Elkhorn High School - Elk Yearbook (Elkhorn, WI)

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Eleanor Schulz leaves her roller skates to Bob Conner, plus a first-aid kit. Nancy Seltmann makes a gift of her huge red hairbow to Doris Dobrick to use when she goes deer hunting. Wayne Stearns leaves his bashfulness to John Harrington. Hope it doesn't cramp your style John. Clarence Thompson wills his ration book and four good tires to Bob Christensen for emerg- encies only! , Marilyn Vogle, the songbird of the Senior Class, divides her vocal talents between Alice Hull and Marie Mukansky so they may sing duets in their spare time. Doris Warren has finally agreed to give up her male rogues' gallery and the lucky receiver is Eleanor Clauer. Gordon Weaver gives his natch to Henry loukota with hope that Henry will give it the good use it has been accustomed to. XX Phil Welsh wills his ability to collect blondes to Jim Campbell. Beulah Woodman leaves the three freckles on her nose to Ed Bleser to add to his collec- tion. Mary Alice Zwiebel bestows her determina- tion to get what she wants on Don Breidenbach. lt comes in very handy, Don. Robert Schneck gives Gerry Nelson and l.eora Anderson six written lessons on how to ride horseback without acquiring bruises. Gordon Redenz, who knows all the ropes after his training on board ships, leaves some of his valuable information to Warren Newman. Don Enright gives his blond hair and dimples to Mary Rathbun. Danny Millard leaves his athletic ability to Bob Colvin. ln witness, whereof, the parties aforesaid have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals on the year above written. wi 61--rv-...d -'

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Class Will Judging ourselves to be of sound mind and realizing that the time for our departure has drawn nigh, we, the Senior Class of the Elkhorn High School, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, i944 A. D., do hereby set forth our last will and testament. Collectively, to the Juniors we bequeath a shin- ing example, to the Sophomores we bequeath our loyalty, to the Freshmen we bequeath our lofty ambitions. Individually we bequeath our abilities as follows: Don Babcock leaves his knowledge of one- arm driving to Fred Schranz. Nancy Bartelson leaves her love of the opposite sex to Janet Dowse. Isabel Bronson wills her gift of gab to Bob McCabe and Annyce Stoflet, to be divided equally between them. Bette Anne Burns leaves her nimble foot- work in basketball to Ted Heusser. Norma Jean Burns leaves her inexhaustible vitality to Coris Larsen. Edward Casey leaves his collection of fiery orations to Elmer Eisentraut, so that Elmer can further his dram r. Nancy Cory enormous appetite to Tubby MacPhai Robert Eistedt es a warrening to Jack Brellenthin. , Marian Enright leaves her struggle for per- fection to Billy Burns. Mary Ferguson leaves a season ticket to the Delavan Roller Rink to Arlene Waltman. Clarence Freitag leaves his flashy wardrobe to Charles Tall. Delorme Getchell leaves his wavy hair to Mariorie Williams because of the shortage of metal curlers. Robert Getzen, a citizen of Elkhorn High School, leaves his right to Voght to Glenn Redenz. Joane Hampel leaves her sophistication to June Bigelow. Doris Harry leaves her bottle of peroxide to Nan Biagi. Ruth Ives leaves her friendly smile to Carolyn Peters. Trevor Jones leaves his love of self to Elzy Cooper. Doreen Karges wills her fickleness to Jayne Krueger. Lorraine Karges wills her short skirts to Donna Clauer. Kenneth Kehl leaves his Charles Atlas physique to Darrel Wales. Robert Koons signs over his paper route to Dick Godfrey. Dick will have to use his own bicycle. Tillie Koopman wills to Bernice Ellsworth her quiet disposition. Rena Lasch wills her book of How to Get a Man to Virginia Cody. Results are guar- anteed. Dorothy Loukota wills her activities in gym class to Louise Vincent. Willis Ludtke leaves his undying faithfulness to Rudy Evenson. June McCabe leaves her home management ability to Eunice Katzman. lone McKenzie wills her striding gate to Shirley Gardner.. Alice McVicar leaves her soda ierking tech- nique to Frank Nappe. Watch that waistline Frank! James Miller leaves his G. I. haircut to lvan Alder. June Newman leaves her high I. Q. to Lester Hann. Don't overwork it. . Joe Newman surrenders his little black book to Ross Katzman to be kept strictly confidential. The flat feet that Glenn Olsen acquired as an usher at the Sprague Theater, are gladly given to Herb Sigmund. Bruce Harry, that boy of one expression, receives Marilyn Opitz's collection of facial exercises. Helen Palenshus leaves her flighty ways to Oscar Moyer. Careful you don't take off, Oscar! Hilda Papenfus leaves her quick temper to Norma Zastrow. Gene Pierce leaves his love of older girls to James Harkness. Bob Reed hands over his collection of hot Harry James records to Carol Knapp to be used on a cold evening. John Ridgway gives his dimples to Harriette Johnson, who may turn them on and off at will. Wilma Schmidt passes on her Milwaukee escapades to Shirley Mastin. Careful, Shirley! Ruth Shoenbeck gives 4 of her height to Richard Amon. Just call him lanky. Gloria Schramek bundles up a big pile of old silk hose and presents them to Bob Walker to take to the nearest Salvation Army.

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What Happened To The Class Of '44 In the merry month of May in the spring of '54 my colleagues and I had a wild urge to return to Elkhorn and see what our former classmates were doing. The war being over, we had plenty of gasoline and tires to make the trip. L As we reached the city limits a siren sounded and a police car drew up beside us. To our astonishment we saw it was ZlTCH RIDGWAY, chief of police of Elkhorn, welcoming us back to the scenes of our childhood pranks. We asked Zitch what NORMA BURNS was doing, and he informed us that RENA LASCH and NORMA were in Hollywood resting after their third big hit with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After leaving the chief we went in search of a lodging for the night. We decided to stay at the Hotel Weaver, formerly the Loraine Hotel. We were met at the door by the owner GORDON WEAVER, and found he was doing a prosperous business. .lust then MARY FERGUSON, his as- sistant, popped in to show us to our rooms. When we had unpacked our bags we went in search ofa beauty salon. Just down the street the Do-Re Salon caught our eye. Upon entering we were greeted by the KARGES twins, LORRAINE and DOREEN. After a facial and manicure we said goodbye to the twins. Outside, the aroma of food wafted on the spring breeze, sharpened our appetites, and we were forced to make a decision. should we patronize The Villa or the Eat Shop? We compromised and decided to have dinner at the Villa and to lunch at the Eat Shop the next day. We walked into the Villa and IONE McKENZlE, Elkhorn's number one hash-slinger, came up to take our order. As we were paying the bill we asked who had made the delicious pie. lone informed us that our old classmate, HELEN PALENSHUS, had been chief cook and bottle washer at the Villa for the past five years. We left the Villa and thought we would bowl a game. RUTH SCHOENBECK and TILLIE KOOPMAN were running the bowling alley as partners. They told us that the fact their business was dropping off was explained by the competition of the pool hall across the street, owned by BOB EISTEDT and CLARENCE THOMPSON. We found that our pin boy was Clarence Freitag Jr., son of our former classmate, the DEACON. His work proved iust as satisfactory as his father's had. A wild yell issued from the next alley and we saw that the red head who had iust made a strike was MARIAN ENRIGHT, another member of the class of '44, We weren't surprised to see that RUTH IVES and DORIS HARRY were the other bowlers. We greeted e 1 ther ioyously and on inquiring, found that the three were nurses at the Walworth County Hos al and were spending their evening off duty in Elkhorn. They told us that we must see the movie that was showing because DELORME GETCHELL, current screen idol, had the lead. We arrived in time for the second show. The girl in the ticket office was BEULAH WOODMAN, with a sparkling diamond on her left hand. We offered our congratulations and asked her who the lucky boy was. She wouIdn't tell us his name but confessed that he was another member of our graduating class. GLEN OLSEN, owner of the theater, greeted us at the door and took our tickets. He told us that he had remodeled the building two years ago and the seating capacity was now doubled. An usher came to show us to our seats and it was none other than BOB KOONS. The movie was exceedingly good and we were very proudiof our old classmate, DELORME. Out on the street again, the gay lights ofthe Juke Joint caught our eye. We were glad to find that the ice cream parlors and drug store stayed open until midnight, a great improve- ment over the old days when we were in high school. We felt like having a double rich choco- late malted and went in. The proprietor, BILL LUDTKE was behind the counter. He insisted on treating us and led us to -a table. The girl who came to take our orders was DORIS WARREN. Bill confided that she had been working for him for a year and was the best soda ierk he had ever had. By this time we were tired and the comfort of our hotel room was inviting. In a few min- utes we were in deep slumber. A tap at the door awaked us next morning and Mary Ferguson brought in our breakfast on a tray. We were eager to examine the tray and found a weekly edition of the Elkhorn lndependent , now edited by NANCY CORY. After breakfast and a shower we decided to go out to the Schneck Dairy Ranch. We had already heard about BOB'S latest book entitled Three Easy Ways to Milk a Cow. A drive in the country at this hour of the day was most invigorating. As we progressed we heard the hum of airplanes. To our right was the Loupitz Airport. We drew up to the side of the road and watched a plane come in for a landing. Pilots MARILYN OPITZ and DOROTHY LOUKOTA stepped out of the plane.