Culbertson High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Culbertson, NE)

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ef, 69 45' fl 4' ln the year 1946, seventeen eager little boys and girls started on a tour of education land. The tour consisted of twelve stops with well-qualified guides to instruct us as to the important things we might find along the tour. Each stop would be a milestone in our education, and, upon completion of the tour, we would be given something that rio, one could take from us. Our first stop was a little town called FIRST. Miss Frances Rouse showed us the first steps in counting, reading, writing, and just getting along with other youngsters of our own age. The original group that started this tour consisted of Patricia Bell, Marilyn McKnight, Jeanne Cordel, Karol Kugler, Sharon Thurow, Sharon Deines, Shirley Binderup, Jim McCollum, Francis Friehe, Gordon Moore, Bill Sitzman, Charles Blume, Keith Meints, Lonnie Rehn, Harlan Peterson, Mike Clark, and Lynn Sitzman. We could see on the not too distant horizon a little town called SECOND. Mrs. Helen Swanson and Mrs, Alta Fahrenbruch took us on a tour of Arithmetic, Social Studies, Art, and many other important streets. We gained Carolyn Adams, Judy Bash, Benny Propp, Marvin Frick, and Penny Mortenson, Bill Sitzman and Harlan Peterson decided to join other tours. Our third stop was at a quaint little village called THIRD. Here we found our guide to be Miss Ava Messenger. It was in this location that we found new avenues in our tour such as History, Health, higher Arithmetic, Art, Music, and many others. New members of our tour were, Nelda Anthony, Frank Bay, Bob Talbert, and Charles Houston. Carolyn Adams left to seek her education elsewhere. At the fourth stop we found Mrs. Frary Rippen to be the guide for the town of FOURTH. Here we found very nearly the same avenues, but they were growing longer and more difficult to follow. New travelers were, Marie Packard and Delbert Miley. Those leaving were Charles Houston and Nelda Anthony. Our fifth stop took us to the wonderful countryside of FIFTH. Miss Dorothy Giffen introduced us to many new and interesting things, and, with her guidance, we found the tour of FIFTH very educational and fascinating. Although Paul Talley, Bud Hill, and Ervin Hoffman joined our group, we were left with just five girls when Penny Mortenson, Marie Packard, and Sharon Thurow decided to join tours to other lands. Mrs. Genevieve Rippen guided us on an exciting and rewarding tour of the town of SIXTH. Here we found more difficult thoroughfares, such as English, History, and Social Studies. Our group was some- what enlarged by the addition of Donna Hoyt, Delmer Hanson, Charles Hestily, James Lankford, and Darwin Jumps. Our only loss was Bud Hill. fi l The town of SEVENTH was the next to be visited. It was here that we found the streets and avenues V gf much, much longer and considerably more difficult. We were guided by Mrs. Hildegard Adams through L' Q 0 the new, but interesting work that was preparing us for our last visit to the grade school countryside. Q . Q, Leona Hanslick, Wanda Plymell. Lonnie Ondersheck, and Benny Propp joined us on our journey. Y' 5 At the eighth town we visited with Mr. William Phifer. At the town of EIGHTH he helped us to gain X9 knowledge that prepared us for that important step into high school. Jane Janicke and Delores Kimball joined us, but we lost Delmer Hanson, Ervin Hoffman, and Charles Hestily, We found the city of NINTH to be much larger and far different from the cities FIRST through EIGHTH. New avenues of knowledge were opened to us when we encountered General Math. , English, Home Eco- nomics, Shop, and General Science. We gained Beverly High, Vlvan Fries, Leota Wilkinson, Sandra Schlager, Cermit Brown, Tom McBee, Bill Weber, Bill Sitzman, Afton Cash, Bud Hill, and Charles Riley. We lost Karol Kugler about midway on our tour when she decided to follow her education tour elsewhere. As we entered the outskirts of TENTH, Alice Randolph joined our group while Afton Cash left us. We found Algebra, English, Biology, and World History to be difficult but potentially rewarding. At the city of ELEVENTH, we found everything much larger and more exciting. We lost Charles Riley, Keith Meints, Alice Randolph, Charles Blume, and Wanda Plymell. New fields of education opened to us when we studied English, American History, Shorthand, Typing, Home Economics and Chemistry. We gained Alice Randolph, Sally Leslie, and Pat Kruse, but lost Bill Weber at the largest city and final visit of our tour. English, Physics, Advanced Math. , American Problems, Home Economics, Education, Bookkeeping, and Office Practice were the places of knowledge visited by our group. As we approach the close of our tour, we find that we have gained something unmeasurable--OUR EDUCATION. .-,Q , Class History ,:?i:s.E jg

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MARILYN MCKNIGHT Band 1 2 3 Girls Glee 1 Mixed Chorus 2 3 Pep Band 1 2 3 Music Contest 1 2 Clarinet Quartette 2 3 Girls Gym 1 Junior High Physical Education Asslstant 1 4 Student Council 2 Bear Facts 1 Annual Staff3 4 Class Play 3 4 Class offr cer 1 3 4 PepC1ub1 2 3 4 Major ette 1 2 3 4 Head Majorette 3 4 Kearney Interstate Tests 3 Band Day 1 3 BUD HILL Football 2 3 4- Track 4- Annual Staff 4- Librarian 2 3g Class Play 3 4- C-Club 2 3 4- C-Club Officer 4- Class Officer 3. LEOTA WILKINSON Girls Glee 1- Mixed Chorus 2 3- Girls' Gym 1- Annual Staff 4- Class Play 3 4 PepClub 1 2 3 4 DIAN WAGNER Girls Glee 1 Mixed Chorus 2 3 Music Contest 2 Girls Gym 1 Pep Club 1 2 3 4 Pep Club Officer 3 CERMIT BROWN Band 1 2 3 Boys Glee 1 Mlxed Chorus 2 3 Pep Band 1 2 3 Music Contest 1 2 Boys Quartette 2 3 Boys Gym 1 Footba114 Basketball 2 3 4 Track 1 2 3 4 Student Council 1 Bear Facts 1 Annual Staff3 4 Class Play 3 4 Class Officer 2 3 4 C-Club 3 4 Band Day 3 ,Mws-

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Class Prophecy , On a warm summer afternoon, a few years after graduation, I became bored with an ancient movie .A ,I ion tel - -1:-an ,,: nd before I realized it I was spinning some wonderful day dreams. It seemed to me v 1 away from the sleepy little town of Culbertson, that my joumey led me to Cape Canaver- ' f A25 I thought it would be interesting to go to the launching grounds of 'The Explorer in Q ' -,X - finding someone I might know. Immediately I ran into DELORES KIMBALL, and she told me s ewkwapxtop advisor for the government on their satellite program. We decided that it would be an ex- Cs 'B giting adventure to be the first human beings ever to take a trip on a man-made space ship. So we made application to Washington, D. C. , and we were immediately accepted. The space ship The Eclipse l whisked us off into space with our first stop to be Saturn. In the first university that was organized on Saturn, we found SHARON DEINES. She told us that she was successfully teaching English to the natives, as well as being a housewife and mother of six red-haired children. We decided to take a bicycle tour into the country, and, to our surprise, we found FRANCIS FRIEI-IE raising pure-bred angus cattle at the Double FF ranch. Francis told us that several of our classmates were to be found on neighboring Mars. We decided to visit them, so Francis took us back to the take-off area, and we headed for Mars We had our interplanetary radio on and we happened to tune in on the last part of a football game lt seemed that BUD HILL famous professional football player had made six touchdowns and his fans were cheering him wildly When we landed on Mars rt was nearing lunchtime so we found an attractive planeterra in which to satisfy our appetites and we were surprised that the owner was none other than PAT BELL She told us that her husband Charles Hazlett was in the Marsian Navy and that by owning the planeterra she helped to support their family We went downtown to register at a hotel AS we en tered we recognized the desk clerk to be BEVERLY HIGH She told us that her husband Jack had pur chased half of Mars and was called the Millionaire of Mars It appeared that the other half of Mars was owned by GORDON MOORE and LYNN SITZMAN They had several thousand manufacturing com panies that manufactured Make It Yourself space cars After our visit with Beverly and Jack, we soared off toward Jupiter On our way we were abruptly stopped by a police ray ship The patrol woman was to our surprise SANDRA SCHLAGER She informed us we were going 60 000 miles an hour in a 40 000 mile zone Apparently she had reformed from her hot rod days She gave us a warning ticket and we were on our way again When we reached Jupiter we couldn t find our way around so we went to a tourist guide office On the front door engraved in gold was this motto You Name It, We Find It The names signed below were SALLY LESLIE and VIVIAN FRIES We went in and asked to see Sally and Vivian We were es corted to their office where we had a very interesting conversation about their business They told us they had offices on every planet We were delighted with our tour of Jupiter We decided that our next stop would be the Moon We knew this was where DIAN WAGNER Simpson had been living since her marriage We found her living there with her husband and two sets of twins Dian told us that they kept very busy managing the largest dairy farm on the Moon She informed us that CERMIT BROWN was a science teacher here on the Moon and was president of Diana University of Natural Sciences We went to see him and during our conversation with him he told us of one of his co teachers MARILYN McKNlGl-IT We had a chance to talk to her between classes and she told us that the univer sity would soon be graduating its first class rn space science It was her responsibility to serve as Dean o ,f Women at the university After a very busy day on the Moon we climbed back into our space ship an took off for Venus Our space ship seemed to be having a little trouble in getting off the ground We discovered thaf one of the antenna was missing We signaled ahead to Venus and they sent over a space shipwfrxer who proved to be LONNIE REHN He told us that his business was new but t opes of k1 put on the new antenna and we ded on our trip tovenus In Venus we went to V1 e national memorial for the Russian d that was aboard Sputnik Il Since part of Sputnr L came down in the United States lt was by the United States govern ent to erect a memoria 'fo the memory of this courageous dog efarrrved at the memorial saw BILL SITZMAN and JIM McCOLLUM guarding the grounds They d us they were e caremkers and were allowed to keep all the money thrown on the grave 3T1iey took us down town see a few more of our ,former classmates lt seems ALICE RANDOLP as the head of ranch 'department store ia told us that PAT KRUSE oft 1 fix: came into th tore to shop an , 1 she was a scout for Warner Brothe MOVl6,SUldl0 Before we left Venus, we ttended an openi gfif a new television studio The head of the studio was none other thanM'q'f' 5 LEOTA ILKINSON It was her desire' to be th ad of the first station to bring pay TV to Venus It emed to uslrhaltwe had been gone for K ong time so we had become very weary travelers we de ded to return to our homes in the United tes So we boarded our space s Th clip I nted it toward home Destination, United States State of Nebraska Crt D . l ' I - c , I 1 n CP N ' as ' ' - NX . . . . u . - u 1 r n ' ll ' ' ' VI . ,, ,, . . . . 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