Fosston High School - Talisman Yearbook (Fosston, MN)

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K 4' 9. J fs, Cherryblossoni, brought up as a daughter of Kokomo, in reality Evelyn V Barnes of New York. U.S.A... ........................... .Marion ,Vaaler lxokenio, a proprietor of a Tea Garden in Tokyo, Japan .........., Parnel Hillestad John Henry Smith' Llackj a New Yorker, on a visit to Japan as the guest of Mr. Worthington .....,.......... . . . . . . ......... Walter Solberg Henry Foster Jones QHarryJ Jack's pal, in love with Jessica .,...... Leon Johnson Horace Worthington, a New York stockhroker, who is entertaining a party of friends with a trip to Japan on his private yacht. .... Lilmer Tygeson James, Worthing'ton's secretary ...,. . ....,.............. . .... . Jessica Vanderpool, Worthington's niece ................... . . Togo, a Japanese politician of high rank .........,............. Geisha Girls in Kokemo's Tea Garden Clarence Milton . . .Gladys Howe . .Adellor LaVoi Helen Waldron, Hilda Vaaler, Mary Vingaard, Pearl Pederson, Louise Rindahl, Tina Torgerson, Anna Milsten. American Girls and Men, guests of Mr. Worthington visiting Japan on his private yacht ................. Lottie LaVoi, Isabelle Anderson, Anne VVynne, Bertha Ellingson, Pearl Johnson, Clifford Lee, Lloyd Hillestnd, Joseph J ohnson. Chorus ........ Signs: Pearson, Margaret Moen, Eunice Kringle, Borghild Bromstnd, Myra Thronson, Edna Engehretson, Esther Erickson, Hilda Vingaard, Gladys Larson, Nyla Thompson. Page Forty-four

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1, I I 4 is e s'rA'rE Dx-:CLAMATION i ' REATER interest was evidenced in declamation this year than has been shown for several years past. On the evening of January 25th the High School Auditorium was crowded with high school students and their friends who had come to hear the contestants in the preliminary to the State district contest. Seven girls and six boys participated, and the musical numbers of the program were furnished by the pupils of the Intermediate grades. That the entire contest was of high caliber, was the opinion of both the judges and the audience. Hilda Vaaler won second place in the girls contest in her interpretation of a cutting from Anne of Green Gables and was given the privilege of represent- ing the school at the Red River Farm Crop Shows in Crookston. Marion Vaaler secured first place with Longfellows Famine Scene from Hiawatha. In the oratorical contest Clarence Mittun won second place with Wilson's League for Peace and Walter Solberg took first place with his rendition of Presi- dent Harding's address before the Disarmament Conference. Then came the grind of preparation for the district divisional contest. The original plan was to enter the Thief River division but owing to the fact that their contest was posponed until March 10th, arrangements were made to join the east- ern division at Bemidji. The contest was held at that place the evening of Feb. 21, in the Methodist Church Auditorium. The oratorical contest was held First. Considering the fact that it was Wol- ter's first experience in declamatory work he gave his selection remarkably well, and won fourth place in the judges' decision. Marion was the sixteenth speaker. The audience had become restless, but she gained their attention and held every listener thru the final word of her selec- tion. She secured first place in the judges' decision, and Fosston may be well satis- Hed that their contestant was undoubtedly the best altho she was thrown out of the contest lay the committee in charge because of several seconds overtime. There was a di erence of over three points between Marion's rating and that of the next nearest claimant for first place. The goodly number of lower classmen who entered declamation work gives promise for a strong department in public speaking next year, and assurance that we will continue to send winners to the various contests of the district. Page F arty-three

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R' 'l 4. RED RIVER ' ' T VALLEY FARM CROP SHOW Mathias Landsverk, Clilford Lee and George Landsverk formed the Corn and Potato judging- team that so ably repre- sented Fosston at the Red River Valley Winter Shows in Crookston on Febru- ary sixth. Their ac- curateand intelliient judging' wonfort em first place as a Corn and Potato judging team. They brought buck a silver loving cup as their reward. This is the first year that it has been awarded to Fosston High School, but it may remain here per- manently if we win it for three years. r I 1 I In connection with the Red River Corn Crop Show held at Grookston, on February sixth, a declamatinn contest was also held in which representatives from the various districts participated. At the elimination contest held earli- er in the year, Hilda Vaaler, our representative, won first place. This gave her opnrtunity of tak- ing part in the final contest on February sixth. As her selection she gave a cutting: from 4'Anne of Green Gables. Her selection won first place and the silver lov- ing cup, which remains with the winner for one year. If it is won by the same school three times, it belongs to that school. This is the first time that Fosstzm has won the cupbut we hope it is not the last. Pa ge Forty-Eva