Wauneta High School - Broncho Yearbook (Wauneta, NE)

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In the eleventh grade Robert (Bob) Richards was found among the girls of the class. Lowell (Jerry) Stilgebauer ‘the Wonder Kid” a student that came from McCook, and Hazel Snyder, very bashful but a good sport were also added to our class roll. This year Mr. George Travis was our class sponsor. “Carrots” .vas chosen cap‘ain. of the basketball team of !9?8 When about time for the Seniors of ‘28 to paint the town, the boys of the class of ‘29 stayed up and watched but the Seniors decided not to paint until the following night. However, we got up in time to put our ‘29 over their '28. The best of all was the paint that got on Ed. Trump’s lawn. Because of an auto accident, Beth Crow lost a year and joined our class in our Senior year. Mr. Relph J. Lofton was our sponsor. The football team missed “Hooly” who moved to Idaho with his parents in the summer of ’28. “Knotty” was chosen captain of both football and basket-ball for the school year of 1928 and 1929. In all four years of high school, the class of 1929 has been represented on all first teams of athletics, and two of the class, Claude Knotwell and Norris Nesmith, have earnd four letters each in football and basketball. This is a good record and we are proud to be members of the class of 1929. CLASS POEM When we started out to High School, This class of ’29, I’m very sure no Freshies E’re looked so green and fine. Wo registered for English, Algebra, Civics, and the rest, No other class in High School Ever promised to be the best. We proved our worth as Sophies On football field and track; We’ve helped to put Wanueta In the middle of the map. Our Junior year was brilliant, We’ve done our work all right, And we’re proud to hang our Pennant up. Our colors, blue and white. Thru’ these four long years of High School, ’Midst scenes we know so well, The mystic charm, to knowledge We’ve vainly sought to spell And now that we are leaving, We’ll miss you, one and all— But we’ll meet and work together Somewhere on this grand old ball. Page Nine

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 JCLASS Class of 1929 Theron Merrill......................President Wiley Green. Paul Howard.....................Vice-Pre s. Lois Kanost... ..Secretary ■Treasurer Colors Flower Blue and White Blue and White Roses Motto A:o termination without determination History In the fall of 1916, when school was called, there were eight of (he present Senior class who responded to the call; among these were Bashful Beryl Crowell, Quiet Vera Gibson, Wiley (Bill) Green with a golf stick to protect himself and Grace Metcalf, Nellie Jones with a temper that no one else could possess, Dolores Theobald who could get along with any teacher, Doris Van Cleave, timid but studious, and last but not least, Helen Von Stade who is now our star pupil. Mrs. Louis Grimm was the teacher. The second year there was just the same number in the class. There was no school-house on account of tearing the old one down and building the new one and so Mrs. Grimm taught the class in the basement of Theobald’s house. The third year there were three new faces to be seen in school, those of Harold Frasier “the Printer’s Devil , Edith Terry, a scholar of high grades, and Larry (Hooly) Terry, a Henry Ford the second. The teacher was Miss Grace Parkins. At the beginning of the fourth year was found Claude (Knotty) Knotwell, a farmer’s boy on whom no one picked. Miss Zella Van Gilder taught the class that year. The next year there was the same class trying to do just what Miss Margaret Kenney, the teacher, told them. Harrie Tackett joined the class in the sixth grade. He didn’t care much for school but he did as Miss Kenney said for one year. He left during the seventh year. In the eighth grade there were no new pupils, but the teacher was new; her name was Miss Katherine Eby. In the Freshman year of high school there were eight new pupils; Ellis Carpenter who knew how to study, Ena Frasier who didn’t care for the boys, Paul Howard whom no one knew about, Carolyn ludd who made friends with Miss Watkins, Lois Kanost who has learned to stay out late with an under class-man, Theron Merrill who liked his green cap, Norris (Carrots) Nesmith with pretty red hair that the teachers talk about. The last, who will not soon be for gotten, Francis Wheeler who liked football after he once got his grades up. Mr. F. E. Woody was chosen as the class sponsor. At the beginning of the second semester Harrie Tackett came back to try his luck at high school. “Carrots,” “Knotty,” and “Hooly” made the first team in football. “Carrots” and “Knotty” also made the first team in basketball. In the sophomore year Fred Good and Bernard O’Niel joined the class. Miss M. E. Scanland was our class sponsor. Page Eight

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Class Propk ecy The good old times I spent in the Wauneta High School were nearly forgotten, by the time I had reached that age where I had a few brains. Bucking the board of trade did it. Although I had spent many dollars, I had secured enough to supply myself with the finer things of New York City, but a longing to travel crept over me and nothing else would do. On the morning of September 3, 1946 I boarded the New York Central and headed west to get a better knowledge of the Great Lakes and their surroundings. While at the station at Buffalo, waiting for the boat, I was stopped by a young gentleman with one of those “Sherlock Holmes” looks, who asked me my name. I told him, and to my surprise it was Theron Merrill, my long loved chum —Sargeant of the Illinois Detective Bureau, crossing the great lakes to look after some shortages in the government gold mines in Minnesota. He informed me that, if I should wait in Chicago a couple of weeks, he thought he could secure a vacation and go with me. During my wait in Chicago I attended everything of interest and I met an old school mate. Hazel Snyder, now a famous society lady of Chicago. My stay was not long there, as Theron secured his leave of ninety day vacation. We left Chicago by car, but were called for speeding by a big hefty cop. We recognized him as Barney O’Neill, and he let us go with a good hearty laugh and a few friendly words. On our tour to Washington, we stopped in Philadelphia. That evening we attended a theater and found Carolyn Judd to be the leading dancer of the Zieg-field Follies. On boarding the train the next morning, we met Vera Gibson. She was headed east to visit Miss Watkins to find out how to handle “High School pupils who speak when they are not spoken to.” We reached the capital city in safety and during our stay we found our old football captain, Claude Knotwell, to be the Secretary of the Interior with Ena Frasier as his private secretary. Our next hop was west, this time by airplane. The plane was piloted by a trusted old schoolmate, Grace Metcalf, known the world over as the “Lady Lindbergh”. During our wait in South Bend, we visited the University of Notre Dame and found Norris Nesmith to be the successor of Knute Rockne as head football coach and making the Irish boys believe he wasn’t a Swede just because of his red hair and his big feet. Our journey to the west coast was made short by fast airplanes, and we arrived in San Francisco in time to hear Miss Dolores Theobald, the lady governor of California, give a magnificent speech on “How they grow corn in Nebraska. We journeyed down to Long Beach and found that Doris Van Cleave had just been presented with the banner, “Miss California”, in the largest beauty contest ever held west of the Mississippi River. Page Ten