Mondamin High School - Golden Embers Yearbook (Mondamin, IA)

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Shirley Kelly was studying engineering at Honda min University so she could get a Job working with Everett She still talks about when he went to Pie gah and still insists that she doesn't care for him A helicopter went by outside the window and who should be flying it but Rosina Knadle Johnson said she was commuting between Chuck's farm and Rochesten Minn where she was surgeon in the Mayo Clinic in charge of extracting toneils and appendix It must be the thought of Chuck's pretty blue eyes that brings her home every night Some patients came in so I left Johnson's office and walked down the hall As I turned the corner I saw a sign advertising 'Breyfogle's Slick and Chick Beauty Salon' I went inside and saw Don giving Betty Crowder a manicure and a pedicu e Betty was in the uniform of the IAC It seems she got in during the war and was too bashful to ask how to get out Shirley Price was over in a corner giving Harold Cooper a mud pack Willie was trying to improve his complexion It was the work he was doing that did it His Job was working in the well known Mcndamin Packing House in charge of diseoting animals Shir ley said the only reason she was working for her husband Don, was because too many women came down from Pisgah to become beautiful I then left the building and started across the street A truck went by and nearly missed taking one of my legs with it As I sat there in the dust gazing after it, I distinguished the name Horro 's Dairy painted in big white letters on the side The truck came back and Jim Morrow stepped out I asked him how everyone was and he began telling me of the rest of my class mates, that Johnson had missed Gllie May Neil was teacher of mathematics and science at M H S She was still living withal!!! maids Arlein Bock was married to the boy who was always busy taking her to basket ball games They were making their home in the neighboring City of Little Sioux They also have one son, Harold Jr Julia Birdsall was an Army nurse still keeping up the soldiers morale They say she's very good at that but she should be There never was a lonesome soldier if Julia knew him Dolores Hoes was working at Blair in the ships yards as a lady welder She was married and had three children Her husband was an o hestra loader known all over the nation Her oldest child, a boy, was showing signs of crooning ability Dclore haf quite a few volumns of Frank Sinatra r rds and her Probestein. 0 Ihey get along very well for two old

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Moorhead Je have added recollections of the note Rosina and shirley had written calling our teacher, Hr Fowler, Wwindy As in other years we this year welcomed a new member Iaxine Guttau La t but not least, we graduated from 8th grade t become green 'Freshies You couldn't exactly call us 27 members of the Freshmen class Ngreen , Just odd Many of us were frightened, e pecially Ella Mae, a new country mem ber, by the thought of Freshmen inltlation, but as turned out we found paradlng up main treat in strange costume and wearing it all day wa n't bad all but really fun That evening we gave our noble ers It was in this fatefull year that Arlein and hirley Prlce, more new members, were found weeping away Yes, nhlrley had dropped and dented the new Alto Horn In this year too, our girls and boys started to build for Mondamin's Activitles We found as all Sophmore do, its fun just being a Sophie Ne had by now started to show our talents, Shirley K and Duane C making flrst teams in basket ball, Ollie May making girls sextet Ve also had others whom we were equally proud of who made first twelve in basketball, and glee clubs, not only this but many of our boys proved to be excellent baseball players To add to the excitement we gained a new member, Dolores Hoss It was in this jolly year the part of the girls found advance sewing class to be more fun than practical Not until we were Juniors did we realize IB must fight for our right That reminds me, 'Girls you have a funny sensation facing school boards trying to regain basketball, don't you ? Our sensational J Play was 'Alibi Bill' Again we gained a new member, Everett Howard, who helped our band out by playing the bass horn Time rolled around for our J and Sr Banquet At this time we set a new custom of girls wearing formals We then proceed in stretching money for the best foods and beautiful decorations Our theme was a Star , and we all agree we were seeing stars after decorating the gym So here we are proud Srs with our dreams of in itiating the green Freshles over and we've welcomed two new members Julia and Claud We think we have done excellently for we have 5 girls and L boys playing on our basketball teams, many in chorus, glee clubs and band We look forward gladly to our Sr Play, 'Mary Made Some Marmalade', and to our Skip Day, which will be held in Sioux City. Last . H FY H V e e Y , V1 , S o I V1 . . H . , . f' S .- ' ' ' it ' s 4 a s at . Y Sr friends a watermelon feed hoping some day to be K' . - S ' X O . , . C O . . O 4 I g 4 . I O I II T. . O I'. . . . V1 ll O , I , - l I . I