Blumenhof High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Blumenort, Manitoba Canada)

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ALBERT FRIESEN Only boy in class, but this won’t keep him from school. He won’t lose many words in company. His favorite sport is hockey. EDNA PLETT Usually quiet and reserved. Likes to have her homework finished and enjoys Maths in spite of difficulties. She likes ping-pong and most sports. IRENE JANZEN Irene is dark haired and has green eyes. Good at soccer and skating. Assignments frequently unfinished, for a good reason ? MARY WIEBE Homework? “Always” finished. “For Pete’s sake.” Cheerful disposition on Mon¬ day mornings. Why? Nobody knows . . . AGNES HESSE Agnes is cheerful all the time and loves to chatter in company. She usually pops up the first with an answer in Geometry. She is a super goalie in Soccer and can beat almost anybody in ping-pong. 16

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Grade X Reading clockwise, starting with top centre: ANNIE JANZEN Annie is small and has a keen sense of humour. Has athletic ability and prefers skating to Social Studies. How does she spend her Sunday evenings? Her interests lie across the aisle. JAKE WIEBE Tall, serious, brown-eyed chap. Often seen tossing notes across the aisle. Rather reserved but comes up with an occasional joke now and then. All star defense in hockey and a great shot in soccer. PETER PENNER Small but occasionally comes up with a large remark. A snappy hockey forward. Manages to read one storybook per meal and at the same time gathers the latest news in hockey. Good at debating. IRMA JANZEN Irma is tall, dark haired and neat. She is usually up to date in her notes. Good at soccer ball. Quiet in class. Tries for first in class, and by looks of it, she will achieve it. GILBERT UNGER Often voices an idea that proves useful. His ambitions both at study and play can hardly be beat. He is quite lanky but not loose-joined. He is talkative on the play grou nd, but not so in the classroom. VICTOR FRIESEN Although Victor has been absent for a few years he does well in his grade. Likes to please and tease girls. A great sports enthusiast. Enjoys Maths. EMILY LOEWEN Emily is tall and blue-eyed. Gets high marks without much studying. She is our sports convener and secretary for our yearbook. She often listens to the teacher during classes and always has her home¬ work done. Grade X Class Report On August 30, 1956, seven students came to school, here at Blumenhof, with intense determination to complete the Grade 10 course successfully. On behalf of all Grade 10 students, I’d like to thank Mr. Dueck for the fine instructions he has given us this year. Thank you, Mr. Dueck. And to the graduates; we wish you luck in the future, whatever vocation you choose. German and Mathematics seem to be the most mysterious gadgets we ever met up with. Although they don’t need as much thinking as the subjects mentioned above, Science and Geography have their bad points too; Science has formulas and in Geography you must know why the Sa¬ hara Desert exists. In fact, all subjects need concentration. At recess time we find ourselves enjoy¬ ing sports like softball, soccer and skating. It is a pleasant change from the stuffy classroom to the fresh air. Our motto is to keep fit physically as well as mentally. I wish all you teachers and fellow students the best of luck in the future. Annie Janzen 15

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Grade IX Class Report There were five students who attempted to take Grade 9 this year, which we all certainly enjoyed. With some of the harder subjects such as Mathematics and History which we didn’t understand, our teacher helped us. We are very thankful to the teacher for explaining these things. Football, skating, and baseball were the games that we played at recess. The game that we played when it rained was table tennis. We also had the privilege of enjoy¬ ing a Thanksgiving social, Christmas so¬ cial, and some wiener roasts. We need good penmanship and willing¬ ness to learn to make a success in our grade. We hope to continue again next year, with renewed courage to continue our grades. Edna Plett What Students Think Of Who wants to listen to the teacher’s droning voice that is heard continually dur¬ ing the whole day? Especially when it comes to English, it just lulls you into day dreaming! This dinner recess there is hockey again. It seems as if it is always hockey. But tomorrow Ridgewood is coming and we just have to win. Blumenhof couldn’t be let down by losing to Ridgewood in hockey. No, that wouldn’t work! “Now, are you sure you know your assignment?’’ asks the teacher. “What was the assignment?” whispers the dreamer, now wide awake. “Someone has been dreaming again!” is the teacher’s severe remark as he looks at the dazed dreamer. Agnes Hesse Room Three Annex When the teacher says, “Recess,” seven girls march into the library. You wonder, “What do they all want in there?” Well, if you had seen what I saw you would have seen that each girl, as she walked past the clothes rack, picked out a certain pair of what might be nicknamed “pedal pushers.” Even though they are all made of the same navy fuzziness, the girls pick them out so deftly that you hardly notice it. If you wait a bit you may hear that from within comes a noise as though a radio has been turned on full volume to a musical program without any advertising in be¬ tween. If you listen hard you may be able to discern the voices of the students who were too shy to sing in the singing period. In another recess period, if you succeed to hide behind one of the typewriters in our library, you may hear something else. As girls will, one set of two will speak on one subject while another speaks of alto¬ gether something else. An occasional pair may even speak about the weather. Mary may say, “The forecast is for fifteen above this afternoon.” Quickly Annie will chirp in with, “Look outside, I know just as much of the weather as any forecaster,” And so an argument starts. This is debated through until the girls are jerked out of this line of thinking. Sometimes I wonder why the boys are outside so quickly, but then, who would want to stay inside when the girls bicker all the time. Emily Loewen Practice Teacher’s Report Every Friday students from Room III are given a chance to try their luck at teaching in Room I. It is only for one hour but that hour seems to drag into hours. But it is a good adventure and good ex¬ perience. Given a lesson in Nature Study on birds, the textbook stated that a certain kind of bird has four to six eggs. One bright pupil popped up and said he had seen a nest of that kind and he persisted that there had been only three eggs. From this we see that the younger children like to roam in the woods and study nature. When I see all the small faces upturned to listen to a lesson, I wonder how many of these pupils will have a chance to go to high school in the home district. Agnes Hesse 17