by play. Now he is saying, “He’s over, folks! He’s over for a touch-down! That speed demon, Raymond Zeller, fearlessly plunged into the thick of the battle and saved the day for the Navy. After the smoke cleared away the score was found to be 90-0. Shirley Smith and Hazel Mattox are chairwoman and co-chairwoman of a national organization known as the Manhaters’ Club. Dashing through Omaha, Nebraska, we see the state’s leading department store and the proprietors are Darlene Niedt, Mildred Johnson, and Virginia Phillips. They are featuring a special kind of hosiery advertised as the kind with “no hits, no runs, no errors”. Detta Shaw, Ruth Condon, and Margaret Luke are managing a chain of restaurants. Their only trouble is with the natives who steal their silverware. Their manager and supervisor is Chief Bob Lauer. Now we go to the fairgrounds where we see Elda Heath and Margaret I.epant who are in charge of a hamburger stand. Their slogan is “Nary a burp in a burger”. Here, too, we find Bob McCarty who is running around promoting Broken Bow’s World Fair in the “world’s littlest big city”. The National Director of Education to take over the Education Exhibit is Delbert Prescott. Don Jones has taken over Paul Robson’s place in the dancing and singing world. His latest footwork is “Black Hawk Craze” and “Oh, How My Feet Do Ache”. Then under those pines we see the perspiring brows of the hardworking and exhausted Norman Gubser, Chris Hall, and James Mayo who are contemplating a journey to distant realms to investigate the effect of moth balls on the love life of the moth. Looking out on the mesa, now, we see that our pintos are becoming restless and so we reluctantly bid farewell to this energetic Broken Row Hidalgo -Squaw Reservation. During our visit we caught the feeling of satisfaction that comes only to those whose work is well done. As the glimmering sight of the reservation, with its smoldering and smoking fires, fades away we leave imbued with courage, strength, and energy that exuded from these colorful natives who are destined to leave an indelible impression on this earth. The Warrior '47 27