Gilmore City High School - Black and Gold Yearbook (Gilmore City, IA)

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ELDON JACOBSEN Baseball --------- l-4 Basketball --------- l-4 GleeClub--- -----3 Mixed Chorus -------- 3 Class Play ----- A - - 3-4 f Anything for the sake of an arguxnenhn, ELDEN LANNING Baseball ------- - - 1 Basketball- - - 1 Glee Club- - - - 1 Mixed Chorus- - - - - - 1 Quartette--- - ---- Class Play --------- 3 f Beware, I may do something sensational yet. l DEAN HOAG Baseball ------- - - -1-4 Basketball ------- - - 1-4 Glee Club ------ - - 3 Mixed Chorus ---- ---- 3 Class Play- ----- - - - 3-4 f Wlxy must life all labor be? j 5

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MAR JORIE WOLCOTT 3 Basketball -------- - l-4 Glee Club --------- 1- Mixed Chorus - - - 1-Z Band ----- - l-4 Quartetbe - - - - 4 Class Play -------- 3-4 f God bless the boys, I love , them all.' 'I DORIS NELSON Basketball ----- - ' Glee Club - - Mixed Chorus - - Sextette ---- Band ---- ' Quarzecte ----- ---- Class Play - Q Nature has but only one mouth, darn itl given us two ea. GLADYS ODLAND Basketball - ----- - - -2-4 Glee Club- - - - - - .2-4 Mixed Chorus- - - - 2 Sextette ----- ---.- .. 4 Class Play ----- .... 3 -4 l She's not so quiet when you get to know her. j 4 1- 1- 1- 3- 1- 3- T5 J

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Class History We, the Senior Class of 1950, look back upon the year of 1938 as a very famous year in the history of our class. This year was the beginning of our quest for education and we started down the trail of knowledge which would extend over a span of what then seemed to us, twelve long years of hard toil. As we look back upon this twisting, winding,path,,up hill and down, and over many obstacles, we will note numerous changes in the members of the class and also in varied types of guides who were so ably chosen to direct our wandering minds, that we may safely reach the end of the trail. In September, 1938, we found a timid, bashful bevy of ten tots in the first grade, beginning the first lap of our journey under a very competent guide, Mrs. Lula Blair. The following members assembled at the starting point and began the long, weary tramp: Gerald Blank, Conley Daniels, Dean Hoag, Joan Jergens, Tommy Law, Marilyn Whittlessey, Marilyn Neilsen, Audrey Seaman, Doris Nelson, and Marjorie Wolcott. This first year had brought us through considerable swampy ground and undergrowth, nevertheless, we began to make some headway and we lost only one of our number, Marilyn Whittlessey, but two others joined us at the start of our second year, Elden Lanning and Deila Mae Sinclair, and we continued onward with the same expert guide. After a short period of rest, June North took the responsibility of guide. Another member of our company, Conley Daniels, pursued a new course and Evelyn Zeman joined our party. We were slowly but surely making progress and with the same guide and party, with the addition of two new members, Virgil Burris and Lois Gatch, and for a very short way, Jimmy Fox and Leroy Gist, we advanced down the fourth year on this trail of knowledge. We were apparently getting our bearings and learning the fundamentals of education and as we pushed on, we recall many joyous occasions and happy times together. In this, our fifth year, we lost the companship of Gerald Blank, Evelyn Seaman, Jimmy Fox, and Leroy Gist. We adopted no new members but a new guide, Annabelle Johnson, led us down the trail. Soon after the next start, Lois Gatch departed from our midst but later on Eldon Jacobsen joined our happy party to make eleven and we trudged on to explore still more of the unknown possibilities of the trail ahead and with Margaret Larsen leading us through this treacherous strip, we emerged to another opening where for the time being, we sought rest and enjoyment from our wearisome travels. Before we reached the end of our next hike, we found our number dwindling and four of our group, Tommy Law, Marilyn Neilsen, Audrey Seaman, and Delia Mae Sinclair, left us to follow other lanes of adventure. The remaining seven struggled on greatly encouraged by the capable support of an older and more experienced guide, Mrs. Nora Hecht, who was deter- mined we would all reach the end of the trail in good standing and with this goal in mind, we resumed our travels under her guiding hand. Then, in the eighth year of our tedious trip, we bade farwell to Joan Jergens but we still had the same efficient guide. On May 13, 1946, we adopted as our motto Do Your Best and our small group of six valiantly completed the elementary training of this course and perhaps covered some of the most important phases of the trail. We were now at the crossroads but we dare not tarry long, we must continue with eager anticipation for the new adventures we would meet down the winding trail that leads only to the security of Success. As our courses became more difficult to pursue, we were required to have more guides along the way. We were fully supplied by the aid of Superintendent G. W. Berrier, Kaleb Sunwall, Mrs. Clappison, and Edwin Jones. Our members were again increased part of the way by the addition of Joan Jergens, Frank Jensen, and Richard Seaman, and before we completed the freshman drive, we gained the acquaintance and friendship of Gladys Odland, who stayed 6