East Grand Forks High School - Memories Yearbook (East Grand Forks, MN)

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S ' Glam fy F -.'5RCe'P wee? I Xl A, .fb Xl f 9 4 7 CLASS HISTORY FRESH-MEN AND WOMEN With an odd feeling of excitement that comes when you don't know exactly what to expect, we started our tirst year of high school. Counting all the new faces, we gathered sixty-six students together under the super- vision of our advisor, Mrs. Olson, Miss Sullivan then, and our president-elect, Shirley Osmundson. The annual freshman class party highlighted the year and left us eager to find what the next few years had to offer. SOPHO-M ORE OR LESS As school got under way again we felt a little more at ease and were given a little more consideration by the upper-classmen. Now but sixty-five of us were left. We began to take part in the school activities, besides studying, which we always did. The boys set out to make sure of future football and basketball teams, while the girls backed them up. We took part in the Christmas program, and enjoyed serving the Junior-Senior Ban- quet. With Miss Stensholt as our able advisor we held our Sophomore Class Party, which turned out to be great fun for everyone. Our thoughts then turned to the time when we would be juniors. JUNIOR-LADIES AND GENTLEMEN Juniors at last! This year got under way quickly with our election of class oflicers: Jack Sampson, who is now in the Marines, was president, Joe Massee, vice-presi- dentg Donna Mae Gilbertson, secretary, and Bernice McCullough, treasurer. Miss Halcrow was our class ad- visor and did a lot to make everything a little more exciting. Choosing our class rings made us feel even more important. When the second semester came we tooklover editing the Hi-Ways with Dorothy Harney and Donna Mae Gilbertson as co-editors. Selling candy at all of the games, soliciting orders for scarfs and school pins, and having many school parties, provided us with enough money to put on our prom, Rainbow Revelry. Rainbow Revelry-what a worry and a lot of work-but what a joy when it was given! With every- one's help it became a huge success, and was voted, by the juniors, as the best prom ever held. Five of our sixty-five members now had left us, but the sixty re- maining students carried on in good faith. During the year there was much competition for a coveted place on the list of class marshals, but eventually the list was se- lected and Joe Massee, Jack Sampson, Elmer O. Eid, Clif- ford Mesedahl, Donna Mae Gilbertson, Alice Schmaltz, Joyce Bridgeford, and Donna Young very proudly led the Senior Processional and Recessional at the Gradua- tion Exercises. We were all a little sad to think the year had passed so quickly, but we all looked forward to being Seniors next year. SENIOR SOPHISTICATES At last we are seniors! But forty-nine of our original sixty-six are left! We are fast learning what it means to be seniors with Miss Reeves, as senior class advisor, to guide us. Our class play, A Date With Judy, was given early this year. We had a lot of .fun giving it, still it was hard work, but we were glad to put our best into it. Being invited by the juniors, as guests of honor, to the Northern Lights Prom and Banquet was a happy experience to remember. A number of our Seniors brought notice to our class by taking part in the Decla- mation Contest, while others made a good showing in Tri-Y, G.A.A., Hi-Y, Band, Chorus, Glee Club and in their academic subjects. What class ever had a triple trio equal to ours, or had basketball and football stars such as we had! Getting the annual ready for publication made us feel that we really were accomplishing some- thing. Again, we strove for the best-co-editors, artists and Miss Reeves worked long hours to get our annual out on time and to produce a really good yearbook. Final exams, the looked-for Senior picnic, and graduation draws nearer. As we approach these closing days we remember all the wonderful times school has brought us, and we really don't wish to give them up. We wish we could live them over, but then we refiect and remem- ber that we still have much to look forward to and that there is a happy future As Time Goes By. CLASS PROPHECY This information has been compiled and composed daily for three solid weeks in the vacant upper story of, yours truly, Bernice McCullough. Any resemblance to future happenings is purely intentional. I traveled far, I traveled near For information you're soon to hear. Thought it may sound a little queer It's not so bad as it may appear. For one thing, Phyllis Hodge is married, Yes, she's settled down at last, Across the threshold she was carried, Farewell to freedom of the past. .74.

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Donna G. and Joyce B. you can well guess Are headed for the road of happiness, They're hostesses on an airlinerg To them, just nothing could be finer. Rita Larson went away to school, She's now a phy. ed. instructor. Lawrence Kliner is taking life cool Working as a railroad conductor. Donna Young's career is all set, She's landed a contract at the Met. Pussy Lee is looking for a pretty young wife, One who can support him for the rest of his life. Squeak Rand danced his way to Hollywood, Now he hasn't a single care. Audrey Larson did pretty good, She hooked herself a millionaire. Don Paulson, yes, that handsome man, Makes tough competition for Van. Max Sheppard is living quite the life As a progressive farmer's wife. Bernice McCullough went to New York To see if a job she could nabg First, she tried singing at the Stork But ended up driving a cab. Doris Wehe, no one could miss, She's strong-woman in a circus. If you're suffering from lack of knowledge See Ole Olson, a prof at college. Here we come to Dorothy Mae Harney, She is now a line seamstress. And we must'nt forget Jack Carney, He is a janitor, no more, no less. JoAnn M. and Shorty E., I see Are coming up in society. They have a job in Washington, D. C., Taking dictation on the President's knee. Alva Olson has a shoe store of her own And is now her own boss. Eugene Mattson, a bachelor, lives all alone, This way he suffers no loss. Marlene Z., Lois G., and Helen K., too, Went way out west to see what they could do. They landed three to fit their style, Now all are marching down the aisle. Designers of dresses with pleats and frills Are Marcella Schmidt and Gladyce Johnson. A very hard worker in the lumber mills Is Al Maloney in nearby Wisconsin. Gene Fassett reached a life-long ambition, Sleepy is now a famous magician. He pulls rabbits out of a hat, He wouldn't eat if it weren't for that. JoAnne DeGagne is spending all her time As a first rate piano teacher. Frank Scheible is working in a coal mine, While Jim Schroeder became a preacher. Junior Eid holds a worthy position, He is now a well-known physician. Delores K. made a marryin' proposition With a very high and mighty politician. Dorothy B. is sailing the blue Atlantic, Yes, she's really going places. Marian Jenson is a plane mechanic, But she also plays the races. Ardell Bestland, the man with the eyes, Now a baker whose specialty is pies. Shirley O. is going to school. What's she taking? Why, you guessed it! A quick course in homemaking. As a poet Clarice Hotvedt is well known, To everyone her poems are a rare treat. Alice Schmaltz has a man and a home of her own And is soon to hear the patter of little feet. Herman Skyberg is now city dog-catcher, So tie up your dog or he's sure to snatch her. And here comes Bud Basgaard, chief street sweeperg And Kenny Wolff, our own city zoo-keeper. Gloria and Carole have gone on the stage, They now give out with the song and dance. Of course, you know, they're not exactly of age, But they surely leave the men in a trance. Lois Cleveland journeyed' back out west, She says, of all, that is the best. Dona E. is living a quiet life As the perfect little housewife. Myrtle, Beverly, and Mary went to Iowa, They said, to work ina department store, But three young bachelors came in one day, And that's why they're not there any more. For Bob Sandlie things are looking brighter, He became a popular song writer. Joe Massee pulled for the southern border, Where he became a newspaper reporter. And now we've come to the end at last, And all have an idea of what's in store, But I guess I'd better leave, but fast, Before I become too much of a bore. LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT WE, the SENIOR CLASS of '47, of CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, EAST GRAND FORKS, MINNESOTA, being of sound mind and body, do create, reveal, and institute this last will and testament to the juniors whose names are found therein. Minnie Wavra receives Bud Basgaard's love for the smaller things of life. Isn't it true that the best things come in small packages? Dorothy Harney unselfishly leaves her years of theat- rical experience as a maid to Carolee Croy. Who knows? Carolee may even rise to greater heights than Dorothy and become a female Arthur Treacher. In Herman Skyberg's language, all politicians are crazy, so it took a lot of persuasion before he agreed to write the story of his rise from a poor farm lad to the highest ofiice of our class. The book is entitled So You Want To Be President and is given to Frank Goodrich with Herman's deepest sympathy. . Gloria Mankie just can't bear the thought of Loal Larson becoming a missionary and preaching among those tall natives, so Gloria gladly leaves to Loal every unneeded inch of height she can spare. While looking over his many talents, Squeak Rand found that he had an over-abundant supply of energy and promptly proceeded to unload a portion of it on Jerry Keller. The teachers, Jerry, have requested that you please use the extra energy on the basketball iioor, not in the classroom. Myrtle Torgerson leaves to Ivadelle Filipi everything she has learned about tap-dancing. Myrtle wishes that someone had given her a gift like that, then Ivadelle could have benefitted more by the gesture. Joe Massee passes on his love for driving and amaz- ingly coming out alive after every venture to Cy Ducharme, who, Joe knows, will bring it to a smashing climax. Rita Larson leaves her athletic ability to Joanne Jacobson, who I am sure will take care of it and de- velop it. JoAnn Mclsaac and Mae Eastman realize that now they probably won't be able to go to the Roller Rink 75'