Ada High School - Viking Yearbook (Ada, MN)

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I UN IORS FRONT ROW tleft to nghtl Alrce Ford Betty Lou Benesh VICIOIIG Drxon Eva Mae Iohnson Mav1s Horn Flonne Vxsser Bernxce Dekko Iune Schackle Alta Iohnson Helen Arel Rosella Wagner SECOND ROW Geraldme Burley W1ll1am Zrmmerman Ardella F ettlng Kelth Forsythe Iune Davrdson Ivan Fletcher Beverly Tehven Beatr1ce Lern Wallace Beneheld Alan Olson Mrs Iohnson adviser THIRD ROW Leo Baker Iack Evans Robert Nelson Robert Poehler Alrce Neumann Donald Dyrdahl Lowell Storms Rxchard Malakowsky Lo1s McCune Hey wa1t dont forget us we re the Cherubs of the school D1d I say Cherubs of the school? Did I say cherubs P Well ' We Iumors are represented on the football basketball and track teams band chorr pep band STC declamanon soc1al comm1tte war stamp commlttee V1k1ng Log and annual Two members of our class Eva Mae and Bunny add zep and pep to our basketball games by leadmg the cheerrng That s not all' Last year we bu1lt an enormous bonhre for homecomxng fwell 1t was a f1re anyway? a group of us acted as warters and wa1tresses at the Iun1orSen1or banquet that year and decorated the gym for baccalaureate Th1s year we had a wonderful trme presentmg the play Brother Goose We sponsored an old fashroned basket soc1al and last but not least the banquet and promenade' So we have completed our Iumor year and are lookrng forward to stepprng mto the coveted role of the senror class of 1945 IUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS rmsiwas Medi rlml-'lzskl Mx.. WMU! il an mum Ivan Fletcher Rlchard Malakowsky Presldent Vrce-Presldent Mabel Smrth Bermce Dekko Treasurer Secretary 12

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY What we are to be we are now becommg Twelve years ago SIX httle shavers ran up the steps of the Ada Pubhc School to be welcomed by M1ss Youmans It was our frrst day 1n school Donald Sanders was there wrth hrs short pants and brand new harrcut whrle Zola Haaland always showed her cute l1ttle drmples whenever she srmled at Glenn Larson who sat across the arsle from her Verna Nash came wrth a brg red apple for our teacher hoptng she d be asked to wash the boards Wllma Moe came to school wrth her trghtly bralded prgtarls rn red rrbbons and Patty Mack s auburn harr hung rn r1nglets We remember Betty Lou Olson was always helplng Eugene Hadler drstrngursh between hrs blue and green colors The thrrd grade brought Ieanne Volland 1nto our cla s as M1ss Bells No l pet W1lhs Grrese started school here as a frfth grader only to leave us rn our Sophomore year but returned agarn as a Semor to frnrsh the home stretch Malcolm Rrpley was our only new seventh grader He was followed by Verona Fettrng who came from the country to jorn us rn the erghth grade In our Freshman Class we have fourteen new students and rt rs here where we catch our frrst ghmpse of Leo Merck When we were Sophomores we burlt a huge bonfrre for Homecommg And do you remember what happened to our 1ll fated tank whrch was our entry rn the Homecommg float compet1t1on'? Takrng on more responsrbrlrty rn our Iunror year we have the extra help of Phylhs Bezenek and Donald Ogaard That year after many tedlous practrces we presented the humorous comedy Prrze Prgs On May 17 under the drrectron of M1ss Renner we entertarned the Sen1ors wrth a turkey dmner followed by a prom Because of the flood condrtrons at the trme boots were used to get 1nto the school to decorate the gymnasrum for commencement exercrses Regardless of our many drffrcultres large quantxtres of fern and lrlacs were used to make 1t very beautrful although the Senrors were too exclted to notrce that We were all more than proud of our basketball team when they recerved a pnze of War Stamps for defeatmg the Semor Class rn the Inter Class tournament last year Now drawrng to the close of our school career we have twenty nrne mrghty Sen1ors rn cludrng Rolfe Tehven who came to frnrsh hrs Senror year w1th us The boys rn our class seem to be very partlal towards the Navy as Rrp Ieep and Irvrn who would have graduated wrth us enhsted wrth Uncle Sam last year Dur1ng basketball season Patty Mack was crowned Homecomrng queen and our deco rattons won second prrze We were entertarned by the Iumors wrth a banquet and Prom to help make thrs year a grand frnale Our b1g effort of the year was the publrcatron of the 1944 Vrkmg Oh how we torled and struggled to get those erght tons of waste paper but rt pard to the tune of S103 O4 Wrth Mr Ruoff our advrser at the helm we wrote the f1n1sh to a grand school year and now we a1m to conquer greater realms SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Iarl Grlbertson Donald Ogard Treasurer Vrce President Edna Strand Verna Nash Presrdent Secretary ll 11 - 11 1 1 , . . . . 1 , . . . . ' . . . . . 1 . . . , . . S . . 1 1 - 1 - - 11 11 - - 1 - - 11 - . 11 1 - 1 1 ' 1 1 I . , . - 11 - 11 11 11 11 - 11 1 1 1 . ' . ' 1 . , i ri-.

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SOPHOMORES FRONT ROW tleft to nghtl Duane Torfrn lames Schultz lane Dullum Royal Iohnson Lorrame Carmen Helen Rueblce Elame Wagner Ada Mae Teters Betty Chrxstensen Hornet Sprung Arne Aasland Chester Bartz SECOND ROW Leslre Ness Eumc Rrste Ila Rassmussen Florella Iohnson Yvonne Peterson Lors Mrller Valerxe Skalsky Lola Mae Horn Betty Mxller Ilene Geryets Rarma Kloety Mrchael Merck Mlss Rotth advrser THIRD ROW Ierry Scot W1ll1am Frscher Duane Foster Rhoda Olson Glorxa Moon Allce Krogstad Barvara Her nnger Wrlham Storslee Marvm WllllGmSOH Duane Shelland FOURTH ROW Noa1mHovland lamce Omdahl Raymond Iacobson George Grlbertson Norman Brantl Ronald Grothe Arne Garness Russell Onstad Donna Mae Fynskov Murrel Ness H1 Folks Here s the rnsrde story of the Sophomore class We are very proud that we have the largest class 1n the h1gh school and also the largest per cent on the honor roll The members of the Sophomore class partrcrpate 1n almost all the varrous act1v1t1es of our school They are rn band on the V1k1ng Log staff on the Vrkrng annual staff and on the basketball and football squads Peppy Vonnre Peterson IS presr dent of the Pep Club and also head of the cheerleaders Donna Red Fynskov IS charrman of the Servxce Comrmttee and Garne does the art work on the school newspaper and smks baskets too These are 1ust a few of the talents we Sophomores possess At Chrlstmas when Santa peeked h1s head around the corner all the members of our class contrrbuted a n1ckel so we mrght have a Chnstmas tree Through the effort of a group of g1rls the tree was bought and decorated Yes we are a peppy cooperat1ve group and lrke to be thought of 1n that way SOPHOMORE CLASS OFFICERS Donna Fynskov Arne Garnass Secretary Presrdent Arne Aasland RC'-IIIIICI K10efY Vrce Preszdent Treasurer 13 e .... . h . 9 . , . . . . ,... , . . lr 1 n 1 1 n . . I 1 ' , l I o l H 4 4 l , . f . E ' f M , . T ,r at - , l X I V 7 ' I ' I RJ ' 5 ,. .