Alta Community High School - Cyclone Yearbook (Alta, IA)

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The Last Night Under the Big Top 7:00 8:15 9:00 10:15 10:45 11:30 11:45 The Tommy Thomas Combo Ewan: 1955 Banquet Dinner Dinner Program Dancing to Tommy Thomas Combo Intermission - A Three Ring Circus Ring One: Aerial Artists Ring Two: Here Come the Clowns Ring Three: The Wild Animal Show Dancing Q 5 S x Balloon Shower --H- Pulling Up Stakes The Alta Juniors were hosts for the annual Junior-Senior Banquet and Prom which was held in the school gymnasium Saturday, April 30, 1955. The chosen theme, Under the Big Top, had the characteristics of a circus. On one wall was Silly Sam's Side Show. It consisted of a juggler, a strong man, sword swallower, fat woman, magic man, fire-eater, and two barkers, all of which were painted figures fastened to the wall to appear as the picture in front of the large tent. Across from the side show were three stands. One was a fortune teller, a place to have your pictures taken, and a game of throwing rings and win- ning a prize. Another act, and side rings were made up of a seal act and a lion act. The background for this was a parade of two elephants, an ostrich, two cages of monkeys and on horse-back, and a large bear. streamers and two large clowns decorated the stage. The ceil- attraction was the three ring circus. The center ring was a dog lions, a girl Colored ing was made of multi-colored streamers of red, green, white, blue, and yel- low. It draped so as to resemble a circus tent. In the center, it reached a peak, where the balloon bag hung. The entrance was of white lattice work in a lover's lane style. Red hearts hung from the streamers with the names of the Juniors and Seniors on them. A merry-go-round was the center of attraction. It consisted of red, white, and green polka dot horses which revolved in the center of the merry- go-round. Pink lemonade was served at the pink lemonade stand. The tables were very colorful with merry-go-rounds as center pieces. Colored horses on the merry-go-rounds were used as place cards. Circus animals were the favors, and pink, green, yellow, and red animal nut cups were also used. After the delicious three-course ban- quet dinner, which was served by the Barker and Clown waiters and wait- resses, a short dinner program followed. The guests enjoyed dancing to the music of the Tommy Thomas' Combo until 11:30, after which a balloon shower fol- lowed. This concluded a very beautiful and successful Junior-Senior Banquet. SPONSORED BY THE SILVER GRILL

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SENIOR CLASS PLAY Inner Willy is off to college - relentlessly goading poor Will- oughby into becoming a man. Of course Willoughby needs just that sort of character around. Having led a sheltered life with his three maiden aunts, he's become about as spineless a creature as ever there was. In the college dorm, he's the one who makes the beds and lends the money and clothes tuntil he hasn't even a pair of trousers to wear when his aunts arrive to visitJ. That is, until Inner Willy materializes. Then gradually - very gradually and painfully - Willoughby begins to act like a man. Willoughby has the makings of an athlete, a star football player, but he insists that he comes from a Ulong line of faintersf' And be- sides, there's always the danger of a smashed nose and broken bones and all. His three aunts agree, they even decide college life is too strenuous for their frail boy and insist that he return to the home town. And he would have gone, too! But there is a certain blonde -- a college newspaper reporter, no less - who tries to encourage Willoughby to stay and become a hero. The college rooters, too, put the pressure on him, and of course there's Inner Willy, who twits and tortures the poor fellow with jibes likeg Water on the knees, you know. The family tree had weak lim s. Small wonder then that Willoughby finally decides to stand up to his aunts and announce that he's going to stay and play football. Even those doubtful demurrers are happy when they see how striking Willoughby looks in a football suit. Most wonderful of all is pretty, blonde Sally's reaction - well - not quite as wonderful as Inner Willy's disappearing act when he sees that the outer Willy has shed his shackles at last! if Willoughby Adams Inner Willy Chuck Martin Johnny Newton Harvey Downs Ralph Jones Coach Lloyd Hank Johnson Sally Bishop Aunt Louise Aunt Olga Aunt Hester Marybelle Turner Lottie Marion Anna Kay Dorothy Bill McDonald Bill Hitchcock Vincent Moser Dennis Peterson Chuck Ford Ronald Murphy Gary Johnson Ray Grienke Barbara Hanson Maesel Lietz Susan Hetrick Joan Jarvis Faye Huseman Nyla King Karen Stille JoAnn Kent Lorna Hitchcock Joan Anderson I . s-ey -sitvzgle .talawfaef f' A I '7l1e Bum Sioux Front Row: Lorna Hitchcock, Joan Anderson, Susan Hetrick, Nyla King, Maesel Lietz JoAnn Kent. Second Row: Gary Johnson, Joan Jarvis, Karen Stille, Faye Huseman, Barbara Hanson Dennis Peterson, Mrs. Norton tDirector7. 'I'hird Row: Bill Hitchcock, Ray Grienke, Bill McDonald. Charles Ford, Vincent Moser Absent: Ronald Murphy. SPONSORED BY BEYER'S YOUNG FASHIONS- SHAW-YOUNGSTROM Storm Lake Storm Lake

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MENU PINK LEMONADE ROAST OF LEAPING LENA WHITE BALLOONS JUGGLING ACT RINGMASTERS SALAD s ww PEANUTS AND POPCORN ELEPHANT EARS CLOWN'S DELIGI-IT PAIL OF WATER DINNER PROGRAM Ringrnaster .................... Don Swanson Clowns Everywhere .,.... Bill McDonald On Parade .....,...... Margaret Anderson The Man on the Flying Trapeze Gerald Christensen Training Traits .... Principal Hammond The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down Dennls Brechwald Barker's Ballyhoo ......,... Gary Johnson 'K-em The Four Clowns .... Dennis Brechwald Carol Radke Larry Peterson xnxx Deanna Brechwald Pulling Up Stakes ..., Raymond Sievert :s':e .if nm.. . U 'er SPONSORED BY THE SILVER GRILL 27