Maple Leaf Collegiate Institute - Yearbook (Morden, Manitoba Canada)

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Continuation—GRADE VII ELLA McKLOSKEY’S hair are long blonde and curly; She comes ten to nine, (we call that early!) GAIL McNAUGHTON goes to school in Morden, She finds her hobbies name is Gordon. EDDIE NEUFELD likes to talk, Teacher would like him to take a walk. EVELYN PENNER has a good store of Knowledge, At this rate she will be smart in college. ALVIN PETKAU is famed for his pock¬ et; That’s where the firecracker went off like a rocket. EMILIE RIEDIGER likes her books tis true, But if there’s a window, she’ll gladly look through. EVELYN SONTAG sits in a twin desk, We hope she doesn’t copy from the rest. HUGH STEVENSON is often called “Steamy;” He gets in trouble when he’s too dreamy. CHARLENE TASKER is our artistic lass; Her only ambition is to pass. KEN URE likes bugs and such, But he doesn’t like school very much. CHRISTINA VOTH is very small, It seems she can’t hold her brains up at all! JEAN WALKOF enjoys going to school; She certainly “ain’t nobody’s fool!” GAYLE WEIDL at the piano is very handy; In spelling she beats us all dandy. LOIS WEIDL has a lovely voice; We’re sure it will attract the man of her choice. BERT WIEBE is an unusual boy; The smiles of girls give him no joy. HELEN WIEBE is the girl with short brown hair; Of homework she too gets her share. HOWARD WIEBE nicknamed “Swang;” His brain never clicks but he talks with a bang! MARGIE WIEBE is an important factor, When it comes to drawing a tractor. PETER WOLFE likes girls fat, short, or lazy; He only says he doesn’t want them crazy. GORDON YOUNG has a lot of pride, But you should see him with a girl by his side! GRADE VIII—Continued YVONNE KENDALL’S ambition is to be a nurse, If she looks after me, I’ll likely get worse. HARRY KROEKER would sing to the sound of the bands, But musn’t show his dishpan hands. JACK MATTHISEN, who would be a civil engineer, Had better get rid of his cauliflower ear. DONALD NAGAZINA would show us the way to the farm, Would plant new trees and keep them from harm. MARTHA PENNER some telephone errors would cure, And know all the numbers, that’s for sure. HENRY PLETT would be a red-coated Mountie, Had better move faster or lose the bounty. MARY REIMER will smile and Mary will laugh, Will be a good secretary right on your staff. MAVIS ROTHENBERGER is small, looks not like a fighter, And makes less noise than her typewrit¬ er. GARRY SANDERCOCK is tall and slim and lean, On the farm will keep fields and gard¬ ens clean. TINA SHAPANSKY will nurse along with the bunch, And will always be ready to make the lunch. DONNIE SKUBOvTOUS, two ambitions has he, In summer the farm, in winter the League. ROSALINE VOTH, her pink kerchief you note, Will be typing letters before she can vote. GEORGE YOUNG gives the football another for luck, Will drive us around in his big truck. FREDA ZILKEY ushers us up and down, Will own the best picture show in town. GORDON ZORN is happy, with never a kick, Should work well on that joy stick.

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tyiade Seven GARRY BLIJHM is a very blonde lad, Of school work enough he’s had. The antics of JACQUELINE BLUHM, Brighten a certain corner of the room. MARILYN BORN will easily pass this term, Because she reads like a book worm. JAMES BUHR. A quiet boy is our friend James; He’s not very fussy when it comes to “dames.” RUTHIE BUHR keeps saying “Go Blow, We’re beginning to think she’s a schmoe. BILL CHAPMAN is bad as the dickens, He really deserves a couple of lickens. MARGRET CUMMINGS likes catching a fellow’s eye, Tho’ such a report she will firmly deny. GRACE DEBARR. Grace, Grace, dressed in lace, }Vhere did she get her intelligent face? ELVIN DYCK is the janitor’s son; He always has his homework done. BILLIE FRIESEN lives out of town, The class agree he is a clown. DAVID GIESBRECHT comes in at a quarter past nine, He can’t have learned to tell the time. LYDIA GIESBRECHT has come from Oliver; We hope her pals will follow her. When JIMMIE GRAHAM passes a girl he winks, But of their names he never thinks. Out of the window FRANK HINK is gazing, He always gets marks but that is amaz¬ ing. GARY HOSEA is a boy of might; For good marks he’ll put up a fight. FRIEDA KLASSEN is a girl of charm, She can’t do anybody harm. DOROTHY KUHL is a sweet girl, quiet and shy, We’ve never known her to grumble and sigh. DARLENE LECIINER is tall and blonde, Of music she is very fond. ELFRIEDA LOEWEN finds homework a bore, But teacher gives it to her galore.

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The death of 14 year old Willie Bergen on March 5, 1952, shocked many friends in the dist¬ rict, particularly a wide circle of school mates. Willie was born on July 5, 1938. While still an infant he came to Morden from Myrtle, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac I. Bergen. He spent all his school life at Morden, at¬ tending the Maple Leaf school, where he was very popular with his school mates. Willie leaves to mourn his early death, the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Bergen, a brother, Isaac, and three sisters, Elvira, Annie and Helen, his former classmates, and many others to whose hearts he had endeared himself.