Chosen Valley High School - Burr Oak Yearbook (Chatfield, MN)

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History W' In the year l938 we the Senuor Class of l95O started our trup to our destunatuon graduotuon lt was a long hard but enjoyable trup whuch took twelve years rn all The furst stop over was the furst grade un whuch Muss Pfeffer mode us very welcome Here we learned how to read such thungs as Run Jock and See Jock Run Of all those who began thus adventure seven have contunued the gloruous journey together throughout the twelve years Sam Arser Robert Follensbee Lyle Mundell Mary Peters Mary Poulune Lynch Deborah Haven and Sylvua Luedke Movung on we came to the second grade wuth Its archutectural structure the post offuce We made thus out of blocks and many very umportant messages went through uts portals Also memorable was the note that Mary Peters wrote Notes were not permussuble--conse quently Mary stood behund o screen the rest of the after noon Muss Hahn helped us make butter and a delucuous lunch of butter and crackers was enjoyed Everyone passed unto the thurd grade Thus was prob ably one of the eosuest laps of our gourney Muss Olson taught us all how to be successful gardeners We each roused a luttle plant whuch we kept down un Bull Hervey s workshop Frequent trups were made down there to see how the plants were growung and to talk to Uncle Ball When Mother s Day rolled around guess what our mothers got The next stop we made was un MISS Morrusroes fourth grade class Here unspectuon took place each mornung What tume dud you get to bed? Dud you brush your teeth? Are your hands clean? Let me see behund your ears Here we pucked up a few more passengers for our journey Helen Anderson Lyle Baker Barbara Elton Lowell lsensee Dorus Jacobson and Jum Larson By the tume we entered the fufth grade of school we had formed some very healthful habuts The furst day of school Muss Pfuster welcomed us and our two new class mates Theresa Waller and Jum Wheeler Thus year Muss Ekstrand unvutes us to see her suxth grades sand castle relatung to theur studues of chuvalry Thus paved our way for the next year s studues As we crossed the brudge we found ourselves to be the bobues ofthe hugh school whuch we no doubt were This year our generosity overflowed at Chrustmas tume we all chupped un a nuckel and bought Mr Olson a game of chess The fortunate ones jounung the congenual class of l95O thus year were Dorus Chulds Barbara Dunn Charles Goldsmith LaRuta Grlffun Ruta Grubb Catherune Monahan Jerry Pease and Donald Sabatke Shuverung and shakung un our boots we entered Muss Golloghers noted eughth grade homeroom Muss Gal lagher sow to ut that our Englush curruculum was com plete Upon leovung thus class we felt ourselves to be authorutues un eughth grade Englush Durung thus year we acqusred eught more adventurers Jerald Banker Shur ley Barth Kathryn Courtuer Vjrgunua Fenske Larry Garry Rosemary Lundt Margaret Lynch and Lyle Narveson The year l946 saw us all enterung the nunth grade class as freshmen Merlun Bandel Januce Funley Beverly Funseth Lulas Hanley Jo Ann Harwood Helen Keefe James Kopersku Ronald Krueger Warren Ryther Free man Welch Leland Warber Gerry Wutte and Robert Yates jouned us on our expedutuon to graduotuon The nught of unutuotuon many of the freshmen could be seen trudgung theur way back from a long rude down a dark country road Mr Drull our advusor saw us safely unto the sophomore class where we were greeted by Mrs Mutchell The novel of thus year was Sulas Momer and the Readers Dngest became our staunch stand by Our famous trademark artusts Mr Follensbee and M Wheeler created theur well known T e Hat Our class was very proud to have Ruta Grubb as our home comung attendant Our junuor year was very successful Ruta Gruffun was awarded state declamatuon honors our prom entutled The 49 s un honor of the senuors was the reward of great efforts put forth by we junuors our basketball squad was presented wuth the dustruct champuonshup trophy and the class play We Shook the Famnly Tree revealed to us much drarnotuc talent Vuolet Subra jouned us un the last two laps of our journey Mary Lynch represented our class thus year as homecomung attendant The last mules of our trup are now beung covered One new member Vurgul Skarrud jouned us thus year Queen Mary Pat Peters supremely ruled durung our homecomung celebratuon Our senuor class won the pruze for the most outstandung float Our journeys end looms un the dustance June 2 TOOTS LYNCH wushes all her success un the vocal de partment to Arlene Mead She has found no one as yet to take over her ups and downs un the romance department VIOLET SUBRA wulls her school tume slumbers to Barbara Skaug who no doubt wull need them LYLE NARVESON wulls hus radar kat and Nervy At tntude to Lloyd Greenlee KATE MANAHAN leaves a bouquet of shamrocks to Marulyn Hanley Lorraune Monahan and Elaune Barth RITA GRUBB and THERESA WALLER leave to Morgue Eude and Barbara Skaug theur traul blazung tactucs and at the some tume wush them happy cagung To Mary Lou Groby goes JOANNE HARWOOD S straught but beautuful black locks LOWELL ISENSEE leaves hus new car and the town of Preston to anyone who can full hus shoes JERRY PEASE wulls hrs pheasant call and burd eye to Charlue Walker WAYNE RYTI-IER and JERRY WITTE leave all theur arguments to John Halloran and Elaune Barth for further developments Beth Mannung unheruts many art talents from DON SABATKE To Helen Hemker goes VIRGIL SKARRUDS Swedush accent un hopes she ll know how to use ut FREEMAN WELSH leaves a Mechanuc Illustrated mag azune to Noel Redalen LELAND WARBER wulls a box of hus luver pulls to Dar lene Pruebe and Donna Danuelson Seems they have a bad case of runnung around BOB YATES leaves hus trugonometruc tables to Bob Mohawk and hus fuzzy locks to Muke Herruck HELEN KEEFE leaves behund all her warrues to anyone who wants them DORIS JACOBSON guves to all Junuor boys her taste for the Aur Force JIM WHEELER leaves Helen to Southern Munnesota boys whule he goes to Denver to look up new recruuts BOB FOLLENSBEE leaves hus gruesome drawung of tucks and moles to anyone who can fund o Wheeler to apprecuate hus unventuve mund SYLVIA LUEDKE wulls her posutuon as offuce reporter to Faye Bauley JANICE FINLEY cant leave much shes engaged Congratulatuons Janucell BEVERLY FINSETH and LILAS HANLEY bequeath theur many secrets to the scandal column un the Gopher Hu Lufe LARRY GARRY leaves behund hus sk ll un wrut ng passes to all future athletes who wush to journey to the locker room durung school hours CHARLES GOLDSMITH guves hus heralded gangster car to anyone who ll buy gas for ut SAM ARSERS wulls hus golden trumpet to Harry James Halloran hopung hell be equal to ut HELEN ANDERSON wulls her bousterous personaluty to Luz Monahan We wonder uf she needs ut LYLE BAKER and MERLIN BANDEL wull theur posutuons un the B B A B A to Jon Baker and Howard Borgen hopung they can full therr shoes To Earl Plank goes GERALD BANKERS horse laugh and self desugned hour do SHIRLEY BARTI-I leaves her strong but sulent attutude to all the tall dark and handsome Junuor Boys DORIS CHILDS leaves her talents as a boxung coach to sweethearts of future Golden Glovers MAGGIE LYNCH and KATHRYN COUTIER wull theur everlostung fruendshup to Carol Cunnungham and Faye Bauley BARBARA DUNN wulls her favorute pastume edutor shup of the Annual to some lucky Junuor BARBARA ELTON wulls her muld meek manners to Joanne Wheeler VIRGINA FENSKE leaves nothung by her assustance at the telephone offuce hopung ut wull be opprecuated To Paul Denny goes LYLE MUNDELLS red handker chuef lt goes un the rught pocket Paul RONALD KRUGER leaves hus cardunal unuform and Stan Musual scrapbook to Elmer Worden Eddue Dahl unheruts JIM LARSONS appetute whuch should keep the restaurants nn busuness MARY PETERS wulls her homecomung throne to the wmner of the Junuor Gurls Beauty Contest To Dallas Kohlmeyer goes JIM KOPERSKI'S forward posutuon on the noon tume all star basketball team marks the end of our gloruous twelve years the years when we enjoyed workung together at studues and at ploy We are proud to be the graduotung class markung the half century at CHS and hope that our teachers parents and fruends are proud of us thus nught ' I I U ' . , . ,, . ,, . 1 . t 1 . . - , ' I I 1 11 11 11 . . . ,, , - 11 . , , - . . 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Class Prophecy Pastromu Clfeseburger has polushed up her crystal ball and gazed unto the future so that l mught Come here tonught and tell you what has happened to the class of l950 HELEN ANDERSON and SYLVIA LUEDKE fund theur fame and fortune un co ownershup of a long lune of chaun druve uns found along every hughway an the Unuted States lEven a few durt roads I The name of Harry James us no longer upon the lups of the musuc lovers un thus land of ours now that SAM ARSERS and hus hot cornet have come unto the lumelught Wuth hus lovely dark haured vocalust MAGGIE LYNCH he has taken a meteoruc clumb to the top LYLE BAKER has carrued on where the great Sud Grou man 'eft off He has now exhausted the supply of footprunts un Hollywood and us thunkung seruously of buuldung a sumular theater un the Belguum Congo where he wull have not prob lem of how to clean the concrete off from sho s lno shoesll MERLIN BANDEL heads the Safety Patrol un Munne sota He us now recuperatung from a broken leg suffered when he was demonstratung how not to cross a busy street JERALD BANKER has been spendung consuderable tume un Egvpt Hus rob of manucurung the Sphunxs toenauls proved to be much tougher than he had antucupated We have a new owner of the Lanesboro Fush Hatchery whos makung a fortune un her work None other than SHIRLEY BARTH who treats the fush luke anyone would treat theur own off prung She us makung plans to send to the Kresge aquaruurn un Rochester for some rare specumens DORIS CHILDS has taken over a country school near Toledo Ohuo She has the largest enrollment thus year she has ever had Her class consusts of four boys and seven gurls Sunce the death of the famous Frank lBrung em Back Aluvel Buck a world wude search has been on for someone to take hus place The search us ended for KATE ll Hope I Come Back Alvvel COUTIER has funally consented to send an expedutuon unto deepest Afruca We fund BARBARA DUNN un Wunona pruvate secre tary to Mr Edstrom Her only complaunt us she wears out more corduroy skurts that way' RONALD KRUEGER unforms us all us well un Grants burg Wusconsun where he us owner of a large cafeterua He has Barbara Elton one of hus former classmates as chuef cook and bottle washer VIRGINIA FENSKE head telephone operator New York New York reports that her work us comung along nucely She has been traunung young operators un the rudu ments of swutchboord operatuon Lookung un on JANICE FINLEY and JOANNE HAR WOOD we fund that they are happuly marrued Joanne wuth two lovely ets of truplets and Januce wuth seven gurls BEVERLY FINSETH has settled for a rob as a book keeper un the Land of Lakes Creamery un Mnneapolus Munnesota and us doung fune In the near future she plans o trup to Norway on a fast steamer What Bob Pastes Jum Wastes us the motto FOLLENSBEE AND WHEELER who have taken up the ar of nteruor Decoratung LAWRENCE GARRY us completely snowed under by r quests from the Alaskan Eskumoes askung hum to come u and teach them the fundamentals of good basketball If thus keeps up Larry us goung to guve un CHARLES GOLDSMITH and JIM KOPERSKI have started a large umplement company un Brazul They have many new kunds of machunery yet to be untroduced to th Brazu'uan people RITA GRIFFIN S account of her recent trup to Arabua has left the country sp llbound Her most unterestung ac count has to do wuth What has happened to the Arabuan Nughts7 A school for cheerleaders has been set up by RITA GRUBB She has been buuldung on because of the uncreose of students attendung ut LILAS HANLEY us makung the most of her second term as Lady Congresswoman from Munnesota When Congress resumes she wull rouse the questuon Why the huke un women s skurts7 Phudadelphua Pennsylvanua welcomes DEBORAH HAVEN S new bank lt us saud to be the second largest bank un the world She also plans to start a bank un San Duego Calufornua but as yet doesn t know how she wull make communucatuons between the two banks ISENSEES Used Cor Lot sutuated un South St Paul brungs hum more profut every year Lowell plans on remod elung four of hus own cars for use un hus busuness also The other three wull be kept for amusement After great consuderatuon DORIS JACOBSON has sugn ed the funal deed and partnershup contract wuth ROSEMARY LUNDT for co ownershup of the Recreatuon Parlors They are thunkung of unstallung two extra bowlung alleys HELEN KEEFE us on the traul of a notoruous bank rob ber last seen un Omaha Nebraska She us workung secretly for the F B I and us about the cleverest agent they have ever had JIM LARSON as playung hus closung game of the season as center for the Munneapolus Lakers noted basketball team Next year ut us saud they wull agaun take the champuonshup Deeply umpressed after hearung an Arua from Car men sung by that lovely calorature Soprano MARY PAULINE LYNCH DONALD SABATKE packed hus bag and took aff for Madrud where he wull attempt to master the art of bull fughtung A smart dress shop has been opened recently by CATHERINE MANAHAN All her desugns come from the famous Borouvuan desugner Tanya La Cukcamonga who us known the world over for her smart styles' LYLE MUNDELL looks down approvungly an hus large skunk farm Hus maun purpose of rausung these mascots rs to satusfy the Pole Cat Rudge Boys Banzus are un order for one of l95Os qraduates Japan us laudung the work of DR LYLE NARVIE NAR ucune halted an epudemuc of ruce fever Thus dusease causes ruce to boul whule stull un the ground For centurues Tubet has been cut off from cuvuluzatuon by surroundung mountauns Armed wuth a fule JERRY PEASE untends to remedy thus sutuatuon MARY PAT PETERS wrutes home that she loves Vuenna Of course you know that she went abroad to study the makung of Vuenna sausages Years ago WAYNE RYTHERS ancestors crossed the country un a prarrue schooner to get un on the bug Gold Rush Today Wayne took off wuth JERRY WITTE un hus uet propelled hot rod when the news leaked out that some one lost a gold fullung un down town Los Angeles VIOLET SUBRA S solutuon far puttung a wave un crew cuts us a sensatuon un New York THERESA WALLER S new race track has made her a fortune It has made Santa Anuta look luke a Cow Path LELAND WARBER has gust landed un France At last he has perfected a plan to straughten out the Leanung Tower of Pusa The sale of Lunament has dropped to a new tume low un lndua due to FREEMAN WELCH S suggestuon that they use feather tuckung on theur Bed of Nauls Freeman has accumulated quute a fortune by chargung rates on hus varued helpful suggestuons The world us breathung easuer now wuth world peace a realuty The brulluarut mund of ROBERT YATES as responsuble for thus wuth the duscovery of hus new Happy Gas no one tl-uunks of war llt us rumored that even Ensteun us sendung hus theorues over for young Yates to perfectl VIRGIL SKARRUD has uust sent back to the States for three hundred Pot bellued stoves to use un hus dog kennels Vurgul us utuated un Lapland where he us undustruously rausung Lap dogs And so as l brung down the curtam upon the up and comung members of the class of l95O we fund a great deal of prude un our hearts for un theur own luttle ways they have each added much to lufe s Passung Parade I 1 - u I I I ' l I . - . . . , . . . 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