North High School - Polar Bear Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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M l0ll WILL fl 0 01,407 We, the Senior Class of Ianuary, 1947, being weary after three, and in some cases four, years of study, do hereby proclaim this, our last Will and Testament. To the future Seniors of North High we bequeath the following: Ronnie Fox wills his presidency of the Senior class to the best looking boy in the next class. Mary Ellyn Brady wills her red .hair to LaVonne Angstrom, who seems to have a sufficient amount already. And speaking of red hair, Bob McLaughlin leaves his title of Red to Gene Sapp. lim Albright leaves his telephone number K4-35971 to all the little innocent underclassmen. Ronnie Crossland gives his I don't care walk to Bill Wimer. Iackie Duffy leaves her friends Eula, Bubbles, Dutchie and Peggy. Eddie Chilcoate wills his subtle humor to Dave Kissel. tSubtle. that isl. Donna Bernhard wills her ability to sing Cold Stone Dead in De Market to the next all-school play maid. Ianet Smith wills her position as advertising manager of the Oracle to the next person who wants it. Iohn Case wills his ability to imitate Mr. Iencks to Mr. Iencks. Mary Craddock wills her ability to get l's to anyone who has ambition enough to work for them. lim Dilliner wills his track ability to Dick Massey, who has plenty of it already. lean Davis wills her college men to Marjorie Hoskins, who's getting along pretty well with her own. Iack Buss wills his charming ways with the women to Iim Swallow. Iune Cloud wills her ability to argue with Mr. Lory to any other lucky person who can get by with it. And speaking of arguing. Tom Brunson wills his love for arguments to Buddy Popple. Iohnny Campana leaves his weeks in the hospital to Gilbert Roller, who says 'No thanks. Marjorie Coon wills her innocence to Gloria Knapp. Elaine Brophy wills her good sense of humor to Marge Brown. Iva Iean Chase wills her flashy slumber party pajamas to Delores Burham. Delmar tLeeJ Baldridge, lwith a tear in his eyel, leaves his cymbals. Dorothy Cubbage Tate leaves her chairmanship of the Costume Committee to join Don and lead a domestic life. Hoy Overton, Loretta Mullenix. and Bonnie Campbell leave their memories of North High behind them. Peggy Gifford gives her letters from the Marines to Sherry Bruce. tOn second thought, she'd better keep theml. Alex Gournas wills his quiet manner to Iim North. while Nick Gurnas leaves and takes his quiet manner with him. Shirley Henderson wills her dimples and cute smile to Shirley O'Brien. Dorothy Hedegaard bequeaths her stateliness to Helen Severn. lean Heefner leaves to marry Iack Lang. lLucky girl.l Ierry Green wills his dates with underclassmen to the next senior who can get away with it. Carol Jennings leaves her nerve-racking laugh to haunt the halls of dear old North High. Ioy Hutton wills her bashfulness to Marilyn Case. Barbara Husted leaves her very different ideas to the Oracle. Ward Hill leaves his dancing ability to Al Maupin. Iane Holland wills her quietness to Mary Logan. Doris Iensen leaves her jokes for Chastine Webber to tell. Ierry Lang leaves Thelma Garland. Betty Lindahl wills her sweet disposition to Kay and May Adams. Loraine Miller leaves her job as historian to anyone else who can get enough gum to bribe the next senior class. Madge Lunt wills her cute baby picture to the Polar Bear. Bob Saf wills his freckles to anyone who's willing to sit under a sun lamp long enough to get them, namely Dale Hulshizer. Georgia Nichols leaves her position as editor of the Oracle to Lauretta Parker. Shirley Frey wills her baby face to Delores Witmer. Mary Lou Roach wills her wittiness to Marjorie Meyer. Cliff Clem, Henrietta Bueford, Carl Behanis, and Betty Stump leave behind them three years of home work. KContinued2 Diaries should be private, so they say, But seniors lead a public life, every single day. September 3-Here we are again with all the new 10 B's grinning and the Seniors with their chests stuck out. Crossland breathes a sigh of relief and says. I made it at last. Football practice begins. Green, Lang, and Campana are eager -for football, that is. September 6-Miss West receives names of prospective Ianuary graduates. All seniors stop breathing until they find out for sure that they're on it. Big class of 67 members reported-three girls to every boy. Program cards are written in home room. Sowerwine can't remem- ber how to spell his name. My, my, we see Shirley Stout was born in 1946. She must be terribly smart to get through school so fast. September 19-Student Council has assembly for the installation of officers. Everyone in Council is all dressed up, even the Seniors. September 20-First senior meeting for nomination of officers. All seniors pass out gum. Some people speak to each other for the first time in three years in hopes of getting nominated. September 21-Football season opens-North vs. Fort Dodge. North loses, 7-0. September 23-Election of senior officers. Buss starts kissing all the babes fdid he say he wanted to win or lose?l. Officers are Ronnie Fox. Ronnie Crossland. Iean Heefner, Dorothy Hedegaard. Madge Lunt, Loraine Miller, Iack Buss, and Doris Iensen. Friendship Week begins. All senior girls meet the cute 10 B boys. Only two more months 'til the prom. ya know. September 27-Senior meeting for installation of officers. Fox makes spellbound speech and leaves everyone in tears as he accepts the gavel. Senior committee chairmen are chosen. Duffy finally got on cr committee. North beats Valley, 6-0. September 30-Senior dues are to be paid this week. Barbara Husted starts a loan association with a two-cent interest in each dime. What a racket. October 4-Ianuary graduates doing unsatisfactory work re- ported to Mr. Thompson. Sixty-six seniors left on the list instead of 67. One down. only 66 more to go. North travels to Mason City and loses, 27-0. What a disappoint- ment for all the school-spirited fans who went up in cars and chartered busses. Everyone in North was there but the Polar Bear. October 11-The Social Committee holds the first all-school fun night with a Harvest Party for a theme. Well, we see Doris Iensen conquered Dave Van Horn, or was that the scarecrow? October 12-North beat Lincoln, 33-7. After the game. all night owls tsenior girls to youl have a slum- ber party at the Iensen residence. Ward Hill takes pictures at the party. A camera is one way of getting on the inside, Hill, but just ask Ioe Popple for the real technique. October 18-Unsatisfactory work slips for seniors reported to Mr. Thompson. My, my. it's funny how our class decreases. October 19-Roosevelt was the victor over North with a score of 31-7. Iohn Campana received a back injury while playing in the game. October 25-North honors the football team with a Homecoming Dance. Pink and green are brilliant. Georgia Nichols represents the senior class as one of Queen Lolly Parker's attendants. Don Prior comes back. Hubba, hubba. October 26-North vs. West Waterloo. North loses, 32-S. Iune Cloud invites all the willing and daring senior girls to another all-night slumber party. What a night! Shirley Henderson wasn't at the party. Could it be that she stayed out too late with her West Waterloo man? Could be- traitor. October 3l-It's time for seniors to turn in their glossies for the Polar Bear. Oh, those handsome men! Iva lean Chase has a wonderful Halloween party despite the scarcity of food, room, records, and men. November l-North vs. East Waterloo. Waterloo wins, 32-6. KContinuedl

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DREAMS NZM Tk E Dreams come true-that's what people say. lust how much of this dream will come true I do not know, as it is a dream about the somewhat unpredictable class of Ianuary '47, The year is 1967, and the place is Des Moines. 1 o 1 n As I step out of my out-moded jet-propelled plane lwhich in 1967 is the equivalent of a model T in 19473 much to my amazement I see pink, yellow, green, and blue pastel colored sykscrapers. I notice that the smoke coming out of their chimneys is orchid colored. The streets in the down town section are royal purple, and the curb- ings are gold. I immediately inquired to find out what brought this new fairyland- like atmosphere to Des Moines. It seems that Loraine Miller and Dorothy Hedegaard, noted interior decorators, suddenly decided that our town was a dull and dingy place in which to live. They, therefore, changed their professions from interior decorators to ex- terior decorators in an attempt to glamourize the city. Then Iean Heefner, president of The Women's Club, came tc Loraine and Dorothy's assistance by organizing her club in a strike against business houses who would not cooperate with their city glamourization plans. The district attorney, Bob Saf, came to the girls' rescue by issuing a statement saying that any wood or brick building would be condemned by the city because of the danger of fire. Naturally. the business houses were forced to buy the fireproof pastel colored glass sidewalls. The city needed new streets, so Street Commissioner Ierry Green was consulted. After serious and dignified consultation with County Auditor Ronnie Fox, Ierry decided to agree with the city glamour- ization plan. and so purple ever-wearing glass streets with gold colored curbings were built throughout the city. lack Buss got into serious trouble. It seems that one of his float- ing neon signs got away. This sign said, Curve to the left. Air pocket. The astronomers thought they saw a new planet. They took their rocket ship up beyond Venus and found it was only one of Iack's signs. The astronomers demanded Iack's arrest for being a Russian agent trying to throw them off the track. Governor Eddie Chilcoate cancelled Iack's arrest, but said that hereafter neon signs could not go any higher than Mars. The Governor's election was another spectacular affair. Eddie's slogan for election was I am the grandest bum in the state: if you don't believe it, just ask me. If you elect me Governor, I will see that your children don't grow up to be like me. For Eddie's campaign poster, Ward Hill, an expert photographer, used his new three-dimension photos for the first time. These photos not only show height and width, but thickness or depth. Gwen Stitzell was elected Chief of City Smell Distribution. In her helicopter, she sprinkles enticing Heaven Scent perfume on the city dumps, garbage cans, sewage disposal plant, etc., Gwen is also in charge of furnishing rain and snow at desired times by sprinkling Snorain, secret formula discovered to make rain or snow at any time. Gwen also has had her share of trouble. One day she just hap- pened to sprinkle her perfume on a certain high school, not North. The principal of the school was up in arms because he thought her sprinkling meant that she thought the school smelled. Therefore, the City Council voted to stop Gwen from sprinkling her enemies, so she had to go back to sprinkling dumps. Marjorie Coon won the title of Mrs. Champion Cook of 1967. She made the best apple pies in the state. Iune Cloud, who is also a housewife, decided that this idea of getting up in the morning to do housework was getting monotonous. Therefore, she devised a machine that sucked up the dirt when she pushed a button. Maietta Iohnson was elected Mrs. America of 1967. Her charming attendants were Wilma Ainley, Lucille Iones, Ioy Hutton, and Dor- othy Cubbage. Shhh! Don't tell anybody, but I saw Gretchen Vlassis at work. As I knocked on the door of her office, I noticed a big sign, Genius at work -well, at least that's what the sign said. Gretchen's work is highly secret. She is the official lollypop taster for the biggest candy company in town. In fact, Gretchen has changed the whole candy industry because she prefers such flavors as coffee cream, carrot, and celery lollypops instead of strawberry and lemon. As I proceeded down the street, I came to a huge restaurant that is owned by Alex Gurnas. His slogan is Where The Wise Keep Their Size. As you walk into this restaurant, you see a scale. A man weighs you and takes your height and age: then he decides if you are too fat or too thin. If you are thin, you are sent to Alex' thin people's restaurant, where you are fed high calory foods. If you are fat, you are sent to Alex' fat people's restaurant, where you munch daintily on carrots and cabbage. After lunch I decided that I was getting sick of this modern world, so I went into the nearest drug store to get some sleeping pills. The proprietor of this drug store is Iohnny Campana. When I told Iohnny what I wanted, he laughed and told me to be sure and see the latest show called The Invasion of the Creeping Lizards, a musical comedy. The plot of the story centers around the green people from Iupiter, who really aren't lizards. That's just their nickname. These green people came to watch a show starring Mari Iayne Erickson, who is one of the green people. Her witty comments and criticism keep the audience laughing, so to speak. Lola Riglin's all girl orchestra is one of the featured attractions of the show. Iames Albright and Henrietta Bueford, world famous pianists, startled the audience by introducing a new piano concerto, called, Melody in NORTH. They had already revolutionized the music writing theory. Notes now go from a to z instead of from a to q. Delmer Baldridge and Iohnny Case each played a solo. Iohnny Case climaxed his solo with a five minute drum break. thus keeping his title of the Rhythm King. Ierry Lang was suddenly stricken with appendicitis . . . Oh look! Is it a bird? Is it Mighty Mouse? No, it's Dr. Bob McLaughlin and Dr. Tom Brunson coming to his rescue in their whizbangsavealife plane. The doctors place Jerry carefully in their plane. He is rushed to the nearest hospital, where he is put on the operating table. Surgical nurses Iacquelyn Duffy and Ieanne Davis immediately prepared the patient for operating, being careful to see that all the straps were tight, while nurse Carol Ienning comforts the complaining patient by holding his soft, white hand and smiling fiendishly. In this day and age ether is a thing of the past. The huge ice machines are put to work freezing the patient's stomach. Then the operation proceeds with absolutely no pain to the patient. Of course, Carol Iennings is doing a good job-of taking care of the patient's nerves, that is. Flash!! The doctors issue a statement as follows, Things in here are in a terrible mess. Ierry decides he likes this idea of having operations and so re- quests that they pull his wisdom tooth out while they are operating. Des Moines' best dentist, Ronald Crossland, arrives at the scene of action, bringing his wrench and pliers in an attempt to get even with Ierry for some past misdeed. As he looks down at the miser- ably happy patient, he decides to forget the old grudge and just charge the patient three times the usual fee. So the ice machines are turned on to freeze Ierry's head this time. The extraction was successful, so to speak. Anyway Ierry survived. Of course, that was after another operation by surgeon Roy Overton. Iose Vilar, noted chemist and inventor, is regarded as the greatest man in the modern world. Iose developed a liquid face powder that will stay on for a year. He also developed a rouge and lipstick fContinued1