Waveland High School - Hornets Nest Yearbook (Waveland, IN)

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 THEY WENT FORTH TO SERVE” by THE CLASS OF 1957 This summer (I960) we girls who graduated from Waveland High in 1957, reunited and planned a week vacation in New York. When our va- cation arrived, we met once again at Crawfordsville and started merrily on our way to New York. At the bus station where we purchased our tickets, we were surprised to see behind the selling desk an old friend, Shirley Grimes, who graduated from Waveland a year before we did. After we had had a chat with Shirley, our bus arrived and we were on our way. We stopped for lunch at a beautiful way-side inn which was owned and operated by Chuck Davis. After being seated in the luxurious dining room, a pretty, little brunette waitress, dressed in a white uniform, strolled up to us and we recognized her as Marlene Pyle, formerly of Waveland. Back on the road, we were looking at the scenery when Mary exclaimed, Look over there! It’s a chinchilla farm, and on that sign it says 'Welcome to the chinchilla farm owned by Dick Marshall.' This came as a great shock because we had always expected Dick to become a high school principal. Settled back once again, we relaxed and reminisced the rest of the way to New York (fast busses). When we arrived at the station, we asked directions to the best hotel. After receiving this information, we hopped into a taxi and when the driver asked us where we wanted to go; we immediately detected something familiar in his voice. Delores, determined to know the truth, leaned over the front seat to have a better look; sure enough, the driver of the cab was Dennis Moody. Dennis asked us if we knew who owned the hotel where we were going. We said, No,” and he told us that Larry Myers, also of Waveland, had inherited it from a rich uncle. The hotel was the most beautiful, luxurious one we had ever seen. We stayed at the hotel and rested the first night and planned our week. The next morning we were up bright and early in order to go shopping. We went into a neat little dress shop on the corner of Broadway and 55th. The sign on the window read Shirley’s Dress Shop.” We didn’t think much about the name, but when inside, we saw Shirley Newell demonstrating a dress modeled by Joyce Whitecotton. We couldn’t figure out what was happening to New York; it seemed to be crawling with Seniors of ’56. That was nothing compared to what we saw that evening. We were go- ing into a famous night club on East Boulevard, when we noticed the hat check girl. She was Donna Starnes. We waved cheerfully to Donna and went on to our table. Patty picked up her menu and excitedly read aloud the phrase at the bottom, Compliments of the Thomas Night Club.” We decided that must be Bill Thomas, another ’56 graduate of Waveland. We sat down and, looking around, we saw a familiar looking character with black hair sitting in front of the roulette wheel with a stack of chips in front of him (apparently winning). Guess who—Rod Reynolds. After we had eaten our dinner, they presented a lovely floor show. We enjoyed the jazz music of Jim Hastings’ band and the operatic singing of June Wheeler. Most of all, though, we enjoyed the star of the show, a pretty girl, not over 21, who did a snake dance. We immediately recognized her as Marlene Miller. Page Eighteen