Mankato High School - Otaknam Yearbook (Mankato, MN)

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. 4 fscrffw fr A Jia Eucnta Occzunncdl September began with its traditional initiations. The first lyceum program of the year was a presentation by Billy King, magician. Late in September the student body became serious with apprehension of a threatened National Guard call. A program of German songs and stories was presented on September 16 by Otto Schadt, physician, singer, and lecturer. Mankato's fourteenth Home- coming ceremonies on Friday, September 27, honored the class of 1915. Twenty-one high school journalists attended the Minnesota State High School Press Convention at Hibbing on October 18 and 19. October 31 Captain Frank Crilley of the United States Navy told of the adventures of a deep sea diver. An illustrated lecture on the Eskimos of the Far North was given on November 7 by Richard Finnie, an Arctic explorer. A varied musical assembly was presented by Eileen Hutton and Wilfred Cushing on November 26. The final assembly for the season was the Story of Flight by Captain Corley P. McDarment of the United State Army Air Corps.. Climaxing the fall activities was the junior class play, Going Places, a three-act comedy written by Glen Hughes. Q-fha Clllfintcn Sa-zctaon Five hundred people attended the annual Senior Carnival on December 6. Twelve Mankato High School-delegates attended the District 5 Future Farmers of America rally, Saturday, December 14. Mrs. Milton Mason was the guest speaker at the Christmas assembly on December 20. On January 21 Malcolm Rosholt, foreign correspondent in China, lectured on the Far Eastern crisis. At Madison, South Dakota, on Saturday, February 1, the debate squad won the Tri-state Championship trophy. Raymond E. Hughes addressed the assembly on Friday, February 7, at the basketball lettermen's reunion. Robert Rieke and James Bowen presided as principal and attendance officer on Student Day, February 12. Fifteen students participated in a speech festival at St. James on February 22. Albert Lea was host to the Big Nine Speech Festival on March 1. Twenty-live declaimers and debaters attended the festival. Cliccame the Spnincj Lelawala, an operetta written by Charles Wakefield Cadman, was pre- sented on March 5 and 6. At Worthington, on -Monday, March' 10, the debate team won the regional debate championship. Donald Scott-Morrison, a concert pianist, presented a conversational recital at an assembly on Wednesday, March 19. The work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was described by Sam Grathwell on March 25. The debate squad moved into the state Hnals against West High School of Minneapolis by defeating New Ulm and Stillwater in inter-regional debates. Tam Hughes, Robert Rieke, and Richard Pass, ac' companied by Mr. Alois Kiefer, the debate coach, represented Mankato at the National Forensic League speech tournament at Lexington, Kentucky, during the week of April 27. The senior class play, What a Life, written by Clif- ford Goldsmith, was presented on Thursday and Friday, May 15 and 16. Col- ored pictures of Australia and New Guinea were shown by Stanley Osborne, an Australian born explorer. The final lyceum program for the year was a concert by the Bentley Trio, international marimba-xylophone concert artists, on April 30. On May 23 the junior class entertained the senior class at the annual junior-senior prom.

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Prlflf. QDCUJ SCl LC5C7Q GPEHA On Tuesday, September 3, 1940, six hundred and sixty-one students en- rolled in the Mankato Senior High School, breaking all previous attendance records. There were two hundred and twenty-eight sohomores, one hundred and ninety-one juniors, two hundred and twenty-seven seniors, seven irregulars, live post graduates, and three specials. Arriving ten minutes ahead of time, students consoled each other on their common misfortune. The same six hundred and sixty-one students crowded toward the bulletin board to discover Assembly at 8:30. When all were seated in assembly, Kris stepped to the front and went through the regular routine: keep off the grass, go up the UP stairs, don't run in the halls and positively no sliding down the railings. From these instructions the students made their way to first hour classes, That is, everyone except one hundred and ten sophomores and new students who got lost in the rush. Second hour was spent twiddling thumbs, taking notes, and looking at the good-looking boy in the third row, second seat from the window. A ravenous feeling overcame the third hour classes, and teachers found themselves conducting a class of restless students, each keeping one eye on the clock. g After an hour and twenty minutes pause for refreshments, students returned to fourth hour class. A fourth, fifth, and sixth hour passed. A loud ringing bell, the rush of feet, the banging of lockers-and the building is deserted. There were baffled sophomores who would make the loudest noise at the foot- ball games, cocky juniors who knew what was wrong with the world and how to reform it, and sophisticated seniors who were always ready to have a good time. In the minds of all there lurked the horror of the other one thousand eighty hours left for attending school. '