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

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Eugene Dorste are the life guards at the pool, and with Rusty swimming there they get a pretty good work-out every day. Next door to the auditorium is the local drug store owned and operated by Greg Kallos who is a loan shark on the side, the drug store being just a front for his illegal business. The cops don’t mind because Greg always loses money anyway. Eva Wells is the chief soda jerk. She has an invention that takes the drinks to the table, because at the rate of speed Eva travels, the ice cream was always melted before she got it there. We look for some of our other fellow classmates’ faces to appear on the screen, but we wait in vain, for we find that some of them have left the country. Bob “Grapes” Lockard, as we later learn, was last seen touring the State Home for the Feeble Minded, he hasn’t been seen since. The police are baffled by his mysterious disappearance. We also learn that Dave Duey has started an up-and-coming enterprise in New York’s Greenwich Village—Duey’s Dump starring his five dreamy dames, Carol “Hug-Me-Tight” Bertram, Helen “Come-up-and-see-me-sometime” Budeit, Gertrude “What’s-on-your-mind” Johnson, Kathleen “Cut-a-rug” Reep, and Carol “The Blue-Eyed Sweetheart” Sch-mechel. These girls decided that since they worked hard all their lives, it was time for a little fun. We spy another familiar face, it’s Laura Zimmerman, the cute little hat check girl. We next hear the call of matches—matches—it’s Carolyn Wagner the Matches Girl—matches for the cigarettes you can’t buy. Needless to say, the featured singer in this joint— er—place is Shirley Wing. Gene “Dog-meat” Brauer, the brawny bouncer who makes hamburger out of all the unruly customers, is busy throwing out John Morehead who protested that he got only ONE MEAT BALL. We journey to the local news office where we encounter Helen Ruth Kouns, owner and editor of “The Daily Waste of Ink.” Marvin Duerfeldt is the printer’s divil who gets all the blame when the paper comes out up-side-down. Mary Lou Clark is the society editor who digs up all the dirt about the citizens of this thriving metropolis. Alta Mez and Colleen Carlson are the busy reporters on the paper. You notice that all are women except Marvin—poor Marvin. Mary Ann Lessel is the owner of the Lessel Print Shop which furnishes paper for the “Daily Waste of Ink.” Her two able assistants, Margaret and Mary Ann Neimeyer, are kept busy scouring the streets of Falls City for any scraps of paper that might be salvaged, because, as the result of the paper shortage, Mary Ann is hard pressed for materials to use in her printing business. Darold Shafer is the head printer, directing the efforts of his two understudies, Marcille Zentner and Edna Weber, from a comfortable seat in a corner, where he sits reading “Esquire”, except on Saturday which is pay day. One of the most thriving establishments which we discover is the “Noll Model Agency.” Larry, because of his vast research into the field of feminine beauty, decided to organize a model agency comprising those girls whose talents he had most thoroughly investigated. Among the models who are rapidly threatening Harry Conover’s and John Power’s monoply on beautiful girls are: Ada Richardson, Colleen Ridgeway, Dorothy Waddle, Jerrilee Williams and Rho-lene Eickhoff. “Bulldog” confides to his friends that this new enterprise is most interesting, and he finds that it occupies most of his time. According to statistics, after World War II women began to rapidly out number men, a direct outcome of this was woman’s rise to prominence in the political world. Examples of this we see are: Catherine Steele, who on the “Women Arise” ticket, ran a close second to her male opponent. Catherine’s only statement to the press was a grim warning: “Wait till next time!” Catherine’s campaign manager, Phyllis “The TNT Kid” Lundy, when interviewed in the back room of Ohse’s Oasis, where she was drowning her sorrows in mug after mug of foaming buttermilk, stated, quote, They can’t last forever—I hope.” Unquote. Phyllis Walbridge has been appointed ambassadress to Shangri La. Congresswoman Evelyn Niedfeldt is working for improved living conditions for baby pigs. Through the kindness of booking agent Jaunita Oberst, Falls City was very fortunate in obtaining the services of the dancing team of Meredith and Fredrick, better known as June Thompson and Fred Werner. After this last view, we switch the machine off, having obtained a bird’s eye view of the future of our classmates of 1945. SARA SUE ALEXANDER HAROLD HEASLEY

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fluttiori One beautiful morning in the Fall of 1942, we began our long four year journey to Knowledge. We will now admit that we didn’t exactly know which way to start or what to do because we were only Freshies. We soon discovered that we weren’t alone, because we met many other companions beginning the same journey. Among them were Miss Wieland and Mr. Boswell, who had been appointed as travel guides of our Freshmen troop. One of our group, Charles Stump, lettered both in basketball and football. The following girls received their first local awards for their interest and cooperation in high school activities: Rholene Hermann, Pat Chaffee, Lois Keeling, Nancy Carter, Joan Bock, Peg Thomas, Bonnie Nelson, Norma Lee Hey and Fala Bowers. Because of the heat, travel became impossible so we decided to rest until fall. When we began again in September of 1943, we went forward believing, now that we were old hands, that things would go a lot better this year, (but that was before we became better acquainted with our Biology course). We hadn’t gone far when it was suggested that we elect leaders, so at a class meeting we chose: President, Dorothy Boland; vice president, Willard Gelwick; secretary-treasurer, Delma Jones. We took part in various activities. Our class was represented at the District Music contest by Norma Ankrom, Marjorie Arendt, Hilda Carlyon, Dorothy Boland, LaRhue Fisher, Margaret Goldsmith, Ingram Yoder and Pat Chaffee. Sophomore G.A.A. girls receiving their first local awards were Donna Mae Hilgenfeld and Carol Kent-topp. Those who earned the second local awards were Pat Chaffee, Lois Keeling, Nancy Carter, Peg Thomas, Bonnie Nelson, Norma Lee Hey, Fala Bowers, and Rholene Hermann. Norma Lee Hey was elected as an officer of the G.A.A. Jim Dunn represented our class as cheerleader. We were also well represented in sports: Cecil Bennett, Willard Gelwick and Charles Stump lettering in football, and Willard Gelwick in basketball. With all these achievements we showed that besides gaining in intelligence we had begun to appreciate that on this journey of life 0%C4t n f, there is a great need of service, leadership and cooperation of all. We traveled on until one day we came to this sign, “Three months’ vacation; detour to Junior Highway.” The next year we met together and elected as our leaders Hilda Carlyon, president; Duane Tubach, vice-president; and Pat Babb, secretary-treasurer. John Zorn and Norma Ankrom were elected to serve on the Student Council. Again we were well represented in the various organizations. The first local award was presented to Hilda Carlyon; second local awards were presented to Donna Mae Hilgenfeld and Carol Kentopp. The G. A. A. first state award went to Pat Chaffee, Lois Keeling, Nancy Carter, Joan Bock, Peg Thomas, Bonnie Nelson and Norma Lee Hey. Norma Hey again served as an officer of the G. A. A. The class elected Marge Arendt as the Junior cheerleader. Willard Gelwick, Cecil Bennett, John Zorn and Kenneth Morehead lettered in football; Willard Gelwick and Joe Gillis-pie in basketball. Ingram Yoder, Donna Mae Hilgenfeld, Lois Keeling, Norma Ankrom and Margaret Goldsmith represented us at the state district declamatory contest at which Margaret Goldsmith was chosen as the outstanding actress in Class A. The Junior play, “Faith, Hope and Flarity”, was presented under the direction of Miss Margaret Malony December 8th with the cast: Mary Lee Stout, Peggy Thomas, Carl France, Willard Gelwick, Margaret Goldsmith, Neal S c h e i t e 1, Norma Ankrom, Duane Tubach, Tom Kallos, Marge Arendt, Dwaine Pupkes, Marvin Scheitel and Pat Babb. With many of the juniors going to the District Music contest, we felt that we had again taken a step toward completing our high school career with flying colors. We stopped off at the Prichard Memorial Auditorium one evening to give a banquet to our upper classmen, all of whom are planning to leave us to travel on foreign highways. Soon we are to take that annual rest again. After overcoming all obstacles, including final exams, we are sure we will be looking forward to the last quarter of our course. DOROTHY BOLAND.