Essex High School - Trojan Yearbook (Essex, IA)

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SENIOR HISTORY On the 31st day of August 1931, thirty boys and' girls pro- ceeded up the steps of the Essex High School with high ambitions to be successful. The class was led by Irwin Almquist. The greatest event of the year 'was the Freshmen initiation. Most of the girls joined Girl Reserve and several' took part in the G. R. Oompah. The Girl Reserve Leap Year Party was very successful. Our class 'was well represented in football, basketball, baseball, and girls' kittenball, and some of the students were brave enough to participate in glee ciub and dramatics. Two of our classmates entered the home contest. The next fall, when the girls were sporting wind-blown and ragged edged haircuts, folmd only twenty-seven of us to continue our progress through high school-. Irene Bengtson 'was chosen to lead us. We were a little more used to high school life by this time and had participants in nearly every high school activity. Three of our class received honors in academic tests and got to 'go on to Iowa City. The girls won the track meet cup. This fall 'we found the girls getting permanents and even some of the boys were trying to make their hair cu'rl. There were still twenty-seven of us to win honors for our class and Raynor Swanson 'was chosen to lead us. This was a big year for our class. We gave our Junior Play, Sonny Jane, to a full house. The biggest event of the yea'r was the Junior-Senior Banquet which was held at the Lutheran Church and was one of the prettiest banquets ever given. Four boys were on the football team, two on the basketball team, and five on the baseball team. The typing team won iirst place and the shorthnd team won second place in the district contest and both got to go on to the state contest. Six of our class parti- cipated in the home declamatory contest and three of them were winners. Two of our class were in the girls' sextet, one in the boys' quartet and several in the mixed chorus. We are now in the regime of bangs and are still upholding our record. The senior class has 100W membership in G. R. The greater percentage of the boys have participated in athletics. We had seven participants in the home declamatory contest and' two of these were second-place winners. Several members of our class are in the girls' sextette, boys' quartet, mixed chorus, and glee club. We are about to graduate after four years of successful high school life and wish to leave our record on the pages of The Trojan.

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SENIOR SHORTS LOUISE NELSON- Attended Red Oak High School for 3 years. Girl Reserves 355 years. Glee Club. IVAN RENNACK- Football '33, '34. . A LESTER YOUNG- Track '32, DICK HALL- Glee Club '33, '34, '35, Football '33, '35, Base- ball '33, '34, '35, Library '34, Declamatory '32, '35, Junior and' Sen- ior play, Tennis. MELVIN OSSIAN- Glee Club - Stanton '32, Essex - '33, '34, '35, Mixed Chorus - Stanton, '32, Essex - '34, 35, Quartet '34, '35, Library '34, Deelam '33, 34, Junior Play, Senior Play. IRENE BENGTSON- Student Council '32, Kittenball lShort- stopj, '32, '33, '34, '35, Declam, Home Contest '33, '34, '35 - First Place, '34 - Second Place '35, Girl Reserves '34, '35, G. R. Secretary '35, Shorthand Team, '34, Glee Cluh '34, '35, Mixed Chorus '34, Academic Test at Iowa City '32, '33, President of Class, '33, Jour- nalism '34, Junior Play '34, Senior Play '35. WILBUR FREED- Football '32, '33, '34, Glee Club '32, '33, Declamatory '33, '34, '35. Second place winner in home contest and first place winner in Little Seven in '34, Baseball '34, '35, Journal- ism '35. IRWIN ALMQUIST- Class president '32, High School Band, Declamation '34, '35, Football '31, '32, '33, '34, Captain .of team '34, Basketball '33, '34, '35, Baseball '32, '33, '34, '35, Junior and Senior plays. MILDRED WATSON- High School course taken in three years, Girl Reserve '33, '34, '35, Junior Play '34' Student Council '34- Girls' Glee Club '34, Librarian '34, Senior President '35, Senior? Play '35, Journalism '35. ROBERT WENSTRAND- Football '31, '32, '33, '34, U32, '33, '34 major lettersl, Glee Club '32, '33, '34, Declam '31, '32, '33, '34, Baseball '33 ,'34, '35, Journalism '35. RAYNOR SWANSON- Football '32, '33, '34, Class Plays '34, '35, Contest Plays '34, '35, Class President '34, History Academic test winner '34, Declaxnatory '35, Gl'ee Club '33, Student Council '32, Journalism '35. LOIS PARKER- Girl Reseive '32, '33, '34, '35, Girl Reserve ax., Cabinet '34, Girls' Glee Club '32, '33, '34, '35, Mixed Chorus '34, '356 Pc! Sextette '34, Declantatory '32, '34, Junior Play '34, Senior Play '35, K NO Journalism '34, '35. MARIAN NELSON- Girl Reserves '32, '33, '34, '35, Drama- tics '32, '33, '34, '35, Journalism '34, '35, Inter-scholastic sports '32, '33, Junior Play '34, Senior Play '35, Glee Club '33. '