Park Rapids High School - Panthers Yearbook (Park Rapids, MN)

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SENIOR PRGPHECY The Opsal Schmnder Circus rs coming to town With permrssron from Park Rapids Mayor Hoffman attractive posters deslgned by Roland Vik were distributed through the suburbs by Hanson and Mears busrness and advertising managers The big day comes and arriving early we wander about uewrng the xarrous slde shows Attracted by the large crowd gathered around the Strong Man to our amazement we drscoxer rt is Bucky Memke Continuing on our wandering course we see Lester Frtch the Sword Swallower with the tip of a pointed dagger protrudrng from his mouth and just preparing to eat a huge bowl of hre Then hearmg exotic music we hurry over to another attractron featuring two well known snake charmers Arlene Hendrickson and Phyllis Berg Next we see the tall lady Dorothy Buckingham and the midget Robert Hand who was a uctxm of shrinking tablets invented by Iere Bishop Moving on our way we meet Anne Chilton taking her pupils on a sight seeing tour of the circus Walking on we see the tent of the fortune teller where we obey impulse and enter To our astonrshment rt rs Betty Vrzenor making a great many mysterious motions and peer ing into the palm of Gordon Ner who IS enjoy ing himself immensely Eleanor Blanchard and Barbara Wilson run a small refreshment stand at which vtc purchase some pink lemonade We now drscoxer it rs time for the perfor mance to begin As we enter the Big Top and buy our tickets from oan Sartarn and Delores Robertson wc see the barker who is none other than Bob Schwab yelling wrth his usual amount of noise Hurry' Hurry' Hurry' The performance rs about to start he shouts On the way in we stop to buy popcorn and find that the owners of the stand are Charles Amundson and Francis Carl who seem to have a thriving little business The band begrns to play and we see udy Merrxtt Katherine Garrett and Louella Krtterman majorettes Mary Lee Enfield rs directing the band and Fred Winter rs beating the drum with all of has usual enthusiasm The rmgmaster Eu gene Cuypers enters the ring carrying the tradi tional long black whip The first performance features Joanne Hammes as the daring bareback rider lollowrng her comes Gerald Roepke and hrs trained lions and the audience applauds as he puts them through the1r tricks Now the tight rope walker Irene Solrnger does everything but sleep on the rope The elephants and therr trainer Paul Nelson appear and rndmg on the elephants trunks are Barbara Hoefs Betty Mythen Marian Molander and Gloria Glatzmarer Next are Lors Fltch and Beverly Fuhr famous trapeze artists assisted by Kenneth Brock and David Steb bins who are the hrgh wrre clowns Between acts Robert Schmidt circulates selling pink and red balloons to all who will buy them Next come the clowns who we do not rm medrately recognize but who are rm Lind Dick Wyland and Allen Kelly Edwin Lannrng featured as Pete the tramp Meanwhile Peter Keuber performs magnificent feats of juggling The audience is spellbound as the famous acroba tic team Raleigh ohnston and Lorene ansen perform Following them IS Winston Manlove and his trained seal who has been taught to do everything except speak Keith Gulbranson and Delmar Zeller with their trained ponies and dogs now put on their act The last attraction rs the Wild West Show Into the ring prances Gordon Henry s magnificent white horse Harley Rex and Carol Oxtra perform rope tricks with amazing dexterity Don Massre srlents the crowd with his raprdly moi mg whip and with complete calmness he cuts a cigarette 1n tvso which rs rn the mouth of Bob Kastama who is standing 20 feet away Bob 15 currently known as No nose Kastama The show rs over and as we leave our seats we see Frances Bates and Marjorie Nissen co owners of a smart dress shop Lois Manners romrnent newspaper reporter tells us that Dar ene Dahl and Priscilla Sheldon have recently struck oil on the1r ranch in Texas and are now living rn luxury We also hear that Noble Lindberg has been voted the most eligible bachelor of 1960 We have to leave the big top rapidly because Fred Burlingame Clayton Chrrstransen Elwood Craig Walter Stewart and john Thersen are taking the tents down and are gettrng ready to leave The circus rs over but before we close our account we Pat Skeffimgton and Lois Maves wrsh to prophesy that after our classmates read this prophecy we will no longer be classmates - . 1 . . . . v ' ' ' - 1 ' 3 , P R ' . i . . . . . Y 1 1 1 ' 1 . 1 1 . . Y. 7 . 7 5 . . , V. . v . . 4 7 ' ' . . , . , K, - . . V . . - . ' ' . . . V h 1 - 1 1 , , . H ' 3 . . . . l IS . - , l u n - 1 ' 1 ? . . , 1 I l 1 j .l 1 Y. . . , J . . . . I . ' 7 . 1 . ' 7 ' - . c. , 1 I 7 . I . . ' 7 . , . Y - 7 . Y - . 9 . . . . . ' . . . , . ,A ' ' ' - 1 1 rl I A ' . . J l -Q , 11 ' Y . . . . . . 1 - 1 - 4. ' ' . . . . ' 1 . ,, . . , . , I I 1 . 4 ' , 1 ' , 1 .l f . ' . , as ' Q . . . . 1 1 , ' 1 1 I ' . . . , . , - ' l 1 - ' 3 ' . . . , . 1 . ' 1 -

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