Gibbon High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Gibbon, NE)

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CLASS PROPHECY fCon Ll Christina McKeon first Lady Ambassador for the Un1ted States to Lower Slobbovia meets the Wealthy Wall Street business man Dewayne Hemmer ling and h1s social minded wife Madame Nancy tPetersenl-accom panted by Lucllle Speed Typist Kelly Dewaynes most popular secretary They are v1s1t1ng this healthful country in their tour around the world Dick Nutter while read1ng his morning paper The Hobo City Blue Moon. with news exclusive from Ioes Barroom and published by Byron Harvey and his associate Tarzans noticed that h1s cousin twice removed for un necessary roughness Gene Nutter has Just shipped 100000 head of Holstein sheep from his Montana Ranch to the Gibbon Market for resale next year Speaking of Gibbon the old Joint is really Jumping now Vernon Hawke has started a professional basketball team Gibbon Hawkeyes He has a quiet Off1C9 complete with secretary Shirley Scott Vernons secretary who quit because she couldnt stand the strain of keeplng the floor waxed for Vernon s fast moving team now works for the Rosenthal lce Cube Company Jim Wide Awake Kirk the admired secretary of the F1rst Lady President fast pace set by Gloria He solved this problem by gotng to Marcia Gang wrshs Night School For Slow Men Marcia has been busy teaching men how to acquire speed in regard to social xmprovement Last but not least we f1nd Bob Vohland playing football for the Lower Iceland Superior Skidders Team who play with the North Pole Team Out of season Bob hunts wild animals in North Africa Never has it happened that so many with so much accomplished so little G ass Hasfofn, What an eventful day it was on September 1 1943 when our proud mothers walked to the school steps w1th their tiny children who were to beg1n one of the first steps of life' When our teacher M1ss Ogilvie took roll she found that there were twenty seven little eager beavers all ready to start school They were Ilmmy Cousins B1lly Craig Iimmy Danner Richard Graham Delores Hibberd Gretchen Iohnson Iunlor L1v1ngston Lorene Loudy Hortensla Martinez Dean Nutter Margrette Ann Petersen leannine Phelps Royal Power Chester Reed Raymond Reeder Charles Schwerdtfeger Doris Scott Donna Rose Vohland Wilamine White LeRoy Wnght Ianthia Hedges and Alvin Ftequa As our second year rolled around we found that we had a little more sc1ent1f1c outlook on life Those of us who were left from the first grade looked around and found that the teacher was Miss Woolworth After a little more observing we found that we had lost seven of our dear classmates 21 I Gloria Sargent, finds himself faced with the problem of keeping up with the l .

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CLASS WILL fCon't.l Nancy Petersen wills her peroxide hair to anyone who can buy enough peroxide to make it blond enough to suit them Merlin Schmidt wills his slim figure to Shorty Weston and his phone calls to Bill Musil. Shirley Scott wills her maiorette spot to Betty Knott Here's luck, Betty. Gloria Sargent wills her coyness to her sister Anna Dean It runs in th family we guess Dick Nutter wills his neatly polished shoes to LaVerne Firme and his saddl shoes lackie Snyder wills her good pefinianship to Mr Shafer o that the students t road his announcements from now on Bob Vohland wills his mustache to lrving Weston lt goes Well with wrvy hair so they tell us Maurice Weller wills LaVerne Firme to anyon who needs a human ala m clock LaVerne goes off at 8 l5 As we leave dear ole Gibbon High we hope that these little reminders will be helpful hints to the following classe of Gibbon High Glas pfzotwfzecxl Dont be surprised at the things that can happen in twenty years to a Senior Class Take for example the startled look of Ioyce Quick Information Applegates face who is covering lndias Internal Problems for the Gibbon Reporter when she meets Mahraiha Khan limmy Counsins who is giving away his weight in sea water to his twenty four million grateful subiects Howard Flash em Maddox is taking some beautiful snapshots of the Sahara Desert when he spies Margaret Chase em Bosse running across the sand dunes trying to corner Van fDelbertl lohnson Merlin Schmidt owner and operator of the Sandhill Egg Producers Association flies fresh eggs from Bob Yockey s large fifteen acre chicken ranch to the Omaha market in his low flying Supreme Salad Wafer cracker box ltflaior Weller head of the 255th Cavalry Division in his attempt to drive the natives out of Africa runs across lackie Welfare Worker Snyder who is attempting to teach the natives civilized ways lt hn Sup er Salesman DeBr1e of the Super Duper lnternation let Propelled Plow Company owned and operated by Barney Weak kneed Peters is attempt ing to sell Royal Power a net propelled plow so that Royal can plow his fielas by remote control while helping Mari Ellen in the kitchen She says sn will leave him if he doesn t fix the handle on the frying pan GA6lTdCj,I'l Know All Monson Dean of the Womens Preparatory to Je, Ur versity x ith her able assistc nt Rcse Gorml y has been train w vtlic e 1 itll of lt-ll!! the Hyena s fcr the 1910 Saaie Hawkins Day iacc 20 IL l -, , . ,. V ., 9 . A . . s CIII. , . 1 rj ' , . . . . 9 I' . I . , . . . . , . . . V . . . , . , . , . . . . 1 . , . , , . . , , . . I - A , , . , 1 Q 3 . . I - I - , ...,, . E - V l X ' ' ,i ' i , , lvl-zrrzat 1 ii , 'J . 1 , , - , .. 4 , .. M .. .. . , ing 4: ' if pt, . . , - A i

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CLASS HISTORY fCont.l We had garned frve students who were Earl Cushman Glen DeBr1e Iohn DeBr1e Mary lane Nutter and Loulse Wolfe Grade school was very excrtmg but we were anxxous to enter hxgh school Our teachers durmg grade school days were Mlss OQ1l1Ve Mxss Woolworth Mxss Larson Mxss Cook Mlss Mercer M1SSlOhnSOH MISS Ntttgow and Mrs Zxmmerman We f1nally entered hrgh school under our own power and found that we had galned thrrteen members and there were ntneten from prevrous years The new students were Ioyce Applegate Paul Frmk Mari Ellen Gallup Marcla Gangwrsh Rose Mane Gormley Chrlsttna MCKeon Gwen dolyn Monson Gene Nutter Rrchard Nutter Byron Peters Loutse Bxpp Merl1n Schmrdt and Glen Peters Class offrcers that year were Pres1dent Bob Vohland VICG Pres1dent Iohn DeBr1e Secretary and Treasurer Luc1lle Kelly Sponsor Mr Enevoldsen After we had reached the tenth grade we all agreed that 1t was better to look down on the freshmen than to be looked down upon as a freshman Our class sponsor that year was Mlss Sm1tth We had an ICG skatmg party out to ye ole sandplt None of the gxrls knew how to skate that nlght so they had several of the hard falls of lxfe The boys used to hold glrls up but now 1t 1S vrce versa Class offrcers that year were Prestdent Bob Vohland Vzce Pres1dent Nancy Petersen Secretary and Treasurer Man Ellen Gallup It really was a thrrll for us to be called Iunxors Now we only had one class to look up to and that was the Sen1ors a class of f1fteen and we had them outnumbered by fourteen Mrs Klme and Mlss Spellman were our sponsors We had qulte a busy year We put on the lunror class play Brother Goose gave a Iun1orSen1or Banquet and bought Mrs Klme a coffee table for a farewell present fwhrch nearly broke the Iumor boysll Class offrcers for our Iumor year were Pres1dent Byron Peters V1C9 Pres1dent Vernon Hawke Secretary and Treasurer Marr Ellen Gallup Twenty-erght proud Sen1ors entered the twelfth grade They were Ioyce Applegate Margaret Bosse I1m Cousxns Iohn DeBr1e Marr Ellen Gallup Marc1a Gangwlsh Rose Marle Gormley Byron Harvey Vernon Hawke DeWayne Hemmerllng Delbert Iohnson Luc1lle Kelly Iames Krrk Howard Maddox Gwendolyn Monson Chrrstma McKeon Gene Nutter Rrchard Nutter Byron Peters Nancy Peterson Royal Power Glor1a Sargent MGUIICG Weller and Bob Yockey We recerved our rmgs a month before school started and th1s took our spendmg money so we had to mooch from the Iunlors for the rest of the year We ordered our announcements and name cards and had our pxctures taken at the Leschlnsky Stucllo ln Grand Island Our Senror Play was a great success and a great amount of talent was shown at that trme The Iumors gave us a very beautlful nrght club banquet after Wh1Ch we all went home feelmg that the Iunxors were fxne hosts Sneak Day came and we surprrsed everyone wrth our secretlve rnstabrhty The Iun1orSen1or Hunt followed 1n the tradltlon of Glbbon Hlgh It was great fun outwrttmg the Iumors 22 I . 1 1 , I 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 , , 1 . . I ' - - . 1 Q . ' I I 1 1 I 1 . , , 1 ' ' 1 1 ' I 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 - r - . . 1 1 - 1 , 1 1 1 1 I , . . 1 1 11 11 1 1 . . 1 1 1 . . 5 1 . . . , , 1 1 1 ' - . 11 1 11 1 1 1 1 . . , 11 11 1 1 . . 1 ' 1 - . 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 ' . - 1 1 . r 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 , . 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1