Nelson High School - Viking Yearbook (Nelson, WI)

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FACULTY We, the Seniors of Nelson High, wish to present the new and old faculty members of the Nelson High School. Mr. A. M. Sobota spent his first years of school in Independence, Wisconsin. In high school his activities were basketball, which he starred in, baseball and track. He played with the town team and continued to do so for 12 years. In 1926 Mr. Sobota enrolled at St. Mary's College, Winona, Minnesota. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree from this institution in 1931, did some post graduate work at the University of Minnesota, and then returned to Winona in the capacity of teacher for three years. He was married to Alyce Glynn on October 12, 1933, during his third year at Winona... Mr. Ray Scholl has been teaching here at Nelson since the fall of 1942. After graduating from the Spring Green, Wisconsin, grade and high school, he entered the Platteville State Teachers College. After receiving an Agriculture major, Ray began his teaching career--his first year at Drummund, Wisconsin, and his second year at Cambria, Wisconsin, In the fall of 1942, Mr. Scholl joined the facultys of Nelsoni and Cochran High Schools, where he has taught for the past seven years. . Mr. Clement Ellis was born on a farm between St. Charles and Chatfield, Minnesota, September 5, 1910. He attended a country grade school for seven years and continued his eighth grade and high school years in Chatfield. Upon graduating from St. Mary's College in Winona, he became a postmaster and storekeeper in Weaver. He held this position up until the time he entered the U. S. Navy in 1944, This year Mr. Ellis taught Mathematics and Science at Nelson High School. Before coming here, he taught one year at Kellogg, Minnesota. He was married to Kathryn Tentis in 1940 and is now the father of five children, four girls and-one boy. Miss Phyllis Munson, our commercial teacher, spent her early life near Kenyon, Minnesota, on a farm, and graduated from Kenyon High School. She is a graduate of St. Olaf College, in Northfield, Minnesota, where she earned a major in Economics. In the fall of 1948 she joined the faculty of Nelson, where she was advisor of Nelson Hi-Lites, our school paper, and the Viking, Nelson's annual. Miss Gail Vander Kamp, our English teacher, spent her early life around Eau Claire, where she graduated from St. Patrick's High School and Eau Claire State Teachers' College. She had taught two years at Strum before she came to Nelson. Mrs. H. A. Scherf was born in Chesaning, Michigan. She studied piano under Roy Underwood, head of the music department at Michigan State College at East Lansing, Michigan, and Lou Alp Taylor, American concert artist of New York City. She studied organ under Rudolph Puhlman. In September, 1945, she was married to Pastor H. A. Scherf of Morgan, Minnesota. Mrs. Scherf taught music in Michigan for several years, then at Dr. Martin Luther College at New Ulm, Minnesota. She devoted twenty-one years to teaching. On Wednesdays this year she worked with our band and chorus. 6