West Point High School - Cadet Yearbook (West Point, NE)

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 JUNIOR-SENIOR The annual Junior-Senior Banquet was held this year in the normal training room of the High School. The decorations were carried out on the plan of a ship. The entrance to the dining-salon was gained over a gang plank. The four sides of the room were adonied with life savers and other parapher- nalia, to give the effect of a sea voyage. In the center of the beau- tifully checked ceiling was a large ventilating funnel. The tables were arranged in a very unique order. The toast- master, “Admiral” Howard Simonson was seated at one end of a long table. “The Toasters” were seated at a smaller table at the opposite end of the room. The class presidents were seated at the ends of tables on either side of the toastmaster. The subject for the banquet was “ Viaticum,” or in other words, “ Preparations for a voyage.” The toasts were given on this sub- ject. Prior to the banquet the Seniors were received in the sewing room by the Juniors. Several davenports were placed about the room and while the earlier ones awaited the arrival of the later ones sev- eral talented members of the Junior Class furnished amusements. Alma Jensen and Walter Walla each gave a reading. The girls Sex- tette composed of Alma Jensen, Orva Zeplin, Violet Pahl, Edith Does- cher, Blanch Hartz, and Evelyn Boldt, sang several songs and the Junior Midgets presented a stunt. The Seniors were welcomed by “Rear Admiral” Fontyan Boldt and “Rear Admiral” Raymond Baumann responded on behalf of the Seniors. Following the response by “Rear Admiral” Baumann, the following toasts were given: Sails...............................‘Skipper” Earl Reppert Motor and Rudder....................“Lieutenant” Lester Gaster Life Savers.........................“Ensign” R. A. Bunney Anchor..............................“Honorary Captain” Myrtle Peterson Ballast.............................“Tug Captain” H. D. McEachen Gang Plank..........................‘Honorary Captain” Esther Kollmorgan Class Will..........................‘Honorary Captain” Alice Baumann Class Prophecy......................‘Light House Keeper” Ruth Baumann

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THE SENIOR CLASS PLAY “ SWEETWATER TRAIL,” the play presented by the Class of 1928, is a breezy comedy of the Canadian Northwest, full of stirring situations and typical Northwest humor. Vera Randolph,—played by Catherine Moodie—unless married by midnight on the day before her twenty-fourth birthday, must for- feit a large estate, left to her in the freak will, and the property goes to the young lieutenant of the Royal Mounted Police—the part played by Loy Thietje—a black sheep, whom she is planning to marry. At the eleventh hour the groom-elect exhibits his natural caddishnses and the bride promptly breaks off the marriage, only to discover that her precious lieutenant had not intended to marry her anyway. Fur- ious at being double-crossed, she hastily digs up another bridegroom, a young rancher from up Sweetwater Trail—part played by Harold Goranson — and a midnight marriage is solemnized. Fireworks! The double-crosser finding himself double-crossed in his efforts to seize the coveted fortune, attempts to break the marriage and is fought at every step by the doughty young rancher. Bad blood be- tween the two men culminates in an apparently fatal quarrel, but a sudden twist in the action turns the would-be tragic ending into comedy. Captain Terry O’Rourke Colonel Randolph...... Mrs. Sheldon........... Pomona................. Gabby Lon Peters....... Jo Grosjean........... Dan Marlow............. Jeffery Benson........ Annie Crowfoot......... Vera Randolph......... Stella................. Della.................. Wully McCallum........ Director..... Stage Manager THE CAST ........................Erich Oelachlaeger ........................Raymond Baumann ........................Dorothy Elliott ........................Myrle Tomrdle ........................Lester Sellentin ........................Elray Woerman ........................Harold Goranson ........................Loy Thietje ........................Wanda Koonlz ........................Catherine Moodie ...............Ella Leonard ........................hui Flores ........................Duane Sass ................Miss Innis ................Lloyd Thompson

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First Row: Alma Jensen. Gerald Beck. Ruth Baumann. Omer Brazda, Edith Doescher, Howard MeEachen. Sponser, Albert Webber, George Luedtke, Ernest Rickabaugh, Ester Hein, Marvin Wendt. Second Row: Ruth Collins, Lester Muhle, Roland Berg. Fontyan Boidt, Alvina Hedeman, Walter Walla, Vernon Miserez, Alfred Wickert, Lloyd Feyerherm. Third Row: Marvin Schellenberg, Violet D'oescher, Evelyn Boidt, Elsie Reher, William Schinstock, Howard Simonson, Vergil Miserez, Lolanda Sass. Back Row: Violet Pahl, Janet Wurzbacker, Orva Zeplin, Blanche Hartz, Esther Kollmorgan. Lester Caster, Hilda Lorenzen, Irma Mortenson. CLASS OF 1929 OFFICERS Sponser.................Mr. MeEachen Vice-President.......................Alma Jensen President...............Fontyan Boidt Treasurer........................George Luedtke Twelve years ago the original class started to school with Eva Kerl as its first teacher. The class went through the grades together with some mem- bers joining and others dropping out. As Freshmen, there were thirty-eight members. Miss Eva O’Neil sponsored the class and Walter Walla was elected as president. Towards the end of the year, three members of the class dropped out. In the Sophomore year, Edith Doescher was elected to lead the class. This year was a successful one with the same number of members as the year before. Miss O’Neil was again the sponsor of the class. The Junior year, with Howard MeEachen as sponsor and Fontyan Boidt as president, was even better than ever before. The class gave their play, “The Ghost Bird” in a first-class manner, due largely to the efforts of Mr. MeEachen and Miss Innis. The Juniors showed up well in athletics, especially in basketball. In the inter-class basket-ball tournament, the girls won the cup. The boys did not win their final game, but they played good basketball and we are proud of the showing they made. During the three years of high school, the Junior class has the reputation of being the peppiest class in the school. That’s something to be proud of.