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

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Senior Class Will We the senior class of 1953, about to depart from one phase of life into another, being: of sound body and feeble mind, do make and proclaim this our last will and testament: FIRST: To be executed by Mr. R. R. Andrews in the presence of the faculty and school pupils. SECOND: That all former wills and promises of this class be forgotten. THIRD: To Mr. Andrews, we leave a bank full of money. To Mr. Weddel, we leave a new secretary. To Mr. Cummins, we leave a P-A System. To Mrs. Cummins, we leave a plaque to hang in her room which reads, “Bring your protractors to class, or else — thirty minutes.” To Miss Fase, we leave our thanks, in all sincerity, for her good nature. To Mrs. Hahn, we leave a new piano with an automatic player. To Mr. Hatch, we leave a new farm for experimental purposes. To Mrs. Henderson, leave thirteen juniors who will fight to sell her an annual. To Mr. Henderson, we leave some fellows with which to develop a No. 1 backfield. To Mr. Hoeger, we leave a book of Falls City’s Traffic Laws. To Mr. Hudson, we leave as a perfect Senior Class with no speech defects, all due to his good influence! To Miss Huston, we leave some Junior boys to help finish the Home Economics kitchen. To Mr. Jeffers, we leave a subscription to the Book a Month Club. To Mr. Jones, we leave some patience which he lost during the Senior Chemistry Period. To Miss Jorn, Miss Sheehan, and Miss Shook, we leave the other end of the hall, to dicuss life’s troubles and problems of their students. To Mrs. Kinkead, we leave the Juniors to carry on her nickname, “mom.” To Mrs. Kline, we leave some money, donated by the Senior Class, for a new joke book. To Mr. Korslund, we leave a car with which to drive back and forth to school. To Mrs. Lunsford, we leave a few more books, although we don’t want to overlook the library. To Mr. Mclntire and Mr. Sympson, we leave two pair of boxing gloves and a bottle of pop. To Miss Oberlender, we leave a learned Spanish Class. To Mr. Person, we leave a school dance band! No need to hire the Dew Drops when he has one of his own! To Frank Zentner, we leave an automatic sweeper, one on which he will be able to ride. To Bill Femmer, we leave a steam shovel to relieve him of his coal scooping duties. To the Juniors, we leave our unpaid debts and also the privilege of being treated at the Junior-Senior Prom. To the Sophomores, we leave congratulations for making it through Biology. To the Freshmen, we leave some of our morale to help them through their remaining three years. BETTY ADAMS leaves for Rhode Island to raise Rhode Island Reds. CHARLES BAKER leaves things well baked. GEORGIA BAUER leaves two dimples to Betsy Hartman. HERMAN BAUMAN leaves his picture in Falls City High’s Hall of Fame. GEORGE BAUMAN leaves his jack-o-lantern grin to Wayne Dougherty. BILL BEDWELL leaves his nickname “Willie Lump Lump” to Sherry Camblin for Billy Shelly. RAMONA BIRDSLEY leaves her driving ability to Janis Scholz. DELMAR BOWERS leaves his dice to anyone who needs a little extra cash. MARCELLE BRAUER leaves her interest in everything to the Freshmen. They need it. SHIRLEY BRAZAU IRWIN leaves her friendly smile to Patricia Buchholz. SHIRLEY BUCHHOLZ leaves for the University of Hills, Barada, Nebraska. LINDA BUTHMAN leaves her charm to Ann Bed-well. We must keep things in the family! ANN CARTER leaves to the girls of the Junior Class her motto, “Forget Them Not.” LEONARD CRAWLEY leaves Mr. Jeffers minus an orderly student. KAY DE WALD leaves with a precious ring. SHIRLEY DODDS leaves her sweet voice to Julia Dowell. JACK DOUGLAS wills the stubs of his big black cigars to the city street cleaners. JIM DUNN leaves to become an Eye, Ear, and Nose Specialist. BEVERLY DYKES leaves her infallible attraction for the sterner sex to Adrienne McMillen. CHARLES EBEL leaves June 1 to start pitching for Falls City Strugglers. JANET EDWARDS leaves still thinking about a last year’s senior. VERNAL FALLER leaves — leaving many girls minus rides to school. ROSALIE FINCK leaves — dreaming about the greenhouse. DOUGLAS GIBSON leaves his girl shyness to Rex Bartley, not that Rex needs it. EVELYN GOLTZ leaves her ability to fix up the Boys’ tests to Norma Hunzeker. RAYMOND GOOLSBY leaves saying, “Please do not throw cigarettes and gum on the floor of the 5 and 10c Store.” GRETCHEN GREEN leaves her talking ability to Karleen Hanika.

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Over in the corner is Helen Wittrock, the great opera singer, and her personal companion, Gailya Percival. After making her seventh appearance in Carnegie Hall, she is being highly complimented by Sally Poage, now wife of Vernal Faller, the big industrialist. Vernal is in an argument with Richard Luke, head of the coal miners. (Richard is taking John L. Lewis’ place since John L. passed on. Poor Richard is becoming discouraged though; because, try as he will, he just can’t get his eyebrows to look like a bush!) Just on the other side of Richard is Kay De Wald, famed hat designer. She is listening to the bitter argument over hats between Leah Ketter, movie star and TV actress, and Shirley Steinhauer, top professional model of the United States. Shirley insists that large hats are “the latest thing’’ while Leah says that small hats are just “it”. Neither one has a hat on! Truthfully, they just can’t stand the things! Over in another corner of the penthouse, authors Shirley Dodds and Rosalie Finck are trying in vain to convince Delmar Bowers, publisher, to print their latest book, “The Adventures of Dodds and Finck in Arabia.” Delmar hesitatingly advises her to consult his trusty assistant, George Bauman, tomorrow. Oh, the entertainment has just started. Ronald Wing, Craig Pontious, and Wilbur Tisdel, constituting the “Merry Three Trio” are about to introduce Janet Edward’s new song, “Take Me For a Ride in the Park Where It’s Dark, So I Can See the Stars by the Moonlight at Night.” This makes Janet’s 150th song. We hope this one sells. Naturally all of the women at this party are wearing Buthman-designed gowns. Linda wouldn’t have invited them otherwise! As we leave the party we see this sign. LET FLASHPAN GEORGE DO IT! This is George Hunker’s slogan for his new photography business. George thinks that his business is going to be so booming that he’ll need two extra assistants besides his wife, Georgia Bauer For these assistants he has chosen Ramona Birdsley and Melba Simon. George’s first assignment is to sake pictures of the F. C. H. S. Faculty. Here is a list of the faculty as it now stands: Home Economics Betty Adams English Shirley Brazau Irwin Girl’s Physical Education Carol Morehead Biology Ruth Ruegge History Jack Douglas Agriculture Charles Ebel Coach Douglas Gibson Principal Kenneth Koehler Superintendent Bill Jones You had better make those pictures good, George! In the court house, County Judge Jim Dunn has started his career by fining Gene Killingsworth for disturbing the peace. Gene claims that he was minding his own business in Dallas Runyan’s “The Lazy Hour Pool Hall” when Raymond Niemeyer walked by. “Hon- estly, Judge Dunn,” says Gene, “I don’t know how Raymond got that black eye. He must have fallen down or something!” At the TV studio Donna Schatz and Carolyn Raymond are swooning over Bob “Crooner” Norton. Donna’s Book Shoppe and Carolyn’s Beauty Shop have been sorely neglected since Bob became “Mr. Music of the world.” Never have there been such true fans! On the corner where Firestone’s used to be we see that Marcelle Brauer and Shirley Hamm have just opened their new nursery to take care of the working women’s menaces — excuse me, I meant to say children. Having decided that their half dozen children apiece ought to have someone else to play with, they opened the nursery. A group of children seem to be easier to take care of than a few, but who says that six apiece is a few? Virginia Reavis has decided to take a vacation from her hard work in the home decorating business and visit Dale Huettner’s dude ranch. Since Dale is one of the most eligible men in the country, we suppose that Virginia will get some new ideas during her stay. (Home decorating ideas, of course!) As we pass through the city and on to the suburbs we see a small neighborhood grocery store run by “Ma and Pa Vinsonhaler” (Marvin Vinsonhaler and Rosa York.) Their business rush hour is at four o’clock when school lets out. Then all the neighborhood children come in to beg Ma and Pa for a free piece of candy — that’s why Ma and Pa like the neighborhood. They would hate to make enough money to move away as they originally planned. It would break their hearts, and the kids’ hearts too! At the edge of the suburbs we arrive at the airport as explorer Phyllis Yost is just returning from South Africa where she has been searching for specimens of shrunken heads. When the missionary whom she took with her, Marjorie Wittrock, was seized by the natives, she decided to abandon the search and return home before she too became a shrunken head specimen. Marjorie was busy converting the natives as they carried her off, so she might be fortunate and retain her head. No one knows! The images are fading out now — no wait! Here’s one more. It’s Jack Henley, the loan shark. He has just upped his interest rates another 2rU. Jack says in answer to his customers’ pleas that that is no way to do business, “If the government can raise my taxes, I can raise my interest rate to pay them.” Poor Jack! He just doesn’t know that he will never make enough money to pay his taxes! Now the images have faded away. My magic mirror needs a rest, so I shall put it away saying, “Magic mirror, now you rest After finishing your quest. Thanks to you from me For showing my classmates of ’53.”

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ELMER HAHN leaves his ability to play hooky to the Sophomores. SHIRLEY HAMM leaves her drawing ability to Merlyn Winsor. JACK HENLEY leaves his enormous chest expansion to Jim Lunsford. NORMA HERSCHBERGER leaves her wide-awake look to Verna Crawley. DORIS HILLYER leaves her flute to Eddie Hartman so he will not need to be contented with the largest horn built. ARVID HOEL leaves his book of love tales to the High School Library. DALE HUETTNER .leaves his conscientiousness and love of study to Roger Kiekhaefer. GEORGE HUNKER leaves many girls broken hearted. “Oh George! How could you?” LOY JONES leaves his long hours of studying to Tony Algiere. BILL JONES leaves his saying “Where there is a will, there is a way, and my way is out.” LEAH KETTER leaves singing “Dear Old Nebraska U.’ or has she changed her mind. GENE KILLINGSWORTH won’t leave his deck of cards. He says they keep his morale up. KAY KIRK leaves her exercises to anyone wishing a streamlined figure. It works — she says. BETTY I IRK END ALL wishes to leave her charm to the Freshmen who are so lacking in this most necessary element. KENNETH KOEHLER leaves a little weight to Gary Adams. DALE KRAUSE leaves his bottle of “La Belle” hair oil to Neal Grantham. RICHARD LUKE leaves his address to all infatuated girls who wish to write him. GLENDA LUNSFORD leaves her three-cylinder giggle to Rosemary Eitel. BYRON MARTENY leaves his quiet attitude to Buzz Bartley. TOM MARTIN leaves his position as official girl hater. ELAINE MEYERS leaves her host of masculine admirers to Connie Schock. JOYCE MILLER leaves nothing. He’s graduating this year. CAROL MOREHEAD leaves the Freshmen and Sophomore girls longing for some advice on love. HAROLD NIEDFELDT leaves his heart to any girl with a good job. RAYMOND NIEMEYER leaves his inimitable ability to strut sitting down to Gale Pickard. GERALD NOLTE leaves saying, “Oh, you poor girls.” BOB NORTON leaves the privilege to picking a fight with every opposing center in the Southwest Conference to Leslie Groff. JOE PASSANESI leaves straightening his white bow tie and tails. He is going to sing at Carnegie Hall. GAILY A PERCIVAL leaves her rosy blush to Patsy Noll. SALLY POAGE leaves the little wrinkle under her chin to Larry Apel. ROBERT PRATER leaves for the ministry. CAROLYN RAYMOND leaves her pep to be divided among the Freshmen. VIRGINIA REAVIS leaves Mr. Jones minus two walls in chemistry lab. After all, how should she know what T. N. T. stood for! ERNIE RIDGEWAY leaves his book Dirty Tricks Used in Football. MAX ROLAND leaves his desk carving ability to Gail Ruegge. RUTH RUEGGE leaves with her charm of “willingness to help.” Too bad there ain’t more like her! DALLAS RUNYAN leaves his slow walk to Bill, “The Jet” Serensen. DONNA SCHATZ leaves a few freckles to Dick Spaulding. He needs a few. MELBA SIMON leaves her quiet way to the Freshmen. SHIRLEY STEINHAUER leaves her recipe for Titan Blonde Hair to anyone desiring a copy. Don’t rush, girls. WILBUR TISDEL leaves his information on how to beautify a car to Neal Bachman. CARL VANDER VEEN leaves his car and parking place to Julie Zimmerman and Margaret Young. MARVIN VINSONHALER leaves school to join a circus. GARY WAMSLEY leaves four wheels and a frame of a car to anyone with enough ambition to sell it for junk. JOYCE WAMSLEY leaves for the first time in a hurry. ARCHIE WEAVER leaves his pheasant hunting ability to five embarrassed hunters. RICHARD WIEDMAIER leaves for the Arthur Murry’s Studio to revise America’s style of dancing. SAROL WILTSE leaves her title as “Class Angel” to Mary Lou Dykes. RONALD WING gave up the idea of flying because his arms got tired! HELEN WITTROCK leaves in fine shape. MARJORIE WITTROCK leaves a phonograph with records of her lengthy history discussions to the Library to be used for later references. ROSA LEE YORK as usual leaves with Shirley Hamm. PHYLLIS YOST leaves her horse laugh to Kay Shouse. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal the fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred fifty-three. Charles N. Baker (Seal) This instrument was on the day of the date thereof, signed, published and declared by the said testators to be their last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at their request have subscribed our names thereto as witnesses in their presence and in the presence of each other and who do hereby certify that at the time of the execution of said will, the testators were of sound body and feeble mind and memory and understanding and under such restraint. Colleen Zoeller John J. Mclntire Roy R. Jeffers, Jr.