Callender High School - Cadet Yearbook (Callender, IA)

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David Peterson after graduation went directly to the Army to fight for his coun- try like many of the rest of us did. Getting out of service a few years back he started his dairy farm which now takes in about 640 acres. He raises strictly Holsteins the same as his Dad was doing a few years back and has been awarded many prizes for high production and so on. David and his wife have just gotten back from their honeymoon in Texas and he will continue his dairy farming as before. They are driving up now in a new big black Cadillac, being a little late because of having a lot of chores to do. The last ones to appear are Mr. and Mrs. Alan Bilstad, Mrs. Bilstad was the former Joan Dyvig. They came up in a blue '38 Chevrolet with white side walls, kids and all the other accessories. Upon leaving school at graduation Alan went to Arizona and started raising chickens before the Army got him, but he saved up plenty of money to get married after the war and raise his family of two boys and two girls. Very charming children they are too. Look just like a chip off the old block. Joan went to college and took up teaching to earn some money for the bride to be. Now Alan is home and instead of raising chickens he now raises cattle, kids and farms, 260 acres. - Alan Bilstad Paul Kehoe David Peterson

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Class Prophecy lt was high noon when Eugene Lowry and family stepped out of his belicopter - after three minute flight from Harcourt to Callender to celebrate the anniversary of our graduation from Callender High School. He was the first one present at the Municipal Park. This was due primarily to the fact that he lived so near, but his flair for punctuality had not left him either. He cultivated the habit from the time he started school and his remarkable record in the times tardy column of his report card was due to his feeling that one must be on time at all costs. The first person to join Mr. Lowry at the Park was Bob Green. The redhead was driving a supercharged jet assisted take-off and pick-up-boosted Studebaker with very high compression and gas consumption. With him was his charming wife of thirteen years and their ten charming daughters. The rest of the family had to stay home to do the chores and besides there wasn't room for them in the car and a neigh- bor had borrowed the trailer to haul some cobs. Next to appear was Paul Kehoe and his wife who was the former Joanne Frederickson. They sped up in their spanking new Crosley, the one with the self- changing tires. Joanne had been off to college in Chillicothe Business College and had landed a job with a well known Chicago firm, the boss proposed to her and Joanne decided to accept. Just about then Paul came home on leave, having been in the Armed Services like all the rest of the boys in our class, and he went to Chicago to change her mind. And change it he did for at the end of his leave which lasted two weeks, Paul and Joanne were happily married. Evelyn Hanson was busy planning her wedding to one of our classmates who is now running a dairy farm. She has now come to join us. Prior to her engagement she was working in Fort Dodge where she sold ladies' gloves at the Boston Store. But this is now all over for she will be kept busy washing milk pails and milking machines. Immediately after graduation Edwin Larson joined the Armed Forces. When he was discharged he had the rank of Major. He was so use to giving orders that upon coming home he ordered Joanne Sheldahl to marry him and she agreed with him. He is now running the elevator at Palm Groove and plans to buy it in the near future. Don Weinzetl joined the Armed Services but he didn't have to fight because he had such a good trumpet and could play it so well he was invaluable as an entertainer and his help to keep up the morale for fighting men was one of the main factors in our win- ning the war. He just roared up on a brand new Harley Davidson Motorcycle. He's alone, no, his wife is here with him but his kids are still at home. With the war after me, graduation blossoming into full bloom there was a great need for nurses to help the military doctors meet the urgent needs of the men at the front. Phyllis Nelson saw her duty and she did it. She joined the Army Nurses and brought comfort to many G.l. 's who had been wounded. Now as we were congregating at Municipal Park in Callender we noticed an absence at the picnic table. Where Phyllis had been scheduled to sit there was nothing but vacancy. Phyllis had not yet shown up. You see after the war was over she and one of the military doctors thought that since they were such a capable and happy team during a national crisis they should continue the partnership after the war and so they got married. Oh! Here she comes now, it's Phyllis all right and a very handsome young looking doctor in her arms. You guessed it, it's her son.

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Class Poem A few lines of prophecy, A few lines of wit, All is possible and Some could be it. Alan Bilstad, a smart and feminine man, Always doing the best that he can, His ability great and foresight strong, How can he ever go wrong? Bob Green whom everyone knows, Is often seen at burlesque shows, His ambition is to be a teacher, After he and Joan Warren have seen the Preacher Edwin Larson, a farmer was he, Until he became an eligible draftee. His way with the girls, this is putting it mild, His smile and charm just drives them wild. Joan Dyvig who lives up a long lane, Is trying for Bilstad and not in vain. Pert little nose, cheeks so fair, Deep blue eyes and dark brown hair. Gene Lowry is singing on A. B. C. Working for his sponsor D. U. Z. Up in the morning, bright and gay, He serenades his fans all through the day. Joanne Frederickson is now owner of a ranch. Herding the cattle whenever there's a chance. Flirting with cowboys, but most of all, Waiting for a guy back home, named Paul.