Lakota High School - Days Gone By Yearbook (Lakota, IA)

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0 SENIOR CLASS PROP!-IE CY The Junior Class, upon winning the Super Soapy Sudsy Dudsy Contest sponsored by The Duz Duz Nothing Company, won a trip around the world. Getting on the Greyhound bus Rover, we journeyed westward. Barely getting started, who should we meet but Henry Hippen. He told us that he had moved out West near the Fred Christ farm. Continuing on our journey we happened to glance out of the window as we stopped for the Railroad Crossing at Gerled, where we saw Dick's Korn Krib. A huge sign above read, We sell Ravn's Raving Good Gurndrops and Popcorn. While stopping for a short visit with Dick, he treated us to some of his popcorn, which one of the girls found very filling and broke one of her girdle strings, so we had to go to Burt. Why Burt? Well, naturally we had to get one of the famous brands of girdles. We stopped out front of a swanky store above which a sign read, Gerty Garmons Good Girdles and Garters. Frances and Lefty said they had a very snappy business. We discovered while visiting with the Garmons that the Governor of Iowa, Dennis Wirtjes, was ill or at least something was the Mather with him. Who wouldn't be with two Dorothy's waiting at two different altars to lead him to rnatrimony after his recovery. Next stop was St. Louis and while waiting for the baseball game to start we visitied radio station U-C-A-N-'-T-C-H-I-M where Bob Spear was on tele- vision as the fat man. Then back to the ball game, ah yes, there's our famous local baseball player, who now is playing ball with the St. Louis Cardinals and Shirley A. The ball player none other than Merwin Farrow. Texas was our next stop and on to a dude ranch. As we approached the cattle were stampeding and Morris and Donna Ites were riding neck and neck to head off the herd. Charlene Man-Hater-Schroeder was having a good time with her fifth husband and ten children. In her spare time she was doing sketches of her family in sand dunes. After having a refreshing glass of cactus juice we headed on to San Diego, where Mrs. Harold Frerichs was stationed. She is none other than Pauline Miller. On to San Francisco, whiel there we went to a news- stand and bought a prison paper. Very interesting, Waldo Miller was staying in a lower ten at Alcatraz carrying on a hobby of writing love letters to Pearl F. We caught the Slow Boat to China, but were blown off our course and landed in Australia. Here we found Max Bierstedt in business for himself Qrunning a greenhouse and specializing in Four Roses and Fernsl. Again we set out and this time for China where we found that Eldon Goeke and read a love poem to Pat Murray and stumbled over a book of Confuscius sayings and broke his heart in four places fcompound fracture, and now she is nursing him back to the altar, where she was intending on leading him anyhow. After wishing him good luck fha-hal we went to England. We decided a good place to visit would be the Palace of Bonney Charlie. When we reached the palace we found Duane Christ busy teaching Enstein's theory to Princess Elizabeth's babv. For a pastime he is manufacturing string for Yo-Yo's. Duane told us that Eugene Christ was in the Sahara Desert. Upon reaching the desert we saw that he had a very Buzz.ing business of raising bees. We read in a paper that Ruth Thompson was defending her wrestling title against Tired Tillie, so we thought we had better get back to New York and see our old school- mate win. fShe did by pinning Tillie in three minutesl. When the match was over we went to the Metropolian Opera where Marilyn was singing and Kenny Mulligan was sel- ling overripe fruit to satisfy the customers who had gotten rouped into buying the tickets. We again boarded Rover and started back to good old Lakota and our happy homes again, although it will be hard to adapt ourselves to staying in and around one town. 46

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AB SENTEES FIRST ROW: Verna Wlrtjes, Lloyd Wlrtjes, Lowell Wlrtjes, Leon Wlttjes. SECOND ROW: Larry Wlrtjes. Cecll Meyer, Lois Bruer, Morris Blume, Phlllp Schroeder THIRD ROW: Sharon Dundas, Iona Sachs. Elton I-lead. FOURTH ROW: Jacqueline Gerdes, Eldon Haas Kleitj, Sandra Gerdes. 45

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JUST DUCKY Cast of Characters Mr, Maxwell, thinks he is head of house ---------- - - - Paul Darnauer Mrs. Maxwell, head of the house ------ - - Delores Kiellifz Betty Lou, the young daughter ------- L vis Leslie Bernadine, Betty's best friend ---- - - Helen Sfenlel Wilbur, atom bomb ------------ ' ' Richard P1'iCe Hercules, Wilbui-'s talkative friend - - - --------- - - - - - Jenifer Bosma Connie, the older daughter ------------- '-'--' ' B 6 rneice Weffjes Craig, Connie's boy friend --------- --'- R OSC? Meyer Mr. Moore, Craig's distinguished father - - - Ronald Meyer Miss Blayne, lovelorn columnist ----- - - Jennie Swalve Aunt Many, energetic lady ------ ---- G ildd M012 Del Marshall, newspaper reporter - - - - - Walter Eichenberger THE STORY OF THE PLAY What makes teen-age girls do the things that they do? That is a question. What should be done about them? That is a problem. Betty Lou Maxwell and Bernadine Smith are a couple of questions and problems rolled into two. It seems that they're always up to something, and, gee whiz, there's just no stopping them. But after all, girls will be girls. This day started off peacefully enough at the Maxwell house, in fact, it was a whale of a day. Papa Maxwell had just been chosen as the new head of the citizen's committee. Why? Because he had one of the finest and most upstanding families in the entire community. But it seems that Betty Lou and Bernadine had been wanting to write to Vester Blayne--who edits the lovelorn colurnn in the local papers-- and they chose this day. Of course, they had no problem. Heavens no! But doesn't every girl have the desire to send in a letter anyway? So they proceeded to make one up, filled with pathos and deep heart throbs. It was really a. sender. Since they wanted to make it sound as desperate as possible, they said that the writer was in love with a man forty-four years of age, who had children fourteen, fifteen, and nineteen--and that she was frantic and knew where she could get hold of a shotgun. So they mailed their masterpiece, and waited in anticipation for the evening paper. But was their letter pub- lished? No! lnstead, Miss Blayne called on Mama Maxwell and unfolded to her the complete story of Betty Lou's sad plight. From there things reach one of the most feverish fever pitches ever crowded into one play. When Mr. Morre--the chairman of the citizen's committee--and Del Marshall, a newspaper reporter, drop in for an inter- view with Papa Maxwell, the girls mistake Marshall for the county marshall, the state marshall, or at least some kind of marshall, so they once again go into a huddle. They just know that he's there to arrest Betty Lou. So what do they decide ? Insanity. Betty Lou will plead insanity: little brother Wilbur also is coaxed into acting balmy, and they even go so far as to prove that the entire family is nuts--and that includes papa himself. 47