Black Earth High School - Earthman Yearbook (Black Earth, WI)

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Senior Clas 5 History In the fall of nineteen forty -three we found twenty-ssix green freshmen on the steps of knowledge, starting out their first year of hard learning. After two weeks of getting used to high school, the soph- omores took time out to initiate their interiors, the fresh- men. They smeared us with lipstick and every time we met a sophomore we had to how, but the biggest part of the ini- tiation and most horrible was when we all had to wear big green crepe paper ribbons. From the large group of boys in our freshmen class, only three of them reported for football. They all showed great promises for future team members. Five more re-o ported for basketball and showed prospects for the years to follow. During our freshmen year, three of our class dropped out; Vera Smith, Fred Ryan, and Earl Williams. Esther Bakken came to Black Earth from Mount Horeb, adding one to our class. . In the beginning of our sophomore year we found our class lacking four more of its members. Those missing were Mary Brunner who went to Edgewood at Madison; Harvey Duessler moved to Marshall; Esther Ripp and Ger: main Faust went to Middleton. Later in the fall Esther Baku ken moved to Middleton but was replaced by Audrey Schwartz, who quit later in the year. Our Junior Year was the big year, presenting th commun- ity with the class play entitled Girl Shy , under the direction of Mrs. Bussewitz. Later in the spring, on April twenty-sixth came the big event of the year, the Junior Prom. The theme was Paper moon and music was furnished by Norm Kingsley and his orchestra. John Aeschlimann was king, choosing Betty Schulenberg as queen to reighn with him. Mary Ellen Ryan quit school to help at home and Marion Cushman moved to Barneveld. All that finished their Junior year returned in the fall of 1946 to finish their last year of high school life. In the month of November 1946, we presented our class play, HThe Groom Said No with Bussewitz directing. On December twenty- seventh, the Senior class put on the uSenior Ball: The theme for this was White Christmasi'. Norm Kingsley and his or- chestra again furnished the music. The class President, Betty Handel and her escart, Michael Borman led the Grand March.