Sheldon High School - Orab Yearbook (Sheldon, IA)

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KSenior Prophecy Continuedl Jim Teeslink, famous basketball coach, has gone on a vacation i Florida before putting his team against Fred Knauer's 'Deadly Sn This will be one of the best games of the season according to the famous radio commentator Alvin Sneller Lowell Roskam has had the head janitor's Job at 'Tom and Jerry's in Sioux City His heart is still open to that lovely coed, Dolores Mar ner, who is now attending UCLA in California That famous artist, David Fiest, has painted a masterpiece Hehas called it 'MmmmmmmmmmmmmmmW! I hear that yummy model Marlyn Kuiper posed for him The rest of the class, it seems, has been dlstributed among a wide variety of occupations ditch diggers, undertakers, florists, Janitors merchants, aviators, insurance men, lawyers, doctors, legislators,bank clerks and school teachers' Senior Class History The school career of the Class of l9A9 began back in 1936 About half of the starting class was not old enough in September, so they had to wait until January to begin school In kindergarten, we did the nor mal things we curled upon rugs for our mid morning or mid afternoon naps We colored, learned to count, learned to write our names and to distin guish colors We had regular sessions of music There were always the naughty few who would rather sit behind the piano than in front of it These disobedient children were quickly sent either to the girls' dkak room or out to the hall How well we can remember the day Miss Baudler let us try the first grade seats for size After sitting like civilized people in seats, it was rather difficult to fold our feet and sit on the floor again Then came the sad day of diptheria shots We were no longer 'big people' we had become a crowd of little five and six year olds that did notljke to have a stranger poke us in the arm with a needle In the first grade we furthered our education with the guidance of Miss Pearson and Miss Helen Was it in first grade that Peg Adkins took Joe Brower down and sat on him9 n l , . ' v1 V - l :Q ' , o o o o O o o o o l I

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!Senior History Continued! Kathryn Van Grouw and Allan Church joined our happy throng in the second grade. Kathryn was not here very long before she was sent out to the hall The teacher told her she was talking to Joe Brower, but Kathryn says that Joe didn't talk with her' Remember when Betty Mulder came to Sheldon in third grade she had the cutest blond pipe curls! From her actions we all gathered she d d not like our company Third grade is memorable in another way we gan to use ink' Do you recall how hard we tried to get our continuous ovals to look like tunnels9 In the fourth grade, some of us cons1dered ourselves full blooded opera stars The reason we took part in the operetta, 'Jack and the Beanstalkn The fourth grade was 1n one small scene, and we knew noddng of the existence of any other part of the performance! At last, we were old enough to go to the second floor We ha four teachers 1U fifth grade After recess in the afternoon, the four teachers taught for fifteen minutes 1n each room It was also during our stay ln fifth grade that a group of girls started playing Ncorner kickn This game caused many a feud between the boys and girls he had Miss Russell and Miss Danielson for our teachers 1n sixth grade These teachers were very pretty, and were liked by everyone It was during th1s year that Delphine Hascall and Joyce Ellerbroek be gan with us Marion Posthumus attended Sheldon School for one per1od of six weeks this was Just long enough for him to splatter 1nk over When we entered seventh grade our egos were once more 1nflated one group of girls began calling themselves by their last names Cguess they thought themselves a bit more important than anyone else!D It was 1n this grade that MISS Delanef introduced the word Hsuperfluousn to us Everyone remembers V153 Furlong, our eighth grade science teacher She once told Mlke Dailey that he had a nice slushy face to slap! If we remember correctly she d1d slap h1m' host of us w1ll never forget the f1rst day in Sheldon High School' Remember the many new faces the new teachers, unfamiliar halls strange desks with only one armo The local toplc Ed uordon, was one of the new ibut well known! freshmen , i . -- be- . . d all the girls in the room! I y ' '-' ' A' X n , . A . . , . . ' 2 1 . Q , N '