Fairdale High School - Fairdalian Yearbook (Fairdale, ND)

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May 4, 1949, was a festive evening for the upper-classrnen of the Fairdale High School for it marked the date for the Junior-Senior Ban- quet. This was one of the first in the history of the school, but we hope now to have established it as a permanent annual tradition. The banquet centering around a colorful May Day theme was held in he parlors of the Silvesta Church with JoAnne Samson as toastmistress and Mrs I J Iverson as guest speaker Host esses were mothers of the students in the Junior Class More than fifty guests were present Rexgning over the activities of the annual school carnival O tober 14 were Queen Ruth Westby and King Jerome Nordby The royal couple attended by Marie Nkestby ToAnne Samson Lorraine Hedlund Donald Stoa LeRoy Stensland and Gerald Lien were crow nc d at midnight Patricia Anderson and Huv-ard Johnson Jr were the crown be-are-r-. 9 1 . 5 . w ' - . 0 : n ' . 1 n . , ' .9 N I i . . . . Q .' ' -'-

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Truls Tollefson our fa1thfulJan1tor has been school custodxan for ixfteen years He IS as much a part of our educatlonal system as are the books and the desks for he has been a school fixture datzng back to 1933 wxth only a few mtermzttent years off duty Last year Miss Ohnstad lnaugurated a new system for choosmg the ushers to attend the Seniors at commencement exercises The plan is to select ushers from the Jumor class on the basis of scholastic averages for the current year of high school work The 1949 ushers were JoAnne Sarnson and Grace Monson The 1950 ushers w111 be an nounced ln May Edwma Thrugstad Sophomore IS hot lunch chairman for the year succeedmg Helen Overbye who served the prevlous school term Her work xnvolves meal planning and record keepmg Our lunchroom serves as many as eighty elght persons as day and our monthly records often shows a total of 1200 meals Faczlztxes have greatly Improved by the purchase oi a steel cabinet and an electric hot plate The local Parent Teachers Association which had been dormant for a nu.mber of years was reorganized last fall and has had an active and successful season Officers elected were Mrs Harry Bergquist, presidentg Mr L Overbye, vice president Helny Ohnstad secretary, and Mrs I J Iverson treasurer A prograxn of school beautification was chosen as the special project of the year and wnth Glenn Lxen as project chairman the members of the organizatxon met to paint and repaxr the school buzldmg Helen Overbye, a Jumor, was chosen to represent the American Legxon Auxaliary at the 1950 Girls State held at Grand Forks Lorrame Hedlund was named alternate Candxdates are chosen on the basis of scholarship leadershrp and cxtizenshzp Last year the appointment was gxven to JoAnne Samson ZZ MR TOLLEFSON - '. ,'v ., 'lu ' EDWINA

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