Grafton High School - Chatterbox Yearbook (Grafton, IA)

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In the year of 1942 the senior class of 1955 started out co their school days with a class of six; Margaret Krider, Beverly Bork, Kenneth Nitcher, Romona Everding, James Smith and Janice Wahl. In the next year Janice Wahl left the class to be replaced by George Nitcher, and Darrel Bublitz joined during the second semester. The same class went through the third grade and during the fourth adhea five more members. They were Marge Bartz, Garry Kuntz, Donald Schultz, Shirley Corporan, and Carol May. In the year of 1945 James Smith left the class followed by Romona Everding and Donald Schultz in the next year. In 1947 four more pupils were added to the class. These four were Gloria Bublitz, Virginia Dutches Ruby Hinsman and Clyde Glassel. During this year Gloria Bublitz dropped out because of poor health. With eleven pupils they finished the eighth grade and readied themselves for high school the following fall. On entering high school five more faces were added for making a total of 16. These being Glarice Braun, Gene Nack, Phyllis Whit-e, Gladys Wilde and llobert Wilde. During the second semester another one was added in the person of Wayne Rosenberg. At the Sophomore level two more strangers were seen among the group. They were Floyd Elliott and Clarice Kruger, coming from Granada, Minnesota and Ply- mouth, Iowa respectively. It was during the junior year that Albert Ralph decided to follow his former classmate, Clarice Kruger, from Plymouth and join in the group. So it was that with 19 members, the largest to ever present themselves as a class the seniors of 1955 finished their high school education in Grafton High School. lass £ropf»t:ty MARGE BARTZ | M just inherited a large fortune plus a 1975 Crysler by her latest hus- band.. It was a sad marriage they had, she loved cats and he was aller- gic to them. But she refused to part with her twenty-seven dear ones and that was his finish. BEVERLY BORK is making the WACS her career 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. CLARICE BRAUN Mr. and Mrs. Orland Bartz are just back from spending the winter in Florida, where their eldest son graduated this spring. DARREL dUBLITZ is the proprietor of six Used Car Lots and is the only Lincoln dealer in North Iowa and Southern Minnesota. FLOYD ELLIOTT is a successful novel writer His most popular ones are of the western frontier. His latest North of the Sante Fe Trail is going to oe filmed next summer. CLYDE GLASSEL as the big business man from Des Moines. He’s the head of a nation wide chain of cigar stores. He has seventeen servants in his fifty room home.