Falls City High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Falls City, NE)

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SENIORS FERN SHILEY San Antonio, 1; Commercial; State Music Contest, 3: MINK Contest, 3; Chorus, 3, 4; Glee Club, 3, 4; Operetta, 4. “One thing is forever good, that one thing is success ” VIRGIL SIEMERING Barada, 1, 2; Commercial; Chorus, 3; Operetta, 3; Band, 3, 4. He who has learned to obey, will know how to command. EVELYN SLAGLE Academic; MINK Contest, 3; Chorus. I, 4; Glee Club, 4; Operetta, 4; Orchestra, 2, 3, 4; G.A.A., 4. If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin, and there are few stopping places upon it” ALVIE STRASIL Commercial; MINK Contest, 3; Band, 3. One of those big, strong, silent men who can throw a mean horseshoe.” RALPH SUMMERS Commercial; State Music Contest. 3; MINK Contest, 3; Band, 1, 2, 3, 4. Girls, I'm yours, without a struggle.” JAMES THOMPSON Academic; Gym, 2, 3. ‘‘My best thoughts always come a little too late ” IRIS TURNER Home Economics; Gym, 1, 2, 3, 4. “Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.” ELLA LORAINE WITT Academic; G.A.A.. 1, 2, 3, 4; Gym, 1, 2, 3, 4. “Truth is the highest thing man can keep.” I PAGE 201 EDNA SHOUP Home Economics; Chorus, 2, 3. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others.” HELEN SLAGLE Home Economics; State Music Contest, 2, 3, 4; MINK Contest, 3, 4; Operetta, 2. 3; Orchestra, 1, 2, 3; G.A.A., 1, 2, 3, 4; Gym, 1, 2; 1 one-act play; National Music Contest. ‘7 may never be president, but I may be first lady.” PEGGY STETLER Home Economics; Chorus, 3, 4; Glee Club, 3, 4; G.A.A., 1, 2, 4; Gym, 1, 4. “A very careful student, careful not to overdo it.” CORA LEE STUMP Academic; Chorus, 1, 2; Glee Club, 1, 2; Operetta, 1, 2; Gym, 1, 2. “Her ready speech flowed fair and free.” JOHN SWEARINGIN Academic; Class President, 1; Orange and Black Staff, 4; Young Citizens Contest, 4; State Music Contest, 2, 3, 4; MINK Contest, 3, 4; Chorus, 1, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club, 1, 2. 3. 4; Operetta. 1, 2, 3 ,4; Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Jr.-Sr. Banquet Toast, 3; Gym, 1; Junior play; Senior play; 1 one-act play; National Music Contest. “Of course I'll be president. Who else is qualified for the job?” WAYNE TISDELL Commercial; Gym, 1, 2, 3. “Don't let your studying interfere with your education.” DORA WELLS Home Economics; Gym, 1, 2, 3, 4. “Modesty is becoming to a maiden.” MARCIELLE ZORN Commercial; Chorus, 1, 2, 4; Glee Club, 4; Operetta, 2. “It is not the whistling that makes the locomotive go, it is the silent steam.”

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MAXINE McNULTY Academic; Young Citizens Contest, 4; State Music Contest, 4; MINK Contest, 3, 4; Chorus, 3, 4; Operetta, 4; Junior play; Senior play. “The piano resj)onds to the touch I of a genius.” LELA MICHEL Commercial; Gym, 2. “I have found that to have friends, you must be one” MAXINE NEWMAN Auburn High School, 1, 2, 3; Commercial; G.A.A., 1, 2, 3. “She smiles and the world smiles with her ” DOROTHY PRATT Home Economics; Chorus, 1, 2; Glee Club, 1, 2; Operetta, 1, 2, 3, 4; G.A.A., 1, 2, 3, 4. “More muscles and energy are used to frown than to smile, so why not smile.” AVALENE QUIGLEY Commercial; G.A.A., 1, 2; Gym, 1, 2. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. ESTHER RIEGER Home Economics; G. A. A., 3; Gym, 1. “Endurance is a crowning quality” ZELLA SCHLICKER Home Economics; Chorus, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club, 2, 3. 4; Operetta, 2, 3; G.A.A., 1, 2, 3; Gym, 1, 2, 3. “Kind hearts are more than bugles.” HAROLD SEEGER Academic; Football, 4; Gym, 3, 4. “A?id when a lady’s in the case, you know all other things give place.” SENIORS HARRIETTE MEDLOCK Academic; Gymn, 1, 2, 3; 1 one-act play. “The shaping of our own life is our own work.” LOLA MITCHELL Commercial; Operetta, 2; Jr.-Sr. Banquet Committee, 3; G.A.A., 2, 4; Gym, 1, 2, 3, 4. “Well, it was this way . . .” GAROLD PECK Agriculture; Junior Fair Board, 2. 3; MINK Contest, 3, 4; Chorus, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club, 3, 4; Operetta, 2, 3, 4. “The girlies come, and the girlies go, but I go on forever” JUNE PRICE Home Economics; MINK Contest, 3, 4; Chorus, I, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club, 2, 3, 4; Operetta, 1, 2, 3. “A real sweet miss with kind blue eyes.” MILES REECE Commercial: Band. 1, 2; Football. 4; Basketball, 4; Gym, 1, 2, 3, 4. “Teacher loves me this I know, for my instinct tells me so.” FRANCES RUSH Home Economics; Chorus, 1, 2; G.A.A., 1, 2, 3, 4; Gym, 1. 2, 3, 4. “Better to have loved amiss than never to have loved.” ARLENE SCHREIBER Commercial; G.A.A., 1, 2; Gym, 1, 2. Through perils both of wind and limb, through thick and thin, she’d follow him.” VIRGINIA SHANNON Academic; President, 2; Orange and Black Staff, 3, 4; Young Citizens Contest, 4; Operetta, 2, 3; Jr.-Sr. Banquet Toast. 3; G. A. A., 1, 2, 3; President of G. A. A., 4; Gym, 1, 2, 3. 4; Junior play; Senior play; 1 one-act play. “Don’t bother me—I’m doing all right.” fPAGE 191

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CLASS PROPHECY 1940 In the year of our Lord 1950, our sponsors, Miss Weiland and Mr. Smith, issued invitations to all members of the graduating class of 1940 to attend a class reunion. This was held in the now thriving city of Falls City, Nebraska, which most of our class associates remember as a small, one-horse town. We herewith submit to you a copy of our findings in the private lives of our ex-classmates: The reunion was held in the main dining room of the popular “Night Owl” night club, owned and operated by that dashing man-about-town, Roy Kouns. Junior Reece and his all-girl orchestra, featuring Sally Graham as vocalist, furnished musical entertainment. Our class was represented in the orchestra by Evelyn Slagle and Maxine McNulty. Junior Johnson and his all-girl revue, of which Virginia Dunn has the distinction of being the smallest member, provided dancing numbers from the waltz to the rhumba. The famous ‘‘Mr. Johnson” sponsored a jitterbug contest which was won by Norma Phillips. Runnerup was Laura Nanomantube. As the former students of F. C. H. S. drove up to this fashionable night spot, they were greeted by that commanding doorman, Roy Albers. Dorothy Lunsford was noticed in particular by everyone because of the obsolete car in which she arrived, a 1923 Maxwell. It was necessary for Herb Moore, a mechanic, to repair the car before it could be driven from the doorway. Reed Bonsall and Norval Jones astonished everyone by arriving in a truck from their trucking company. As the students entered, they checked their wraps with that cute little hat-check girl, Bettie Daniels. Across the street from this night spot was playing the ever popular opera, “Oh Johnny, Oh,” starring Marceille Ketter and John Swearingin. Marceille’s understudy was June Price. That prominent banker, Frank Buchholz, Jr., gave a table tennis exhibition and a speech entitled “The Art of Playing Table Tennis.” Arlene Bossom favored us with a skating exhibition. As soon as we were seated at the banquet table, Josephine Wissman and Eunice Graden began serving. Jean Bowers immediately started complaining about the food. We later learned he was head chef at Sloppy Jack’s, owned by John Hinshilwood. Noticing Esther Rieger’s slim form we asked for her diet list. She said she was the outstanding pupil in Gene Hale’s “Never Fail, Reducing School.” Slogan—“Sit Less; Stoop More; Look Better Than Before.” The runnerup in the class was Maxine Newman. That busy housewife, Etta Engleman, fainted between the second and third courses. An ambulance was summoned and who should come driving up but Ralph “Blood” Summers. We later learned that Etta’s attending nurses were Lillian Colglazier and Marjorie Lord. Amy Beth Dowell was the head dietician at the hospital. After the excitement had settled down and the banquet resumed its natural course, who should come sauntering in but that debonair playboy Charles “Mouse” Greenwald, late as usual. We were not surprised to see Bernice Gatz and Harold Seeger still holding hands, although they have been married five years. Virginia Shannon, a promising young surgeon, and Janet Huber, spent most of their time at the Darling Dress shop, owned and operated by Betty Lee Stumbo, who does her own designing. Mary Jean Lundy, that eminent socialite, was to give a ball the following evening, the proceeds of which were to go for the support of the Disabled Bachelors’ Club, president, Donald Bressler. By chance we overheard Jim McKelvey frantically calling Ed Carter’s Escorting Agency. He was informed that the only escorts left were Arlene Scheiber, Margaret Henke, and Violet Marie Liebsch ... we didn’t learn of his choice. Mary King and Helen Johnson arrived from somewhere in Kansas. [PAGE 21]