Miles High School - Milestone Yearbook (Miles, IA)

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'Cheaper By The Dozen . Harry Morrls was biology teacher, Bob Schaeffer was rnuslc, Bill Olrnstead and De Wayne Erickson were our teachers in typing and shorthand. We worked on the junior-senior banquet under the direction of Ann Bartlett and after many disappointments and troubles had a very successful banquet at the Hotel Lafayette ln Clinton. At moving time, we lost Madonna Hughes, Reynold Miller and Allan Schultz but Darleen Meggers joined our ranks We really hated to see the seniors leave us but were very anxious to take over their place ln the high school spotlight. Oh, Yes, we mu.st'nt forget the new name, 'The Iokers', acquired during a day of isolation. Mrs. Bartlett was our sponsor and it was really swell the way she helped us with the banquet. Well, finally, we are seniors and are -getting close to our freshman goal of being the class of '52. Eldon Struve failed to join us for our last year and thus dropped our class to 34. Elton Copley took the superlntendent's job and also the task of pushing us through that last hard year. Harry Morris returned as home room teacher and also chemistry instructor. Ioan Valentine taught us typing and bookkeeping and Evelyn Burt listened to us in speech class. Blll Price was our coach and also taught government and modern problems. Shlrlle Cooper was home economics instructor for some of the girls and a few boys. Peder Buck was shop teacher and Shirley Koethe was music lnstructor. We finally got our class rlngs, had our pictures taken and went after annual advertisements, feeling very much like senlors. Our class play and junior- senlor banquet cllmaxed by baccalaureate and commencement completed our senior year. I don'r think we can ever thank the teachers enough for pushing as through these last four years. It's been a hard job, we know, ------------ but thanks anyway. 16

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Joker's Class History It all started one day ln August in 1948, when 40 Freshmen entered Miles High School with hopes of becomlng the class of '52. There were twenty boys and twenty girls in the first three rows of the assembly, but about a week after classes had started, Francis Culier, who almost completely lost his sight, and was forced to leave school. lt was a noisy day in September when the Freshmen came to school dressed up for Initiation Day. The senior class that year dldn't leave out a single detail for us to wear or bring. Our superintendent was Conrad Recktenwald and his wife, Helen Recktenwald, who taught the girls cooking in flrst year home economics. Nora Wagener was our English instructor and W. D. Standley was coach, shop and general science teacher. Barbara Jones, now Mrs. Carroll Hamilton, taught us general business and we had some wonderful class parties. We even were invited to go to Dubuque on a fleld trlp with the tenth grade. Our sophomore year started out very well because we were finally an accepted class of high school. O. C. Sutherland came as superintendent that year and also was the algebra teacher. Ann Bartlett took over home economics and Nora Wagener was back for English. Coach Standley, now better known as Stan , was our instructor ln agriculture and shop. Louise Molin was music ln- structor. Dwane Kyarsgaard left in March bringing our class down to 28 but Allen Schultz came and brought the enrollment back up again. We took quite a few fleld trips for agriculture to various farms. Stan was our class sponsor and onae again we had some fun at class parties. I don't think any of us will ever forget ice skating on the Misslsslppl. The 1950 school year started with us as full fledged juniors and ready for one of the biggest years of our school career. Marilyn King, now Mrs. Kenneth Row dldn't return that year and Juanita Mangler, now Mrs. Arthur Johnson, quit at the end of the first semester. 0. C. Sutherland was our superintendent again Coach Standley was back and had first-class teams in both girls and boys bukerbgll, Nora Wagener was our English teacher and directed our class play, 15

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Class Prophecy ln the year 1962, we took off for our new found planet, XZY, in our sen sational new creation the X143UCY rocket. Arrivlng we tuned in our super, dooper, looper sonic atomic radar screen turning to channel 0000, double 0, zero nothing. Getting good old Miles ln focus. We see a huge house and for curiosity's sake we look closer and see that lt ls an orphanage. Looklng inslde we come to the superintendents door and whose name do you think is lngraved on this door? None other than Joann Muhl. Joann has quite a time between this and taking care of her own three glrls. As we pass the streets of Miles we see a bright blue uniform standing on the corner of North and Main Street. Don't get us wrong, the suit wasn't so dlrty that lt could stand up by itself, no it was Carol Nielsen. She has qulte a time directing traffic now that Miles has the new school efdltlon. Next we see two big factories. Gerald Smithson has worked up quite a business making cat-tle bunks. He has his o-wn factory down on Main Street ln Miles. He has 150 club calves as a past time. Besides Gerald's factory there is another one turning out 2,000 Smith Shops a day. That's one machine that has 85 different machines in one. We went to the presldent's office to see if we could go through the factory. Who do you suppose the president was? None other than Lester Moeller him- s elf. Yep, he's making over S100,000 a year now. While gazing at the names of the stores we see one that sounds quite interesting. It was called the 'RUSS SODA SHOP . ln looking in the window we saw a small figure moving about behind the counter. Being curious we moved up a little closer. lt was the former Jean McVey. Who would ever have thought she would own and help run a soda shop. As we turned to the airport, a plane has just landed and to our surprise we see a charming young miss jumping our, laughing. It couldn't be but lt ls Ienean Ronnfeldt. She is dressed in a suit of blue and was ' none other than an air stewardess. Down by the railroad we see Shirley Yates. Shirley never quite forgot the song I've Been Workln' On The Railroad' for she ls now head waitress on the Milwaukee Passenger Train and Wayne Daniels ls the cook. Then we see the new Miles Hospital. As the supersonic lens peered through the reception room of the new Miles ,Hospital we see the nurses' names. On the very top of the list, we noticed the familiar name of Myrna Wllke. After ten years ln the nursing profession, Myrna had advanced to the position of head nurse. We're sure Myrna gained this skill through the biology and chemistry classes back in high school. As we leave the hospital, our lens focus on a familiar face. Sure enough it ls Phyllis Mangler and tagglng along behind are six charming little girls, exact images of their mother. By listening to their conversation, we learned that Phyllis had married one of her classmates and was not spending most of her time teach- ing the llttle ones the correct way to handle a basketball. 17