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

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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

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40 lfVlN7'lifl TIM The North High faculty is composed of forty-two men and women. The faculty plays a major part in making North High a successful and accredited Des Moines before coming to North. Mrs. Iohnson taught at Des Moines Tech, and Mr. Lockridge, at East High. school. Hubert A. Sargent, auto driving instructor, and I. B. Snyder, band and orchestra director, came to North High after serving in the armed forces. Mr. Snyder taught music at North prior to the war. Many teachers of the school put in extra hours helping individual students and sponsoring school clubs. They have done a fine job in promoting school social and sports events. Miss Betty A. Drennan is the only new teacher to come to North from out of the state. Previously. Miss Drennan taught at Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri. This semester five new teachers have been added to the staff. Two teachers, Mrs. Wilma Iohnson. who teaches typing, and Lowel Lockridge, chemis- try instructor, previously taught at other schools in FACULTY FIRST ROW: Gaylord Troe, Helen Woodman, Nellie Baldwin, Lois Scott, Betty Drennan, Iosephine Samide, Fred Meier, Walter Barnett, C. R. Stewart. SECOND ROW: H. D. McCullough, H. Grace Adams, Litta Tumbleslln, Ruby D- L1-1CCISf AHC9 Galvin. l. B- SUYCl61', Arden McClain. THIRD ROW: Ruth Turnbleson, Floretta Bidwell, Theresa Anderson, Nellie Wilson, Genevieve Moore, Mildred Craig, S. E. Thompson. FOURTH ROW: Donly Pierson, Louise Cotncim, Lura Long, Ruth Riclcards, Essie Whirry, Louise McCaughan, F. H. Stewart, Fred Pen- nington, lames Gooch. FIFTH ROW: Conway Rhyne, M, A. lencks, Hazel French, Ellsworth Lory, Mildred West, Wilma lohnson, Lowell Lockridge, Eugeue Worden.