McHenry High School - Spectrum Yearbook (McHenry, ND)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of 1949, of the McHenry High School, the city of McHenry, in the county of Foster, the state of North Dakota, the United States, the continent of North America, the Western Hemisphere, and the Universe, being of unsound, disarranged mind, lacking in memory, swelled with understanding, full of conceit and wisdom, and broken down by the rising inflation, do make our last will and testament in the manner and form about to be related. To the Freshmen, we hereby will Superintendent Smith To the Sophomores, we hereby will our first date. To the Juniors, we hereby will our straight 'A's'. I, Melvin Midgley, do will and bequeath my fTonil curled hair to Mr. Billigmeier. I, Perry Thompson, do will and bequeath my freckles to Doreen Hoyt. I, Donald Borlaug, do will and bequeath my condecending attitude to Carol Brown. I, Gladys Grafsgaard, do will and bequeath my teaching position in the Primary room to Joan McNeese. I, Perry Thompson, do will and bequeath my job as Secretary to Marlin Erickson. I, Donald Borlaug, do will and bequeath my typing abilities to Leonard Derr. I, Gladys Grafsgaard, do will and bequeath my ability to get to school on time to Doreen Hoyt. I, Betty Baker, do will and bequeath my dancing ability to Dale Ehlers. I, Melvin Midgley, do will and bequeath my calmness to Irene Hoffman. I, Perry Thompson, do will and bequeath Doris to any man who gets there first. I, Donald Borlaug, do will and bequeath my green cords to Mr. Billigmeier. I, Gladys Grafsgaard, do will and bequeath my boy friend Herbert to any girl who wants him. I, Betty Baker, do will and bequeath my school sweater to Maxine Conant. ikilllkllvlvk AIN'T IT THE TRUTH? NAME: Melvin Midgley COURSE: Trying to get an education. ASSIGNMENT: Study Schedule 8:00-Alarm goes off. 8:05-Rolls over in bed. 8:10-Father's call lrolls toward the edge of bed., 8:15-Father's last call frolls out., 8:20-All dressed, eats breakfast. 8:30-Sits down to milk. 8:45-Through milking lforgets to get up., 8:55-Starts peddling milk. 9:15-Starts for school Qlate as usual.j 9:20-Goes to Algebra. 9:50-1:30-Reads sports page. 12: 10-Goes to Pool Room. 1:05-Back at school, but he left his mind and heart at pool room. 3: 10-On time for Basketball practice. 5:30-Goes home to do chores. 8:00-Getting ready to go to Bordulac--tis the call of the Wolf! 9:00-Arrives at Wolf's house, knocks at door, calls Wolf! Wolf! 2'30-Home in bed. 2:31-Sound asleep. ll

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BETTY L. BAKER 'Pub' Some think the world was made for fun and frolic and so do I. Basketball 1,Z,3,43 Student Council 4- Spectrum Staff Willie's Week-end 4g GLADYS GRAFSGAARD Angelpuss Let no man accost me unless he has a mighty reason. Lake Washington lg McHenry High Z,3,4, Basketball 1,Z,3,4: Student Council Spec Staff 4: Spectrum Staff 4: DONALD A. BORLAUG 'Duck' Well now, t--t--teacher, just what do you mean? McHenry High l,2,4g Oak Grove Seminary Z,3g Spec Staff 4: Spectrum Staff 4: Wil1ie's Week-end. 43 MELVIN L. MIDGLEY 'Midge' I hurry not, neither do l worry. Basketball l,Z.3,4i Student Council 3,41 President of StudentAssociation 4: M.C. for Tournament Banquet 4: Wil1ie's Week-end 42 PERRY E. THOMPSON 'Pet' A man who does his own thinking, needs but little advice. Basketball l,Z,3,4: Student Council 4: Secretary of Student Association 4: Spectrum Staff 4: Clan of 1949

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SENIOR HISTORY We, the Class of 1949, began our school days on a bright autumn day in September, l937. An inspection of our class roll of that group of first graders revealed such names as Bernice Messner, Norvel Ethen, Beverly Klien, Harold Johanson, Shirley Sheen, Bill Bartlett, Betty Wixom, Palmer Hayden, Mary Hoggarth, Elaine Hoggarth, Albert Ferris, Lorrain Hickman, La Donna Smith, Clarice Haakinson, Helen Smith, Gordon Ronholm, Melvin Midgley, Perry Thompson, and Betty Baker. Our class, as the records show, was not one lacking in intelligence, or in the ability to create mischief. Very early in our school days there began the journeys to the Superintendent's office to be reprimanded for some deed or other which was frowned upon by the teacher. Our second year was truly an eventful one. It was the year of the big fire'. Despite the help of neighboring fire departments, our school building was burned to the ground, starting about 9:00 o'clock on a November evening. But we students, happy at the thought of an extended vacation, sadly learned that emergency classrooms were being set up. The second story of the fire hall was cleared, and an old-fashioned coal heater was set up in the front of the room. Long bench-type desks were improvised, and the seventh and eighth grades convened, and there Mr. Ted Oberg reigned. The old movie theatre, long idle, was cleared of its cobwebs and musty age, and the upper-classmen sought to continue their education. The Congregational Church Know the Lutheran Church Parlorsl served as a classroom for the Intermediate Grades. The Prirnary Grades held school in the Old Lutheran Church Parlors lsince destroyed by the 1943 tornado., Those were trying years for the Principal, Mr. Hildur Braa, and his staff. Textbooks of ancient vintage were supplied by neighboring schools, gathered from their storerooms. But great were these years for we McHenry students. With school spread over the town, control was difficult, and we students left no trick untried to reap a harvest of fun. Great must have been the worries of Miss Johnson, our teacher, for we recall scenes of students jumping out the windows, Melvin Midgley chasing his teacher about the room, and oh! those eraser fights! During those difficult years ffor the teachers we meanl the community was active in replacing our school with a structure equal to the finest in the state. In 1942, our new building was completed and fully equipped with the latest teach- ing equipment. We were in our sixth year and oh! the thrill of that year in our new surroundings shall ever remain vivid in our patterns of memories. The class roll of our sixth grade read as follows: Melvin Midgley, Mae Hoyt, Albert Ferris, Calvin Greatsinger, Clinton Anson, Perry Thompson, Mary Hoggarth, and Betty Baker. The roll call at the Eighth Grade Graduation revealed that of the nineteen who entered eight years before, only seven remained. They were Melvin Midgley, Don Borlaug. Perry Thompson, Mae Hoyt, Betty Baker, and Betty Gilbertson. Our entire group appeared the next year to take our place as Freshmen, and to our class roll must be added Alvina Bergstad. The most vivid memory of that year was our initiation. The girls dressed as boys, and the boys as girls, paraded before our classmates for a day, and it is only now that we are able to see the humor of the upper-classmen on that day, compelling us to sit in the middle of Main Street and wash each other's feet with a tooth brush. fl 12