Minnehaha Academy - Antler Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

Page 24 text:

THE 1936 QUILL CLASS HISTORY ’ WHAT a host of memories I have within this diary of mine. ' said the young graduate the evening before her commencement. “Guess I'll sec what all we did during our four years at Minnehaha.'' And so she fell to reminiscing. “My. but it doesn't seem like four years ago since we first entered the Academy. I wonder if there were ever seven more bewildered looking freshmen than we were on that first day of school in September of 193 2. What a change’ Now we arc thirty-seven intelligent-looking seniors ready to leave the halls of our beloved school. Imagine! a leaf from our first Campus Day. 1 still remember the fun we had on that day. As a rule, freshmen are not very well represented in the school activities, but it didn’t take us long to get acquainted. Perhaps they felt sorry for us because we were such a small class. Oh! here are some of the calling cards I got from some kind-hearted seniors on the last day of our freshman year—and then a long vacation. We certainly had a large representation on the honor roll during our Sophomore year. It also looks like most of the boys went out for sports in a big way and at the end of the year were awarded with the first 'M's.' By the time we were Juniors we felt that we were really getting up in the world. We had to be real business like, of course, and have a lot of class meetings. The biggest event of our Junior year was the planning of the Junior-Senior banquet. We thought it was quite a success and I wouldn't doubt but what the seniors thought so too. And then the declamatory contest. The two winners out of a total of three were from our class. My! we won quite a few basketball games that year. Most of the high-point men being juniors. Once more the juniors displayed their ability and that was when the girls won their annual basketball game with the senior girls. The boys seemed to think that this game was especially entertaining. Just think of all the things we ranked so high in and those seniors had the nerve of handing some baby shoes to us at the banquet. Well, our junior year certainly did go fast and now' our senior year has passed even more quickly. We think it s lots of fun being seniors—all the other classes look up to us thinking we arc quite intelligent—too bad we aren’t. The Minnehaha Singers have really proved to be a real blessing to us this year. I am sure that having that privilege of singing has made us more fit for the things that lie before us. Here it tells of that marvelous chapel service just before Paster vacation. I never could forget how so many of my fellow classmates found Christ as their Savior for the first time. The North Park debate proved to be a special adventure to some of us as we went to Chicago with the team. Campus Day—our last one—perhaps that's why we thought we didn't have to do so much w'ork. It certainly was kind of the juniors this year to give such a grand banquet for us. I hope they arc given one equally as fine. Thus our senior year has come to an end leaving precious memories never to be forgotten. —Evelyn Strom 20

Page 23 text:

MINNEHAHA ACADEMY Marguerite Wigren High School Saint Paul. Minnesota 'Silence never betrayed anyone’ Martha II Junior High. St Paul; Florence Nightingale. 34. 35; Quill 35. 36: Svo. '35. 36: Minnehaha Singer . '34. '35. ROLLIN’ NVlLDEN High School Hutchinson. Kansas On ot nature't noblemen Horton High School. I. 2. 3. Horton. Kta-Ml. GEORGE WELCH Bible I nit ttute Birchdale. Minnesota At a nun yrou-t older and u'lirt, he t pea In leu and tayi more' Timoihr. '33. '36: Forum. '35. '36. A LAST WORD I know that my redeemer liveth. For unto me he giveth Hope, peace, joy. And I to him shall give: All that I am. as long as I live. L. W. In my two years at Minnehaha I have felt a definite strengthening in my Christian life. I have felt definitely drawn closer to my Master and hope that it may continue. G. S. My heart is filled with gratitude to God for the life He has imparted to me through Christ. As I leave Minnehaha Academy where Christ has been exalted it is my desire to serve Him by a life of devotion and sacrifice where ever He may lead. R. R. As I look back upon the years before my conversion they appear to me as one long dream. What the Lord has done for me since I yielded my life to Him means more to me than human words are able to express. Being able to attend a Christian school such as Minnehaha has greatly influenced my Christian life. M. E. 19 i

Page 25 text:

MINNEHAHA ACADEMY THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of the CLASS OF 1936 WE THE Senior Class of nineteen hundred and thirty-six. of Minnehaha Academy. Minneapolis. Minnesota, being one hundred percent efficient in mind and body, but realizing that school life cannot always last, and that the future will bring a great separation of the members of our body, do hereby revoke all previous wills, and do publish this as our final Will and Testament FIRST—-Wc desire that all deeply-rooted sorrow, felt by our faculty and underclassmen be dispensed with immediately. SECOND—To our most esteemed Minnehaha Academy we do give and bequeath our staunch loyalty and love. THIRD—To the faculty in general who have enshrined themselves in our hearts, we bequeath all amazing and profound information which they have gathered from us in our recitations and examinations. FOURTH—With earnest love and sincere appreciation wc do hereby bequeath to our president. Mr. Joel Peterson, and the faculty the following: Item I—To Mr. Peterson wc leave our most sincere love and esteem for all sound advice which he has been so willing to give us. with the hope that the future might show a fulfillment of those wise admonitions in our living. Item 2—To Mrs. Nelson in loving gratitude for her skillful guidance of our hands in the noble art of typewriting, wc here do bequeath all wornout typewriting ribbons to be worn by her on the next Campus Day. Item 3—To Mr. Schoultz whose brilliant lectures filled with technical terms and allusions to all the vaguely-involved branches of science which fill us with confusion and agitation and finally bring us to a state of psychiatry, we leave an automatic gas detector to protect him from the unscrupulous chemistry students who are wont to leave all the gas jets wide open. Item 4—To Miss Fellroth whose mathematical mind has guided us through the maze of figures, wc can only leave our love, best wishes and praise for her patience and endurance in the hours of tedious and tasteless teaching to a nonplussed group of students. Item 5—Till Froken Sandberg, med karlek och valdnskning for god fortsattning. testa-mentera vi vire svenska boker tillsammans med alia inskrivna engelska ord. Item 6—To Mr. Hollinbeck wc can only give our grateful and heartfelt thanks for his “frank opinions and his “justus” which have truly been an inspiration to all of us. Item 7—To Miss Mitlyng we do in sincerest admiration for her never failing interest and enthusiasm which have brought about the fulfillment of this publication, hereby give and bequeath all interesting notes and data gathered by this year's staff for her reference and enlightenment for all future compilations of Minnehaha Academy all of which we hope will have the benefit of her wise guidance. Item 8—To Mr. Obcrg in appreciation of the infinite patience he has tendered us. wc do hereby leave all rubber checks which have bounced back into his office during our eventful and expensive stay here. Item 9—To Miss Johnson for her originality in her ever refreshing sociology classes, with loving thankfulness for her cheery optimism at all times, because of her interest in state affairs, we do hereby bequeath all institutions of the state to be used by her for her next year's classes. (Signed) The Senior Class on 1936 WITNESSES: In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our seal on this the twenty-eighth day of April one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six. (Signed) The visages of our predecessors on the wall The desk in Ye Oldc Quill Club room 21