Walnut High School - Walnut Tree Yearbook (Walnut, IL)

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tory via a Jet propelled motor scooter driven by Gail Frank I met the famous Andersen girls, Joan Jevne and Verna who formed a vocal trio They were performing at the Marsions Hideaway owned by Bob Gloden and Scott Gerbitz I was waited on by Butch Lowery who served me a shot of Vapor Trail Stinger The next day I had my stomach pumped by Barbara Braasch who was an aid to Doctor Edson who was interning at the Interplanetary First Aid Station Fully recovered I hailed a Sput Mobile driven by Eugene Calsyn and was whizzed to the lunar drags which were taking place on Pincus No 5 When I arr1ved there, crawl ing from a heap of mangled space Ferriari s were jerry Myers, Dave Kepner and Karla Krebs Who should rush to the scene of the accident but Betty Hardy to sell them some Super Duper Hot Toddies game When Jimmy Mattingly threw a screw ball to the batter Roy Fink, it was called a ball by the umpire Clayton Blackert Larry Brandenburg the fabulous catcher of the Pluto Plungers took issue with the umpire and it ended in a free for all I made a mad dash for the gate where who should I meet but Diana Mungor the star sports reporter for the weekly Pluto Gazette She was there to interview Truman Esmond the versa tile manager of the Pluto Plungers Among his many talents Truman was a bartender He picked up many of h1s law cases this way This concluded my tour of the planets I arrived home last night and I am wr1t1ng to you ln the wee hours of the morning Please write me about your new invention, the mathematical robot that adds numbers faster than sound that you and Roger invented in your spare t1me It added respect to the Administrative branch of teaching and really put Walnut on the Inter Solaristic Map Congratulations I must close now for I am very exhausted from my long trip to the planets Your long lost friend, Letty Waterhouse The most thrilling part of the trip occured when I attended the intersolar baseball

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Class Prophecy 59 Dear Patt1 I could hardly walt to wr1te to you about my marvelous tour of the resort areas of the solar system It all began when I won the t1tle of M1ss Green Cheese of 2059 Thls was qulte an honor because It was on a solar w1de basls I was ln competxtlon wlth such beauty queens as M1ss Neptune who IS none other than Lmda Kruse who has been teacher there smce the U S establlshed the1r Rocket Academy for men M1ss Jup1ter who was none other than Barb Weber who has been hvmg there s1nce Marvm Neahr1ng establ1shed an Agrlcultural Expenment Stat1on to estabhsh Jet propelled mxlklng machmes and M1ss Saturn better known as M1ss Ramona Llvey who IS now coachmg a boys basketball team My clothes were excluslvely deslgned by Anna DeWaele and Dessa Schoaf who ran an ellte dress shop on our new satelllte statlon An outf1t modeled by Ada Hexdenrelch especlally caught my eye I-Ier hat was unlque ln that It was entlrely of radlum Melanie Polson who had recently returned from her m1ss1onary work on the cold planet of Mercury was modelmg the natlve costume of the Mercurltes there As I entered the Grand Solar Station on our satelllte I accldently bumped 1nto my old classmate Carolln Heltzler She IS now marrled and the mother of thlrteen lxttle green monsters At last I began my lllustrlous tour of the planets My pllot was Don Wallace who had gxven up tractor draggmg 1n favor of a faster mode of travel My dmner was brought to me by a devastatmg young hostess Marlene Kasten It accldentally spllled on the lap of the person seated next to me Kelth W1llstead who was now a great novehst He had just f1n1shed a book called Farmmg Can Be Fun The great farm cr1t1c Rodney Von Holten has censored It as too funny for the common farmer My flrst stop was Mars where I v1s1ted the Mars Candy Factory Who should be work1ng there but Agnes Gugerty and Bob Ward Contmumg on I covered a lot of terr1 7 a 0 - s 7 . - - . . I O I . . Q . . D ! D I o o n 0 D y u s 0 s 0 g o Q I . . . 11 . H - . o s . . - 0 . . . - s , '

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Senior Class Histor Forty-nine Freshmen began their first year at Walnut High in the fall of 1954. Initiation was held September 20th. Our officers for the first year were: Don Wallace Presidentg Roy Fink, Vice-Presidentg and Diana Mungor, Secretary-Treasurer. Our Senator to Student Council was Don Edson The Representatives were Patti johnson, Truman Esmond and Gail Frank Mrs Yonk and Mr Bruss served as our advisors As Freshmen we enjoyed a trip to Chicago, sponsored by G B H We were in charge of refreshments at the Homecoming Dance Our big project for the year was selling popcorn at football and basketball games We also had bake sales to earn money During our second year we chose Truman Esmond as President Verna Anderson Vice President and Diana Mungor, Secretary Treasurer Letty Waterhouse was our Senator First semester Representatives were Barbara Weber Monie Livey and Don Wallace Marlene Kasten Don Edson and Barbara Weber were second semester Representatives Miss Robbins and Mr Bruss were our advisors Our big money making project for the year was selling magazines Our Junior year was really a busy one We had very capable leaders this year Don Edson was President Roy Fink was Vice President and Truman Esmond was Secretary Treasurer Diana Mungor was our Senator to Student Council Marvin Neahring jerry Myers and Gene Calsyn were our Representatives for the first se mester Second semester Representatives were Louise Bell Gail Frank and Don Wallace We had charge of concessions at the football and basketball games We were also publishers of the Raider Roundup the school paper Our float won first prize in the Homecoming parade with the theme We Didn t Finish and Neither Will Wyoming Our class also put on a very good play titled Amazing Gracie Our biggest project of the year was putting on the junior Senior Prom We made U , . . . . I 0 U . . . 1 1 . - . 0 . - , . I , Q - 1 v . . . . I O r ' 1 - I I 9 a ' ' 1 . 0 . vl - yy . . . , U . . ,. . , . . . . . ,. . - u - . vv . 1 U