Ada High School - Viking Yearbook (Ada, MN)

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A Letter About Homecoming .. wwk, Viices Played a Victorious Game October 11. 1941 Dear Folks, The day after the night before the bonfire that wasn't, and the sophies had done a swell job of getting fuel, we all came back to school to discover that we were having homecoming after all, cause it didn't rain enough to make the field wet. So we didn't have our funny paper characters either. Well, to start off with, several of us seniors were excused from school to prepare the first prize float, the Statue of Liberty, the part taken by Leona Writer, and boy what a float! 'We used Sprug Remark's t'Chevy,' and what a car. The junior float had to push it three- fourths of the way in the parade. Well, the parade was supposed to start at one- thirty, so by two it finally got underway. As usual the band strutted out in front, then came the noisy fire trucksg you might say they took the place of the usual trumpets or bugles that hail the coming of someone of royalty, because following them was the Queen's float. The Queen was perched on top of Mr. W'idsten's car and the four attendants were riding on the fenders and such. Behind the Queen came the famous senior float. the Statue of Liberty. 1, Queens float. 2. Senior float. 3. Junior float. 4. Sophomore float.

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l Front Row: tleft to right? Jean Lee. Fatty Gill. Ardis Horn. Margaret Ingebcrg, Violet Gill. Verona Miller, Wallace Bcnnefield, Ruth Scherf. Second Row: Janis Larson, Verona Fetting. Elaine Thompson. Viola Bloom. Beatrice Lein, Ilene Gerjets, Lois Johnson. Third Row: Myra Lee, Betty Remark. Edna Strand, Ruth Austinson. Mavis Horn, Odell Olson. Edward Jamison. Fourth Row: Esther Stennes. Leo Merck. Malcolm Ripley. Eileen Ike. Leona Sand. Bette Scherl. Donald Ness. Fifth Row: Robert Ericson, Lois McCune. Almira Grothe. Robert Remark, Elaine Stennes. Lyla Larson, Orleen YVarne, R. B. Johnson. Advisor. 27' of the activity tickets, the two movies sponsor- ed by the staff and by the interclass tournament of which the seniors were the victors. Another problem was the securing of snap- shots. This was done through a senior snap- shot party and by student's donations. Most of the pictures, however, had to be taken by our photography editors to fill the extra snapshot pages that are in the annual this year. At the Northern Interscholastic Press as-Q sociation held in Grand Forks last year, the Viking rated A and was the best printed annual in its division. It also was the best Min- nesota annual entered. Viola Bloom, Leona Writer represented the Viking at the conven- tion. This is the sixth Viking published and is the fourth to be printed. The other two were mime- ographed and planographed. As you probably have noticed, this annual has been improved as much as our limited resources allowed. The new, streamlined cover is different from any- thing used previously and the editor has tried her best to make the make-up of the book varied and interesting. Front Row tleft to rightj Jesse Ellingsworth. Phyllis Pickering. Elaine Thompson, Viola Margaret Nelson. Neola Dixon, Alice Harms. Janis Larson, LuVeine Olson, Anthony Merck. Second Row: Almira Grothe. Donald Ness. Leona Writer, Esther Stennes, Bette Scherf. Schubkegel. Daphne Fischer. Alta Stadum. Arline Gigler. Mr. Widsten tclass advisorj. Back Row: Elaine Stennes, Robert Gnadt. Esther Gilsoul, Jasper Wells, Gerard Spaeth, Remark. Myron Eidsmoe. Robert Skalsky. Loren Christianson. CNot on picture: Archie Christianson. Muriel Echoff, Orleen Warne, Lowell Haalandj Bloom, Helen Robert

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Following this was the juniors' float, I don't remember what it was, but it was given the prize for the most original float there. The seniors want to thank the juniors for pushing us in the parade, of course if we had had a car it wouldn't have been necessary. Well, after the juniors was supposed to be the sophs, but they didn't get very far cause as the huge white tank turned the corner, BANG! Y I ! Y it smashed into another car. It sure wreck- ed the thing. You know if all the tanks are built like that we sure won't stand a chance against Germany, but I think it was the people who made this one, of course it might be that they hit a better car. On second thought I know it was. Parading behind was the freshies, and the seventh and eighth grade floats, I didn't see them, but I heard they had Hoats in the parade. And of course, as usual, along behind the floats came cars and all the kids. Well we paraded down the streets of our big town and then the bunch kinda split, some to the fairgrounds, and some to the school house. I went out to the fairgrounds and sat around until the game started and what a game! Nothing much happened in the first quarter, and we thought sure we would shunk 'em, but during the second period something happened, cause gol-darn those Indians, if they didn't score two touchdowns. Personally I think the girls were the inspiration, cause from what I hear Mahnomen girls aren't as good-looking as us Ada girls, course I wouldnlt know. Well, during the half came the crowning of the Queen, I couldnlt see much of that because of all the kids running around there, but Viola was crowned, not the way she should be, but that's O.K., we took care of that later. The Queen marched out onto the field, with the two Betty's holding her train, and the other two attendants carrying the crown-it was so heavy with jewels, the ten cent kind, that it took two to carry it. Betty Remark set the crown on the Queen's head, then the Queen gave out the float prizes and things and all marched back. I don't know how Viola carried the crown on her head when it took two to carry it before, but she did it, I guess maybe she's stronger than we gave her credit for. .29. By the time the third period rolled around I had yelled myself hoarse and to top it off it looked as if the Indians were out to beat us, but we fooled them by taking the ball away at their one yard line, course they fumbled the ball, but anyway we got it, and then Hadler ran 78 yards for a touchdown. his second of the season, and then the Indians got mad and they tried to make passes, but all the wind from their bragging kinda helped us to inter- cept their passes. At the end of the game we were clear down on our twenty yard line again, and we beat the Indians 38 to 18, of course everyone knew we would. Well I guess that's enough about the famous Ada High School Homecoming for now. Be seein' you soon I hope. Love, Bette 1. Our Homecoming Queen. 2. The bonfire.