Browns Valley High School - Thunderbird Yearbook (Browns Valley, MN)

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Basketball team is coming. We find the.coach none other than our only Senior Basketball player, Jordan Larson. Seems as Itchy's team has beenpredict- ed to take the State Championship this year. This is the fifth consecutive year, since Itchy started coaching the team. We wish the boys luck, but find that it is soon sleeping time. Since our jet doesn't have a collapsible bed, we try to find a Motel. Near the edge of town on Highway 28, we find just the ideal spot. Behind the desk sits Darlys Labs, another former classmate of ours. We chat with Darlys awhile to find that, though she went on to college she couldn't stay away from her own home town, so she has established her own resort, and has been well satisfied with her choice. In our cabin we find television installed. The program for tonight stars Betty Fogel in her favorite role, A Date With Freddie . Seems the night of the Senior Class Play there were talent scouts in the audience who advised Betty to go on with her career. She has now established quite a name for her- self. Before retiring , our driver remembers that we are short on gas , so he runs into town to have it filled up. At our favorite station, the Dradnats we find Christensen, the owner of it. We learn that Gary is now happily married to a former Junior, and now has a couple additional helpers. Back to our cabins for a good nights sleep, when sitting at the bar of a famous restaurant we see Gary Despiegler. Gary seems morally depressed, so we stop in to have a few words with him. He tells us that he has had very good luck on his farm, and the oil runs like water, so we ask him why so gloomy. After hearing his answer we can well see why. Seems as though Gary would like to get married now, after making his first two million, but he is having a hard time deciding who the lucky girl will be. 'Tis often in life we meet difficult problems, but none quite so impossible as this. After having a good nights rest, we wake very hungry and set out to look for a nice cafe with speedy service. At the corner of Marquette Avenue we find one run by Ardis Johnson, the former Ardis Thomas. After eating, we walk over to the desk of Marion Pitzel who has started her own Information Bureau in Ardis' restaurant. She informs us that Leona Smith is no longer in the city, as she has joined her husband, Keith Krensing, at Heartbreak Ridge. She tells us, too, that Myrtle Kaufman is now married and living in a Suburb of the Twin Cities, with her husband, Ben, and her twins, Bennie and Bonnie. She has heard quite frequently, too, from Bethel Judish. Seems Bethel has her own Night Club, now. She said that she quit going to dances for one year and that way was able to buy her own club for dancing. Since we are in a hurry to find a map to the Airport, we ask Marion about it, and she suggests we try the Public Library. Upon arriving there, we find it is in the exact spot as it was before we left the Valley. In charge is Pat Hess, a great help to his wife, the regular librarian, but who is ill today. He has taken over our problem and quickly solved it for us by finding just the map we need. Enroute to the Airport we pass several hundred acres of the new project which has been established by Harry Ziemer and his cousin, Shirley Ziemer, now Mrs. Jim Metz. They gained a fortune when all their relatives suddenly passed away. And, deciding not to split up, they turned the entire estate into a new project in the development of agriculture. Arriving at the airport just in time, we buy our tickets and hasten to catch the plane. The stewardess, Elaine Pistorius, assists in finding our seats and fastens our safety belts just before the plane leaves the ground. We are assured of a pleasant journey home with such a friendly and accommodating hostess. It has surely been a pleasant visit, and our only wish is that it could happen more often but since that is impossible, we are very glad we have seen, or learned of all our former graduating classmates.