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

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26 STUDENT LIFE

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Paula Jones is among the nation's top scientists. A picture of Philip Bird Fine has replaced the bald-headed eagle on the U. S. Government Seal. Lawrence Kirkendall is spending a little time in jail for starting a riot when he learned that the city planned to install parking meters on Crook Street. In the field of advertising I found several of my classmates holding prominent positions. Jean Weinert is the new Betty Crocker. Ruth Schaible is a high fashion model for Vogue magazine. Sandra Wickham throws on some make-up and is known as Aunt Jemima—the first red headed Aunt Jemima in history. Janet Klaus says that Certs is a breath mint and Judy Klaus maintains that Certs is a candy mint. At this point I found that the book of Who's Who had run out of familiar names. I laid the book down and told my friends of my completion. Almost immediately a T V Guide was substituted for the other. On a late-late-early show I found that a movie was showing which contained some more classmates. Ruth Apel was starring in this movie entitled The Farmer's Daughter. It is the story of a sweet, unknowing country girl who falls in love with a city slicker type salesman played by Bob Grantham. She loses him, however, to a play-girl played by Glenda Clark. Ed Carlson stars as Tarzan in a new half hour series with Rita Ruegge as Jane. Jim McNeely and John Adams are the new stars of 'Car 54 Where Are You?’ Kathy Schuler married the T V celebrity Manners the Butler. Carol Sorensen is the new M. C. of the panel show To Tell the Truth. “Petti-coat Junction features Elaine Eby, Kathy Marquis, and Janice Stevens as the three girls. Jackie Swegler plays the part of Ma. JoAnn Kerns is known as Miss Frances on Ding Dong School every morning. Her good friend Sharon Brazau is the hostess of Romper Room. Garry Schacht and Helen Becker have a show entitled Ma and Pa Kettle. As I flicked over the last page of the T V Guide, a car squealed around the corner outside the library. Out the window I caught a glimpse of a brown 56 Oldsmobile peeling down the street. “Yes, said Jim, Don Saal's still around. Wanda Rhodd, the librarian, then informed us that we would have to leave because we were making too much noise. Jim and I bade farewell to my other friends and went out again onto the street. I noticed several new stores on Main Street with even more classmates as their proprietors. Barbara Perkins owned a shop specializing in seat belts for automobiles. Virginia Young operated a clothing shop for Tiny Tots Over 21. Ruth Steinman sold wigs. I couldn't help but wonder where she obtained materials for her products. Lowell Stitzer was manager of a shoe store for people with expensive tastes. Joyce Yoesel, Phyllis Craig, Marlene Carpenter, and Marilyn Hahn are partners in a vast department store. I noticed that all these stores were what you could call nice clean shops. Not only that but the streets of Falls City were immaculate. How did they do it? I wondered. There wasn't a speck of dust to be seen. I asked Jim about this and he pointed out a lone figure standing in the street beside a white sanitary cart. The man turned his back for an instant and I read the neat black lettering stenciled on his white jacket. John 'Smedley' Metzger, Champion Street Cleaner, it read. This really was amazing. Linda Buckminster's picture was on the front page of a newspaper I noticed in a street rack. Big, black letters pronounced her to be the Mother of The Year. On the same page of the paper was an announcement concerning the new officers of the local P.T.A. Linda Strasil was president and Sandy Hurlbert vice-president. This last article really did make me chuckle. The next meeting of the P.T.A. was to have guest speaker Linda Kiekhaefer talk on the value of a good memory. A 1964 Ford came chugging by with Just Married written all over it. Linda Rieschick had finally gotten married. Jim began to lead me back to the building from which we had emerged earlier. He explained that due to a technicality in time travel, I had to make my return trip within the next ten minutes. But Jim, I complained, there are still four members of the class of 1964 yet to be accounted for—Judy Merz, Sharon Rieger, Gay Snethen, and myself. I was told, as we walked, that the first three had combined efforts and started the Sunny Nebraska Winter Rest Home. Jim hustled me into the building and the room through which I had entered 1984. It is imperative, he said, that you leave 1984 immediately. But what of my future? asked I. Whatever became of me? Just before the time machine began to take effect I learned that I had never been seen or heard of after Senior Class Day of 1964. Why? I wondered. When I returned to 1964 and began to record my knowledge of the future, I suddenly knew why. Bill Beasing

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