Joice High School - Jo Hi Se An Yearbook (Joice, IA)

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In Juno, 1952 I Joined the Women'» Air Force becauee It Just seemed that going on to school would never work for me. Five years later I waa given a fif- teen day furlough and then I was to be sent to the West Coaat where I was going to ship out for Hawaii, When I arrived at home I decided I'd Just have to look up my eight class- mates and see how they were ooming in life. Mother informed me that Clarice was living between Hanlontown and Joice on a nice big farm, she was now Mrs. Harold Hagen and had two little boys. I spent one day with Clarice talking over the good times we had spent together in Joice High. I left Clarice's at about 5 P.m. and when I got back to Joioe I had an urge to do some shopping again. Abrahams Cash Store had always been a nice place and anyway it was on my way home. Who should be standing behind the counter but my classmate Bubby. Some how he hadn't made enough money to get to Oklahoma, but he still insisted that he was going,that is if he oould talk his wife into going with him. It seems that Bubby knew where most of our classmates were. He told me Don had married and was playing professional baseball. He had signed a contract with the St. Louis Cardinals. I was lucky enough that they were having a home game when I would be in St. Louis to change trains. Bubby and I talked a little longer but then it was time to close the store, so I went home. My furlough was Just about over and I wanted to spend a few days in St. Louis with Don, his wife and family. When I arrived in St. Louis Don was there to meet the train. It was lucky I got in in the morning and there was a ballgame that night. Of oourse we went to the game and Don played a wonderful game, as usual. He made three homeruns making his total for the season thirty-three. I left St. Louis before I had planned because there was some business I had to attend to before I shipped out. I stopped in Reno, Nevada and went to a telephone directory to find the lawyers who had a business there. The list was mighty long but I read through it and discovered that junior Rogness was a Reno lawyer. He had always wanted to be a lawyer but I had figured he'd be married and have a family by now. Immediately I went to Junior's office and he still looked the same, even as far as to that blonde butch. He was surprised to see me and was willing to take care of my business. It seems that his classmates were relying on him to take their troubles to. He told me Eleanor was having trouble with some of her customers and she was now sueing a large chain store for breaking a contract and not paying her enough money. Eleanor had married a wealthy business man and had acquired so much wealth that she had set up her own factory the Malloy Mayonaise Manufactures. junior called Eleanor and told her we were ooming for dinner and to be sure and put her little boy to bed. junior informed me that if she didn't we would be leaving the house probably as cripples. Of oourse, Eleanor insisted he was an angel. Her home was a beautiful twenty-five room mansion. The floors were all carpeted and there wasn't a speck of dust to be found, well there shouldn't be she had enough maids to keep two families unemployed. The dinner was delicious and I was Invited to spend the night in one of the extra rooms. In the morning Eleanor drove me to the station in her new Cadillac I must admit it was nice but the way she drove it wouldn't be long before a fender or two would be all smashed. KARL 0. HYLBAK, CLOTHING Lake Mills, Iowa This page sponsored byt CLEAR LAKE BAKERY Clear Lake, Iowa

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From Eleanor I learned that Darrell and Darwin owned a farm Just outside of Joice, where they had accumulated a tremedous amount of wealth. They didn't know what to do with It, but Darwin's wife had solved the problem by purchasing a lovely slimmer wonderland. It seems Darwin had married his favorite redhead but Darrell was making all the girls happy, he was a single man. Darwin had com- pleted one family trait, twins, they had the prettiest red hair in the whole United States, at least that's what Darwin claims. There was only one classmate I hadn't been able to find. Nobody seemed to know where Merlyn Helmdal was or what he was doing. When we arrived In Hawaii, we were given a oouple of days to go site-seeing so my girlfriend and I went to the beach to get a nice Hawaiian tan both days and of course there were always sailors around. The seoond day I was watching some of the people and there was one person that looked very familiar, for fact he looked Just like Merlyn but he was too tall for Mart. .The more I watched him the more he resembled Merlyn, It wasn't long before he saw me and came over to chat with me. He had recognized me and figured I might know what our classmates were doing. Merlyn had Joined the navy and said that he was going to make a career of the navy. He looked real nice in his uniform and the Hawaiian girls were always following him from place to place. It was time to get settled again but my furlough had really been profitable and I found that all my classmates were settled and doing a wonderful Job in life. Donald Ball Darrell Bang Lorna Haroldson CLASS SONQ (Tune-- White Christmas ) We've gone through four years of high sohool. We have at last reached this time. The tests were hard, grades were low. We can't complain, we can go. For now is the time that we must part. And into life's pathway we will start. CHORUS: We'll remember dear old Joioe High, And all those happy days we knew. Those dear teachers that taught us, and led us, and helped us. Along with classmates that were true. We'll remember dear old Joice High, And keep her memories in my heart. Through the year we never will part. With those memories of dear old Joioe High. Merlyn Helmdal Richard Abraham Lorna Haroldson This page LAKE MILLS LUMBER CO. COAL, BRICK AND TILE Lake Mills, Iowa sponsored by: RONALD'S IMPLEMENT STORE ALLIS CHALMERS DEALERS Lake Mills, Iowa