Dawson High School - Reflector Yearbook (Dawson, MN)

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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-

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ball field? And is that yet others in the music is far more intelligent with fleeing time another going out for declam? And groups? Truly this Freshman flock than the usual greenhorn group. comes many changes. The Junior year finds activities in which these Juniors have never before participated--the class play and the banquet, both of which called forth enthusiastic comment from the townspeople. New responsibility is shifted to the unaccustomed shoulders, and carried out admirably. SCENE FOUR Time: 1956 through 1957 Place: The High School Characters: The Seniors, as they are now, SENIOR PANTRY Jam ------- ' --- Ribs -------- - Ginger --------- Sugar lsweetJ--- Red Pepper ------ Nut-Meg ------ Shrimp- ----- Pumpkin -------- Fish ------------ - Cinnaman Stick--- - -- Hazel-Nuts ------------- Mushroom --------------- Marshmallows lspongyJ-- Nuts ------------------- Smacks ---------------- Ritz Crackers--- Celery --------- Dates ------ -- Peaches--- Pear -------- Salt Pork ------ Puffed Wheat ----------- Ears Cof cornJ--- ---- Stewed CprunesJ-- -- Eggplant --------- ---- Pills --------- ----- --- ----------- ---cutsy ----Florence Wolford -----Virginia ----Doris ----Veloris - ---Margaret ---Ethel Bates ---Rosadelle ---Swen ---Chuck - ---Hazel - --- ---Lloyd - ----- ---Wrink --------- ---Gordon ------- ---Buddy - ----- ---Beatrice - - ---Andy - ---Genevieve ---Carolyn ---Verna and Vivian ---Fatty Knudsen --- ---- Burp ------Ole --------- -------Cupie ----- - ---Violet -- --- ----Juniors A