La Farge High School - Memories Yearbook (La Farge, WI)

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333232231956 Memoreis .fa 914, 01 67 I J Nothing fhappened today. Too cold outside. 14 Nine week's tests begin. - 1Still cold! 'Game tonight with DeSoto. We won 15 Basketball boys attend State Tournament games 56-66. Quite a discussion in Social Problems. Lost those so-called words someplace. I'm speechless! Game with Soldiers Grove. We won 90-68. Homecoming dance after game. Who cares if it is Monday? Everyone is in a wonderful mood. Game with Wauzeka. We lost. Quite a few angry people around. Sad faces around school today. No one is say- ing anything. The name still lingers, Silent Sam . 'Game with West Lima. Guess who won? Na- turally, we did. St..dents in slightly better mood today. . 3' iie Vl.Lil Senoca'he1'e. We won again. l b1'L.u. y, 1956- We ve ilnally reached the shortest month of the year! Ground Hog's Day. No game tonight. Monday again! Everyone went to 'game at Viola, We won. Everyone worn out today. What's wrong, Verna, still too much party?'?? Everyone pretty well rested up. Game with Gays Mills. We won as usual. Oh, no, not again! Student Council has Valentine Party. Did some oi' the 'boys get some strange valentines. We beat Hillsboro again. Game with Viroqua ttherej. Big rest between games. Game with Readstown. We won. First night of tournament, La Farge did:n't play. Restinfg up for tournament. Ditto. We beat De Soto 85 to 68. NVhat a game. We beat Soldiers Grove 70-68 in an overtime. We're sub-district champs! We beat Blue River 91-72 to win the District Championship. Everyone weary from tournament, No basketball tonight. Seems funny. Game with Soldiers Grove grades. All the boys are keeping themselves concealed. Leap Year Day. yn know. M irch, 1956- ' Everyone getting excited over Cuba City game. Cuba City beat us 57-52 at Fennimore. ' All-Star game here. FFA dance afterwards. Short Social Problems class. Starting to practice for forensics. League Forensic Meet at Viola. We received nine A's out of eleven entrants. Co-op meeting. Aptitude tests given to Seniors. Another 'week finished. Some of us still snowed in after Saturday's storm. Cold outside. Notlhing much happened. in Madison. 16 vBoys still at tourney. Day seems terribliy long. 19 Gh, no, Mon-day. Oh well, C'est la vie . 20 Grade basketball tournament. 21 Some of the Seniors visit LaCrosse State College. 22 Seniors visit Platteville College. Some of the boys seemed to like their guide. 23 Forensics students having last practice before going to La Crosse. 26 Report cards here again. Long faces. 27 Volleyball tournament at De Soto. We didn't do anything. 27 Try-outs for Senior class play. 29 It iwas the third day of a hard snow. 30 No school-Good Friday. April, 1956- 2-6--Easter vacation. 9 Back to shcool. We're ready for another vaca- tion. 10 Just another day. 11 Lots of kids at free show at theatre, 12 Sure is nice and springy today. 13 Friday the 13th again, Seniors ihave another class meeting. 14 State Forensic -Contest at Madison. Martha Har- ris and Larry Shumate both received A's. Sen- iors, of course. Prom tonight. Darlene Miller and Charles Hysel, Kinrg and Queen. 16 Snowed today. You'd never know it was the mid- dle of spring. So many students saw the sun come up Sunday morning, 17 F'renc'h students get a treat from Mrs. Oaklief -a test! Real cold today. 18 Seniors hard at work on class play?? 19 Mr. Goss from tfhe Vernon County Normal came to talk to the students interested in going to school there next year. 20 Ball game with West Lima. We lost 2-1. Ath- letic Banquet. 23 Several 'students seen at the show Saturday night. Rod was so scared that he was almost sitting in iGene's lap. 24 Everyone getting their chest x-rayed. Ball game with Viola. We won 2-1. Movie during noon- hour. Seniors had play practice tonight. 25 All Seniors go to Gays Mills for Career Day. Girls are going to join the WAVES and t'he boys are going to join the Navy! 26 Had flre drill this morning. Boys go to Tomah for track. 27 Ball game with Readstown. 30 Visiting day at Vernon County Normal. May, 1956- 1 Game with Gays. 2 We haven't got far to go! 4 Ball game with Soldiers Grove. Rural visiting day. 9 Student Council has Farewell party for Seniors. 11 Class Play. League track meet, 19 Baccalaureate. 22 Senior Banquet. 24 Graduation.

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22222222 1956 Memoreis 55555 QClj6'l'LClCl'l September-1955 ' 11 5 Faculty meeting. 14 6 Freshman register. 15 7 Upper classmen register. 8 School begins once more! 16 9 Election of class oflifcers. 12 Back to the old routine. 17 13 Just learning the teachers' names. 18 14 Lost: two students, reason: new schedule. 21 15 Students getting tired of school. 22 16 Mr. Oak1ief's birUhday. 19 Class rings arrive. 23 20 Baseball game with West Lima. We won 2 to 1! 24 21 Dick Steinmetz late for Social Problems class. 25 22 Baseball game with Viola. We won 11 to 2. 28 23 School is out-Vernon County Fair. 26 Blue Monday. 29 27 School p'ictures taken. Everyone looks real nice. Baseball game with Readstown. We won 3 to 2. 30 28 Big problem in Social Problems. 29 Home Eic. girls start textile painting. 30 Schools out! Horse and Colt Show. October, 1955- ' 3 The fun is over. Back to school. 4 Baseball game with Seneca. We won 9 to 5. 5 The band goes to Richland Center to watch the Navy Band play, Wonder 'why some of the girls wanted t0 go back that night again'?'?? 6 Baseball game with Wauzeka.iA tie, 3 to 3. T Fre-s'himan Initiation! Such funny looking people. 12 10 The Freshmen look mu-ch better today. 13 11 Senior pictures are taken. 14 12 Seniors recovering from the day before. 15 13 A very boring day. 14 Seniors and Freshmen play the Juniors and Sophomores in a football game. fSeniors and 16 Freshmen win.J 17 Fire drill. Nice day for it for a change. 19 18 No excitement. 20 19 Magazine sales start for the Juniors. 20 School pictures arrive. 21 21 Sectional Cross County Meet here. Rod Kennedy came in first. ' 22 24 Three new students begin school here. The 23 Morris sisters. Could start a vocal trio. 26 25 Warning to students-teachers in a bad mood! 26 Why -dfoes Karlene knock. at the door before en- tering to sell 'hot lunch tickets? 27 Everyone reviewing for nine weeks' tests. 28 VVe chose our new basketball cheerleaders for the season. 31 Darlene Jensen is still tired after a big weekend. 5 November, 1 9 5 5- 1 Another month gone. .Seven more to go! 2 Hooray! Only a half day of school. 9 3 Teacher's Convention, 3 Teachers' Convention. 10 4 Teachers' Convention. 7 Open House. Wonder if the parents learned any- 11 thing? - 12 8 Dress rehearsal for the one-act play. 13 9 Drama contest. 10 Guess what? I'm lost for words. Kick-Off Party for basketball season. Everyone wears purple and white. Why does everyone look so tired on Monday? First basketball game, Played Cazenovia. We start t'he season right by winning. Everyone tired b-ut glowing after last night's victory. Didn't anybody do anything today.? How we love Fridays! Where did everyone go this weekend? Basketball game with Hillsboro. Ask Mrs. Dun- ham who won. We cin all go out tonight-no school tomorrow. What fun. with Cashton. We won. Thanksgiving day. No school-game Everyoync 'happy to be back after short vaca- tion??? Game with Dc Soto. We won of course. Our boys sure can play basketball. Wednc5day4and no chemistry. December, 1955-- Winter will be 'here soon. 4Biasketball game with Soldiers Grove. We won. Many Seniors receive their pictures. Many com- ments heard, good and bad. Basketball game lwith Wauzeka. We won. 'Trouble in the 5th hour study hall. 'School is let out for the free show at the Mars Theatre. Basketball game with West Lima. For details, consult Ruth Rush. No news-Monday again. 'Basketball game with Seneca. We won of course. Faculty and School Board dinner. Larry Shumate kills time in Eniglish class with -a book report fand what a reportl . . . avoids having a test. Return party for the Sophomore. Dixie has birthday party. Nothing new today. No game tonight, All otfher schools having va- cation, I guess. Did anyone see a red womans purse lying around? It is now ofiitially winter. Had Clirllstinas party and program. .school's out! to January 3-Christmas vacation fanuary, 195 6- Starting our Hrst day of school in 1956. Every- one is wearing something new. Basketball practice at Viroqua. Movie during noon-hour. Movie still going on at noon. More fun in t'he Home Elc. room, though. Eh, Berlie? Basketball game with Viola, We won. Junior party atfer game. Verna Nale on first five for Snowflake Ski Queen. Everyone studying frantically for semester testis! Still studying. What happened to you Berlie? Semester tests. What an unlucky day to have Semester tests. Game with Readstown. We won 54-45. Lots of La Farge kids at Spook Show in Viroqua.

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292532551956 Memories X raizfnafics Front Row: Miss Bisfhop, K. Steinmetz, B. Campbell, L. Shumate, S. Melvin, R, Kennedy, B. Harris Second Row: J. Thompson, D. Marshall, A. Ernst, J- Sfi1Hf0l'd, M- Smith. D. Harris. N. Heisel. The Dramatics Clu'b this year presented one- act play entitled, The Breaking of the Calm . The cast ga'-e an excellent performance winning an A rating at the league contest at West Lima. This play took place on the poop deck of a sailing vessel-one evening during a calm. It was a strangly quiet calm which had lasted many days. The play revolved around the crew's struggle for survival witlhout food or water. The cast enjoyed putting on this play under the able direction of Miss Bishop. The cast consisted of the following: The Captain Captain's Wife The First Mate T.he Second Mate The Lascan Boy The Chinaman Larry Shumate Sihelby Melvin Bill Harris Berlie Campbell Kent Steinmetz Rod Kennedy