Dow City High School - Greyhound Yearbook (Dow City, IA)

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Class History In the fall of 1939, thirty-five very anxious youngsters tramped up the stairs to the kindergarten room. These were: Emmett Ahart, Kathryn Ahart, Bruce Alexander, Sharlene Bauer, Elvin Elwood, Marceline Greene, Faye Hanson, Joan Heffernan, Billy Hesse, Hanse Malone, Norma Jean Mathys, Lois Mayne, Alice McCoid, Alice McDonald, Dean Nicholsen, Adrian O'Meara, Joan O'Meara, Edward Smith, Maxine Staller, Merlin Staller, Mary Ann Stepanek, Billie Thomas, Floy Baughman, Robert Wolfe, Marilyn Weber, Donna Brink, Alma Mathias, Clemet Birney, Bonnie Price, Geraldine Jilg, Melvin Malone, Richard Chambers, Fern Cue, Delores Dryden. ln this room, we started learning about how grown up we were supposed to act and be. We will well remember our daily rests on our pads on the floor. We all felt that we had ac- complished something when we mastered reading from our Dick and Jane books. We also had fun coloring and printing. l'm sure we all had our turn to stand in the corner with our hands over our faces when we got into mischief. We were all very proud on visiting day, for we had the largest turnout in the school that year. We will never forget the games of London Bridge and May l? that we played at recess time- ln the first grade, we really felt grown up because of the big desks. We always made fancy covers for our treasured report cards. We got to use painted scissors and learned to work with numbers. Remember when Floy fell off the bleachers and broke her arm? She was quite a frightened little girl! By the time we reached the second grade, school was old stuff to us. We found we were quite talented in making boiled eggs look like people. Some of us got a little hungry-- wonder where those eggs went! ln the third grade, we learned how to tell time. Some high school teacher may regret this--seems there are several clock-watchers in our class. We had lots of fun parading as Pilgrims and Indians at Thanksgiving time. Fourth grade will always be remembered because that year we gave a health play for our parents and friends. We enjoyed using our scratch pens and ink even if our mothers didn't. We tackled the multiplication tables full force, but they still were very hard. How's that big toe you stubbed on our picnic in the timber, Donna Mae ? ln the fifth grade, we varnished little whatnot shelves for our mothers. We began learning the states and their capitals. Some of us haven't finished yet. We were very proud of our pint-sized cheerleaders in the sixth grade--as were the pint-sized gals themselves. They even rated a picture in the school annual. ln this grade, we also tackled those awful decimals. All in the class took part in the grades' operetta given during the Christmas seas on of that year. ln seventh grade, Lois really strained herself selling magazines. She was the school's top salesman. We all had lots of fun talking to Beverly Bergman son the little black box on the window sill. We certainly had to act old because we had desks in high school and als'o spelling with the high school students. lncidentally, we almost always had better grades than those oldsters themselves. I wonder if Miss Johns on appreciated our fruit throw in the eighth grade? We all re- ceived low deportment grades that year. I wonder why ? Fern represented the county at the state spelling contest in Des Moines. l'm certain that all the teachers missed us after we graduated fr om eighth grade in the spring of '4 8. We were a perfect class of angels! Our teachers through the grades were: Miss Agnes, Miss McBride, Miss Lipke, Miss Wiggins, Mrs. Mousel, Mrs. Ballantine, Mrs. Turnlund, Mrs. Bloham, Miss Armentrout, and Miss Johnson. Twenty-two Freshmen started to high school i.n '4 8. They were: Bonnie Ahart, Emmett Ahart, Floy Baughman, Donna Brink, Donna Brown, Perry Buff, Fern Cue, James Ettleman, Donna Hamblen, Urban Katzer, Lorraine Kolln, Paul Leslie, Eugene Malone, Lois Mayne, Alice McDonald, Mary Ellen Putnam, Mary Ann Stepanek, Billie Thomas, Paulene Thomsen, James Trierweiler, Eugene Christiansen, and Ortensia Herrera.

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DONNA MAE BROWN Brownie Sec retary ............ Yearbook Advertis ing. . Cheerleading. . . Glee Club ...... The Daffy Di1ls .. High Wi.ndow .. Do-Re-Mi . . . U ....4 1,2 Band ...,......,.. ..... PERRY B UFF Pete Yearbook Advertis ing. .... Business Staff., ...,.... Baseball ....... . .... Basketball ...,... . . . 3, 3, Student Manager. , , . . . . .. Glee Club .-...-.. . - - . Quartet ....... -'Daffy Du1s ... Do-Re-Mi . . 10 .w ' 1.2, DUANE HARD Hardie Treasurer ..--4-44--4- Yearbook Advertising. . Baseball .,.....,... . . .. Bas ketball -..-- -----.- Glee Club ..----- --- Black Terror . . Sally Lou . - . '- CLASS OF 1952 FLOWER. White Carnation ALICE MCDONALD ' 'Mickey' ' Yearbook Business Staff. .. Senior Class Editor ...... , Glee Club. ....,..... 1,Z,3, Sextet ............ . . . Clarinet Quartet. .. . .. Pep Band ........ . . Band ............ . . . The Daffy Dills . . . . Do-Re-Mi ..... .... BONNIE AHART Ahart President ...,.... . Vice-President ........ Yearbook Advertising. .. Basketball, ......... 1,2 3 Glee Club ..,... , ...l,Z Sextet ...... ...... .... The Daffy Di1ls .. . Do-Re-Mi ...... . LOIS MAYNE Maintainer Secretary-Treasurer. .. Yearbook Business Staff Cheerleader ..,........ Glee Club .... ,..l,Z 3 Sextet ........ .... Daffy Di11s .... . . DO-Re-NH ....... . Everything Nice . .. ,

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We all looked forward to Initiation Day. We got plastered with lipstick, but we showed those Seniors! On the trip downtown, we ran away from them, led by Superman Baughman. That night, after a lot of scrubbing to remove the lipstick, we attended a party in our honor. We are all glad Miss Thompson had a lot of patience trying to teach us the ways of a high school student. At the close of the year, the Home Economics girls gave a style show. We showed our efforts to our mothers to the tune of Glow Worm. As Sophomores, we gave our first school party, It was quite a success. We were very. excited and scared when presenting our fairy tale movies the fateful English period. They must have been all right. The grade children listened to the narrator with their mouths open. The biggest thrill of the year was serving at the Junior-Senior Banquet. The theme of the banquet was a Southern Plantation, so we were all dressed as Negro slaves. It was lots of fun and accidents were few. More serving came up at the annual Alumni Banquet. There were quite a few fallen arches the next morning, if I remember correctly. Mary Ellen, why did you have to refinish the top of you desk? That year, because of good support from our loyal Dow City fans and good playing on the part of our girls' team, we beat Charter Oak to win the county tournament. Happy Day! Our Junior year, never a dull moment. Everyone waited anxiously for our Junior play. It was The Daffy Dil1s, a three-act comedy, and a huge success. I'm sure Mrs. Walters gained a few gray hairs worrying about the outcome. We advertised by wearing Feeps. We drew a lot of attention anyway. On the big night, there was a large crowd and everything came off as planned. After the play, Mrs. Walters had everyone at her home for a celebration of the success. We tried something new i.n the way of a party. We had a Square Dance party. Eats and party were enjoyed by everyone. Even us. After we had ordered our class rings, we waited impatiently for ages, or so it seemed. When they finally arrived, we were very, very proud of them. Say kids, why were some of them missing so soon? We also chose our class motto, colors, and flower in this year. Thanks to Emmett, our motto is Yesterday's Past, Tomorrow's A Gamble, Today's A Sure Thing, Make The Most Of It. Our colors are green and silver, and our flower is the white carnation. One of the most important events of our Junior year was preparing for the banquet. As a theme we chose the Gay Nineties. We built an inn of brown crepe paper and called it The Tamarack. Outside were hitching posts. On the walls inside were hung famous slogans of the Nineties. We used card tables with big flowered tablecloths. As a center- piece on each table was a candle inside the mouth of a bottle. Miniature beer mugs served as nut cups. Favors for the boys were black mustaches, while the girls had paras ols. The entertainment'followed the theme and was provided by the Sophomores. Four of the girls were dressed as men of the period and furnished music as a barber shop quartette. Four of the boys made excellent chorus girls. There was also a charming cigarette girl and a torch singer. We'll all remember the many weeks of planning and hard work. Also those biology pins we used to hold the crepe paper in place. ' Our Senior year followed the usual style--with a bang. First of all came the Initiation of the Freshmen. V We had them dress as characters out of Mother Goose Land. That night a party was given in honor of the occasion, and everyone overdid himself to enjoy it. The Seniors had their pictures taken the eighth of January. We were all astonished to find out that we did not break the camera. We began to feel like high and mighty Seniors indeed when we ordered our announcements and chose our caps and gowns. Our caps and gowns were gray with green and silver tassels. The week of the county and sectional tournaments proved to be very exciting. Everyone complained of a sore throat when it was all over. q