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

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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.

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

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THE CLASS OF 1976 We finished junior high, and in 1972 became mighty freshmen, (The lucky ones in our class were even able to take Algebra.) Our advisors were Mr. Haug and Mr. Michaelson, but we finished the year with only one. Class officers were as follows: President-Barb Hoffman; Vice-President-Chuck Eagle: Secretary-Tim LeClair; Treasurer-Darrell Dobbs; Student Council-Jeanne Paulson. Our choice for representing us at Homecoming were attendents Jan Spotts and Chuck Eagle. We've always been a class of nicknames, That's part of the reason our sophmore Homecoming float (which won 3rd prize) Skunk 'Em. That year we chose as officers: President-Kirk Griebel; Vice-President-Todd Duffield; Secretary Pat Andert; Treasurer-Joan Bimbaum; Student Council-Joanne Peterson. Our attendents were Mary Dusing Miller and Mike Thompson; our advisors, Mr. Angell and Mr. Dittberner. By the time we were Juniors they knew us pretty well, so were given the advisors Miss Beasley, Mr. Haug, and Mr. Hausmann. We elected as our officers: President-Dave Kaus; Vice-President-Mark Pistorious; Secretary- Denise Christensen; Treasurer-Mary Dusing Miller; Student Council-Jeanne Paulson and Don Metz. Homecoming attendents were Colleen O'Leary and Darrell Dobbs. Our second place float entitled Do It Again, Harder, Hard- er. We chose Stairway to Heaven for our Prom theme; You're a Good Man Charlie Brown as our class play. At last we are Seniors! Our advisors are Mrs. Zacharias and Mr. Angell. For our final class officers the follow- ing were selected: President-Kirk Griebel; Vice-President-Darrell Dobbs; Secretary-Barb Hoffman; Treasurer Pat Andert; Student Council-Dave Kaus and Colleen O'Leary. Queen Barb Hoffman and King Brad Ziemer had Jeanne Paulson, Colleen O'Leary, Don Metz and Kirk Griebel as fell Senior Homecoming Royalty. Our class play this year is The Diary of Anne Frank . Due to a variety of reasons, through the years we have lost the following classmates and friends: Rick Andrews, Larry Biel, DeAllyn Christensen, Mike Crough, Jim Despiegler, Glenn Dusing, Greg Harter, Karla Hauder, Cathy Hilden, Claudia Hilden, Quentin Keoke, GailKleindl, Karen Lanie, Bob Lee, Kent Lewandowski, Heidi Lubbers, Martin Madsen, Karen Kuschel Metz, Mike Morgan, Julie Nigg, Sandy Nigg, Matt Nubert, Mike Oletzke, Mike Papka, Roger Pederson, Julie Peterson, Bill Raw, Mike Raw, Jodi Schmidt, Debbie Smith, Lynn Stadler, Glenda Sykora, Mike Thompson, Mike Westlund, Robert Wilson, and Pam Witte. Thirteen years ago, we left the security of home, to start school, more or less alone. Now, once again it is time for us to leave home. However, we will not be alone this time. We will have many cherished memories and friendships to take with us that we have received from Browns Valley School.,