Fenton High School - Sentral Yearbook (Fenton, IA)

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SENIOR CLASS WILL OF 50 l am an attorney by profess1on and make a specralty of drawlng class wrlls ln past years so many of the last wrlls of thrs school have been broken the class decrded to h1re an expert who could draw up such a document that 1t would rema1n rntact partway through eternrty L1sten now whrle l read thrs precxous document rn whrch we bestow these grfts from our dylng hlgh school llfe We the Class of 1950 be1ng of sound mlnds rn fact hav1ng well crammed mlnds superhuman understandrng and never fa1l1ng memorles do make and publlsh th1s as our last w1ll and testament Fxrst we dlrect our supermtendent Wllh hrs 1llWlS6 but ever competent faculty who have long been our guardlans to help carry out our last wrshes l To our hlghly respected faculty who have lmparted to us all the wxsdom of the ages we bequeath a sweet success1on of peaceful nrghts and dreamless sleeps No longer need they spend the dreary hours of darkness wondermg whether thelr dear senlor students are pourlng over thelr govern ment books readmg the fasctnatmg thnllmg pages of Amerrcan lrterature or emoymg themselves ln other less educatlonal ways lt rs saxd that ch1ldren IH the f1rst grade are easy to manage-the d1ff1culty 1ncreases as the years go by Durmg our years rn hrgh school we must have been eJoy1ng a second chrldhood as we were often told how qulet and managable we werel We are QOIDQ to try to repay the helpfulness and gu1dance whlch our supermtendent has bestowed upon us and the fnendshlp and companlonshrp whrch our fellow students the lower class men have heaped bountrfully upon us 2 To our superlntendent V I Tatum our hearnest gratltude best wxshes and the unllmrted wealth of our lastlng memorles ln an attempt for all that he has done for us 1n our past we make over to hlm here and now a mortgage -on our future 3 To the remamder of the hlgh school our pat1ence wxth the teachers so they may complete therr hlgh school days wrth as few d1ff1cult1es as we d1d 4 To our succeedmg pep clubs we grant our famous yell YEA BO' Wllh thrs yell we have often encouraged our team and d1scouraqed our opponent It should be used at least once at each game or rt w1ll become rusty and lose 1lS charm The followmg may seem but tr1f1l1ng bequests but we hope they may be accepted not as worthless th1ngs lavmshly thrown away because we can no longer use them but as valuable assets to those who may recerve them and as a contrrt ral remmder of the generoslty of heart dlsplayed ln our free and full bestowal fCOHl1HU9d on next pagel 13 I 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 I . 1 . ' , . . . 1 ' 1 1 -' 1 1 ' 1 1 - 1 1 1 ' 1 - - 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 . 11 11 . , . 1 1 1 1 . k

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CLASS PROPHECY KCONTINUEDD Our only red head Mlldred was sun 1n odds among us She IS the only one now that 1S grey harred I guess that IS due to her womes over her rowdy puplls back ln Fenton Hlgh Belng a woman of strrct prmclples she has qulte a l1I'I'19 keeprng her daughter who wants to be a nxght club smger 1n the Stevens College for grrls only Rose Mary whom we had always thought would be a good busmess woman had surprrsed us by becormng the manager of the world famous baseball team the Cleveland Red Flannels And last but not least 1S our lxttle Iayne d1d I say httle? Jayne 1S now 6 feet tall and IS the star forward on the Map Trotters basketball team com posed of g1rls 6 feet tall and over And to what does she owe thrs hexght? He famous rxch husband IS the owner of a chaln of Wheatles Mrlls and of course she has to set a good example Alter reach1ng shore agarn w1thout any casualtles we parted once more W1Sl'11I1Q each other good luck for another 25 or 50 years ff if mv? 12 I I ' 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 I - I ' I Q rr . H s ,, Y . U 'X . ' 'U we 1 L , 'Af 1-:,l,g:g,- 1 '1 .N--, L.. :'..,1 , QQ. vxji ,' '-'-- . .'3 21? rmlfff 7 .V , ,- ' - S , ,V '. 4,9 ' 'tif

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CLASS WILL M1ldred Bruhn W1llS her red ha1r to Mar1lyn Welsbrod so Fenton Hlgh w11l st1ll have a redhead after she leaves Beverly Pxerce w1lls her ablllty to get to bed early taheml to Salome Uthot so she wont always look so trred To Verda Luedtke goes Dorls Brerstedt s abtlrty to study hard tor a test so she wont have to worry about her grades To save Miss Darby from her horrors of the dentxst Gladys Mueller w1lls her ab111ty to get a tooth pulled Anna Rae We1sbrod w1lls her hkrng ot lrterature to Eldora Brerstedt so there wxll be one sublect that Eldora w1ll enloy To Helen Fuhr goes Dolores Mansagers sk1n1ness 'rrd vrce versa Dolores can collect a dlnner from Mr Tatum Dale Mltchell w1lls hrs abrhty to work physrcs problems to Mr Knowles so he wont have such a dlfftcult tlme teachmg tt that Howard w1ll become a more dashlng tlgure Rose Mary Cornellus w1lls her helghth to Mark Frnnestad so that he wont be so unnotlceable among the other boys To Kaye Ruske goes Ray COIHGIIUS 1nterest rn sports so that he w1l1 turn out for baseball and basketball practxce more often Floyd Bollxnger w1lls hrs abrhty to argue to Alvm R1ggert and Ronald Potter so that they can carry on hrs arguments about the varzous baseball teams And to Oscar Sorenson goes Iayne DeWall s quletness for obv1ous reasons x lil I I I , a t I , SO To Howard Bruhn goes Layton Behne's ability to grow a moustache, so I 'Z I tg l s ,9,,ff, 'r 'J J ' N