Thornburg High School - Orange and Black Yearbook (Thornburg, IA)

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As we were standing in the lobby talking, we heard a noise that sounded like a jet had run into a stack of trash cans, We were informed by Jerome that it is the first of the twenty cars which are making the race from Canada to Mexico via Thornburg, We rushed outside to see who it is, and we found none other than the Digby Special with Larry The Monk Dugger behind the wheel, He has finished the first lap of the race well ahead of the rest of the contestants, He told us that he has stopped playing pro basketball with the Lakers, and is now designing and building sports cars, He also told us that he has received many medals and placques for safe driving and is in great demand as a speaker on safe driving for high school students, He was tired from his drive, so he decided to retire to his room for the night, Nothing would please Jerome, but that we visit his night club, He said he had a special table arranged for us and so we went night clubbing , Already seated at the table were Keith Tish and his bride, Keith isba large landowner over beyond the Munici- pal Airport, He and his bride had just returned from Bermuda on their honeymoon, On the way home they stopped in Detroit and picked us his new especially made custom built Buick, Keith has been such a good customer of the General Motors Corporation, that he gets his Buicks for cost, As it was getting late, we decided we had better get to bed so that we could see the rest of the Seniors the next day, After a good night's sleep, Jerome took us to the Municipal Airport to meet the T, W, A, flight from Oslo, Norway via the North Pole, Whom should we see step off the plane as the head stewardess, but Norma Grimm, She told us that she has worked for T, W, A, since graduating from Central, In her job she has met lots of interesting men and has finally decided on one, He is a test pilot and has just completed the first trip to the moon, She is planning on getting married in the fall, and her plans also call for a honeymoon on the moon , We asked her if she saw Nadine very often, and she told us whenever she was in from a flight, for Nadine is married and lives on a large estate south of town, We drove out to see her and she told us that after running a pre-school and taking care of other rich people's brats, she decided to let some other poor girls have the job, Nadine married one of the young bankers in town, and has started her two sets of twins into pre-school for someone else to help take care of, We observed that Nadine is no longer the hard worker that she was in high school, but she is quite adept at keeping her servants on the move, After refreshments at Nadine's house, we decided we should get back to the hotel and get our luggage as we had to catch the 5:45 Rocket from Thornburg. We boarded the train with sad hearts at leaving our old home town, but happy to know that the Seniors of 1955 were all doing so well, We hope to be able to see them all again in 1975, The Junior Class

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Class History One bright September morning twelve years ago a group of wide eyed youngsters walkedinto the first grade room, Mrs, VanDeventer was there to greet them for these youngsters were the first grade, They were Dicky Adams, Keith Cameron, Larry Campbell, jean Draegert, Vonda Lee Garrison, Norma Grimm, Alberta janecek, Deanna Laux, Patty Moore, Verneen Ott, Fay Pfeaster, Leroy Strasser and Keith Tish, The second year saw both gains and losses, The ones who left were Dicky Adams Patty Moore, and Fay Pfeaster, The new members of the class were Harvey Calvin, janet Dalezal, and Milton Debuhr. In the third grade we had three losses and no gains, We lost janet Dalezal, Milton Debuhr and Vonda Lee Garrison, Next year fifteen proud students marched into a new room with Miss Eloise Geyer as our teacher, The new members of the class were jerome Altenhofen, Fritz Augustine, Larry Dugger, Richard Holman, Larry Hunter, Norma Lee Hunter, and Nadine Merz, The ones to leave the class were Deanna Laux and Verneen Ott, In the fifth grade we had no gains and one loss, Richard Holman left us, Our teacher was Bobby Rose Edmunson, In the sixth grade we gained one and lost two, This left our class numbering thir- teen--,Ierome Altenhofen, Harvey Calvin, David Dawson, jean Draegert, Larry Dugger, Glen Grimm, Norma Grimm, Gertrude Haines, Larry Hunter, Norma Lee Hunter, Alberta janecek, Nadine Merz, and Keith Tish, Mrs, Norma Dawson was our teacher, The next year we marched up the stairs to be greeted by Mrs, Zella Morton, our seventh grade teacher, We had two losses this year, We lost Larry Hunter and Norma Lee Hunter, and gained Marilyn Utt, There were no gains or losses during our eighth grade, This left twelve of us grad- uating in May from the eighth grade--Jerome Altenhofen, Harvey Calvin, David Dawson, jean Draegert, Larry Dugger, Glen Grimm, Norma Grimm, Gertrude Haines, Alberta janecek, Nadine Merz, Keith Tish, and Marilyn Utt, In the fall, of 1950, our bright faces were seen by everyone in high school, we were now the Green Freshmen? Gertrude Haines left us after completing the e'ighth grade. jean Draegert, and Alberta Janecek left us during the year, We now have only nine enter- ing our Sophomore year, During the year we lost two, Harvey Calvin, and Marilyn Utt, In the eleventh grade we lost two more of our class--Dave Dawson, and Glen Grimm, We have now just five in our class, During our Senior year we didn't gain or lose anyone, Now as we are graduating we are five in number--two girls and three boys--Jerome Altenhofen, Larry Dugger, Norma Grimm, Nadine Merz, and Keith Tish, Norma Grimm and Keith Tish were the only ones in our class who spent all twelve years here at Thornburg. Class Prophecy The year of 1965 rolled around before we were much prepared for it, but it was time for us to journey back to Thornburg and see what had happened to the Seniors of 1955, The town has been booming and we hardly recognized it when we stepped off the Rock Island Rocket at the new modernistic depot built on the site of the old red depot, We hailed a cab, and the cab driver told us that the town city limits have absorbed the large farm that used to be to the west of the city and that the city extends clear to the strip of black top that was a part of the road to Deep River, That strip of black top is now an emergency runway for the Thornburg Municipal Airport, We were delayed in cross town traffic for fifteen minutes but finally reached the magnificient Hotel Thornburg, owned and operated by Jerome Altenhofen, jerome also owns a large night club next door to the hotel, ln fact, he is known more as a night club boy than a hotel owner, As we entered the hotel, none other than Jerome should greet us, I-le seemed very glad to see us and had much to tell us about his business ventures and night club deals, He also told us that he was planning on getting married to the star dancer in his night club revue,

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Class Will We, the class of 1955 of the city of Thornburg, county of Keokuk, and state of Iowa, being of sound mind and memory do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our last will and testament, I, Jerome Altenhofen, hereby will my Model A to Larry Walker so he can take Carrol Soults out and my ambition to study American History to Elaine Merz, To Margery Sigafoose I will my ability to try to play basketball and my ability to try to play second base in baseball to Ann White. I will my Tilton girl to Mr, Newman, so he will have someone to do his washing, My back seat in study hall, I will to Charles who had to sit in the front seat of the junior class, My ability to drive in ditches with the Model A , I will to Collen, and my share in the Senior bob sled, I will to Janice Goodnough, I, Larry Dugger, will my ability to study to David Oliver, my ability to stay out of trouble to Lester Clark, and my ability to drive a car to Max Vail, To Larry Walker I will my ability to chase pretty girls, Carmen Maxwell can have my muscular body, but my good looks go to Homer Zugg, To Charley Sigafoose, I will my ability to throw a baseball from center field to home plate, Last but not the least, I will my' '42 Chevie to Sidney although he doesn't need it, I, Norma Grimm, will my ability to play first chair clarinet to Carol McKay, To Peggy Moore, I will my freckles, if she can find room for them, My ability to make boys mad, I will to Carrol Soults and my basketball suit number 34-, I will to Collen, I will my ability to be a cheerleader to Helene Morton and my figure to Janice Goodnough To Dolores Dugger, I will my long fingernails, please don't do anything drastic with them, I will my ability to stay home every night to Margery Sigafoose, I, Nadine Merz, will my height to Ann White, To Elaine, I will my ability to get the car whenever I want it, tPerhaps you will do better'with me at collegel, My suit number 11 on the girls' basketball team, I will to anyone who works hard enough to get it, To Carmen Maxwell, I will my temper, tMake good use of it Carmen, and per- haps it will take the place of the horse laugh you use so oftenl, To Shirley Walker, I will my cheerleading position and my glasses to Cookie Morton to make her look more dignified, With great pleasure, I will my ability to take every book in my desk home at night to the new Freshmen, I, Keith Tish, will my red hair to Mr, Newman, my ability to play basketball to Karen Moore and my ability to play baseball to Larry Walker, lVly ability to stay away from the girls I will to Charlie, To David Oliver, I will my ability to study and my seat in the Senior row to Sidney, My old Buick I will to anyone who can keep gas in it, per- haps Larry Ulin could use it, I will my ability to stay out of trouble to Cookie and last but not least to Collen, my ability to get out anytime I want to, The Senior class members will their dignity, their excellent grades and their wholesome school attitude to the underclassmen, To the Faculty, we will the right to run the school the way they want to, Sometimes they find this hard to do, but perhaps they will have more luck in years to come, Signed and sealed this, our graduation day in May of 1955, The Seniors