Prairie Du Chien High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Prairie Du Chien, WI)

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DRESS REHEARSAL Betty Ward Betty General Course Janis Wolf Jan General Course Band 1-3; Band Secretary 3; Mixed Chorus 2; G.A.A. 3; Latin Club 2-3; Latin Club Secretary 3; German Club 3; Annie Get Your Gun 3; Library 1. Larry Yeomans Kent General Course Football 1-2-3; Basketball 1-2-3; Track 1-2-3; Baseball 2-3; Home Room President 1; Letter Club 2-3. Richard White Dick General Course Band 1-2-3; Track 1-2-3; German Club 3; Home Room Vice-President 2. Dwaine Zlabek Dizzy General Course F.F.A. 1-2-3; Football 3; Home Room Vice-President 3. Donna Zabel The entire student body was stunned during the 1953 Christmas vacation when they heard of the accidental death of Donna Zabel. Donna was not active in extra curricular affairs, but a good and loyal student. Though quiet she was a very impressive person who was constantly defending others, which is truly a marvelous quality. Juniors 22

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OUR PLAY IS NEARLY COMPLETED John Steiner ''Jack General Course Football 1-2-3; Basketball 1-2-3; Baseball 1-2-3; Track 1-2-3; Annie Get Your Gun 3; Letter Club 3. Elizabeth Swatek Liz Commercial Course Mixed Chorus 1; Girls Chorus 1-2; Library 1-2; F.H.A. 1-2-3; Operetta 1; Annie Get Your Gun 3. Clifford Tesar Cliff General Course Library 2. Janette Valley Putt Commercial Course G.A.A. 1-2-3; Girls Chorus 2-3; F.H.A. 1-2. Donald Wachuta Dundee General Course F.F.A. 1-2-3; Letter Club 1-2-3; Manager 1-2-3; Bowling 2. Lora May Steiner Lora General Course Band 1-2-3; Mixed Chorus 1-2-3; Girls Chorus 1-2-3; F.H.A. 1-2-3; G.A.A. 1-2-3; Home Room Secretary 2; Operetta 1; Annie Get Your Gun 3. Lucille Swatek Lucy General Course G.A.A. 3; F.H.A. 2-3; Library 1-2; Girls Chorus 1. Dorothy Updike Dorothy General Course Margaret Valley Marge General Course G.A.A. 2-3; Latin Club 1-2-3. Kenneth Wagner Ken General Course F.F.A. 1; Library 1-2; Band 1-2; Mixed Chorus 1-2-3. Juniors — 21

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BIT PARTS First Row: Norma Crawford. Joan Bedward. Annette Gentes, Janyce Chunat, Richard Ambrose, Gary Ellenbolt, Lowell Ahrens. Lyle Fisher, Francis Becwar. Second Row: Josephine Balk, Irene Konlchek, Velda Hollenberger. Jane Hess, George Kahler, Wesley Harding, David Graap, Gerald Carl. La Verne DuCharme. Third Row: Arietta Hurda. Diana Krogman, Phyliss Krohn. ITisoilla Hamann, Germaine Fans. Virginia Linton. Donald Enke, Terry Kaber, John Check, John Fischer, Dick Elliott, Don Kolowinski. The scene for the 52-53 school year is set as we see a large group of smiling faces ready to face whatever this new place holds in store for them. Initiation is the first big event and even the boys (much to their dismay) had to wear green ribbons in their hair. Another big event was the Homecoming game. Such a crowd and such cheering! The second scene opens with much rejoicing as it is now their turn to initiate the Greenhorns! The Sophomores then ordered their class rings which they will receive when they return to PHS in the fall of '54 as full-fledged upper-classmen Juniors!!! First Row: Marilyn Sutton. Colleen Stull. Shirley Stevens. AJlene Sedlmayr. Wilbur Wagner. Jack Mercer, Clarence Mezera. Second Row: Eleanor Messerli, l atricia Michel. Shirley Mezera. Beverly Stephan. Margaret Valley. Gerald Stevens, Joe Rand, Ronald White. John Take. Third Row: Barbara Muchia. Catherine Stahl. Bonnie Messerli. Margaret Simak. Jim White, Jean Matousek, Donna Wikel, Roger Scheibel. Fourth Row: Leonard Zabel. Charles Steinberg. Earl Reiser, Robert Panka. Donald McFarland. Tom Potratz. Tom Sheckler, Vince Tippery, Sylvester Mezera, Richard Mezera. Sophomores — 23