Brodhead High School - Red B Yearbook (Brodhead, WI)

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To safeguard and preserve our American way of life we must con- stantly be on guard. We must not only keep a watchful eye on com- munist countries, but we must also be on guard against subversives working within our own nation. If we keep our country free and we help other nations to become and remain free we shall have peace. America is a land of Freedom. Millions of people throughout the world are yearning, stumbling, striving, dying for the symbol of America. Their hearts go on beating because there exists in this world of horror, murder, enslavement and destruction the shining light of Ameri- ca as it is, and the symbolism of what it will be. This is the peace for America and the dream of freedom-lovers the world over. And it must survive. We must keep America free so that America may have peace and the people of the world may have, not a vision, but a reality of Peace through Freedom. -Gerald Foss. CLASS HISTORY In September, 1950, our Freshman Class enrolled 57 students into Brodhead High School. We are proud to be the largest class ever to enter this high school up to that time. After we had become acquainted with our classmates and teachers, we organized with Mrs. Sveom as class advisor and Bill Schrader as president. In a very short time we were initiated into B.H.S. by the Sophomores. Our class was well repre- sented in football, basketball, baseball, and various other activities. In their first year of high school basketball, Jerry Christensen, Duane Led- erman, and Jake Schlittler were on the A team, with the first two on the starting five. Our team lost its second game of the tournament to Oregon in an overtime. We are proud to have Gwen Fleming and Peg Roberts elected as B team cheerleaders. We were honored by Dianne Smith's achievement of being the first Brodhead student ever to win clear through to-the state forensic contest three different years. Betty Weibel and Jean Main were given starred iirsts at the District Music Festival, and went on to the State Music Festival held at Madison. We made money for our class treasury by selling refreshments at the games. Finally we have passed the stage of being green freshies and have become mighty Sophomores. We elected Jake Schlittler as presi- dent and Mrs. Sveom as our class advisor. Peg Roberts and Gwen Flem- ing were elected to the cheering squad. We were well represented in basketball with Duane Lederman, Jerry Christensen, Jake Schlittler and Bill Schrader earning berths on the first ten. Duane Lederman, our bril- liant Sophomore center, took scoring honors in Southern Wisconsin. Al- though Brodhead lost the championship game of the District Tourna- ment to New Glarus, we were all pleased with our fine team. Steps To Success, the theme of our homecoming float, won us top honors. Bev- erly Fairman won an A in the District meet with her four minute ora- tion. Jean Main went to the State Music Festival and earned a 2. We added money to our class treasury by selling score books at the tour- nament. C Finally we had joined the ranks of upperclassmen. We had been looking forward to this for the previous two years. During this year we had a very successful year with Jerry Christensen as class president, and Mrs. Sveom and Miss Preston as our very capable advisors. Peggy X

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ideas on how to obtain them. Some people favor an appeasement policy whereby we would give in to countries that opposed us. But this type of policy would not bring us lasting peace, it would only prolong the day when we would have to stand up and fight for our belief in freedom. So, an appeasement policy certainly would not solve the problems that con- front us. But there is another way to achieve peace. We can obtain world peace and mutual understanding between all nations, if the citizens of all nations of the world live in freedom and can have a voice in their governments. But if every major nation in the world does not have a representative government through which its citizens can express their opinions there will continue to be strife between countries. Here in our own nation, school children are promised life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They are told of equalization of oppor- tunities. They are taught to expect something for themselves. They should be taught to safeguard these privileges for others. They are taught that democracy has been set up for the benefit of each of them individually. And so it has. Butthey have not been told often enough that its benefits can be gained most fully only through giving these bene- fits to others. The state bestows on us the rights of citizenship and guards these rights. In America our state is its citizens. It is we who bestow those rights and guard them. It is this gift and this guardianship that are the privilege of the citizens of a democracy. The freedoms granted in our democracy are our responsibility. They are the responsibility of each individual citizen. We know that to grant civic privleges to those who would destroy the Bill of Rights is to endanger the rights of all Ameri- cans. Today it is both a responsibility and a privilege to deny rights to those who would take them from us. We know, furthermore, that to place unlimited responsibility in the hands of one man, or a small group of men, is to lose all freedom. We must each of us, therefore shoulder a share of the responsibility by going to the polls on election day. Each citizen registers his judgment as problems affect him. If the majority benefits, the problem is settled favorably, if not, unfavorably. To be in- telligent about public issues is to understand them as they affect all citi- zensg not simply as they affect you. It is your responsibility to vote for your fellow citizens, as you would wish them to vote for you. It is your privilege to ensure for your fellow citizens the rights and freedoms guaranteed by our Constitutiong it is your responsibility to ex- ercise your citizenship at the polls to protect the freedom of the citizens. If democracy is to survive it must be made to work. There may be those in our land who doubt if democracy can work for all men. The choice is between the privilege and responsibility of working for your fellow countrymen, and the loss of all privilege and responsibility. We must exercise our citizenship so that our freedoms may not be taken from us. Besides having our democratic principles and system to use in our work for world peace and freedom, we also have vast natural resources, a well-trained and well-equipped army, a large reserve of young men from which to draw in case of an emergency, the largest and best navy in the world, and a large air force ready to carry atomic and hydrogen bombs which we have stockpiled. All of this might and power is, per- haps, one of our greatest implements with which to work for world peace. Also we have allies who would help us in the event of any ag- gression toward us or any other 'free nation of the world. Any would-be aggressor would certainly think twice before attempting to antagonize such power.

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Staffeld joined our class this year. Our homecoming fioat took first place with the theme Both Parties Are Kicking For Brodheadf' The basket- ball team took first place in the league and went on to win the District Tournament by beating Monticello in two overtime periods and New Glarus in one overtime in the championship game. Brodhead beat the Racine County Aggies in the District play-off, but lost its first game in the sectional at Beloit. Duane Lederman led all scorers in Southern Wis- consin in his Junior year with the fabulous total of 658 points scored in 26 games. It was the greatest number of points ever scored by a player in Southern Wisconsin. Our class led the high school in magazine sales. Gwen Fleming was elected to the cheering squad for her third consecu- tive year. We were very proud of our class's representation in forensics. Four members reached the state contest. Caroline Jones received a B rating for her humorous declamation, Dianne Smith a B rating in ex- temporaneous reading, Peggy Roberts an A rating in serious decla- mation, and Jean Main received an A rating in extemporaneous read- ing. Phyllis Anderson, Jean Main and Betty Weibel represented us at the State Music Festival with Betty receiving two Firsts, Phyllis a First and Second, and Jean a First. Three of our members, Beverly Fairman, Gerald Foss and Marty Peterson were elected to the National Honor Society this year. Duane Lederman was selected by the school faculty to go to Badger Boys State, held at Ripon, and Lorraine Zimmerli represented our school at Badger Girls State, held at Madison. With the helpful assistance of Mrs. Sveom and Miss Preston we began work on our Junior Prom. The gym was completely transformed to fit our prom theme, April In Paris. There were paintings of scenery on the walls, a replica of the Eiffel Tower and a water fountain. At the west end of the gym there was a beautiful painting done on canvas by Mrs. Oren Burt. On the evening of April 24, King Richard Olsen and Queen Gwen Fleming led the Grand March through the Arch of Tri- umph. A very enjoyable evening was spent dancing to the music of Richard Kent's Orchestra. The past three years have passed so quickly that it doesn't seem possible that we are Seniors already. We started out the year by elect- ing Gerald Foss class president and Mrs. Sveom and Mr. Pfisterer as class advisors. This was the fourth year that the class had elected Mrs. Sveom to act as our advisor. In a few weeks we elected our annual staff with Beverly Fairman as editor-in-chief and Bill Schrader as associate editor. Other members elected to the staff were: Marty Peterson, busi- ness managerg Duane Lederman assistant business manager, Jake Schlittler, athletic editorg Gwen Fleming, photographic editorg Jean Main, Literary editor, Gerry Bramble, art editor. Mrs. Larkin was our very capable annual advisor. In November we presented our class play Ever Since Eve. Miss Preston spent many long hours helping us to get this play ready to pre- sent. It was a story of a group of teen-agers in high school editing the school newspaper called the Penguin. The boys were always trying to convince the girls that it wasn't a girls place on a newspaper staff. The play proved to be a big success. Early in the year Gwen Fleming was elected for her fourth term on the cheering squad. King Jerry Christensen and Queen Lorraine Zim- merli, with attendants Jean Main and Shirley Ruef, reigned over the 1953 Homecoming festivities. Jerry Christensen was the only member of our class to represent us on the football field, but we were well repre- sented in basketball by having Jerry Christensen, Duane Lederman, and