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ARLEN HARRIS wills his great height QD to Larry Hofeldt. ELAINE FORK wills her driving to Linda Beck, a fellow speeder. PA'1'I'Y MORRIS wills her car to' the Temme twins because they have so far to go to school. LARRY MUHS wills his shortness to Janet Ingalls. JERE MILLIKEN wills his dimples to the girls. ' MARY ANN NELSON wills all her typing paper to the wastebasket. JUNIOR PETERSON wills his art of fine dancing to the Freshmen. VIRGINIA PROETI' wills her label as P.K. fpreacher's kidl to Phyllis Cook. NEIL REUTER leaves. PERIOD MARCIA WITMER wills her mischievousness to the Sophomore Class, because she has enough for all of them. GILBERT SCHMIDT leaves in his little blue ford. WILMA TEMME wills her French horn to the music room. MAUREEN JORDAN wills her shy ways to Neil Palmer. I MARGARET CLAUS fno relation to Santal wills her position as Senior Class Prexy to some deserving junior. JOSEPHINE BRADER leaves Wayne High without any hesitation. HAROLD FLEER leaves his butch haircuts to Melvin Lamb. SHARON LINDSAY wills the Case of the Missing Graduation Pictures to Dick Tracy. KAREN JUNE LONGE leaves Wayne High to her sister, Rogene Longe. LYNAL LONGE leaves to go to work at Curly's by five o'clock. CHARLES MESSERSCHMIDT wills his musical ability to the junior bands. SALLY LIVERINGHOUSE wills her overenthusiasm for school to all the freshmen, who are just getting nicely started. MURLEN ULRICH wills his secret of slimness to the Sophomore girls. BOB MORRIS wills his admit slips to the paper factory. BEVERLEY WELCH leaves behind her four years of hard work. PAUL KOPLIN, GORDON ZAPP, ROD TIETSORT, JERRY KORFF, and LOWELL JOHNSON will their position on the Blue Devil basketball team to all future Wayne ,High basketball members. We, the Senior Class of 54. , leave to all underclassmen, our heartaches and triumphs, our thrills and our disappointments, knowing that there is no place like Wayne High. Class Prophecy Here we are in the year 1974- I We've just returned from a twenty-year vacation on Mars, that sunny vacation land over the sky, and are waiting for a space-pass at the Flying Cup here in New York City. While we're waiting, let's catch up on the latest news by reading this newspaper, the World-Wide Times, edited by none other than Joan Leonard. If I remember correctly, she was the editor of our '54 annual in high school. Look at some of the front page news! Admiral Gilbert Schmidt has recently been appointed head of the United States Navy .and will be in New York tomorrow to launch one hundred new space ships. This On The Spot column written by the world-famous columnist Gloria Ahlvers looks interesting. Gloria has also taken Ed Sullivan's place on Ghost of the Town which has been rated the top TV show for 25 years now. There are certainly some in- teresting items in this column. 'That noted orator, Barbara Larsen, is speaking tonight at Liberty Hall. She will tell of her visit with President Johnson at the Black House. I never dreamed Larry Johnson would one day be President, but that boy always did have great possibilities. The two Nobel Prizes have been awarded to two very outstanding and deserving people this year! One goes to Sondra Haas, a missionary in Africa, who has done a miraculous job of Christianizing over a million cannibals and setting up one hundred churches there. The other award goes to Dr. Doris Wentzel for curing the world K
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MARCIA WITMER Mixed Chorus 3-4, Girls Glee 2, Pep Club 2-3-4, Class Secretary 4, EVER SINCE EVE 3, Thespians 2-3-4, Library 2-3-4, Baton 1, GAY NINETIES 2, Pep Club Treasurer 3, Music Clinics 2-3. GORDON ZAPP Mixed Chorus 4, W Club 1-2-3-4, Class Treasurer 3 Student Council 1-2, Annual Staff 4, EVER SINCE EVE 3, Thespians 4, Phys. Ed. Ass't 2, Basketball 2-3-4, Football 1-2-3-4, Track 3-4, Baseball 2-3-4, Library 2, Grid King Attendant 4, GAY NINETIES 2, County Government Day 3. p Class Will We, the Senior Class of 1954, being of sound mind and body and with no malice of forethought, do hereby make this our last will and testament. DICK KLUGE wills his car to the Drivers Training Class in hope that Rod Love and his students will be able to determine what makes it tick. MARIAN KUGLER wills her cheerleading days to Karen Schmitz. More power to you, Karen. GAYLE GRUBB leaves Wayne High with quite a record ! ! I ! DONNA CARLSON wills her favorite piece of apparel, namely, her blue felt cheerleading skirt, to the bird society so that they can make canary coats. GORDON ZAPP leaves his locker at the end of the hall to any guy without a gal for certain reasons. JOAN PAWELSKI leaves with the satisfaction of knowing that she has done everything in her power to convert Mr. Rickers to her ideas instead of those in the North Central Manual. GLORIA AHLVERS leaves, foopsl rather takes with her, her interest in redheads. ROD TIETSORT wills his boxing ability to Madison Square Garden. ' SONDRA HAAS wills her football tactics at the pencil sharpener Qespecially backfield in motionl to Coach Mac's Blue Devil eleven of 1954. LOWELL JOHNSON wills his pranks and apparent innocence to Jim Marsh. BARBARA BUEHNER wills her meek, mild voice at basketball games to a fellow timid fan, Bob Likes. JOANIE LEONARD wills her artistic ability to all future decoration committees. PAUL KOPLIN wills his English 12 seat to some unsuspecting junior. BETTY LOU MCCULLOUGH leaves her arguments with Coach Mac--thank heaven. fThey were just friendly ones, though., LARRY ,IOHNSON wills his story hour to Bob Sieckman. NANCY GRIMM leaves to keep an eye on Prices fgovernment or private interests, Nancy ?l JERRY KORFF leaves all his' cups of coffee at the hut to Dick Longe in hopes that said Dick will be able to stay awake in physics class with their help. MARILYN HENEGAR wills her position as librarian to Kenny Kluge. HENRY THOMSEN leaves everything to the school but his car. ' PAUL JOHNSON wills his knowledge of Chemistry to the Atomic Energy Commission. BARBARA LARSEN wills her interest in Studebakers to the Ford Company. EUGENE BAIER leaves his nickname, Squirrely l At least, he hopes that he does l DORIS 'WENTZEL wills her ability as office girl to Mr. Ricker's future proteges. GERALD BAKER wills his appendix to the science lab. BERLENE 'ECHTENKAMP leaves with a diamond.
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of polio and writing that best-seller book, GERMS, AT HOME AND ABROAD, There are a few other important facts in this column. Donna Carlson, noted New York socialite, gave a ball at one of her homes in honor of Gene Baier. Gene now owns every oil well in Texas. Among the guests were Harold Fleer, owner of the world's largest bubble gum factoryg Margaret Claus, secretary to a Harvard professor, Paul ,Iohnsong Elaine Fork, head of the national 4-H clubs, and Marian Kugler, world-famous model. I guess that's all the news in that column. What's this? Local Man Breaks Record-- Sits on Top of Capitol for Three Years. Why, that picture of him looks exactly like Bob Morris--it is, Let's look at some more pictures on this page. Here's a picture of the new ten-story bakery, Frosting Palace, owned by om' good friends, Barbara Buehner and Lowell Swede Johnson. They're celebrating their twentieth anniversary in the bakery business. The Most Eligible Bachelor of the Year award goes to Arlen Harris this year. From the looks of the picture, he certainly is. Next to it is one of Nancy Grimm who has been chosen Miss Universe of 1974. Oh, what's on this page? It is the sports news! There should be some old classmates of ours with jobs as coaches now. They won the district tournament in '54. The editor of Sports on Parade is none other than Gordon Red Zapp who participated actively in all high school sports. Gerald Baker has been the World's Champion Boxer for ten years now. His manager is Neal Renter. Paul Koplin, noted track star has been named Track Star Champ for running on every railroad track in the U. S. The famous all-American basketball player, Jerry Korff, is now coach at the University here. Marilyn Henegar has just swam the Atlantic Ocean in fifty days, lreaking the world's record. Rod Tietsort, manager and top pitcher for the New York Yankees announces the beginning of the World Series once again. That's all for the sports section. Let's find out what's on television tonight by looking at the Entertainment Page, edited by Karen June Longe. Karen has taken Tallulah Bankhead's place. At five the Kitchen Klatter Show , starring Betty McCullough, famed home economist, is on. This show is a favorite of young and old. At six Advice to Young Married Couples is on with the famed author Berlene Echtenkamp giving her personal views on marriage. Fishnet is on tonight starring Junior Peterson, former Dragnet Kid, and Gayle Grubb, who is a finger man for the F.B.I. and also draws the comic strip Frownin' Mac. Other shows that are super are I Love Josie starring Josephine Brader and Dick Kluge. They are well on their way to stardom. Acts from the Morris and jordan Circus will be shown on Channel 3 tonight. Some of the acts which are featured are the tight rope walker, Beverly Welch, Larry Muhs's Death Dodgersg Jere Milliken's Jeep Racesg Lynal Longe and her trained seal, Murlen Ulrich's Magic Show , and Mary Ann Nelson's Talking Turtles. Patty and 'Maureen's Circus is the greatest sensation since Barnum and Bailey. I'm tired of looking for TV shows. Let's see what other enter- tainment they have in New York. Charlie's Stork Club opens tonight with the famed trumpet player, Charles Messer- schmidt, and his all-girl orchestra performing. The featured vocalist is Wilma Temme and the jazz dancer is Marcia Witmer. Marcia is known throughout the world for her dancing ability. Virginia Proett and Henry Thomsen, actress and actor of the year, will be special guests at the Stork Club tonight. They were given recognition for their outstanding per- formance in The Earl Green Story. just a few more news items before we leave in our jet. Sally Liveringhouse now owns a diamond mine in Burma while Sharon Lindsay owns a ruby mine in Siberia. What luck! Madame joan Pawelski, fashion column editor, reveals the latest fashions for spring. Men's overcoats are the style for women this year while men are dyeing their crewcuts various pastel colors for Easter. Hasn't this been fun--getting to read a newspaper twenty years ahead of time? These predictions probably won't come trueg but you can never tell, they might! I.
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