Orion High School - Charger Yearbook (Orion, IL)

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May we always he lovzil. s class poem How dean' to our hearts are the scenes of our school days, Xlhen fond recollections present them to View-f The teachers, the elzissniziles, the hooks that we studied. ,Xnd every loved spot that Olll' early youth knew. The four years we spent there, to Klux' 1950 , , Were filled to the brim with zletivities galore-e The gznnes. the music, the bus rides with laughter, The studies, the lJZL1'flCS'El dozen o r more. 'lin the teziehers go thanks :ind due zippreeizitiong lo the lower elassmen. our hope for sueeessg To Orion High, the deserved ' praise and honor For giving us seniors none hut the best. Those days are departed. the days of our high school, ,Xnd so to the future our thoughts do now Hy. Y tezidfzist, and faithful To the hcst .Xlnia Mat erlour dear Orion High. -lliriznn Anderson

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The next day I was roused at 11:00 A. M. by the ringing of my telephone. Guess who? I was shocked to discover that the voice on the other end of the wire belonged to Charles Serres. Chuck just flew in from the VVest where he had been visiting George King, who is quite a wrangler out that way and better known in those parts as Saddle llags King. I asked Chuck to have dinner with me that evening. That evening l met l'Chuck down town and drove him to a very fashionable night club named -Ion Brodd's Easy Dollar Nite Club. Our congenial host was also a former Orion grad. and together we three talked of Chuck's trip. It seems that Chuck flew himself over the countryside in a lf Drive Itw plane from a 'IU Drive It Airlines for which jean Lindgren is a competent secretary. On his way to New York f'Chuck said he saw several blimps Hoating around with Burma Shave, signs painted on the sides, This was undoubtedly the work of Duane Sassen who is affiliated with this large firm. jon told us that Marilyn Hogren was working for him as a cigarette girl. We didn't get to see her as it was after eleven then and Marilyn can't be out after that time. Jon had three other of our former classmates in his employ. The floor show was com- prised of two features. The First was johnson and johnson, jugglers. Ronald johnson is the second johnson on this team and VVillard johnson the first. The highlight of the evening featured Aleene McI.eese as arialist. After the show these three joined us and we talked about old times at Orion lligh. .Xleene said that she had read that Hill Lindquist. after a year with the Chicago Iiears and the Quad-City Illackhawks. had decided to run his father's drugstore in Orion. After a very profitable and enjoyable evening, I returned home tired but happy. I went to bed thinking of my house guest that was arriving tomorrow and how I should en- tertain such a celebrity. ZS 5 My house guest was Rodney .'Xnderson. Rodney is now the new sensational singing star over C.I3.S. His professional name is Rod .-Xnders. Rodls sponsor is Vaseline Hair Tonic for which my good friend, lildon Vyhiteside, is a model. Nobody is aware of this, but VVhitey,' uses my sardine oil for his patent leather shine. Rod told me that just the other day a flash interrupted his program that told about Doris Dusenberry capturing the notorious Pick Pocket Pete . She is a policewoman in Chicago. Rod also gave me information as to the last two people in our class of '5O. It seems that Sylvia Tomlinson is on the program following Rod's. She works for a bird seed company that has a program of singing canaries. Sylvia's job is to give the birds inspiration. Betty Kauzlarich was the only one unaccounted for and Rod told me that he had read in the Orion Times. which he has forwarded to him, that Kauz chucked all her men to work as a crane operator in the ore pits in Minnesota. VVith the names and addresses of the graduating class of 1950, I set about to plan a reunion of all forty-three. According to my plans, our next reunion is scheduled to take place in june of '65 on the island of Sandu.

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senior class will We, the Senior Class, city of Orion, class of Orion High School, county of Hen- ry, state of lllinois, in the year one thousand. nine hundred and iifty, being of sound mind and memory do hereby make, publish, and decree this to be our last will and testament. To the superintendent and the faculty we bequeath the following: To Mr. Mercer, two strong men to help carry and install the new stoves in the Home Economics Department. To Mr. Rocke, a wire recording to be us ed in his pictorial lectures so he can enjoy his own pictures. To Mr. Kuhn, an Ag. room that can't be used as a lunch room. To Mr. Wiriter, a closer residence so his Mercury will last longer. To Mr. Ring, a special janitor to clean up the Ind. .-Xrts room so he won't have to de- pend on his students. To Mr. Meyer. a bell system in the music building. To Mr. Clark, a Frazer so he won't have to yvalk to school. To Miss Doyle, a cook book complete with instructor. To Miss Munson, a tall, good-looking typewriter repairman, To Miss Olson, an underfed man so she can apply her Home Economics principles. To Miss Clark, a quiet, refined freshman English class. To Mrs. Rye. a library building with enough shelves to take care of all the books. To Mrs. Fritz. a chartered bus to take her, plus her books, to school every morning. To Mr. li?lU1H1. H pair of roller skates so he can save on shoe leather while walking to School. To the janitors: To Gabby Corrice, a smoking room for his leisure moments. To M11 Farwell. 21 liquid. applied on the floor, which would require sweeping only once a year. To Mr. Keel. a robot that will fill the stoker. To Mr. Brodd, self-propelled library books so he won't have to carry them from one school to another. To the secretary, Jeanne, an electric mimeoffraph machine that will never run out of ink. 2: To the classes: To To the jealous juniors, our ability to with other classes. get along To the silly sophomores, the ability SCIIIOYS. to follow in the experienced footsteps of the To the foolish freshmen, the ability the student body: l to get on the good side of the teachers. , Miriam Anderson, will my ability to blush when embarrassed to any pale junior. I, Paul Anderson. will my farming ability to ,Xrthur Thompson. il, Rodney Anderson, will my structure to Gary Lieving. l, jon Brodd, will my unconcerned Way in basketball to Don Larson. , Ardis Carlson, will all my bracelets to Harland Cashman who doesn't seem to have enough. l