West Bend High School - Echo Yearbook (West Bend, IA)

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At last we ar lved in the largest c1ty of the United states stayed there for several we ks Our first evening was spent attending the grand opera As you see, my husband is very fond of them The star performer was none other than my husband's cousln, Anna Abbas, soprano She had a record and a redal for singing the highest note that has ever been sung in all history The world seems full of surprlses and during our stay in New York we were to have been treated to a piano solo at HJust off Tires Square Ihile waiting for the great pianlet to arrive, we were informed that hiss Patty Ketelsen would be unable to arrive, as studles at the Ohio Conservatory delayed her In Boston we heard that the wife of the mayor was going to speak at the Nomen's Club ue decided to att nd, and who should the mayor' wlfe be out Bernadine Bleuer Je llstened attentively, but personally I didn't understand a word she said It so happens that she had acquired an astern accent By the time I got to the stage to speak to her after the meeting, she had di appeared Soc ety you know must tell you about a llttle church we attended one Sunday in Maryland The V1Sit1Dg sreaker for the morning was bGlV1H lathson rho Ylth h1s hlgh school frlend, Jim Schmldt, had been dolng m1SS10H8Ty work in Nadagascar for the past thr e years What a surprise' ve had a very engoyable afternoon vlsiting wlth them Jhile mv husband and I were travellng, we thought lt would be fun to go to hlami, Florida On the beach there, we found Barbara Baas basking 1D the sun It seems she had made a fortune ln o1l wells and 15 now a roman of leisure She has acqulred a South rn accent Jhile talking to her, a man approached and we learned that Barb still blushes easily Me left them b cause I alvays was bashful with most men Ie tr veled on taking in the beautiful sights untll we reached a small town in Oklahoma Walking down the main street we noticed a bl sign whlch read as follows NCare for your dogs and c ts now Brlng them to the hospital All expenses paid ' Je thought thlS sounded rather interestlng and decided to stop The veterinarlan welcom d us at the door It was one of my old school mates, Fred Traub H us he had decided upon this profession because he believ d ln be klnd to dumb animals Jhile r1d1ng across the plains of Texas, re declded to stop at a small town to buy some cacti for souvenlrs to send back home In the flower shop we plcked up a newspaper off the counter On the front page was a picture of the governor wlth h1s wlfe axd thelr qulntuplets Je were really speechl ss when we found, by readlng, that the governor was none other than Howard Morey Of course, he had changed quite a blt He was tall with one of those Texas bullds, and had grown a beard My husband and I Journeyed on and decided it would be fun to V1S1t ln he lco Je passed through several lovely llttle torns and then went on to b autlful Mexlco C1ty As we entered the entertainment squ re of the clty, the sound that reached our ars was very fam1l1ar became curwous and moved closer, and were astonlshed to fird Baruara Grant leadlng the NGXICBH chlldren in the Amerlcan rhumba Her a1m is to help the Good Nelghbor Policy she claimed This page sponsored by 3 ILTS SPO CTOPE THE CF IS ILLES STORE ALGOIA, TOIA ALGOUA, IOJA . . , L T . . Je e . - O - I A V A . . M . ll U . .I I A , . A .1 O . . . . e S .I s g 1 . . .. Q . K F' . I .la n -I . A S . .L . W , .L . . H , . 7 . ' . . ' ' 1 . ' . ' . .7 H- x' ., 1 S . 1' . . I I o . M 2 .. . e . . Y . m e ' . . V Q . . f . - g 2 2 Q . I Y. ' . . . f . . 5 , , . . - - . e told e ' ing I I ,I . . v . . . . 1 . v, A ' . - . , . , , O , . . . V . ,,. , . ' ,C . 'f . 'J 9 - T? . . . , e . Ne . , . . . . - . C . K . f1'V v TQ T 'n F13 . 11 .I .5 .J . - , zz., V, . '. U . . . .

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After leavlng bCX1CO Clty, we enwoyed our rlde along the beauti ful shores of the Gulf of Mexico Soon we entered the Unlted States and rent on up 1nto allfornla In hollywood, we saw a name on a stu dio door nfo Adnitta ce Jayne Dunn studio By UlZ7iHg Jayne we learned that the famous star of hls studio was none other than good old Darrell Loerke Ie galned admittarce and found that Darrell :as cowboy actor A movle was ln production and Darrell was yodellng to a pretty 19XlCWH Se lOP1t8 Darrell has taken the place of Gene Autry d1dn't actually see Della Claude as she was Hflzing roundn as usual It seems that she gives flylng lessons at an alrfleld in Callf ornla Vnen we saw her, she :as dolng stunt acts on a flylng airplane traveled on for d ys ln the beautlful ROCKIES, but one day we ran out o gas and had to stop at a ranch house to see if we could have a few crtra gallons of gasollne Je were rather surprlsed when arl Krug answered our plea for help Je thought he had settled down to farnlng ln lest Bend We started back towards home and stopped for awhlle ln Omaha, Weor ska lhile there we declded to do some shooolng In one of the stores some plumbels were flxing a sudden leak in the plpes One plumber's face vas famlllar and after looklng closer, I dlscov red it was Larry Allen He 1nv1ted us to hls hore for a supper Je were greeted at the door by hls wife, tre former Do na Fehr They finally got thelr hlgh school difficultles stralghtened out Je met another West Bender ln Omaha This was probably the greatest shock of all for we had predlcted a bT1gbt future for tklS lad Je found Gary Plahn chlseling names on granlte tombstones H informed us that he took thls up as he was dlsanpolnted wlth love Ie tr velled on tnrough the beautlful Wlack H1lls and vlsited some r latives 1U the olalns of South Dakota DT1V1ng over the state line into Northfleld, Mlnnesota, we visited Carlton College 15119 there we found another sunoorter of our good old h1gh chool, Keith Ballar He 15 tae lnstructor in physlcs there He sald to thank br Wlllard for hls excellent lnstruct on back ln high school Je gourneyed on down to Dennlson, klHHGSOt3 As we were window shopplng there, a woman smlled at us as if she knew us She came closer and we recognized the former Janna Lee Krug She was kept pl nty busy Ulth three llttle red headed boys one on each arm and another trailing along behlnd 'hile we were talklng one of the l1t tle boys saw anotWer boy wlth an ice cream cone and was off after him at top speed Janna Lee aoologlzed for not staylng to talk longer and ran to c tch up with hln Je soon left the falr clty of Dennlson and were near Hayfield Minnesota when ve saw an artist busily palnting a huge Jersey cow Naturally we were interested Ne cllmbed over the fence and vent 1nto twe pasture fell, we scared the cow away and the artist gave us a good scolding He stooped when he sa: it was one of his former classmates The artist was Bob Samson Ihile we were still ln Mlnnesota, we declded that before settl lng down we must go deer huntlng Out ln the woods I bumped 1nto Lulu Belle Doty She told me s e was hunting deer and I wondered if she reant the two legged klnd or the four legged ones If I remember Lulu if le, lt probably was the two legged kind she was after Ny guess lS that they use guns to get men now Th1S Page Sponsored Anl1ker's Jack Sprat Store Sh1rley's Beauty Saloon M F Morrison, D O . , . . . . .. .. . , , .. , . V . ,-, . . . ,. .J 0 I - t -- .. Yi --'. , ' . 'T ' . '.' 1 A I h .. r. I. - l , ' Q - . 1 Y' a . . L v . . M . ,, . . . H . L fl . Q 'Je ' X 9 . , A - A . Q A1 A 1 . , . . . I . 4 Y' I , R . . . Ile u - - 0 L - . - A ' . ,V . I L I I .14 W 7 ,A .4 . . . AA l.. A Q f ' 5 v, ' Y - .. . . . ., , . W Q A ' 4 1 l ' . . . . D . . . ,- - . .A . 4 . A Yi I . V -- o '. . ' . .. , ... , .. . . Q . ,r . . e . . . L J 3 e . , . . .' 5 ' I -3 . 4 . O 1, - . ' ' A . , . f- . f- .: , . . , . . . . . .. A . 1 - . Q , . . 5 . . :lo na I . A . ., Q I 1 , s A . ' ' - ..- u 11 ' .. . ' N . 0 A 1 51 .g , . . . . U ., , X . v y 1 . l - . ,. Y . , . Q. Q ' A Q 'I I n . Q I n V xx . 1. .r - 5 ' Q g . .. 1 A .. . X - Q .. Y Q . By . 1 n o 0 n