Merna High School - Coyote Yearbook (Merna, NE)

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PATRICIA MCCARTY On August 18, 1934 a little bundle of joy was delivered to the Frank McCarty home near Merna, Nebraska, She had black hair and green eyes and her favorite uncle named her Patricia, She spent her first eight years of school in various country schools, but has spent her last four years at Merna High, Her most interesting childhood experience was getting a bicycle, She said her most embarrassing moment was when she got caught smoking behind the chicken house, Her favorite subjects are typing and journalism, and she also likes basketball and apple pie, Her happiest memory while in high school was playing hookey, Her favorite song is Thinking of You , and her hobby is collecting magazines, She spends most of her lesiure time listening to the radio and her pet peeve is puppy love affairs, Her ambition is to travel and her favorite movie star is Tyrone Power, She likes to say Real1yf and her favorite color is blue, She has carried the bass drum around Merna for the four years of her high school career, but she still thinks music is her favorite extra curricular activity, When the interviewer asked her how she felt about graduating she said, lt can't come too soon, GLEE HARROLD Leona Glee Harrold made her first appearance in a little farm house near Merna on May 20, 1935, She attended Wayside, Ortello, and the Merna schools as did most of her six sisters, She had decided that her favorite subjects are algebra and general math, Her most embarrassing moment happened during her Sophomore Year, While the teacher was taking roll call at school, a large sack of candy fell out of Glee's desk and scattered all over the floor, Was her face red: The sports she likes best are playing volleyball and watching basketball games, Glee feels she has little leisure time, but what time she has is spent reading books and eating popcorn, When she doesn't have popcorn to eat, she says her favorite foods are fried chicken and cherry pie, Glee said 'she earned her first dollar killing sparrows in the barn for her dad, Other child- hood experiences included the time her sister told her she could eat another peach and her mother had said she could not, Glee ate one and received a spanking, Her favorite song is Mr, and Mississippi and she said she could not give a favorite expression because they were too numerous to name, She seems to prefer green to any other color and her ambition is to go on to school after she graduates, Although Glee plans to eventually teach she admits she hates to graduate and leave Merna for good, She says her favorite holiday is Christmas which can be detected by her excitement when this season draws near,

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MAR ION OLS ON This mischievous, happy-go-lucky fellow stands at five feet, eleven inches and tops the scales at one hundred, eighty pounds, He was born August 24, 1935 at Merna, Nebraska, He must be a good student because he said he liked mathematics and geo- graphy, He likes two of America's favorite sports, football and baseball, in which he has taken part for a number of years, When asked what was the happiest memory of his school years he remarked, The last day' of school every year, This surely wasn't because he didn't like school, probably it was because he liked picnics so well, It seems like this guy had just one embarrassing moment in his life and that was Freshman initiation, I wonder how that could have been embarrassing ? Did I say he liked school? That must have been an error because he said his pet peeve was teachers: When asked what he did in his leisure time, he said huh, that being his favorite expression, and then added that he liked to sleep when he had any leisure time, You're probably wondering how his short fellow got to weigh so much, but if you asked him what his favorite food was he would say fried chicken, Now do you wonder how he got to weigh one hundred, eighty pounds, For his extra curricular activities he likes singing and his favorite song is At The End of a Perfect Day , When asked how he felt about graduation, he stated that he was glad to see it come and his only ambition after he graduated was to be a success in life, Oh: I guess Ihave omitted one thing to make this little story complete and that was to tell you this fellow's name, Well, it's Marion Olson, a Senior at Merna High School, STANLEY YOUNG A sandy colored hair boy first opened his blue eyes in Oregon City, Oregon, on May ZZ, 1934, to see his parents Mr, and Mrs, Dale Young, The name Stanley Dale was given to him, He has never figured out where his parents got this name, Stanley said he had many childhood experiences which he wouldnever forget although he did not say what they were, This lad picked Marysville School in Portland, Oregon to begin his school days, He has attended Gates, Broken Bow, Curtiss QU, N, S, Aj, and last but not least to finish his high school days, Merna, All through these past twelve years he has found mathematics his favorite subject, while his ambition is to graduate, He likes to listen to the songs Baby It's Cold Outside and Meandering while eating his favorite dish, Chop Suey , He likes to go to Broken Bow to see a certain Senior during his leisure time, On his way to a baseball game, his special liked sport, one could probably hear him saying Hi Ya Toots . When he isn't at baseball games you can find him working at his hobby, leather tooling, He.said he really enjoys playing in the band, Stanley said he liked girls, especially one, although when asked his favorite movie star he replied, Gary Cooper, of course , Lavendar is the color that catches the eye of this tall Senior, High heels and slacksf he said sternly, when asked his pet peeve, When asked about graduating, he just frowned and scratched his head and replied, HI just don't feel too sure about it,

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WILLIAM H, WAGNER Willie Wagner began his life April ll, 1934, on a farm near Merna, Nebraska, His father and mother named him after his grandfather, Willie started to school at Merna and went there all eight years of grade school, He took the Freshman year at Merna and then moved to Broken Bow for the Sophomore and junior years, He finished the Senior year with his old classmates at Merna, His ambition he says, To be a millionaire, When Willie was asked what his favorite subject was, he said, I like journalism best, In his spare time he likes to loaf and collect coins, Willie's pet peeve is women drivers, He likes to eat fried rabbit and listen to his favorite song, Down Yonder , New Years is his favorite holiday and he didn't want to favor any teacher, The Wagner family consists of two girls and three boys, Willie has dark hair, skin, and big brown eyes, He appreciates basketball and football of all sports, Throughout his high school days he learned so many expressions it would be hard to choose one, The color he likes best is red and when he was asked how he felt about graduating he said, It is wonderful, MAR Y JAQUE BITNER On a hot August day in the city of Fullerton, Nebraska, a person by the name of Mary jaque Bitner was born, She was named both for her father and mother, When asked by the interviewer she said, you might include that my queer middle name is pro- nounced as though it was spelled jake, She attended grade school and two years of her high school in Fullerton, She moved to Columbus to finish her high school days, She attended Hastings College and the University of Nebraska, After graduating from college she taught school in Milford one year, She then journeyed to the great school of Merna where she has taught the past two years, She claims that general math has always been her most interesting subject, so it is no wonder that she would teach this subject, Her ambition is to be a good school teacher, and her happiest day is most any day, When asked her most embarrassing moment she said, Oh, the time I washed on Halloween, and my clothes were hung on a flag pole by someone, Qlncidently, her clothes all had her names on theml, The memories of her childhood was when her grandfather and she got lost in a dust storm, Her favorite food is just anything as long as it is food, For her sport she claims she likes to go swimming, while her favorite holiday is Christmas and New Years,