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CLASS HISTORY One fine, warm September morning in 1938, our mothers scrubbed our little faces and sent us-sweet, wide-eyed,.innocent, little children that we were-to our first day of school. Helen Branson, Lorraine Caspers, Mary Janet Clay, Dick Claypool, Joyce Cooking, Delores Colby, Verna Garrison, Lorraine Gutz, Jerry Miller, Rita Murphy, Tony Perez, JoA11ne Rathman, Betty Seantlebury, Dorothy Schlomer, La- Verne Sheeler, Jane Stockberger, Max Wilson, Larry Windelow were the members of the class of 1951 who started together in Hampton. A May Day party for the little ones who would start school tl1e next year elimaxed kindergar- te11. We returned the next year as experienced and worldly first graders. That year we took into our happy midst Darlene Baldwin, Doris Knueppel, Audrey McAfee, Lucille Moore, Kathryn Patton, and Lowell Stock. Second grade passed quickly as we learned to write like big peoplen. Though the war had begun, world problems didn't interest our bright little third grade, especially when we had our own smash-hit play about pioneers and Indians and our new classmate, Marlene Drey- er, to think about. Then came the big day when at last as im- perious fou1'tl1 graders, we could climb the long creaking stairs to the second floor Cafter all o11ly Ve1'y grown up and important people could go to school on the second floorlj Among these lucky ones were two new faces-Orin Johnson and Marian Riehtsmeier. Fifth grade added two more-Bill Miller and Bob Pralle. Sixth grade put us in that most coveted po- sition at the head of the stairs with the whole class together at last, and with three teachers -just like the big kids!! Dick Claypool re- turned after spending two years in Sheffield, Darlene Diekman, Doug Nelson, and Ann Ged- des also joined us that year of the stupendous grade school operetta. Junior high marked our exit from the world of children, and the end of tlie war made us expect peace. We entered happily into sev- enth grade with our first dances, geography class, and. tl1e entrance of Harold Nelson. Eighth grade was an even greater advance- ment. That year we gained Joe Pitsor, wrote our first S.A.'s , and most wonderful of all-- graduated from junior high in a ceremony complete with a speaker and diplomas. We were really grown up that day-even more like the big kids. But the Honorable Seniors put us through our paces the next fall as bewildered Fresh- men singing UPIII so fresh, I'1n so green, for initiation. Lulah Alert, Phyllis lierk, Dale Furman, Phyllis Grabbe, Lillian Janssen, Mar- lys Lehmann, Norma Muhlenbruch, Joyce Sor- ensen, Joanne Sporleder, and Marian Timmcr- man were tl1e lucky ones who joined our little band this year of elementary algebra. However, as sophisticated Sophomores, bat- tling world history ancl plane geometry with our two new members, Don Krukow a11d lfllaine Rasmussen, we thought we really knew our way around the high school. Our Junior year brought the excitement of the class -play, bur Hearts Were Young and Gay. And the admission of Jim Balkema, Ethel Bonjour, and Mariiee ltisher supplied some welcome new talent to the class. The theme of the J unior-Senior Prom was the H1950 Global Excursion. And then that year of years-the big kids- Seniors at last. VVe tried not to think too much of war, but several who had been in our class found themselves in uniform. Fran Emmer- ich came tl1is last year to fill out tl1e class role to 51 in '51, tbut with a ratio of three girls to every boyj. We more than kept ourselves busy with the million things that .Seniors have to do-the class play, Little Women , the term papers of English IV, and the senior drive. Thirteen years tamed us down a little: we were older and wiser, as then we looked out into an adult world, hoping that we could do as well there as we had in school.
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LULAH ALERT Studies never Daunt this lass.. With little effort, She leads the class. DARUENHE BALDWIN Enjoy your life Before it's fled, For when you die, You're a long time dead. JAMES BALKEMA Not really quiet, But not very loud, J'ust a swell guy, Whose friends round him crowd. PHYLLIS BERK Happy she is And free from care. Too bad others Aren't like her there. ETHEL B0lNJ'OUR Here's one gal Who will not shun, When given Work She sees it's done. HELEN BRANSON Like the Royal Mounties, Helen can- No matter what- Get her man. LORRAINE CASPER Happy-go-lucky, 'Fair and free, There is nothing That bothers me. MARY JANET OLAY With a situation Her head's with the planets Still lots of fun Is blond Mary Janet. RICHARD CLAYPOOL Good-natured Dick Has a presidential air. This talent he has Is really quite rare. JOYCE COCKINNG Tall, stately Joyce Enjoys a good chat. She'll talk about anything- Of this or of that. DELOlRES OOLBY She's quite a gal We've heard it said. Her goal in life Is to be wed. DARLENE DIEKMAN A cute little chick With lots of class, Wherever she goes, She's sure to pass. MARLENE DREYER Her heart is always Young and gayg She's happy throughout every day. FRAN EMMERJINCH Her inner quality That many admire Is to be good-willed- That's her greatest desire. MARILEE FISHER Peplpy, witty, Full of fun. Give her work, And it gets done.
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