Marcus High School - Eaglet Yearbook (Marcus, IA)

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The year started August 30 with the same eleven enrolled as seniors The first week of school was highlighted by the Marcus Fair Homecoming was scheduled for Oct 15 and all attention was turned to that, it being our last year, we wanted an outstanding celebration Everything moved satisfactorily except that we were unfortunate and lost our game to Kingsley We gave our undivided attention to routine school work until the holiday season arrived and we seniors sponsored a high school Christmas party Everyone enjoyed himself, it seemed that the mistletoe was the center of attract1onfor'the evening Semester tests which required our con centratlon, came up right after Christmas vacation Then we were ableto coast until February whenwe started work on our year book, first under the supervision of Mrs Meehan and later, Mr Blsk This kept us 'on the jump In March we started casting for our senior class play, 'Yours Until Tomorrow', under the direction of Mrs Howard Johnson We are all looking forwardto the banquet and prom, which isto be held in April, andto the most important event in our high school days our graduation In Maywe shall say fare well to the teachers who guldedus with sympathy and understanding through our high school workand.soc1al activities and shall leave the halls of M H S forever to our underclassmen CLASS COLOR Silver A Blue CLASS MOTTO With the rope of the past we'll ring the bells of the future. CLASS FLOWER Blue Carnation Sponsored by Farmer's State Bank ' A 4 'di-' ,l 'I ' X . r V r . X. . 1 I. I ' . . .

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Sen br P opfzecy 'Time--7:U8 P. M. Me? I'm a doorman. Here I am, standing out in the snow on this cold January 20, 1970. Tonight there is a big banquet here at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago. It's a 15-year's reunion of the class of 1955 of Marcus High School in Marcus, Iowa. It's almost time for the guests to start arrlv --------- Oh, here comes Miss Natalie Bork. I understand she was the residing chairman at the annual convention of the National Lonely Hearts Club of America that was held in New York City last week. ' 'Even1ng, Miss Bork.' Real big shindig, I guess. 'Here comes a 'Dorr's Milk Truck! I'll have to send him around to the service entrance. Why ------ 1t's Wesley Gerlnger. I guess he has to drive that truck around now after all the money he lost on his last deal. He tried to sell milk to the people in France, but for some reason they preferred Mogan-David ' 'Even1ng, Sir ' 4 'This nextcar1s.probab1y thebiggest one I'll seetonight, a Cadillac with acarthis big it justhasto be thatfamousunderstudyofAudrey Meadows on the Jackie Gleason Show, Carol Walker ' 'Even1ng, Ma'am ' Man, that's the biggest tip I've gotten all night ' 'I see poor Janice Gates coming up the street It seems she learned so much when shewasin high school that she decidmitobecome the librarian in the Library of Congress I overheard her say she sees a certain Mr Harold L Hipple every now and then ln the Library ' 'Even1ng, Ma'am 'What in the world is this next thing coming up here? A school bus' Oh,I suppose that's Roger Briggs and his family He's got eight kids now, all named Frances or Francis I understand that they tell them apart by numbers on the backs of their clothes and when they want them all they do is yell 'Francis' and the number 'Good evening, Folks ' 'Just going through the door now is Ardys Deichmann She's the head nuclear physicist at General Electric where she stumbled onto that terrible menace to the whole world, the D Bomb 'Even1ng, Sir That's Wesley Steffen I've read a lot about him in the newspapers It seems he's attempting to build a canal across South America for the United States failure The way I heard 1t,the away from his calculations 'Getting out of that taxi dancers, Bonnie 'wigglehips government, but his efforts are a dismal native girlsweredlstracting his attention over there is one of Arthur Murray's best Schmillen 'H1, Wigglehips He's just it but he doesn't have to any more You remember back in 195k all Gereral returned from the White House, where he taught President Harold L Pipple the mambo on the first nationwide 'Music Appreciation Day ' 'Here comes a car down the street and I know just who it is I can tell 1t's Janis Seggerman driving her Ophenhauser by the sound lt makes 'Even1ng, Ma'am ' She's following in the steps of her grandfather as night cop in Marcus, Iowa She recently had her picture in the paper because she received the Distinguished Service Award forthe arrest of Wes Gerlnger for a three count charge of reckless driving There's thatfamousautomotivedes1gnerJames CMelv1nD Lage just going Motors cars had 'Body by Fischer' printed on them? dell, more Now they say 'Body by Johnson' This looks like the last of the merrymakers coming Ma'am ' That was Bernita Ebert, another famous television quite as big a star as Carol walker yet Her biggest role week when she had her appendix taken out on the 'Med1c,' they don' t any now 'Even1ng, star She ' s not so far was last but we see her every Wednesday and Friday night across the other side of the boxing rlrs 'Say, this has been a good night Nine ten eleven fifty sixty five, eleven sixty five in t'ps! M m m, what a good group!' Page 5Ponsors Fred's Place Gates Decorators, Ph 267 I -0 Q .H I . I . .I I in. I heard he always used to write his name all over so people could see ' 0 , ..... ...... ........