Tremont High School - Echo Yearbook (Tremont, IL)

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In 1950 thirty-nine freshmen entered Tremont High School. We elected jakie Kurtz for our pres- identg Riley Renfro, vice-president, Ila Sauder, secretary, janet Liscom, treasurerg Dick Connell, reporter. For our two student council represent- atives we elected Kay Koch and Ronnie Eertmoed. During the year Shirley Fuller came to school here, bringing the enrollment up to forty. We then started getting used to school with Mr. Stone as our advisor. In our sophomore year we had an enrollment of thirty-six, having lost Shirley Fuller, Judy Byrd, Barbara Holler, and Bonnie Cooper. During the second semester we also lost janet Liscom, leaving only thirty-five. Mr. Kisellus was our ad- visorg jakie Kurtz, president, jim Koch, vice- presidentg Ila Sauder, secretaryg Merle Sauder, treasurer, Arlene Rowell, reporter, Kay Koch and Dale Pflederer, student council representatives. As the fifth semester rolled around, we had thirty-three enrolled in our class, having lost jakie Kurtz and Raymond Weisenhofer. We had Miss Rener CMrs. Davisj for our advisor, Gay Herron, presidentg Roy Neville, vice-president, Marilyn Beutel, secretary, jim Koch, treasurer, Beverly Hutchison, reporterg Kay Koch, Ila Sauder, Dale Pflederer, student council representatives. Our main events were the juniorPlav and the Prom. In 1953 we started our senior year with thirty- two in the class, having lost Dorothy Guile. We had Mr. Robards for our advisor, Wayne Connell, president, Ronnie Eertmoed, vice-president, Lois Stuber, secretary, jim Koch, treasurer, Genevieve Abell, reporter, Kay Koch, Sally Strunk, Stann Riley, Dick Connell, student council represent- atives. Our main events this year were giving the Senior Play and working to raise money for our educational trip this spring.

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BARBARA KAE STEINER 'Barb' lf I knew You Were Coming, I'd Have Baked a Cake' Latin Club 1,23 Girls' Club l,2,3,43 Mixed Chorus 2,3,4g Girls' Octette 1,3,4g Hi Crier Staff 4g Band 1,2, 3,43 Class Play 35 Clarinet Quartet 45 Drum Ensemble 4. ROBERT WISEMAN 'Hob' rm Not Afraid' Football l,2,3,4g Wrestling 1,2,3,4g Track 1,2,3,4. SHIRLEY MAE WAGENBACH 'Wag' A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody' Girls' Club l,2,3,4g Mixed Chorus 1,2,3,4g Girls' Glee Club 1,25 Li- brarian 25 G.A.A. 43 Hi Crier Staff 3,43 Pep Club 4. FLOWER: White Carnation COLORS: Maroon and White MORRIS DANIEL WILDERMUTH 'My Friend' Cross Country 2,3,4: Pep Club 43 Track 45 Intramural Basketball 1,2, 3,4. MOTTO: Take the world as you find it, but leave it better.

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Scene. Tremont Space Station Time: 1975, New Yearfs Eve On this cold, wintry December 31, there is a large crowd gathered at the Tremont Space Station to witness the thrilling take-off of the first traveling circus to the moon. The circus is to leave in the famous Flying Dutchman, the big cruising space ship designed by Prof. Richard J. Connell. I can now hear a voice announcing over the spaca- phone that the Flying Dutchman will leave Tremont Station at 1:11 P.M., A. S. T. CAtomic Space Timej. This announcement seems to stir the crowd. Suddenly we notice someone breezing past us to get to the space ship. Why I should have known it would be the famous tmpeze artist - Lois 'Emily' Stuber and her flying saucer. Everyone rushes to the scene of an accident as we hear nurse Gay Herron's name blurted over the spacaphone. It explains that she is wanted on the northeast corner of the south field going west. Eertmoed must be ready to leave on the space ship this afternoon because of an appointment he has on the moon with the Moongraph Architect Company. Will he be ready to go in sixty minutes? As nurse Herron bends over his crumbled body and shoots one of her specialized supersonic shots into his arm, he immed- iately rises to his feet and is spry as a 'spring chicken' in November. Larry 'Rocket Nose' Hild, chief of the clowns, hurries over to his equipment and to his sad despair finds his three little Hilds - Eenie, Meenie, and Minie - tangled up in Donna 'Soph' Sauder's loose, tight wire. Genevieve Abell, the reporter of the circus, asksnhim where Moe' is and he says, 'There ain't no Moe. Shirley Hebner, the housekeeper of the space ship, and Barbara Steiner, the cook, come rattling and bang- ing through the crowd with all their equipment. Suddenly 'Cook' Steiner drops a jar of molasses and Morris 'Burrhead' Wildermuth, the trainer of the circus animals, unconsciously steps into the gluey mess and his pet tiger, 'Ferdinand , pulls free from him and heads for the wide open spaces. After co-captain Stan 'The Man' Riley and Riley Rinse Renfro have tugged and pulled on Morris for five minutes without budging him, they call on pro- wrestler, muscle man jim Koch. jim grabs him with one hand and pulls him out, shoes and all, with no trouble at all. As soon as Morry is freed, he notices 'Ferdy' is gone. 'Ferdy' has to leave with the rest of the circus within the hour, so something must be done. They realize no one could capture him as fast as Henry jr.' Dill, the brave man who singlehanded explored the planet Pluto. Of course, he's our man,.but - Madam Dorothy Lay arrives on the scene just in time to ex- plain that explorer Dill is on an expedition through the glass house and is lost in the House of Mirrors. Then she tells us that Roy 'Midget' Neville, midget of the meteor men, is searching for him. Suddenly Roy and Henry both appear with Ferdy , dragging him by his silver plated collar. Roy has found both explorer and 'Ferdy' lost in the House of Mirrors. N Now it seems everyone is ready for the big take-off, and it is nearing 1:11 P.M., A. S. T. The atomic door is being closed as Madam Lay lets out a loud shriek. Everyone rushes to see what is wrong. She tells them her crystal ball is missing. Everyone is furious. Genny Abell suggests that they call Dale Pflederer, the Chief of Police of the cit of Tremont, and maybe with his automatic squadmobile he can locate the ball. He is notified, and he arrives shortly after this with his two favorite Z-Men CZoom Menj, Frederick Craddick and Robert Wiseman. They bring their equipment, a space net and a book on a '202 . Their job is to get the facts. This theft has just been flashed over the ATC Met- eorvision System, when jerry Sauder, who is an astro- nomy engineer, says he has just seen a crystal ball floating through space about 100 miles southeast of Jupiter. Immediately Dorothy 'Fingers' Laidig is contacted to type a message on her atomic-run typewriter, Cwhich types 999 words a minutej, to Wayne Connell, Dictator to jupiter. He is told to keep a close watch for any flying object resembling a crystal ball. Dictator Con- nell, being well educated in astronomy, knows the crystal ball won't stay in one place very longg and as the wind is blowing from the north, he thinks perhaps it will go to the vicinity of Pluto. After studying the matter, he spacaphones to the Ambassador of Pluto, Ila June Sauder, telling her of the missing ball. She calls one of her most eligible plutomic speed men with his souped-up plutersonic space ship, Merle Sauder. Merle is entertaining Kay Koch, a Saturnalian cander- stern of the Morterates, for the afternoon with soloist Sally Strunk singing 'I see the Earth' accompanied by Marilyn Beutel's Venus-version orchestra. just then Ambassador Sauder plutogramms to Merle to go on duty immediately. Kay decides to go along for a souped-up ride and a thrill. First he has to stop and fill up on some atomic energy at Roger Ropp's Energy Station. They begin looking for the crystal ball. Suddenly Kay spies a queer object floating around in outer space. Is that the crystal ball or is that Beverly Hutchison's moonomatic ball her gym class plays with? It is the missing ball. Now wait a space second, the ball is found but how are they going to catch it? Kay quickly pulls her Saturnian Z-ray gun from her purse, pushes the button to open the space ship window,and stretches as far as she can, aiming the rays of the pistol at the ball. The crystal ball, being made of Jupertian glass, doesn't seem to be attracted to the z-rays. Suddenly she remembers the shoes with the magnetic buckle that she has on, designed by Shirley Wagenbach. Reaching out of the window again with her shoe in her hand, she can feel the magnetic force attracting the ball. In a split second the crystal ball is in the space ship - safe and sound. Immediately Kay and Merle space the crystal ball back to earth and again Madam Lay has the important object that is holding up her circus journey. It is 5:55 P.M. CA. S. TJ and the circus is ready to leave for the moon at last. Merle and Kay are still talking to their circus friends when Dorothy Laidig typeogramms a message saying that Marilyn Baurer, wife of the late Dictator of the Moon, wants to borrow the crystal ball for a few hours that evening in a presentation of the Nobel Prize to Kay Koch for finding the crystal ball. When Kay hears the message, she is so excited that she decides she'll have to have a new dressy so she and Merle fly to Saturn to Arlene Rowell's famous dress shop and buy a green one with florescent cando- spern nitrate for the trim.This is a new natural resource Ezliscovered by Miss Rowell which has brought her to ame. The circus people are so excited about the crystal ball being used in the presentation that they decide to fly to the moon for the presentation and postpone their performance until the next day. They finally reach the moon just in time for the presentation at 8:88 P.M. CA. M. TJ. Kay Koch just barely makes it because the trim of her dress on one side won't glow until she pumps more oxygen into it. Madam Baurer is in front of 90,000 people who have come to see the great presentation. She holds the prize-winning crystal ball tightly in her hand. Kay marchs in after a fan-fare, and the presentation of the Nobel Prize is made. The crystal ball is given back to Madam Lay and the circus is free to put on their per- formance the next day as planned. After spending afew hours with this ambitious class of 1954, I imagine you'll agree, WHAT A CLASS! The moral of this prophecy is: If you see a crystal ball Floating around in space, Don't hesitate to pick it up No matter what its pace. Do not try to keep it, No matter what its size, Because it may win you The great Nobel Prize.