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

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Twelve ye are ago the present senior class, with bright intelligent faces, presented itself to the first grade of various schools to delve into the mysteries of ' readin ' , ' ritin ' , and 1 rithmetic . Of the thirty-two first graders who started in ‘37 in Ellendale, only nine — Mary Jean Donahe, Marion Gehring, Floyd Mattheiee, Pearl Mneller, Joan Randall, Palmer Retzlaff, Ann SlesBoons, Dorothy Steinwand, and Kenneth Pierce — have remained to the end. The rest of the present senior class have Joined these, either in the grades or in high school. After going through the usual trials and tribulations of elementary pupils— quarrels, pranks, and punishments, appearing in concerts scrubbed and shining in new white dresses and ribbons, long pants and bow ties — they finally entered Junior High School, with Mr. Oxton as their teacher. The freshman enrollment was 49 students, one of the biggest freshman classes yet. They had a good year with lots of parties and lots of learning that was to help them through th rest. As green sophomores they entered Senior High with Mrs. Strand as their adviser, and were duly initiated. Their enrollment went down to 45 that year. The following year as juniors they sponsored a really big prom and banquet. They entertained their guests in the new gym. We decorated half of the gymnasium with our theme as the Mardi Gras, and Johnny Cacavas and his orchestra provided the music. The banquet was held in the Methodist Church basement, the Methodist ladies preparing the meal and a group of sophomore girls serving it. We put on the first Fun Feat which was a smashing success. Miss Ons rud was our advisor. The enrollment was 44. In September, as seniors we entered school with a new dignity befitting our class- ification. Our enrollment stands now at 35, since we lost several old faces during the last years. As class officers we elected Dolores Provost, president, Verna McShane, vice-president, Joan Randall, secretary, and Paul Kern, treasurer. Mr. Ingvalson was our class adviser. Some of the big jobs of the year were taking over the Cardinal Staff, another successful Fun Fest, the Senior Class Play and the Microphone. Our candidates for king and queen, Joan Randall and Maurice Huber, won over the other excellent candidates and reigned over the annual Oompah. We will always be grateful to our parents and teachers for making it possible for us to arrive at this juncture of our educational career, and so with mingled sadness and rejoicing, we bid you Au Revoir. ■n o From E.H.S. we Seniors go Into the world in which we grow. To bravely face its toils and cares; And in the future climb the stairs That lead us to success and right. We are the class who always tried To by the codes and rules abide And in our hearts we always knew That it was in this school we grew To learn to help our fellow men. In these four years we ' ve seen the strife That’s found in every student’s life. But when our work at last was done The Senior Class of 49 Felt proud of its accomplishments. We ' ve made new friends while we were here; They ' ve helped us through each single year. Our teachers taught us how to meet The good, the bad, the indiscreet Without a pause or backward step. Our days were always filled with funl We struggled, played — at last we won The greatest honor that could be For now and all eternity — The thrill of graduation.

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M 50 3 PEARL MUELLER •Wanted: A Cook -4 Talk Is Cheap -2 Glee Club, Chorus-1-2-3-4 Choral Festival-1-3-4 Office Helper-4 Speech Festival-2-3 Fun Fest -3-4 Speech Program-4 BETTY PAHL Glee Club, Chorus-1-2-3-4 Choral Festival-1-3-4 Speech Festival-2-3 Senior Speech Program-4 Microphone Staff -4 KENNETH PIERCE - K.C. Football -2-3-4 Basketball-1-2-3-4 Band-1-2-3-4 Band Festival— 1-2-4 Class Treasurer-2 Microphone Staff-4 Fun Fest-3-4 Student Council-4 DOLORES PROVOST DODO Vice-President-1 Talk is Cheap -2 Speech Program-3-4 Basketball-1-2-3-4 Tumbling— 3 President-4 1 11 Leave It To You -4 Student Council-4 Microphone Editor-4 Office Helper-4 Keystone Society-4 JOAN RANDALL ,r Pledges -2 »Jubie -2 And There Was Light -3 I ' ll Leave It To You -4 Glee Club, Chorus-1-2-3-4 Choral Festival-1-2-3-4 Cheerleader-3-4 Triple Trio-3-4 Class Reporter-3 Class Secretary-4 Twirling-2-3 -4 Ass ' t Editor, Cardinal-4 Band-1-2-3-4 Band Festival- -2-3-4 Speech Festival— 2— 3 Keystone Society-3 Oompah Queen-4 Speech Program-4 Microphone Staff -4 PALMER RETZLAFF ELMER Football -1-2-3-4 Basketball —2—3—4 Track-2-3 -4 Glee Club, Chorus-1-2-3 The World Is Full Of Crooks -3 Swept Clean Off Her Feet -3 Peace Be To This House -4 I ' ll Leave It To You -4 Editor, Cardinal-4 Feature Reporter-4 Scouts (Life Rank) -1-2-3 -4 JANICE E. RIME Glee Club, Chorus-1-2-3-4 Choral Festival-1-2-3-4 Triple Trio-4 Accompanist-1-2-3-4 Speech Program-2-4 Speech Festival-2-3-4 Music Contest-3-4 I ' ll Leave It To Tou -4 Pledges -2 Class Reporter-2 Keystone Society-4 MABEL SCHALLER MABE Glee Club, Chorus-2-5-4 Choral Festival-3-4 Twirling-2-3-4 pledges -2 Swept Clean Off Her Feet -3 I ' ll Leave It To You -4 Class Reporter-4 Cardinal Staff-4 Speech Program-4 Speech Featival-4 MARGARET ANN SLEMMONS Glee Club, Chorus-1-2-3-4 Choral Festival-1-2-3-4 Fun Fest -3-4 Speech Program-4 Speech Festival-3-4 Music Contest-3-4 Cheerleader-1 Office Helper-3-4 CQRINNE STARK Talk is Cheap -2 Glee Club, chorus-1-2-3-4 Choral Festival-1-2-3-4 Speech Festival-2-3 Triple Trio-4 Fun Fest 3-4 Wanted: A Cook -4 DOROTHY STEINWAND DORDY Glee Club, Chorus-1-2-3-4 Choral Festival-1-2-3-4 Speech Festival-2-3-4 Talk is Cheap -2 Swept Clean off Her Feet -3 Student Council-2r3 Class Reporter-2 Triple Trio-3-4 Keystone Society-3 Class Treasurer-3 Speech Program-4 Cheerleader-3-4 Music Contest-3-4 DOROTHY TUCHSCKER TOOTSIE Speech Program-4 Speech Festival-2 Glee Club, Chorus-1-2-3-4 Choral Festival-1-3-4 Office Helper-4 The Patterson Dinner -4 Tlak is Cheap -2 Cardinal Staff, Typist-4 Music Contest-3-4 Microphone Staff-4 ROY E. WIDMER Football-3-4 Glee Club, Chorus-2-4 Choral Festival-2-4 4-41 Club-1-2 Lover ' s Errand -2 Affair in the Park -4 ERNEST WOODWARD ERNIE Band-3-4 Baseball-2-3 School Projectionist-2-3-4 Fun Fest-3-4 I ' ll Leave It To Tou -4 Class Presidents Student Council-3 ROUND VOBGELI ROGIE Football-2-3-4 Basketball-2-3-4 Baseball-2-3 Glee Club, Chorus-1-2-3-4 Choral Festival-1-2-3-4 Jubie -2 Fun Fest-3-4 Octet-3 1949 Ellendale High School Yearbook Coleman Museum 2017

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G5 0 3 1 7 5 In 1959 our class of 1949 was scheduled to have a reunion, but no one came except Shirley King, Floyd Mattheis, and myself, Ardys Anderson. The reason we got there was because we lived in Ellendale where the reunion was to be held. After a short talk, Floyd got the bright idea, since the rest of the class couldn ' t come to the reunion, we would go to see them, providing we girls paid his way, as he was financially embar- rassed at the present, being only the janitor in the post office. Since Shirley and I were joint owners of a transcontinental airline, we decided it wouldn ' t be so much of an expense to take an old classmate along. Our first stop was Billings, Montana, where we ran into Violetta Brown at the imfor- mation bureau at the airport. (Violette-always airminded l) We spent the night at Harold Beecher ' s dude ranch a little south of town. After a pleasant visit there, we left for Seattle, Washington, where we visited Maurice Huber, vho was modeling men ' s clothes in a department store there. While we were there, we turned on the radio only to hear one of our classmate ' s voice booming out, One, two, three, four, on your toes, chest out, shoulders back, etc. After a while the voice said, » This is Vivian Heil, telling all you chubby ladies who want to lose your excess fat to listen in again tomor- row when I again broadcast my daily exercises, same time, same station. The nest day we went into a dimestore to buy some toothpaste and while at the counter, we heard someone let out a loud burst of laughter. Turning around, we saw Nadine Jury laughing just as she used to in English class. She was demonstrating a new type of potato peeler. That afternoon we were off to Los Angeles, California. When we arrived we picked up one of the local newspapers. There on the front page wae Verna McShane ' s daily column, Advice to the Lovelorn . We looked her up and she told us many interesting things that had happened to her and her family. She said Palmer Retzlaff had a little business of his own but would not tell us what it was. She gave us his address and suggested we find out for ourselves. We were very curious and you can imagine our surprise when we saw the sign on his building 1 It read: Retzlaff Builds Men Out of Weaklings . We went in and had a little talk with him about old times. That evening we went to the movie, You Told Me No . To our surprise we found Tearl Mueller playing the leading role. (That of a dope f lend J) Her acting was superb. We wanted to visit her but our bus was scheduled to leave in an hour. In Hollywood, we stopped in at the Chicago Dirty Sox ' training camp where we conversed with Ernie Woodward, who is their playing manager this year. As we left the training can?), we came across Dorothy Tuchscher, who had taken over Hedda Hopper ' s job of writing all the things that go on in the society of Hollywood. The next day we were off to Austin, Texas, where we visited Joan Bell, the head of Arthur Murray ' s dancing studio in that city. She told U3 that the Ringless Brothers Circus was at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and that it was such an extraordinary performance that we ought not miss it. We, therefore left that afternoon so we would be able to take in the evening show. When we got there, we noticed Rodney Hermansen scrubbing the elephants so we didn ' t disturb him. Later we saw him barking at a side show to get a little business. We went into a side show and there found Violet Haase, who was adver- tised as the tatooed lady. You can imagine our surprise when we saw Mable Schaller dressed in a sorong with long hair flowing behind her in Dorothy Lamour fashion. We heard a terrific commotion outside and everyone rushed from the tent to the lions cage. There was Darlene Hatfield, the greatest lion tamer of all time, flat on her back with a lion all set to chew an arm off. By this time we were pretty much fed up with the circus so we left, not knowing whether Darlene has one arm or two I Maybe there isn ' t any Darlene anymore, who knows? Off we started for Miami, Florida. While at the beach we heard someone barking swimming instructions to a class of beginners. We went in that direction adn found that it was Delores Provost. She told us that she and Betty Pahl had an apartment in Miami and that Betty was a stenographer in an insurance company, and very much in love with her boss. But he was married so that let her out. Traveling north to Atlantic City, Georgia, the following day, we stopped in for the coronation of Miss America, who was none other than our own Mary Jean Donahe. After the ceremonies, we noticed a familiar figure directing traffic at the intersection. As we drew near, we saw that it was Roy Widmer, a member of the Atlantic City Folice Force. 1949 Ellendale High School Yearbook Coleman Museum 2017