Halstead High School - Dragon Yearbook (Halstead, KS)

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Sen :or Class Prophecy TIME 1970 PLACE Huron Hxgh School Carn1val The Junxor Class of 1950 were all present and they dec1ded to peek znto the crystal ball that had drawn so much attract1on that even1ng Each was trymg to see what Francls Rothrmer a graduate of 1950 was domg The followmg was what each saw Dorothy H1ebsch belng the fzrst to look mto the crystal ball sees Franc1s as a successful farmer He IS the one who taught h1s pxgs to smoke corncob pxpes and was the fmrst one ln hlstory to put on the market Fresh Smoked Ham He att rxbutes h1s success to h1s beloved w1fe who IS tw1ce h1s age and has helped Fr1tz make the corncob pxpes whxch enta1ls a great deal of work The task IS made eas1er as thelr two chxldren Oscar and Dora 3SS1St 1n thls great project Next Walter Sears takes a look He sees that Francxs has become the great est newspaper colurnmst of all txmes Not only 1S he the propr1etor of THE TOPEKA TRUMPET but he features a colurnn 1n the da1ly paper every day H1s colurnn A Lzttle Of Th1s And That IS read daxly by rrnlhons He IS known as the second Walter Wmchell As he puffs on h1S c1gar he proudly tells of h1s three g1rls and four boys two of whom stmll hollo Da Da In thxs Saturday column Francxs stated that he mtends to keep the newspaper buslness ln the farruly and no doubt he w1ll When Jo Ann Buttron looks 1nto the crystal ball she sees a clrcus she IS at tend1ng 1n Huron and of course she IS go1ng to all the smde shows and the major performance that evemng She entered the bxg tent and pxcked out a mce soft seat on hard pme and gazed at the performers 1n the center of the show r1ng To ed as a clown Stlll up to h1s old trzcks clowmng she told her fnend seated next to her As usual he was gettxng all the attentmon and she was determmed to talk to h1m after the show As they chatted he told her of h1s experzence slnce graduatmg from dear old Huron H1 F1rst to get the full beneflt of the expenence and because mt was the only Job open at the t1me Francxs was water boy for the el ephants Yes he was promoted and became the flown of the cmrcus He had a very lnterestmg personal 11fe He told her he was marrmed to the bearded lady and had ten healthy l1tt1e urchlns All fxve of the gxrls took after thezr mother and were al ready startmg to grow beards About that t1me the general flunkle came 1n and yelled Hey you clown lt s t1me for your second act F1l1ed w1th enthus1asm Fntz leaped to lus feet and as qulck as a flash he bounced to the mam arena and the crowd applauded Yes xt looked lzke Io Ann was clappmg as hard as anyone Let me take a look sa1d Vera Fultz as she leaned over the crystal ball She saw Francxs by a rrncrophone He has won fame over the rad1o Now for a long per xod of years he has been master of ceremonles on the Schmaltz Bumon Cure prograrn better known as the Puffed Feet Hour It s rather a corny program but Frxtz IS happy He has all the problems a ynarned man wnth fxve chxldren has H1s rad1o program keeps hmm so busy he has let h1s beard grow Tune m sometxme and lzsten to the man behmd ' at thmck beard The rad1o statxon'7 Oh yes xt s Statwn CORN l3 0 . ' V I I ' I , . ' i . . . . , ' . . . . t 1 - - . . . . ,, .. . . . D l ' ' ' Al I It ' D l ' ' - I her dismay and surprise she saw a former graduate of Huron High. He was dress- . U . . . , . .,' . . .l . I . . , , - . , - . ,, . , ,. -I ,, . . . l 3 .l ' . , . ll li ' , . . . . ' 4- il U ' ' ' I Q . . . . - a ' . , A . - 1 I '

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Semor Class Will Bexng of sound mlnd and body We Hope we the Sen1or Class of 195U after much thought ano cons1derat1on have wr1tten out our lxfe s w1ll to Huron H1gh Students and Faculty To the faculty Mr Gerber Mr Bennett and Mrs Lanter we leave the manner In whlch we always had our lessons to use as ex amples to other students when the gomg gets rough Also we leave our old photographs wh1ch w1l1 remlnd them of what can happen 1n four years xf the pupxls aren t treated r1ght To the Junxors we leave our memor1es of the Junlor Semor Banquet our Sneak Day the thrlll of Commencement N1ght and the courage to thr1ve through your Sen1or year 1n 1951 To the Sophomores we leave our fa1thful typmg erasers wh1ch we hope they won t use as much as we d1d all our old books pen 115 and notebooks wh1ch they m1ght fxnd And to a certaxn Sopho more boy whose xrutxals are J Z we bequeath hxm a 1931 Chevy for the purpose of a hot rod To the l1ttle 1nnocent Freshrnen we leave our ab1l1ty to play basketball our excess knowledge whlch we have accurnulated ln the past four years our way wxth the teachers so we were always on the honor roll and a b1t of encouragement to rem1nd them that school 1sn t as bad as they th1nk at t1mes To Mr Ed Kelsay goes our best w1shes for the future and our greatest apprec1at1on of h1s ab111ty ot the good up keep of the school and property and we g1ve h1m w1ll1ng1y all our pencll ma1 ks and 1n xtxals In addltzon we leave our remammg possessxons whxch he may fxnd 1n our lockers and dress1ng room To Mrs Brown we w1ll her our gurn wh1ch we left by mlstake on our plates and a memory 1n her m1nd of the student s healthy appet1te Her del1c1ous meals axded 1n the development of the m1ghty muscles of the graduates of our school To all of th1s we do hereby aft1x our seal thls 19th day of May 1n the year of our Lord 1950 QSIGNED AND SEALED1 The Sen1or Class of 1950 12 I 1 3 n ' K 1 1 1 , . . . l I . , . . 1 - 1 - 1 ' I . . , . n 1 Q 1 , . a n A . . , . . - C , . n ' 1 2 n . , . . , - ' Y . . , . I - .

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Marvm W1lson sees the gentleman 1n quest1on has become very wealthy from h1s enterprxse He IS the operator of the largest g1r1 s camp m the country At the entrance to h1s camp there 15 a huge s1gn Camp She She for Gxrls Sxx to Sxxty He enjoys h1s work very much and xt s rumored that he has met the glrl of h1s dreams It s true he IS graymg a httle around the temples but you know Fntz when It comes to women he doesn t bel1eve 1n rushmg mto anyth1ng The two of them dnve around 1n h1s very expenslve convert1b1e Patr1c1a Ze1t recalls the good old days when she remembers that Fntz always wanted to become a salesperson H1s dream has come true He xs now the General Manager of the J C Penny store m Poodunk Kansas He has made the f1rm a lot of money and as a result he hxmself 15 rollmg 1n the dough Seems as though he has a crazy 1dea though he wants to go to Hollywood and be come a movxe star Probably fmd a dame that w1ll sw1ndle h1m out of h1s m1ll1ons Donald Thurn fxnds that Francls has never left h1s old home town He has settled down on a farm close to Huron He IS marned to a g1rl about tw1ce h1s age and they have two ch1ldren Not contented to t1ll the good old Mother Earth for a hvmg he has h1gher amb1t1ons Yes he has taken to the au' He has h1s own l1ttle azrport and a s1ngle motor Job Slnce he IS up 1n the a1r most of the tzme anyway h1s Wlfe decmded he m1ght just as well make a prof1table busmess out of xt He has h1s own a1rl1ne and carrxes passengers from W1111S to Huron Between fhghts he conducts one or many sxght seemg tours 1n these two towns When Elvena Welch looks mto the crystal ball she sees H1ghway 73 She 15 dr1v1ng down the hxghway 1h her 1970 convert1ble and passes a horse and buggy Of course she stared and thought she recogmzed the gentleman 1n the buggy T sat1sfy her cur1os1ty she drove to the s1de of the road and to her amazement It was Francxs Rothmxer Naturally she had to chat w1th one of her old schoolmates She asked h1m 1f he was takmg a group of luds to a plcnxc He turned to h1s w1fe and small famlly of 15 and sa1d These are MY klds and It s no p1cn1c then mtroduced me to h1s Wlfe the former Bethella Gonedown of Topeka H mentloned that he was workmg for the Ford Company and l1ved 1n Huron After flndmg Frxtz and h1s fam1ly 1n fa1r cond1t1on she Jumped 1n her convert1ble and headed for home 14 . . , . . . I . . , . , .. . , . l ' ' . o . . I ,, . l., . . :,, He . . . , . e D