University High School - Eagle Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Senior Class Prophecy lt was a dark lonely street with the wind whipping through the air. Suddenly a car tore down this street and stopped with a screech of brakes. A body was thrown out, and the car made a swift departure. From a faintly lighted window above, someone saw this drama. Quick- ly the knitting neighbor dashed to the phone and asked for the police. Claudia Anderson calling from 94 Speigelbaum Avenue. A body was just dumped in front of my house. Police Chief Cochran answered tersely that an investigator would be sent immediately. . Five minutes later a rather blase figure appeared 'on the scene. This was the inves- tigator. Fred Cooper, the ambulance driver, and Dr. Robert Powers informed the inves- tigator that the person was still alive. They stowed the body into the ambulance and drove off. After the ambulance clattered away, Chas. D. Murphy, investigator, began work. He bounded up the stairs to the abode of Miss Anderson. The most interesting thing she told him was that the car was a i955 Atometer car with the license number OO9835. Her eyes were too weak to see the color of the car. Investigator Chas. D. bounded down the stairs and rushed to a telephone in a nearby drug- store. He checked with the police department on a stolen Atometer. Mr. Murphy bounded fagaini into a run- down night club. You the owner? questioned investigator Murphy. Yea answered Mr. George Denny. Lost an Atometer car? Yea answered Mr. Denny. Know who stole it? Na answered Mr. Denny. ,With the conversation thus exhausted, Murphy started to leave the night club when a piano player, Don Fletchall, began to ac- company a singer, Carol Tupy. The song struck Chas. D., and so did a blackjack. The two pretty nurses-Pat Dixon and Doris Jeffries-rushed to the telephone and called Police Chief Dick Cochran. They inform- ed him that a patient found on the doorstep of the hospital-efficiently managed by Mary Ann Bates and endowed by the great artist, Donna Rae Kirby, - kept yelling that the song Your Red Wagon was a clue. Cochran called the famous lady detective, Miss Lois Wustefeld, on the case. She, follow- ing the scientific method, decided to visit the person who had been thrown out of the stolen Atometer. This man, millionaire Don Hergert, said he had been kidnapped, his wallet had been stolen, and he had been dumped into the street. Following investigator Murphy's hunch, she ask him about the song Your Red Wagon. He told her that his high school friends had often associated that song with him. At last on the trail, lady detective Wuste- feld visited the singer. Carol, who had known Mr. Hergert in school, after fearfully looking in all the dark corners, whispered that the Skull had done the dirty work to Hergert, had stolen the car, and had blackjacked the inves- tigator. She had overheard the Skull when he was at the night club one evening. James Asby, a garage owner, called Miss Wustefeld and told her that the lost Atometer had been brought to him for a paint job. Detective Wustefeld climbed into a cab driven by Wayne Puckett. The cab was rather unusual because it continually went ta-pocka ta-pocka ta-pocka. VVith her she had her secretary Caroline Crosier, her body guard Wayne Deay, and the world famous photographer, Myrtle Lassen. The taxi ta-pockated them to the garage where they hid under some empty gaso- line drums. When the unsuspecting Skull walked in to claim the car, Myrt snapped a picture of the Skull, Lois arrested him, Wayne applied the handcuffs, and Caroline took down his confession in shorthand at five hundred words a minute lthe Skull talked double-talki. The right honorable Judge C. D. Christian sentenced the Skull to five years in the Army with Sergeant John Evers over him, after the jury had agreed he was guilty. Detective Wustefeld and investigator Murphy were honored for their sleuthing at a reception given by Mr. Hergert. Carolene Callahan sang at the reception. Two other distinguished guests were Mrs. Betty Griffin, the famous novelist and Mr. Myrl Powell, the renowned chemist. Compliments of the Skyline Club

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.ziggy ,L rv- Qffif ' . 5: l.L.' , 1 'xi -42.1-,.f 1 Each year the Pep Club honors the basket- ball team at a Pep Club Formal. lt is the custom to have a queen, and attendants, chosen fin- ally by the basketball team. On the night of March 23, l948, the annual event was held in the Kansas Room of the Union Building. The Queen and attendants were to be announced promptly at 9:00. As the time grew near, excitement grew. The uppermost thought in every girl's mind was, Really fellows, I don't see how you could have elected anyone but me. .A ,. R dyes-, . .. 3, - T T ef- M- Q ,s+Jffe. - -Q P-A At 9:00 on the dot Caroline Crosier came in and announced that Ethel May Houk had been elected Queen, with Phyllis Lytle and Pat Daniel as attendants. Ethel May then came through the open door escorted by C. J. Elliott, followed by Phyllis Lytle and Bob Powers, Pat Daniels and Lee Barlow. George Denny then crowned the Queen. Following the coronation, Teresa Osma played a violin solo and Margaret Latimer sang a solo. Oh, yes! What a gorgeous evening and what a beautiful Queen. Compliments of the Frifzel-Jayhawk Dairy

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rganiza tions The mighty cheerleaders who never let the team down. Our Scintillating Pep Club This page sponsored by Your Commonwealth Lawrence Theatres Girl Scouts Hi-Y Y-Teens