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LEONARD HOLMES wishes to leave nothing behind as he plans to take it all with him. WAYNE JOHNSON leaves his typing errors to Shirley Riepe. DON SMITH leaves his reserved personality to Ruth Ann Perdue. ARDITH LINN leaves her way of always looking busy to Denny Book. PAULINE ROGERS leaves her neatness to Dick Pierson. ' JANET SOTHMAN leaves her ability to make her own clothes to the Freshmen in home economics class. GLEN SAFFER leaves his temper to Ruth Alm. KENNY SUNDER MAN leaves his knack of making people think he is quiet and dignified to Richard Paulsen. MARILYN LOVELL leaves her out-of-town boy friend to Karen Pelzer. Think you'1l ever use him, Karen? HENRIETTA STEFFEN leaves her nick- name Speed to Priscilla Drake. According to Mr. Ryan she needs it. DOLOR ES SHIPLEY leaves her friendly meet-you-more-than-half-way air to Gloria Newman. People don't bite, Gloria. YVONNE RUDIG leaves her height and regal bearing to Kathaleen Riepe. Better 'start grow- ing, Kathaleen. M.ARY ELLEN WATKINS leaves her ability to get a college date to the girl in next year's Senior class who will enjoy it most. DEAN LARY leaves his shy smile to Ronnie Davis. Don't give up the smile you have, Ronnie. Two kinds may come in handy. VIOLA HENDRIX leaves her gregarious spirit to Lavone Holmes. SANDRA PELSER leaves her ability to get a finger into every pie to Colleen Dorsey. Act- ivities are fun, Colleen. SHIRLEY PIITTMANN leaves her naturally curly hair to Donna Forsyth. PHIL SPR OULE leaves his flirting ability to Wesley Anderson. HOWARD RUSH leaves his blush to Gordon Amos. Class Prophecyrof 1955 We are standing here in front of our mech- anical brain waiting for it to answer our ques- tions. We have just given it the facts and fig- ures about the Senior class, and it is going to tell us what we are to be doing in 1970. ROWENE ACKERMAN is now living on a farm with her husband and twelve little Junior Rusties. They say they're cheaper by the dozen. NORMA 1aRcsTRoM now runs in old bach- elor's homeg two close friends are with her: VIRGINIA BOOK and ARDITH LINN. ROSE MARIE BRIGGS is a lady undertaker working in the Kremlin. It is reported she has a good business. ORLAN CAIN is now running a hobby shop in Chicago. He has hobbies for people from 9 to 109. RICHARD CARLSON has joined the navyg it seems he had so many girl friends he couldn't make his pick. LYNDA CRAMER is riding her favorite horse in the Kentucky Derby next week. She has the only horse to lose 284 races in a row. CHET DOBENECKER has a used camel lot in the Sahara Desert. Just go to him and say, Lovelace sent me . DONAVON DORSEY is now writing stories for TV shows. His newest out is Tombstone , a love story. KAY FENDER has made good and is reported to have a very good job: she counts the 20,000 filters in Viceroys. TOM FORSYTH is a general in the service-- a general nuisance in the guard house. ELAINE KRISINGER has just been voted Miss Legs in Hollywood, California. WAYNE GUSTIN has just set a new land speed record in his new hopped up Pontiac. He goes 600 turtle walks in an hour. RICHARD HALL just came back to the states after being stranded on an island for eight years. He brought a friend with him named Saturday Night, singing, Oh What A Night It Was . VIOLA HENDRIX now has the largest stamp collection in the world. She says stamp collecting is very profitable. LILA HIGH is now driving a souped up- Camp- bell's, of course -Model T at the Indiana- polis 500. ROGER HOLLDORF has finally trapped the grizzly bear that had been bothering on his farm. It seems that it was just a tomcat. YVONNE RUDIG is a successful dress design- er. She has designed a new dress called the Gownless Evening Strap . HOWARD RUSH is now a singer with Decca Re- cording Company. His latest song out is Leave Me Alone, Girls: I'm All Through With You All . GLEN SAFFER is now head street cleaner for Lyman. DALE SCHR IER was last seen floating in the Mid-Pacific yelling, Sharks . DOLOR ES SHIPLEY is now a women doctor in the fair city of Grant. Her motto is, I'll Cure You If It Kills You . JIM SHULTZ is now window washer in a so- rority house. He never takes holidays and works 24 hours a day. DOLOR ES SLOCUM is now teaching that new dance known as the Slocum Sway . There is a statue of DON SMITH in the Hall of Fame now. He polished statues so long they made one of him. ' Be on the lookout for Wolf-gal MARILYN LOVELL. She has just come out of her cave in the mountains and is considered very dangerous. PHIL SPROULE is the head professor of Bugs and Nuts at the Lyman Booby Hatch. HENRIETTA QSPEEDJ STEFFEN is now known as slowpoke Steffen. She broke her leg playing with the Girls' All-American Basketball Team. KENNETH SUNDER MAN has just invented a pair of shoes that are supposed to be very comfortable. They are tight and feel awful ong but your feet feel wonderful when you take them off. CURTIS TOWNE is down in Texas, married. He and his wife and 23 kids are running their own cattle town. It's the roughest, toughest, shootenist town north of the Rio Grande.
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RODGER WOHLENHAUS Just one continuous gr- AnnualStaff....... 4 FF.A ROSE MARIE BRIGGS The only way to have a friend is to be one. Atlantic High ....... 3 Marching Band . . . 3, 4 Baton Ensemble . . 3, 4 Glee Club ....... 1, Z Tiger Staff ........ 2 Fire Queen of A-H-5- - 3 Declamatory ..... 3. 4 F.H.A. .......... . 2 Concert Band ...... 3 Class Play .... . . . 4 Class Will We. the class of '55 of the Griswold High School, having reached the end of our career here, do make public and declare this writing to be our last will and testament in form and manner as follows: TO MR. PONTIUS we leave all our ideas of what an ideal school should be. TO MR . LOVELACE we leave all the Mickey Spillane books he collected during the past year. He should have quite a library. TO MISS DAFT we leave an automatic note writer . We think it will save her some time. TO MR. VANDERBUR we leave all the dirt we have tracked into the schoolhouse for soil tests. TO MR. ANDERSON we leave an electric brain that will not only care for the innumerable details of planning an annual, but will also trim and paste in the pictures. TO MR. JOINER we leave a tonic to restore his gray hair to its original color. Better be careful, Mr. Joiner, or you may run out of tonic. The Senior homemaking girls leave their knitting ability to MRS. STEFFEN. She may be needing it some- day. TO MRS. NORDIN we leave a magic carpet that will zip her to the destination of her choice every week end. TO MR . RYAN we leave the hope of more victories in the future. It's possible! TO MR. MILLS we leave a magic formula guaranteed to make little boys grow into big star athletes. We leave MRS. CONRY to Merlin! 1 1 TO MRS. PONTIUS we leave bifocals that will allow her to watch television.and watch her knittin at the same time. ' TO MISS REIMERS we leave a time stretcher guaran- teed to increase or decrease time to meet her needs. To good ble faithful custodian ZEKE we leave an auto- matic push-button robot to do all his work. NOR MA BERGSTROM leaves her blonde tresses -to Ruth Embree. VIRGINIA BOOK leaves her flute Playing ability to Ilene Watkins. RICHARD CARLSON leaves his habit of never having his work done to Jim Fisher. N CHESTER DOBERNECKER leaves his know how in taking vacation from school to anyone who can get by with it. DON DORSEY leaves his football ability to Ronnie Gray. DOLORES SLOCUM leaves her ability to write notes to Galen Shafer. OR LAND CAIN leaves his hobbies to anyone who dares tackle them. ' LYNDA CRAMER leaves her giggle to Martha Kunze. KAY FENDER leaves her happy outlook on life to Sharon Sunderman. TOM FORSYTH leaves his build to Jack DeWitt. Think you can handle it, Jack? , l ELAINE KRISINGER leaves her gum chewing ability to Virginia Shultz. Does Virginia really need it, Elaine? WAYNE GUSTIN leaves his ability to herd Pontiacs to Darrel Adams. I RICHARD HALL leaves his independent attitude to Nancy Higgins. ROGER HOLLDORF leaves all his unsigned make -up slips to Kay Kipp. 4 DALE JENKINS leaves his ability to argue to Sharon McCullough. Hope you have better luck, Sharon. BOB KEEBLER leaves his crazy antics to Harold Mercer. HARRY KIRK would like to leave his sneeze but can't because it would ruin his reputation. ' JERRY MCKENZIE leaves his driving ability to any- one with paid up insurance. MARILYN MUELLER leaves her singing ability to Kaye Boseck. Use it wisely, Kaye. DENNIS NEWMAN leaves his comb, mirror and bobby pins to Bob Blanchard. MARLENE PELZER leaves her quiet ways to Sharon Stone. Maybe it will help you, Sharon. A DALE SCHR IER leaves his necking techniques to Scott Morton. fas if Scott needs theml EDDIE PLACE leaves his gruesome, tall-tales to Mickey Spillane. GARY TURK leaves his height to Davy Weaver. ROSE MARIE BRIGGS leaves her fickle ways to Rosalie Starlin. ' CURTIS TOWNE leaves his cowboy boots to Wayne Steinbeck, who is known as Jingles . RODGER WOHLENHAUS leaves his freckles to Walter Weston. This gift should enable Walter to win a prize! ROWENE ACKERMAN leaves with a ring on her finger and wedding bells ringing in her ears. LILA HIGH leaves her reducing pills to Maryann Rowe. I BERNARD ROMIG leaves his brain to a medical college for research. ' JIM SHULTZ wills his noonday taxi service to Glenn Hemphill. Z1
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GARY TURK has just taken off to the moon in a new atomic space ship. They figured that with his height he could reach it sooner than anyone else. MARY WATKINS is now the president of the Watkins Sisters Truck Lines. They carry used Christmas trees and old light bulbs to Alaska for the Eskimos. RODGER WOHLENHOUS is a bull fighter in Mexico. He has won one and lost 36 fights. He says the bulls don't play fair. A LEONARD HOLMES is now with U.C.L.A. and boy what a wheel. OH! OH! what a let down! He is just the water boy. DALE JENKINS was playing on a big time basketball team, but he quit when he had to go home and do the chores. WAYNE JOHNSON is living in China with a Chinese girl he married. Her name is Soca Mung Foung Gong Foo. He married her in order to find out how to pronounce her name. BOB KEEBLER is now playing the drums in Keebler's Swoonie Band. They are now playing at the Pigeon Club in Grant. HARRY KIRK is the number one wanted criminn in the United States. He was a detective for a while until he learned how to keep away from the law. DEAN LARY has set a new record. He has been in the army for fifteen years and is still a Buck Private. JANET SOTHMAN has just been elected Miss Iowa and is meeting a lot of big wheels. She says, The only thing wrong is that the men I meet are too old. JERR Y MCKENZIE just came back from Alaska after a 2 year visit. He greets everybody by rubbing noses. MARILYN MUELLER is now singing with Arthur Godfrey on TV. She sings, Be Happy Go Lucky Go Lipton Tea Day. DENNIS NEWMAN is a car designer in Detroit. He has designed a new Buick that has a three cylinder engine. It runs on wood alcohol., MARLENE PELZER is now a school teacher in a little town out west. She is teaching people how to do the Mambo. SANDRA PELSER is now an old maid. She played around too long. EDDIE PLACE is now known as Father Place and is seen on TV in place of Bishop Sheen every Monday through Friday night on Channel 85. I SHIRLEY PIITTMANN has taken her dad's place as gas station attendant. She doesn't know where to put gas or water in, but she will soon learn. PAULINE ROGERS is now chief hat check girl at the Brown Derby in California. She reports getting very big tips. BERNARD ROMIG landed a job as psychology teacher in the Lyman U. KA new col1ege.J Well, the electric brain just broke down. A class of this size was just too much of a problem! I hope you're happy with the results: the machine never lies. NORMA B. - I Jiflm-A fzfqygmf 1:2 SHIP LEY P. ,Mix and FAULINE R, LYNDA C. SANDRA P. Z3 W
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