Big Sandy High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Big Sandy, MT)

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0=3 THE CENTENNIAL DC □ □C □ □C □ □C 10=0 “I suppose you’re beginning to wonder about Ivan Berg. We ran across him accidentally in stopping at an airplane filling station up at what used to be known as Box Elder. The first we heard was the Tooting’ of a sousaphone. In a few minutes Ivan made his appearance. Box Elder has greatly increased in size and he owns about half of it. The name has been changed to ‘Berglund.’ He was married recently and is making use of what he learned in B. S. H. S. as he is director of a dance band which puts on dances every Saturday night at Hay Center Inn. “The last of our musicians is with us now. We’ll let him say for himself. Come on Gene.” “Well, after I got out of school I took up aviation but I still did not forget how to sing. That’s how they knew me back at school. I could sing over the whir of my machine.” “Sing us a song now,” said William. “All right. I’ll sing you that song that I used to sing when I was a Senior.” Soon the air was filled with the melody “'Go Home and Tell Your Mother.” Bursting into a fit of laughter, Eugene spoke up saying, “Oh, tell them about I)oc Ray and Carjta Smith.” “Surely, I will,” said Squirty. “Doc Ray married Carita Smith but owing to the excess knowledge that she received in her course in Physics, she turned out to be an inventor and invented a special type of rolling pin that is extra hard on the hen-pecked husband. Doc could not stand this so he sued her for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty and married Margaret Johnson, who is of a quieter type. They now own a large store in Fargo, North Dakota. Carita is thinking some of joining Irene and Frances in their tours.” Lillian, who always seemed to have the ability to think forward, an- nounced, “Out of a class of thirty members there surely must have been an actor or an actress.” “Yes, there is,” answered Gene. “As soon as Clarissa Phillips and Paul Sonksen graduated they went directly to Hollywood where they became famous on the movie screen. They are soon to play the leading parts in the picture Tt Doesn’t Pay to Argue.’ ” “Well, you could knock me over with a feather. Whoever thought that Paul would go on the stage? What do you say, Squirty?” “‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way.’ Next we’ll hear what happened to the Cooke sisters. We all knew that Annie was to be married to Ivan Clark when school was out but that was all. Now she is a well-known style designer in France. The clothes which you women wear today are modeled by her hands. Dorothy has played faithful by her name and became a great ‘cook.’ She is now in Houston, Texas, teaching Home Economics.” “That cannot be all of the class yet, can it?” asked Gordyn. “Oh, no, there are several left yet. Here is Esther Haakensen and Juanita Hultin. They are managing a beauty parlor back east and are not left in peace one minute of the day for there is a continual line of women there to have their beauty renewed and they are even expected to make beautiful the unbeautiful. Oh, that makes me think of that essay we studied in English. ‘The Enjovment of Unpleasant Places.’ ” (Continued on Page 63) Page 20 : 193 1 0=0

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0=3L :nc inz □ THE CENTENNIAL C=C “Yes, I think so. Don’t yon think I have a darling little family?” It was Bill’s voice and you could just hear his joy. By this time they were all inside sitting in a nicely furnished parlor. “Eugene, didn't you say that you were out interviewing our old Senior Class?” This showed Gordvn's interest. “You bet your life, I am. They're still the same old class too. I wish we could have one of those old class meetings again even if they were rather noisy. I could even take a bawling out from Ivan. Looking back, I think he made a pretty good president.” “If you know anything about the class, you'd better let us hear it. First of all I want to know where Nancy is and what she's doing,” said Lillian. Squirty was ready for action. “Wait until I get my little notebook out and I'll tell you all 1 know. Nancy’s away down in the State University of New Mexico where she's coaching basketball. She's known the stale over because she has such a wonderful personality and has such a knack of getting along with everyone.” “Three cheers for Nancy. She always did put her whole soul into basketball or athletics.” It was only natural for Bill to ask for his old friend Millard. “Here he is. He is the owner and operator of the Bay () Grande Tractor Company in southern Minnesota. He's making a fortune.” Gordyn was the same old self and remarked, “Yes, just what I expected. Don’t you remember how brilliant he was in Physics. Those high grades of his made it hard for the rest of us. Where is Florence now? The last I heard from her, she was in Florida.” “This notebook contains so much, I guess I'll have to index it. She’s a full-fledged school teacher now and is teaching the negroes down in Louisiana. She has proved very successful.” “Didn't any of our class turn out to be musicians or singers?'’ asked Bill, who always loved music. “Wait a minute and I'll name them all. Ketta Armstrong is playing the piano in the big opera in Paris. She still plays her oboe too and makes a big sum of money. She tells us she is going to remain single but that is hardly be- lievable for she had photos of many attractive young men on her piano. We’ll just wait and see. “Frances Watson and Irene Arnold are touring the world over broadcast- ing their singing ability. Many a young man's heart they ve broken by their short stops. They made a good sized ‘roll’ every evening and say that they owe a great deal to their former teacher, Mr. Henning. “We can list Gladys Bilile with our musicians too, although her name is no longer Bilile. She is now Mrs. Rev. Joe Blazek. They are in India where Joe is a prominent minister and Gladys is in charge of a large singing school. “Emma still carries music as an avocation. She takes her clarinet with her wherever she goes and also that alto voice of hers. Her chief line of work, though, is stenography. She is Millard’s private stenographer and bookkeeper. He says he will never give her up even if lie has to marry her to keep her. She’ll never have to be an ‘Old Maid.’ 0=3 193 1 c Page 19

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