Canning High School - Canning Coyote Yearbook (Canning, SD)

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' i' 'TI' i ' JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY ' September, 1943 found us ready to begin a long trip via airplane through a country called High School. We were a merry group of travelers, indeed. t Our first visit was to the Freshman state. After overcoming initiation, the first storm, which almost wrecked our plane, we continued on our journey. The A crew and passengers consisted of Elden Nye, Marvin Fry, Lerta Mosteller, Elaine Wine, and Ruth Shoemaker. Along with the bad things were a few good ones such as parties and dances to make our ship sail smoothly. We had to stop for fuel. This pleasant land, it was decided, was a fine place to spend vacation. During the summer one of our passengers. Lerta Mosteller, was lost. The following September, 1944, we started on a nine months' tour through the Sophomore state. Members elected for the crew were: Helen Kitchen, pilot, Marvin Fry, navigator, Elaine Wine, mechanic, Kathryn Irving, Elden Nye, and Ruth Shoemaker were the passengers. In January we picked up Robert Klein- schmidt and in February Ierta Mosteller returned. During the early part of May the pilot landed the plane long enough to have a picnic. That revived the crew suf- ficiently to enable them to finish the second lap. ' After a needed rest of three months in which our plane was repaired, we started through the state, Junior, in 1945. Soon it was discovered that Kathryn Irving had enrolled at Blunt, Lerta Mosteller Hopkins at Cloverdale, Oregon and Helen Kitchen and Elaine Wine at Pierre. We reorganized our crew and elected Marvin Fry, pilot, Robert Kleinschmidt, navigator, Ruth Shoemaker, mechanic. The passenger was Elden Nye. To help pass the time away, occasional stops were made to let the boys play basketball. The Iunior-Senior girls enjoyed selling lunch after the games. For every victory, the boys were promised a free lunch. CWe didn't give many free lunchesli ,. ' Each six weeks of the first semester Ruth Shoemaker was on the Honorable Mention. At the beginning of the second semester, Lester Clark became a passenger In March Robert Kleinschmidt joined the recruits of the airplane, Harrold, After reaching the city of Junior-Senior Play, and discovering we were quaran- tined, we remained until we had dusted off our acting talents in Youth Comes Tripping. Following our shut-in days, we had a skip day and banquet. Then during a severe storm the plane crashed near the city, Senior, I 4