Orient High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Orient, IA)

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Proplzec X Mayl 1970 Dear Readers My buddy and I have traveled the whole world vxsxtmg our old classmates of 1950 m our new Jet P 96 Rocket We landed mn Washmgton D C for a cup of coffee and met Larry Tompkms who IS now Postmaster General of the Unxted States He was very surprlsed to see us and mvxted us out to h1s new glass home on 16195 H111 Hop Drnve There w met hxs wxfe and l1tt1e boy Larry Jr He told us that he and hrs son are very care ful how they use flrecrackers Especlally xn mall boxes 1 After leavlng Washmgton D C we took a two mlnute hop to an Oklahoma to bacco farm where we found LeRoy Keesey the founder of the Keesey Ashless Cxg arette Company He had just become the father of h1s f1fth boy and a proud father he was Oh yes we met h1s w1fe a former Creston g1rl LeRoy has been marr1ed for mneteen years Vle boarded our rocket shxp and headed for Hawau After arr1v1ng we declded to entertam ourselves at the Varxdee Ball Room There we found Audna Vkarren now LaLon1a DeVon wxth her featured number a hula dance Audna xnformed us that her old school chum Mary Hazen IS xn Sw1tzerland as a skx Jumpmg mstructor For the last seven years Mary has won the gold cup as the world s greatest sluer Quxck as a flash we landed on Cyrus Island m the South Pac1f1c to refuel As the power truck came up to our rocket who should almght from the cab but our old fr1end Harold Powers Harold 1S the sole propr1etor of the atom1c power co operatxve on Cyrus Island Harold told us he has just read m a Umted States paper that a wrdow wxth three chlldren was lookmg for a wealthy husband Harold was thmkmg very serlously about answermg the ad After wzshxng Harold good luck we hurr1ed on our way to Russxa In Moscow we found Cecxl Carroll the sole reformer of the Sovxet Government As you lcnow Cecll 15 the Presldent of the Unxted States of Russla whlch IS now a pure democratzc country As Cecxl was very busy sxgnxng documents wlth other countrles we d1dn t stay long We headed back to the Umted States and dec1ded to stop m Denver After wandermg around awhlle we met Waneta Weed who was standmg 1n front of a wonderful new grocery store Waneta told us that she had controllxng mterest m the Weed Cham Stores grocery stores now found all over the world We were very sorry to fxnd out that Waneta wasn t marr1ed but she sald she had good 1fltChtl01'lS and planned to be marr1ed as soon as possxble Waneta also told us that she thought we could fxnd Eugene Buckmxller at the new experxmental statlon on Mars We gave our farewells to Waneta and lxfted the nose of our rocket for the planet Mars Z0 , s y 1 . 1 1 2' ' 1 1 ' 1 , .. . 9 1 - ' 1 1 '1 ' , - 1 1 1 1 1 1 - . , . .. . . - 1 . . , - 1 1 1 - 1 1 - 1 , . . 1 1 1 . . 1 1 1 , . I 1 . . . , , 1 . 1 - 1 - , . . , . . 1 . ' 1 .

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I Melvxn Roy Fulton do w1ll and bequeath my freckles and smokxng abllxty to Dorothy Keesey I Twylah Louxse Cass do w1ll and bequeath my dxmples and long basketball shots to Anglene Carson I Charles Cecxl Carroll do wxll and bequeath my natural ab1l1ty to keep quxet to John Musmaker Ronald Laverne Vorrath do w11l and bequeath my Macksburg g1rl frxends Paul Ryan Shxrley Joann Lucas do wxll and bequeath my pxano playlng abxhty to Donna Pace Waumta Allce Scott do w1l1 and bequeath my report card A s to Beverly Speed Fugene Arthur Buckmxller do wxll and bequeath my photography talents Sally VN e1ss Harold Cyrus Powers do w1ll and bequeath my drxvmg Bblllty to Ralph Hazen B-everley Jean Wxllxams do wxll and bequeath my shortness to Lots Cavmess Barbara Slezak I Audna Irene Warren do w111 and bequeath my abxlxty to Wm arguments to Mary Wxlhams I Mary Eva Hazen do w1ll and bequeath my basketball abxlxty as a forward to Shxrley Wxlhams I Margaret Ann Reha do wxll and bequeath my salesmanshxp tralts to Louxse Clayton I LeRoy Nells Keesey do wxll and bequeath my flne memory to Geneva Lxlly IN WITNESS WI-IEREOF we have hereunto subscrlbed our names and flxed our seal on thls eleventh day of May nineteen hundred and flfty QSEALJ Class Colors Pmk and Sxlver Class Flower Rose Class Motto To Be Contmued 19 I, , ' ' ' ' to I, . , . . . . . I' . . I . , . If J I 1 I to I' D . . . . . t 1, . . , . . . ' I, John Harmin Downing, do will and bequeath my talents in vocal music to , ' . . . . 1 I I I . lo: 4: wo: :ec :of for

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It took us a llttle less than an hour to reach Mars and after c1rc11ng the planet a few tlmes We spotted the exper1mental statxon and brought our rocket xn as close to the buxldmg as we could We stepped out of our rocket and up to the door where we met a guard The guard told us we could fmd Professor Buckmlller down the hall and to our r1ght We entered h1s offxce and found Eugene behmnd the desk performmg some kmd of experlment Fugene lnformed us he had a wlfe and four chlldren back xn New York C1ty Eugene was very busy so we told h1m to take care of hlmself and we headed back for the earth After havmg to make a forced landmg on a ranch m Colorado a cowboy 1nv1ted us 1n for lunch We sat down at the table and talked whlle the maxd brought 1n our lunch We were surnrmsed to see that the maxd was Twylah Cass We hardly recog mzed her because she had ga1ned so much wenght m the last twenty years We talked to Twylah and she told us that she had been the mald for fxve years After havlng an enjoyable VlS1t w1th her we flxed the rocket and started to Reno Nevada We called a cab after landmg at the a1rport an Reno Much to our astonlshment we found Carolme Mxtchell 1n the drxver s seat She was very surprxsed to see us She told us that she had been dr1v1ng a cab for about two years We had her take us downtown so we could see what the blg 11ttle clty was lxke Carolme told us that she got a dxvorce from her husband about two years ago She sa1d she had to have a Job us back to our rocket and We started to the thrlvlng Clty of Orlent In Orlent we found Ronald Vorrath operatmg a tavern fo mally known as Duffy s Ronald told us that busmess had pxcked up xn the last few years and now he had a very prof1table bus1ness Just as we had flmshed talkxng to Ronald we saw Chuck Frederxck step m the door Chuck came r1ght over to talk to us We found out that he was runnmg the All1s Chalmers Implement buxldmg out on the east boulevard He was proud to admxt that the Allls Chalmers tractor was the best on the market We left Orxent to fly to the wrlderness of Arkansas to a small town called Punkm vxlle There we found Waumta Scott and Joann Lucas smgxng m the Grand Old Opera buxldmg We d1dn t have a chance to talk to them but xnqulred about them We were told by a restaurant owner that they had been smgmg at the opera buxldmg about exght een years The people enjoyed thexr smgmg very much We left there only to end up on an aucraft carrxer Indeed It was hard landmg Captam John Downmg of the Umted States Navy met us at the door of our Jet as we stepped out It 15 quite an honor to have a posxtlon l1ke John has and we gave h1m our congratulatxons He showed us over the sh1p and we found out about the dlfferent mstruments John was not marr1ed thus he duin t have any home l1fe to tell us about As we stxll had some more classmates to locate we had to wxsh John luck and be on our way Z1 of some kind and started driving a taxi cab. She liked the job very much. She took