Woodward High School - Granger Yearbook (Woodward, IA)

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so many in our group who maintained h1gh enough averages to receive an honor pin at our eighth grade graduation Dear Diary Our ninth year found several more names added to our list Larry Mlller from Gardner, Joe Miller from Waukee, Charles Menz came back to stay w1th us, and Byer Morrison from Churdan Our first mornlng as freshmen found us creeplng up the stalrs to the high school We entered very meekly, but by the time the day was finished, we had bravely found our place Dear D1ary Our sophomore year found us l1ttle more confident were flnally upper classmen only to one class, but that was a mlnor de tail In the mlddle of the year added one person to our group She was Rosella Spracher from Dexter Our class was steadlly increasing This was the f1rst year we were able to attend the Prom Most of us had our part in servlng at the Banquet and Prom Dear Diary Our eleventh page takes us to our eleventh year Our main progect of the year was, of course, our Prom We worked dlligently on this project standing 1n the cold at football games,sell1ng our can was a lot easier on us as we could work inside instead of outside The music contest was held at our school during this year To earn more money we also worked all day selling maidrites, pop, and such to the partic1pants and viewers of the various musical activities Another money making progect was our car wash We washed cars from nine until five on Saturday Fred Burkhart from Perry, and Bob Mltchell from Grand Junction,came to finish out our junior year Finally came our class play We had our doubts but, after our goofs on Thursday, our presentatlons in the evening went well Then came the time to start decorating the gym and church basement The theme we chose for our Prom was 'Garden of Friendship W with our mothers cooking and the sophomores serving, we got through the banquet quite successfully The main attraction of the decoratlons of our gym was a flowing fountain 1n the west end of the gym Morrie Powers and hls Bel Aires provided the music for dancing Dear Diary In September of 1957 we finally made it we were full fledged seniors We added three more to our class Nancy Tietjenand Jerry Leonard from Perry, and Floyd Moore from Minburn, thus completing our class and giving us a grand total of thirty members Some of the things that kept us busy our senior year are Skip Day to Chicago, and Court Day the day after our return With our experience from our junior class play, it wasn't quite as difficult to get things rolling on 'Room Service ' Our Banquet and Prom was held on May 2 It was nice to have no wor ries about crepe paper, balloons, and confetti, and just go and have all those things provided for you We would like to thank the juniors for the nice Prom they had for us It will be long remembered Finally came our long awaited graduation week Baccalaureate was held in the Methodist Church on Sunday, May 25 On the follow1ng Wednes day came our Commencement The afternoon of the 28th, since we had no school, we worked in the gym The results of our labor proved to be well worth while That evening, in front of our relatives and friends, we flnally received our diplomas, which was the goal for which we had been striving for thirteen years As we close the cover on our diary, we realize that we will also be closing the cover to our school days. There has been lots of fun, joy, laughter, and sorrow mixed into these years, but they have proved to be the most carefree years of our lives. Now we shall start a new diary consisting of our future years and, for some of us, helping our own children through school as our parents and friends have helped us. I ' : ' . We . ' we . dy bars, gum, popcorn, and other various things. The basketball season

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SENl0ll CLASS HlSTORY D1aries hold many wonderful memories As you open the cover of th1s dlary, the pages w1l1 unfold the many adventures, trials, and trlbula t1ons of the class of 1958 PREFACE This dlary is to tell about our educatlon which began in September of l9u5 On that fateful morning in September, seven of the new k1nder garten students were to be members of the Woodward graduating class of 58 Those seven, under the lnstruction of Mrs Wilma Axmear, were Beverly McMorris, Bobby Sheppard, Eugene Grimes, Ronnle Hass, Marllyn Newland Geraldlne Jones, and Charles Menz We did not start in a brand new bui dlng, but we were content with our teacher and our work materl als and came through the year quite successfully Dear Diary Our flrst page 13 of course, concerned w1th first grade This year ROHHIB Hass left us, but Miss Cloma Shannon was glad to welcome Larry R0b1HSOH from St Paul,M1nnesota, and Jim Dean from Mad r1d We had an enjoyable year and all pulled through with only a few bumps, bruises, and scratches from swings, teeter totters, and fist fights Dear D1ary To the second page of our diary we add two more per sons They are Mickey Meneough and Sharon Wolter, both from Des Moines We engoyed taking walks in the fall picking up pretty leaves with Mrs Krumm We used our ingenious minds to put our leaves to good use as dec orations in our room Dear Diary At the beginning of our th1rd page we notice that Ron nie has come back to stay His intelligence added Just the right touch b1t of excitement in our room To f1nish up this page, Dean Burkhart came to goin us from country school He found our group very intelli gent and easy to get along with Dear Diary Miss Van Steenbergen was glad to welcome us 1nto her fourth grade room We had no new faces added to our group th1s year We were kept very busy givlng our artlstic touch to presents for ourparenta One of our projects was sprinkling cans for our mothers They were very pretty Dear Diary No one Joined us 1n the f1fth grade either, so we were well acquainted w1th everyone when the school year began During our flfth year, we made our acting debut with Mrs Kuefner as our director Mrs Hass was so proud of her llttle boy as he came on the stage portray ing a peppermlnt stick The other mothers were just as proud of their sons and daughters as they so magnificently played their parts Dear Diary To the sixth grade we added several persons They are Harold Frantum from Gardner,Doreen Morse from Clarlon, Marty Martin from Beulah, Olga Sjeklocha from Yugoslavla, Bonnie Walker and Barbara Wilson both from Madrid The only person we lost was Sharon Wolter Dear Dlary Mr LaBlanc helped us along in seventh grade We ed little animals made of plaster of Par1s We had animals of all and deslgns Betty Stoneburner decided to come from the country big city to Join us Charles left us in the middle of the year cided to cause mischief elsewhere During that year, whenever you paint colors to the He de opened your desk you found a comic book Our teacher was very good about hand ing out presents Dear Diary In our eighth year Sharon came back from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dorothy Bolt came from Lexington, Illinois, and Kay Martin came from Norwood to J01n our group We were so proud that there were n 'n - e 1 g : I . . , . to our group. Miss Neshelm became Mrs. Gray and that stirred up quite a

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E IOR CLASS WILL We the Genlor Class of the C1ty of Woodward, County of Dallas State of Iowa belng of sound body and great mlnds, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our last w1ll and testament To Mr Heerema, we leave our many pleasant memorles and our many dlverted dlscussions 1U Soclal Problems class It w1ll be d1ff1cult wlthout us because not many classes are as attentive as ours To Mr Stuhr, we leave our plastlc b1010gy man and our Jars and Jars of speclmens Take good care of him and don't let him get 1nto the hands of any of those Jun1or glrls To Johnny Gray, we leave all the memor1es of cleanlng up after us from klndergarten through hlgb school I'll bet you stlll thlnk we were the messlest class ever to set foot 1ns1de W H S but there was many a t1me l've heard someone say,'Boy,I surely w1sh Mr Gray was our teached' Mr Crane, we leave our small bank account and our famous words Mr Coffin, we leave nothlng but the pleasant memory of our and muslcal notes we played ln band How w1ll you ever get long wlthout our talented groupq lovely To Mrs Fox, we leave our 1nab1l1ty to make use of our vocal chords Cat least not for singlngl and our battered sheets of mus1c If you thlnk we were bad, Just th1nk of the chorus next year I'm sure lfyou miss us badly enough, we'll all be w1ll1ng to come back LFor a sllght professlonal fee of course'l To Mrs Sims, we leave all of our patterns, needles, and dented up pots and pans Say,when you have tlme w11l you wr1te down your rec1 pe for making ice cubes? To Mrs Evans, we leave our pages from the annual, three Jars of rubber cement, and, last but not least,we leave the most remarkable dm ings that any one class has ever taken To Mrs Crouch, we leave the one act plays, the class plays, and a few of the battered old props By the way, why don't you have dlnner with Daryl Zannuck and I tomorrow at the studio commissary? To Mrs Weeks, we leave our geometry and trlgonometry though they forgot to put the To the indivldual members H8 I Jerry Leonard, do will our deathly quiet study halls and all of problems We tried, but it Justseems as answers in the books of the Junior class, we leave the follow to Davld B1ce myability to go steady with one g1rl and still go out with another Well, gee whiz, what's a guy supposed to do when she's L0 miles away? I Olga Sjeklocha, do w1ll my blind dates and out-of-town romances to Jo ene Frantum. I must admit that objects do look better far away. I, Doreen Morse, do will my ability to catch and hold my man Call through school! to Karen S. Believe me, it isn't easy with all of the freshmen coming in. I, Marty Martin, do will to Barbara Turner my ability to get the family car whenever I want it. I'll also throw in my knee-pads, too. They come in handy when you're begging! , K .. , . D , , . O 0 I O . . . ' 0 O . , . A ' . . . .vi 0 I, O To . of WMr. Crane, can we borrow..........' To . ' . . . . 3- . . . . O . . O . , 0 , - , - l O , - 0 O O O i : P I 1 v