Eldon High School - Eldonian Yearbook (Eldon, IA)

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Class Flower Red Rose We're the class of 56» We always seem to be in a fix. We have tried to do our very best. From now on we'll leave it to the rest. Class Motto Today we build the ladder; Tomorrow we climb. Class Colors Blue and White Class Poem In our memories, our teachers will be. They always had time for you and me. We've tried to use their good advice. And we'll profit by it all through life. In sports and honors the highest we rate, For classes and practices we were never late. From early morning till late at night. We always tried to do what's right. Even though we have shed a few tears. We've had many good times in these past twelve years. The time for leaving is growing near. But to us Eldon High will always be dear. Class Will The Senior Class of 1956 being of sound mind and body do hereby make their last will and testament, on this 30th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six. We the seniors, as a class, in the presence of these witnesses leave to the Juniors all of our capable instructors and their idiosyncrasies that we have driven them to. To the sophomores we leave the education we have so painstakingly printed on the walls. Study it carefully, you'll hear those names again. To the freshmen we leave our ability to get as- signments the first time they're given. To the members of the faculty of old Eldon High, we leave the memories, good or bad as the case may be, that we have left on the walls, in the halls, and under the desks of Eldon High School. Charles McDaniel wills his china whiskers to Freddie Allman. Tommy Hemm leaves his vim, vigor, and vitality to Richard Hemm. George Edgerly leaves his ping pong ability to Charles Cubbage, and his seniority in the kitchen to Veryl Shaw. Bill Canaday leaves his good looks and his knowledge of it to Norman Tweed. Nora and Dora Saner leave their ability to look and act like two peas in a pod to Karen Pittman and Marcia Potts. Bill Rock leaves his ability to argue with teachers to Emma Lou Hopwood. Also his good posture and poolplaying abili- ty to Jim Kllcker. Connie Christy leaves her ability to be good to Ernie Sadler and her ability to play the bass drum to Susan Israel. Doris Jackson leaves her freckles to Sally Hancock. Good riddance I Shirley Hart leaves her small feet to Kay Canny in hopes that they will carry Kay as far as they carried her. Mary Ann Ward wills her position as editor of the annual to anyone stupid enough to get elected. Reithel Sumner wills her ability to copy to anyone who is fortunate enough to get someone else's paper. Freddie Fligg leaves his ability to work algebra problems to Stanley Curtis. James Fromi leaves his ability to absorb all important facts while apparently asleep to Jerry Sloan. Pam Dehm leaves her ability to get in trouble to Marcia Potts. Carol Brown leaves her red hair and freckles to Sandra Henderson. Jean Martsching wills her ability to talk and laugh in study halls without the teacher seeing her to Susan Israel. Anna Marie Spilman wills her height to Warren Ragen. Evelyn Houk wills her quietness to David Steel. Yalanda Sumner wills the luxury of riding in a Buick to Roddy Hogue. Gene Morrow leaves his Liberace hair style to Arthur Steele. Rex Hewitt leaves his magnificent brain cell to Dennis McDaniel. Russel McDaniel wills his ability to grow whiskers to Cecil Hewitt. In Witness Whereof, we the Senior Class representatives, have set our hands and seals to this document. Class Prophecy This morning my boss, the editor of the Eldon Times, rudely awakened me from my mid-morning snooze with these words, Edgerly, what happened to the seniors of 1956? I want a story, period. I arose, put on my hat, walked home, kissed my wife and sixteen kids good-by, and started out. This was my big story. First off, I made a trip down to Dupont's rival, Burns Chemical Co. and found Fritz Burns as head of the Glue Depart- ment, stickiest character since A1 Capone. Next, up to Hemm's manor, where I talked to the athlete of our class. Tom Hemm. He has—glub—sunk to great—glub—depths, in water polo. A trip across town to Eldon's other great thriving industry. Morrow's Corsets Inc., renewed my acquaintance with old Genie, the woman's friend. Now a trip up to Ottumwa, the old county seat, where I heard that my old classmate Bill Canaday, an up-and-coming politician, is running for Mouse Exterminator of Wapello County. Mr. Canaday informed me that our old pal, Shirley Pan- handle Flaherty, and her husband, Pat, are running Radio Station KFAD in Fairfield. 13

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t Class Play.................3 Glee Club.................2 Mixed Chorus............ 2 NORA SANER Class Play.......................3 Glee Club........................2 Mixed Chorus.....................2 ANNA MARIE SPILMAN Honor Roll................3 Annual Staff...............4 Mixed Chorus..............2 REITHEL SUMNER Class Play.................3 Cheerleader................4 Annual Staff...............4 Pep Squad..................3 YALANDA SUMNER Annual Staff.............4 MARY ANN WARD Class Play........... Annual Staff........ Queen Candidate . . . . Pep Squad........... OJ 4. rf- U)

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Next, I ran up to the twin cities, St. Paul and Minneapolis, where I found two of my own classmates twins, Dora and Nora. They're both married now, one to Anthony Wayne and the other to Wayne Anthony. Now the big question is, which twin has the Toni. Next, I hopped to Washington, D. C., where I found two of my former classmates. First I found Charles McDaniel who is directing work at the Pentagon. He is Chief of Staff, you know. A little Jaunt brought me down Pennsylvania Avenue where I was ushered into a meeting of the Senate, being capably pre- sided over by the first woman Vice-President, Anna Marie Spilman. From here I flew to New York where I visited the Greatest Show on Earth. Look who the fat lady is, Evelyn Houk, the same. While here in New York, I might as well stop and see Pam and Dale and get a free sample of the milk they are now pro- ducing. They have taken over Carnation Milks Inc., leaf, stem and petal. Now I was sent up river to Sing Sing, where I met one of America's foremost wardens, Carol Brown. She always had a way with men. Next, I took the Queen Mary bound for London and Paris. Well, look who's going to France. Reithel Sumner, the only woman to be stood up for twenty years. • London at last, and Scotland Yard where I met Sherlock Jo Sumner. She has become a woman bobby. Then I flew down to Egypt where I found a mummy in a pyramid, but wait, that's no mummy—that's Mary Ann Ward, the world's greatest archaeologist. She was always good at digging up dirt. I read in a Cairo paper that the long lost African expedition led by Fred Fligg and his associate (Bring 'em back dead) Christy has been given up as lost. They went on a safari all right, safari they never got back. Fred accumulated quite a fortune shipping snow from Alaska to the South Sea Islands before he went on his ill-fated expedition. As I was strolling down one of the many sandy streets of Cairo I was buzzed by our old pal, Tailspln Martsching. Among her many feats is flying around the world upside down. Back in the good old U. S. A. , the first stop was Reno, Nevada; where I saw that Harold's Place has become Jim's Joint. The main attraction is the presentation of Fromi's Frosty Frolics, featuring his five former wives. Say, that cigarette girl looks familiar. Well, it's Doris Jackson, Fromi's present wife—number thirteen. Well, I guess that's it. But wait! Didn't I forget someone? Where's Bill Rock? Las Vegas, what's he doing there? I see, he's setting up his massive tent for a church revival. He's been the leading evangelist since the time of Billy Graham. Now back to good old Iowa. I have one last stop to make, and what an appropriate place to end up, the Eldon Cemetery. Here I meet another of our former friends. At least I got within six feet of him. The epitaph is simple, simply VIP RLP ESQ RIP. They tell me he committed suicide eating chili powder. Well, there it is, in black and white. My big story as I lived it and wrote it. George Edgerly History -- Class of 1956 September 5, 1944, not a historic day or a world celebrated holiday, but one that will always be remembered by the gradu- ating class of 1956. On this morning for the first time in approximately six years forty boys and girls Jumped out of bed at sunrise and washed their faces. They had to be prepared for their long climb to an educated mind. Some of that group even today, twelve years later, are still climbing. This group of prominent ears and long braids were as follows: Larry Blanchard, Beverly Bostwick, Bill Brown, Lucille Brown, Betty Mae Campbell, Billie Campbell, Kenneth Carroll, William Canaday, Junior Essary, Lola Mae Davis, Pamela Dehm, Mike Dugan, Peter Donhoue, Rosemary Essary, Van Ja Elbert, Freddie Fligg, Jim Bell Fligg, James Fromi, Robert Gates, Shirley Hart, Tommy Hemm, Doris Jackson, Denny Kendrick, Evelyn Major, Sonja Moon, Kathaleen Norris, James Newberry, John Newton, Raymond Pickerell, Rolland Price, Susanne Rylee, Charles Robbins, Connie Sanford, Walter Snook, Reithel Sumner, Yalanda Sumner, Sandra Teeter, Lois Leinwever, Ralph Garrett, and Thomas Mullin. We were guided this first year by the light shed by Mrs. Helen Moon. Miss Margaret Montz, on September 4, 1945, greeted twenty-nine sleepy second graders. Sleepy? We've had one year of school; what more could you ask? Everybody gets tired. We lost a few this year. One year of school was enough for them. They had an educationi They were: Kenneth Carroll, Mike Dugan, Van Ja Elbert, Peter Donhoue, Robert Gates, Bill Brown, Sonja Moon, Bill Campbell, James Newberry, John Newton, Raymond Pickerell, Charles Robbins, Walter Snooks, Lois Leinweyer, Ralph Garrett, Lucille Brown, and Denny Kendrick. 14