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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
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Back at the hotel, we were all dead tired and fell asleep talking, (as usual). The next day we decided to do something that none of us had ever done before—ride on a subway. It was so crowded that we had to stand up. Every- thing was going smoothly, when all at once, we came to a jerking stop. Alma went flying through the air and plunged head-first into a nice looking man ahead of her. (What a way to meet a man!) Alma slowly picked herself up and looked up to see that victim of her flight was Jack Wheeler. We asked him what he had been doing for the past four years. He told us he and four other men had formed a basketball team and were making a world-wide tour entertaining everyone with their tricks and clever basketball moves. Well, we spent the rest of the day just looking at the different sights and historical places around New York. We were pretty well bushed when we got back to the hotel, so everyone went to bed with the intentions of getting a good night’s rest. Evidently, someone else had other plans for us. About 1:00 the next morning, I was awakened by a strange clicking noise. I sat up in bed and listened. The noise seemed to be coming from the door. A horrible thought ran through my mind. What is someone was trying to pick the lock! Instantly I jumped out of bed and woke the others. They all jumped up wondering what this was all about. As soon as we had calmed ourselves, we decided to turn out the lights and each hid in a different place. When the robbers broke in, we’d jump them. Each one of us grabbed vases, candle holders, and whatever we could get hold of; and hid behind the couch, door, and drapes. We barely breathed as we waited, then suddenly, the door flew open and the hall light cast the shadows of two tall men standing in the doorway. We were ready, though, as soon as they stepped in the door, we let them have it! Both men fell to the floor under the hard blows we had given them with our candle holders and vases. Mary ran and switched on the lights, and there on the floor lay the bruised, but familiar figures of Danny Clevenger and Don Moser. Everyone scampered after smelling salts and glasses of water. After the boys came to, they explained to us that they had heard we were in town and thought they’d play a joke on us; but it looked as if the joke was on them. After everyone had had a good laugh, we realized that we had an audience. The noise had brought several people (including the manager, Larry) to our doorway. Larry glared wide-eyed at us for quite a while. Finally, he found strength enough to ask us just what was going on. Although we explained every detail to Larry, he said that we had better go down and tell it to the judge. In spite of our objections, we were taken to the city hall. We were a sorry looking bunch as we traipsed up the steps to the hall—the boys with their bruises and all five of us girls still in our pajamas. It was a lucky thing for us that the presiding judge was Tom McGinnis. When we had explained everything, he simply said, Case dismissed.” The next day the incident, small as it was, appeared in the newspapers. At the bottom of the article it read: Reporter—Susan Milligan; Editor—Gerald Handley. This didn’t surprise us at all because we now had seen, at some time or other, all but three of the graduating class of ’56. We all predicted that we would run into them before we left New York, and, sure enough, we did. We all had our hair washed and set at Joyce Redden’s beauty salon. We saw Fern in the hospital we were touring (Fern was an R.N. there), and we met Evelyn working in the city post office. On our way home we all came to the conclusion that we had seen and ex- perienced things that we’d never forget and that the Seniors had succeeded in life. Page Nineteen
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