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

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Senior Class Prophecy One May day in 1975 while walking down a lonely lane, I began to think of my classmates of ’55. I didn’t have very long to think because of an awful sound behind me. I turned and in the distance I saw something red approaching at a breakneck speed. I moved just in time because “whiz” it was gone. Little slips of paper lay everywhere. I began reading and they contained news about class of ’55, the most important class of Falls City High. Remember Larry Steadman. Well, he isn’t in Falls City any more. He’s in Texas trying to perfect the breeding of featherless chickens. He says if his plan goes through, it has to be in the South so the poor things won’t freeze to death. Larry Little isn’t here anymore either. Lie’s in Florida on a reptile farm making loads of money. Larry got to close to Lizzie, his pet alligator, and she bit his leg. Let’s see who’s still in Falls City. Ruth Bek has a very unusual job. She puts railroad flares out at night. Say, they really have a good case in the court now at Falls City. Nels Kjeldsen might be in for a stretch. Nels manufactures rubber shoe laces for fat people. Now Tom Miller was tying his wife’s shoe and the string broke and bounced back and hit her so hard that it broke her leg. Tom is suing for damages against Nels. Susan Mitchell is a member of the jury, and, of course, her verdict will be “not guilty.” Alan Shipley is prosecuting attorney. Larry Sailors is now Post Master General in Washington. Larry was always pretty good at “post office.” Sondra Mumm has a month’s engagement at the Twinkle Toes Ballroom, owned by Ronald Schwartz. She’s revised Arthur Godfrey’s “I Warm So Easy, So Dance Me Loose” a little, but she still has a pretty good version of it. Julie Zimmerman and Jim Lunsford are both working on their experiment. They’re trying to discover a lipstick proof mustache wax. Since they both have beards, they get quite a kick out of their work. Thelma Eickhoff is making a few minor arrangements out on the Kirkendall ranch. Gary, don’t be so stubborn; let her have her initials on the branding iron if she wishes. Gene Gilmore has a rather dead life. He’s chief undertaker now in Falls City. Pat Darling has just won a prize with her good old-fashioned Irish stew. Her little O’Grady’s just love it. “Ginny” Griffiths teaches nursery rhymes to the kindergarten class. Her favorite is “Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater.” The reason — she just loves — pumpkin. Duane Schmutzer is making quite a profit painting hand painted neckties, especially for Mr. Cummins. Dick Kuker is with the circus now; they have to have someone to blow up the balloons. Ann Bedwell is in France where is employed by a home for the old aged. She polishes monocles for the former Premiers of France. Richard Bach has a “real cool” job. He’s Falls City’s and Rule’s ice man. Tim Zinn is in close touch with the heads of several big concerns. He’s a barber. Gary Rush is window washer at the Y. W. C. A. Arlene Boehringer is in New York trying out for a part in “Pink Parlor,” a play which the critics, Donald Tutt and Gary Morris say is sure to be a hit. The lead part for the male star went to Marvin Heineman. Julia Dowell has just finished her 76th edition of “If You Want Him, Get Him.” Julia should know; she has been married only nine times. She has sold only seventy-six copies of her book and guess to whom! Barbara Stewart. Barb says if she can’t get him with this book, she's just going to get him with the scheme she’s been working on for the last 19 years. David Siekel has a thriving business in this town. He cans fishworms for lazy fishermen. David??? Albert Chesnut and Robert Castan are spending an expense-paid vacation on a secluded island, Alcatraz, Albert and Robert had money galore until their press broke down and the F. B. I. caught them. Fred Bauman has a secret formula for putting bubbles in bubble gum. Betty Bauman is trying to locate a publisher who will publish her love poems that she has been collecting since she started writing them in American Government class. Audrey Bauer is out on the Peru campus still looking for Lou—ie. Hope you find him, Audrey. Gary Adams is in Alaska extracting whale teeth. Don’t slip “Little Man”; those whales could swallow you in one big gulp. Mary Anne Hahn is in Africa teaching the Zsa Zsa Zincado Indians how to do the Mambo. Jerry Faller is working for the circus where he has chaige of the air hole at the fun house. He says that his job really gives a lot of people a lift. Falls City High has a new faculty this year. Let’s see who some of them are. Walter Arnold teaches Agriculture; Jerry Crofford is Speech teacher; Darleen Fritz is English teacher; Robert Waggoner is Principal; Eleanor Werner is a science teacher. Jim Sefried has just finished composing his latest hit song, “They Got Charlie.” Verna Crawley is still striving for that White wash. Reverend Glenn Nutzman is having a special service next Sunday. Services start at 10:00 A. M. Marlene Prior and Owen Picton are singing a duet. Barbara Gilliland is still trying to teach Marvin Goltz how to play rabbit. James Aue manufactures harp oil. Bob Miller has very profitable business manufacturing musical mouse traps. Roger Eickhoff is also in the manufacturing busi-

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On May 13th, Class Day Exercises were held. Baccalaureate services were held on May 22nd. On May 26th, the group filed into the Auditorium to receive their paroles, after a meeting of the Board of Directors declared they had served their term of four years faithfully and were officially released. They knew they would never forget those four years, but outside the gates their loved ones were waiting for them and a new life would soon begin. Thus, the case was marked “Closed.” This was a Weddel-Mack VII Production. Pat McGuire, Historian

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ness. He manufactures a product which is a combination mouth wash and spot remover. Dan Sargent has revised his father’s jewelry store into a “Jewelry for Pets” shop. He fashions jeweled collars and leashes. Sandra Stednitz and Joy Smith just bought identical diamond collars for their French poodles. Hoy Arnold is in Alaska installing heated billboards for traffic cops to park behind. Beverly Ankrom is now manager of the Rivoli theater after working her way up. Marilyn Ebel is the U. S. champion hog caller of the year. The hogs come five miles for Marilyn. A woman’s voice is shrill you know. Mary Lou Haeffele is the housemother at the Coonce house. She is the mother of the five Coonce children. Danny Harper manufactures a perfume made of skunk oil, called “Forget Me Not.” Don’t worry, Danny, we won’t. Marjorie Hartman works for Western Union. She delivers singing telegrams. Alice Hullman left on the Rocket Ship for the moon with Ronald Speers, Robert Larkin, and Robert Yost. Alice went along to cook and get some of the menues of the spacemen. Gary Hunker has a depressing job. He’s operator of a steam roller. Mary Beth Lennemann is a guide at a tourist camp in Colorado. Just last week she was found after being lost for two days halfway up Pikes Peak. Kay Ludwig is the owner of Ludwig’s Bakeries, manufactures of “Grandma Ludwig’s Old-fashioned No-Calorie Molasses Cookies.” Bill Jahn twists pretzels. He’s very careful about the way he twists the “C’s” and “W’s.” Ralph Ramsey paints personalized monagrams on toothpicks. Alan Lennemann is another doctor in the family. He specializes in removing tonsils and adenoids from canaries. Connie Schock is in India charming cobras into dances. She can even charm them into doing rhumbas, mambos, or anything. Wish you were a snake? Dale Schulenberg has a special column in a newspaper. He gives advice to the love lorn. Edwin Stokes has a twenty-four hour a day space service. He has taxi-like spaceships that fly to all of the planets. Glenn Murphy now owns his own skating rink and teaches others how to skate. Patricia McGuire owns a little shop called the “Three Corners.” Guess what she sells. Yes, diapers. Harold Suedmeier owns a turkish bath house so people can reduce. He is a pretty good example of what his work can do. Donald Wickham has a job with many ups and downs. He tests yo-yos for a yo-yo company. Gary Witt is the president of the First National Bank in Falls City. The last slip is about Danny Lippold. He is a concert violinist in New York. His theme song is “Three Blind Mice,” which he will play at Carnegie Hall next Friday. By the way, that red thing that whizzed by me and left all of those slips was Richard Bach on his way to Rulo. Musn’t let the ice melt, you know. Kay Ludwig