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

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MERLYN PERRY Laugh, and the class laughs with you, but you go to the office alone. MARLENE REIMERS She can talk you into anything--she employs art in more ways that one! RONALD REIMERS Play and I'll play with you, study and you study alone. BETTY REPPERT Deeds, not words! FRED REPPERT, Jr. Cramming may make others wise, but it makes me otherwise. NANCY SEARS You'd be surprised. RICHARD SENDEN Most all outstanding men are dead—funny, but I don't feel so well myself. LAJEAN STUTHMAN Although she appears demure and quiet, short acquaintance will belie it. KEITH VANDENBERGE Sometimes I sit and think and sometimes I just sit. SENIORS Not pictured— DELANE LUEHRING RICHARD WIELER JUDITH ZOBEL He has his goal well in She never lets work intermind. fere with pleasure.

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MERLIN HOFFMAN How do I know girls don't bite? JANET JERMAN The best in life in conversation. ROBERT JONES None but himself could be his parallel. VIRGINIA JONES Say what you will, but let me speak longer. LINDA JURGENSON Who says she has red hair??? LARRY KUESTER Actions speak louder than words. DENNIS KRUEGER Let others do the laboring and I will do the rest. HARRY LOREN ZEN, Jr. He believes that there are two places to live; the farm is both of them. LYLE METZGER Why worry—it's bad for the health. SEN ORS SECOND SEMESTER OFFICERS Lyle Metzer, Leigh Hoetfelker, Keith Vandenberge, Linda Jur-genson. SHEILA MILDRUM SUSAN MOODIE One who quietly does her Sweet and pure and inno best. cent— 9

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SYNOPSIS OF THE CLASS OF ’59 The curtain has fallen on the last act of an action-packed diar.ia at West Point Public School for the 33 members of the Class of '59. On the eve of Commencement, May 27, they took their final bow. Jack Andres, Carol Benne, Sharon Drew, Judith Gas-ter, Helene Goranson, Gary Greckel, Tommy Hagedom, Susan Moodie, Merlyn Perry, Mary Schmidt, Dick Senden, and Keith Vandenberge shyly made their debut together on that bright September 2 morning in 1947. Here they received their first training under the patient guidance of Miss Carmen Kase. Joining the class later in the year were Gordon VanCleave and Judy Wolken. Boys, remember how greasy the black boards got from your hair oil when we were preparing for our FIRST gradesta ? In September, 1948, 16 second grade students filed into the third grade students because Miss Ruth Bernhardt, regular second grade teacher, taught the kindergarten that year. Joining our ranks this year were Donald Disher, Jerry Falconer, DeLane Luehring, Ronnie Reimers and Steven Thatcher; while leaving us were Jack Andres, Judy Wolken and Mary Schmidt. Miss Langenberg was our third grade teacher also. This year we gained Sandra Gill, Lanny Neilsen and Jerry Mehrens. Leaving us were Gordon VanCleave and Jerry Falconer. As we entered the fourth grade with Miss Andra Jackson as our teacher we added Jerry Falconer, Merlin Hoffman. Jean Marie Sundahl, Bobby Kist, Dean Sila, Jerry Holtz, and Dennis Krueger and lost Steve Thatcher and Jerry Mehrens, making our total 22. Jean Marie Sundahl left us in the middle of the year. Miss Carrie Storment welcomed 20 students into the fifth grade. Three new pupils gained were Avis Christensen, Janet Jerman and Everett Sila. We lost Gary Greckel, Sandra Gill, Bobby Kist and Jerry Holtz. Leaving us later in the year were Avis Christensen and Dick Senden. Entering the sixth grade to face Mrs. Eleanor Rasmussen were 18 pupils. We added Clella Swanson to our list, but lost Everett Sila and Larry Neilsen. Twenty pupils entered Junior High in Sept. 1953. We gained Lonnie Fenske, Bob Jones, and Virginia Jones and lost no one. In the eighth grade we lost Dean Sila but gained Donna Ubben to keep our number at zO. In the fall of 1955, thirty-nine lowly boys and girls entered the halls of West Point Public School once again, anxiously awaiting their chance to play bigger, better roles in high school. The new pupils gained were Fred Reppert, Jr., Kenneth Hansen, LaJean Stuthman, Betty Reppert, Linda Jurgenson, Jeanette Brockman, Everett Sila, Paul Dietrich, Jr., Marleen Malzahn, Vonita Pasold, Larry Kuester, Marlene Reimers, Harry Lorenzen, Jr., Marcia Lase, Judith Zobel, Kathleen Tietz, Ann Edminsten, Floyd Erickson, Lyle Metzger, Leigh Hoetfelker, and Richard Senden. In the middle of the year we gained Gordon Hobza, Keith Canarsky, and Gerald McIntyre. All but Gordon left at the end of the year. We entered our sophomore year numbering 34 minus Ann Edminsten, Marcia Lase, Everett Sila, Clella Swanson and Vonita Pasold. We picked up Sheila Mildrum to raise our total to 35. We lost Gordon Hobza during the year. On November 17, 1957, the class having now advanced to juniors, presented their play, 'Hie Funny Brats. Stan Helgenberger joined our ranks at mid-semester. In the following months their thoughts turned to plans for the Junior-Senior Banquet. The Orient was the theme chosen for the banquet and although it was hard work, the banquet proved to be enjoyable for everyone. Thus the class went forward until finally it reached its top year; and when the school bell called them to their studies in Sept., of '58, eight of them were beginning their twelfth year of school together. Those who have been able to endure each other all thru school were Carol Benne, Judith Gaster, Helene Goranson, Tommy Hagedom, Susan Moodie, Merlyn Perry, Dick Senden and Keith Vandenberge. Kathleen Tietz was not in our ranks as we entered our final Year. Sharon Drew and Marleen Malzahn dropped from school at mid-semester. This year sped by even more quickly than the other three. The senior play was presented on May 13. This year, they were the honored guests at the Junior-Senior Banquet. And so it goes, another senior class and another four years of fun and hard work behind them. II