Adams High School - Argo Yearbook (Adams, MN)

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u-nv on e little Charlie McCarthy skit. The singini Ballad Boy's: Raymond Finkelson, Byron Huseby, Eugene Eoyum, Eugene Nelson, anc Eugene Knutson addeo more fun with Thelma Kalland at the piano. Then Hr. Sorknes told about the trip UAlony the Goldin Trail." Romeo, Frederick Schaeffer, and J.uliet,1IeVa Qual-5 . came on the stage next, and they were the broaCoast players . Celestine Vogt, president of the Senior Class, mam heir' first".-' appearance on the radio stage with "ly First -3roe.Ccast." The gong rang, and the program was off the air. The room was decorateo in blue an? peach the colors of the Senior Glass of l94O. This theme was carried out in the table decorations which consisted of placecardsx candles, and nut cups. I 'Q There were alternating Aim gil? peach and blue oovere on FQ? the chairs. Eech person 1 K jf? 5 found his place by 'racet- , . X I f nizing his own picture. I After leaving .tne X 4 - I hotel. the havpy ' groupee- i I Hui of Broadcasters attendee N .J -,l a show at the Paramount theater. The movie had as its title, HLittle Old New York. I

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JUNIOR AND SENIOR BANQUET -n May 25, 1940 the Juniors and Seniors witnessed the nBig Broadcast of the Year.n The broadcasting A K! station was AHS, held in the Fox Hotel in Austin, X- Minnesota. After a delicious meal, Diet of Stars, the station went on with the program which was sponsored by Byron 's WMoro Shine Toe Nail Pllish.N Bernard Canney, the toastmaster, and Paul Larson, master of ceremonies, introduced the speakers for the evening. The Globe Trotter, Herman Klapperiok, read the Senior Class Prophecy, and Vernon Winkels read the Senior Glass Will. When Margaret Duggan, the song bird of the Peach and Blue Net Work, had finished warbling a solo, Harlie Mao Narthy, Kermit Kiefer, and Neddie Wurgen, Roy Torgerson , put

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FIELD DA! he first annual field day was held at the Adams .f Q N16 High S chool on May 17. All students from the I first grade up through the twelfth grade bpd put aside their books and spent the day. A program of events was planned by Mr. Glesne and each teacher was put in charge of a group.M1ss Westman had chgrge of the first and second grsdcs.Miss Sanders third and fourth, Miss Brand fifth and slxth, Mr. Hatle and Miss Jones seventh and eighth grade boys. Miss Bataldln the seventh and eighth qfsde girls. Miss Christensen and Miss Larson the high school gurls and Mr. Glesne the high school boys. ,The day was very hot,and many got their first good sun- burn, but the day was made more interesting by dividing the school into two sides, the purple versus the gold. These are our school colors.T he two sides competed against each other throughout the day and points were g1ven,toognd at the end of each hour, points were given to Superintendent Sorknes, and they were recorded on a black board outside thebuilding where everyone could see which side was ahead.It a was a sad ending for the purple as the gold won the day with a score of 594 points to 295 for the purple, Nevertheless the purple still held very good sportsmanship. 'Events participated in by the lower grades , were dodge ball, relays, basketball throw, kittenball throw, broad Jump, rope Jumping, races, and tug-o-war, For the junior and senior high boys there were such events as shot putt, broad Jump, high Jump, pole vault, cook fight, 100 yard dash, football