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

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HONOR STUDENTS Class of 1976 Browns Valley High School een F. Sykora

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GORDON SYKORA Annual Staff..............4 Wrestling.................1,2,4 Lettermen's Club..........4 COLEEN SYKORA Student Librarian........1,2,3,4 Annual Staff.............4 N ewspaper Staff.........2,4 F.H. A...................1,2, 3,4 Pep Club.................1,2 Concert Band.............1 Marching Band............1 Chorus...................1,2,3 Betty Crocker Award . . .4 JOAN WHITE BRAD ZIEMER Student Librarian........2,4 Annual Staff.............4 Lettermens Club..........3,4 Boy’s Basketball.........1,2, 3,4 Football.................4 Homecoming Candidate . .4 Homecoming King ... .4 12

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A HISTORY OF Something great happened in 1958! That's the year most members of the 1976 Browns Valley High School graduating class were bom. Little did people know, those 18 years ago, of all the astonishing things our class would do. In the fall of 1963, our mothers thought we could get along without them, so they sent us to kindergarten. We began our school days together in Mrs. Hurlbut's kindergarten class. All 46 of us were eager students; some were even eager to learn. Many new friendships were made that year. One thing that keeps everybody in kinder- garten was show and tell. Everyone thought their story was better. First grade held many memorable experiences; for some, it meant being tied to a chair, others, having our mouth taped shut. All in all first grade had a lot of what they call boy friends ! ! Girls were being chased by the boys in the playgrounds at recess, naturally to see who was the fastest runner. Returning to school in August for second grade, we lost a few and gained a few. Now we were beginning to learn a few new things about how to tell the teachers what to do, or how to manage the light switch in the bath- rooms. Gee! we're half finished with school already; grade school, that is. And there went third grade with lots of us writing I will not talk millions (it seemed like it) of times. In the other room they had to write all the numbers up to 10,000 on paper. What a waste of paper! Fourth grade found us busy learning our division and multiplication tables. That was also the year everyone's birthday was celebrated by going through a paddle wheel. Mr. Goodhart had lots of fun games for us all the time. One game we didn't like was copying pages out of the dictionary. Remember the time he had to dry his pants on the furnace. Also, the time Larry took ten swats with the board instead of doing ten problems over until they were correct. We hit upon a new advancement in fifth grade: rotating from one room to another between classes. Since we only rotated in a square, we managed this step without having anyone get lost. Besides this, fifth grade was sort a the usual. Remember in sixth grade; Mrs. LeCuyer and her Greek Mythology, square dancing, recess, and Mr. Zinter's metro cal cans. There was one time we'll remember forever and that was when Larry B. was chasing Joanne P. around the room and knocked Mr. Zinter's flower plant off. Boy did he storm out of the room. I guess we did get a trip our sixth grade year. . . .a trip to the sewer plant. WOW! What can 44 little seventh grade punks do? they asked. Well, we showed them. First we elected our class officers: President-Jeff Borgheiink; Vice President-Dave Kaus; Secretary-Treasurer-Karen Kuschel; Student Council-Carol Schwagel. With the help of Miss Bird, our advisor, we won first prize on our Homecoming float, Rope the Mustangs . We added life through our class parties, noon time stage activities??! ! and our experiment in Math class, (that was the year we had four Math teachers). Eighth grade found us tamed down a bit. We were led by our class officers: President-Dave Kaus; Vice Pres- ident-Colleen Sykora; Secretary-Jan Spotts; Treasurer-Brad Ziemer; Student Council-Barb Hoffman. Our advisor that year was Mr. Carlson. Again we had a prize winning float. The eighth grad American Legion Awards were given to Jo Ann Kuschel and Dareld Klemm.