Altoona High School - Roundup Yearbook (Altoona, IA)

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51 Q., i ,S 'W'-in CARLA TUINSTRA Activities: Class Play, Class Officer, Home- coming Queen, Mixed Chorus, Girls Glee Club, Band, Marching Band, D. A. R. Representative, Cheerleader, Co-Editor of Annual, Cub Reporter. Ambition: To be happy and successful in everything Iundertake, MARLENE YARRINGTON Activities: School Annual, Class Play, Mixed Chorus, Girls Glee Club, Cheerleader, School Lunch Cashier. Ambition: To be happily married. -23-

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L af M gl, f 'A , xt 1 u 'f' ,.. ,. N 5- if ' 3 , fl kv ' X' 'I Vx fl! I 1 DICK TRAVIS Activities: Mixed Chorus, Madriqal, Basketball, Baseball, Track, School Annual, Class Play, Class Officer. Ambition: To be successful in home and in business. DEANN A SMITH Activities: School Annual, Class Play Ambition: To be a secretary. ..22-

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I .fair GMI! and Ugifammf We, the Senior Class of 1954, being of sollnd mind and body fwe thinkj hereby bequeath the following properties to the Underclassmen of Altoona High School' ' 5 To Betty Paulsen, Tom Hamborg wills his false tooth to be used as a spare. To Jimmy Barker, George Diebel wills his basketball ability and eligibility. Ed Hinrichs wills his money and new car to Danny Brady. Marcella Meisner wills to Mr. Sells her ability to do her chemistry. To George Murrow, John Champion wills his ability to get along with the girls. Bonnie Briggs wills to Evelyn Brown her quietness. Carroll Clark wills his ability to keep his Chevrolet from flooding and to get it in gear to Phil Crabtree. John Murrow wills his ease at driving while sleeping to Bill Cox. Deanna Smith wills her noiseyness to Peg Newell. To Nancy Smith, Mary Jane Harding wills her tremendous size. To Ginger Melton, Ruth Scheel wills her freethrow trophy. Dick Scheel wills his speed and ability to move fast to Jim Graves. Vollie Sanders, to Don Erickson, wills his ability 'to keep from fouling inbasketball. Tom Cort wills his dad' s Chevy to Bruce Calbreath. To Gaye Blake, Carla Tuinstra wills her Homecoming throne. Lloyd Ohland wills his desire to be at school to Roy Crabtree. Shirley Brown wills a bottle of aspirin to the editor of next year's annual. To Betty Armantrout, Marlene Yarrington wills.her quiet ways. . Fern Hick wills Judy Cox her artistic ability. Ralph Helm wills his eight foot long slide rule to Miss Smith. To Carolyn Griffin, Verneil Griffin wills the club her dad has driven her to school with for four years. Joan Hartwlg wills her private telephone line to Runnells to Dorothy Stewart. To Russell Speer, Virginia Ellsworth wills her mechcmical ability. To the underclassmen as a whole we will all the tortures of high school we have gone through fwe're going to keep the good things that happenedll. Wltnessed by: ' Signed by: 1 f a' CRONDOI ISENIOB OF1954l FUTURSCOPIC TELEVISION PREDICTS SENIORS' FUTURES It was a foggy night after the senior class play, and I couldn't even see the red paint on my truck as I turned the corner to go home. Then it happened! Everything went wrong- the steering wheel twisted out of my hand, the accelerator went down and down, and the speedometer went up and up. When the truck pulled to a stop outside a farm house, I staggered out and ran to the house. No one answered when I knocked, so I walked in the open door. In the living room, I saw an odd-looking television set and when I walked over to it, I found it was a new brand named Futurscopic TV. One of the buttons I punched said, Ten Years , and another said, Class of '54 . The picture came in clear, but when l saw it focus on a superintendent's office, I was ready to jump out of my chair to change the controls. Before I could move, I recognized the superintendent as Vollie Sanders. He looked at least ten years older than he had when I had seen him just that evening. He no longer had his butch haircut. II guessed that he wanted to look more executive.l As my eye traveled to the other side of the screen, I realized that his secre- tary was none other than Deanna Smith. I' ve never seen anyone take dictation--so fast- She must have Iconfinued on page 61, ...24..