Alexandria High School - Alexian Yearbook (Alexandria, MN)

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W sf Ml 5 j afar refraQ5ruarwn Li. ll ORGANIZATIONS National Honor Society N' ,J 'J f' 3 D Kg. 'xl .K - fit, ji , ,ia X-4 41 i 1 fm -1'J425 'wwziffff The highest goal toward which every student of this highs ' j school strives is to become a member of the National Honor Society. This is the highest honor bestowed on any student. The aim of the Na- 45 V' tional Honor Society is to develop scholarship, leadership, character, and- service. Fifteen per cent of the senior class are admitted to this society, five per cent being taken in at the end of the junior year, and the other ten per cent being taken in during the senior year. To be eligible for this society, a student must be in the upper one-third of his class and fulfill the four qualifications for membership: scholarship, leadership, charac- ter, and service. On April 3, 1936, the following became members of the Na- tional Honor Society: Doris Larson, who is now president, Lois Stud- lien, vice-president, Marjorie treasurer and Kathryn Brown. At the induction on senior class received this honor. topherson, and Edor Brostrom. At an impressive ceremony on May 18, 1937, the following were inducted into the National Honor Society: Sidney Carlson, Leon- ard johnson, Luctta Knebel, Ralph Max, Lois Roth, Viola Shogren, sen- iors and Harry Halstead, Gerald Johnson, Darwyn Olsen, Lyman Pe- terson, and Kathryn Westerneld, juniors. Thompson, secretary, Keith Godfrey, January 8, 1937, three members of the They were Viola Wagner, Doris Chris- Twenty-one If 5.5:-f yt. MV' md ' 1 lm

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J' . I , X I ff '11,-f l ff' J SQPHOMQRES .T 1 gg .J Aj. J I, . wi 4, J, y vii ff' r- I fi x X1 N I I v . 1 l N v Y CLASS OFFICERS Mary Preston ---------- Orley Tart President Vice Secretary Elsie Carlson Representative ..... ................ - - Genevieve Gustafson .' CLASS ROLL Eleanor Albertson, Alden Anderson, Eleanor Anderson, Herman Anderson, Lillian Ander- son, Muriel Angen, Wilma Arne, Helen Marie Backlin, Helen Baer, Arthur Barsness, Jeanette Beltz, Boyd Bergsten, Evelyn Bisek, Doris Mae Boerner, Robert Bondus, James Boyd, Al Brinkman, Hazel Brophy, Gladys Brown, George Caldis, Aldrich Carlson, Elsie Carlson, Jennie Carlson, Dennis Christy, Margaret Cooper, Doris Coykendall, Gladys Coykendall, Irene Coykendall, Golcline Davis, Maxwell Dicks, Muriel Dobberpuhl, Mary Jane Dougherty, Henry Drahos, Bernard Ekman, Mabel Engstran, Alpha Engstrom, Claudia Erickson, Elaine Erickson, Vernon Erno, Marjorie Evans, Jeanette Feda, Bernice Feigum, Lawrence Fiala, Margaret Griffith, Beatrice Groene, Bernice Gross, Genevieve Gustafson, Sylvia Haabala, Raymond Hamann, Wayne Hansen, Doris Hanson, Douglas Hanson, Harriet Hanson, Janice Hardy, Eleanor Hass, Hazel Havens, Quinton Hedstrom, Doris Henriksen, Gloria Hillmond, Richard Hintzen, Reuben Hogan, Gertrude Hove, Ambrose Illetschko, George Illetschko, Donovan Johnson, Edith Johnson, Eugene Johnson, Helen E. Johnson, Winton Johnson, Eleanor Johnsrud, Elvin Kalina, Clara Keipe, Viola Kleweno, Betty Knutson, Harold Lang, Howard Lang, Helen Larson, Leila Larson, Raphael Larson, Virgil Larson, Winnifred Larson, Alma Lehmkuhl, Vernon Lindquist, Byron Ljung, Frances Loch, Arlene Lommen, Ellsworth Love, Adeline Lund, Mable Lund, Violet Lundeen, Florine Lundgren, Thelma Lydeen, John McCabe, Robert McMahon, Harry Malm, Alden Mattocks, Adeline Max, James Mayer, Mable Moe, Lillie Monagle, James Leslie Mullin, Jerome Olson, Loren Olson, Mary Ellen Olson, Richard Olson, Donna Mae Osterberg, Ada Paulson, Sally Peart, Floriene Penney, Clyde Peterson, John C. Peterson, Anton Pilversack, Oliver Porter, Mary Preston, Arnold Radke, Doris Rambow, Elizabeth Renner, Margaret Renner, Glenn Reuter, Morrell Sanners, Eileen Sanstead, Soiie Schaffran, Pearl Schluter, Donald Schultz, Viola Sessions, Rudolph Siira, Luella Soberg, Donald Soderholm, Evelyn Spieker, Lillian Stahl, Eunice Stenson, Warren Stumm, Irene Sundberg, James Swenson, Orley Tart, Alma Trisko, John Unumb, Peter Unumb, Regina VanAmber, Rollance Verkennis, Genevieve Watters, William Weaver, Bob Wes- terberg, Frederic Wharton, Dorothy Wheeler, June White, Deloris Wilkes, Richard Williams, Teresa Lundgren, Marion Barber, Geraldine Dorsher, Sylvia Rose, Earl Ormseth, Harriet Johnson, Donald Feay. E Si my

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- 1 N .J XX y.,, If 4 1 step X 41' ,-i ' Ns U . , , . f fa- 1'-:r illl sw 5. A X Declam ry P. Unumb H. Backlin Miss Gould G. Reuter - For the first time in the history of Alexandria, all three divi- sions in the local declamatory contest were won by sophomores. Helen Marie Backlin participated in the dramatic division, Peter Unumb in the humorous, and Glenn Reuter in the oratorical. These same people won the sub-district contest held in the local high school. In the district meet, Helen Marie Backlin's selec- tion, The Monkey's Paw , and Glenn Reuter's oration, Whither World placed second in their respective divisions. Peter Unumb, who gave the selection, Exit The Big Bad Wolf Won Hrst in the district and also in the regional. Winning in the regional contest held at Staples, gave Peter the privilege of going to the state contest. Miss Esther Gould, the dramatic instructor, efficiently coach- ed the contestants. Twenty-two