Meadow Grove High School - Trojan Yearbook (Meadow Grove, NE)

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V In the fall of 1934. nineteen freshmen awkwardly shuffled to their designated section in the assembly room. When the writer used the term (awkwardly) he was merely in a reminiscent mood and recalled the boy in the front seat. He believes they called him “Gordie.” Mr. Taylor, who was also a freshman to the faculty that year, sponsored the class through that period of adjustment and re-adjustment. The freshmen had their allotted two parties during the year and the only casualty occurring during the first year was the loss of Edith Johnson and Jack Nelson from the ranks. On the return to school in the fall of 1935. the class was disappointed to find that Darlene Anderson, Wayne Halsey and Frances Spar had deserted the brilliant class. During the Sophomore year the class enjoyed the sponsorship of jSup. erintendent Andrews, who supervised their ‘‘hare and hound hunts and roller-skating parties. As Juniors. Mount Hope showered the class with five noble desciples of learning, namely Sara Black, Anna Marie Donlavy, Velesta Kunz, Bern-lece Hana, and that “son of the soil,” Glenn Jenkins. Battle Creek gave to Meadow Grove High School a very able student in the personage of Dar-denella Sesler. The activities of the class for the year centered most strenuously a-round a colonial banquet for the honorable tSeniors of that year and the play, “Girl Shy,” which was most ably directed by Miss West, the class sponsor. The Senior class of 1937, under the sponsorship of Mr. Taylor, completed a very successful year marred only by the abdication of Vernon Dear-min. The class sponsored the production of a high school annual, which will always be a monument to their memory. They also gave that gruesome mystery play, “Drums of Death,” which proved to be an outstanding success. At the roll call on graduation day. the seniors of 1937 numbered twenty-one members. Three of the original class had been snared by the field of matrimony with a life time’s position, that of making a home. Thus ends the class history of the class of thirty-seven until they e-merge to the surface of that larger sea of life. XT

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CLASS PROPHECY May 14, 1947 Dear Everett: Having heard that you are now superintending the new D-4 liner, I am going to give you the low-down on some of the rest of those who gave up the torch of learning in ’37. The doughty G. Jenkins, our class philosopher and songster, has at last lent his golden bass to the air waves. And by the way. his accompanist is no less than that piano mistress. Miss June Lewis. Another of our worthy member, Miss Margaret Kaufman. is profiting by her warbling. Only it’s not Miss any more, or so I have heard. It is impossible when mentioning the success of any of us not to remark upon the heights of fame reached by A. M. Donlavy. LLD. Just now I hear she is straightening out the books of the U. S. Govern-and well on the way to become head bookkeeper of that same institution. She also has for her private secretaries (she needs three of course) those remarkable typists and intui-tionists, Eva Hansen, Dardanella Sealer and Leona Dittrich. The feet of the dancing team. Vel-esta Kunz and La Gene Davison, have led these two marathon tappers to fame and fortune. And, although it is sad to say, many good men to a fate worse than death. Drumming for your business, I very heartily advise your company to secure Miss Leone Terry as hostess unless, of course, she has picked a pilot of her own—it is very possible that she has done just that. Sincerely, E. Boe. « Supt. of Schools, Norfolk, Nebr. May 14. 1947 Librarian, Meadow Grove Schools. Dear Mary: Because of the fun we had in ’33-’37, I want to write to tell you the heights achieved by some others of our most learned group. Of all these the only one who has departed for better things is poor Gordon. He got fed into a press instead of a roll of paper and came out an advertisement for P and G soap and washes clothes. Sara Black is fast becoming one of those long beak-nosed personages whom we knew in our younger days as something worse, but we now call them teachers. Berenice Kunz is now living in New York, instructing little children in the manly art of ball room dancing. Mardale Anderson, that Latin student extraordinary, is now an accomplished linguist and is now in Paris explaining to curious “home-folks” why they don’t have ten cent stores in “Paree. And by the way, across the street from my office. I see a huge electric bill-board advertising the “only redheaded twins in the world to live to the ripe old age of twenty-seven.” Yes, I imagine you have guessed it. it's Bob and Nadine Catron. And over iny radio I hear the nasal voice of the announcer telling us that, “this program is coming to you thru the courtesy of ‘heart-ease.’ the painless heart-balm. We are now presenting you Miss Ann Hamley and her troupe of radio maestros and hill-billys” Yours truly. Mildred Fowlkes, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.