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

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I did not have many more rooms to visit in the Hall of Fame, But I had a feeling that those would be the most important of them all. I found one picture far in the corner. I saw that it was our class nThe P.U.S. Little Green Fresh- men of 1948n! Why do you suppose that picture was stuck back in a corner? ----- Could it be because when we actually' started out as freshmen we were rather in- significant and not too important? All the air of superiority that we had got ten upon graduating from eighth grade was quickly taken from us Many of us wondered if the day would ever come when our class would be 'the mighty seniors of Prairie Highu The year was full of many new and wonderful activities, but it was not until after Freshmen Initiation that we really became a part of high school The picture I saw next was that of our sophomore class. It did not look much different than the freshman one but I can remember we felt quite different, for now we were the rulers over the new Freshmen, and they bowed down to us Next, was a pictur of our Junior Class all right, but why was it so dressed up9 I thought about it for a few moments Our class put on a Sadie Hawkins' Dance and what fun we did h ve w1th the girls acting as escorts to the boys Then it came to me, how could I have forgotten why the picture was so fancy? It was the year of our b1g Junior Prom The gym was decorated to the theme of 'Candy Land' and the music was furnished by the Norm Kingsley Orches- tra Our class President and King for the big event was Dale Strmiska, and as his Queen he picked Llane Breun1g Yes, that Prom was a real success but perh ps it would not have been except for the gracious leadership of our class adviser, Mrs G rms, the Home Economics teacher The shadows vere getting longer and I knew I must hurry on if I wanted to visit the last room It was very spacious and very beautifully decorated One of the largest pictures mounted in a very beautiful gold frame was the Senior Class of 1951 Here I learned that this picture really signified that our class was now a part of the Hall of Fame How could I forget any part of that great yearq The first big event was our Homecoming Dance efter a big day of Pre-Game activities The King and Queen of the Day were Jeanette Saxer and Don Schwarz Our Homecoming was a success, as our hard fighting football squad had trounced over Waun kee 3? to O The next item on our class list of successful events was the Senlor Class lay, Tuttle Women' The play was under the very ine direction of Mr Ness, our English and biology te cher The Little Women were Veg- Lavonne Enge, lt was working on the play, nd hor pleased the audience seemed vith its pres- entetion On rebruary third our class President, Lowell Coulson, reigned over the Fourth Annual Senior Ball As his Queen, he chose Norma Lohr 'A Marshmallow worlon w s the theme, and we danced to the fine music of Hal Fdwards The rest of the year vas very busy for our class as it m de preparations for their Sen1or Class trip and the all important day of Commencement Of the fifty two members of our class there were only eight who spent the entire twelve years together They vere Russlyn Keck, Carol N e Meng, Marilyn heyer, Bette Lae Fueller, Je nette Saxer, Audrey Zick, Barbara Schultz, 'md Loxell Coulson It w s gett1ng very late when my visit to the Hall of Fame came to an end I had spent such a pleasant day looking at the portraits of our class during the different stage of their educ t1on and letting my mind wander b ck to the activities of those very happy days As I Kalked down the steps of the Hall of Fare, the history of the Class of 1951 came to an end Barbara Schultz n . , . . l . . . . . O 4 O . 9 . A 0 , . 'f . Q . y . g v I 2 . . . I . . . . . . , , . . 0 . . . . . . , . , . ' , . a , 4 J . . . . . , y . . A J U I . . I I . , , . . . I f I a A , 2 . . g P ' ' , A '. lf . , f' ' . . ' , J . ' g A --- I Jo---Marilyn Meyer, Beth---Barbara Schultz, and Amy----Ruth Pfohl. How much fun . L 9 v , . , 1' U .. ' Q , . ' . . . , , , . . , I , 3 , i U . . I A V . . , . : - 1 ' . . , t . f . . ' O . . . - . L, , g x : . , , . f ,. VI 13. Q. - . . ' T' . . Q . l ,, Y, ' ' 0 ' f .s ' a ' - , ' ' . a . . . A . Y . H I n . I I .

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CLASS HISTORY One bright sunny day th1s spring I decided to make a vlsit to the Wisconsin Hall of Fame at Madison I felt very inspired as I entered the bullding and saw pictures of famous people I hardly knew where to beg1n look1ng I chose a small room 1h one of the darkened corners I passed many pictures that meant llttle or nothing to me and I saw just about to le ve when way down in a lower corner I sp1ed a fam1l1ar looking picture I realized lt was none other than our class as it looked when we started first grade twelve years ago I remember how very excited all of us were as we started to school that year Mrs vred Nlckel, nee Helen Capper, was our teacher She taught us readin', writ1n', and 'rithmetic and tr1ed very hard to break us of the delightful little hablt of whispering Many were the times when we had to spend time after school for speaking to our neighbor across the aisle The next room I entered had an even larger number of pictures There I found another picture of personal interest to me. It was taken in 1939 of the second grade class of rrairie du Sac A few new faces appeared among the group who had returned for thelr second year of school On each slde of the students were our teachers, Mrs John Cole who taught our class 1n the mornlng, and Miss Capper our afternoon teacher. As I went on through the next room I found larger plctures of our class as it looked in our third, fourth, and fifth gr de years Standlng falthfully by our side was Miss Sather The sweet smile of our teacher and her expresslon of interest ln each one of us made me stop and look back to those three years added more difflcult studies to our daily work How well I can reme ber one of our most lmportant activities of that per1od It was the operetta 'Hansel and Grettel Jeanette Saxer played the part of Grettel and playlng opposlte her was Mllton Trautmann How proud we all were to be 1n that operetta' As I stood looklng at that picture a more unpleasant thought entered my m1nd Our country was at war then and even our class had felt its effects All the beaut ful farms of our prairie had been taken down and 1n their places was the B dger Ordnance Works Our class, along with all the others, took 1D many new students help wlth the sprlng work in place of the older members of the famlly who were in the service Another very good picture was that of our slxth grade class Ah, wh t a year that was' We were all in the tuFm011 caused by the war Everythlng was 15 a state of confusion We started the year off here at the h gh school classes were dlvided between Miss Smlth and M1ss Hu mel who tr1ed to do the1r best under very crowded cond1t1ons When the second s1x weeks rolled around the doors of our hlgh school were bulging so that our class had to be moved to the park pav1l1on Mrs Jack Kennedy of Sauk C1ty was glven the Job of educating us for the rest of the year The daily enrollment grew unt1l by the mlddle of the year we made our last move We were placed up in the old K P Hall bu1ld1ng The memorles of those days are still very v1v1dly portrayed 1n my mind we loved to roller skate around all the desks, throw a baseball over the roof until one day lt did not go qulte hlgh enough and went through a wlndow instead, or swing on the front rail1ng until the whole thlng collapsed Some days we had five to ten new classmates whlle at other times we would lose that many students or even more. I almost mlssed one very famlliar p1cture, 1HSCT1b6d 'The Jun1or H1gh School Students of 1946 and 1947n There was our seventh grade teacher, Mlss Helen Kirley We were now back at the high school and were settled down to a more qu1et life Yes, there on our right s1de stood our elghth grade teacher, Mrs Clarence Khhnau, nee Clara Gruber We really felt as if we were a part of high school and that year was so 1mportant to all of us as it marked the las+ step of our grade school educatlon O 0 . . . . 0 - . 3 . A. . e I . O O 0 qi ' ' I 'f ' . . I . O I l E . ' A I . . I . , , 2 I ' 1 . A. , . f O ' . We . O 1 A . h . , . 3 . 5 n ' - O a .. 1 . O . N- O . Q . D f , . .. l H i -: - . ' 9. Q ' Q .' U . . and one year we even went to school on Saturdays so that the farm boys could O . . ' - 4 . fx . e , . . e ., . . . e . J V 5 1 e our . . I I . 1 .I . . . ' . V . . T O . . O ' O O . . O Y 1 I . . 1 . t , . . . . , . . e S ' . O Q . ' .- e ' O J r . Q

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