Minnetonka High School - Voyageur Yearbook (Excelsior, MN)

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JUNIORS MARLIN DALBEC Secretary CLASS OFFICERS DENNIS ANDRADA Vice-president SHARON ANDERSON Historian TOM SMITH President FRANCES WIITALA Treasurer The first junior class of Minnetonka High took their places in the classrooms on September 2, 1952. The election of the Junior class officers was held September 22, at the first class meeting. They were as follows: Tom Smith, president; Dennis Andrada, vice-president; Marlin Dalbec, secretary; Frances Wiitala, treasurer; and Sharon Anderson, historian. President Tom Smith outlined the events of the coming year. The first date on the agenda, September 29, was set for the selection of class rings. Then on October 7, heading the list of the money making projects for the class, came the magazine sale. One month later the class presented Men Are Like Streetcars as the first in what will be an annual production by the juniors. Then as basketball season rolled around the juniors swung into action serving refreshments at all home games. The money raised in these activities, as well as that from the dances sponsored by the class went to pay for the first Prom of M.H.S. 24

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Senior Class Log The sophomore class of 53 started off on their high school journey with only forty-five students. The first big event of the year was an excursion to Minneapolis where they toured the Ford Plant, the Museum of Natural History, Ives Ice Cream, and Walker Art. The trip was climaxed by a picnic at Minnehaha Falls. The class was always well represented at school activities, especially the dances given by the upper classmen. As juniors the class was cut to thirty-five with the exodus of Long Lake students to Orono. The most frequent money-making projects were the dances, the Harvest Moon dance being the most successful. The junior class play, Inner Willy was presented November 7 under the direction of Mrs. Helgeson and Mrs. Primrose. During the spring of the year Shirley Kinney was chosen as delegate to Girls' State and Clark Wilhelm and Don Barnes were selected for the National Honor Society. May,with the Prom, graduation decorations, and final tests came quickly. The Prom was held at the Automobile Club and climaxed a successful year of hard work. As the year ended, the class looked forward to being seniors at the new Minnetonka High School. Excelsior’s portion of theClass of '53 started on the road to graduation in September 1949, as they entered their sophomore year with an enrollment of seventy-five. Foreseeing the job of putting on the Junior-Senior Prom the next year, the class held numerous candy sales. One year older, the Class of 53 entered their junior year with$100 and proceeded to earn the rest of the Prom funds through the Curtis Magazine sales. With President Gary Marx at the helm the juniors tackled many other activities, including the annual Junior Class Play. On November 2 a cast of thirteen staged a three-act comedy entitled Mother Does the Talking , under the direction of Miss Olga Huebner. During the first part of the year, the class of '53 elected Judy Preston and Clif Olds as representatives to Girls’ and Boys' State. In May.Clif Olds. Betty Bohnam, Jane Haik, and Judy Preston were accepted into the ranks of the National Honor Society. Finally, the big day of the Prom rallied a-roundand as the music of Les Williams filled the Minneapolis Automobile Club, the Annual Junior-Senior Prom got off to a continental start with its theme, Paris in the Spring . Decorations for the graduation was the final entry on the busy schedule of 1952, and then -- dreams of a new high school and some regrets at leaving the old. Minnetonka's Class of '53 entered their senior year in a rather rare position; everything they did was a first. And, as a first of firsts, the seniors held their initial class meeting for the purpose of organizing the group and of electing officers for the coming year. October 21 was the date set for the '52 Homecoming, Blue Moon was the chosen theme, Lee Reifenberger was elected the queen, and Tonka's colors -- blue and white — set the decorative atmosphere. The class chose Onward Ever. Backward Never as their motto; kelly green and white as their colors; and the red carnation as their flower. Haga Studios was their selected photographer. In January these seniors took college aptitude exams and the boys were interviewed by a representative of the Armed Forces Reserve. The senior girls put on a style show in February and in March the high light of the month was an all-day trip to visit the Fairbault Institute for the Feeble-minded. The first Minnetonka Senior Class Play was given in April. May, the biggest month and the last month for the first graduating class of the Minnetonka High! The prom and the operetta past, the year was climaxed with the brief moment, graduation. 23

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William Ahlers Virginia Alexander Arthur Anderson Sharon Anderson Dennis Andrada Victor Arnold George Batzli Elizabeth Bauman Masasinge Beman Harry Benson Marcella Berger Mary Elizabeth Berry Susan Blodgett Donald Borey James Borgen Lois Brehmer Bob Brooking Robert Bruce Richard Cable Ronald Carperter Donald Carruth Sarah Castle Darlene Chute June Collings Michael Comer Marlin Dalbec Audrey Davis Darrell Dearstyne Richard Dimon Nancy Donlin Joan Doub Marietta Edstrom James Egan Patricia Ernst Robert Evans Kathryn Farnham Michael Ferrin James Fillbrandt Jacquelyn Fink Catherine French Reginald Frost Jean Gendreau Carolyn Graham Richard Graham Sharon Graham 25