Wapello High School - Ollepaw Yearbook (Wapello, IA)

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l - . J 5 ' P IBN 4 fx 'J 5 jx W1 if R i' i lfolf 'f 'av eaiaz ln the fall of 1951 fifty two fresh men entered Wapello High School Thirty one of these are in our gradu ating class of 34 Of these 34 nine teen started together in kindergarten in 1942 Sixteen have gone to school to wether all these years They are Diane Elliott Harlan Hayes Jerry Jack Robert Schafer Marilyn Schneider Jackie Small Jack Stephens Janet Gerling Ruth Hinds Thelma Jean Hutchison Beverly Maddux Marvin Mills Burns McNeil Mary Ella Reutinger Richard Schneider and Wardell Edvington Erik McWilliams Leonard Eversmeyer and Pearl Mae Wright started with the class but mov ed away and returned to graduate with the Group Our teachers in kinder garten were Miss Lesseny and Miss Todd In the first grade Norma Brauns Robert Pealer and Lucy Jane Grimm joined the class Our teachers were Mrs Fisher and Mrs Kasiske Dur ing the year most of us took our first train ride We rode to Morning Sun and came back in a truck No new members joined durinv the second grade when our teachers were Miss Rehder and Miss McGill When we came back in the fall of 1945 Gary Grouwinkel, Harold Hayes and Ronnie Winslow were new members of our class Our teachers were Mrs Wavg and Miss Miller Mrs Karnm and Miss Zaputil were our fourth grade teachers and that year Joyce Wilson became a new member of our class and Leonard Eversmeyer who had moved away rejoined us In the fifth grade Miss Wright and Miss Scheel were our teachers at the start of the year Mrs Hoover took Miss Scheel's place when she got married Warren Asher became a member of our class this year. Burton Samuels joined us in the sixth grade. We had several teachers this year. Mrs. Frerichs and Mrs. Lesnet started the year. Mrs. Lesnet moved away and Mrs. McChesney took her place. When Mrs. McChesney couldn't stand us any longer, Mrs. Hoover took us over again. When we entered junior high we had five teachers--Miss Gross, Mrs. Hayes Mr. McGill, Miss Bissell, and Mrs. Loghry. This year we gained Rex

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fda.: 'LHP .snuff af' r--- .- .arf 17231 cmdcvz 7fzd,a Early, the morning of April 22, the juniors left on their American History trip to the Lincoln country in Illinois. All went well until just past Gulfport, Illinois, where the bus started having troubles. We had to stop every few miles to let the motor cool off, but finally arrived in Lewis- ton, Illinois, where we had a late breakfast. Our next stop was Dickson Mounds, where we visited the uncovered mounds made by a race which was here before the Indians. They were the same people who built the mounds found east of Wapello around Toolesboro. Then we were off for New Salem. After a few rest stops for the bus, we arrived at this former hometown of Lincoln, which has been reconstructed just as it was when he lived here. We saw just how a town of 1840 looked. We visited Lincoln's home and tomb and the state capitol in Springfield. Some of us shopped, bowled, and attended a movie be- fore starting home. Finally it happened--the bus just refused to go any farther, and we spent a hectic ffor the sponsorsj two hours at a crossroad oilstation waiting for another bus. We finally arrived home, but much later and tired than we had planned. v . 'Ft .'-'Z W' X i- -si, .Il I .ah 4 ' 1 If L fa- I ,x,- . .3 Ill' 'ht J-R DR. J, A. THATCI-IER, OPTOMETRIST SCHWOB PLUMBING AND HEATING MILLS D-X SERVICE DURBIN HATCHERY

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Wdataw Moore and Paula Edwards. In the eighth grade Mrs. Phillips replaced Miss Bissell. In the fall of 1951 we entered high school. The big event of the year was being initiated. Britton Willits joined the class in the middle of the year, and Sharon Hammond at the first. In our sophomore year we initiated the freshmen and some of us served as waiters and waitresses at the junior- senior banquet. We were by now be- ginning to take our places in the many school activities. Being upper classmen in our junior year, we found our schedules much busier. On November 18th we gave our class play, Beauty and the Beef. That night was a doubly eventful night for one of our classmates, Marcia I-lartsock. She had a part in the play and after the play eloped. During our junior year we went on the history trip to Illinois. We visited Dixon Mounds, New Salem State Park, I..incoln's Tomb, I..incoln's home, and the Illinois State Capitol and museum. The high light of our junior year was the junior-senior banquet and all- night prom. We all felt very grown-up in our formals and new suits and ties. Durincg the summer between our junior an senior years we were terribly saddened by the accidental death of one of our classmates, Warren Asher. In the fall of 1954 we had at last reached the last rung on the ladder-- we were now seniors. We realized our school years were nearing an end. During our senior year we gained the last o our graduating class of 34, Vonnie Charbonneaux. Some ot the major activities of the senior year were our magazine sale, our class trip to Chicago, the class play, Love Your Neig bor, the junior-senior banquet and prom, and getting ready for graduation. As we filed from the auditorium following commencement, we were struck with the realization that our high school days were really over. We feel that we owe much credit to all the teachers we have had over the past 13 years. Looking back over these years we recall them as very happy ones and we are looking forward to our uture years. - I l