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

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Donna Nelson is teaching wrestling. She is demonstrating her new Vi Nelson. Sylvie Rezac is still in California frozen to Lockheed Airplane factory. Bob Stewart obtained the position of a burlap sarge. He is swapping out guns for the army. Patricia Werner is still in Meadow Grove. She is manager of the lingerie department in the other half of Yenter's store. Bob Lewis proclaims to be a second Atlas. He is selling his lessons a dime a dozen. Marilyn McMillan dwells in Africa and teaches the natives how to design clothing. What clothing? Rusty Phillips is still unmarried. He is judging a beauty contest waiting for a Betty Grable, Lana Turner, and Hedy Lamarr combined. Dolores Rudnick is still singing lullaby's, the name is To My Gene's. Helen Schutt has been teaching school the past ten years. She has advanced from Mt. Hope and is now teaching in Meadow Grove High. Evelyn Wilson is now a registered nurse. She took the First Aid course seven times. —Too bad. He was a window washer and he stepped back to admire his work. —Out of the millions of marriages all through the centuries, scientists have proved that fifty per cent of the couples were men.

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CWhat CWill the tyea'is B ing? The time is 1953, ten years after the graduation of our esteemed Senior class. Let us look into the lives of our old classmates and find out just what they are doing at this time. Virginia Apfel resides in New York. She is a ballet dancer and is tiptoeing on the stage every evening. Eunice Dahl's romance blossomed into maturity. As a result, Arlie, Artie, Arkie. Bethene Collins is still in the old Maids Home. She is waiting for Sadie Hawkin's day. She missed it last time, had the mumps. Dorothy Ferry enticed a multi-millionaire, age 79. He has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. Kenneth Galyen is now the proud possessor of the Meadow Grove Marble Hall. Business isn't very rushing. His pals are in the army. Norman Hicks has now taken over Elmer Werner's undertaking parlor. Eileen Werner has taken over Hicks. Flora Mae Kerstine is successor to Albert Tangora (world typist champion). She netted the score of 150 words per minute in a fifteen minute test. Jeanette Kinne achieved the status of author. She is writing volumes on How to Reduce. Betty Hayes is married to the lad in the army. Now she is taking care of all those little commandos. Dale Inness has been at Wayne State for ten years trying to get his Bachelor of Arts degree. No doubt he will continue to be a bachelor and show the girls his arts. Vera Lenz is now co-starring with Gargantua in Ringling Brothers Circus. Jeanne Lewis is married to Buzz and raising chickens; she gets $1.50 a week for eggs. -11-

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BACK ROW: Gertrude Pfisterer, Vance Dunivan, Bernard Osborn, Bill Sessler, Donald Warnke, Arlie Novotny. Mrs. Gaskill. CENTER ROW: Dorothy Jeanne Ballard, Donna Mann, La Donna Wieting, La Von Niles, Una Lee Wright, Barbara Stolle, Martha Lulow. FRONT ROW: Larraine Pratt, Imogene Stewart- Joyce Schulze, Eileen Werner, Ava Nell Fowlkes, Betty Louise Wiese, Shirley Ann Williams. On August 31, 1942, 29 Juniors entered Meadow Grove High School. Upper classmen at last! We selected as our sponsor Mrs. Gaskill and the following officers were chosen: Una Lee Wright President Ava Nell Fowlkes Vice President Gertrude Pfisterer Secretary-Treasurer Three new pupils joined us. These were: Martha Lulow and Joyce Schulz from Mount Hope and La Donna Wieting from Sunny view. Later on we lost Betty Lou Wiese, Barbara Stolle, Donna Mann and La Von Niles from our ranks. Ready-Made Family a farce comedy was presented. The cast included, Bernard Osborn, Una Lee Wright, Dorothy Ballard, Imogene Stewart, Shirley Ann Williams, Bill Sessler, Arlie Novotny, Donald Warnke, Gertrude Pfisterer, and Ava Nell Fowlkes. Other activities which were sponsored by the class were our farewell parties for Miss Bastian and Mr. Tyler. -13-