Wausa High School - Viking Yearbook (Wausa, NE)

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The voyage across the ocean was filled with entertainment. -One day while standing on deck, a deep sea diver entertained us. 'He was a heavy set man, On the back of his diving suit he had -the initials D. L. I at once thought that D. L. stood for Deep Looker because he seemed to be gazing down all the time with those big brown eyes of his. When he turned toward the crowd which had gathered on the deck, I at once knew there was only one man in the world with such beautiful brown eyes. When he saw me, he immediately rushed over and threw his arms around me, taking me quite by surprise, and causing me to wonder what kind of a deep sea diver this was, But I did'nt need a second look to see that it was the old Romeo of muy high school class, Dean Lindahl. We tarried for a while in the beautiful Hawaiian Islands, and were much surprised, when Leslie Johnson, the King of the Island, stepped out to greet us. He introduced us to his Wife, a beautiful lady, the former Arlyce Lundeen. I asked them how it happened that they had come to Hawaii to live. Leslie said he just couldn't stand the climate back in the United States any longer and so had come to get a lonig needed rest. Our next stop was Japan, an island now in the possession of the United States. As I had heard so much about the splen- did work being done in the island by Rev. and Mrs, Eugene Nel- son, I was especially interested in visiting it. When We arrived at the Nelson missionary field, Rev. Eugene Was there to greet us, and he showed us all the different scenes of interest in his parish. Eugene told us that Auryl Erickson was head maid and personal secretary to the governor-general of Japan, and that we should visit her as soon as we could. It seemed like we just didn't have time enough to talk with our old class mates, and were soon on our way again. While in Japan the news of a large camel, horse and donkey ranch in Arabia had- reached us. Even though it was a little out of our regular course, we decided that we wanted to see it, especially since the owners were Donley Mainquist, and Robert Lindstrom, Both were very good ranchers., While staying there they invited us to take a ride on one of their beautiful Arabian horses, which we did. We were delayed a week because of it. While we were on the ranch a message came, stating that our plane would start back in three days, and that our next stop would be in Switzerland. . We arrived in Switzerland just in time to view the snow carnival held yearly in the Alps. The worlds famous skiing champions, James Lingren and Arnold Welander, were compet- ing in the carnival. It was really thrilling the way they glided down the hills, and when it was over James Lingren had won the race by setting a new worlds record in high ski jumping. Our stay in Switzerland was very exciting, and we would have liked to stay there longer, but time would not permit us to do so. The next place of interest on our itinerary was Germany. Since the World War II ended this little country had turned quite peaceful. It was entirely under a new ruler, a mall who had a great influence with the people of Germany. As it hap- pened we arrived in Germany when the leader of the people was giving a public speech, celebrating his tenth year in

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could see it with my own eyes, so we drove out to the plantation. ln front of a cute little bungalow, five children of nearly the same age were playing with a little toy engine trying to make it run. When they were about ready to give up, ,a tall lanky man came out and helped them. In just a few minutes the engine was running in perfect order. As no one had noticed - our ap- proach, we sat there watching them for sometime. Suddenly 'a little boy jumped up and ran to meet us. I immediately recogniz- ed some features of a classmate with whom I had attended 'school for twelve years. The boy took us to his father who prov- ed to 'be Charles El Dorado. We were very happy to hear about all his marvelous inventions. It was really remarkable the way he had invented niacliinery for eliminating the drudgery in his work on the farm. The next morning we started on our way to sunny California. Upon our arrival there we stopped to gaze at the homes of the movie stars in Beverly Hills, As far as we ' knew, there were none that we knew, but just toxmake certain we bought a direc- tory of those who made their homes in this district. We had al- most given up hope, when we ran across the name of Melvin Koehler printed in bold-face type. Immediately we surmized that ne was a man of importance. We guessed right, as under his nameg it said Manager M-G-M Studios. We went to visit his studio, but no one was permitted to enter unless they knew the manager personally or had a pass. We were out of luck until we saw a rather tall man with glasses come up, and bark out a few orders to theothers. We recognized him immeditely so proceeded to introduce ourselves to him, He received us gladly and invited us to attend the premie're of his latest production of Gone witln the Rain that night, which we accepted with pleasure, . After the premie're we were invited to hisliome for a sumptuous ban- quet, at which we were introduced to a number of his famous stars. We stayed in Beverly Hills for the night, and the next morning we set out for the harbor to board our ship which was to carry us to the isles in the Pacific. We were taken to the sea- shore in a new invention, the motrolocopter . This was the first time the inventor had tried it out. Vlneedrew a deep breath, took a good last look at the beautiful scenery around us, and then climbed into the contraption which looked like a motorcycle with drop wings. It could be used on the land, the sea, or the air. The driver was a short fellow with deep dimples in his cheeks. He had not changed much in twenty years, so we easily recognized him as the same old Dwaine Nelson that graduated with the class of '43, The ride to the port was very thrilling. When we reached the dock, instead of dropping us off where the other passengers were, he pulled a lever, a big wing appear- ed, and he dropped us on the deck of our ship. I By this time we were quite worked up, as the ride had been both nerve-wracking and daring. When we climbed out of the motrolocopter the captain of the ship was there to greet us. He introduced himself as Vaughn Erickson. But who was that beautiful brunette hanging on his arm? She was the one who had drawn our attention, but Vaughn just let out a little -laugh, and said that she was his childhood sweetheart, Lillian Ander- son.

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,spent some time visiting with Floyd Thorell, Jr., who was now power. While he was speaking the only noise heard from the people, was Ya, Herr Moline , and the only signs were nods of approval. After his speech was completed we were ushered into the Rulers Mansion, where we spent the day talking to our old classmate, Dale. He stated that Hitler was quite old, and feeble, and that he thought it was terrible the way his former people had turned against his methods, it Our next stop was at the foggy city of London, where we prime minister of England. Floyd said he had always dreamed of the day when he could put on Churchills derby and zoot suit wand sit in his chair smoking a cigar, and letting the people 'around him do all the work. It was quite a surprise to see Floyd handling such a great and important position so efficiently. When the time carnle for us to leave England, we boarded a Trans-Atlantic Clipper at London, and were soon on our homeL ward journey. When we arrived in New York, we went to the Madison Square Garden for an evening's entertainment. We were surprised when the sound of the voice of a soprano came floating over the air of the large structure. On the stage of this 'beautiful garden stood a lovely woman from whence the voice came. She was an old classmate of mine, Gloria I-Iult. Gloria invited us to have lunch with her at her pent house. Leaving New York, we journeyed to Washington D. C., where we were to visit with the senator from Nebraska, the Honorable Robert Creutz Esq., and his beautiful Wife, Charis Axelson. Bob took us through the capitol at Washington and introduced us to all the men of imlportance. While there we heard the rumor that Bob was being boomed as a possible pres- idential candidate by tlie Republican party in next years elec- tion, While walking one day in Washington, my attention was drawn to a large sign Bureau of Lonely Hearts displayed on the front of a large brick building. Upon further investigation I discovered it was a marriage mart, and advertised as the J and R. Marriage Bureau . As I was not matrimonially inclined, I walked past, the place. However my attention was drawn to a dark haired. woman standing near the entrance. She smiled at me and asked if my name wasn't Janice'Anderson. I assured her that she was correct, so she immediately introduced herself as the former Janice Moline. She invited me to her little cottage in the suburbs of the capital city where We re- mained for a day to talk over old times and to rest, I told her about my experiences in meeting my classmates all over the world. However, when I looked over the list, I found that there was one classmate that I had not seen as yet. This was'Arleatl1a Larson. Janice told me that Arleatha had visited in Washington recently, and that she was successfully operating a childrens home somewhere in Pennsylvania. - On the way to my home in the mid-west we stopped to visit Arleatha. We found that she had a beautiful little place in the hills. With nearly three hundred children to care for in her orphanage, she had little time to think of what might have been. When I arrived back in Wausa, I immediately went to visit Grandpa Hegstrom, and told him about my interesting visits with my old classmates of '43.-Janice Anderson.