Echo High School - Yearbook (Echo, MN)

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C LASS HIST ORY Dear Diary, September 1937 Today the first day of school, found the following students present: Lyla Mae Hagen, Roberta Chapman, Ruth Zieske, Doris Salzwedle, Clayton Anderson, Roger Paschke, Ronald Riebe, Glennis Meier, and Myron Hustad, Miss Fredrichson is our teacher. September 1938 Today, two new pupils, Darlene Dahl, and Karl Bauer joined us. Miss Fredrickson is our teacher. September 1939 Myrtle Scherwin joined us. Miss' Swenson is our teacher. September 1940 June Kuehn joined us today. Miss Swenson is our teacher. September 1941 We are now in the fifth grade. Fern Renneke, Lyle Renneke, and Robert Leonard enrolled today. Robert Leonard moved away later on in the year. Miss Tatge is our teacher. September 1942 We are progressing nicely. Elizabeth Pederson, Majorie Dietz, and Ernie Groth, joined us. Our teacher is Miss Tatge. September 1943 We are now entering Junior High School. Five new pupils Gladys Schlemmer, Luella Groth, Llewellyn Hagen, Orville Studeman, and Clarence McGuire enrolled today. We lost Ruth Zieske and Clarence McGuire later on in the year. Our teacher is Miss Austin. September 1944 Willard Viergutz, Valeris Viergutz, Jeanette Stelter and Leonard Luepke joined us today. Marjorie Schmidt joined us later. Miss Smith is our teacher. September 1945 Today our first day of High School we have thirty-three members in our class. The new members are: Lavon Rakke, Shirley Bode, Doris Arndt, Delores Leupke, Virginia Margraf, Shirley Gladitsch, Shirley Boushek, Julia Ann Lecy, Karen Vonde Linde, Joyce Hustad, Ramona Hustad, Robert Gronholz, Maurice Doebbling, Calvin Kotval, Vernon Berquist, Elvern Kletcher, Mural Kletcher, Glenn Busack, Gorden McCoy, and Duane Schmidt. Later on in the year we lost Vernon Berquist and Elvern Kletcher, and gained Margie Radtke, Glemiis Meier, Karl Bauer, Willard Viergutz, Leonard Luepke, Luella Groth, and Ernie Groth were the members not present when we began our Freshrnan year. September 1946 Buddy Christensen is our new member. We lost Myrtle Schwein, Lavon Rakke, Shirley Boushek, Doris Salzwedal, Morris Doebbling, Robert Gronholz, and Calvin Kotval. September 1947 Glen Kotval enrolled today. We lost Elizabeth Peterson, Julia Ann Lecy, Duane Schmidt, Margie Radtke. September 1948 We have no new members and we haven't lost any. At the end of our High School career we have a total of twenty-five members. 13

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GLADYS SCHLEMMER ' 'Gladys Mixed Chorus Glee Club Class Play Talent Show School Paper Annual It's natural to be 2,3 l,Z,3 nice when you are naturally nice. JEANETTE STELTER ' 'Nettie Mixed Chorus Glee Club Sextette Class Play 2,3 l,Z,3 Homecoming Attendant Assistant Sports Writer Sports W riter School Paper Annual Salutatorian l1npu.lsive but kind hearted, Unsel- fish and true blue, With laughing eyes and manners, Yet serious minded, too. Z. MARJORIE SCHMIDT Marge Mixed Chorul Glee Club Librarian Homec oming Attendant School Paper Annual She is a maid so very meek That e'en her shoes refuse to squeak. VALERIA VIERGUTZ. Valeria Mixed Chorus Glee Club School Paper Annual A mile a minute is good speed but a mile a minute rates more heed. KAREN VON DB LINDE Linde Mixed Chorus Glee Club Octette Sextette Librarian School Paper Annual 1,2 3, When play and duty clash, Let duty go to smash.

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CLASS PROPHECY It is now the year if 1959, and looking back we see the Class of 1949 having its reunion at Pelican Penthouse in New York, owned by none other than the famous law- yer, Roger Paschke. A plane has just arrived, being piloted by Buddy Christensen. Getting off the plane are June Kuehn, American Airline Stewardess, Marjorie Dietz and Lyla Hagen. Marjorie is running a. nursery, a job she cannot shirk when things are so changeable. Lyla is pure food and drug tester at Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis-- Eat This Not That. Arriving next is Clayton Anderson, well known authority on engineering, telling us about his world famous project on irrigating the Sahara Desert. Clayton invites us to his Vee Vee Sea Food Specialities featuring Miss Valeria Viergutz as the mermaid. Coming in next is Jeanette Stelter, sports writer for the New York Times. She tells us about her thrilling experiences managing a young heavyweight boxer, who makes his debut at Madison Square Garden soon. Another member, Gordon McCoy, our dentist, has arrived. His motto is Open Wide and Jerk. A taxi stops out in front and three people get out. First Doris Arndt, our school teacher, who walks ten miles every day to her little red school house. Well, look who is trailing behind her, Ramona Hustad, carrying a coal bucket. We grasp she is janitor The depression has hit her, so she has settled for hard manual labor. Last to get out of the taxi is Karen Von de Linde, a wealthy doctor's wife. Modeling is her hobby and she carries the slogan of Keep Slim Behind. ln walks the great athlete, Murl Kletscher, who just completed his third season as first string fullback for the Green Bay Packers professional football team. He in- forms us that next season he will have a new job--that of backfield coach for the Michigan Wolverines. Since Shirley Bode has given up her teaching career, she is now training her lit- tle Hansvicks how to use their inherited deep bass voices. Where's all the noise coming from? Oh! Who should arrive but Glenn Busack, Square Dance Caller, giving us his latest version on the Boo Sack Square Dance. Well, look who's coming in now. The world's well known Ballet Dancer, Roberta Chapman, now appearing at the Punk Hut Theater, managed by Llewellyn Hagen. Here comes Fern Renneke, chatting about her Easy to Milk Mountain Goats. She has bought a shack in the Appalachian Mountains and has a herd of fifteen. Darlene Dahl has just come back from the county fair. fYe1low Med. that isj. She won first prize on her dishtowels. Marjorie Schmidt, librarian of the Library of Congress, is publishing the 1959 Almanac, designed especially for the honorable Mrs. G. J. Reuter. Gladys Schlemmer has been seen flashing her famous smile on Billboards all over the U. S., Pepsodent Toothpaste has hired her to exhibit what their publicized product can do. Delores Leupke, proprietor of the Leup De Loop circus, now touring the country, stops long enough to tell us of her charming features. Joyce Hustad goes around the race track, as the feather weight Jockey, riding swaybacked sad-eyed Citation, While everyone's attention is attracted to the race, Shirley Gladitsch is busy watering her elephants, and selling her Happy Ditch brand of peanuts. Glen Kotval has just broken the world's speed record for motorcycles. QAlong with a nurnber of arms and legs.l Looking back on our happy school days, this reunion leaves us with happy mem- ories of our class and a bright look into the future. 14