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

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY It was a lovely evening, and as I walked home I looked up into the sky and noticed how the stars formed different patterns and figures. As I continued gazing with wonder, I noticed that these figures seemed to be moving. Then, very much to my surprise, this strange vision turned out to be a great picture of my classmates, the class of 1960. But now they had changed and were transformed into citizens of the world as they had so long hoped to be. And then the vision became more and more vivid. I was in a mammoth city with great skyscrapers all about me. Why, it was New York City! I could scarcely believe my senses when I saw a large sign on a building, “Edward Steinman, Attorney-at-Law.” Ed, the boy who couldn’t lie, was sitting in a large office debating over legal problems. As I walked down the street, I saw two nurses. They turned out to be my old friends, Judy Hunzeker and Imogene Becker. I understand that they are specializing in love-sick men. I hurried on by and caught a taxi to the airport. As we sped down the road, we passed a large mansion. The driver, Joyce Shaw, told me that this was the home of the millionaire, Thomas Dunn. You see Lassie, the once favorite dog of all the small television viewers, is no longer t'he same dog. The ideal pet of today’s small fry is DUKE. The plane was just about ready to leave as I approached the airport. Patsy Fritz, the airline stewardess, greeted me at the door, and handed me a paper. As I glanced through it, my eyes widened as I noticed some very familiar names in the headlines: George Arnold has just published two books, “How to Become Handsome Overnight” and “My Theories on Girls.” Marylou Brisby has brought suit against Jack Clark, claiming that it was she who painted the Mona Lisa, not he. James Nedrow, a pharmacist, in his spare time has created a formula which, if taken regularly, will make the average girl into a gorgeous beauty. Does it really work, James? John “Hercules” Honea will wrestle at Madison Square Garden next week. Connie Kirkendall has created a new bubble gum formula lor those Bigger, Better, Bangier Bubbles. Becky Windle, an internationally well-known author, has just completed her greatest writing, “Why I Love Sailors.” Judy Wing has become a menacing competitor of Duncan Hines with her new cake mix, “Hermie’s Heaven,” with its first introduction at the Safeway store run by Karlus Moore. Rachel Wittrock won the champion hog-calling medal in Sugar Tree, Tennessee. Perry Marquis is a scientist who is worshipped by all housewives. You see, Perry has invented an electronic door lock that keeps husbands home at night. Laying the paper down, and feeling quite amused, I turned around to see who was sitting across the aisle from me. I beheld a very dignified gentleman dressed in black. I thought I had seen that face somewhere, but I couldn’t put it in its place. Just then the stewardess came and spoke to him. She called him Reverend McBride. Why this was Donald McBride! I had recently heard that Brother Donald was either going to found a new church according to his own views and beliefs, or carry his doctrines into new lands, and thus create a new religion for someone. Soon the plane landed at the Hollywood airport and Judy Cheever, a talented dress designer, met me. We whizzed down the street in her red sports car. She told me that we would buzz down to Television Land to see some of our old classmates: Larry Beasing, Roger Thornton, and Glenda West. Larry is now that dreamiest, most lovable, Dobie Gillis. Of course, none other than Roger Thornton is Maynard, his beatnik friend. Glenda has taken over Miss Francis’s job on Ding Dong School. That night we went to a very swanky night club and saw Janet Hinz, who is head cigarette girl there. Larry Killingsworth, the owner of a magnificent Palm Springs Hotel, was sitting across the room from us. He flashed a large diamond ring on his finger, and I knew that he must be doing quite well for himself. When the waiter brought wine to the table, I noticed on the label these words, “Tasted and approved by Jim Foster of the California Grape Orchards.” Having enough of Hollywood, I boarded a plane and headed for Omaha, Nebraska. Jane Hahn was in Omaha. She had taken over Mary Lane’s column and was desperately pondering over Wauneta Bachman’s love problems. Jane not only knows answers to troubles, but also knows all the gossip. She told me that Billie Adams, Marilyn Coulter, and Shirley Lowry are neighbors in Omaha and are quite often seen exchanging confidences over the fence as to this or that domestic difficulty. Jim Catlett and John Marx are presently President and Vice-President of the A. A. A. with Dave Lunsford, Charles Hatfield, Ronnie McCoy, and Dave Reavis on the board of directors. Sharon Marrs is a Salvation Army officer in Omaha. Richard Malcolm is a noble professor in a great school of learning. All his pupils look at him in rever-

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Thornton, Glenda West, Carol West, Peggy Pickard, Shirley Cunningham, Mary Ellen Gaither, Becky Windle, Marylou Brisby, Ronnie McCoy, Charlotte Veach, Jim Catlett, Harold Lewis, Martha Cain, Karen Yohe, Imogene Becker, Wauneta Bachman, Judy Cheever, Karlus Moore, and David Lunsford. Junior girls who won their First State Awards in G. A. A. were Judy Hunzeker, Carol West, Marilyn Schulenberg, Wauneta Bachman, Connie Kirkendall, Judi Heineman, Thelma Merz, Billie King, Glenda West, Charlotte Veach, and Charlotte Robinson. Falls City High School’s delegates to Cornhusker Girls’ and Boys’ County Government were Larry Beas-ing, Carol West, Ronnie Harris, John Boswell, Judie Majerus, Becky Windle, Bob Brown, Roger Thornton, Betty Vogele, Tom McGuire, Jim Nedrow, Tom Dunn, Delmar Rieschick, and John Marx. On May 6, 1959, we gave the seniors, the faculty, and the board of education an elegant banquet and dance. Our theme was “Hawaiian Paradise.” Roger Thornton was the toastmaster; Jim Nedrow gave the welcome, and Dona Friesen, senior class president, gave the response. It was the greatest banquet ever given for Seniors. Bob Brown, David Reavis, and Roger Thornton went to the State Music Clinic at Grand Island. Boys in the F. F. A. were Willie Craig, George Arnold, Dale Chesnut, and Wayne Martin. In September, 1959, we rounded the clubhouse turn and into the home stretch. Our class sponsors were Mr. Ralph Sympson, Mrs. Grayce Cummins, and Mr. Dennis Schneider. We elected Ron Harris, President; John Boswell, Vice-President; Wauneta Bachman, Secretary; John Otto, Treasurer; and Tom McGuire, Larry Beasing, and Edward Steinman, the activities committee. Outnumbered by the more numerous underclassmen, we still managed to get Judie Majerus elected cheerleader by using our marvelous political tactics. Again we were well represented in the sports department. Football letter winners were Larry Beasing, John Boswell, Tom Dunn, Ronnie Gilkerson, Ron Harris, John Honea, Perry Marquis, Tom McGuire, Jim Nedrow, and John Otto. Winning basketball letters were Larry Beasing, Bob Brown, John Boswell, Ron Harris, Tom McGuire, and John Otto. Our track speedsters were Bob Brown, Ronnie Gibson, Ron Harris, Charles Hatfield, and Tom McGuire. John Marx, David Reavis, and Roger Thornton were our representatives to the State Music Clinic at Lincoln. Going to the District Instrumental Music Contest at Auburn were Nancy Kelly, Karlus Moore, Harold Lewis, Roger Thornton, and Becky W’indle. On the band executive board were Karlus Moore and Harold Lewis. Roger Thornton was our drum major. Those going to the District Choral Contest at Auburn were Bob Brown, Elmer Butler, Judy Cheever, Shirley Cunningham, Mary Ellen Gaither, Jane Hahn, Thelma Merz, Richard Malcolm, John Marx, Ronnie McCoy, Judie Majerus, Richard Monroe, Charlotte Robinson, Roger Thornton, Betty Vogele, Becky Windle, and Linda Apel. Jane Hahn, Thelma Merz, Judy Hunzeker, Shirley Cunningham, and Richard Monroe attended the District Speech Contest at Peru. The boys were not the only letter winners. In G. A. A., Thelma Merz, Carol West, Glenda West, Judi Heineman, Charlotte Robinson, and Billie Adams won Second State Awards. Betty Vogele won a First State Award and was also G. A. A. President. To prepare the Orange and Black, which is definitely a Pulitzer prize-winning masterpiece, we gathered together experts from all parts of Falls City High School. To help our Editor-in-Chief, Martha Cain, were Assistant Editor, Larry Beasing; Business Manager, Jim Nedrow; Assistant Business Manager, Thelma Merz; Sports Editor, Ronnie Gilkerson; Music Editor, Shirley Cunningham; Class Prophecy, Linda Tubach; Speech and Dramatics, Becky W’indle; Girls’ Physical Education, Carol West; Class Will, Tom McGuire; Class History, Roger Thornton; Snapshots Editor, Rachel Wittrock; Senior Editor, Glenda West; and Typists, Peggy Pickard and Marylou Brisby. On March 25, the District Scholastic Contest was held at Peru. Those attending were Delmar Rieschick, Richard Monroe, Ronnie Gilkerson, John Honea, Rachel Wittrock, Nancy Kelly, Bob Brown, Ron Harris, Tom McGuire, Larry Beasing, Linda Tubach, Wauneta Bachman, Martha Cain, Judi Heineman, Roger Thornton, Marylou Brisby, Shirley Cunningham, and John Otto. Our Miss Falls City of the year 1960 was Shirley Cunningham. Her attendants were Thelma Merz, Linda Tubach, Carol West, and Connie Kirkendall. On April 30, 1960, the Junior Class, wishing to pay due homage to their superiors—the Seniors—gave a festive banquet-prom. On May 6, 1960, the Senior Class presented a three-act play, “Growing Pains,” by Aurania Rour-cral. The play was ably directed by Mrs. Ahern and well received by the audience. Comments on the play ranged from “Wonderful cast, great acting”—the cast, to “Marvelous—just like a real play”—Strauss-ville Gazette. In the cast and helping backstage were Roger Thornton, Becky Wrindle, Linda Tubach, Tom McGuire, Jane Hahn, Judy Hunzeker, Wauneta Bachman, David Lunsford, John Boswell, Charles Hatfield, Roland Gibson, Richard Allen Monroe, Jr., John Otto, Imogene Becker, Shirley Cunningham, Rachel Witt-rock, Judy Cheever, Thelma Merz, Patsy Fritz, Judy Wehrman, Charlotte Robinson, Billie Adams, and Nancy Kelly. We chose “Today We Follow, Tomorrow We Lead” as our class motto; blue carnation as our class flower, and blue and white as our class colors. On May 13, the last day of school for the seniors, Class Day Exercises were held. May 22, Baccalaureate Services were held, and May 26, Commencement Exercises were held. What kind of day was it? A day like any day, filled with those events which alter and illuminate the history of our time, and we—The Senior Class of 1960—were there. Roger Thornton

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ence of the vast knowledge he acquired at Falls City High School. Ronnie Harris is teaching chemistry in Alaska to the Eskimos. Finally, I arrived at my old Home Town. It was really wonderful to be back, but there had been some changes since I had lived here. John Boswell, Dale Chesnut, and Wayne Martin are operating a cheap transport service between Falls City and California for those students who are looking for a brighter future in the sunny west. Bob Brown is still trying to explain the fourth dimension to Coach Peterson. Elmer Butler, a motorcycle cop, is busily arresting speed-happy teenagers in the high school parking lot. Martha “Cookie” Cain has become the sexiest weather girl KTNC ever had. Mary Ellen Gaither and Karen Yohe have formed the “Happy Hour” knitting club for those lonely Monday nights when their hubbies are at Guards. Willie Craig and Charles Stevens say that farming makes them dizzy. They get all tangled up in the rotation of crops. Dennis Crofford continues to spend his time at the poolhall as manager. Karen Gerlt is driving the Stella school bus. Ronnie Gilkerson, who has his own beauty shop, is specializing in those little curls for “Little Women.” Ronnie Gibson is still selling lots to those in need of them. Judie Majerus is now a happy wife and mother who has found her greatest ambition in the highest of all worldly vocations—the maker and keeper of the home. Thelma Merz is helping her dad sell tractors and combines in a leopard bikini bathing suit. I hear they’re selling like hot cakes. Betty Vogele is still here in town working on a new formula to restore older ladies’ white hair to its natural color. Donald Wenz has set up a bait shop at Rulo and is digging worms for the fishermen. As I walked into a drug store I saw a Falls City Journal on the counter. The first article I read was one written by the president of Geneva Girls’ School. Miss Linda Apel still insists that there is really no bad girl. Dorothy Goltz and Alice Winsor did their famous Pow Wow Dance at the Sidney Rodeo last night. Judi Heineman is somewhere in Africa selling ice-cream cones to the natives for immense sums of money. Nancy Kelly is in Florida designing men’s Bermuda shorts. Harold Lewis is now a cowboy in the wilds of the wooly west. He has shown wonderful bravery and endurance in his job. Douglas Ludwig, a man of iron endurance, is now a sergeant in the army and is quite capable of handling his job. Tom McGuire is in the State Psychological Department still advocating Freudian principles, although he is not a staff member. The big question in Hollywood today is whether Dick Monroe will receive the role of Tarzan at MGM. Eileen and Elaine Niedfeldt are renting a magnificent apartment in a large foreign city. Virgil Scheitel, a respectable Falls City father, is running for city council so he can have the curfew changed from 11 o’clock to 9 o’clock. An article that really amused me was that Peggy Pickard, head spy of Scotland Yard, had been called to Falls City High School to trace fingerprints on shorthand notes found by Mr. Coba in his government class. Then I saw a most handsome picture of Delmar Rieschick. Delmar, according to some of the leading men’s magazines, is the Most Eligible Bachelor of 1990. Charles Marteny is now teaching English at Harvard; we always knew Mrs. Hoffman would finally get it through to him. Judie Wehrman is employed at the world’s largest zoo and is painlessly extracting walrus teeth by hypnosis. Carol West is “house mother” for the boys’ dorm at St. Benedict’s. Charlotte Robinson has just given birth to her twelfth child. The more Bachmans the merrier. Down at the bottom of the page I found this unusual advertisement: If you have soft, tired, irritated, perspiring, chafed, and tender feet, we recommend the best-selling cure-all, Dr. John Otto’s Foot Powder. Finally before folding the paper I noticed on the society page that Shirley Cunningham recently threw a party in Virginia, bigger and better than ever before. Shirley is known as the southern dainty lady of society, envied and flattered by all, the queen of every gathering, and the bell of every ball. Well, my little trip was very interesting, but I hurried to catch the train back to Omaha so I could fly home to Florida where I was a marriage counselor. Just then I heard a loud noise, and as I turned around I saw some of my friends stopping to pick me up. Why I wasn’t in a strange world after all; I had just prophesied the lives of my classmates. Linda Tubach