Elmwood High School - Pirate Yearbook (Elmwood, NE)

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Banquet which honored the Seniors of 1949 was the next important event. The banquet theme was The Forty-Niners Last Roundup.' The president of the class was again James Hall, and the sponsor was Mrs. Wergin. Moving on to the last, the senior year, they found they had more things to do than they had time for! Early in September, class officers were elected. John Parish was chosen as Senior president and Miss John as the sponsor. Then the Seniors had the honor of planning and executing the Freshmen Initiation stunts and the all-school party which closed that day. Also in October they decided to publish an Annual, so many extra minutes have been soent in planning and working on it. Luring these last four years Mr. Whittemore and Miss John were their instruc- tors; Mrs. Wergin was with them three years. ''Cracked Nutts1 was chosen for the Senior Class Play and will be given on Friday, May 5. Other interesting events to which the Seniors are anxiously looking forward are: Sneak Day, Rag Day, Baccalaureate and best of all Commencement. Then last, but by no means least, the initiation and membership into the E. H. S. Alumni. The motto chosen by the Class of 1950 is Today we follow ; Tomorrow we lead . Thus, the Seniors of the Limwood High School, having completed the first important steo in their educational career by being followers, plan to venture out into a different world as t tomorrow. prophecy It was a bright May aay xn x»o0 when twelve confident and happy members of the lmwood High School Senior Class made their last appearance before the community. But hark ! Suddenly, clouds appear and a cloudburst descends and the rains came in torrents and lasted for a period of twenty long years. Alas, we could not find any news about our twelve classmates until one sunshiny day in May of 1970. The sun came beaming through the windows and brought with it a glorious Rainbow, the like of which had never before been seen. We knew then and there that fabulous pot of gold at the Rainbow1s end. o, with glittering dreams and golden hopes that the recent rains had not washed the pot of gold away, we decided to charter a jet plane and follow the path of the Rainbow. We climb into our jet plane and set off for the Fijii Islands. As we step from our ship, we are greeted by a youthful looking Marion Wendt. While chatting with Mari on, we learn that he has been in the missionary work some fifteen years. He also tells us that he has circumnavigated the globe three times with a Ford motor and birch bark canoe. After having our noonday tea, we depart from Marion's quaint little hut and are on the next lap of our journey to Dublin, Ireland, and the home of Mrs. Michael 0fGrady O'Toole, better known to us as Eunice Ebeler in our good old school days. Eunice is married to the owner of”the world renowned iron works, and is active in the National League of Women Voters. We learn from Eunice that Walter Oehlerking, Jr., better known to us as Junior, can be found in London; so, we hop to London in our plane and find that Junior has certainly risen to fame, for his name may be seen

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over the largest dentist’s office in London. After visiting with Junior and his family, we leave to refuel our jet plane for the journey to Paris where we find that one of the best-dressed women there is Mile. Defarge, none other than Berdena Kirchhoff. Berdena left Elmwood to become a dress model and while in Paris Cupid welded his arrow and she is still there. The next part of our journey over the Rainbow takes us to our own little town of Elmwood and the office of Johnny Parish, a Construction Company owner, Johnny tells us that he has just completed a million dollar hotel to accommodate fifty families. We leave Johnny in the midst of his blueprints and turn back east toward Chicago. Here we learn that Mary McLaughlin can be found at a hospital on the East Side. Mary is head nurse in one of the Dog and Cat Hospitals there. Again, we head east to Pittsburgh and Jim Hall. Jim is also in the construction business and tells us that he has just finished a trans-Atlantic railroad bridge for people who are afraid of boats and those who get seasick. Again, we refuel and head for Berlin, Germany. Here, we were informed, we would find Beth Mendenhall and that we did. Beth seems to have kept her youth better than any of the class. Perhaps this is due to her work. She has spent most of her years in the zieg- field Pollies. Beth tells us that she keeps her hair so beauti- ful by patronizing a wonderful beauty saloon in Shanghai, China. So, being full of curiosity, we start for Shanghai and find to our surprise the hair stylist is Margaret Vogt who has been in the beauty profession ten years to the day She tells us that another member of the class can be found in Los Angeles. Weary as we are we climb aboard our jet plane once more and in a mat- ter of minutes are in the heart of Los Angeles' most ultra- modern hotel districts. As we walk into one lobby, we are star- tled by a familiar voice, but we see no one. Then looking down we find none other than Bernita Irons, no taller than she ever was. Bernita takes us into the coffee shop; and while seated sipping our refreshing Planetary Juice, we hear that she is the wife of the owner of the hotel. Refreshed from our visit to Los Angeles and Bernita, we leave for Lincoln, Nebraska, where we find Lila Oehlerkin.g as the Editor of the Lincoln Journal and Star. Lila tells us she has just printed a story on the Farmer of the Year at Elmwood. From here we leave for Elmwood again, where we find farmer Lyle Ahrens who is farming and tilling the soil trying to find his pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow. Wearily we drag ourselves from our jet plane and know we will never forget this memorable trip along the path of the Rainbow. Our jet plane may be seen mounted atop the community building to ever remind us to keep seeking the pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow.