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

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The happily married people present this evening are Naomi Atkins, who is married to a journalist, Bonnie Coon, who is married to a Navy man, Darlene Norton and Joleen Bowers also have husbands yet in uniform. Ila Mae Grush and Pauline Braun are collaborating on a History text book, which, we have learned, will be edited next year. The preface of the book explains the correct method of studying History. Several members of our class are now teachers. They are Martha Kirk, Bernice Bachman, Thelma Ruth Beutler, Thelma Ruth Koehler, Violet Kottich, Marian Weber, and Daisy Mae Rogers. Marileen Bolay is now famous as a lecturer who travels throughout the country. Her traveling companion and secretary is Evelyn Gatz. Lorraine Ankrom is working for an insurance company in Omaha. Two of our classmates who are in the political world and who are competing for a seat in the State Legislature are August Deuchler and Barbara Windle. Marian Falloon and Mary Neitzel are working on the same newspaper. Marian is noted for her sensational “scoops” and Mary writes a column to the Lovelorn. Bernice Kopf is now a happily married farmer’s wife. Alma Weinert and Nona Lee Oberst are social workers in a nearby city. Jack McKelvey still prefers the Army. John Jacques is the proprietor of an Antique Shop. After the banquet is over, the guests, having proclaimed it a success, leave, with the hopes of meeting again in the near future for another happy reunion of the class of 1944. LORRAINE ANKROM. JACK M’KELVEY.

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$6 44 'P'toft ectf Looking out of the window of the TWA Stratoliner, we see the Falls City airport directly beneath us, and as we circle the field, pilot Marvin Wilson, assisted by co-pilot Wilbur Preusse bring the plane in for a beautiful landing. Our hostess, Donna Inks, releases our safety belts and we prepare to leave the plane. Some of the passengers on the plane are Lois Nelson, Vera Slagle, Patricia Von Achen, Helen Finning, Marcella Hottendorf, Ruth Hartley, Kenny Nixon. Don Scheitel, and William and Sterling Faller. Don Scheitel and Kenny Nixon who are now professional football players on the same team. Lois Nelson, Vera Slagle, and Delphia Nitzsche are government stenographers in Washington. Ruth Hartley is a roller-skating instructor. Pat Von Achen and Helen Finning have been touring Europe. The Faller brothers are manufacturers of Fallers’ Hair Oil and Shampoo, guaranteed to curl hair. Head mechanic Ted Wing, and Assistant William Draney check the plane to prepare for another flight. Glenn Godemann, head of the Falls City Cab Service, personally drives us to the newly built Hotel Stanton, which was recently constructed by Storla Bohrer. Robert Reschke is one of the other taxi drivers. Manager Bob Prater and our hostesses, Miss Betz and Mrs. Dewald, who both reside in Falls City, greet us at the door of the hotel. We check our wraps with Rosalie Brecht, the hat check girl. The bouncers at this respectable establishment are Jerry Quigley, assisted by Paul Sailors. Many prominent personalities in the field of entertainment are present at this gathering. On the bandstand is T-Bone (Tom Burton), and his Nine Little Short-Cuts. Featured at the piano is Betty Hun-ley, famous pianist. Other entertainment is provided by Helen Ruth Frehse and Gene Dilldine, well-known ballroom dancers. Mistress of Ceremonies is Margaret Carlyon. The welcome toast of the evening is proposed by Gerard Timothy, one of the prominent lawyers of the city. As we glance around the room, many familiar faces greet our view. At one table, deep in conversation, is a group of men, which, as we later learn, is the Farmers’ Cooperative Association, headed by James Tubach. Others in the group are Vernon Gatz, and Jubal Koenig. Just at this moment two serious-looking men enter the room, and at a closer glance we find they are David Budeit and Fred Thomas. They are both well-known in the field of Chemistry. Fred is still working on his new formula for rubber (and we have hopes that some day he will perfect it). David has returned to Falls City to build another labratory, having recently had an explosion in his last workshop, the cause of which he has not yet discovered. When the banquet is well under way, who should come sauntering in but the playboy Bud Mitchell, late as usual, accompanied by Charlie Jones, who is president of the local Bachelors’ Club. Bob Miller and Pat McDermott are local florists. Anna and Helen Noyes own and operate the “Noyesless Beauty Salon.” Mildred Little, Darlene Bindrum and Marcella Hottendorf are clerking in the local dime store. Lucille Whitesell is a librarian in Tampa, Florida, and her assistant is Imo-gene Gerweck. Jack Beckham is proprietor of the billiard room adjoining the hotel. One of his most regular customers is John Huber. Some of the guests who were unable to be here this evening are Nancy King, who is a baby specialist in a large New York clinic, Connie Larson, head nurse at John Hopkins Hospital, also in New York, and Yetive Hocker, Ann Stednitz, Mary Jane Smith, and Helen Werner,who are all sucessful businesswomen in various cities in the United States.

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Will The Senior Class of 1944, being regarded as dignified by the underclassmen and holding a high and secure place in the minds of their teachers, do hereby rid themselves of the numerous talents acquired by them during the past four years. To the teachers, our esteemed friends and comrades the last few years, we bequeath the following articles: To A. W. Starkebaum we leave our sincere thanks and gratitude for his perseverance and guidance through which this publication was made possible. To Mr. Sympson we leave our thanks for his patience and guidance during our last two high school years. To Coach Brown we leave a new car —that’s just in case his old one breaks down. To Mrs. Hahn we leave a piano player so she can pay greater attention to the poise and grace of her girls. To Betty June Lucas, the efficient office help, we leave a new telephone system so she won’t get fallen arches and flat feet passing out the numerous announcements. To Mrs. DeWald we leave a set of seating charts so she won’t have to erase the old ones. To Miss Betz we leave a new set of questions for her tri-weekly tests, and also, a supply of ink and pens for the more forgetful students. To Miss Sympson we leave a set of Atlas School Maps so she won’t have to borrow Miss Betz’. To Miss Wieland we leave a book of the correct answers. To Mr. Boswell we leave an easy chair so he can make himself comfortable while he keeps his vigilant watch on second floor. To Miss Fase we leave an alarm clock to time those hectic speed tests. To Miss Jorn we leave a complete set of ’’The Poetry and Prose of the Shake-sperian Era.” To Miss Sheehan we leave a seat in Mr. Sympson’s car pool. To Miss Shook we leave enough crawfish and frogs for her promising Biology students to disect. To Miss Brehm we leave a metronome so that she can keep her pupils singing together. To Mr. Cummins we leave a one year franchise at Peggy’s Beauty Forum to have that cute wave set once a week. To Mrs. Kline we leave our grammar books—from which we ain’t got no good from. To Miss Ickman we leave a new apron to keep from spotting her red dress while teaching her pupils to be good wives. To Mr. Hatch we leave the front campus on which to plant his victory garden. To Mr. Wall we leave a band that can play. To those underclassmen, whose morale, appearance, and grades we deem it necessary to bolster, we will the following: Clarence Allen doesn’t leave anything. He is taking it all with him. Lorraine Ankrom leaves for the Glenn L. Martin Bomber plant where her hair will make her very valuable as a beacon. Naomi Atkins leaves her heart in Lincoln and NOT at the institute. Bernice Bachman, Marian Weber and Thelma Ruth Koehler leave to distribute some of the knowledge they have obtained in the last four years. Jack Beckham leaves everything; if he can just graduate. Thelma Beutler leaves as meekly as she came in. Darlene Bindrum leaves Mrs. Hahn minus a good basketball player. Bud Bohrer leaves his ability to adlib to any underclassman who doesn’t prepare his lessons either. Marileen Bolay leaves her quiet ways to Carol Kentopp. Joleen Bowers leaves Fala to carry on the family name. Pauline Braun leaves her memorized recitations to Joyce Yoder.