Osceola High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Osceola, NE)

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Here it is the year 1976 and 25 years since the seniors of 1951 have graduated. On this very day a great interplanatory expedition is about to get under way. Dr. Max Anderson, the famous scientist, is the head of the expedition. He has invited some of his classmates of Osceola High School to go along if they care to, so most of them are here waiting for the takeoff. But first, maybe we should have a little explanation about the expedition. The rocket ship which will be used was invented by Waldean Johnson. He got the idea for such a fast and sleek ship when he started to soup up his car. It came out that the car had so much power that it wouldn't stay on the road so he just took to the air. It is driven with atomic power, and has room for 25 people in it. The idea of the expedition is to explore the moon, mars, and other celestial bodies. Perhaps other people would rather stay home and study other kinds of bodies. For instance, Dwight Swanson, who has a job as a biology teacher in the Nebraska University. He just loves his little white rats and guinea pigs. The pilot, Sally Ball, and co-pilot, Meta Deeter, are really experienced. They always did have their heads in the clouds. There are quite a few reasons why the various people decided to come along. Now you take Joyce Morgan. She wants to see if she can get a new job on the moon, although she has a good job now. She has a part in the new broadway play in New York City. It's what she always wanted, to go on the stage. Ah, yes, she scrubs the stage after every performance. It's probably just that she wants a little variety. Ronnie (Koehler) and Barbara (Russel, formerly) are on their honeymoon. After courting Barbara ever since high school, he finally got up enough nerve to ask her to marry him. Jo Ann Bowe is going to see if she can get a man from Mars. It seems she never could keep a man that she got on earth. Mava Grossnicklaus wants to see if she can find an old maid's home on the moon where she can stay and nobody will know that she is there. When she broke up with Sid back in '59, the other guys didn't know about it and now she is all alone. And Alice Johnson, she now owns the Copenhagen Snuff Manufacturing Company. Snoose is going along to see if she can find a location for a new plant. Carol Miller also has a good reason for going along. You see, she is interested in politics. She ran for president in the last presidential election and lost. The only way she will ever become president is to go to some other planet, so she is coming along to see if any planet needs a president. Dick Watts is a used car dealer. He's making the trip to see if he can find any prospects on the moon. These salesmen, always trying to make a sale. It is time for the take-off, so everyone is climbing into the rocket ship and the doors are being closed. It is being warmed up and just as we are ready to take off, Donnie Gabriel comes running up. But he is too late, and there he stands with tears in his eyes as the ship roars up into space. (It was later learned that he couldn't get over 15 m.p. h. out of his car. So now he is going to open a repair shop for old cars that can't go over 25 m. p. h.) We're really traveling now. Right up ahead is the Milky Way. And who do we see there but Rita Kresha. She's selling cokes in a small stand. She said it was tough competition there, with all the milk, but it was the only place she could find where cokes weren't sold. You know, that sounds rather impossible, but-Rita always was a little bit out of this world.

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Class Prophecy As we go along, suppose we find out what the people that could not come along are doing. First, take Rosemary Walgreen. She is still going to school to learn to become a teacher. You know if she tries hard enough, she's going to make it yet. Christine Shemek couldn’t go because she was too busy raising her ten kids. She tried using child psychology on her first two but by the time she got her tenth one, it just has to grow like Topsy. Gerald Bryan wasn't able to go either because he is over in Africa. He has become a missionary. He went over into cannibal territory 16 years ago, and hasn't been heard from since. Too busy to write, I suppose. Rosella Cerny is retired now. She went out to Hollywood for her health but when some director saw her, he made -a movie star out of her and paid $5,000 a week. Not bad, if you can get it. Kenneth Beebe wanted to be retired, also, by the time he was 40, but he isn't. He's just plain tired. Last he was heard of, he was trying to get a way from the depot agent in some small town in Kansas. Bob Brown (the black sheep of the class) is the boss of the underworld. It took him a long time but he finally made it. Florence Kresha couldn't make it because she is trying to break the world's flagpole sitting record. Bob Peterson was the only one who decided to stay on the farm. Bless his little heart. LaVonne Dinges still works at Crouse's but she's bought half interest in it, so it's Crouse and Dinges Drug Co. Dorothy Kresha is entirely different from the rest of her class. Yes, she got married, settled down, and is living a very normal and happy life (which is more than can be said for most of the others). Eugene Shemek and Martyn Youngstrom have decided to become hermits. No one knows why; they just went up a mountain one day and never returned. And last but not least we find Marilyn Kuhnel in a carnival outfit. She has a job as a motorcycle rider. It doesn't pay so good, but it is exciting. And now back to the rocket ship. The expedition failed. But with such a class, Fm sure that they will try again and will make it next time. We, the magnificent sophisticated, seniors of O. H. S., city of Osceola, state of Nebraska, being of sound mind and body but sensible to the uncertainty of our life's span do hereby in this year of 1951 give our last will and testament. Ofzarzak my car and driver's license so she won't have to take Driver's Education. I, LaVonne Dinges, will to Janet Zedicher, my ability to stay away from other girl's boy friends. It keeps you out of trouble, Janet. I, Rosemary Walgreen, will to La Vern Richards my manly cheerleading voice. Now La Vern, old chap, your voice will be lower. I, Florence Kresha, will to Jean Ofzarzak my ability to stay away from men, no trouble that way.