Osseo Fairchild High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Osseo, WI)

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Q'Q?e,3 X X af ? ,G dw x CLASS HISTORY A bright star shone in the heavens, clear and bright but, oh, so dis tant, on Sept 6 1950, as nineteen bright and clear eyed students fixed their gaze upon it Far, although, the star seemed, these energetic stu dents were determined to take it into their hands, fondle it tenderly and let the star dust fall into their eyes and sparkle in their hair A gleam came to our eyes whenin our firstyear Margaret Selz was chosen Prom Queen and we made our first trip to Hatfield This year Emogene Nelson left our midst On Sept 5 1951 only seventeen of these same students were gazing afar, due to the loss of two members, Yvonne Glidden and Robert Phillips, butRonn1e Peterson joined us, keeping a balance ofeighteen This was the first year that any of our class had participated in the Eau Claire Youth Council Program Glenerry Gerth, Rosemary Mayer, Pat Edmundson and James Vance This year we had the honor of sending a member of our class, Pat Edmundson to the State Music Festival lettering on the face of it but it is too dim yet to distinguish, as we enter our Junior year Seventeen students are still looking ahead, but a change has been made Marvin Brynterson moved to Eleva and John Larson transferred to Thorp In their place we heartily hailed Alois Lis of Thorp and Jeri Seidling from Stanley This was our first year of dranatics, we produced one of the greatest plays Fairchild had seen forsome timein this line With perfect co op erationirom students and ourdirector. M1ssJoyce Andree Slack, we produced 'Suddenly It Was May , on April 23 2h 1953 In the month of May we plunged headlong into prom preparations and set the wheels churning for the greatest night May eighth King James layer and Queen Lois Krienke reigned over it and Howard Sturtz and His Swing Kings furnished the music for 'The Loveliest Night Of The Year Our star has now moved into close range and we can read che writing clearly, we find there inscribed the motto uThree Stars Sincerity, Courage and Unselfishness Our final year has come and during the sum mer months we lost Nancg Gregory, who had been with us since her first grade, and so, on Sept 1953, only sixteen climbed the hill Natalie Holman went to Madison in June to Girls State Conference Our firdzgreat day was Sept ll, when we received our class rings We later left for Eau Claire for graduation pictures and happily received them on Nov sixth This, our finalyear, we presented ourlast class play, nCracked Nutts , on Nov 12 13, with lies Phillips and Mrs Olson as our directors I mediately afterward our number was reduced again by the loss of Shirley Jean Schlichter who was married Glenerry Gerth was chosen fa DAR award We ended this eventful year by attending the Ice Follies in St Paul on April 9, l95h, so, here on June 2, l95 , we have at last reached our goal leaving us starry eyed, and we start up the ladder to stardom, step by step, leaving behind us our near and dear friends and precious memo ries of F H S and all it stands for Signed . 'x -N '- e I. If V-'eu 'Q' -i Q, QI . . 9 4f I db- O , - ' D I The star now grows larger and more brilliant and we see some sort of N - , , nb . n. I -- 2 - . , . ' n . - . , m- A 1+