Prairie City High School - Plainsman Yearbook (Prairie City, IA)

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sail Jim Welcher Hwelcherk nwhoever invented work ---- should have finished it.U Mechanics Club ----- 2 Mixed Chorus ---- -1-2 Mary Lou Helm HLouH Uwith a smile on her face She's seen every place.H Glee Club ------- 2 - L+ Band ---------- FP-3-1+ Pep Club ------ - - -3-lr Needle Club ------ 2 Class Play- - - - -3 I i -gl wa tx ef, -no XX I 2 Q Laverne Rouwenhorst nShortyH NShort and sweet and always neat.U Basketball ------ l-?-3- Paber Sfaff- ------ Letter Club ------ 2-3 hpCmb --------- Mixed Chorus ------ ? T' 'T' I -F'JT'F'J1' Glee Club ---- -- - -2 - N Class President- - - l Larry Beaver HPeaverH NI like my glib new but P.C. has such a few.H Basketball ------ l-2-3 Baseball ---- - - -l Band --------- 1-P-3-1+ Photo Club ------- P Glee Club ------ l-2 Class Play- - ----- -3 Mixed Chorus- - - - -1-2 Marilyn Knight HMemu 4,. HThe bestway to make friends ,:vf',wrf Qw4, is to be one.H y ' Basketball- - - - - - 2-3-1+ wa-- - 1 N, Class President- - - 3 Y , Annual Staff- - - - Q, Class Play ----- -3 A 1' ' Letter Club ----- 2-3-1+ i P Pep Club ------ 2-3-1+ ,f Glee Club ------ 2-3-1+ , Band --------- 2-3-1+ as Editor of paper- - - 3-l+ y 5 Paper Staff ----- -3-M -9' Q J , All-County 15.13. Team- -3 -if 3 Office Girl ---- - 3-U x 1 M XX A Av, ri I--a-an

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41 Ass ppopnscyr , ,, One fine spring day in the year of 1960, Old Mother Nature werzt out on the Plains to see what had happened to all of those clever,pro- mising, little Plainsman who had left her side some ten years hence. So she set about and by a little discreet question here and a little indiscreet evesdroping there she managed to find out what she wanted to know. The following notations are excerpts from her diary: WI found Bob Patterson working for the 'Sleepy Mattress Company' in Omaha. He would test the new mattresses by sleeping on them.H HI proceeded on my journey and found that the Colorado State Fair was being held at Denver. I decided to tour Midway and whom should I find but Ronald Bales, owner of the 'Barney Bales' circus, giving his opening sgeech.N N t ought I might as well go on to California and see if any of those little Plainsmen might have strayed out there. Upon arrival I decided to see the big Pro Football game that was being held in Pasa- dena between the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Bears. The whistle blew and the kick-off was received by the star fullback Gene Vande Lune of Los Angeles who ran 85 yards for a touchdown.H NAfter the game I proceeded on to Hollywood. There I fbundDw1ght Kennedy running a modeling agency. He was very busy keeping 'good fig- ures' on hand. His most popular model, Regina Sanger, specializes in bathing suits.u 'When I reached my hotel, the 'Bell Hop', Lowell Frazer escorted me to my room. After a good nights rest, the maid served my breakfast to me in bed.H WI then left for Arizona and while crossing the Mojave Desert I stopped to watch Larry Beaver trying to launch a 'Rocket Ship' but it refused to take off. with a few minor changes, the Rocket took eoff, and as far as I know it reached the moon safely.H WI then went on my way and finally reached Arizona. I was a mite hungry so I stopped in a swank restaurant in Phoenix called theuGreasy Spoonn which was operated by Mary Lou Helm. After a long chat wi.th Mary Lou she served me a delicious dinner of Vichyssoise and Roquefort cheese. She informed me that Doris Booth was vacationing at a near by ranch, so I paid Doris a v1sit.H Then I left for Ft. Worth, Texas but my old car conked out and I was forced to stay at a big fruit ranch which, to my astonishment, was owned and operated by Meredith Van Zee. After a breakfast and dinner of grapefruit I decided to try and get to Ft. Worth where I could get something to eat besides grapefruit.N NA filling station was my first stop. Much to my surprise I saw Esther Jabaai, the wife of the station owner.u WHy next destination was Stillwater, Oklahoma, where, I had been told, two of the Plainsmcn were teaching in Oklahoma A. d M. Slmre enough, there I found Mona Van Steenbergen in charge of the music d e- partment, and Marilyn Knight teaching physics.H WI started out for the Ozarks in Arkansas because I thought some of those Plainsmen might be hiding in some of the hills down there. I was surely surprised to find Ronald Vande Lune raising 'Razor-Back' hogs.N NI boarded a plane in Little Rock, destined for Indianapolis where the National Championship Auto Races were being held. Whom should I find but Ray McFadden and Jim Welcher competing in the five - hundred mile event.' nThe following day found me in Detroit, Michigan where Inman Tony Van Horn, a salesman for the General Motors Co. While visiting with Tony, he informed me that Duane Clark operated a large cereal mill in Battle Creek, and offered to drive me there in his new Cheverolet. We toured Duane s mill and had a nice chat with his secretary, Laura Belle French.N