Murray High School - Pilot Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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.4 i. just ask these teachers Left below, the world passes in review! Miss Grace Mackey, English instructor, holds a sweater that Miss Marion Gratz, librarian, purchased in Europe last sume mer. In the center is Mrs. Patricia Fritsche, interested in Mr. Howard Hathaway's discourse about his European tour. Both Miss Gratz and Mr. Hathaway have excellent pictures that tell the foreign story. Mrs. Fritsche is Murray's girls' physical education instructor, and Mr. Hathaway teaches Spanish and physics. It is a pleasant interlude, a free hour, and a cup of steaming coffee. Enioying this break in a busy day are Mrs. Ruth Eddy, social studies, Mrs. Louise Pederson, mathematics, Mr. Bernard Quinn, social studies, and Mrs. Lucille Smith, chemistry. Away from gym classes, social studies, and biology, these three coaches of track, basketball, and baseball, meet in the equipment room to look over the needs for the seasons. Mr. Robert Ritter seems to like the bat. Mr. Thomas Thompson, new to Murray this year, has developed a snappy gym team. Both Mr. George Rose and Mr. Ritter assist with football, as well as coaching in their respective fields. Below, Mrs. Winifred O'Dwyer, cafeteria manager, carves a turkey while Mrs. Vida Stiles, assistant, is giving a sample to Mr. Marvin House, Murray's chief custodian and best friend of both teachers and students. Mrs. O'Dwyer is new to Murray this year, while Mrs. Stiles is an old favorite with students, because of her art in making delicious cakes and pies. it Www . f. .... W9s,1,r,..,.,.L,x ,wx xy as . . ,. Q 5- . ' M S. . . .. 'rs A W i .-1:25 ,,.. . ' K A ' ft f . 41 Page thirteen

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WhaT goes on here? So inTeresTed are These sporTs- minded insTrucTors ThaT They gladly help in The flooding of The hockey rink. Mr. Bernard Broderick, cenTer, has a primary reason as he is Murray's hockey menTor as well as a machine shop Teacher. Mr. Reno Rossini, lefT, guides The STudenT Council and coaches The varsiTy fooTball squad. Mr. George Bergup, afhlefic direcTor and wood- shop insTrucTor, is amused here aT Mr. Rossini's play. Below, Miss Valborg HelseTh, righT, admires Miss Louise SmiTh's brighT new red car, buT she wonders whaT is wrong wiTh iT. Miss Smfih insisTs ThaT iT is iusT Temper- mental for The momenT. Miss Helseth Teaches shorThand and Typing and Miss SmiTh, maThemaTi'cs. what goes on here? Below lefT, The insTrucTors are maTching colors, con- sulTing charTs, and in general checking on The building's new look, wiTh iTs Swedish red, grays, sofT greens, and yellows. Seafecl is Mrs. Hazel Norden, home economics Teacher. Standing are Miss Marion Koch and Miss Marie Darche, arT Teachers, and Miss Virginia FerTig, social sfudies. RighT, a few Teachers congregaTe of a favorife place, The mailboxes. LefT To righT: Mr. Clarence Fulmek, maThe- maTics, Miss MargareTTa EllsworTh, social sTudies and English, Miss Donna Edlund, English, and Miss Margaref Paschke, maThemaTics. lncidenTally, This group of Teachers is known as The floaTers. They have no rooms of Their own and They have To meeT Their classes in differenT parTs of The building. This accounTs for The armful of books each is carrying. Page Twelve

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lt is The Tall ot 1950, and The Treshmen arrive at Murray bright-eyed and eager To swing into high school lite. There are struggles with math, Latin, and biology, but as The months go by, everyone becomes a real Murrayite. Suddenly it is September, 1951. More worldly now, The sophomores look about Tor class advisers, and They are Tortunate enough To get Miss Louise Peder- son and Mr. Howard Hathaway. An election results in Gilbert Larson becoming The class' tirst president. IT seems impossible, but iT is September again. Robert Gruber becomes The junior's president. This is a social and business year, tor money is needed tor the all-important Prom. Following The sponsoring ot Who is Ewald? ask James and John Broen, new seniors from Be- midii, Minnesota. Well, says Dan Hill, it started with The eighth grade class ot 1949- 50. They bought Ewald for titteen cents and brought him to school, but They carried Their play with the mascot too far. Miss Louise Pederson relieved the class ot Ewald, the lizard, and put it into The hands ot the office, where it stayed. Then, The class bribed the office with seventy-tour cents to re- turn Little Ewald. He was then given to Miss Pederson, to be kept until the class of '54 was to be graduated. Ewald has long since been ex- hibited in a glass frame, but Miss Pederson insists that he will be graduated just the same. Page fourteen both teen-agers and adults. and Frederick Arny, treasurer movies, Talent shows, and dances, the Prom night is here with its Moonlight and Roses. Dreams do come True! It is September, 1953 and The seniors begin a year ot interesting activities in- cluding The class play, movies, dances, a carnival, and a banquet. And Roger Toussaint presides over all with dignity and assurance. Miss Pederson and Mr, Hathaway are proud ot their seniors, and The seniors wish to record in print Their appreciation and thanks to Two exceptionally kind and understanding advisers, The flash back ends-from here on The seniors be- come part ot the loyal alumni ot Murray High School. Turning business into pleasure the Senior Class Board recalls somn of the highlights of The year. The agree that the most spectacular o all features was homecoming a Queen Judy Piper and Manage Rick Arny ruled over the gala te tivities. Another proiect of the year was the Senior Class Play, Ton Many Dates, a comedy enioyed b An introduction here is necessar to make known the ones respons ble for the smooth running year o '54. First row: Carol Spooner, Mlcl' ael Holdaway, Jean Gavin ' Donn Lubke, Nancy Freeman, secretary Roger Toussaint, president, Barbar Bowman, vice president, PGTTICI Murnane 9 Mr. Howard Hathaway Miss Louise Pederson, class advlseri