Eldon High School - Eldonian Yearbook (Eldon, IA)

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S Class Song £ enior year has ended now, Memories that will never die Fun and work did fill the days, Gaily spent at Eldon High. n veryday the Seniors toiled, To make their grades to pass. Books did fly and bells did ring, As we hurried off to class. J othing will stop our going far, Into a world of fame. When headlines flash you will stop and say, Why that’s a Senior’s name!” o n our hearts we will remember, Each day and night of fun. Prepared by those who cared for us, From dawn to setting sun. ie Id schooldays at Eldon High, Were happy ones you see. The memories we shall cherish, Wherever we might be. 5 vadiant eyes with nearing tears, Will be seen upon the stage. This dear chapter of our life has ended, So we will turn another page. enior year has ended now, So we will say good-bye. Our diplomas are our rewards, For these years at Eldon High. 17

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Foretelling The Future of The Class of ’52 Well, here it is the year of 1982. We are having an anniversary because it is just thirty years since our graduation. As we were taking a tour through Eldon to find out how our classmates are making out, we first found as we were passing the local barber shop, our old classmate, Joe Norris. He must be doing pretty well because all the chairs were filled. We stopped into “Whitey's to get a coke. Our old buddy, Joy Pilcher is still working there. We never figured she would stay with that job this long. After we left “Whitey's we passed a newly organized beauty shop run by Carolyn Morrow. She is running “Toni Home Permanent out of business with her new “Dudie's Shadow of a Wave.' It really works wonders. Drop in sometime and she will give you one. Just as we were leaving Carolyn's Beauty Shop we saw Bill Hamilton working at his new job as the Head of the Street Cleaning Department. We were talking to some people and they told us about Lorena Mathew’s Reducing Salon. Lorena always did reduce, and now she has discovered a new method. We have among our old classmates a “big time operator . Bill Hancock struck oil on his farm outside of Eldon. He always said there was oil on that farm. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Pilcher have taken over the Eldon Forum Office. Mrs. Pilcher is the former Carol Hemm. Herman Coffin always said he was going to fix our old schoolhouse up. He is now getting the job done because he is president of the school board. We decided to drop by the schoolhouse and see if it had changed much since we had last attended it. Just as we stepped inside the door we saw.the janitors scrubbing the floor like mad. They were our old buddies, Harold Cobb and Floyd McIntosh. We stopped into the post office to get a stamp and mail a letter. The girl working in there sure looked familiar. Why sure, it's Agatha Hayden. We saw her assistant, Pat Sedore, in the back room. We passed the church and there was a big wedding going on inside. We decided to stand outside and see who the lucky people were. Why, who do you suppose it was? Nobody, but Louise Osing and Don Carr. We were talking to some more of our friends, who told us about the three girls who be- came engaged in the Senior Class. Dorothy Fitzgerald, Shirley Reisch, and Ina Lea Day, have now married and are very happy with their husbands and houses full of kids. We heard that Dorthy Jo Aeschliman is a coach for girls' basketball at Ottumwa High. Her teams are doing very well. The former, Mary Ann Cox, and her husband, Glenn Hughes, have become the managers of the U-Save store. The two married girls in the Senior Class are getting along just fine. Shirley Granby Renfrew, better known as Dusty, and her husband have bought a farm near Ottumwa. Mary Kendrick Carder and her husband have moved their family to Colorado. We decided to leave Eldon for awhile and see how our classmates, that have left Eldon, are making out. Wr e went down to the big city of Selma which has changed considerably. They have opened an opera theater and their leading lady is Ardith Pyle. She always said she was going to stay single and make singing her career. We then went to Ottumwa and to our surprise found where it used to be Morrell's Packing Co., it is now Liles and Leasure Meat Packing Corporation. Harold Liles and Ralph Leasure went in partnership and bought it. The boy who entered our school the last semester, Veryl Edgerly, has been courting our old chum, Mae Garrels. They seem to be getting along just fine, and we expect to be hearing wedding bells before long. We found our last two classmates, Joyce Phillips and Marilyn Hart, in New York City. They are now the managers of the Belmont Hotel. They are in the money now. Our 30th anniversary is now over, and since we found all our classmates getting along well for themselves, we decided to return home. 16

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Class Poem We, the class of 1952, Will now be found in “Who's Who As one of the more studious classes With, of course, nice lads and lasses. Long we've waited for tonight When we with faces shining bright, Will leave the halls of E. H. S. Where we have shared much happiness. We've played sports of all sorts, On many different courts, Whether a loss or a win, We always took it with a grin. After we leave we'll long remember Every helpful faculty member, Wrho, though busy as could be, Still spared time for you and me. Mr. Young and do-re-mi, Mr. South and biology, Mr. Wylie and typewriters clicking, While the clock was slowly ticking. Mr. Burns and chemistry, Mr. Christensen and geometry, Mrs. Shives and the world's making, While Mrs. Sutherlin taught baking. While Miss Hunter taught speaking, Mr. Allman was busy sweeping. Students in study hall were wailing, For some had great fear of failing. Four years of this we’ve had, Some good and some bad. A hearty good-bye and thanks to all, Who have shared our happiness in this hall. 18 Dorothy M. Fitzgerald