Nelson High School - Viking Yearbook (Nelson, WI)

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CLASS HISTORY Our first high school year began with an enrollment of twenty-six eager Freshmen, full of enthusiasm and extreme ideas, which our principal, Mr. Sobota, immediately curbed and directed into the right channels. As a result we were able to do many things in our four years. At the beginning of the second semester, Leila Kimmel entered our class, making twenty-seven Freshmen. In our Sophomore year we lost Adeline Schumacher, who became the bride of Kenneth Weissengerg Patricia DeWilde, who transferred to Alma High School and Murriel Mitchell, who transferred to Wabasha High School. We received one new student, Doris Keister, who transferred from Boyceville. Some of the members of the class contributed their services to the newspaper staff this year and the following two years. The third year we lost Fred Breidung, who is helping at home and Eleanor Tollefson, who moved to Glenwood City. Miss Kelley advised the decorating for the Junior Prom and for the Turkey Trot. Music was furnished by Otto Stock and Johnny Farwell, respectively. The following September, as Seniors, we entered school with a new dignity befitting our classification. The greatest tragedy of the year was the loss of Doris Keister, our dear friend and classmate, when she drowned on July 4, 1948. We had a number of basketball lettermen in our class this year: Phillip Breutzman, Milton Jost, Gerald Reinhardt, Darrell Reinhardt, Erwin Mikelson, Eugene Brunkow, and Harold Ristowg also two cheerleaders: Alvera Spies and Laurel Duellman. The Seniors presented a play on April 15. We will always be grateful to our parents and teachers for making it possible for us to arrive at this graduation of our education career. CLASS1 WILL The intention of the class of 1949 was to present this will in person, and it would, indeed, have given her great pleasure to do so. However, during these last days she was so occupied with social engagements and other dates not so social but of great importance to the future, that she was forced to present this in writing. Owing to the flighty condition of her brain, and unusual disturbance in her gray matter, she begs me to state for her that she may quite possibly have been mistaken in her in- ve toryg but such things as she thinks she has, she hereby gives into your possession, praying that you will accept them and be as faithful to them as the class that is passing on ROW . We, the class of '49, in twenty-two individual minds and bodies, being about to pass into oblivion from this sphere of education, in full possession of a bewildered mind, well-trained memory, and almost superhuman understanding in certain things, do make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills or promises by us at any time herebefore made, or idly spoken, one to another as the situations did occur. We first wish to direct that our funeral services shall be conducted by our friends and well-wishers, our principal and his all-wise and ever competent faculty, who have been our guardians for so long, only asking, as the last injunction of the dying, that the funeral be carried on with all the dignity and pomp that our worth, our merit, our attainments, and our positions as seniors of the grave and reverend mien must certainly have deserved. 12

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GERALD REINHARDT Bell Bottom Trousers Kittenball 1-2-3 F.F.A. 1-2-3-4 Basketball Letter Z Annual 4 Junior Prom 3 PATRICIASCHARR l Don't Want To Walk Without You Vice-President 1 Kittenball 1 Dramatics 1-3 Student Council Z-3 Newspaper 2-3-4 Member of 4-H Z Class President 3 Annual 3-4 Band 3-4 Junior Prom 3 Chorus 4 HAROLD RISTOW Make Mine Music Kistenball 1-Z-3 F.F.A. 1-Z-3-4 Band 3-4 Annual 4 Junior Prom 3 Basketball letter 3-4 Captain of Magazine Contest 4 Salesmen Achievement 3 VIRGAL WEISENBECK You Call Everybody Darling Vice-President 3 Newspaper 3-4 fEditor 4, Annual 3-4 fAssistant Editor 3j Junior Prom 3 Student Council 4 DARLENE SCHARR Fun and Fancy Free Kittenball 1 Member of 4-H Z Student Council 3 Newspaper 3-4 Annual 3-4 fBusiness Manager 3-42 Junior Prom 3 ' DARRELL REINHARDT Ain't Doin' Bad Doin' Nothin ' Kittenball 1-Z-3 F.F.A. 1-Z-3-4 Member of 4-H Z Basketball Letter Z-3 State Farmers Degree 3 Salesmen Achievement 3 Junior Prom 3 Annual 4 Certificate of D.H.l.A. 3 11

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As to such things which we have been able to gain with our own efforts and with the pleasure of fate we do now dispose of as follows: ITEM We give and bequeath to our beloved faculty all the amazing knowledge and startling information that we have furnished them from time to time in our various examination papers. We know that much which we have imparted to them in this way must have been entirely new to them, as well as to all teachers and students every - where, and would throw much new light on many a hitherto familiar line of thought, throughout the whole world of science and learning--even outside the halls and walls of Nelson High School. If the faculty see fit, they are hereby authorized to give out such of this information to the world as they may feel the world is ready to receive. We trust they will also feel at perfect liberty to make use of all such bits of wisdom and enlightenment for the education of the classes to come after us. This, of course, is left entirely to their personal discretion. ITEM We leave the Junior Class our good luck. What would we have done without it? It made us what we are to-day, and it should satisfy them,because there were many more to share it in the Senior Class. We also leave them the privileges and rights which we enjoyed, as well as any notebooks, pencils, fountain pens, unfinished business, lwhether it be classes or notj, unfinished lollypops, or unpaid debts. There are probably a few things which are, as of yet, unfinished, but these we wish to keep. ITEM To our good friends, the Sophomores, we leave our patience. It will be found useful as the only means by which they can endure the SOPHISTICATED Juniors. ITEM We have made no mention of the present Freshman Class which will be known as the Sophomore Class in a few months. We have left them nothing, because by that tirne their self-evaluation will have attained such heights that nothing in our possession would be regarded by them as worthy of their distinction.- ITEM To next year's class president we leave, with grave doubts as to his ability to use it--the stentorian voice of our good President, Olger Thompson, which enabled him to overcome all opposition existing. Also, we leave his ability to keep on good terms with the faculty and still do as he pleased: in other words, his executive ability. In witness whereof we, the class of '49, the testator, have set our hand and seal on whatever day this did occur, in this year of our good fortune, 1949. INDIVIDUAL WILLS I, Phillip Breutzman, will my musical talent to Raymond Reinhardt. I, Pearl Brownell, will my good times to the kids that don't have so much fun. I, Eugene Brunkow, will my jewelry to the girls to fight over. 13