Washington High School - Panther Yearbook (Oconto Falls, WI)

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,.......-use alll M' The last bell had rung, Mrs, Kilmer was taking roll, and all was quiet in the Senior Assembly. That is, except for JEAN HIDDE. As usual, she was talking to TED HORNICK. ...and Ted, I had the stranges dream last night. I dreamed we were at class re- union in 1961. It was so exciting to hear what all the kids were doing, Tell me about it, Jean, Idon't think Mrs. Kilmer will mind if we talk a little longer. Well, O.K. It semmed very natural, Everybody was there--even Mrs. Kilmer and Mr. Allen. They both looked about the same, except their hair was much whiter, the re- sult of ten more years of advising seniors. You were there, Ted, You had a leave from the Navy and you were telling us all about your girls in everyport. I had stopped off at the reunion on my S 10,000 vacationthat Iwon for talking the longest on Truth or Con- sequences. MMARION LOTTER had brought us all some cheese from her husband's cheese fac- tory. ELDORA STEVENS broughtus a sample of her products, toog she is president ofthe Triple-Bubble Gum Corporation, NORENE ANDERSON and RUTH MARKS were going to entertain us by singing a duet, but it didn't sound very good--Norene was singing 'Oh Johnny, and Ruth was singing Mickey ! We had some wonderful movies shown by PAT PLAIN. She is a very successful owner of a chain of theaters in Miami, EILEEN EL- LIOTT was taking notes for a big write-up in the New York Sun. The paper ran a series of articles about aprofessional girl'sbasket- ball team CAROL HALE had started. While p 23 Class Prophecy I K JERRY BRAMSCHREIBER was here, hegave a guest lecture to Miss I-lansen's physics class. He was a famous atomic scientist. DAN WESSLEY was still king-- King of the Cowboys. ADRAIN STE. MARIE was sup- posed to go to Hollywood withDan to take care ofhis horses, but his car wouldn't go any fut- then than Kelly Lake. Theywere still pulling the same old gags and I was laughing in my sleep. DIAN WEITRZYKOWSKIwas inHolly- wood, too. She had replaced Betty Grable. ELAINE and DOROTHY LOBERGER had leading roles on the television program, John's Other Wives. JOAN DE COCH was a star of Portia Faces life. and the quiz master for the Quiz Kids was BYRON PHIL- LIPS. JEAN and JOYCE LONGHURST show- ed us their pictures in Vouge under the cap- tion 'Which Twin had the Toni? JEAN ROSENBERT was on the cover of the mag- azine. She was Power's favorite model. ESTHER BERNA'S picture was there, toog she was posing for Colgate tooth paste ads. Some of the kids were still in Oconto Falls. IONE MCDERMID owned the 'Oconto Falls to Green Valley cab service. CLAR- ENCE RHODE and DICK CALDIE were run- ning a shoe store which specialized in high heels for girls. They brought along samples and insisted Katheryn Nickodem try them on. Bob Hammond's jobrhad been taken over by LESTER PETERSON. MARILYN TACHICK had her own radio program onthe Falls sta- tion. JIM COURCHAINE ran the Knock-Em- Down bowling alleys here. BOB RATZ was a famous lawyer. He was

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Class Will We the Class of '51, Washington High School, Oconto Falls, Wisconsin, being of sound mind, do hereby make, publish and declare this to be our last will and testa- ment. GWEN ANDERSON--Leaves the Red Owl to hoot by itself. NORENE ANDERSON--Leaves her red hair to Joan Washkow. ESTER BAIN--Leaves her snap, crackle, and pop to Joan Tisch. ESTER BERNA--Leaves her quiet way to Betty Bitters. ROBERT BITTERS--Leaves his tardiness to Earl Peters. ROBERT BLAZEK--Leaves his wavy hair to Melvin Francois. JEROME BRAMSCHREIBER--Leaves his shoes to the U.S.Navy for use as distroy- ers. NATHALIE BRAUN--Leaves her cheerful disposition to the teachers. After we're gone, they'l1 need it. LUCILLE BRICKNER--Leaves her always present smile to Jack Johnston. RICHARD CALDIE--Leaves his legs to Betty Grable. BETTY LUE CARRIVEAU--Leaves her lovely self to'?'??????'?'?'?????? JAMES COURCHAINE--Leaves his excuses for absence for Mr. Allen to figure out. CHRISTINE DAFT--Leaves her bashfulness to Neil Bigelow. JOAN DE COCK--Gives her bangs back to the fire cracker. MARGARET ANN EHLINGER--Leaves her debating ability to Mr. Moss. EILEEN ELLIOTT--Gives her sailor boy back to the Navy. LORNA FULLER--Leaves the Spruce dance hall to Spruce. DELORES GAERTIG--Leaves her perfect attendance to anyone who is always absent. CAROL HALE--Leaves her demerits to the teachers. JEAN HIDDE--Leaves her position as pres- ident of The Ladies Aid in 6thhour assembly to Ted Burdosh. TED HORNICK--Leaves his class ring to the highest bidder in the Junior Class. LEONARD JISE--Le aves hi s ma netic charms to attract women to Butch Recgman. JAMES KADLEC--Le av e s his nickname, Minnow, to all fish hatcheries. JOHN KNUDSON--Leaves school to go out into the world and compete withEinstein. JOYCE KOVNESKI--Leaves her engagement ring to no one. DENNIS LARSEN--Le ave s his neat dark hair to the Kreml ads. - JOYCE LEONARD--Leaves Don to Sally. DOROTHY LOBERGER--Le ave s her fine classroom conduct to Kenneth Tracey. ELAINE LOBERGER--Leaves Alex to the Gillett girls. HERBERT LOBERGER--Leaves his desk-- forever. JEAN LONGHURST--Leaves the bakery to Elden. JOYCE LONGHURST --L e a v e s her short hair-do to Susie Grosse. ' CAROL LOTTER- -L e av e s h e r student theater ticket to next year's freshmen. MARION LOTTER--Gives the Crosley back to Mr. Brown. JOYCE MAGEE--Leaves her love of the Kelly Lake Casino to Elroy Peters. RUTH MARKS--Gives Mickey back to Walt Disney. IONE MCDERMID--L e a v e s h e r driving ability to Teddy Treptow. AUDREY NELSON--Leaves her last name to Ozzie and Harriet. KATHRYN NICKODEM--Leaves her giggles to Bob Hope. LESTER PETERSON--L e av e s hi s nick name for Mrs. Kilmer to fi ure out. BYRON PHILLIPS--Gives Sis regards to all as pumps--especially 66. PATRICIA PLAIN'--Leaves her bruises to the football team. BETTY PRAUSA--L e av e s h e r athletic ability to Tom Bramschreiber. ROSEANNE RATZBERG- -Leaves her artis - tic ability to Whistler's mother. ROBERT RATZ--Leaves his hot rod to the scrap drive. CLARENCE RHODE- -Leaves his red hair to the fire department. JEANNE ROSENBERG--Leaves her height to Dorothy Waschbisch. ROBERT ROTTER--Leaves his superb abil- ityto relax at all times, especiallyin class, to insomnia sufferers. ADRIAN STE. MARIE--Leaves his cracks to the plaster company. BARBARA SCHEFFEL--Leaves to trade in her name for a new one. ELDORA STEVENS--Leaves her ability to get the most out of a stick of gum. NTONE SUTRICK--Leaves his grin to Clark Gable. MARILYN TACHICK--Leaves her musical talent to Mr. Shannon. MARION VALENTINE--Leaves her leader- ship to Leonard MaGee. JANE VANBOVEN--Leaves Oconto Falls to go to Oconto--the traitor. JOYCE WALSKI--Leaves her quiet grace to Norbert Becker. ANITA WARD--Leaves Douley to next year's track team. DANNIEL WESSLEY--Leaves his popular- ity to bashful freshmen. PAT WHITCOMB--Leaves her highheels to anyone who can walk in them. SYLVIA WHITE--Leaves her name to the Rinso Company. DIAN WIETRZYKOWSKI--Leaves her cute figure to all thosewho must resort to diet- ing and excercise.

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giving LEONARD JISA advice onaubreach of promise suit. BETTY PRAUSA and AUDREY NELSON had become avery famous roller skating team and had just returned from a tour of Europe. They trained at NATHALIE BRAUN'S Kelly Lake Casino. Nathalie's only competition was from the dance hall BOB BLAZEK built across the lake. LORNA FULLER was the main attract- ion there. MARGARET ANN EHLINGER was abuy- er for Marshall Fields Fashion Floor in Chicago. They featured a new department of clothes designed by ROSEANN RATZBERG of Paris, and Iactually dreamed lsaw them modeled. GWEN ANDERSEN worked in the Milwaukee zoo. Her speciality was Red Owls. JIM KADLEC was 1-unningalarge soda fountain 'on Hollywood and Vine. MARION VALENTINE was out west also. She trained drum majorettes at U.C.L.A. BOB ROTTER had made a fortune selling crutches to in- jured football players there. BOB BITTERS was known as the 'Lumber King of the West ! CHRISTINE DAFT owned a ranch in Reno, and DELORES GAERTIG kept house for Otto in San Francisco. KATHRYN NICKODEM was on the other coast, She served as per- sonal secretaryto the President. PAT WHIT- COMB told us she was debating for the U.N. She stays at.JOYCE WALSKE'S hotel at Lake Success. ANITA WARD and Dooley were on their way to Africa to hunt wild game. The record for swimming the English Channel had just been broken by LUCILLE BRICKNER. AN- TONE SUTRICK went south--he established a Bachelors' Club in South America. JANE VANBOVEN found her husband in China, and JOHN KNUDSON was in Hawaii dancing with the Hula-hula girls. He brought one home with him. WCAROL LOTTER was disowned because she elopedwwith the owner of the Frigidare Company. BARBARA SCHEFFEL was happ- ily married and had just had her second set of quintuplets. BETTY LUE CARR IVEAU had preferred a career to marriage. She was singing with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York. The teachers were so surprised to learn that HERBERT LOBERGER had justbeen el- ected State Superintendent of Schools, and JOYCE MAGEE was his assistant. DENNIS LARSEN played bass in the University of Wisconsin pep band. JOYCE LEONARD was teaching country school at Krakow. ESTHER BAIN was at La Cross learning to be a Phy Ed teacher. She gave us excercises to do, and believe it or not, Ted, I'm stiff. JOYCE KOVNESKI was writing the Dorothy Dix column. SYLVIA WHITE had traced her ancestry back to Snow White and she was living with the Seven Dwarfs. 'Gee Jean, what did you eat before you went to bed? 'I know it was just adream, Ted, and yet it was so real. It seemed just as if--oh, oh, I think Mrs. Kilmer really wants us to shut up. But Teddy, what do you think we will re- ally be doing then?