Glen Elder High School - Gold and Black Yearbook (Glen Elder, KS)

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Ileuam .ami I Imam! ', limi'-57 metropolis, Solomon Rapids. Leaving the Hall to get my bearings,Iinves- tigated and found that the street I was on was known as Clark Street, named for Emojean Clark, who compounded a recipe for the Clark-X- Candy bar, containing cod liver oil. While passing along the street, I was almost deafened by a radio announcer who expostulated: The record for the mile run, set by Duane Fleetfoot Wiss in 1951, has just been broken by Turtlepace Timbers Tuttle, grandson of Bernita Timbers Tuttle, noted woman equestrian. I sighed almost audibly to myself, These '47ers surely got around fast. I wafted myself into a neai by library and soon became engrossed in a book titled How to Raise Cane and Grow Lazy, written by Cecil Winkel, the most noted agriculturist of his day. Finding the library rather stuffy,I decided to visit the old home town of these '47ers. There I found the .local high school team receiving the Studer Cup in matching pennies. Both the cup and pennies were furnished to county tournaments in the will of the late coach, Max Studer. In spirit- ing by a small music store, I noticed a sign reading Songs by Charlene. From a conversation of two anile women I learn that a book of priceless compositions by Charlene Kohler, titled It's All Wet, had been recently discovered in an old well. On a billboard just outside the city, I read Use Virginiae Alberte Lipstick -- won't smudge, won't rub oif, won't get you a man! On another billboard I read, Get your pure blooded alley cats from the Steele cat farm, founded by the reposed Evelyn J. Steele in 1999. One more to go, I thought happily to myself. Where will I find him? As I floated lazily across the Solomon, I spied a white bearded fisherman drowsing on the bank. Iflitted close and from a vest pocket I saw a bottle protruding. The label read Live-long pills by Chas. Fisher. Then I came back here to resume my well deserved rest. If you'll be so kind as to leave me alone ......... .......................... wie XZ

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Glenna .1-...I I llnlllll ', ll' 417' AND IN THE YEAR 2022 Ah, what have we here? A grave yard in a far corner of the world. Amid tangled briars and weeds gray tombstones loom forward. But look--such strange inscriptions, Father Time 1892, Father Time, 1929, 1930, 1940, and there that large one Father Time 1947! Seventy-five years ago he passed on leaving twenty-three G. E. H. S. Seniors with only memories. We touch the headstone and call softly, Awake, Father 1947, arise and make your way around the earth and bring us a report on the lives of that brilliant class of animated studentsf' Father 1947 rises mistily, and whispers softlv, Sleep, I will return presently. Here is the report he brought: I spirited myself over much country until, while passing over a coun- try grave yard, I saw the spires of the city in the distance. I sank down on a tombstone to rest and noted the inscription. It read, Sir Richard Dean, millionaire playboy, who married John's other wife, and who wouldn't open the door. Off to a good start, I thought to myself, and continued to- ward the city. I entered -a large park and came face to face with a huge bronze statue of two tired looking women. The inscription on the base read, J oy Forster and Berta Lou McFarland, pioneers of education and aggressive in work- ing for the rights of under privileged students burdened with tests. I spied a newspaper, yellow with age, caught in a crevice of the statue. The date was 1972 and the headlines read B. J. Ahlvers, greatest woman scientist since Madame Kilroy, has discovered an astounding remedy for fatuitousness. Her helpmate, Martha Betz, upon whom the remedy was tried, lost fifty pounds in three days by eating a certain kind of horse-radish soup. I also read an article by Robert L. Weidenhaft, the world famous bachelor and bookkeeping expert. He expounded a new theory called the Weidenhaft Edict. The theory was, if you want to be rolling in the dough take up baking, not bookkeeping. Leaving the park, I passed an office building, where pert stenograph- ers were pounding away on the Weidenhaft Special, perfected by the re- nowned typist, Marjorie Weidenhaft. Farther on, I passed the Weidenhaft School of Shorthand founded in 1962 by Dorotha Mae Weidenhaft. I picked up a newspaper, hot off the press, and in the Fifty Years Ago Today column, I read of a banquet given by society 's number one matron, Geneva Neifert, in honor of the World famous authority on American His- tory, Newell Eberle. The entertainment was provided by Ruby Cooper and her Tromboneneers. Flitting along, Ireached New York City and entered the cool halls of Carnegie Hall. There I found two busts done in gold plate of Arleta White and Virgina Shoemaker dubbed by critics as the best cowgirl duet team of the twentieth century. In Europe they were known as the Two Sharps. Picking upa current magazinel became deeply interested in an article written as a tribute to the late Donna J. Jones, a social worker who wal instrumental in cleaning up of the slum area of the great western

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ILQIILID .mil I ILAIQIIK ', Ilthiif' UUR LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the members of the Senior Class of 1947 of the Glen Elder High -School being of long experience within these walls, and having only a few short hours to dwell among the trials and tribulations of our High School days, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our last will and testament. Clause L VVe request that the Freshmen collect all wads of gum, our unused textbooks and the key to all the examinations that have been given us during our High School d iys, forming of them a monument to our Senior Class. This monument to be placed in the center of Study Hall, to encourage the Freshmen to follow the good examples we have set for them. I Clause IR We will the Sophomores, provided that they show any signs of intelligence by the time they reach the Junior year, the honor to enter- tain the Seniors at an elegant and expensive banquet. Clause III: We will to our friends, the Juniors, the honor of grad- uating some day provided that they study as diligently and make as splendid grades as we did. Clause: I VY We will to the Janitor, since he has been our chum, the task of sandpapering and revarnishing ull the desks in the building, there- by removing all signs and traces of initials and clever sayings we have scratched and cut into the desks. Clause VY We bequeath to the faculty the problem of guiding the underclassmen down the paths of good examples we set for them. Clause VI: We will, as individuals, the following: I, Bonnie Ahlvers, will my ability to give interesting and comical read- ings to Geneva Rarick, knowing that she will make good use of it. I, Virginia Albert, will my quiet and dignified ways to Freeda Luckey, knowing that she will never use. them asI did. I, Martha Betz, will to Alice Wiss my studious ways, hoping that she will do as well as I did. I, Emojean Clark, will my many out of town boy friends to Mary Betz knowing that she will never have as many asI did. I, Ruby Cooper, will my steady boy friend to anyone who thinks they can take him away from me. 5 I, Richard Dean, will my wavy black hair to Bill Eberle, knowing that his will never be as curly as mine. I, Newell Eberle, will my slow and steady ways to Joe Morris, hoping that they will take him as far as they did me. I, Charley Fisher, will my ability to hold that line to Junior Woods. I, Joyce Forster, will my time spent in front of a mirror to Barbara Vint. I, Donna Jones, will my power, dignity and stay-at-home ways to Arlene Slate, if she will not use them until she is a Senior. I, Charlene Kohler, will my ability to be drum majorette to Ruthie Breitweiser. l