Prairie Du Sac High School - Prairie Pride Yearbook (Prairie Du Sac, WI)

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 CJL 2 r bb rJISTOjT It was September, 1938, and at last we were Freshmenl That's what v e had been looking forward to for eight long years. Nine little boys and girls had attained that goal and were joined by thirty-one others from the surrounding communities. Now we were the superiors in our little domain, the junior assembly, for weren't wo much more important than the mere seventh and eighth graders? Of course we receded into the background somewhat whenever we came upon the Upper Classmen, for after all v e were only the Green Freshmen to them. And then of course came the Freshman Initiation. This was held in the High School Gym a few weeks later with all the fun being at our expense. But there was consolation in the fact that after the agony was all over we would then be one of them. As the v eeks flew by and we came to the close of the year, our chief concern now was making the grade for ohl to be a Sophisticated Sophomore 1 In September, 1959, the thirty-eight students who made the grade were permitted to sit just inside the door in the Senior Assembly, and that was some accomplishincnt. The first thing we had to do v as to take over the duty of properly initiating the freshmen. We really did this to a turn and if they did not get to be one of them it was no fault of ours, V e saw the need of a Civics Club and under the direction of Kiss Leona Weier this organization came into being. By various ways of earning money we were able to hire a bus to take us to a football game in Madison in the fall and in the spring to take a trip to Portage and V aupun and various places of interest along the way. V' € h J

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Don Kinzler Pood Turkey and Dressing Sport Football Song Miss You Orchestra Glenn Miller Dayle Rix Hobby Reading Cowboy Stories Color Red Pood Hot Dogs Ivan Mallon Color Blue Song White Cliffs of Dover Orchestra Guy Lombardo Subject Physics Richard Grcibcr Cor Plymouth Sport Basketball Color Yellow Orchestra Horace Keidt Donald Kaufman Sport Football Subject Physics Orchestra Art Cassell Junior Rath Color Green Activity Athletics Hobby Reading Neal Jenewoin Sport Basketball Subject History Song I Don’t Want To Walk Without You Orchestra Glenn Miller Willard Yngsdal Song Blueberry Hill Sport Football Hobby Collecting Old Money Orchestra Guy Lombardo Ray Mueller Hobby Stamp Collecting Color Blue Subject Bookkeeping Activity Ice Skating Bob Litschcr Subject Agriculture Song Remember Fearl Harbor Color Blackish White Orchestra Dick Jcrgcns Halsey Sprcchcr Subject Agr i c. and Physics Song It Makes No Difference Now Orchestra Joey Tantillo John Norton Pood Goulash Subject History Song The Waiter and The Porter and The Upstairs Maid Hobby Drawing Pictures K. S.

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Sj, .'e the time approached for final exams, we bent all our efforts toward one moro rung up the ladder and then we would be Juniors. September, 1940, and we the Juniors stepped proudly into our rightful places. A peculiar status was ours for we must be shining examples for the lower classmen yet properly aware of the superiority of the seniors. Howrever, something besides our status was changed this year. For no longer did we see the lanky figure and friendly face of Mr. Babington, our Principal. He had resigned to retire from teaching and now his place was being filled by Mr. Clauson. But there was work for us to do. ’.Ve had won honors for our class and school but we had hopes and visions of more worlds to conquer and moro honors to be won. This we-accomplished again through our activities in music, forensics and athletics. The big social event of the year was the Junior Prom. For this wc labored day and night and deemed our efforts a huge success when the High School Gym was finally transformed into a beautiful winter scene of icicles and snow and an igloo, to represent the North Pole. This not-to-be-forgotten event was held April 25. The end of the- school year was fast approaching but we, the Juniors, looked upon the time with a mingled feeling of joy and regret. Wc could look around tho corner and see just one more year ahead before our happy High School days would be over. September, 1941 brought thirty-nine Seniors to the realization that they were beginning tho last year of the ir High School Days together. Little did wo dream that something was to happen in our Senior year that has not happened to. any class for the last twenty six years. In December our nation declared war. As a result school was hold on Saturdays and the Seniors would be graduating several v.ooks earlier. Central War Time was put into effect and v;o had to rise in the dark morning hours to got to school. 'We could begin to see that tho close of our Senior year would take place when not only we, tut tho whole world was really making History. D.I.I.S. '42