Ellendale High School - Redbird / Microphone Yearbook (Ellendale, ND)

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Keep Up The Spirit Keep up the spirit that you have developed During your high school life, For Enthusiasm is the vital spark that Lights the enterprise and points the way To success. Keep the joyous heart and the clear mind Of wholesome youth, for they are the Lamp by which you will be guided to Happiness, which is the right of All mankind. — 13- 1929 Ellendale High School Yearbook Coleman Museum, 2017

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Probably we were living up to the universal reputation of sophisticated Sophomores when we chose the more metropolitan Wylie Park at Aberdeen as the place for our class picnic. There was not the usual display of enthusiasm that characterized the Freshman picnic, but, as I said, that may have been due to the sophistication. In 1927 the Sophomores became very grown-up Juniors with much pull, push, and ambition. Class officers were Marie Furan, president; Magda Hermansen, vice- president; and Dorothy Russell, secretary and treasurer. Miss Onsrud, the principal, became our adviser. The class was well represented in athletics, having many third year men on the football eleven, the track team, and the first and second year basketball teams. One of the class, Nan Wheelihan, helped to represent the high school at the annual joint program with N. I. during Education Week. The first great event of the season was the Junior Class play, “Rose of the South- land”, given on two nights, March twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh. The play was well received, and the Junior starlets shone with brilliant promises for the Senior venture. A member of the Junior class represented the high school in the District Declamation contest and sneaked home with the bacon, sliced and prepared, and later brought home honor from the state contest by coming away with second place. Louella Elliott was the winner of the Lincoln Medal in the Lincoln Medal Essay Contest. Then came the Junior-Senior Banquet, the major event of the season. This event was one that enabled the class to show its ingenuity, originality, cooperation, and tact; to exercise its powers of per- suasion and bribery; and to display its ability as financial wizards, magicians, to stretch the funds over a multitude of novel ideas. The class seized upon the idea of giving a prom afterwards and even succeeded in hauling in an orchestra. The gym was beautifully and elaborately decorated to represent a flower garden. Paper hats, balloons, confetti, and serpentine added a colorful carnivalistic note. The Juniors picnicked at Melgard’s Park and all over Aberdeen, findi ng time to swim in the chilly waters at Lake Wylie and to visit the movie theaters, and to return to Melgard’s for supper. At last the Juniors became the traditional dignified Seniors, and they were a bunch of lively go- getters. Whoopee! The seats on the north side of the assembly, in fact the whole assembly, was theirs. The officers chosen were: President, Nan Wheelihan (whose place was filled by Eldon Jury when the annual was begun); vice-president, Richard Tiegs; Secretary and treasurer, Cravella Jenkins. Mr. Ingvalson was given the task of adviser. The first dimming of Senior joys was the news that the Freshies could be treated to no initiation party. However, the lower classmen were by no means immune to a few attacks on the part of the Seniors. During Education Week the high school participated in the joint program with N. I. Harry Heine represented the Senior cla ss. Stella, the Seniors’ songster, was a representative from High School in the Atwater Kent Radio Contest. Beginning early and increasing in strength was the spirit of an annual. Sponsored by the Seniors, the dream became more powerful and at last became a reality. The staff was chosen and work was begun. It was not easy work, and there were many difficulties to be overcome. “The Microphone” was chosen to be the name. In Ferbuary our time was fully occupied in preparing for a Spizzerinktum Carnival, which we planned to make the biggest event of its kind that we had ever undertaken. Under the direction of Mr. Christie and Milton Smith, the general manager, everyone worked long and hard, and our efforts were crowned with success. The gate receipts exceeded even our wildest expectations, and we were made doubly happy when the Senior candidate, Cravella Jenkins, was chosen queen. Next came the Senior play, “Adam and Eva,” which was a colossal success. Whatever promises the Junior play of the previous year made were totally eclipsed by the brilliancy of the production. Some of the outside of school activities that members of the Senior class helped to make successful were the musical comedies, “Betty Lou” and “Aunt Lucia.” Another honor came to the class when it succeeded in opening a chapter of the National Honor Society in High School. Four of the mighty were elected to membership: Nan Wheelihan, Cravella Jenkins, Marie Furan, and Harry Heine. The High school was represented at the District Music and Declamation Contest by two Seniors. Stella Bergstreser copped first place in soprano solo, and Nan Wheelihan second in declamation. These girls will represent Ellendale at the State Contest at the University in May. This is the history of the class of 1929 up to April 23rd, when it must go to press. Thus far the undertakings of the class of 1929 have been successful as those of a progressive class are sure to be. It is now April 23rd, and the Announcer M. S. F. is signing off at station E. H. S., at Ellendale, North Dakota. — 12 — 1929 Ellendale High School Yearbook Coleman Museum, 2017

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Who s Who and How Class OJicers Eldon Jury- - - - - - - - - - President Richard Tiegs - -- -- -- - Vice-president Cravella Jenkins ------ Secretary-treasurer Mr. Ingvalson - -- -- -- - Class Adviser Marie Furan - Zachary Taylor Louella Elliott Historian Prophets Class Motto — “Try, trust, triumph.” Class Colors — Royal blue and silver. Class Flower — Lily-of-the-valley. SENIOR HONOR ROLL Valedictorian ------- Marie Furan Salutatorian - - - - - - - Nan Wheelihan Honorary Mention Stella Bergstreser ------ Harry Heine Harold Gerber ------ Edna Heine Louella Elliott ------ Gladys Heimke Cravella Jenkins ----- Magda Hermansen Four Year Honor Students Marie Furan - Stella Bergstreser Marie Furan - Edna Heine Marie Furan - Cravella Jenkins Marie Furan - Louella Elliott Senior Year Junior Year Sophomore Year Nan Wheelihan - 14 — Nan Wheelihan Harry Heine - Edna Mallon Nan Wheelihan agda Hermansen Nan Wheelihan Cravella Jenkins Zachary Taylor 1929 Ellendale High School Yearbook Coleman Museum, 2017