Wausa High School - Viking Yearbook (Wausa, NE)

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Smvuvl 3 ta NAME NICKNAME AMBITION HOW THEY KILL TIME CHARACTERISTIC Gary Anderson Rube Be superintendent of Wausa High Wandering around Long strides Marilyn Anderson Cleone To marry a millionaire No time to kill Musical ability Patricia Beecher Pat Scrub floors Doing her own cooking Brains Roland Begier Rollie To be a third Rudolph Valentino Making eyes Sideburns Norman Creutz Norm Run a cigar store Just talkin’ and laughin’ Glasses Lowell C. Erickson Puff Be a Supreme Court Judge Studying Athletic ability LoWell R. Erickson Little Lowell To be seven feet tall Talking to girls Butch haircut Marjorie Erickson Maggie Raise cats Gawking Dimples Lajean Larson Lars To sing with Mario Lanza Singing Jeanie with the light brown hail Dennis Lindquist Denny To be a minister Reading newspapers Baby-face Douglas Lindquist Doug Be a lady killer Going to school His way with girls Lora Lee Lingren Pinky To look like Lou Reading books Blonde hair, blue eyes Lorna Lou Lingren Red To look like Lee Writing letters Blonde hair, blue eyes Dean Linquist Link To quit blushing Giggling Shyness Leigh Lorenson Lover Boy To hum “Dear” Looking for a girl Freckles Carol Moline Mutt Learn to play an accordion Riding around in a Model A Poodle hair cut Geneva Newman Stina Be a gossip editor Not telling Saucy ways Elaine Olsen Lanic Run an old maids home Talking Tall stature Lynne Seagren Lynnie To write a book on “Writing Books” Riding the school bus Smiling Marilyn Shallberg Shab Be a brunette movie star Walking home Carefree ways Betty Somerfeld J ack To be famous Daydreaming Big green eyes Willis Stenberg Willy Get a new Ford Victoria Doing home work Seriousness Shirley Swanson Squirley Be a partner in the old maids’ home Hard to tell Studiousness Wayne Wrick Jesse Join Joey Chitwood’s Taking corners Comical faces Auto Dare-devils

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The plane arrived in London ahead oi schedule, and Marilyn and I decided to take in a concert yet that evening. You can imagine our surprise when we found that the program featured Lowell H. Erickson and his all girl orchestra. We enjoyed the concert very much and afterwards went back stage to talk to Lowell. We told him of the former classmates we had met and we asked him if he knew the whereabouts of any of the others. He told us that Lou was teaching home ec. in the military academy at West Point, and that Lee was a dietician in a hospital for mentally unbalanced cats. Our next stop was Sweden. We docked at Stockholm, and there to greet us was Marilyn Anderson, her clarinet, and the Sweet Swedes. Marilyn had heard that we were coming, so had brought her band down to welcome us. She invited us to be her guests during our stay in Sweden, and we spent several enjoyable days with her. We learned from Marilyn that Elaine Olsen was modeling fur coats in Siberia. From Sweden we went to France. One day as we were sight-seeing in Paris, we came upon a cafe called “The Viking.” Curious as to the reason for the Swedish name, we went inside. As the hostess came toward us we recognized her as Geneva Newman. Geneva told us that the number of old friends who had visited her cafe was amazing. She said that our former superintendent, Mr. Johnson--who, by the way, is now Secretary of the Navy--had stopped by just the week before. Dennis Lindquist had been there too. He had spent the last three years searching for a crack in the iron curtain. When Geneva talked to him, he was on his way back to the United States for a sledge hammer. He declared that if he couldn't find a crack in the iron curtain, he would make one! Taking up our travels again, we went to Italy. While touring there we met Betty Somerfeld. She was working for her masters degree in photography, and for her thesis she was searching for the answer to the age-old question, “What made Mona Lisa smile?” Uur next jaunt was a non-stop flight to China, We really got a bang out of our arrival there--Margie Erickson’s fire-cracker factory blew up just as we landed. We had quite a chat with Margie, It seems that fellow from Norfolk was really Chinese, and he and Margie had gotten married and moved to China soon after Margie’s graduation. From China we flew to Hawaii, where we landed amid such yelling as we hadn’t heard since the last basketball game of the season when we were seniors at WHS. An attendant informed us that all the noise was coming from a cheerleading school next to the airport, Marilyn and I decided to go over and have a look while waiting for the plane to re-fuel. We went to the main office where we found the name, K,V. Tad- lock, on the door. No one was in so we went out where the girls were practicing and, sure eno.ugh, there sat the former coach of the Wausa High Vikings, We didn’t aave much time to talk to Coach, but he did tell us that Willis Stenberg was manufacturing jeep rockets in Honolulu, As we began our flight back to the good old U.S.A., the stewardess turned on the plane’s television set. The program was a wrestling match with masked lady wrestlers. One of the wrestlers was singing while waiting for the bell. Her voice sounded strangely familiar, but we were still surprised when the wrestlers unmasked at the end of the match. The songstress was Lajean Larson! As soon as we landed in Los Angeles we went to the post-office, as we had asked to have all our mail forwarded to the West Coast, We gave our names to the clerk at the general delivery window and as he looked for our mail he asked if we weren’t from Wausa. Wh«n we said we were, he told us that ht was Leigh Lorenson, a former classmate. It seems the city of Los Angelet heard about Leigh’s post-office experience back in Wausa, We learned from Leigh that Douglas Lindquist was broadcasting kangaroo races in Australia, Leigh was busy so we collected our mail and left the building, Marilyn was very absorbed in a certain letter that she had received, and she ran right into a young Admiral of the Navy, As the Admiral helped Marilyn up, I recognized his shy smile as that of Dean Linquist, We didn’t stay long in California as we wanted to spend a week in Wausa before going back to work. On the plane as we were flying to Nebraska, we met Carol Moline, She told us that she had a television program and was singing and playing the guitar. Carol now has long blond hair. It seems she got a complex from that “poodle cut” she got back in '51, She told us she had become a blond because blond hair shows up better on television screens--but we wonder. We hardly recognized our old home town when we arrived there. It has become quite large since Shirley Swanson founded the Wausa Women’s College, We, of course, went to see Shirley, who is president of her college. As we talked over our high school days and the present status of all our classmates, we agreed that we were pretty proud of being alumnae of good old Wausa High! Patricia Beecher Marilyn Shallberg

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Sonia CicwA Will CARY ANDKRSON leaves his cold plated Ford to Merle Larson and his ever-present deck of cards to the Junior English Class in the nope that they will put it to as good use as he has. MARILYN ANDERSON bequeaths her rosy cheeks to Lois Hillberg and her loud telephone conversations to JaNelle Fink. PATRICIA BEECHER wills to Warren Monson her ability to get A's and her seat in front of Donnie Marlatt to Sonja Carlson. NORMAN CREUTZ wishes Rowan Nelson to have his cornet and place in band. His well-developed cranium he wills to DeMar Burns hoping he puts it to as good use as he himself did. MARJORIE ERICKSON wills her quick temper to LaVon Johnson and her diamond ring to all the WHS girls who wish they had one ROLAND BEGIER leaves his nickname to Terry Mainquist and his girlish figure to Rhoda Huh. LOWELL R. ERICKSON beaueatha to Julian Smith his way with girls. His ever-lasting jokes go to Delwyn Norman with the good wishes that he will add some new ones. LOWELL C. ERICKSON wishes Eldon Ellerbruch his athletic ability hoping that it will add much to the WHS glory. His bashfulness with girls he leaves with Dennis Hult. CAROL MOLINE leaves her poodle cut to Marlene Windell and her ability to acquire boy-friends to Barbara Anderson. ELAINE OLSEN leaves her tall stature to Warren Udd who could put it to a much better use than she. She leaves her worrying ways to Rodney Wilbeck. DOUGLAS LINDQUIST bequeaths his comical ways to Jerry Swanson with the hope that JerTy can use them well. His singing ability he wills to Wylie Burns. DENNIS LINDQUIST wishes David Nordstrom to have his size 13 basketball shoes and his colorful vocabulary is to go to Lorey Anderson. LEIGH LORENSON wishes Frank Olson to have his countless girl-friends and he leaves his car to anyone who can run out of gas more than he. GENEVA NEWMAN wills her place as cheerleader to anyone less peppy than she. She also leaves her expressive eyes to Gary F’uelberth. WILLIS STENBERG bequeaths his pick-up to Barbara Carlson and his devotion to one girl, to any boy who has more than three. BETTY SOMERFELD wills her supposedly quiet ways to Beverly Hanson and to Lois Norman she leaves her interest in Osmond with the best of luck. LORN A LOU LINGREN leaves her dimples to Garold Hagberg and her numerous boy-friends to Elda Lorenson with the wish that she will treat them as nicely as Lou did. LORA LEE LINGREN bequeaths her flute playing ability to anyone who wants it and her love of an argument to Celia Kumm. DEAN LINQUIST wishes to leave his quiet manners with Betty Surber and his bookkeeping ability to Junior Newman. WAYNE WRICK wills his cautious driving to Marlyn Carlson hoping he will use as many wheels going around corners as he did. He sadly leaves his night life to Arviaa Mattson. MARILYN SHALLBERG leaves to Joyce Norman her carefree ways and her interest in the navy to JoAnn Johnson. LYNNE SF AGRF N wills to Billy Eifert her good deportment with the knowledge that he will improve it and to Vonel Anderson she leaves her ability to get tilings done. SHIRLEY SWANSON wishes Dennys Herold to have her blushes and she leaves her basketball playing ability to Deanna Ayers. LAJEAN LARSON wills her dramatic airs to Ralph Prather and her ability to get along with the teachers to Connie Haley. THE SENIOR CLASS, as a final tribute to the underclassmen of WHS, will them their ninth periods knowing that they will use them to a good advantage; we also leave our old, torn and tattered books on the condition that you will diligently look for the missing pages. This will is done and sealed this twenty-first day of May, nineteen-hunared and fifty-two, in Wausa, Nebraska. IJJoajlshjl, Elbrus?