Clarks High School - Bomber Yearbook (Clarks, NE)

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Senior Class History The Class of 74 started their 13-year race in seven different starting gates. Allan Church and Mary Engel attended Riverside School, Bob Foulk at District 50, Richard Rieken and Duane Miller at Pleasant Hill, Clifford Yrkoski at Krakow, Laura Kingma at Lincoln Public in Mundelien, Illinois, Cindy Grause at District 20, and the rest of us at Clarks Public School. At Christmas we all dressed up like bears for our program. Mrs. Ulferts was our announcer and raced us on to the first grade. Mrs. Baird was our First grade announcer. The spanking machine was the big event. For each of our birthdays, we formed our machine and gave the birthday cnild their initiation to the ripe age of seven. As tne race continued, Mrs. Sloan took over as the announcer in Second grade. We showed our artistic ability by making lifesize puppets out of cardboard and paper plates. In the spring we formed a bird- watchers club to Droaden our knowledge of birds. Mrs. Zlomke entered the race in Third grade as our announcer. We learned how to square dance and had an Indian play, building our own teepees. Cindy Grause and Duane Miller entered the race, but Ellen Wem- hoff got bumped off around the turn. We raced on to the Fourth grade, where Mrs. Morgan took over as announcer. To highlight our study of transportation, we took a train trip from Columbus to Grand Island. We also held a carnival for the rest of the grade school; and showed what we had learned in History with a Nebraska show. As we picked up speed, we also picked up a new announcer, Miss Zoucha, who helped us present our Hobby Show. Rounding the turn. Miss Test took over the announcing job in Sixth grade. At this time many of our members were welcomed out to Riverside School for a track meet. As the race goes on, Mr. Owston comes in as the announcer, where four extra runners move onto the track - Richard Rieken, Allan Church, Mary Engel, and Laura Kingma. Moving on, we switched to Mr. Riley as announcer. After Eighth grade graduation, we took a trip to Lincoln. We toured several places of interest and got to be on Cartoon Corral. Now as things really picked up, three more runners, Bob Foulk, Ellen Wemhoff, and Cliff Yrkoski come onto the track. At the second turn, Mr. Cyboron and Mr. Nelson took over the heavy task of announcing. At this point of the race, Doe Dee Dittmer was 1st as President, Bob Foulk was 2nd as Vice-President, Denise Shonsey 3rd as Secretary-Treasurer, and Cindy Grause in 4th place as news reporter. We chose our class motto as Challenge Your Own Faults Then Take on Others. Our colors were gold and white and our flower was a white rose. The highlights of the year were Initiation where we crawled from Main Street to the park on our knees and kissed the upperclassmen's feet, and the Powder Puff football game between the freshmen- seniors and sophomores-juniors. The freshmen-seniors were ahead the whole game until the last two minutes. The girls got to take a Pep Club trip in the spring to Omaha. As we Bunched up, we now needed three announcers: Mr. Manstedt, Mr. Ippensen, and Miss Davis were the volunteers. Mary Engel was now in the lead as President, Kathy Miller in 2nd as Vice-President, Cindy Grause in 3rd place as Secretary-Treasurer, and Jeanne Pickrel in 4th place as News Reporter. The big event in our sophomore year was dissecting pigs in Biology. We were ready to receive our Medical Degree after that. Going into the 3rd turn, the bunch was spreading out again and only two announcers were on the scene, again Mr. Ippensen and Mr. Manstedt. Doe Dee was in tne lead as President, Jeanne Pickrel moving up into 2nd as Vice-President, Mary Engel, 3rd as Secretary-Treasurer, and Cindy Grause in 4th place as News Reporter. We received our class rings in the fall. We also put on our play They Run in Our Family, which turned out to be quite a success. The girls again showed their athletic ability in a game against the Fresh- man-Sophomore boys wearing boxing gloves, and the boys against the faculty. Our Prom The Sky's the Limit, If You Put Your Heart Into It, with Whale playing, also turned out to be a great success. The girls got another pep club trip to Omaha visiting the Henry Doorly Zoo, Weavers, Old Market, Westroads, and a snow. Making the last and final turn, and going into the home stretch, Richard Jarecke took over the last and final lead as President, Rusty Kuhn was in 2nd place as Vice-President, and Bob Foulk in 3rd place as Secretary-Treasurer. Leaving one announcer behind and picking up another to finish, Mr. Ippensen and Miss Kluever were waiting at the finish line! Many activities took place on the final stretch, starting out with ordering our announcements and Senior Keys. Homecoming came with the theme Touch Me in the Morning. Our royalty was Bob Foulk - King, Jeanne Pickrel - Queen, Ellen Wemhoff and Allan Church - 1st Attendants, ana Kathy Miller and Jeff Wurtz - 2nd Attendants. The Freshman-Senior girls again played the Sophomore-Junior girls in a powder puff football game. The game went scoreless until the last quarter when Raedene Rieken ran a fast touchdown for the Sophomore-Juniors. But the Seniors came back beating the faculty in basketball, both boys and girls. We took our Sneak trip in early April to enjoy the snow at Loveland Basin in colorful Colorado. We skiied and snow-mobiled all day and went to eat at El Rancho Steakhouse at night. Everyone collapsed that night on the bus after a long, busy day. The Juniors honored us with a Prom titled American Gratfitti. Our class play The Egg and I, on April 26 was the finish line. On May 12, 1974 at 7:30 we completed our race and made it across the finish line at Clarks High School. Twenty-one faces were filled with mixed emotions as they ended one race and started another, leaving many memories to share.

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Senior Class Wills We, the Seniors, will to the Class of 1975, our ability to stay out of trouble, get along with the administration, and to have a good class trip. We, the Seniors, will to the Class of 1976, our ability to have a great class play. We, the Seniors, will to the Class of 1977, our ability to keep our class together. We, the Seniors, will to the Class of 1978, our ability to suffer through four years of high school. I, Jeff Kohl, will my ability to run to Reggie Kuhn providing he goes out for sports. I, Barbara Huston, will anything I have that’s worth willing to anyone who will accept it. I, Jeff Wurtz, will my efforts in trying to have an unbeaten season in basketball to the players of the 74-75 season. 1, Bob Foulk, will my ability to stay on the good side of the administration to any underclassman provided he gets away with as much as I did. I, Clifford Yrkoski, will anything willable to any willing underclassmen who will be willing to accept my will. I, Laura Kingma, will my pickup to Laurie Zoucha providing she doesn't get more people in the front than I did. I, Connie Morris, will my glasses to Mr. VanZandt providing he doesn't put shaving cream all over them. I, Cindy Grause, will my ability to chew my fingernails to Raedene Rieken providing she doesn't use it more than once a day. I, Denise Shonsey, will my ability to get in early every night to Glori Beck providing she gets in at 10:00 on Saturday nights. I, Rusty Kuhn, will my ability to play trumpet to Rex Lamb providing he plays taps whenever he is called to do so. I, Ellen Wemhoff, do will to Laurie Zoucha my ability to get out of trouble after Rita Yrboski gets you into it, and 1 will Rita Yrboski a silver ink pen (brand new) for wrestling matches and to get Laurie Zoucha into trouble with. I, Karen Colby, will my great sax ability to LouAnne Miller, providing she doesn't fall and land on top of her sax at contest. I, Kathy Beck, will all my nicknames to Peggy Vincent providing she never has any more than I did. I, Richard Jarecke, will my ability to hold office of President to anyone who is willing to use it to the best of their ability to get out of work as I did. I, Allan Church, will my wrestling shoes to any boy or gilr who thinks they can fill them as well as 1 did. I, Mary Engel, will my height of 4'10 1 2 to Cindy Starostka providing if she makes a bet for 5'2 to Mr. Ippensen, she will succeed where I failed. I, Jeanne Pickrel, will my graceful skiing ability to Jacquie Husmann providing she doesn't twist her knee in Colorado. I, Kathy Miller, will my volleyball playing ability to Raedene Rieken providing she learns to use her fingertips to set up the ball. I, Doe Dee Dittmer, will my height to Mike Herman providing he doesn't gain any weight for wrestling next year. I, Richard Rieken, will my ability to Mike Richards providing he doesn't let it get out of hand. I, Duane Miller, will not.

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Seniors Through the Years