Riceville High School - Red N Black Yearbook (Riceville, IA)

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In the fall of 1951, forty-seven sailors hit the deck. They were all ready to start on their journey with Captain Wolfe at the helm. lt wasn't long before the first storm hit - initiation. The Waves were uniformed in unusual garb: nightgowns in the morning, pajamas in the afternoon, newly shampooed hair, but untouched by comb or bnrsh. Swabs had to wear dresses, car a papoose, and wear a vegetable corsage. The crew swabbed the deck and each other's feet with toothbrushes, and carried a huge pail dfwater. After this storm, the upper seamen treated us to a dance on the decks of R.H.S. The officers on board were as follows: President - Lester Clapp, Vice-President - Deanna Doerr, Secretary - Janice Norman, Treas- urer - Gordon Myers. Our first mutinous act was a battle with the upper seamen for homecoming float honors. The judges went overboard, but of their votes to place second with our float 'Pruning the Ramblers . We dropped several crewmen at different ports. Alice Asfahl at St. Ansgar, Marilyn Burtolph at Waterloo, Ramona Springs, Ardith French at Osage, joan Gandre, and Jocelyn Napolillo at Nashua, and Donald Hendrickson at Fredrieka. We passed an island noted for its hula-hula girls, and two swabies, William Dozark and Allan Leer, went overboard. them, they were paddling toward shore. we rescued enough Everding at Nora When we last saw on board two new Luck hit us and we went into dry-dock for three months. As we left dry-dock for our second season at sea, we had captains, scientist, Mr. Milton Herwig, and a man who not only taught history, but also made it in the school history, Mr. Dallas Reed. Three Waves - Ann Law, President, Lois Lenth, Secretary, Deanna Doerr, Treasurer, and a swab, jim Roethler, vice-President, were elected to help the captains control the disorderly crew. We received a cablegram that Nora Springs was about to attack Riceville at horrrcoming. So we sent out our destroyers. 'Ihe destroyer re- turned with this banner flying from the helm - 'Saw Nora Springs, Sank Same'. The officer in command reported that our ship had won. Later in the year we swabbed the deck and sponsored a dance, with.Cousin Merle and his Maple Leaf Cowboys furnishing the music. This year, twenty-two shipn-lates ranked as waiters and waiu-eases at the araual Seamen's juniorSenior Banquet. A stow-away from Lone Rock during our freshman year, joan McGovern,4left the ship for Algona. After repairing and refueling at dry-dock for three months, we lost jim Roethle., one of our shipmates, to Elma 1. C., and then began another voyage. We set out to sea as somewhat experienced sailors with a good crew and two excellent captains, Mr. Herwig and Mrs. McMeekin. B time, our crew consisted of thirty-eight sailors. We lost Luella Mclnroy, Gordon Myers, Daniel Carlson, and Paul Block. But we filled crew with new seamen Marcelle Hanson, jacqueline Dutton, and Virginia Saint. One of our fomier companions, joan McGovern, returned ship in time to help us construct our float. . . We bulled our way to first place with 'This is No Bull, 1t's in the Bag . We had new officers this year, too. The following carefully directed us on our voyage: President -- Bill Alley, Vice-President - Carol Secretary - Irma Hamilton, Treasurer - john Smith. y this up our I0 OU! Leist, turned As it is with every third year crew, we had to raise enough money to honor the seniors at a banquet and prom. In order to do this we into pirates and robbed the surrounding shuns by presenting two mutinous plays. The first was entitled 'Balcony Scene' and the other, helped prepare us for future voyages, was The Women Have Their Way . We also sold magannes to increase our booty. Everything was in a state of confusion as we headed for the port of New Orleans and the Mardi Gras, which was the theme of the prom. The deck was artistically decorated with white lattice fences covered with red twining roses. Swabs strummed on toy guitars and everyone enjoyed dancing under the blue crepe paper sky to the melodies played by Del Clayton and his orchestra. . 1 I Q At this time, we went into 'guarantine' because a greater majority of the crew contacted a seaman's disease called 'vacationrr.rs . It took three months for 'Bugoligist' Herwig to mix up a concoction to counteract this disease. After we had the disease under control, we started on our fourth and final voyage, Since women will probably be leading us the rest of our lives, we decided ro make four of them our officers- Presidflll - III!!! Hlmllwh Vice-President - Lois Lenth, Secretary - Carol Leist, Treasurer l Ann Law. By this time, Mr. Herwig had become a Rear Admiral, but was also maintaining his position as Commanding Officer. After being at sea for three years, Lynn Nation and Harold Frieberg decided to retire from all sea-faring voyages. This year we again won first place with our homecoming float 'We Don't Need a Lucky Strike to Beat St. Ansgar'. The sailors froze the docks at Minneapolis on April 16, 1955, and most of us sailed up to view thsflce Folliesfor Skip Day. As our last journey ne 'ed its end, each sailor had his picture taken and secured a ring. We also presented our last production, 'Our Town', with several crew members raking an active part. On May 26, we received our diplomas on a deck decorated with white and sky blue. We chose the American Beauty Rose as our flower and 'Our Hope - Success, Our Aim - To Win' as our motto. This was our final year and we graduated and soon will become captains of our own ships. lt has been a wonderful and successful voyage for our class of 1955- Thirty-four seamen graduated as first class officers of the world. We thank all of our commanders and instructors for giving us our knowledge on the sea of life, no matter how rough or how smooth. Ile, the class of '55, look up and thank you - for everything! SEN! 5:3 Lois LENTH Secretary 2, Vice President 4, Band 1,2,3,4, Chorus 1,2 3,4, Glee Club 1,2,3,4, Dance 15s-nd 2,3,4, A cappella 4, Red N' Black 2,43 Music Club 1,21 Debate 2, Discussion 2, Orginal Orarory 2,3,4, Octetre 3: N2- tional Forensics 3,4,Thespians 3,4, Contest Play 2, Class Play 3. Z iii Wifi, , ANN LAW Homecoming Queen 4, Carnival Queen 2, President 2, Treasurer 4,Basketball 1,2, Band 1,2,3,4, Chorus 2,3,4, Glee Club 1, Dance Band 3,4, Red N'Black 3, Library 1, Treasurer 1, De- bate 2,3,4, Discussion 2,3,4, Student Council 2,3, Treasurer 2, President 3, National Foren- sics 3,4, Thespians 3,4, Con- test Play 3, Class Play 3. Iss' IRMA HAMILTUN Secretary 3, President 4, Band 1,2,3,4: Chorus 1,2,3,4, Dance Band 3,4, Wildcat Tales z,3,-1, Editor 4, Assistant Editor 3: journalism Club 1,2,3,4, Presi- dent 4, Library Club 1,3,4, Vice President 1,4, Dramatics l,2,3, Vice President 3, Thespians 3,4, Vice President 3, Contest Play 1,2,3,4, Dramatics Play 1, Class Play 3, Student Council 4. ORS CAROL JEAN LEIST Vice President 3, Secretary 4, Band 3,4, Chorus 1,2,3,4, Cheerleaders 2,3,4, Library 3,4, Dramatics Club 1,3, F.H.A. 2, Thespians 3,4, Dramatics Play 3, Debate 2,3. MARCELLE HANSON Mixed Chorus 2,3,4, Glee Club 2,3, Cheerleaders 4, Home- making Club 1,2,3: Student council 3, Debate 2. which our z--'Y Q

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We, the Sentor class of 1955, behevrng ourselves to be mentally an physrcally sound, Ctakxng into consideration the few who may not be , do at thrs trme proclarm unto the unrverse at large, thls, our last wr and testament. I Darwnn Alden bequeath my qutet dtsposluon to Trm Walker an John Dempsey I, Bnll Alley, bequeath my abllrty to up essentral buxldmgs to Elmer Rmg and Alfred Utesch I Daryl Bahnsen, bequeath my good drlvlng to oann Beran Leone Blrven, bequeath my cute drmples to Elston Brown I Lester Clapp, bequeath my beautiful physnque to Rosemary Stover and Judy Regan Deanna Doerr, bequeath my convenrently located house to ohn Law I Jacquelme Dutton, equeath my ablllty to sttck tq a dret to Delores Rlchardson and Fred Grrmm I Harold Fneberg, bequeatl' my cowboy boots and sxdeburns t Maxine Taets and Sandra Roetman I Irma Hamxlton, bequeath my nlckname to Jean Prnt and Janice Peacock I Kenneth Hansen, bequeath my typing abrhty to Margaret Mrnor Marcelle Hanson, bequeath my abrlxty to wave my ha1r to lm Smxth I Barbara Hems, bequeath my beautlful sewing to Nell Asfahl and John Worple I Gary llovey, bequeath my blond hanr to Lewrs Hubka and Wrlma Foote I, Elaine Johnson, bequeath my dlamond rmg to Nrta Nelson I, Ilalee Johnson, bequeath my big blue eyes to Tom Lubbert and Delbert Borchardt I, Carolyn Keeton, bequeath my second-hand boyfrrends to Joann Butz. I Ann Law, bequeath my abrlrty to get along wrth hrs brother to Gerald Hauser I Carol Lelst, bequeath my abrlrty to turn cartwheels to Jrm Rnch moncl I, Lots Lenth, bequeath my abrllty to write letters to entertain Mr Drederrch to Kay Eastman I, Delores Matthews, bequeath my brother to Dorothy Granahan and Shrrley Kephart I oan McGovern, bequeath my faclal expressrons durmg basketball games to Myma Larsen I, Janrce Norman, bequeath my boyfrxend s car to Edrth Affeldt I Vrrgrnra Pnestley, bequeath good grades tn phystcs to Elmer Rercherts I, Patrrcra Rercherts, bequeath our hrred man to Vrvran Fyetland I, Vxrgmra Sarnt, bequeath my smgmg abxltty to Rrchard Rasmussen I ohn Smrth, bequeath my sense of humor to Ellwood Pettttt and Charles Bllvens I Marlene Souhrada bequeath my herght to Stanley Buchholz I, Lrbby Stevenson, bequeath my ability to play the trumpet to Merlyn Fmley oan Thels, bequeath my studymg abnlrty to B111 Myers Ronald Tomey, bequeath my tacklmg abrlrty to Dale Buresh Maryetta Warburton, bequeath my secretanal abrlxty to Ray Knapp uenten Wllkes, bequeath my large vocabulary to Junxor Matthews Melvin Wyatt, bequeath my slow drawl to Marian Marr We the Seniors of 55 bequeath all our love to Peggy Zobel and and oger Stevenson, and leave the school and everyone on the faculty to the class of '59 . ' . . I ' . d I a - . I aj ' ll , . , . . . . . d , h ' l . . , J . I, . . ' I, ' I , l . A . 0 I? . . . J. I, June Klink, bequeath my majorette uniform to Ray .Russ-ell. , J . . . , J I . . I, J . . I . . . U . ' I, . A 4 . I, Q l . I, Q . I . I, I , . R U ,

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its .ia-in ,ff X 'C' 5 D X, Q-any 9, nc: 1 af cy --:ff- NJA, 28? DEANNA DOERR Homecoming Attendant 45 Vice- President l5 Treasurer 25 Basketball I5 Band 1,2,3,45 Chorus 1,2,3,45 Glee Club 1,2, 3,45 Dance Band 3,45 A cap- pella 45 Red Bt Black 3,45 Dramatics Club 25 National Forensics 3,45 Thespian 3,45 Debate 2,3,45 Class Play 35 Discussion 2,3,45 I speak for democracy 35 Contest play 3. BILL ALLEY President 35 Football 1,2,3,45 Baseball 35 Chorus l,2,3,45 Glee Club 1,25 A cappella 4: Dramarics 3,45 journalism Club 15 Debate 81 Discussion 2,3,45 Student Council 1,3,45 Presi- dent Student Council 45 R Club 3,45 Treasurer R Club 35 Sec- retary R Club 45 Class Play 35 Contest Play 25 Thespian 3,45 National Forensics 3.4. PATRICIA REICHERTS Student Council 35 Mixed Cho- rus 1,2,3,45 Glee Club 2,3,45 Wildcat Tales 45 A cappella 45 Dramatics 25 Class Play 3. LESTER J. CLAPP Thespian 3,45 Secretary-Thes- pians 45 Student Council 1,25 President 15 Football 35 Bas- ketball l,2,35 Baseball 1,2,35 Red N' Black 25 P. T. Club 15 R Club 1,2,3,4. ELAINE NORMA JOHNSON Chorus 1,2,3,45 Glee Club l,2, 3,45 M2l0l'C!IC 3,45 Library club 3,4, Homemakers C-lub 3. JOAN MCGOVERN Homecoming Attendant 45 Bas- ketball 3,45 Band 1,3,49 Chorus 1,3,45 Glee Club 1,45 Dance Band 35 Student Council Sec'y. 45 Algona 1,2. QUENTEN WILKES Basketball 2,35 Chorus l,2,35 45 Glee Club 1,25 Red N Black 3,45 F.F.A. 15 Dtamarics 2,35 R Club 3,45 P.T. Club 15 Thes- pians 3,45 A cappella 45 Con- test Play 45 Discussion 2,3,45 Debate 2,3,45 Class Play 35 National Forensics 3.4: Drama- tics Play 2,3. LEONE BLIVEN Chorus 2,3545 Wildcat Tales 25 Library 3,45 Journalism 25 Homemakers Club 1. GARY HOVEY Baseball 2,3,45 Mixed Chorus 35 Safety and First Aid Club 15 Science Club 2,45 R Club 45 Class Play 35 National Thes- pian 3. JANICE ARLENE NORMAN Secretary 15 Basketball 45 Chorus 2,3545 Glee Club 1,2, Wildcat Tales 2,3,45 Library 45 Dramatics ' 1,2,3,45 Thespians 3,45 Homemakers Club 15 Music Club 1,25 Class Play 35 Drama- tics Play 3, G G3 p . 5 Nr wt W 'X al ggi A 1 63 5 xl 0 . 5 5, 5 I f?v' X viii