Mead Public School - Raider Yearbook (Mead, NE)

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(E fasr° 3Cis It was the first Monday in September in 1936 that our rocket took off under the com- mand of Miss Edna Jeposon with 14 airborne children aboard. They were Stanley Almen, Oayle Behrens, Genevieve Berg, Tommy Cajka, Peg y Lou Dolesal, Mary Dolesal, Lois Puscher Jimmy Hartmeister, Wayne Johnson, Lauren Kuhr, Magdalene Mathes, Donna Peters, and Grace Rand, In the 2nd semester, Donna Plymate Joined our crew. On our next trip there were only 10 members. Peggy Mathes, Donna Peters and Jimmy Hartmeister transferred to a different rocket and Mary Dolezal also left us. We were still under the command of Miss Jeppson. Our next Journey was under a new coomander. Miss Ruth Nygren took over the controls. We added one new crew member, Darlene Pisher. We also landed to take part in the operetta Station Cloudville. The fourth trip brought us a new commander again. It was Miss Bernice Crinklaw. We had 10 crew members this year. Stanley Almen, Grace Rand and Peggy Doleral left us and Robert Berggren and Betty Jo Hicks Joined our crew. We landed this year too to take part in the operetta, Palace of Carelessness. Our fifth trip was under the command of Miss Ida Sward. Our crew remained the same until Tommy Cajka left us and fins Priestley Joined us. The sixth trip was still under our faithful commander Miss Ida Sward. The crew numbered 10 with Darlene Pisher rejoining us and Donald Jansa also Joining our ranks. By the end of the year we added 3 new members, Maxine Pointer, Claude Kler ndJim Peterson . Donald Jansa left us during Christmas vacation. Our seventh Journey was under the command of Miss Viva ftigel. Our crew enlarged to 21 with Margaret ftnry, Violet Petters, Helen Ann Johnson, Marvin Johnson, Teddy Marsh, Howard Matlock, Patricia Mulcahy, Darrell Smith, Bonnie Weddle and Virginia Tockey Joining us. Before the end of the flight Margaret ftnry, Lois Puscher, Violet Petters, Betty Hicks, Marvin Johnson, Teddy Marsh, Jim Peterson, Maxine Pointer and Bonnie Weddle left us. On our next flight our crew, under Miss Mabel Guile, numbered 18. Tommy Cajka re- joined us and Darlene Pocht, Marilyn Roberts, Sammy Buck, Burnell Ecklund, and Richard Warfork Joined us. Patricia Mulcahy, Richard Warfork and Howard Matlock left us early in the year. Towards the end of the flight Margaret fciry rejoined us also. On our ninth trio we were finally high school members. Vivian Adell was our com- mander. The crew numbered 19 with Alice Irish, Mayrene Skarda, Lynn Hageaan, Norma And- erson and Warren Whitney Joining us. The tenth flight was under the guidance of Miss Lorretta Owens with 16 crew members. Lynn Hage-nan, Alice Irish, and Helen Johnson were not there for the flight and during the year Warren Whitney, Donna Plymate, Norma Anderson, Marilyn Roberts, and Mayrene Skarda left us. This year our boys took the intramural basketball tournament. The eleventh flight and Juniors at last. Mr. Bodtek took over the controls and had but eleven members for a crev. Darlene Pocht didn't renort, but Elinor Blankenship Joined us. Hi .lites of the year were the Junior ulay, Abigail Goes Haywire , and the Junior- Senior Picnic. Our boys took the intramural basketball tournament. lone Nelsen Joined us in the last of the year. At last we left on our twelfth and final flight, with Mr. Bodtek still at the con- trols. Our crew numbered 13 with Don Gollehon, a new member. After 12 long flights only five of the original crew remain: Genevieve Berg, the only girl and Gayle Behrens, Wayne Johnson, Tommy Cajka, and Lauren Kuhr, the boys. In the second semester Ernie Taylor and Charlie Angell Joined our crew. Highlites of the year were the Sneak Day, Junior-Senior Picnic, and the play, Pool's Luck . The Seniors also took the Intramural basketball tournament for the third consecutive year. On May 19 there were 16 Seniors left to re- ceive the diplomas: Oayle Behrens, Genevieve Berg, Robert Berggren, Tommy Cajka, Burneil Ecklund, Margaret Dory, Elinor Blankenship, Darlene Pisher, Don Gollehon, Wayne Johnson, Lauren Kuhr, lone Nelsen, Darrell Sksith, Charles Angell, and Irmie Taylor. On May 21 we came back for our final meeting and then we were off on our own Individual flights.

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Again tha graat ahip comes In for a landing. Crossing over an opan stretch of heach tha aachina rolls to a stop, in front of the life guard's stand. The Ufa guard coaas forward and Joins tha craw of tha rockst. As tha othar craw neabers velcoae Darlene Pi sher, tha rocket is prepared for tha next lag of tha Journey. Tha Class of 48 is now heading west over Texas. Tha aachina coaas in for a land- ing at Del Bio. Tha crew alight and head for the local broadcasting station. Upon en- tering tha station they hear tha local Texas Mary singing. Upon further investigation they discorer that tha singer la Genevieve Barg. After loading their new craw member, tha craw of tha rocket coae aboard for their flight to California. Tha great ship soars into sky and is soon passing over tha Bocky Mountains. Tha machine settles in a valley. Tha whole area seams to be closed in by high fences, but finally Captain Bodsek la able to find enough opan space for a landing. Tha plana has hardly rolled to a stop whan a bearded scientist and his laboratory technician rush forward and demand that they laare immediately. Be explains that this is government property and they are carrying on secret experiments. Tha craw are almost ready to leave when they suddenly realise that it is Tom Cajka and lone Velsen who have been talking to them. The two new crew members coae aboard and as the guards wave for them to get moving the Class of 48 moves off and up into the blue. The roar of the motors becomes a steady drone as the machine crosses the tip of Southern California and heads out to sea. The rocket is now over the vast Pacific Ocean, heading southwest towards the tiny island of Taongi. The minute speck on the distant horlson, begins to enlarge and soon they can make out a stretch of sand-covered beach, large enough for a runway. The rocket glides in for a landing. An instant after the machine has stopped rolling many curious natives coae out of the underbrush. They seem a friendly lot and one of them comes forward and says, The great white Doctor will coae to see them soon. He has no sooner spoken, when a tall man comes forward and is instantly recognized by the crew as Efcrrell Smith. The plane again rises and this time heads back from where it came-America. The ship is again over California and is soon crossing Yevada and Utah. It begins to slacken its pace over Colorado, and comes in for a landing on a wheat field. The ship bumps to a stop over the rough ground and the crew alights to stretch their legs after the flight. They have barely time to alight before the owner of the wheat farm comes up to them. And again the crew are able to welcome aboard a new member, Burnell Bcklund. The roeket rises into the sky, but this time the flight is very short. Over tyoalng the plane lands on a big cattle ranch. The big ship rolls to a stop and the hatch is opened. Across the plain the crew see a horseman galloping towards them and Vayne Johnson is welcomed aboard. Mr. Bodsek calls the roll and finds that all of the Class of 48 are present. The great ship roars into the sky and heads for its old home port, Mead High School.