Dawson High School - Reflector Yearbook (Dawson, MN)

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as did Sam, and Ellen, and Veloris the following year. As juniors, we spent a grand and glorious nine months, topping it eff with a nautical banquet which we gave for the departing senior class. Our class con- tributed several basketball and football stars, among them: Lloyd, Palmer, Russel, Stan, Kenneth, Gordon, and Wendell. We put on our Junior class play, nCampus Quarantinen which was a huge success. Those who had parts in it were: Beatrice, Barbara Jean, Ellen, Ada, Hazel, Phyllis, Stanford, Ole, Curtis, Gordon, Lloyd, and Charles. This past year, we have had another memorable time. Lloyd was captain of the football team, and Palmer cap- tain of basketball. This year we were proud of our basketball squad which won the district tournament and participated in the regional tournament at Glencoe. A few of the boys made good showings in track, although it was the first year for Dawson to enter the district track meet for some time. Four music groups earned the right to participate in the state music contest, among which were: Beatrice, Lloyd, Violet, Ada, Barbara Jean, Carolyn, Hazel, Curtis, Genevieve, Ole, and Phyllis. Some of us had gove to Minneapolis the two years previous, too. On April 9th, we presented our senior class play, nGirl-Shyn, under the able direction of Miss Sweeney. Those in the cast were: Ada, Hazel, Barbars Jean, Beatrice, Ellen, Phyllis, Stanford, Palmer, Lloyd, Sam, Curtis, and Gordon. Besides all the fun we had, we felt that the play went over very well. On June 4, the juniors are entertaining us at a banquet which we are sure, will be a lovely affair, and the proper way to end our days in good old D. H. S. On June 2 we are having our class day exercises which consist of the inevitable class history, prophecy, will, song, and the like. June 6 baccalaureate services will be held in the armory. Rev. Chelman will give the address. The crowning event of our schooldays,of course, is our commencement. June lO, we hope, will find 57 seniors receiving their diplomas which signify 12 years of work and joy--uJust Begun, Going Onlln

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SENIOR PAGEANT A gigantic pennant with H57U blazing proudly in golden numerals against the purple background occupies the center of the stage throughout the presentation. SCENE ONE Time: 1924 through 1950 Place: Various rooms throughout several country schools and other city schools, but most predominant is the Dawson Public School. Characters: Members of the present Senior Class at an earlier period of their education. The curtain, rising slowly, shows boys with hair slicked back and girls in gay hair ribbons gazing with round-eyed astonishment and awe at that strange and dread- ed creature--a teacher. The monster is attempting to entice them into her clutches by means of a bright-colored paper, shiny scissors, and promises of good times to come. The curtain falls, and when it again ascends these same innocents who so foolishly succumbed to the wiles of the temptress are paying the penalty, and with heads bent sub- missivcly are painfully drawing dots and dashes, which, in some far-distant day will become--not the Morse code-- but the alphabet. And so on through the first four years. The scene changes abruptly and these budding geniuses are seen haunting the steps to the seventh and eighth grade rooms and high school whenever they can escape from the fifth and sixth grade rooms, their rightful habitation. Some of the more bold who have even ventured into that my- sterious realm known as the high school, report that it is peopled by superior beings, who tradition says, were once as small as these, their youthful admirers. SCENE TWO Time: 1951 through 1952 Place: Seventh and eighth grade rooms. Characters: Same as before. Behold, the seventh and eighth graders proudly coming up the steps to learn for the first time that discipline has come to hold a primary place in school life and that lessons have now become a stern reality. Here the first Girls' Glee Club and first Mixed Chorus' warble their way to fame. SCENE THREE Time: 1955 through 1955 Place: The High School Such a group of red-faced boys and quiet girls! For a time they cringe before the jeers of the highly superior sophomores. And then--can that be a Freshman on the foot-