Wausa High School - Viking Yearbook (Wausa, NE)

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X2 ?,....:.X5 K D' 1 , X nf X. ,, V W id -Yu ld-IK - I' v .xg if b P' ' X was my former classmate, De Vere Johnson. Dimps said he had been playing professional basketball for quite some time and en- joyed it more each day. He gave me some more information for my story and I then said good-by and went back to the paper. When I arrived back at the office, someone was waiting to see me. It was my good friend, Marian Prather, who was now teaching history at Chicago's East High. Marian was now wear- ing a large diamond on the third finger of her left hand. She told me that her vacation started in a week and suggested that we spend the time together. I quickly agreed to this and we began planning a long trip for our vacation period. A Week later We started our journey, by air, of course. We arrived early at the airport and were invited to make a tour of the field and its laboratories. One large room was devoted en- tirely to the development of a new space ship to go to Mars. As we entered this room, its director, scientist Donald Larson, came forward to greet us. He seemed glad to see us and offered to ex- plain the space ship in detail but we hadn't time to listen. The first place visited by us was Washington D. C. Neither of us had ever seen the Senate so we stopped there while it was in session. We were lucky enough to hear Senator Seagren from Nebraska make a speech advocating a super highway from Wausa to Bloomfield. After adjournment, we talked to De Mahr for quite some time. H.e then invited us to visit the State Department with him. This proved most interesting. A delegation of U. S. statesmen and their interpreters were just getting ready to leave for Chile. I just couldn't resist getting an interview from them. While I was busy asking qfuestions, one of the interpreters stepped up and tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around and was astonished to find Helen Anderson standing beside me. 'She said that she had formerly served in Paraguay and was anxious to start on this new work in Chile. Shopping in Washington proved to be a great deal of fun. One particularly fine clothing store attractedour attention and we went into it. The manager himself greeted us and offered to show us around. He, too, was a member of the class of '46-Darle Erickson. Darle said that he owned many large stores such as this and that he enjoyed doing some of the actual work himself. The next city at which we stopped was New York. We arriv- ed at night and the first thing we noticed was a large electric sign with letters 20 feet high spelling out EL DfORADO'S EX- CELLENT ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT. We hardly expected to meet another of our classmates here but when we visited the store the next morning, John Ei Dorado himself greeted us. His store was the last word in all conveniences.

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b N! 'ie sift I fw ' In the fall of 1945, thirty-one pupils enrolled as. Seniors in Wausa high school. Edna Jordan left school during the first semester, leaving the present enrollment at thirty. At an early class meeting James Landell was elected president, Lois Green- wall, vice-president, Arlyne Peterson, secretary-treasurer, Lorna Lou Bornholdt, social chairmang Darle Erickson, class reporter first semester, Lois Greenwall, class reporter second semesterg and Mr. McMunn, sponsor. Scarlet and gray were chosen as our class colorsig We have crossed the bay, the ocean lies before us as the class mottog and the red carnation as our class flower. On December 13, the Voiland-Genelli Studio of Sioux Qity took the Senior graduation pictures. O-n April 12, the Seniors skipped to Omaha. A memorable and eventful day was spent there. On May 14, the class play, The Professor Proposes was given by the Senior class. Baccalaureate services were held on May 12, and Rev. J. Sabin Swenson was the speaker. On May 16, commencement exercises were held in the auditorium, and we were given our diplomas. Dwight Havens, secretary of the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, gave the com- mencement address. Thus ends the history of the class of 1946, of Wausa high school. We have had many good times, and will always cherish our Alma Mater, Wausa High School. -Marian Prather. SENIOR CLASS PRCIPHECY. C Q I Teletypes ciicked. phones jangled, and my typewriter elat- teved furiously as I typed my regular sports editorial on What Sports of Today Need for the Chicago Tribune. When the last page was finished, I dashed madly to my boss's office in hopes that this editorial would please him. To my surprise he accepted it. Now, I thought, I can go home and get some sleep. Just a minuteji called the boss as I started for the door. 'I'here's a big basketball game on tonight between Chicago's City Team and the famous Los Angeles champions. You'd better get down there right away and cover itf' Wearily I made my way to the sports center. But I was glad I had come. It was one of the best professional games I had ever covered. The Los Angeles team had an outstanding center, Johnson, and I vowed to get an interview with him. After the game I sent a note to the tall, dark young man asking him for 311 interview. He replied that he would be glad to see me in a few minutes. Imagine my surprise when I saw him face to faoe for he

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Na Sh 1' x K . X ff, ': 'f hs N. ' t Yr' f-4 'i S We. ,Qilzji l New York's radio city w'as one place of interest. We arrived here just in time to hear Jumpy Joe Jingersf' the famous comedian. My eyes almost popped out of my head when I saw '?Jumpy Joe for he was none other than Duane Kunzman. Joe's program was exceptionally funny and was made even better by the sound effects. We talked to Duane after the program and he told us that his sound effects man was Leslie Erickson. Leslie did all the sound effects by himself and he imitated a train for us just to prove it. Carnegie Hall was host to Phil Spitalny's orchestra for a week at this time. We l1adn't planned to go until we saw the advertisement. It said in large type, Lois Greenwall, featured vocalist. The concert was marvelous and Lois thrilled the audience with her solo. The Lord's Prayer. No visitors were allowed backstage so we didn't get to see her. The next day we vowed to visit the famous Powers models. As we entered the office, two girls came hurrying out and ran right into us. As we recovered ourselves from the accident, we recognized the two girls as Betty Newquist and Doris Johnson. Betty was modeling hats for Charm magazine and Doris was a model for Maybelline eye make up. We wished the girls lots of success and then made a complete tour of the place. Back at the hotel again, we settled down for an afternoon of rest. Before very long, a loud knocking at the door interrupted us. Marian opened the door and in walked four men who identi- fied themselves as F. B. I. agents. Their leader, who proved to be another member of the class of '46, James Landell, told us they were searching every room of the hotel for a famous jewel thief. Not finding anything in our room, the men left as abruptly as they had come. However, we later read in the paper that Special Agent Landell had brought about the capture of the criminal. The next day we again boarded a plane, this time for the country of England. London provided us with a wonderful timeg therefore we decided to have our pictures taken to remember the occasion. Much to our surprise, we knew the cute little reception- ist at the photographers studio. She was the former Phyllis Nixon, now married and helping her husband run his business. . When we arrived in Paris we saw advertisements for a revue of ballet dancers in which an American girl was starred. She was described as blonde and beautiful. Hoping to meet another of our classmates, we took in the revue and were not disappointed. The star was our good friend, Arlyne Peterson. Pete told us- after the show that she had toured seven foreign countries and was soon due to go back to America to make a motion picture. She also told us that Lorelei Erickson was in Paris. She was working as a nurse in connection with the American embassy. We told Arlyne to tell Lorelei hello , for we were soon to leave for India.