Clear Lake High School - Echo Yearbook (Clear Lake, WI)

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THE ECHO Senior Reflections As Freshmen, we were pushed aside by the higher classmen until we had gained a secure footing in their view. Then we were given a hearing. Several members from our class have been successful in various directions. A number of our classmates have taken active parts in the numerous plays sponsored by the Booster Club, and have shown promising talent along that line. FIVE RECEIVE CLEAR LAKE “C” During the past three years, five members have been chosen as honor students, receiving the Clear Lake “C”. IN DIVII)UAL ACHIEVEMENTS Janet Nelson and Viola Benson have won honorable places in their speech work. Anna-Marie Fink placed first in piano solo at the district music contest. Helen Benson went to the state commercial contest. Howard Criswell won a place in the district track tournament. Albert Schulze and Thomas Reindahl represented our class in baseball for four years. NINE MEN IN ATHLETICS During our regime in Clear Lake High School we have contributed six men to the Basket Ball team ; three men to the Base Ball team and six members to the band that was organized this year. JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET We hold the honors for breaking all previous records with our Junior-Senior Banquet. Not a little praise was given the Junior Class for their originality and interest shown in the elaborate decorations for the Banquet. CARNIVAL A SUCCESS Our class had also shown a great deal of perseverance in the progress they have made on the annual. The Carnival given in November, 1928, with which to build on the Annual fund, was managed by the Seniors. During the winter of ’29, we carried out a plan of financing the Annual by means of a series of food sales which, of course, required a great amount of responsibility and initiative. LARGEST ENROLLMENT IN THREE YEARS The Senior Class with an enrollment of twenty-eight members, will be the largest class graduated from Clear Lake High School in three years. Ptit e Sixteen

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THE ECHO STUMO, HESTER “Hes” “An dir of good humor ever surrounds her” Booster Club 1, 2, 3, 4 Glee Club 1, 3, 4 Class Treasurer 3 G. C. Treasurer 4 VAN BLARICOM, ANN Fair, efficient, lovable. truly blessed” Glee Club 1, 2 Literary Society 3 Booster Club 1,2, 3, 4 Sec. Booster Club 4 Class President 2 Class Vice Pres. 1, 3 Echo Staff 3, 4 Annual Staff, 4 Cheer Leader 4 “Huskie” Tho’i art Student Council 3 “Not Quite Such a Goose “The Whole Town’s Talking” “An Irish Stew” Declamatory 2 “Second Childhood VAN RUDEN, OTTO He is considered a large part of the class” Track 2, 3 VAN RUDEN, LAWRENCE “IFhat's it all aboutf” Band 4 Class Basketball WEST, ALICE M. “Al” “ We love you just because of your complete completeness, just bee, Booster Club 1, 2, 3, 4 Echo Staff 1 Student Council 1, 2 Honor Student 2 Annual Staff 4 Glee Club 1, 3, 4 Declamatory 3 “Arrival of Kitty” “Stop Thief” e you’re you” “Her Step Husband” “Absent Minded Bridegroom “Not Quite Such a Goose” “College Town “An Irish Stew “Second Childhood” « Page Fifteen

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THE ECHO Class Prophecy “ with Hester Stumo as mistress of this cozy little home.“—” Ouch! Fire! Help! In one instant I was awake and sharing the excitement with the rest of the girls. (A spark had blown from the camp fire onto one of the beds, and immediately the entire camp was ablaze.) After an hour of intense excitement we had quenched the flame entirely, but with such an awakening, the entire group was indifferent toward sleep, so we gathered around the camp fire which had, again, been rekindled. It was then that my thoughts first traveled back to where I had been in my dreams. Quite a romantic story for the fireside, I felt, so I endeavored to relate to the girls what I had learned in my dreams. The period covered a number of years, beginning in Sociology Class, when we were seniors in High School. We were in the midst of a discussion of industry and individualism. The question was, “How to Decrease Divorce. I was suddenly aware of strange and new surroundings and learned that it was a divorce court with Howard Criswell reigning as high official. Helene Henson was official reporter at court. Howard, of course, was in a position to learn very little of the classmates, but he informed me that Evelyn and Myrtle Gregirson were proprietors of an exclusive tea room in that town. He said he had also read of Harold Clifford’s famous trip to Mars. I left the courtroom, and walked down the street, when suddenly I realized that I was no longer in San Francisco, but had been unconsciously transported to Superior, Wisconsin. The first place I entered there was a teachers' training school. I was amazed at finding Neil Smith .here as principal and more so upon learning that Katherine Gombus, who entered shortly, was his private secretary. Neil invited me to visit the Physics class, and there 1 found more surprises awaiting me. Thomas Reindahl was supervising the class. Charles Cronk, after a famous non-stop flight around the world, had come to earth and was preparing to teach Physics. 1 was led to a room where a Manual Training class was being conducted, with Lawrence Van Ruden as instructor, something quite out of the ordinary for Lawrence, but nevertheless he was in love with his work. Down in the gymnasium a girls' Physical Education class was in session. Alice was calling the commands to “open ranks one—two—three—four the same system that Miss Moe had carried out in our High School class. I left the building, and as I came out upon the street, my attention was attracted in the direction of a large crowd of men and women. From within the circle which they had formed, I could distinctly hear a clear voice ringing out in a convincing tone with arguments against prohibition. When the applause had died down and the crowd began to dissemble, my curiosity regarding the speaker was satisfied. It was none other than Charles Langer, that “Soap Box Orator of High School days. My surprise was no greater than his and upon recognition he invited me to visit his apartment that he shared with Lloyd Iverson. Lloyd was doing part-time office work, and spent the rest of his time on an airplane of his own handiwork. He called it “Cleopatra” but “Speed was its nickname. But alack and alas—before Charles and I had gone very far, I found that instead of walking with him in the streets of Superior I was alighting from a taxi in the down town district of Chicago, in the midst of a hail storm. My taxi driver was Byron Arenson, but before I could realize that at one time we had been classmates he had sped away in his machine. Looking about me 1 discovered that I was near a florist, and a place of shelter was my greatest desire at that moment, so I entered the building. There among the flowers I found Mvrl Lindahl. I was not a little amazed at finding her here, when she had always talked of Paris so much. Through her I learned that Viola Benson had acquired fame through her wonderful welfare work, and that Anna-Marie Fink was touring Europe, giving violin lessons. {Continued on page 47) Page Seventeen