Dalton School - Tiger Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Class Prophecy Yes, we are all here in the NBC studios in Hollywood, California. The 1961 Seniors of Dalton High have allhad ahappy, healthy, and fortunate twenty years since their graduation. The reunion is a surprise to LINDA ZIEGLER who became a public school teacher many years ago and recently was recognized nation-wide as a Master Teacher . Yes, she is teaching the children of Nebraska. BRUCE KREAGER, the famous radio and television personality who has for the past number of years been featured on This is Your Life program made all arrangements for this reunion. .TIM HENKE boarded a jet in South America, He has been engineering the construction of a large dam in the upper Amazon regions, Jim was accompanied by his pretty wife. CHUCK KRAGEL flew in from Yale University, He was recently employed by the Yale Athletic Department as a physicaltherapeutist. No one can understand why Chuck is still single. SHIRLEY BROWN and she now uses the name Shirley Gillespie--arrived with her husband and three children by plane yesterday. Shirley and Leon are very happy with their little family and their ranch life a few miles from Dalton. NANCY HOLDEN traveled the greatest distance, She has been in missionary work for a number of years on the African Continent, She is the first to remind you that the pay of a missionary is not in money but in the souls saved. DOUG KLINC-E was unable to travel by air. He is working in a remote section of the Montana forests. Pack mules carried him the first twenty miles to the Great Northern Railway. His long whiskers reflect the lonely type of life had by a forest ranger, CAROL HUTZENBILER resides in the small Nebraska town of Bridgeport, Her husband is a rich suitcase farmer and realtor , Carol informs us that the entire family will vacation in Hawaii next summer, .T IM APPLEGATE graduated from Colorado State University. He has been married the past eighteen years and at present is employed in Washington, D,C, It is rumored that he will be considered for the next Secretary of Agriculture, JERRY FLORA graduated from M,I.T, As usualhewas the top scholar. Industrial organizations were enthusiastic about securing his services, but Jerry answered a call from the United States government and at present is directing the atomic energy developments. MARY JO MARRIN has reached apinnacle of success. She now spends most of the day in the White House in Washington, D,C, She majored in journalism at Loretta Heights and is now social press secretary to the First Lady of the land. JUDY MEAD is another contented homemaker and farmer's wife, She and her husband live on a farm just north of Gurley, Nebraska. Oil was recently discovered on their land. Judy remarks Things will be a little more convenient around the place from now on . J ANICE NELCK fulfilled her high school dreams by becoming a registered nurse. After graduation from the University of Wyoming, Janice did considerable traveling from one hospital to another, Recently she was employed in Walter Reed Hospital.

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Our class embarked on the journey of school life in 1949 in the first grade, Jim I-lenke, Carol Hutzen- biler, Doug Klinge, Chuck Kragel, Mary Jo Marrin, Janice Nelck, Butch Westerhoff, Jim White, and Linda Ziegler are the charter members. In 1953 Judy Mead came from Gurley. In 1955 Jerry Flora moved up to join us, and Nancy Holden came to join us in 1957, our Freshman year, from Keenesburg, Colorado, In 1958 we added Shirley Brown from Imperial and Bruce Kreager from Sidney. The addition of J im Applegate from Worthington, Ohio, in 1959 completed our class. This class has been one of the most outstanding in the history of Dalton High! Not only have we at- tained the highest scholastic average in the school, but our members have also excelled in sports, music, and dramatics! As the last act of this, our Senior year, we, the Seniors of Dalton High School, Class of 1961, do hereby institute this, our Last Will and Testament I, Jim Applegate, will my unquestioning obedience to Dorwin Reimers, my height to Mr, Krause, and my shyness to Gordon Carley, I, Shirley Brown, will my long hair to Joyce Pelster and my ability to keep out of mischief to Sharon Cape. I, Jerry Flora, will my common sense and ability to keep quiet to Vernon Burdick and my ability to get along with teachers to Wayne McRoberts. I, Jim Henke, will my calmness before a game to Gary Miller and my constant good behavior and shyness to Donnie Flohr. I, Nancy I-lolden, will my height to Nancy Lessman, my marching ability to Rodney Gillespie, and the F,H,A, to Mary Sue Townley. I, Carol Hutzenbiler, will my dancing ability to Richard, my pickup to Diana Aurich, and my flirting ability to Joey Van Anne, I, Chuck Kragel, will my short hair to Larry Shelley and my poor conduct grades to Larry Lessman, provided he doesn't try to improve them. I, Bruce Kreager, will my ability to ruin radio equipment to Jim Yount and my ability to stay awake in study hall to Jack White, , I, Mary Jo Marrin, will my straight hair to Vernon Burdick and the Pep Club and the annual staff to anyone who can get them to work. I, Janice Nelck, will my short hair to Adalia Reimers and my athletic ability to Mary Sue Townley, I also will my trumpet to anyone who can play it. I, Judy Mead, will my quiet disposition to Tom Eckert and my ability to get caught chewing gum to Dick Rabe. I, Butch Westerhoff, will my little nose to Jimmy Van Anne and my yellow and black coon-car to anybody who can keep it together with bubble gum and baling wire. I, Jim White, will my shoes to Ron and Leslie Flohr, and hope that together they can fill them. I will my extra weight to Scarlet Sparks, I, Linda Ziegler, will my giggle to Joan Ewing and my ability to have a good time to Ivan Kruger, I, Doug Klinge, will the Midnite Special to anyone who can keep it out later thanl can and my eating ability to Jim Van Anne. We, the Seniors, will our academic abilities to the freshmen, our extra-curricular abilities to the sophomores, and the freshmen and sophomores to the juniors. We do hereby appoint Mr. Lee Peterson as the administrator of our last will and testament,

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JIM WHITE learned the grocery trade in Heizers' Grocery at Dalton, He became an expert meat cutter. Recently he purchased the grocery and is realizing a nice income from meat, locker, and gro- cery business, BUTCH WESTERHOFF registered at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel this evening. He is never seen these days without that baritone horn. I-Ie secured a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Hastings College and immediately entered the coaching field, He is still undecided about his first love-- music or women. Yes, he is still a bachelor, The party has been a big success, What will the next twenty years bring, and how many of these happy class members will be present to enjoy another reunion? Pla Practice ? ? HELLO LOOK ING PRET TY ENGLISH CLASS SMILE PRETTY M -- ---- -- - f--l-....wm...-ms