Redwood Falls High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Redwood Falls, MN)

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SENIUR CLASS HISTDRY Let's flash back to 1940 and see how the Seniors of i953 started out in this cruel world. As we look into the kindergarten room, we see Janice Schroeder, Mary Aufenthie, Joyce Ander- son, Shirley Arnett, Meryl Hilbert, Char Lou Johnson, Curtis Krueger, Martha Lamberton, and Joanne Nyquist playing the sticks and tambour ines for their parents in the kindergarten band. They weren't exactly Xavier Cugats but they were possibilities for Mr. Limburg's band. Next came first grade where Jack Aune, Laurie Petersen, Gary Randgaard, Jay Rand- gaard, Bruce Russell, Dorothy Schmid, and Car- men Thompson started their homemaking car- eers by stirring up a batch of butter and ice cream. Several girls started their dramatic and singing careers by singing in an angel chorus. Lined up in the chorus, we find Delores Willcox, Janice Ballard, Mary Alice Towler, Marilyn Hal- vorson, and Lois Keil. The next year we devoted most of our time to learning how to read and write. Claudette Hanson, Dave Wood, and Neil Young ioined us in third grade. That year brought us the chance to ioin the grade school chorus which was under the direction of Miss Bouman. That meant dragging ourselves out of bed and getting to school by eight o'clock for practice. Fourth grade was filled with study especi- ally Minnesota History and left us little time for any thing else. Basketball took the limelight in the fifth grade. We even had cheerleaders and a cheering section. Q.. . lg. The climax of our grade school years was reached in the sixth grade. The two sixth grade teams, the Panthers and the Eagles, battled it out for the grade school championship. Aside from tournaments, our sixth year was kept busy with the putting on of an operetta, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. The first day of seventh grade was a whole new life for most of us. By our seventh year, our number had increased. Some of the new stud- ents were: Dick Barnes, Joe Corbett, Mike Gil- land, Don Heiling, Eleanor Johnson, Ramona Keil, and Marilyn Routhe. We spent most of our year trying to get adjusted to iunior high school and trying to outwit our Physical Education teacher so that we wouldn't have to take show- ers.

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SENIURS YOUNG, NEIL The only person we know who beats time is a. drum la er. D y Band 1, 2, 3, 4, Chorus 4, Whoopie's Band 3, Letterman's Club 4, Intramural Basket- ball l, 2, 3, 4, Track 1, 4, Baseball 2, 3, 43 Basketball 1, 2, 3, 41 Pep Club 1, 2, Cam- era Club 1, Football Manager 1, 2, 3, 4. BOY AND GIRL STATE Verna Georgius, Jack Aune. 26 SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Twelfth Grade: Carmen Thompson, Joanne Nyquist, Laurel Petersen, Neil McKay.

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SENIUR CLASS HISTORY Claude Green, Doug Lechner, Joan Menz, Stan Moritz, Louis Robinson, Doris Vanderwerf, and Judy Vierling joined us in our eighth year. That year half of us had our home room in the study hall with the freshmen. A few of us had a little trouble about talking. Lois Hermann and Sharon Gray found out about that when they had to stand in the corner or copy part of the dictionary. Freshman Day was the high point of our ninth year. This year Dorothy Boushek, Janet Brandt, John Dworshak, Dolores Gee, Verna Georgius, Joann Gilb, Roger Mattison, Neil Mc- Kay, Gert Mielke, Lois Steinhaus, Sharon Stemm, Don Stoner, Jerry Swoboda, and Bob Werner made their appearance. We all enpioyed being the big wheels of the iunior high school. Moving to the senior high part of the building was great fun in our sophomore year. Bill Eilers, Mariorie Malecek, and Virginia Mc- Mullen ioined us in our activities. We all had to polish up sales talks for we got to sell Home- coming pins. Best of all we were able to wait on tables at the Junior-Senior Banquet. The iunior year gave us Harrell DeFries, Phil Jenkins, Shirley Larson, Harvey McCorquo- dale, Phil McKay, and Maynard Nolting. We had the iob of putting on the Homecoming Dance. The highlight of our dramatic careers was the Junior Class Play. Of course, we thought it was about the best ever put on. Both of these gave us money for the Junior-Senior Prom. Conces- sions and dances furnished the rest. Then came the committees and plans for the Prom. We had never realized how much work and money go into a banquet and prom. Finally the big night came. As we walked in we saw palm trees, pine- apples, cocoanuts, fish nets, and a large red sun- all carrying out the theme of Hawaiian Sunset. The big year as Seniors dawned bright and clear. We all gazed at each other and asked Are we Seniors? LeRoy Dotson ioined us after two years in the Armed Forces. Soon we were carried up in the busy bustle of activities. We all got a big thrill out of being able to go out of the audi- torium first. Our last Homecoming in Redwood High will not be soon forgotten. The memories of the snake dance, bonfire, game, dance, and crowning of Queen Ramona Keil will be with us for a long time. Class rings made us feel more like seniors and when we got our graduation pictures we were sure that we were nearing the end of our years of grind-Graduation Day, May 29, 1953.