Kenyon High School - Grey Gander Yearbook (Kenyon, MN)

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THE GREY GANDER p Z p p 15 x P' Jn.. ,. Charlotte 0verholt-- Honor Pupil. , Philomathian, Glee Club, Pickles, Latin Club, Class Play, Staff of Grey Gander, As charms are nonsense, So nonsense is a charm. Frances Moseson- Delphian, Gypsy Rover, Pickles, Glee Club, Latin Club, Staff of Grey Gander, Declamatory, Class Play. Smile and the world smiles with you, weep and you aren't related to Fran- ces. Edna Markuson- President of Philomathian, Orchestra, Glee Club, Pickles, Gypsy Rover, Class Play. Joyous and eager she is for every- thing. Charlotte Jacobson- Honor Pupil. Philomathian, President of Senior Class Bowman. Sou'th Dak., Basketball'24-'25- '26-'27, Glee Club, Musical Contest, Grey Gander staff. Her scholarship is high- . . S0 is our estimate of her. Arden Foss- Delphian, Vice-president '26-'27, Stop Thief, Glee Club, Pickles, Yell Lead- er, Class Play. I like to work-it fascinates me, I can sit and look at it for hours. l 4.

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TI1flr.9REY CQANPERA. I V ,na ,vff 2 'C Evangeline Elstad- Delphian, Glee Club, Orchestra. ries. Pearl Bodeman- Delphian, Orchestra, Deacon Dubbs,' Gypsy Rover, Glee Club, Latin Club, Class Play. A dandy good friend if you are lucky enough to know her. Allan Finseth- Delphian, Football '26, Winner of Sub- district Declamatory contest '27, '4Pick- les, Stop Thief, Latin Club, Dea- con Dubbs, Class Play. All good men die young--I feel sickf Mae Egland- Delphian. A hearty laugh stimulates a good appe- tite. Adolph Rurnpho- Delphian, Football '26, Basketball '25- '26, Glee Club, Pickles V Chow me girls, I'm full of fun. The quiet kind who's nature never Wor- 7 I

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16 TITUQGREY QANQER ,W L 0115155 1-Iiainrg Twelve years ago when the first grade received its usual fall quota of young recruits to be trained for the educational army, there was no school building in Kenyon. Do you remember? After a heated campaign, School District No. 91 Cthat is our number, only we never think of it as such,J decided to vote bonds for a new school building and to tear down the old structure or sell part of it fthe present Commercial Hotel is partj and to build a modern schoolhouse which would conform to state requirements. The wrecking process began in the spring of 1915, and on March 17, 1916, the new building was dedicated. So in the fall of 1915 our young feet began to tread the stony path of learning under Miss Loge's kind guidance in the Baptist church. That was an exciting time not only for us but for all the grades and the High School, who held school in several churches and halls. Of the present class only ten have traveled together since that very first enrollment through these twelve years and these ten are: Lucille Berg, Pearl Bodeman, Ardelle Borlaug, Sylvia Cole, Alice Hanson, Hans Hjermstad, Loretta Kolstad, Margaret Leland, Obert Litsheim and Char- lotte Overholt. We are the first class to be graduated which has gone its twelve years in the new schoolhouse. Our beginnings were modest. No great newspaper publicity was ours. only such items as Arden Foss has had an attack of tonsilitis, or Lucille Berg was absent from the first grade on account of illness, or that our teacher, Miss Loge, was one of the teachers to be entertained at the Kober- stein home, found their way into the press. But we must have wielded some unseen influence for during our first year, Kenyon had one of its best basketball team. The line-up was Gates, Leland, Held, Gunderson and Fenne. Then how could the building have been more auspiciously dedicated than with a class like ours to form the cornerstone. March 17, 1916, was one of the greatest days in its history.The auditorium was packed with an audience which had come from town and country to hear a program of speeches and music. Visitors filed through the building so well equip-- ped for training young citizens like ourselves. During the second year of school we had Miss Laura Griffith as teacher. From the school notes of that period we gathered the information that Loretta Kolstad spelled down the room, that we had bought books for a small library of our own, that we had a lovely joint Christmas party with the first grade with a program and games and two little trees. We also learned to tell time by making little clocks with movable hands. We did some original free hand cutting of Dutch posters. Sylvia and Hans had perfect attendance for the entire school year.