Wausa High School - Viking Yearbook (Wausa, NE)

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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.

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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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A SENIOR CLASS WILL. . - We, the SENIORS of Nineteen Hundred and Forty Three, being of unsound mind and memory, do make, publish. and de- clare this our last will and testament, in manner and form as 'follows : ' Janice Anderson-My excess poundage to Gene Johnson. Lillian Anderson-My way with Vaughn Erickson to Ida Prather, ' .Charis Axelson-My trimi figure to Arlyn Mittan. Rsobert Creutz-My ways with the Women to Donald Osberg. Charles ElDorado-My sense of humor to Ronald Lindblad. Auryl Erickson--My winning ways to Donald Nelson. Vaughn Erickson-My sophomore girl friend to Milford Koehlen Donald Hult-The immaculate appearance of my hair to Johnny . ElDorado. Gloria Hult-My way with the boys to Lorelei Erickson. Leslie Johnson--My big blue eyes to Duane Kunzman. 1 Melvin Koehler-My blushing ability to Helyn Lindberg. Arleatha Larson-My short curly hair to Dorothy Benson. Lorraine Larson-My gift of gab to Carolyn Bloom. Sheldon Lind-My deep bass voice to Wesley Seger. Dean Lindahl-My fondness for the teachers to Duane Reed, Robert Lindstroml-My unusual laugh to Arlene Dahl. James Lingren-My lanky frame to Bonnie Hammond. Arlyce Lundeen-My quiet ways to Gladyce Lind. Donley Mainquist--My studying ability to Soupy. Dale Moline-My temper to James Landell. Janice Moline-My giggles to Shirley Steele. Dwaine Nelson-My ability to Write notes to Ronald Swanson. Eugene Nelson-My knack of getting my lessons to Gloriann Anderson. Marlind Nelson--My athletic ability to Lester Skoglund, Irvin Rosenberg-My bright red shirt to Lamont Larson. Floyd Thorell-My car to anyone who thinks he can get more speed out of it than I can. Arnold Welanlden-My snooker playiing ability to Donald Pearson. This will consisting of one sheet, was thereunto subscrib- ed by the SENIORS, of Wausa High, in the presence of each of us and was at the same time declared by them to be their last will and testament, and we are at their request affixing our names hereunto in their presence as attesting witnesss. The Senior Class of 1943 WITNESSETH: Gloria Hult Donald Hult