Brady High School - Bulldog / Spotlight Yearbook (Brady, MT)

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CLASS WILL We, the Senior Class of 1943, being of firm (?) mind, memory, and purpose, do hereby declare and publish this, our last will and testament. As a whole, we leave to the Faculty the undergraduates for them to struggle with a few more years. We hope that they are not as much trouble as we were. To the Juniors we leave the privilege of apeaking without per- mission in the study hall. To the Sophomores we bequeath our places at the magazine shelves. We hope they will read the papers more often than we did. To the Freshmen boys the Senior girls will their majority rule. To the Junior High we leave our ability to keep our row of seats stra ight. Then, Mildred Banka bequeaths her willingness to work to Merle Petersen. Lois Copenhaver wills her place on the piano bench in the music room to Kenneth Otneas. Laura Curtis leaves her sense of humor to Waven Schlepp. Gladys Hemry will her too-frequent ailly streaka to Neil Stuart. Lois Hill leaves her ability to hit the high notes in Glee Club to Lucille Ellingson. Milly MacLeen leaves, to Louis Deering, her large vocabulary to struggle with. Tommy Row wills his ability to get to school just as the bell rings to Art Roans. Erna Weikum wills her ability to play the drums to Lyle Ringeisen. Erma Wiest leaves her way of handling gum to Phyllis Burdick. She hopes the shortage won’t rust Phyllis's Jaws. The testators have hereunto set their hands and seal this day of May, in the year of our Lord, 1943. w (Signed) CLASS of ’43

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nonam mnib Classmates, Teachers and Friends: It has been my pleasure for the past year to serve as President of the Class of 1 3. I Lave appreciated this honor and hope your confidence in me was not misplaced. Our Senior year has been very different from the past years. The war has changed our school in many ways. We have gone on with one less teacher than we had in previous years, and we have had a hard time carrying on our extra activities. In spite of this, I feel that we have progressed a great, deal. We have not only carried on our school work, but have done as much as we could to help the war effort. We participated in a scrap metal drive and also a fats drive. We have bought war stamps, and along with these, have made many other small sacrifices. Now we must take leave of Brady Hi. I only hope that the Class of On September 3, 1939, 10 energetic students started their career as a class in Brady High School. We were not accepted as students until we were initiated by our immediate superiors. Our Freshmen class sponsor was William Andreasen and Milly M. was our President. After three months’ vacation we were all back, determined to make this year’s Freshmen class pay also. We initiated them September 20. Miss Eleanor Miller was our sponsor with Betty M. as our President. As our Junior year began, we had only 9 members. Betty U. left the ranks of our class. Frank Mathew was elected our sponsor, with Tommy R. as President. The year was highlighted by our Class Play, One Mad Night, directed by Miss Lois Herrett. At the beginning of the second semester, we took over the publishing of the school paper. On April 17, we had our Junior Prom. On September 14, 1942, we began our last year in Brady High School with Mr. Glenn Lockwood as our sponsor and our officers as follows: President, Tommy R.; Vice-President, Milly M. ; Secretary-Treasurer, Lois H.; Reporter, Erma W.; and Representative, Gladys H. On Nov- ember 21 we gave our Class Play, The Professor Proposes, directed by Miss Isabel Guest. At the end of the first semester we relinquished the Spotlight to the Junior class and began work on our annual. Baccalaureate and Commencement are the highlights of our four years in High School in which we enjoyed immensely the companionship of our classmates and sincere guidance of our teachers.

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CLASS PROPHECY It was a quiet spring evening and I had Just returned home from a busy day's work at the California Aircraft Institution. I was sit- ting under a big tree on the lawn watching the people go back and forth. Finally, I saw a familiar figure coming down the walk. As she approached me, I saw it was my old schoolmate, Erma Wiest. After a friendly greeting, I invited her to come sit with me and talk. She told me all about her career as a nurse and that she was to leave for overseas duty soon. We started talking about our good old school days. She had heard that Mildred Banka had already been sent overseas with a group of Red Cross nurses. Tommy Row, she said, hsd joined the army the day after graduation and wa3 now a general leading an army of men over in Australia. He had won several medals for bravery. As we S8t talking we noticed a brunette girl in uniform coming to- ward us. As she got nearer we recognized her as Erna Weikum. She met a Lieutenant and gave him a quick, snappy 38lute. We learned later it was Harold Hemry she had saluted. Erna had joined the W. A. A. C.'s after she had graduated. We invited her to come in and talk with us. We learned from her that Gladys Hemry was now a teacher in Brady High School and was well-liked by both students and teachers. Lois Copenhaver was also a teacher in Brady. S!ie was teaching the primary grades. Remember when she used to substitute when trie pri- mary teacher was absent? Erna said she had accidentally run across Milly llacLean when she was stationed in New York. Milly had started her own career. Sie wrote love letters for soldiers to send to their sweethearts. We all agreed she must be pretty good at it because she always liked to write letters for someone else. Milly had told Erna that Lois Hill had worked at the Airport in Great Falls right after school but was now married and living in Minnesota. Her husband was in the service there. At 10:30 Erna said that she had to be back to camp by 11:00, so both the girls left. I was alone, only to dream of our good old school days in Brady High, once again. Realizing it was getting late, I went to bed so I would be ready to go to work the next morning.