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

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CLASS HISTORY THAT GLORIOUS YEAR, 1946, GAVE BIRTH TO MOST OF THE 1964 GRADUATES OF B.V.H.S. OURi ENTRY INTO THIS WORLD MARKED THE BEGINNING OF A GENERATION DESTINED TO BE A MONUMENTAL BOON TO MANKINDCTHIS STATEMENT WAS UNANIMOUSLY AGREED UPON BY OUR SENIOR CLASS). THE YEAR 1946, BEING THE ONE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE END OF THE WAR, IS, IN ITSELF, A GOOD INDICATION OF THIS. IN A SLIGHT NARRATION OF THE WORDS OF THAT FAMOUS OLD PROPHET, WINSTON CHURCHILL, NEVER IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN CHARITY WILL SO MUCH BE OWED BY SO MANY TO SO FEW. HOWEVER, IN ALL MODESTY, IT IS BEST TO MAKE NO FURTHER REMARKS TO THIS EFFECT. THE FOLLOWING IS A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE FOUR YEARS IN HIGH SCHOOL OF OUR SENIOR CLASS: AFTER COMPLETING SIX YEARS OF GRADE SCHOOL AND TWO YEARS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, THIRTY- EIGHT STUDENTS ENTERED THE FRESHMAN CLASS FOR 1960. OUR OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR WERE JEAN AMUNDSON AND JIM PETERSON. ELECTED TO THE STUDENT COUNCIL WERE DENISE LUMPHREY AND DOROTHY HANSEN. REPRESENTING THE FRESHMEN AS HOMECOMING ATTENDANT WAS MARY DUFFIELD. ADDITIONS TO THE CLASS WERE DENNIS KRONKE AND BARBARA TORGERSON; DENNIS TRANSFERRED FROM MARSHALL, MIN- NESOTA, AND BARBARA FROM WATSON, MINNESOTA. OUR SOPHOMORE OFFICERS WERE JIM PETERSON, MIKE MCALISTER, AND FRANCIS HOFFMAN, CONSTI- TUTING AN ALL-MALE GOVERNMENT, GERI COX AND JEANETTE KLEMM WERE OUR STUDENT COUNCIL MEM- BERS. THE SOPHOMORE HOMECOMING ATTENDANTS WERE OUR TWO NEWEST CLASS MEMBERS, DENNIS KRONKE AND BARB TORGERSON. MIKE MCALISTER LEFT US THAT YEAR AND MOVED TO COON RAPIDS, MINNESOTA. LUCILLE BORGHEIINCK LEFT B.V.H.S. TOGO TO WAUBAY, SOUTH DAKOTA. THE BASHFUL FARM BOY, ORELL YOST, WAS ELECTED COURTESY KING. JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS WERE DENISE LUMPHREY: PRESIDENT, DOROTHY HANSEN, AND SANDY JUDISH. RON KALLSTROM AND ORELL YOST WERE ON THE STUDENT COUNCIL. BACKING OUR CONFERENCE CO-CHAMPS, CAROL EGGERS AND BOB APPL REPRESENTED US AT THE HOMECOMING FESTIVITIES. JIM PETERSON AND MARILYN LARSON WERE OUR ALL-STATE REPRESENTATIVES. THE HIGH SCHOOL SPONSORED A VERY SUC- CESSFUL CARNIVAL THAT YEAR. MOST OF ITS PROFITS WENT FOR A BASKETBALL SCOREBOARD. RAMONA LECUYER, OF OUR CLASS, WAS CHOSEN CARNIVAL QUEEN. OUR JUNIOR CLASS PLAY, DIRECTED BY MEL AARSETH, WAS NAMED RAISING A RIOT. ONE OF THE MAIN PROBLEMS OF A JUNIOR CLASS, MORE THAN ANY OTHER CLASS, IS THAT OF FUNDS. DUE TO AN INTENSE MAGAZINE DRIVE, OUR CLASS RAISED MORE MONEY THAN ANY OTHER CLASS IN B.V.H.S. HISTORY. ALL OF THIS MONEY ALONG WITH ALL THE JUNIOR INGENUITY WENT INTO THE PROM AND BANQUET. THE PROM, HAVING THE THEME ENCHANTED EVENING, WAS CONSIDERED VERY SUCCESSFUL. AS A JUNIOR, CAROL EGGERS TRANSFERRED FROM ROSHOLT BUT LEFT US THE SAME YEAR. AT THE END OF THE YEAR, GERI COX MOVED TO GRACEVILLE AND BARB TORGERSON TO MINNEAPOLIS. REDUCING THE POPULATION BY THREE. THE ADVENTURE AND ROMANCE OF THE MILITARY WORLD CARRIED OUR DAVE ROLLINS OFF TO THE AIR FORCE. HE RETURNS OCCASIONALLY, THOUGH, BE- TWEEN AIR LIFTS, A NEAT GRAY UNIFORM. SPIT SHINED SHOES, MILITARY BEARING AND ALL, TO SPREAD HIS BLESSING OVER THE UNFORTUNATE. BRENT SHELDON, FROM MOBRIDGE, SOUTH DAKOTA, JOINED OUR RANKS. WE NOW FIND OURSELVES IN OUR SENIOR YEAR. THE CLASS HAS RECEIVED A NEW MEMBER, SHIRLEY LOTZER FROM SISSETON. SOUTH DAKOTA. THE SENIOR OFFICERS ARE: FRANCIS HOFFMAN. PRESIDENT; RON KALLSTROM, VICE PRESIDENT; AND BARB DUFFIELD, SECRETARY(REPLACING BARB TORGERSON). A TREASURER WOULD SERVE NO PRACTICAL PURPOSE! THE STUDENT COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES ARE GLEN MEDBERY; PRESIDENT, AND NOLA BACKUS. THE HOMECOMING CANDIDATES WERE RON KALLSTROM, JAMES PETERSON, DENNIS KRONKE, SANDY JUDISH, RAMONA LECUYER, AND MARILYN LARSON. RON AND SANDY WERE CHOSEN KING AND OUEEN. THE SENIORS PRESENTED A CLASS PLAY NAMED HOME SWEET HOMICIDE. IT WAS A CHARMING MYSTERY-COMEDY OF THREE ACTS DIRECTED BY NONE OTHER THAN MEL AARSETH. WE MUST NOW COMPLETE OUR FINAL YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL AND PLAN AHEAD. WH MUST, WITH OUR SMALL BIT OF EDUCATION AS A BEGINNING, MAKE OF OURSELVES THAT MONUMENTAL BOON TO MANKIND. MAYBE A FEW MORE WORDS FROM THAT SAME OLD PROPHET WOULD BE IN ORDER: NOW THIS IS NOT THE END. IT IS NOT EVEN THE BEGINNING OF THE END. BUT IT IS, PERHAPS, THE END OF THE BEGINNING. CLASS colors: ROYAL BLUE AND CIRRUS BLUE class flower: class officers,l-r: WHITE CARNATION RON, BARB, FRANCIS CLASS MOTTO: NOT THE SUNSET BUT THE DAWN