Newburg High School - Yearbook (Newburg, IA)

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CLASS PROPHECY BEING A TRAVELING SALESMAN, IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT MY WORK SHDULD ULTIMATELY BRING ME BACK T0 DEAR OLD NEWBURG. IT wAS IN THE YEAR 1959, WHEN I RETURNED, SUT I DID NDT FIND THE NEWBURG OF MY HIGH SCHOOL DAYS. IN PLACE OF THE QUAINT LITTLE VILLAGE I HAD ONCE KNOWN, THERE wAS NOW A TEEMING HAVING SOME TIME ON MY OLD ULASSMATES. THE LAWRENCE SUTTENU BEING METROPDLIS. MY HANDS I DECIDED T0 Loon UP FIRST To COME INTO MY MIND wAS Low ON GAS I PULLED INTO A LARGE AND IMPRESSIVE LOOKING SERVICE STATION. IT SPREAD DUT OVER AN ENTIRE CITY BLOCK, AND IN THE CENTER OF THIS MAMUOTH ESTABLISHMENT, THERE wAS A LARGE DIRGULAR SIGN, GAYLY LIGHTED, wHIoH READ NLAWRENCE SUTTENRS SER- VICE STATION., I HAD NEVER EXPECTED LAWRENCE A BUSINESS TYCOONS LAWRENCE INFORMED ME THAT OF MY CLASSMATES EXCEPT DF NEWSURD. VERNA, IT SEEMS HAD A HALF MILE SGUTH AND A sREcIALIzING IN RAISING TO BECOME THE REST VERNA WERE LOCATED IN THE TCITY MARRIED PAUL CARNAHAN wHo LIVES MILE WEST GF NEWBURC. THEY ARE PURESRED ANGUS CATTLE. I DEGIDED To vISIT THEM THAT AFTERNOON. VERNA HAD- NUT CHANGED A SIT. WHILE I WAS THERE THEIR oLDEST DAUGHTER FELL OUT OF THE BARN AND HURT HER LEG. WE PUT HER IN MY CAR AND STARTED T0 THE DOCTOR. APPROACHING THE SUILDING TO WHICH VERNA HAD DIRECTED ME WHAT 9 SHOULU I SEE BUT THE NEON SIGN wHIcH READ, WDR. CHARLES E. NEWCOMER, 0.B.' DURING OUR CONVERSATION DICK wAS MENTIDNED. WHAT HAD BECOME OF DIGK? DICK OWNED A LARGE TROLLEY LINE EXTENDINO FRDM THE NORTH EDGE OF NEWSURG DowN T0 THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE SMALL CITY OF GRINNELL. I GUESS DICK GOT So USED T0 DRIVING DDwN TO GRINNELL TwIGE EACH DAY To SEE HIS GIRL THAT EE DUST COULDNUT STAY AWAY FRDM THERE AFTER HE MARRIED. I TOLD DICK THAT I HAD SEEN LAWRENCE, VERNA, AND CHUCK, BUT I HADNUT FOUND ED. So DICK AND I LOCATED HIM AS THE OWNER OF THE LARGEST GUN FACTORY IN IowA. HE wAs STILL PLANNING T0 MAKE IT LARGER. AS I LEFT THE BOOMING CITY DF NEwaURG I CONCLUDED THAT THE MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF '49 ARE STILL WAGINO A wAR OF GALLANT WORTH AS CITIZENS OF THE COMMUNITY' '-DON WEAVER 5, K l 9+- if x IL 2

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is ' fi:-x.f,, - . 'iw CLASS WILL f'X WE, THE cLAss OF 1948-49 oF NEWBURG HIGH SCHOOL, NEwBuRc, lowA, UASPER COUNTY, BEING OF SOUND MIND AND BoDY DO HEREBY MAKE AND CONSTITUTE THIS T0 BE OUR LAST waLL AND TESTAMENT8 f A C 'ea LAWRENCE HEREBY LEAVES HHS BASKETBALL ABILITY TO BILLY HARRISON. VERNA Lou HEREBY LEAVES THE RNADH or HOLDING HER MAN TO ILA JEAN THARPE. I DoN HEREBY w:LLs HIS PUNCTUALETY TO ELDON FLEENER. ' ED HEREBY WILLS HHS HEBGHT AND BASKETBALL ABGLITY TO GEORGE GRAHAM. CHUCK HEREBY LEAVES HIS ATTRACTEVENESS T0 MARGE T0 RICHARD PAUL. 0 Dnon SToAxs LEAVES HES SPEED AND ATTRAcT:vENEss T0 GRTNNELL GBRLS To BERNAL KTRBY. A To JUNHOR, WE THE cLAss or U49 wuLL A sEAT IN BACK fig , OF GwEN. ' I To MARVEN WE WELL A 5 YEAR SUBSCRIPTHON T0 ESQUDRE. ff To SHIRLEY WE wuLL A oooo suRRLY or sTATnoNARY To WRITE BACK T0 ART. To NQRNA WE WILL A RADDO TO KEEP HER COMPANY WHEN SHIRLEY as BUSY. To SuE WE WILL A WHISTLE To TAME THE woLvEs. WE,WlSH TO WELL DWANE A LETTLE MORE TAcT. X X, To DANA WE WILL A LBTTLE MORE PATTENDE so SHE cAN PLAY BASKETBALL NEXT YEAR. f WE or THE SENnoR CLASS HEREBY WILL TO ALL THE JUN- noRs OUR SUNNY SouTH SBDE SEATS BN THE ASSEMBLY. WE SINCERELY BELIEVE You DAN TAKE ouR PLACES FOR THE DooD AND THE BAD or YOUR SENIOR YEAR. To THE HBGH ScHooL AND FACULTY WE WILL VERY MUCH GOOD LUCK. K D D X lg