Corona High School - Yearbook (Corona, SD)

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Ann d1dn't know where any of the classmates were but as she put it, 'It would be tres bonne Just to see them a ain.n g After seeing them off, I took my badly barked shin and hobbled to the nearest hospital to see what they could do about the sweyllng. That confounded cur!!! While I was sitting in the waiting room, I heard the worst scolding going on in one of the rooms that I have heard since Mr. Jordre gave me my last one for putting spitballs on the ceiling. I asked an intern who passed by what was going on. He said it was just the new head nurse, who always told off patients who came to her with such minor ail- ments as cuts and bruises: must be Irish to have a temper like that I remarked to myself. After that I d1dn't know if I'd have her look at my leg or not. Well!!! She couldn't have been more Irish if she had floated all the way from good old Dublin! It was Verda Pew!!! She didn't recognize me at first and just gave me a royal going over for not coming sooner remarking, Ulf you were going to walt this long why did! nt you fix it yourself?W She fixed it up forwme,thodgh,swlth atoms stuff that really hurt and I told her so. She told me it was just the germs calling for HELFI When I signed a blank at her desk4 ---- well, did she look! Recognizing me immediately she apologized for the scolding. I noticed she was wear- ing a diamond as big as a prune and when I mentioned lt, she merely blushed and said, UHe's in o1l.U She explained that it wouldn?t be too long until the happy day but there would still be nursing to be done, because she was to be head nurse in her husband's private hospital for his employees. Verde hadn't heard of any of the old schoolmates but planned on looking them all up when they went on their honeymoon. I left the hospital then, and went to the airport to get a report on the weather and look around. The tower told me that the fog would raise by morning or early afternoon. The field was clear of all transports except one that had just made the last leg of its flight and had flown on instruments all the way. I watched them unload and thought how we had done just that, when we went on our SKIP DAY when we were seniors. I also remembered that Dorothy Schulte had wanted to be a stewardess ..... Wonder if she ever attained the goal? Well I d1dn't have to wonder long because strolling out of the plane and across the runway came the stewardess herself, Dorothy. She explained that she was riding the regular flight from Los Angeles to Kansas City. We had supper together and she explained that her stewardess's career would he drawing to a close because Wsomeonen back homen had been

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writing pretty nice letters and had persuaded her to come back to help do his chores. I had a pretty good idea who it was and she blushed as she showed me the diamond and salg that he had driven all the way down just to give it to er. I When I asked if she knew where Billy was, she said why certainly haven't you heard? He has a large wheat ranch about 150 miles south of here. She said it was all marked for airplanes and that he had his own airport. I bid her good-bye. The next morning dawned bright and clear. . As I was about to board my plane, a page boy came run- hing across the field calling my name. He had a message from Lt. Gen. Seehafer who was sending word that I was to start work with Douglas experimental aircraft in Los Angeles. I guess he meant what he said about keeping the gang within a nfew thousand milesn but that was Just fine with me cause it meant more pay to boot. Half an hour later I was landing on SUNNY ACRES AIR- BORT Cthree thousand acres! and they all belonged to Bill Wilde. I received a hearty welcome, and after meeting lhts lovely wife, Jessica, and three sons, Tom, Dick, and Jim, they took me quietly into the nursery to show me the new- est additlon, little Jessica, Junior. The rest of the day was spent in looking over B1lly's fifteen hundred head of cattle and fishing in a mountain stream that ran right past his house. Billy had served his time in the Marines and then had worked up to build this farm all by himself. This guy was doing O.K. He hadn't heard from anyone but Dorothy who saw his airfield every time she rode her regular flight. Hdawant- ed me to stay a few weeks so we could go big game hunting on his private range but time was running out and I was eager to get at my new Job with Douglas so I said good-bye and left for Los Angeles. r Well, that takes care of the senior class of 1954. Seems to me they're all doing pretty well for themselves, but this younger generation is still going to the dogs. Junior-Senior Banquet The annual Jun1oreScn1or banquet was held Monday even- ing, May 3, in the Granite Boom at Ortonville. Each guest was greeted at the door by his hosts, the Juniors, and The theme peice of the cense. Tiny played under was given a colorful lei to phtuhbout his of the banquet being Hawaiian, the center table was a minature volcano puffing in- natives of the islands of Hawaii weref dis- swaying palm trees. Nut cups were shaped like canoes while place cards in the shape of surf boards and hula girls completed each place setting. Paul,Jordre was toastmaster for the evening. All speeches by the Seniors were based on the phrase 'Aloha Gen, which means nlove to you.n