Browns Valley High School - Thunderbird Yearbook (Browns Valley, MN)

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Wi)e Jilottnb lUulbcr A Word or Two The mound is finally built. It has been firmly founded and strongly built. Valued treasures have been buried in it. The finishing touches have been applied, and The Mound Builder bids you delve into its depths and reap what pleasures you will. The Class of 1 926 has realized one of its great dreams in the issuance of The Mound Builder. Much of the honor goes to them, but it must not be forgotten that no little credit is due the whole school for making the annual financially possible. Sixteen years ago the Class of 1910 issued the Inter Lochen, the first Browns Valley High School year-book. Its publication was a memorable event and a few old copies are yet in the community. If you would like to know how highly they are valued, try to buy one. About 150 copies of the Inter Lochen were sold, for the sum of $2.00 each. The book contained pictures of all the pupils then in the grades and high school. Pictures of athletic teams and glee clubs, with original drawings and an alumni directory, were other of its features. Certainly, the first annual staff is to be commended for the token it left in our school. Where are the members of the old mag. board now and what are they doing?—Charles Becker Jr., Editor-in-Chief. is cashier of a bank in Winchester, Idaho. Arthur Nelson, Business Manager, is finishing his second term as Mayor of St. Paul. He is now planning to resume the profession of law which he dropped to accept the mayorship. Rose Lehn, assistant editor, is clerking in an abstract office in Kalispell, Montana. Blois Barrett, assistant manager, is in business with his father in a drug store in Browns Valley. Mildred Smith, the society and organizations editor, now Mrs. Carroll Aldrich, is residing with her family in Chicago. Adrian Preston, the exchange editor, is an accountant in the firm of Washburn-Crosby Co., Minneapolis. Fred Shandorf, the athletics editor, is an attorney in Mitchell, South Dakota. Char- lotte Smith, humorous editor, is a trained nurse in Denver, Colorado. Sabra Hardy, the locals editor, enlisted her services in the Red Cross when the United States entered the World War, and sailed for France. While on board, she was taken ill and died two weeks after landing in France. We, The Mound Builder staff, greet the divided members of the Inter Lochen staff. We too are about to disband just as you did sixteen years ago. We are proud of the Inter Lochen. Our hats are off to the class of 1910, to the Inter Lochen staff, and to the result of their efforts— Browns Valley’s first year-book. We heartily appreciate the co-operation rendered us while we were work- ing on The Mound Builder. To our home merchants, who have so gener- ously taken advertising space, we extend our most appreciative thanks and best wishes. To you who have aided the assembling of the book by loaning pictures and old annuals, and by answering our questions concerning former teachers and students, we are extremely grateful. We hope you are proud of The Mound Builder for we have striven all through the year to issue a year-book which will be worthy of your utmost admiration, and which will be a source of pleasure and enjoyment to all who look into its pages. Page Tree Pee ---The Staff