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

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 DciCfA 6:00 Mrs. Merklinger pushes Mr. Merklinger out of bed —seems junior is hungry again. 6:15 Two hot-rodders drag down Koenigstein Avenue. Miss MacNamee never can get her rest. 6:30 Mr. Hummer gets up to watch his Chemistry program on T.V. 7:15 Mr. Switzer enters the old school house to start a fire. 7:45 The school bus sets out to pick up the busy beaver students. 8:30 Mrs. Spear gets Mr. Spear up just in time to walk those few steps to school. 8:50 Town students decide they’d better start for school. 9:00 Mr. Merklinger takes roll (Well, it’s a little better than yesterday) Announcement: Be more quiet passing from class to class. 9:01 Seniors pass for English. 9:45 Moans and groans are heard from the English room. Another pop quiz has been pulled off. By those grades, it seems Meadow Grove Seniors have extraordinarly bad grammar. 10:05 The loud bangs heard throughout the school indicate Miss MacNamee’s typing class is in full session again. 10:30 An explosion is heard from the physics room. Mr. Hummer!! 10:45 Mr. Merklinger rushes up the stairs just in time to catch Max and Billy chewing gum in study-hall. Fifteen minutes after school boys!! 11:00 Twelve industrious seniors pass toGeometry to learn the difference between a circle and a square. 11:35 Mr. Spear enters the study hall and announces that it will have to be more quiet. 11:55 Students come pouring out of Geometry class. 12:00 A thundering roar is heard coming down the stairs, must be dismissal time again. 12:05 Teachers drag home for nerve medicine — only four more hours to go. 12;45 Students anxiously enter the schoolhouse, full of vim, vigor, and vitality. 12:50 Home Ec. II, Shop II boys, and craft girls pass downstairs for class. 1:20 A peek in the shop finds craft girls trying to saw a board. 1:30 Jack Wynn tries to hammer a nail into a board —but seem to be all thumbs. You should be ashamed 1:40 A scream is heard from the Home Ec. room. Miss MacNamee broke an egg and a baby chicken flew out. 1:50 Senior students pass for American Government, Advanced Algebra, and Bookkeeping. 2:05 Mr. Merklinger is heard yelling, “but I’m not a Democrate”!!! 2:20 Mr. Spear staggers out for a drink muttering, 2 plus 2 is 5 — I think. 2:35 Miss MacNamee slowly walks down to her Home Ec. room to take refuge there from the mean little kiddies. 2:40 The people in mixed chorus pass quietly to the gym for practice. 2:50 Mr. Merklinger, study hall teacher, dodges paper wads, airplanes, and etc. 3:20 Mixed chorus rumbles up the stairs and the sextette passes to the northeast room. 3:30 With the boys passing for basketball and the study-hall teachers changing shifts, the noise has died to a dull roar. 3:50 Everyone leaves except those whose names have been written on the board. 5:00 Basketball boys are heard leaving the school. 5:15 Ralph Switzer locks the doors on old Meadow Grove School. 6:00 The sunsets on M.G. and all is quiet for another day. —21 — SCHULTZ REPAIR GILLETTE DAIRY

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flciKL l The junior Class Play, presented on Friday, November 20th was eccentlicities was going John D. Astorfeller, was an eccentric billionaire (Rodger Nelson , . r t ... ........ T m i • i i „n r was forever chasing John to quiet around giving away money. Mizabeth, (.Joyce Lyall), his housekeepei „ rl , , . r .r . n n 1 c r-iL and Mime Gavis, (Heth Ann McIntosh); him. Gail Martin, (Ardith Meyer); Peggy Parker, (Susan Gilbert); ana • were a trio of singers that happened to be marooned late at night near the lomas ansion. ley were forced to stay overnight on account of the weather. Randy Hendrix, (Jerry ft vatt) a neighbor who was supposed to be going with Lucille Thomas, (Joyce Humphrey) an invalid and her brother I om Dick, (George Duchow) who changed his name because he was supposed to have killed his grandfather Ihomas two years ago tonight. Slim Summers, (Mike Sullivan) a constable, who got the position through a correspondence course is a little slow thinking but lends a touch of humor to the presentation. The third act of the play revealed that Tom Dick didn’t kill his grandfather, but it was actually his sister and Randy Hendrix in a conspiracy to get the grandfather’s money. The singing trio get hopelessly involved in the whole episode and John D. Astorfeller isn’t actually so stupid after all. The play was directed by Mrs Ankeny “The Clock Struck Twelve.