Gibbon High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Gibbon, MN)

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Glass liinsinrg Twelve short memorable years ago our class entered Gibbon Public School as first graders Miss Emma Zwemke teacher mother , nurse and friend to all started us on the long path of e ucation In our first year we learned the essentials reading and writing but most important o all, we learned how to sing, play and get along wit each other Before each reading session we marched up to our little red chairs where we could be separated from the second graders It always remained a mystery to us how other grade could get along without the little chairs Our second year brought us back to Miss Zwemke and washigh lighted when we were introduced to the m sterious process of adding and sub tracting which than seemed highly complicated to us Probably none of us will ever forget the annual rythm band program when we donned our green and white caps and capes and performed with instruments varying from sticks to clappers for our proud parents The third grade found us in a new room with a new teacher, Miss Dolan Complicated multiplication and division problems were onl a fewof the new things that we were introducedto Everyone of us drea ed seemed much more difficult than printing During our fourth year we organized ourclub, the 'Happy Helpers' we held our meetings every week during which we elected 'helpers' to aid Miss Peterson,ourteacher, in cleaning theroom, washing the boards and dusting erasers Someone was also elected to pass the wastepapef basket each day before we were dismissed A job that everyone wanted and did hisbest to get was that of monitor for each time Miss Peterson left the room the monitor had the privilege of taking charge This was the year that we became regular little Rembrandts Our artistic genius flared as we made portraits of our classmates, landscape sketches and pictures of animals, etc We also started memorizing poems Buciin ham Palace, although it was long and hard, was one of our favori es The fifth grade took us to the other end of thehall and Miss Fag erlie Each morning before we started classes we all gave our pledge to the flag This was repeated at the beginning of each class meeting along with a patriotic song At each weekly meeting we called roll by a different method Everyone would have to respond with the name of a bird, animal, flower, vegetable, etc We all enjoyed the reading per iods during which Miss Fagerlie would read us stories from the books in our library The Caddie Woodlawn series was a favorite of everyone 0ur artistic talents turned towards soap carving, wood work, sewing, and embroidery Our sixth year in school brought us back to the same room but to a newteacher, Miss Erickson Thisyear we became quite a play conscious class We gave appropriate skits for each holiday Our Halloween party included a program given by us for the num of the grades and our mothers We put on a three act play which we made up as we went along and also recited a few poems and sang several songs Everyone who was in the play wud remember the commotion we caused when the piano tipped over while we were moving it between acts During both the fifth and sixth grades autographbookswere very popular with us Everyone brought 0 . -- n n -- A . the last class in the morning. This was penmanship. Learning to write