Meadow Grove High School - Trojan Yearbook (Meadow Grove, NE)

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M G H S V CLASS PROPHECY Come with me and take a journey Over many miles of sea, To a small Hawaiian Island For the Senior Prophecy. Scene is laid in a small grass hut, The time is half past four; A shriveled old woman soon appears. And hobbles through the door. She makes her way across the room; She sits down in a chair; She gazes long into a bowl, As though something were there. For twenty minutes she stays alone, One minute for each year; She then writes down what she has seen To make the future clear. Look over her shriveled shoulder Onto the printed page; This is the year of ’64, Our seniors are on the stage. In alphabetical order, Starting with the letter ‘A’, March the seniors of ’44 For their future of the day. DOROTHY JEANNE BALLARD is starring in her first picture, “I’m Forever Talking Nonsense.” Her contract with a large movie corporation states that her salary will be $15 per week. VANCE DUNIVAN is now president of the U. S. and he has just signed a bill which legalizes the smuggling of diamonds. AVA NELL FOWLKES is now head of the FBI. She has solved no problems yet but hopes to soon. ARLIE NOVOTNY has a very crooked job. He works in a pretzel factory in Chicago. BERNARD OSBORN is a banker in the home town of Meadow Grove. Osborn likes the business because it demands faith—in beautiful women. GERTRUDE PFISTERER is a music teacher in Lincoln. Her class has taken first place for three years in state-wide contests. Place credit where it belongs. LORRAINE PRATT is a proprietor in a beauty salon. She guarantees to make you bald-headed the first trial (Bald heads are in style at this time). JOYCE SCHULZE is an aviatrix. You can depend on Joyce. She’s always up in the air” over something. BILL SESSLER is married and getting along ok. At first he owned a roadster but a little bit later he had to invest in a two-seated car. There seems to be a law prohibiting four riding in a one-seated car. IMOGENE STEWART sets traps for burglars. She’s bound to get her man. DONALD WARNKE is living the life of a hermit. He was so annoyed by girls in high school that he is punishing them by removing himself from circulation. EILEEN WERNER is a hairpin manufacturer. She makes hairpins out of mice bones. Wishes she were something else, so do the mice. LA DONNA WIETING teaches school in the Washington Memorial Consolidated School for Girls in Chicago. She trains stewai desses for American Lockheed Airways there, but she has never ridden in an airplane. SHIRLEY WILLIAMS is matron in Kearney’s school for disobedient boys; the only lady in the state to hold such a position. They have quite a time making the boys leave when their time is up. UNA LEE WRIGHT is sitting behind a large desk. Upon the door is the sign: “Advice to the ‘Love Lorn’.” Now the prophecy is over, And the hour is growing late; So I think we all had better Return to our United States. Just in case the seniors do object. As to how their future will be, I hope all of you will bear in mind “This was just a prophecy.”

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•— M G H S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of 1944, of the high school of Meadow Grove, State of Nebraska, being of sound mind and memory, do make, constitute, publish, and declare this to be our last will and testament. FIRST: I, Dorothy Ballard, will my red hair rinse and green slacks to Opal Upton. SECOND: I, Vance Dunivan, will my Charles Atlas book to Harold Lyalls. (P.S. Look what Atlas did for me! ! ! !) THIRD: I, Ava Nell Fowlkes, will my black hair and black eyes to Richard Rodekohr so he won’t have to go to Battle Creek after them. FOURTH : I, Arlie Novotny, will my good nature to Mary Lou Huel-le.(Of course I don’t have a sister like Ida Mae). FIFTH: I, Bill Osborn, solemnly will my boisterousness to Isabelle Munger. (The school just wouldn’t be the same without it.) SIXTH: I, Gertrude Pfisterer, will my ambitiousness to all the junior normal training girls. (Now lets get serious girls.) SEVENTH: I, Lorraine Pratt, will my “matrimonial ability” to Corrine Haltman. (P.S. This is leap year.) EIGHTH: I, Joyce Schulze, will my giggling to Vondalee Smith, my absent mindedness to the already forgetful students, and I divide my front curls among Leonard Terry and the freshmen girls. NINTH: I, Bill Sessler, will my courteousness to Wayne Austin. TENTH: I, Imogene Stewart, will my picture of the lad in the M rines to anyone who thinks they can get it. ELEVENTH: I, Donald “Ed” W rnke, will my new nick-name, “Whiskers” to that up-and-coming fieshman George “Sinatra” Munger. (P.S. They’re going to make razors after the war.) TWELFTH: I, Eileen Werner, will my heart throb to Gladys Kuntze. (P.S. I want one I can reach around.) THIRTEENTH: I, La Donna Wieting, will my bashfulness to Irene Eggers. FOURTEENTH: I, Shirley Williams, will my love life to June Dahl. FIFTEENTH : I, Una Lee Wright will mv poise to Betty Jean Han-nen and mv statuesque carriage to Janice Schlueter.

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««— M G H S —- JUNIOR CLASS 3rd Row—Marilou Ferry, Pres., Duane Lieswald, Henry Volk, Betty Jean Hannen, Richard Rodekohr 2nd Row—Robert Egg »rs, Bette Schulze, Sec.-Treas., Isabelle Munger, Lillian Sparr 1st Row—Rachel Lewis, Pamela Sessler, Marion Huelle, Hertha Terry, Vice-Pres., Mrs. Faith Gaskill, Sponsor JUNIOR - SENIOR BANQUET The annual Junior-Senior Banquet was held April 5th in the Methodist Church basement. The decorations were based on the “Star-Lite Evening-” theme. Marilou Ferry, juior class president, acted as toastmistress. Toasts were given by Mr. Beckwith, Isabelle Munger, Dick Rodekohr, Donald Warnke, and Una Lee Wright. Sophomore waitresses were Myra Mae Hauge and Genevieve Collins; waiters, Wayne Austin and Donald Ballard.