Minburn High School - Voyager Yearbook (Minburn, IA)

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aaa ,- Y f' HPlane for Chicago Indianapolis Miami, loading I glanced at my watch, the time---ll:gO. We gathered and we climbed through the air latch. The stewardess list and led us to our seat. As we chatted about the I was very suprised to find that the charming steward at Ramp 6.H up our bags checked her flying weather ess was none other than the president of the Senior Class of N50-Sln, Nancy Belden. She explained to us how she recieved a job with T.W.A. and has been flying for three years. The pilot's head emerged from the forward cabin. To our astonishment we found the skipper of our airliner to be Gary Boyer. Gary said Ufasten your saftey belts everybody for the from the tower stated that this tripwfould be rather it was, but our expert pilot guided us to saftey. La reports rough.H S0 ter we found out from Gar that that trip was the roughest he had ever flown. we grabbed a light snack and taxied to the fashi Heed1eburg,H one of Chicago's famous Day Clubs. walk onatle H0ld ing through the door we were astonished to see Norma Smotherman's smiling face behind the hat check counter. We handed her out hats and coats and inquired how she recieved her Job. She explained that she applied there for a job a year ago and has beenwaorking there since A waiter escorted us to our tables and we settled down to watch the performance. The curtains parted and a bla walked onto the floor followed by a brunette in a gor The man walked to the center and he began playing the ck faces man geous go . organ. wwe were entertained by the mellow bass voice of a fellow we later found out to be Roy Hurd. The girl was his wife, Car discussed old times and left. ol Jean. We We had heard about a new University that had been constructed in Chicago. We decidedto visit the University. Walk ing through the massive doors we were greeted by Professor Shirley. Marilyn said she had two other surprises for us. After climb flight of stairs we found the name M. Hawbaker Prof good long chat. We asked Hwell there is always one out of every eight,H she sa decided to be that one.n we left her room and was met by a broom. On the ing the next r that had ther for a ourselves in front of a doo . of Chemistry. We got toge her how she ever became Prof. of Chemistry? id, Hand I other end of the handle the figure of Bob Mishler protruded. Bob said that he was in a hurry for he had to finish sweeping the b was nearing the take off time of our plane. Our tri- to Indianapolis was much smoother than While on the plane we met an old friend form Minburn, Ronnie told us that he was Playing professional baske flying to Miami to play an all star game. we landed in Indianapolis and hired a guide to s the city. we found out that the famous Indianapolis uilding. It the previous. Ronnie Hicks. tball and was how us about Labor Day Race was going to be held in two weeks. Our guide taxied us to the track where we met the famous driver, Jerry Smith. Jerry took us to his home where we were served a very delic ious dinner

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by his wife, Betty Jo. We later went to his garage where we saw a sleek 'reen racer number 77 under construction. We saw a pair of feet nrotruding from beneath the speedometer. The mechanic rolled out from beneath the car and we were met by the greasy face of Carl Gottschalk, Jerry's mechanic. we told Jerry we had better leave for the airport for we were going to Miami. We had a few minutes to spare so we decided to get our lunch before we boarded the plane. We were waited on by Marv Ellen who was one of the waitresses in the cafe. After finish- ing our lunch we boarded the plane and left for Miami. When arriving in Miami we took a walk down to the docks where all the pleasure boats were moved. On display on a derric was a six foot sword fish which had been caught by the internationally famous woman fisher woman, Carmen Thompson. Wanting to find out more about Florida's countryiide we rented a car and started driving. We forgot to fill the car with gas. It began sputtering and we coasted into a drive way. A farmer and his wife met us. It was Betty and her husband a former Washington Township boy. They had moved to Florida in 1965 and began fruit farming. They were so successful that now they owned the largest fruit farm in the area. We found out that the only plane leaving Florida was bound for St. Louis. It also was chartered by a movie comnany. We finally secured permission to tag along. The comnany was back to Hollywood they had just finished making a movie starring Loretta Wellington whom we found out was really Loretta Welch of Minburn. After we arrived in ing and decided to go to we discovered the pastor Newland. St. Louis we rented a car on Sunday morn- church. When we arrived at the church to be Dale Faber whose wife was Frances Accomnnaying the congregation on the organ was Beverly Reed, wife of' Orville, her old flame. Through the procedure of the i b tif l l b th li t f Mi b Sgngacigtihgggq Wigle gisigiggwaitiuggr gld friend? wg d1s2o3Z?6d that Vonda, Frances, and neighborhood where their We checked our list Somebody made the remark living on the home lace Beverly all lived in this small country husbands were all farmers. and discovered we had missed Lois Scott. that Lois and her husband Don, were still of her folks tending the farm. we enjoyed our trips but even more we enjoyed the Seniors of H5ln. It was also,very interesting to notice how the Seniors had entered into the many occupations and the narts of the country. 7