Wyoming Park High School - Orbit Yearbook (Wyoming, MI)

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THE NIFTY FIFTY'S l-Safely Patrol. 2-Jimmie Fuller. 3-Pals. 4-Birds Eye View, 5-Sharp Curves Ahead, 6 - Wcstvcld in Disguise, T - Speedy. S - Little Rug, 9 - .Xiu't she Swccl?. I0 - Curly, ll - BRRRRRRL l2 - Rcgulnrs at Bowcus, 13 -'Rough Nccks. I4 - ls it cold, Dm'otl1y?, 15 --Senior l-lalysccrls. lli - Nlzulclou. 17 - Blurilyu. IS - Pinky, 19 - Young Hershey. 20 - just Butch, 2l - bliillll Karsten Kid. 22 -Smile Pretty. 241

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Ladies and gentlemen this is Doug Hock- stra your roving reporter for station XYZ. 'Tm out here at Lamar Park in that new city of N'Vyoming Park. This is the llth animal Vik- ing Festival and it's quite an affair. f'I..et's wander around and see whom we can find around here. There's Florence Van Dyke over at the hamburg stand. She's queen of the hamburg flippers now and has her headquarters at her swell new modern smack shack, the 'Greasy Spoon.' YfVhy look who's over at the refreshment stand! None other than our famous governor Mary Semeyn, with lfVyoming Park's energetic mayor Francis Higbee, and this district's crime busting D. A., Dorothy YVilliams. It's possible they are talking politics but they are probably discussing that Broadway, record breaking play 'Lavender and Old Lace' with those two top stars Noreen Ylladdell and Roger Fountain in their original roles stealing every performance. Let's move over toward the grand stand now and see whom we can find. Jack Crull, the mil- lionaire show backer, is bringing us the wonder- ful show here tonight. Some of the stars of the show are former members of the class of '50, They are Charlotte Ahlberg who is astounding all of America with her dancing and Ruth Hoek- stra who is a chorus line dance teacher. They are putting on an ZICt together and the most famous circus clown in the country, Alice Cole, is here with Joyce l'Vestveld, Ringling Bros. tight-rope walker. Let's see what the crowd is over here in back of the grand stand. lfVhy it's America's number one auctioneer, Beverly Moore, adding her talents to the auction. And what an illustrious crowd she has gathered. Dave Hershey that dentist who discovered an entirely painless method of drilling and pull- ing teeth is here with Dr. Jolm Levering, Don Anderson, who is giving lectures on his Alaskan explorations, and Dennis Marlowe, who can claim part of the credit for bringing the NVorld's Series pennant to the Detroit Tigers the last two years. Paul Howell who was always betting some- thing back in his high school days is taking a holiday from his Nevada gambling casino to help Mr. Engels on his penny pitching board. There's our old friend Mr. Zylstra by the ferris wheel talking with Arlene Tazelaar who is exhibiting a number of pictures in Grand Rapids. Lola Tilma who is vacationing from her modeling career for Jolm Powers, and Mar- lene Karsten, good old XYZ's top disk jockey. Hello there Mr. Zylstra, hi gals, this is quite a festival isn't it? Yes, Doug, this is nothing like the small one we had back in 1949 which was the First festival we had. l'm glad so many of our old class of '50 can be here to see the improvement. Yes, it is nice, well l'll see you later, I'll have to tell my listening friends some more about this festival. There's Barbara Garnett who is Mayor Fran Higbee's secretary with Betty Jolliffe who is secretary for Marve Burger, owner of the fast growing 'Little Peanut Companyf I have heard that Jim NVinu and Tunis Schouten, are perfect- ing a new formula for better peanuts for Marve. l1Vhy look who's throwing tomatoes at Jim Fuller, the 'Fuller brushman' and Roger Van Malsen who has Van's Baby Sitting Agency for babies over 19 - it's Joyce Oberly, our ex-cheer- leader who now does the decorating in the best homes in New York. There are hundreds of people here and the Park Taxi Company owned by Gail Mulder and Kathryn Hoekstra is bringing in more all the time. Keith Van Ham, who drew up the plans for the new city offices and the new high school has just arrived with Al Dreyer, who owns the Dreyer Plumbing Company and Tom Olson, that highly demanded carpenter. Marilyn Nederveld has taken time off from her Texas ranch to visit her old friend Made- lon Colthurst, one of Miehigan's best educators and Joyce Ferguson, dean of that nationally known girls' finishing school, 'Rosewoodf The Benit Department Store is well repre- sented by its owner Bette Benit and two of her clerks, Janette Lynema and Dolores Kline. VV ith them is that elevator girl who always stops even with the floor, Bonnie King. I see Jim Austin, popular bandleader, has arrived with his band, accompanied with the arranger, Bruce Donelson, for their part in the show. And naturally that inseparable pair, Ray Groendyke and Roger Farwell are here. You still see them together everywhere just as you did back in the days before '50. They are just about the best mechanics in the state and they can make any Ford run. Could Marilyn Hinds and Pauline Lowing be comparing business over at the refreshment stand? Marilyn has the institution for the fee- ble-minded called 'Napoleon's Palace' and Paul- ine runs a baehelor's home, the 'Rooster's Roost.' There's the former Hildred Baar and Le- nora Doorn with their families talking to Cal- vin Miller who just took honors at the Olympics recently. YVell, folks, my time is running out and I have made this a who's who of Wyoming Park's class of '50, but with all of my illustrious class- mates I got sidetracked. However you can read all about the festival in Nancy Stearns' nation- ally read paper, the New York Beacon.. So long folks. Tune in tomorrow when I will be at the parade in Grand Rapids.

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