Bagley High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Bagley, IA)

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CLASS POEM To help remember the days soon past, We'll tell you the things that will always last In our memories--though time does fly, We'l1 think and remember Bagley High. We'd like to present our class to you, There's a tried and true saying, There's power The few of us whom here we show Are the best--we're convinced--so here we go. Down the alphabet we go, So with .Tim Anderson, we'l1 start to blow. We should talk about blowing--he's the one Who talks from dawn till set of sun. Robert Carrick's the next--we envy him. He's got a combination of brains, vigor, and vim. Some people are always ready for fun, Just mention a gang and Sal Dresback will run. For a gal who works in the local store, And still is full of fun galore-- Don't look any farther, for she's right here, Lois Duncan's the one and that's quite clear. Jeanne comes to school almost every day, But her heart is still far, far away. Then comes George--he's plain to see, His hair's enough--do you agree? I-Ie's tiny we know, but oh so mighty, When Eddie looks at a girl he gets so flighty, I-le's been our proxy, so tried and true, You can tell just by looking that he's true blue. You can spot the next one a mile away, With her head of red, it's easy to say. Eleanore plays basketball just like a whiz, And George agrees--she's the best there is. J'anie's our wee-one - -she's a dead shot, She plays that bucket game with all that she's Donna too puts her soul in the fight, She cheers and yells with all of her might. Last, but not least, Dean Tha1er's the boy, Who breezed through school--it was a joy, The office he kept and errand boy was he, He really did work--at least at those three. This is the end of the '49 Class. We've tried to describe each laddie and lass, We're not so bad--will the teachers agree? ? ? Look at our good side--maybe you'11 see. 13 in few got,

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CLASS HIST OR Y It was certainly blue Monday for seven children on September 6, 1937. lt was probably the most important day of our lives, but to be torn loose from our mother's apron strings was quite a jolt. Miss Plumb was the first teacher to Betta Kraft, Margaret McCall, Eleanore Porter, Frank Prescott, Robert Ellis, Janet Safely and Robert Carrick. That first year went by plenty fast and by the first day of the second year of school we were ready and willing to plunge into education. We lost Betta Kraft that year but Mary Ann Rice and Lois Belding joined Miss Plumb's tribe. Our number was increased to eleven in the third grade by the enrollment of three new members: Jay Allen, Dolores Barker and Beverly Smouse. Miss Allen was our teacher in the third and fourth grade. Mary Ann Rice was detained in the third grade because of illness and Dolores Barker and Janet Safely moved away, They were replaced by Phillip Covi, Jackie Kelly and Earl Myers. ' Miss Jensen herded ten of us through the fifth grade. We traded about even that year by losing Jay, Jackie and Bob Ellis, but Jane Radebaugh and Clark Pierce joined the merry tribe. Miss Blackburn was our teacher in the sixth grade. Margaret McCall, Clark Pierce and Lois Belding left us in this year. We started the seventh grade with twenth students. Jim Anderson, Gordon Behrens, Phyllis Cornelius, Lois Duncan, Eddie McCartney, Rayfield Moses, Donald Myers, Leon Pierce, Ralph and Robert Middleton were added to our class with Mrs. Dale teaching, but during the course of the year Beverly, Jim, Phillip and Gordon moved. We entered the eighth grade with Miss Stafford as our teacher and minus two more classmates. They were Gere Dale and Rayfield Moses. Duane Maddux joined our group in this year. Jim Anderson, Gordon Bilbrey, Phyllis Cornelius, Lois Duncan, Kenneth Hoyt, Duane Maddux, Ramona Marchant, Eddie McCartney, Donald Myers, George Mobley, Dee Naylor, Jeanne Jackson, Leon Pierce, Eleanore Porter, Frank Prescott, Jane Radebaugh, Dean Thaler, Robert Hibnes and Robert Carrick started the ninth grade of school together as twenty very frightened and green Freshmen. This was the year of the largest enrollment of the Class of 1949. We started the second year of high school without Duane, Gordon, Dee, and Leon, thus leaving sixteen pupils to start the Junior year. We can truthfully say that we had a lot of fun our Junior year. We went to the banquet, had our class play, and began feeling like Seniors even though we weren't--yet. This was also the year that Donna Swarm left Perry and joined our class. We finally came to the last year of our high school career with Sally Dresback as the only new member of our class. Eleanore Porter and Bob Carrick are the only ones who went through all twelve grades with the Class of '49 at Bagley High. 12.

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Chicago, Illinois August 15, 1954 Dear Donna, I was certainly surprised to hear that you were in the Marines. How does it feel to be the only woman dentist in the Marine Corps? Can you really tell how rich a man is by looking at the gold in his mouth? I am working at the American Airlines in Chicago. Last week was my vacation, so I went back to old Bagley. The town seems pretty dead without our good old class around. Our classmates certainly are scattered. You remember Robert Carrick, don't you? Well, he is filling his am- bition by going to engineering school in Ames, Iowa. Maybe you already know of his engagement to Lurene Noland. I was rather surprised to hear it, but you know you can expect anything nowdays. I don't know whether you knew it or not that Eleanore Porter and George Mobley were married right after school was out in 49 . They are living on a farm north of Bagley. You remember George with that butch haircut, well, their little boy has one and he looks just like George did. I'1l never forget how gabby Jim Anderson was in school. Well, he's really found his fit profession. He's substitute for the Silent Man in the shadow pictures in the movies. First time I've heard him quiet. Lois Duncan is in the clouds. After finishing nurses training she be- came a stewardess for Pan American Airlines and makes weekly trips between Rio De Janeiro and Miami. You've seen George McCartney, the automobile magnet's picture in Time Magazine, haven't you? Who would ever have thought that Little Eddie would turn out to be such a big man in the Fisher Body Company? Dean Thaler always did like to go after the mail every morning. He's still after the mail--he works as mail carrier in Los Angeles. I-Ie's still a bachelor--surprising, isn't it? Jeanne Jackson surprised me last fall by stopping to see me while in Chicago. She was on the way to New York to join her husband, who is in college there. I have to go back to work now. My job is interesting but I always en- joy hearing from the Bagleyites . Write me when you can. Oh, I almost forgotf Jane Radebaugh is the woman wonder in the fashion world. She designs the petite styles for Adrian in Hollywood. We knew she'd wow them. As always, ' 'Sal Dresback 14 A