Colo High School - Memories Yearbook (Colo, IA)

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JUNIOR AND SENIOR BANQUET Friday, April 15, 1945 was the day chosen by the Juniors to entertain their Senior classmates and the faculty at a banquet. All guests met at the dock fthe Schoo1'HouseD at 6:30 and proceeded to go aboard the S. S. Story Hotel in Nevada. The basement Rotar- lan Room was the scene of most action including sea- sickness. - Places were set for sixty-one persons. The place cards were small ships and the nut cups were in the form of boats anchored by key chain favors. Attractive printed program booklets were given each passenger. when all guests had been piped aboard, the follow- ing Navy Chow was served. A Dressed Sea Gull White Caps Sea Food Gravy Scum Sea Surf and Drift Wood Sponges Hard Tack Frozen Foam Brine The Sh1p's Crew presented the following program: Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . .Mary Jean Becvar Response . . . . . . . . . . . Betty Rogers The Captain and the Crew . . . K. L. Grant Quartet X Arnold Weuve Gerald wengert Gene Boster Nyle Hartwig Glass History , . . . Kathryn Davis Class Prophecy . . Shirley Andrew Cornet Bolo . . . . . . . Jack Koch Clase Will . . . , . . , , , . . Martin Rlese Piano Solo . . . .,. . . . . Marybelle Hemping Junior Message of Bon Voyage . . Donald wilson Toastmlstress . . Mary Jean Becvar .Accompaniet . . . Marybelle Hemping A show completed the evening's entertainment.

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- SKIP DAY W The Seniors left the school house at 9:00 for Des Moines. Tom Cummings, Ray Weir, and Tommy Williams drove cars. . The plans for the day were to go through W H O at 10:00. Well, Tom'was there at 10:05, Tommy at 10:15, Woody woods showed us through the station after Ray and his gang had been through K R N T! Of course by mistake--they got wrong instructions from a pedestrian. Of course??????????? After we were through with our tour, we parted, each small group going his own way for dinner. Some of us ate at Younkers' Tea Room. As you know, it is a Cafeteria and your eyes, they say, are always larger than your stomach, which was proven as Martin again ate at Bishops. At 2:30 part of the class met at the Register and Tribune Building to make an excursion-to see how our good, good paper is made. This was very interesting in that we saw 600 pound rolls of paper, which were 6 miles long. There are around 100 of these rolls of paper used for Sunday papers weekly. However all the girls did not make this tour, but accompanied Miss Iseminger to Bankers Life Building. Then to K R N T, where some of us obtained the auto- graph of Gene Emerald, a Radio Star, and we also got to sit in on his 5:00 broadcast. In the evening some of us 'Childrenn went to the .showz 'Roughly Speak1ng,n 'The Very Thought of You,' and others. Some girls went skating, had pictures taken, shopped and also bought souvenirs. The boys and Mr. Grant went to the State Basketball Tournament. We met at the Kirkwood Hotel at 11:00 to start our g Journey home. Coming home Donna picked up the famous saying, 'Bondurant,' which means, ' ???,

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