Ada High School - Viking Yearbook (Ada, MN)

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FEATURES

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TRACK wr st., HOMECOMING Prrates bums fat men old ladres and some other we1rd lookmg creatures were all part of the openrng feature of our btg gala home student passed 1n revrew the judges marked them for ongrnalrty performance and the elaborateness of costumes They chose Stan ton Dekko as the frrst place wrnner Betty Naugle second and Lowell Storms thrrd Later 1n the evenmg amld the cheers of our basketball fans Patty Mack was crowned queen of homecomlng by Iarl Grlbertson the 1943 football captam Lowell Storms vrce presrdent of the Student Teacher Counc1l then presented her wrth a beautrful charm bracelet The queen attlred 1n the tradrtronal coronat1on robe was attended by Verna Nash Betty Lou Ol on Ardella Fett1ng and Iune Schackle gll wcarmg wh1te formals Iamce Omdahl Eva Mae Iohnson and Yvonne Peterson presented cr novelty tap and twrrlrng combrnatron after the coronat1on Followmg the game we were entertalned by the splendrd carnrval prepared by the sopho mores The fortune tellrng by Mlss Bryant was especrally popular The wrnners of the decoratrng contest were Sophomores Ftrst pnze and the Senlors run n1ng a close second Thrs party brought to an end our mrd wmter homecomrng wrth everyone sayrng lt was a huge success Although they entered a large rnexpenenced team the V1k1ngs were able to mass a total of 42 po1nts at the d1stnct track meet held at Ada on May 14 1943 The two outstandrng men on the V1k1ng team were Hadler and Iohn son who scored 10 and 7 poxnts respectrvely Hadler placed frrst 1n both the 100 and 220 yard dashes whrle Iohnson took second rn the pole vault and thrrd rn the broad jump Hadler was the only man to place tn the Regronal where he took frfth 1n the 220 yard dash Other members who placed were Storms who t1ed for frrst rn the 880 placed thrrd and fourth respectrve ly 1n the mrle run Noel Haaland who was only a seventh grader placed fourth 1n the hrgh jump whrle A Petry and Rrpley both placed fourth rn the shot put and pole vault 184- . r r' 'S-1' coming, Friday, Ianuary 21. As each costumed yard run. Smith and Iamison who C . I l 28

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I UN IORS PRESENT ,s wg Remember November 309 We do for that s when we presented our Iumor class play BROTHER GOOSE The thr1ll of openmg mght backstage and the fmal curtam all serve to remrnd us of our efforts as thesplans Long remembered characterxzatrons are those of Brother Goose CLowell Storms! Hy Uune Schacklel the younger srster who would rather play football than eat Carol fFlor1ne VISSGIJ who prefers to eat and prune herself Eve lBermce Dekkol the southern charmer and lovely Peqgy CEva Mae Iohnsonl who really knows her busmess Others 1n the cast Wes lB1ll Zrmmermanl Lenore U-Xrdella Fettmgl Mrs Trxrnmer lAl1C6 Neumann? Helen lLo1s McCuneD Sarah Uune Dav1dson7 and the drrver fGeorge Olsonl THE FACULTY PLAY An outstandmg event of the fall dramatlcs season was the presentatron of The Imag1nary Invalld a three act farce by the local school faculty on November 5 The play whrch was a b1g success revolved around Argan lAlbert Matteson! who rmagmes hrmself a very s1ck man How Tomette lAudrey Zubel exposes th1s preten e and makes Argan 1nto an agree able old gentleman formed the plot of th1s old French comedy Other characters were portrayed by Orpha Burud Fred Lar son Robert Larson Lucy Passe Lester Roesch Danrel Ruoff Ethel Saarr Hans Sethre Alrce Thompson and Sh1rley Zrm 1T1e1'I'1'1CIl'1 The proceeds from thls comedy were used to pay for the new stage curta1ns and cyclorama of whlch the school IS justly proud 50 ' . l 2 3 Q X.-in v 2 sz, , ' K 1 , . 3 1 5 l . 5. 5 , . X . I , . , . , : . . I I I ' ' I I - I . ., . . ,. . , . I . S . - I , - I I I I I I .I I . . . -