Grafton High School - Chatterbox Yearbook (Grafton, IA)

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Senior Cias JDill We, the Seniors of the Class of 1952, of the City of Grafton, County of Worth, State of Iowa, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do hereby make, publish, and de- clare this to be our Last Will and Testament. I, Lois Kuntz, will my desk at the front of the senior row to Darlene Berding. Please speak only when given permis- sion. My ability to attend school regularly to Donald Krueger and do school work while there. My giggles during classes to Peggy Krider and my good times and laughs with Betty to Cordelia Seegers and Rose Marie Navratil. I, Betty Jordan, will my desk scross from Jack Schotanus to Margie Bartz, my ability to get married while in my Senior year to Dorothy White and my typing eraser to Darlene. I hope you won't have to use it as much as I do, Darlene'. I, Marlene Dailey, will my good times playing basketball as a guard to all the future guards. Have fun, it's a good position. I will my place in the music groups to those who deserve them, and my good behavior in school to brother Jack. I, Kathryn Trettin, will my basketball suit No. 42, to the girl that gets it, my favorite desk in the senior row to Eugene Wilde, my great ability of breaking basketball train- ing rules to Elizabeth Steiger. I will the ability of trying to chew gum in Biology to Dorothy White. Don't get caught too often'. I, Earl Backhaus, will my ability to hit Gene Bartz in the head while pitching to Bill Hansen and my basketball ability to Harley Bublitz. I, Thomas Wagner, will my desk to Cordelia Seegers, my dancing ability to Donald Boeset, my Latin grades to Clo Ann Miller, and my dramatic talents to Jerry Buechele. I, Delores Huebner, will my grades in Physiology to Don Krueger, my basketball suit to Clarice Braun. I hope you travel a long way in it. I will my temper to Jack Schotanus, my smile to Cleo. Use it often Clo Ann. It helps'. I will the desire to operate on guinea pigs to Rose Marie Navrstil and my good luck to all the kids who need it. I, Mary Ann Rademaker, will my typing ability to Maxine Trettin, my basketball suit to Cordelia Seegers, my quietness in English Class to all the Junior Boys, please make use of it'. I also will my desk in the back of the assembly to Doris Wilde. I, Dale Trettin, will my ability to keep a seat in back of the assembly a whole year to Donal Krueger, also my abili- ty to stay in English Class to Gene Bartz. I will my bas- ketball suit to Dick Dalluge, and to Gene Nack I leave the Job of teasing all the girls.

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Senior :projjHec9 The time is 1976; the scenes are many, for as we probe into the future to see what the nine seniors from the 1952 class of Grafton High are doing twenty years hence, we find them in many places. We're sure you will get many surprises, so won't you step with us through the Door of Tomorrow? Do you remember Lois Kuntz as a quiet gal with not too much to say? Well there have definitely been some changes made, as this being another election year, we find her busy with another campaign. She is noted for being the most charming congresswoman in Washington, and her ambition is to become the first lady president of the United States. Having found politics to take up the greater portion of her t ime, she has not been involved in romance, but still maintains that someday she would like to settle down in a quiet suburb of her old home town and keep house for some lucky suitor. Life has been Just one big party for Betty Jordon since her husband wss promoted to Colonel. Eddie found military life to be most satisfactory and decided long ago to make the Army his career. And when you're one of the top brass, i t seems as though your entertaining is never done. Lucky for Betty, they have plenty of maids. If you should be chance happen to drive down Broadway, you would certainly see the name of Katrine Warbles written in lights. Katrine is the former Kathryn Trettin, who is now singing with the Metropolitan Opera Company. She leads a fast and exciting life, but slows down on vacations when she comes back to Iowa and the Wilde farm where she devotes all her time to her husband who has not found it necessary to work. Earl Backhaus, who back in 1952 was destined to become a tiller of the soil, has surprised everyone by making a hobby his profession. Earl pitched for several minor leagues be- fore being promoted to the position as one of them. His win- ters are spent in Florida where both he and Elizabeth find the weather most agreeable. Much to Earl's dismay, their oldest boy has taken to the violin instead of the baseball bat, while their youngest is studying ballet. Probably one of the most eligible bachelors in Hollywood is Tom Wagner, a successful brain surgeon. His reputation as a doctor has frequently been shaded by his frivolous social life, however. He is currently seen with thrice wed and twice divorced Margaret Obrien. Her present husband may not prove to be a problem, as Tom is soon to perform a deli- cate operation on him. Also in the medical world is Delores Huebner, now Delores Kuehn. She snd her husband manage with great success, one of New York's most prominent mental health institutions. Delores has thoroughly enjoyed her work all these years, but have you had a conversation with her lately? My how she's changed. One would almost think that she's become too well adapted to her surroundings.