McHenry High School - Spectrum Yearbook (McHenry, ND)

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Class Prophecy 1958 Tonlght we embark upon a future of whlch each 1nd1v1dual of the class of 1958 Wlll dlrect h1s own I prophesy accordlngly that twenty years from now ln 1978 we should flnd Dennls Aaker and Davld Graham hobnobblng over a couple glasses of mllkl After a few mlnutes Cforty f1ve to be exactj Dennls s better Judgment w1ns over the temptatlon of another glass of the same I d better beat lt home or the Toppy w1ll murder me Davld perhaps you should h1t the well worn trall too Ten mlnutes later Dennls 1S greeted lovlngly by hls Sweet llttle wlfe Where have you been? You cad' I m sorry Prlncess but I met w1th one of my old school chums you must remember Davld Graham? Well he 1S manager of Dandy Dodge Sales Company now and handllng a thr1v1ng buslness I started telllng h1m about my success ln the offlce then he started telllng me about h1s busrness g1v1ng me polnters on good car buys and well that lS Dennlsl ' ' You d1dn't' Well yeah I d1d thlnk th1S one to be an especlally good buy so I well the payments Wlll be awfully easy to make Perhaps we should swltch from th1s scene of domestlc bllss to see how Robert Bartlett has fared ln thls cruel world We flnd Robert speedlng down Hlghway 81 ln h1S shlny black Hlghway Patrol car He 1S very lntently pursulng a beautlful blonde 1n a wh1te Cadlllac convertlble Better pull over to the slde MISS I m afrald I ll have to arrest you for speedlng and pas slng through two red llghts that 15 unless you would allow me to escort you to dlnner tonlght Gorgeous Robert always was a flrm bellever ln dolng hls duty Back now to McHenry and we flnd Davld Iohnson looklng very d1gn1f1ed from h1s posltlon ln the pulplt of the new church that was bullt only a few years ago Say who lS that snorlng ln the farthest pew? The face looks awfully famlllar you don t suppose lt could be walt a mlnute Y s' It 1S' Larry Pewe The years haven t dlmmed that colffure very much After llstenlng to Davld s very 1nsp1r1ng sermon I flnd that Larry has become a promlnent veterlnarlan Well Larry when ever any of my cows should feel under the weather I'll remember you Paylng a v1s1t to the school whlch I so happlly left ln 1958 but later de veloped a keen nostalgla for I flnd Larry Lynne leadlng h1s lambs through the per 1lous paths of learnlng Durlng the course of our conversatlon he tells me he has had hls B A degree for a number of years and has been teachlng ln M H S for three years v 1 1 . . -. ., . . . ' HI ' . I I ' - . - I u . , , . . . . . . . . ,, 1 ll , . Ill ' ' 1 1 1 ' ' ll ll . 1 , . --1-- ..... ' 1--H 1 n ' - n ......... . ,, . . . . .. 1 1 ' ll , - . . . . . . H . . I . . , . , . . . . 1 1 ' ' ll , . . 0 1 . . . .. , Q I ....- . S . ..... . I . . . . ., . .. . 1 0 1 1 ' , . I .. I .. I I . . . . . .

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Class History We the Class of 1958 began our school days on a bright autumn day in September 1946 There were only two boys who started the first grade in McHenry school They were Robert Bartlett and Larry Pewe Leo Hoffman Joined the present class during the second semester of the first grade having moved here from St Paul Minnesota During our third grade of school the class neither increased nor decreased in mem bership At the end of the fourth grade Darwin Anderson and David Graham Joined the class making a membership of five The class of five remained the same until grade eight when Jackie Connen Joined the quintet for a couple of months September 1954 we started our freshman year with the addition of three new mem bers Our class now composed of Leo Hoffman Larry Pewe Robert Bartlett Darwin Anderson Roger Manz Larry Lynne Dennis Aaker Ervin Somerville and David Graham Our teachers this year were Supt Mr Haavlg, Principal Mr Rau and Mr Slemons Our sophomore year found only one new addition namely David Iohnson who came from Princeton Mlnnesota but four of the members were kicked out of school for play 1ng ball with erasers Enough saldll We during our sophmore year staged a play en Hannah Nordmark who replaced Mr Slemons In our Junior year we lost two of our members namely Darwin Anderson who went to Portland Oregon with his parents and Roger Manz who was needed at home Our faculty was completely new Mr Olson succeeded Mr Haavig as Superlntendent and Mr Plaagan replaced Mr Rau as coach and Principal High school music was introduced after several years of being inactlve both girls and boys havlng chorus The present year 1958 finds eight thorns and one rose Linda Short who deserted the Iaunlta school On November 15th we staged a play entitled Lucifer s Lodge with a cast of nine boys History made the ninth We also publlshed the annual yearbook which we can say will be filled with pictures We seniors motored to Jamestown on Ianuary 31 and had our pictures taken no doubt the photographers will have to install new equipment for the next year s class Washing cars pickups and what have you, was a task undertaken Saturday, May 17th to raise money for our senior tr1p We the seniors in lOOk1HQ back over the years can view our achievements with pride We shall not spend much time reminiscing as we have our unforseen future ahead therefore we raise our sights to larger and more worthy goals O I I . ' I I . I I o I a I - l I ' I I I I I I I . - ' I I I I I . I I l I D ' ' . , . ' ' ' ' , . 7 . ' . . . I . I ' ' Il ' ll - I I , I . ' ' - 1 l It - titled Father Be Calm, which to us was a howling success, and was directed by Miss 1 1 I c ' I I I I I I I ' I I I ' . . . , I 1 I ' -' I 1 ' ' Il ' I ll ' I D ' ' ll ll I , . I ' I l I I I I I . i . . . I

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I asked him if he remembered how we used to tease Leo Hoffman about? ? ? Then he told me of Leo's good fortune. Leo had been prospecting for uranium in the Klondike region of Alaska and whenever prospecting became too dull he pursued his hobby of making model airplanes. It seems that by sheer ingenuity, he de- veloped some sort of interballistic missile that would remain in orbit for 379 days, anyway, many irate housewives secured enough money to bribe Leo to send their hubbies up in this Hoffman Special. I guess he's a millionaire now, driving a pink Cadillac with two yellow wheels, two green wheels, and a red spare tire on the back. I discovered that Ervin Somerville has, also, done very well. He has become a successful business executive in New York. Lynne tells me that Ervin is a bit paunchy now, imagine that! I was also told that Ervin prefers blonde secretaries, well, business is business. Since Larry Lynne and I have a profession in common, we spent another half hour discussing the pro's and con's of teaching. We both decided there are many more pro's than con's--and once again reiterated upon a few more reminiscences of our senior year of high school. gears,