Grafton High School - Chatterbox Yearbook (Grafton, IA)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY As the great Madam Lapiske gazes into her crystal ball she sees seven Grafton Students receiving their diplomas and heading into the land of uncertain futures. We follow them with her and relate to you here what we see them doing twenty years from now. First is Gene Kuntz living a swanky hermits life in a penthouse on Fifth Avenue. It seems that during his senior year in High School a little brunnett broke his heart by switching to a red head. And where should we find our great, little basketball forward Mary Ann Buechele but at a basketball game, sitting on the sidelines now as Girls’ Chaperone. Coaches wife, you know’. I Now we see our quiet and shy Bonnie Mae Schultz. She has graduated from Iowa State Agriculture College and is touring the country giving lectures on “Better Farming Methods ’. Dorothy Rademaker decided to settle near Manly and raise chickens, but all we see around the Chicken Ranch’’ now is “kids’’. Next we see Jack Bork, attired in a white ruffled apron, busily running the house while his wife is out working. He seems much more quiet and subdued than when we knew him in high school. Could it be possible that he is slightly hen-pecked??? Mario Flo, who always liked to be in a crowd, settled in China and is at present farming along the mountain sides. Could it be the blonde daughter of the Grafton Postmaster working so hard at his side? ? Last of all we see Marilyn Rosenberg, who has a Beauty Shop in Holly- wood. By the looks of the people going into her shop she has a good business. Oh, excuse me, the people are going into the shop next door which happens to be “Duke’s Tavernl Dorothy: (admiring her engagement ring): There’s nothing in the world harder than a diamond, is there? Fiance: “Yes sweetheart --keeping up the installment payments on it. Mary Ann B. and Bonnie Mae S. were exchanging confidences just before Christmas. Bonnie said to Mary Ann, “would a long stocking hold all you want for Christmas? Mary Ann: “No, but a pair of socks would.

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SENIOR CLASS WILL We the Senior Class of 1948, make the following will. I, Marilyn Rosenberg will my height and basketball ability to Shirley May. And my cute smile to Lowell Schultz. I, Bonnie Mae Schultz will my good grades to Marcella K. And my temper to Ramona Nack. I, Dorothy Rademaker will my ability to acquire tall, dark and handsome boy friends to Elaine B. And my ability to milk cows to Harriet C. I, Jack Bork will my speed to Richard K. And my sniffles to anybody who wants them. I, Gene Kuntz will my muscle to Keith Bork. My Chester- fields to Carl Love. I, Mario Flo will my height to Ellsworth G. And my good looks to Maxine N. JOKES Jack Bork: Richard: Jack Bork: Richard: Richard K., What makes your face so red? I've been squeezing tomatoes. How does that make your face red? These tomatoes slapped my face. A nut at the wheel, a peach in his arms, the car misses a turn--fruit salad'. A bore is a tellow who wants to talk about himself when you want to talk about yourself. Sigrid Becker: When I was in the Wacs I put three hundred men out action. Max Love: My, didn’t you get a medal? Sigrid Becker: No, I was camp cook.” Miss Bixler: Now, children, there are flowers beginning with the prefix dog. For example, dog roses and dog daisies. Can anyone tell me another? Mario Flo: Collie flowers.