Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Ihor Hansen First Place Visual Award Winner

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John Collins Technology It was the tall of 1954. and, once again, technology was visitin' Maybell Valley County High School. As usual, it was late, but then, everything in our little glen was late. Why, even “The Great Hog Market Crash of '47 didn't reach us till the spring of '48. We can thank the Good Lord for our school because that's where technology got its start. The Maybell Valley County High School was the first building in the county to have indoor biffys. 'lecricity, and the telephone. Tarnation! Back in '49, when the school board field a hog raffle and bought those twelve new Underwood typritters, Saran Lorg, President of the woman's temperance club, said we were all “headin' ourselfs to hell said she. Now, old Sarah was or her high horse again 'cause the school board had splurged again and bought nine new 'lectric typritters. Long as anybody anywhere can recolect. Miss Jane Crabapple had oeen teaching school as far back as you want to go. Why, I don't think anybody can remember her ever being younger tnar forty-five. She was tall, thin, and very wrinkled. Her hair was white and was dcre up in a bun so far cbove her head that it made a target for anything that a boy could get his hands on to throw at it. Well, gettln' back to those typritters. When they got them contraptions back in '49. the school board gave Miss Crabapple the critters and told her to teach the young'uns typrittin'. Now, in '54 when the 'leclrics came in, they had some trouble. It seemed that there were nine ’lectric models and nine girls in the typrittin' class. Seen' as Miss Crabapple thought that all boys were the Devil's helpers, the girls got the 'lectrics. The boys got left with the manuals. It’s a good thing that the fellas from the Sate don't come cround offener than they do, or we might get cnarged with dexter-scrimination.