Braham High School - Echo Yearbook (Braham, MN)

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CLASS PROPHECY In the year two thousand -six, I am working for the United States Government Cen- sus Bureau traveling all over the states. I am in Buffalo, New York, now and I stop to see an old buddy of mine. He is the president and manager of the Edward P. Peterson Trucking Firm. Across town on the Lake Erie shoreline I see Dave Olson cruising around in his cabin cruiser. From Buffalo I go to New York City and in the National Art Museum I see some very artistic drawings done by Gene O'Bryon, Arlene Satterstrom, and Doris Berglund. Going up along the Hudson River I come up to West Point and see Jim Kelling and Martin Ferrier giving their troups marching drills. Then going across country to Boston I see LeRoy Downing who is president of Downing Tuna Fish Company and he is dictating a letter to his charming secretary, Joan Svendby. From Boston I go to Washington, D. C. and see Senator Dean Swanson fDemocrat from Minnesotaj and Representative Alice Studt fRepublican from Minnesotaj arguing over criminal hearings. Coming into Miami, Florida, I see that practically half of the Braham High School seniors of 1955 have moved there. Florence Carlson, Diane Markley, and Edythe Strand are teaching elementary school down there. Carrol Lucht is teaching music and Sherman Weise is coaching football there also. Over at the University of Miami I see Dennis Eliason and Larry Selberg coaching their champion basketball team. From there I hop a plane co-piloted by Clark Moline and Irving Anderson. The airline hostesses are Laura I-lasser and Rose Anderson. I picked up a joke book on the plane and who do you think the author was--none other than Louie Rosburg. I landed at Dallas, Texas, and saw David Holts. He is president of the Boots and Saddles Club of Dallas. Over in El Paso, Texas, Isee Dorothy Falls, who is happily married and has a group of four little tots to take care of. I have a sore neck from looking out of the train windows so much so I decide to go and see a doctor when I land. In Phoenix, Arizona, I go to the doctor and who do you suppose greets me in the lobby! None other than Margaret Barbo, who is working for Dr. James Schwarten. My next trip is to Hollywood, Califomia, where our own Arlene Dahl is starring in a hit movie. Caryll Ziesmer and Gretchen Monster are running an orange grove. Their foreman is Richard Fealy. Up in Idaho, Duane Anderson is managing a big potato farm. David Prestige is raising sheep in Montana, Also in Montana I- see Joyce Dahlberg as a secretary for a construction farm. Traveling to North Dakota I run into Loma Miller running her big ranch out on the prairie. Coming back home to Minneapolis I see Bill Carlson as a lawyer and Bruce Falk as superintendent of a Minneapolis school. When we arrive in dear old Braham, I meet Jane Mattson and Marlene Barthel on main street. It seems they have started a lonely hearts club. Some of their chief clients are Ralph Borchart and June Grundberg. Ronald Nolby and Clyde Ziesmer are farming their folks farms. Last but not least I see James O'Bryon coaching Braham's continuous championship basketball team. ax V ff 4-xv

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r ff ' xvy-J CLASS HISTORY Four years ago on a sunny September moming, a group of bewildered Freshmen met with Mr. Betsinger and Mrs. Froyen, our class advisors. We elected Dennis Eliason, Presidentg Alice Studt, Vice Presidentg Margaret Barbo, Secretary: Sherman Weise, Treasurer: and Dennis Eliason and Edythe Strand to Student Council. During the year we were initiated by the Sophomores. Our class contained sixty-three pupils. During our Sophomore year, our class, under the sponsorship of Miss Kromer and Mr. Aune, initiated the Freshmen with a roller skating party at Fish Lake. Several members served as waiters and waitresses at the Junior-Senior Banquet. Out of our class of fifty we elected Dennis Eliason, Presidentg Billy Onifer, Vice Presidentg Carrol Lucht, Secretaryg Arlene Satterstrom, Tteasurerg and Dennis Eliason, Bruce Falk, and Alice Studt to Student Council. In our Junior year, with Miss Kromer and Mr. Peterson as advisors, and Jim Schwarten, President: David Olson, Vice Presidentg Carrol Lucht, Secretaryg Florence Carlson, Treasurerg and Jim Schwarten, Margaret Barbo, Dennis Eliason, and Diane Markley to Student Council, we entertained the Seniors with a beautiful banquet, the theme of which was Moonlight and Roses. Doris Berglund, Margaret Barbo, David Olson, and Clark Moline appeared on the program as the Moonmists. Money-making activities included our class play, The Adorable Imp, and a magazine drive. We received our class rings on April 24. There were forty-six pupils in our class. ln our last year in high school the following served the class as officers: Jim Schwarten, Presidentg James O'Bryon, Vice Presidentg Diane Markley, Secretaryg Gene O'Bryon, Treasurer, and Jim Schwarten, Dennis Eliason, Alice Studt, Bruce Falk, and David Olson to Student Council. Our many activities during the year included: Home- coming on October 15, publication of the Echog class playg Skip Dayg Junior-Senior Banquet given by the Juniorsg and a senior excursion. We finished the year with Bacca- laureate services, Class Night, and finally Commencement. Mr. and Mrs. Lindell were our sponsors for this year and our class consisted of forty-five members. A J .1 , 'si he U i f h X 1 if f 'l-it 1

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DAILY 5:00 A. M. Erving rolls out of bed. 5:01 Wakes up! 5:02 Crawls back to bed. Figures the cows are froze up this morning anyway. 5:30 Joan Svendby gets up to cram. 5:45 LeRoy gets up to do daily muscle building exercises. 6:00 Erving's dad drags him to the barn--he's still sleeping! 6:01 Wakes up . . . in water tank. 6:05 Alarm rings at Selberg residence. 6:05f Crash! Clock flies out the window. 7:00 Buses leave town. 7:05 Art Ford leaves town, Roar!! 7:15 Louie pulls curlers out of hair. 7:30 Dorothy wakes up. 7:32 Decides she's sick today, so goes back to bed. 7:50 Ron Hauglie hops in pickup. 7:55 Goes through a stop sign. fBeats bus 44 again. J 8:17 Gang in study hall hears George's daily jokes. 8:22 Clark catches on--finally! 8:24 Pile-up in girls' cloakroom. 8:26 Bubbles floats out--more a mess than before. 8:28 June crawls out on hands and knees. 8:29 Lindell taps little bell. Mad dash to classes. 8:30 Alas! Another day beginning. 8:37 Home Ec. girls eat second breakfast of burnt cookies and schorched coffee. 9:00 Marlyn W. panics over Algebra problem 9:12 Donovon Larson accidentally breaks rafter for the Industrial Arts model garage, fastens it together on the sly with scotch tape! 9:40 Alice and Dean argue politics in social class. 9:41 Lindell interrupts. Dean keeps on talking. 9:45 Schwarten stumps Melcher again in chemistry. 9:46 Dick F. tries to argue the point. 9:49 Melcher disappears into the darkroom. 9:54 Comes out and changes subject. 10:35 Bruce, James, Dorothy, and Margaret start open discussion in back of study hall. 10:40 Froyen ponders over basketball team--wonders if he has enough gum to last through the game tomorrow night. Decides he'll buy another carton. 11:37 Echo staff assembles. 11:40 Miss Harris telling Echo staff about last year's troubles. 11:45 Mad dash for lunch line. 12:00 Mr. Yotmg and Erving get line straightened up just in time for band members to come up and ball it up again. 12:10 Jim S. cutting up in study hall. 12:12 Yvonne walks in. 12:12f Study hall is quiet once again. 12:20 George teasing Bev about jokes she doesn't get. 12:30 Lunch room workers eating left overs. 12:40 Clark writes name on frosted window in typing class. 12:45 Clark scrapes off the whole window . . . He got caught! 12:50 Quiz in English. 1:10 Papers corrected . . . Joan gets one wrong. 1:12 She claims to have misinterpreted the sentence. 1:14 Ag. boys lock Mr. Nelson out of the room. 1:20 He fins the janitor to unlock the door and let him in. 1:22 Jim O. tips Ron Hauglie's chair over . . . One goof for Ron! 1:24 Ron tips Jim's chair over . . . One goof for Jim! 1:25 Ag boys line up at the door waiting for the bell to ring. 1:27 It rings . . . Gang way! ll 1:45 Black dog walks into music room. 1:46 Aune pets it and kicks it out. 1:55 Girls in sectional cope with German band in next room. 1:56 German band moves to store room.