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

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his to school to be signed at least tw1ce a year We got our first taste of Journalism when we published a paper Gibbon Grade Gleanlngs We wrote the articles for it and our teacher typed it and ran itat! on the ditto The sixth grade was the last year that we were allowed to appear in the annual Christmas operetta which was one of the high lights of each school year In the springtime we went on several short hikes to better acquaint us with nature The day we entered the seventh grade we felt quite grown up for now we were upstairs As seventh and eighth graderswe also enjo ed having more than one teacher for in addition to Miss Schmitz, we d Miss Anderson for music and eit er Mr Webster or Miss andm nn for phy ed Instead of having our parties during school hours we had our Halloween and Christmas parties in the evening The Halloween parties were always started by having a scavenger hunt which sent us hunting all over town to find the various items Our ninth year made us a part of the high school lo longer were we considered members of the 'grades' Those of us who had been here before found ourselves in a much larger class than we had ever had 35 There were so many strange faces and places but these strange faces soon became more familiar and in no time at all we were one big happy class The sophomores did a good Job of initiating us into high school life We'll probably never forget the nightgowns, bibbed over alls, green sweaters, etc that we were obliged to wear that day Being 'frosh' entitled us to have a new and varied schedule of subjects each with a different teacher As sophomores we were allowed to do the 'honors' at initiation time For the first time in our high school career we were allowed to choose our elective suojects This also was the f1rst year that any of us could drive cars to our class picnic so we used this to our advan tage and packed up after our last exam for an impromptu picnic With our junior year came the production of our first class play, c osen for our banquet We worked hard and long on it but ourwork was well rewarded for on May 17 we gave a very successful banquet for the seniors and faculty Needless to say, nobody will ever forget our class picnic at St Peter and Mankato' The first important event when we returned to school in the fall for our last year was the arrival of our class rings They really made us feel like seniors Soon we were taking care of all the little de tails that confront a senior ordering invitations, caps and gowns and calling cards, having our graduation pictures taken and ordered etc A high light of our senior year was the very successful football and basketball season This was the first yearthat we had ever experienced the excitement and thrill of district and regional tournaments W again displayed our dramatic talent when we presented our class play, on May 2 Early in the year we decided that our class colors wou be royal blue andwhite, our flower the white rose, and our motto 'Not at the top, but climbing ' On April 23lt Anderson announced that Joanne Brunner was the valedictorian and Celine Isakson was tin slnta torian Five other members Lester Biermann, Barbara Kramer, Marilyn Pockrandt, and Esther Taggatz attained an average of 90 or over Of the original first grade class eight members Esther Taggatz, Jalal Stadtherr Yvonne Ruschmeyer, Jerome Petersen, Marilyn Pockrandt, Beverly Olson, Celine Isakson, and Joanne Brunner traveled the twelve years together E. . Seve tee t Summer, on November 17. Treasure Island was the theme O . e me '