Lester Prairie High School - Prairiette Yearbook (Lester Prairie, MN)

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SCHEDULE FOR THE 1940 BASEBALL SEASON April 24, Central 1 -at- Lester 12 April 26, Hutch 0 -at- Hutch - Lester 30 May 3, Glencoe 0 -at- Glencoe - Lester 12 May 8, Hutch 1 -at- Lester 15 May 10, Glencoe ? -at- Lester? May 16, Central ? -at- Central ? May 18, St. Paul Johnson -at- St. Cloud 'Z DISTRICT TOURNAMENT AT OLIVIA May, 25 ?'??????? fEDITOR'S NOTEJ- As you can see by the first four games of the 1940 season the Les- ter High team has established a record score in baseball history, defeating Hutchinson 30 to 0. In the first four games Lester has rolled up 7 6 points to its opponents 2, this is more of a foot- ball score than baseball. If the team keeps up this impressive record, a record score of total points will be established in Lester High that will give all future teams something to strive for. ,Z f o A : Es J YOQQ- OYWX

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1940 BASEBALL TEAM TOP ROW- Coach Falk, Harold Schneider, Captain Howard W roge, Orval Birkholz, Mana- ger Harold Lemke, Gordon Herman, and Bruce Birkholz. BOTTOM ROW- Orland Kruschke, William Ernst, Wayne Gutzman, Ken Norman, Harry Elliott, and Raymond Radtke. Agmar Spleiss was absent when the picture was taken. Interest in baseball as well as basketball and football has increased in the past several years with several good teams. Some of the best teams Lester High has ever had were the teams of '38 and '39, The '38 team was run nerup in the district tournament held at Olivia, Olivia being the victors. It will be remembered this was the same Olivia High that Lester beat in the finals of the basketball tourney . The Olivia team was out for revenge in this tourna- ment and could not be denied the victory they worked for. In 1939 atournament was held again. The first tournament was postponed because ol raing it was postponed until Memorial Day and Lester High really went to town . Lester took their first two games by easy margins over Buffalo Lake and Hector. The final game was with Bird Island, but they did not prove a worthy foe to the oncoming slaught of the Lester High team. Lester won handrunning 14 to 0. With all members of the squad returning except: Eldor Spleiss, Ardin Gutzman, and Os- car Rolf, prospects for another good team are very bright.

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ALUMNI DIRECTORY 1914 M YRA PETERSON Dead ' ELSA SCHULTZ Married California 1915 CLIFFORD BEISE Implement Business Lester Prairie, Minnesota ZENA GERBER Mrs- Philip Thompson Omaha, Nebraska MABEL HENEMAN Mrs. John Hedquist Minneapolis, Minnesota 1916 CLARENCE SCHULTZ President of the Midwest Film Exchange and Commonwealth Theatres, Inc. Kansas City, Missouri 1917 ROLAND PETERSON Teacher Dunwoody Institute Minneapolis. Minnesota MARTIN SCHAUMBURG Dead LORENA SCI-IMALZ Mrs. Harry Campbell Minneapolis, Minnesota LOUISE GENNRICH Mrs. Robert Lorence Lester Prairie, Minnesota Ti.-00-tl 1918 VERA KOLBE Mrs. Victor Erickson Minneapolis, Minnesota MELDA SCHOEPPLER Mrs. Orrin McNeil Long Prairie, Minnesota i-b-r-q- 1919 DOROTHY MAGAW Dietician St. Paul, Minnesota ALVIN GENNRICH Bakery Confectionery Lester Prairie, Minnesota WALLACE PETERSON U. S. Postal Service Minneapolis, Minnesota .1 001-Q..- 1920 LILLIAN SCHOEPPLER Mrs. Walter Dobratz New Germany, Minnesota .-.-.001-.--. 1921 ROSE WEISE Mrs. Fred Baumann Lester Prairie, Minnesota 00i....i 1922 ROSELLA MAETZOLD Mrs- Loren Perkins Minneapolis, Minnesota SYDNEY MAGAW Pastor Tippecanoe City, Ohio T,-.,o0 .... 1923 IRA SCHOEPPLER Farmhand Biscay, Minnesota M NRVIN EMME Electrician Minneapolis, Minnesota MINNIE WEISE Mrs. Herbert Lemke Lester Prairie, Minnesota 1924 GLADYS MILBRATH Bookkeeper Weise Sz Kuhlmann Lester Prairie, Minnesota MARVIN MAETZOLD Columbia Pictures Minneapolis, Minnesota LEROY SCHMALZ Postmaster Lester Prairie, Minnesota IDA SCHULTZ Mrs. Gerald Wagers Eau Claire, Wisconsin ALONA SCHULTZ Mrs. Herbert Miller Hopkins, Minnesota AGNES HUSER Mrs. Oscar Schrupp Norwood, Minnesota 1925 HERBERT MILLER Pure Oil Dealer Hopkins, Minnesota BERTHA MUELLER Teacher Waseca, Minnesota 1926 MILDRED BASEL U. S. Postal Employee Lester Prairie, Minnesota EDYTHE GEE Mrs. Harry Huser Plato, Minnesota LOIS PACKER Mrs. Ed. Peterson St. Paul, Minnesota LEONA MILLER Housework Minneapolis, Minnesota LILLIAN STAPEL Teaching Brownton, Minnesota ARTHUR SPLEISS New York Co. Drug Salesman Los Angeles, California