Onalaska High School - Aksalano Yearbook (Onalaska, WI)

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. h ISITOI2 as six of our fellows went out for football, Many of us followed our Basketball team to state that year, Our Carnival candidate for this year was Pat Russell, Peter Berg and Don Hurd represented us on the Student Council, Our first main event of our Sophomore year was to give the Freshman Initiation Party, Leading our class along with our class advisors, Mrs, Porter and Mr, Wells, were John Renstrom, President, Mike Lambert, Vice-Presidentg and Carol Jones, Secretary-Treasurer. We won 3rd place with our Homecoming float We'll Make Sausage OutofNewLisbon , Our Sophomore boys seemed to be doing all right on the football team again this year, We elected Donna Schmaltz to represent our class as candidate for C ' Queen. Carolyn Reay represen r h' school as delegate to the Jr. Red Cross camp at Lake Ripley, Vern Q. i:'1T: joined our class this year, 0 and Bob Mikels left us. We again followed the Basketball team to st Finally we reached one of o ars--We were Juniors. Micke - R Huggett, Vice-Pres, and Marvin Horman Sec,-Treas. A re . ' ers. Twelve of ou iqoys wer on the o all team this year and really helped in making it suc 'eiblul 4eason, At T omecoming w won rst wit Flo t T -ompson's Robetmen will Crush Independence , D nee Lundgr r pregente us on the omecoming c , O candidate for Carnival Queen was Carol Jones, Caroly Reay and Pe ec osen to go! to Bac? er G 1' d Ba' er Boy's State, Mike Lambert, Marvin Horm , and on r on the asketball team t is Marci Mo kwed and Carol Jones and Cleo Johnson were lected to th erl ading sq d, We I ook th il Xie a thre act comedy proved a huge success under the ' n of Miss Halle The 'utstanding vent o ourjuni r ye r was our rom, Our prom theme was Showboat with Jan s as King nd Don ndgren as his Queen, Mem ers ofxhe cour were-Marcia Morkwed, Cleo Johnson, Norma Pischk and Carpl Jones, T Y last main eve four Junio year was unior- Senior Reception which was our formal farewill to the Seniors, New nrembers of our c ss were Ka Bruce, and Cla ence Breidel, Leaving us this year was Kathleen ansimn, Arnie Mason, Ra ph Cox, Dean tolesmark and Doris La D . Mickey Lee, Mike Lambert, and Carol Jones repre ented us on the Sfrde t Council, Our advisors were Mr. Gray, Mr Thompson, and Miss Tiegen, I We took our places the Senior side of the assembly as righglgrs in September o 1 2, Mr, Tall was our class adviser, Donee Lu gr reigned as Homec mi Queen with rn n Zuleg , er king, had 11 of our Senior boys on our undefeated fo tb ll team, Carol Jon s an Marcia Morkwe epresen ed us as chee aders, Norma Pischke was elected as the alternat c eerleader, Mickey ee as president of the Stu ' er members of the class were Marvin Horman and Ruth Huggett, Donna Schmaltz was our candidate for carnival Queen, Kay Bruce was Onalaska's candidate for Snow Queen, Chuck Luce joined us this year, We chose another comedy Time for Elizabeth as our class play, The Junior- Senior reception made us realize how soon we would be leaving O, H, S, We will never forget those twelve wonderful years, We appreciate the splendid help our teachers have given us during our long journey through O, H. S, We will always have a place in our heart for the dear memories as we leave the halls of Onalaska High School, 9-3-E-is 'E-E-L-.-all 15

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n lon class Early in the winter of 1941 the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor, Early in the fall of 1941 approximately 40 wide- eyed six year olds invaded the Onalaska Grade School, Miss Berg was our first teacher, How well we remember all the seat work and crayons that were used that year, When we were in the first grade our class was divided, We were to much for one teacher to take care of, In second grade we had Miss Remsly for our teacher, We were divided again this year, How big we thought we were when we had lockers to put our books in, Y 1 In the third grade we were together for the first time and Miss Walsh kept us well in hand. This was the first year that some of the boys started noticing the irls. Rags always was a g In the fourth rade our class i t. This year our teacher e Q 1 s Groom and Miss Brooks, This year was our first experience of being i 'tn t , , , The Indian Princess , ' d by Mrs, Showers, Miss Hanson and Miss Brooks. X Qi Jan and Teet were always assin notes a when th got caug they would v to ead t em out loud, Boy! ! They sure were embarrased onc in a hile. Hurd joi ,ed us thi year, e too nte st in tlose that wore curls while the rest of the boys play ball l Wow!! ! Were we happy t is y , W finally al got to ether i ,the a e oo , We had Miss Baumgartner, This year everybody learne how t wr I will not a th usand imes or m spit alls for the teacher fabout a thousandj g A 3 . 16' f 0, In fifth grade we had tw tcjgghanga i ere getting pr tt disguste-, by this t' e - s we wanted to be together, le I rj A K Don Hurd spent most o 's ar on crutches-Y. broke leg. Wckey sure had a d face whefn he tipped the tree over in the operetta, This operbt was white Gyps was direciid y Miss Brooks, iss Ratt , and Miss Baumgartner, We started Seventh gra with a splash, Micke Bee acciden y spilled a bottle o ink ldown Marcia's back, We were divided again this yeaf, Our teachers were Mis! Granston a Miss Schroeder, During -ihis year Vernetta Wilson, and Donee Lundgren joineq our happy group, The boys became WARE of the girls being sdmething other than just to tease, This was the first year we had dances, First the girls ha to teach the boys how to dance and then we had to manevuer them out on the floor, In aghth grade we w e all together again with MF, Fregin ading us through a very sul cessful year, During this year Peter Stolenwork, Ve netta Wilson, Rita Holthaus, and Arla Zigler left us, Bob Mikels a d Janey Anderson joined us, Our class felt very sorpy over the sudden death of a wonderful lassmate, Ervin Cox, is year the girls were es- pecially proud ofthe boys they entered the Junior H' h Coulee Conf ence Basketb ournament and proceeded to walk away with the Championship T hy. ended our Junior High with the ig event of 8th grade commencement with Vernetta Wilson and Peter Berg as Valedictorian and Salutatorian respectively. At last! ! ! We were ready for High School, We really felt big when we entered our Freshman year at O, H. S, Our class officers were: Don Hurd, Pres. 1 Mike Lambert, Vice-Pres. Marvin Horman Secretary-Treasurer, Mr, Thompson, Miss Haller, and Miss Gier were our advisors who helped us through a very successful Freshmen year, Boots Melcher, Don Olson, Ruth Huggett, Pat Russell, Gordon Krause and Cleo Johnson joined us this year, Vernon Seekamp and Gordon Krause left the same year, Billy Brown also left us this year, We were rather lucky as the only initiation we received was at the Initiation Party given in our honor by the Sophomores, This was the year football returned to O, H, S, after 20 years. Our freshmen class really felt proud I4

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UDDORIIDG CAST A.. Q ifti ROW 1: J. Dolbierp L. Lambert: I. Tucker: O. Hanson: C. Enge: J. Horman: B. O'Conne1l: P. Topel: ROW 2: M. Marcus: S. Wang: S. Kramer: D. Brown: J. Thompson: L. Borger: L. Severson: C. Clott: ROW 3: P. Baralani: D. Nichols: I. Hanson: P. Paeske: B. Jerome: C. McGinnis: K. Wilhelm: N. Miller: F. Will: ROW 4: Miss Cook: J. Huecker: L. Oelke: D. Culbert: D. Stauffer: D. Smith: K. Aiken: W. Holthous: J. Terpstra: Mr. Collins. Jumons ' 'N ' N W it i fs f .,n 6 , 4 ':-. ' Q ' ' ' CLASS OFFICERS woiyx- WOERY fl S. Wang, C. Enge, L. Oelke, P. Baralani. Our first official move as Juniors was to elect the officers who would lead in the coming year. Those elected to fill the officers were Lloyd Oelke, Pres: Chuck Enge, Vice-Pres.: Pat Barilani, Secretary and Shirley Wang Treasurer. Shirley Wang, also was our capable candidate for carnival queen. Our first big job of the year was our class play. Its title was Beauty and the Beef , staring Karen Wilhelm and Chuck Enge, with several other members of the class holdin? down major parts beautifully. Bill 'Connell and Pat Barilani reigned over our prom, eld May 8, 1953. Our Class had many outstandin partici nts-in sports and in Forensics. We ended a successful year byeiosting tibia Seniors at the Junior-Senior Reception. 16