Titonka High School - Indian Yearbook (Titonka, IA)

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Our next stop was at Helena, Ark. Marilyn Davis, Marion Davis, and James Gardner got off. Donald Gerdis got on our boat and our new captain was Miss Norma Abbas. At Memphis, Tenn. Miss Phyllis Beam took over as captain. No one got off but Kent Hoover, Sharon Ringsdorf and Colleen Rippentrop decided to come along with us. St. Louis, Mo. was our next stop and Phyllis Swyter, William Ether- ington and Janyce Sill got on. Miss Cleo Nelson also decided to come along and she was appointed our captain. Mrs. Mabel Dunmire took over as our captain on our stop at Omaha, Neb. Phyllis Swyter, William Etherington, Jack Carr and Merdith Wibben did not continue with us but Verla Janes and Paul Carlson decided to come with us. Our next stop was at Sioux City, Ia. and Mrs. Mary Oesterricher took over as captain and Marlene Baughman, Shirley Eden, Marilyn Fergeson. Rita Miller, Phyllis Swyter and Harold Simmons came along with us. Elaine Sonnenberg, Marlene Laughman and Harold Simmons left us before we were ready to stop. Our last stop on this journey was at Rainbow Bridge in Titonka Ia. Robert Eden, Donald Fritz, Gertrude Harms, James VanHove, Gary Zwie- fel, Duane Hanna, Marcine Hanna all came along with us. The only one that didn't come with.us was Marilyn Fergerson. Our Captain was Mrs. Carrie Torgersen. After all those stops we were now ready to start on the last four laps of our educational journey. Our captain now was Mr. Sylvan Theisse. We picked up Thelma Ullman, Ernest Beenken, David Boeckholt, Dean Boyken, David Buffington,.Herbert Harms, Ronald Krause, Gresham Roskamp, Wil- liam Smidt, Maryls Stecker, Carol Reith, Evelyn Williamssen, Violet Baade, Marcella Boekelman, Glora Ann Tjarks, Marilyn Peterson, Sharon Schutjer, Elaine Sonnenberg, Mervin Bruns, and Wendell Christensen. At the end of this lap we lost Mervin Bruns and Wendell Christensen. Beginning our next lap Mr. Sylvan Theisse was still our captain. Rose Boever came with us and Paul Carlson and Janyce Sill left us. At the end of this lap David Buffington and Eldon McColley also left us. On our next to the last lap Sharon Ringsdorf and Carol Johnston stay- ed behind and Myrth Akkerman came with us. Mrs. Beulah Mae Budlong was our captain. On our last lap of our educational journey Mr. Sylvan Theisse was a- gain our captain. Carol Reith left us and the trip was completed by the class of 1954. ents. James V. I like to shoot off my mouth at the party today Doris K. I frowed up ADOLESCEN CE is when seniors start to bring up their par Gary Z. Why do you brush your teeth with gunpowder'7 Mother: L Tell the minister what Mama's little darling did

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I, RUSSELL FISHER, will my clever pranks in study hall to LYNN STRU- THERS. I, DONALD FRITZ, will my ability to look innocent to PAUL TJADEN I, DAVID BOECKHOLT, will my ability to get watermelon at my girls place to ROBERT ROSKAMP I, DONALD GERDIS, will my fliver to anyone who can get it into working condition. MARLYS STECKER, will my long legs to JERRY MCGURIE EVELYN WILLEMSSEN, will my ability to leave the class will in the cook book to future seniors. I, COLLEEN RIPPENTROP, will my witty conversations to GARLENE GRAY MARCINE HANNA, will my cheerleading ability to future cheerleaders. I, I I 7 I I, GERTRUDE HARMS, will my stiff neck to any one who wants it. I, MARILYN CALLIES, will my muscles to WALTER SMITH I, VERLA JANES, will my diamond ring to no one, I want it myself. I, ROBERT EDEN, will my quiet ways to NORETA'TRUNKHILL. I, MARILYN PETERSON, will my graceful walk to DORIS HIPP Four senior girls namely: DORIS, COLLEEN, BETTY and EVELYN will their tea parties in physics to MR. YATES for future use next year Herein lies the class will of '54 signed, sealed and delivered to the un- derclassmen and faculty in the presence of the Executor MR. TIMER HARMS. 1- awww- CLASS HISTORY We started up the Mississippi in our steam boat with Miss Gladys Gro- om as our captain. Those who started out on the trip were Maxine Batt, Marilyn Callies, Ina Lee Heifner, Carol Johnston, Doris Kuchenruether, La- vonne Lund, Betty Ann Miller, Sharon Paulson, Colleen Rippentrop, Elaine Sonnenberg, Patrica Kruchenberg, James Gardner, Paul Fisher, Russell Fis- her, Robert Hofmann, James Honken, Eldon McColley, Bruce Orthel, and Larry Peterson. Our first stop was at Greenville, Miss. Those that left us were Patrica Kruchenberg, Lavonne Lund, Colleen Rippentrop, and James Honken.Those we picked up were Jane Amesbury, Marion Davis, Marilyn Davis, Jack Carr, Glenn Welp and Donald Rippentrop, including our new captain Miss Isa- belle Miller.

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PROPHECY In my old age I sat in my rocking chair paging through my scrap book until I came to a picture of my classmates. This set me to wondering what happened to all my old friends. As I sat thinking about them I dropped off into dreamland. The first one to appear in my dream was MYRTH AKKERMAN, she was running a first class elephant farm in Africa. Next appeared MARILYN CALLIES, EVELYN WILLEMSSEN, and GLORIANN TJARKS. They are all nurses but they say Gloriann was leaving the profession soon to mar- ry a millionaire, who was one of her patients. The other two are definitely going to be old maids. As I was walking down the street I saw a sign which said Van Hove's Parlor of Peace one block north. I followedthis sign and found JAMES VAN HO'VE as the mortician for his brother's funeral parlor. He took me home to meet his wife who was none other than SHIRLEY EDEN. Her maid was another classmate, PHYLLIS SWYTER. It seemed they were such good friends in high school that they couldn't be separated and James could only marry one. DEAN BOYKEN and ERNEST BEENKEN had a combination lunch room and service station. Their motto is L Service with a Wink , and to help them with business was MARILYN PETERSON, who was always a good natured gal in her school daysg she was their chief cook and bottle washer. COLLEEN RIPPENTROP is an interior decorator. Her first class pain- ter is DONALD FRITZ. Their project for the week was the decorating of the White House, for the President, which is none other than HERBERT HARMS. RUSSELL FISHER and LARRY PETERSON are his Chauf- feur's and each are driving the latest car especially designed for him. The car is a cross between a hot rod and Mehlan's old Ford better known as a puddle jumper. What a car. MARCELLA BOEKELMAN is a Power's Model in Chicago. Working across the street in Arthur Murray's dance studio was GRESHAM ROS- KAMP. He always did like the girls. Hump. That was funny, can you think of anything better to like? BETTY MILLER and RITA MILLER now own the Waldorf Astoria. WILLIAM SMIDT is chief janitor. It took him quite a while to work up that far. THELMA ULLMANN and GARY ZWEIFEL own Tonys Super Mar- ket , the largest in the midwest. They give away rotten potatoes as a cus- tomer special.