Rochester High School - Rochord Yearbook (Rochester, MN)

Text from Pages 1 - 234 of the 1928 volume:

mi Tin nn mi ’mi mi r i j J v _ V | 1 ullll 0 d d ( f £ h i p Courtesy of reproduction through Penn Publishing Co., Philadelphia, Pa. «� ■ v, ©hp tprhf t i $8 c “Education should he as broad as man” —Emerson. ANNUAL PUBLICATION OF THE ROCHESTER JUNIOR- SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER MINNESOTA S V t r o IHUiUlb I ' OMlPOUd G O make evident the unity of spirit and purpose which directs the many activities of Roches¬ ter High School is the purpose of the 1928 Rochet. s r ti o U t h i p 1 £ d I ra t t on 0 O the painstaking cultivation of per¬ sonality and character through education for the benefit of mankind, we dedicate this book. r Uuf tn dontent Administration Classes Special Classes Student Organizations Features Athletics Humor Advertisements higher flim THE AIMS OF ROCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL Rochester High School has counted in its student body for the school year 1927-28 approxi¬ mately thirteen hundred boys and girls. These students come to her from a variety of homes, possess¬ ing different backgrounds, abili¬ ties, and tendencies. Their prob¬ lems, needs, and interests are as varied as those of any group of young people in any high school in the middle west. Most of these boys and girls spend six school years in Rochester High School, studying, thinking, and playing under her direction. They use this time in this manner at the wishes and upon the firm recommendation of their parents and of the community and state. With developing maturity, they gain in understanding of the large purpose which the school has for all of them. Believing that the function of an educational institution is to contribute to the fitting of individuals for useful and satisfactory lives, and that this function must be accomplished first of all through the development of native abilities and aptitudes, those in charge of Rochester High School intend that every activity of the school shall adapt itself to the nature of the individual students as far as possible. The chief concern of every teacher is not her subject matter but her students. Rochester High School attempts to give her students the common academic background of knowledge and thought which should serve as a unifying influence and a basis for living in America. This achievement is realized as effectively as possible through the common academic branches of the curriculum which are required of every student. To that end the study of English, history, mathematics, science, and language is chieflv dedicated. For those students who expect to continue their academic education after graduation from high school, more advanced work in these subjects of a mind-training, cultural nature is offered. Students who wish to fit themselves to enter a useful and efficient life prepared for work of a specific kind imme¬ diately after high school are pro¬ vided for in the industrial depart¬ ment, where courses in commercial work, home economics, agriculture, printing, and mechanics attract many of them. CENTRAL SCHOOL For every boy and girl who comes to her doors, Rochester High School has the ideal of use¬ ful, free, capable, strong citizen¬ ship. To enable her students to realize this ideal in their present and future lives is her great task. Piigc Nine HAWTHORNE SCHOOL LINCOLN SCHOOL EDISON SCHOOL Tape Ten STEARNS “tfjrlje fnate t function of tfje teacfjer com sists not so rnucf) in im= parting fenotolebge as! in Stimulating tfje pupil in its lobe anb pursuit.” 2 ? pook nt DR. AH. SANFORD PRESIDENT RW. CHADWICK MRS.E.STARR JUDD g-.-h.sanberg- SOPT. M.W.WALDREN EVELYN DUELL ASST SEC. FRANCES HILL ASS ' T SEC. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION “Public instruction should be the first object of government . — Dr. A. H. Sanford Page Fourteen G. H. SANBERG Superintendent of Rochester Public Schools Perfection of the individual life in all its relationships is the objective of all our school efforts.” — G. H. Sanberg Page Fifteen MISS BELVA L. SNODGRASS Principal of the Junior-Senior High School “The Rochet represents the spirit of the students of Rochester High School who know how to live and work for the satisfaction of a task well done .”—Miss Snodgrass Page Sixteen MARY E. WHITING Assistant Principal Junior-Senior High ‘ “The purpose of education is to assist the individual to adjust himself quickly to civilization ”— Miss Whiting Education enables us to fit ourselves for a place in this highly competitive too rid.” —Mr. Nelson RALPH E. NELSON Supervisor of Study Hall Page Seventeen HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS JENNIE ERICKSON Head of Mathematics Department LYDIA GLASER Head of History Department ARTIE SKOOG Head of English Department PAUL F. SCHMIDT Head of Physical Education Department for Roys RAYMOND SMITH Head of Industrial Department GENEVIEVE TOWNSEND Head of Physical Education Department for Girls Page Eighteen ♦ MARIAN ADAMS BETH ANDERSON CAROLINE AUSTIN Mathematics Typewriting History V. J. BAATZ Industrial Arts MARION BAKER Librarian W. E. BOHNER Physics Chemistry Page Nineteen B. F. DUNN Agriculture ALICE ENDICOTT Biology EVAN FRY English ALICE GILBERT BELLE GLEASMAN MARTHA GODFREY English German English Page Twenty ELLEN HUGHES History. THELMA HUNT Mathematics MARGARET HURLEY Lathi VIOLA JOHNSON ANNA KEEFE ALICE KIERLAND English English Latin ETHEL KING LUCY KINGSLEY LEWIS KLEFSAAS English History General Science Page Tzcenty-One MARY McBRIDE MAE MARONEY MARTHA MATT HEWS History Geography Home Economics RUBY MOORE Shorthand KATHLEEN MUNN French EINER MORGENSON Industrial Arts Pane Tzuent -Tzco OLIVER NORDLY P. H. OLDENBURG CARL ROMER Physical Education Mathematics Biology CHARLES RUDKIN MARY SINCLAIR ZELLA SMITH Art Mathematics Assistant Supervisor of Health I)R. J. H. SPRINGSTED School Dentist I. A. SWENSON History AGNES THOMPSON Home Economics Psge Ticenty-Three DORIS TROTT MARIE VAHLE SADIE VOLD English Mathematics English Jfacultp !Hutograpf)S V Page Tzcenty-Fouf Page Tzcenty-FtVi (t Jf earning bp Stubp must be toon; ’(EtoaS ne’er entaileb from son to son.” Poofe ®too «► -� ► w VIRGINIA RICHMAN MISS SKOOG MR. NORDBY MR. RUDKIN LUIS ALVAREZ THOMAS LAWLER JOHN HINES KENNETH GUYSE SENIOR CLASS REVIEW The senior class of 1928, with a mem¬ bership larger than that of any class which has been graduated from R. H. S., looks back upon a most successful year. In scholarship, it has held its own; in athletics, the members have done their best; and in school spirit—“pep’s” been their motto through the years, as they sing in their class song. The majority of the regular positions on the football teams were held through a most successful season by seniors. Robert Min¬ er, student council president, was captain of the football team; Elbert Schwartz, an¬ other prominent sen¬ ior, was basketball cap¬ tain. Of the six mem¬ bers of the debate teams, four were sen¬ iors. The editors of the Crucible and Rochet were both seniors, and had excellent senior support on their staffs and in their subscriptions. Whatever the organization or activity of R. H. S., senior names were to be found among its active members. With the final parties and commence¬ ment exercises, the class will close its high school career, feeling that its members have at all times had a high standard before them; that they have had the opportunity to develop toward that standard; and that they have made a lit¬ tle progress in gaining a foundation for a sat¬ isfactory and worth¬ while life. Eagerness and confidence char¬ acterize their outlook for future years. Page Tzventy-Eight ALBERT ADLER GEORGIA ALLEN “To a young heart everything is fun.” Commercial Declamation Contest 3 HELEN BAIHLY “In youth and heauty f wisdom is hut rare” Academic French Club President 4 Orphean Club; Class Secretary 2; Class Play 3} Rochet 4. MARY BREMEL “All that we see or seem, Is hut a dream within a dream. Commercial Glee Club 2. “Young fellows will he young fellows.” Academic Orphean Club; Glee Club; Band 1, 2, 3. LUIS ALVAREZ “On him and on his high endeavor, the light of praise shall shine forever.” Academic San Francisco Polytechnic High School 1, 2; Class Secretary 4; Or¬ phean Club President 4; Social Sci¬ ence Club President 4; Radio Club; Crucible Club 4; Rochet 4. BERT BARBERREE “The deepest rivers flow with least sound.” Academic Senior Boys’ Quartet 4. Page Twenty-Nine AUDRE BERG “Thinking is but an idle waste of thought” Academic Class Play 3} Delta Epsilon Alpha Glee Club 4. NINA BIGLOW ( l have a heart with room for every joy” Commercial Volleyball 1, 2. WILLIAM BLETHEN u But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly or I can run.” Academic Hallock High School 1, 2, 3 Delta Epsilon Alpha. BEATRICE BERNDT “ Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway , and ever y ever will obey ” Academic Quill and Scroll} Rochet 4} Debate 3; Volleyball 3. GLADYS BLASING (( A loving heart is the truest zvisdom.” Commercial Glee Club 4; Orphean Club. AGATHA BRANDLY “A merry heart doth good like a medicine” Industrial Page Thirty CATHERINE BROOKNER “Full of vim and pep and fun, She’s a friend of everyone.” Academic Glee Club 1, 2. EILEEN BURKE “Wait, thou child of hope, for Time shall teach thee all things.” Academic Social Science Club; Basketball 3, 4; Volleyball 2; Glee Club. JANET COLLIN “Ah, you flavor everything; You are the vanilla of society.” Academic Delta Epsilon Alpha; Crucible 3; Rochet 4; French Club; Senior Girls’ Quartette 4; Quill and Scroll; ' Class Play 3; Glee Club. ARTHUR BREHMER “ am nozv past the craggy paths of study, And come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation.” Commercial CARL BROOKNER “lie could songes make and well endite.” Academic Radio Club; Quill and Scroll; Swimming Team 4; Crucible 4; Rochet 4. HELEN CARNEGO “Like the violet which alone prospers in some happy shade” Commercial Page Thirty-One BEATRICE CURRIER Thou art a scholar” Academic Social Science Club; Debate 4. CLAYTON DALY “Whatever my dream, it cannot be unhappy.” Industrial � HELEN DARCY ( Tomorrozc comes and zee are where? Then let. us live today” Academic Quill and Scroll; Delta Epsilon Alpha; Crucible 3; Crucible Editor 4; Rochet 4; Debate 3; Life Saving 2-3; Class Play 3; Student Council 4. LYLE CUTSHALL “A man he seems of cheerful yester days and confident tomorrows” Industrial “R” Club; Swimming Team 3; Orchestra 1. VIVIAN DALY u The most effective coquetry is innocence ” Commercial Eyota High School 1. DAVID DEE “When you doubt, do not act. Commercial Radio Club. Page Thirty-Two LEONA DESBIENS GORDON DE VOGEL “You may depend on it, that he is a good man whose intimate friends are good.” Commercial Social Science Club. LEIGH DONOVAN “The greatest men may ash a foolish question nozo and then.” Academic LAWRENCE DUNNETT “Look, he’s winding up the zvatch of his zvit; by and by it zvill strike .” Academic Delta Epsilon Alpha; Declamatory 1, 3; Class Play 3. “An ocean of dreams, without a sound.” Academic JOHN DISNEY “There’s music in all things, if man had ears.” Academic Senior Boys’ Quartette 4. LEONE DOYLE “It is well to be independent; also well not to be neutral.” Commercial Page Thirty-Three FRANK EATON “If basketball mere music, he ' d be a whole brass band. Academic “R” Club; Class Vice-President 1; Football 1, 2, 3, 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Track 1. MARGARET EICHORN “Diversity, that is my motto. Commercial Delta Epsilon Alpha; Class Play 3. TILLMAN ERICKSON “Deeds, not words. Academic VERNON ECKHOLDT “To know how to hide one ' s ability is great skill. Academic Wrestlin g 3; Quill and Scroll 3. DONALD EPPARD “1 think; therefore I am. Academic LOUISE FAKLER “Say not that she did either well ill, only ‘she did her best ' . Commercial Junior Orchestra. JOSEPH FAWCETT Then he will talk—good gods, how he will talk!” Academic Quill and Scroll; Delta Epsilon Alpha President 4; Class Play 3; Crucible 3; Boys’ Glee Club 3. CAROLYN FRATZKE “A poet does not zvork by square or line.” Academic Crucible 1, 2, 3. EVELYN GODDARD “The hidden soul of harmony Academic Orphean Club; Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3; Volleyball 3; Orchestra 1, 2, 3; Glee Club 1,2, 3. GEORGE FARNHAM “ had a thing to say, but will fit it with some better time ” Industrial Wrestling 4. HAROLD FITZPATRICK “Shine out, fair sun, till have bought a glass, that I may see my shadow as I pass ” Industrial MANUEL GIFFIN “The zvorld knozcs only tzco, that’s Rome and I.” Social Science Club; Jazz Orchestra; Radio Club; Delta Epsilon Alpha. Page Thirty-Five LESTER GOETTING “l always get the better when I argue alone.” Academic Crucible Staff 4} Basketball 2; Football 3. LUCAS GREEN “Thy wit is quick as the greyhounds mouth—it catches .” Academic Radio Club LAWRENCE GRONVOLD “He who owns the soil oicns up to the sky” Industrial Live Stock Judging Team 3. WALTER GORDON “He held his seat—a friend the human race .” Commercial Life Saving Corps 4; Roll Room Representative 4} Swimming 4. SHIRLEY GREEN “HeSl find a way” Industrial “R” Club; Swimming Manager 3, Swimming Team 4. KENNETH GUYSE “Though he was rough , he was kindly.” Industrial “R” Club; Athletic Representative 4; Interclass Track Meet 3; Foot¬ ball 2, 3, 4; Wrestling 2, 3, 4. RALPH HAGAMAN ; -r V -Vi ' i IRENE HAGEDORN “What a soul, twenty fathom deep , in her eyes” Commercial Basketball 1. OSCAR HARGESHEIMER “It is a great plague to he too handsome a man ” Academic French Club; Radio Club; Class Treasurer 2. MYLES HENDRICKS “Thcrc y s mischief in this man” Academic French Club; Social Science Club. “Once I guessed right And I got credit by’t; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on’t. Industrial Orphean Club; Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4; Band 1, 2, 3; Boys’ Glee Club 3. MABEL HAMMOND “Let me an audience for a word or two” Academic Quill and Scroll; Debate 3, 4, Rochet 4; Crucible 4; Basketball 2. SHIRLEY HEIN “The rezeard of a thing well done is to have done it” Academic Page Thirty-Seven JOHN HINES “He is a well-made man who has a good determinatioti.” Academic “R” Club; Quill and Scroll; Rochet 4; Class Vice-President 4; Swim¬ ming 2, 3, 4; French Club. MARGARET HJERLING “Push on—keep moving Commercial DOROTHY HOFFMAN “Whatever I have done is due to patient thought Academic Social Science Club; Quill and Scroll; Rochet 4. DORIS HJERLING “Nor Fame I slight , nor for her favour’s call; She comes unlooked for if she comes at all ” Commercial Crucible 4; Basketball 2, 3, 4; Volleyball 2; Typing Contest 3. WILLIAM HOEFT “If fame comes after death , I am in no hurry for it.” Academic Quill and Scroll; Delta Epsilon Alpha; Rochet 3, 4; Crucible 3; Class Play 3. JEANETTE HOUSTON “It is a frieridly heart that has plenty of friends Academic Quill and Scroll 4; Crucible Staff 4; Rochet 4; Volleyball 2, 3. Page Thirty-Eight RAYMOND KAMESCH “My only looks were woman ' s looks , and folly ' s all they ' ve taught me. Commercial LUCILLE KELLER “I am part of all that I have met. Academic Orphean Club French Club; Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club 4. MARGARET KINNEY “Thy modesty ' s a candle to thy merit. Academic Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Band 4. MARGARET JESSON “I have no other reason than a woman ' s reason : I think him so because I think him so. Academic Orphean Club; Glee Club 2, 3, 4; Basketball Team. PHILIP KAVANAUGH “Nothing is gained without work. Academic JOSEPH KENNEDY ( He was fresh and full of faith ‘that something would turn up ' . Academic ‘R” Club; Secretary 3; Swimming Team 3; Orchestra 1, 2; Glee Club 3, 4. Page Thirty-Nine GEORGE KLANN “Be not simply good; be good for something Academic Radio Club. ELVA KRAGNESS “In maiden meditation, fancy-free ” Academic Porter, Minnesota, High School 1; Bruno Minnesota High School 2, 3. MARGARET KRUEGER “A good mind possesses a kingdom Academic Social Science Club Rochet 4. HERVEY KNUTZEN “So much one man can do, that docs both act and know.” Academic Orphean Club; Band 3, 4; Rochet 4; Crucible 4; Swimming Team 3; Glee Club 3. BERTHA KRETZSCHMAR “Quality, not quantity, is my measure Academic Delta Epsilon Alpha; Crucible 4; Rochet 4; Debate Team 3, 4. ESTHER KUNERTH “What ever anyone does or says, I must be good” Com mercial Page Forty LELAH LANGLEY TOM LAWLER “ dare do all that may become a man, Who dares do more is none.” Academic Delta Epsilon Alpha; Radio Club; Quill and Scroll; Class President 4; Glee Club 3, 4; Crucible 3; Swim¬ ming Team 3, 4; Senior Boys’ Quartet 4. FERN LINSTROM “ Her very frowns are fairer far , Than smiles of other maidens are .” Academic Glee Club 2, 4; Delta Epsilon Alpha; Volleyball 3. NORMAN MARK.LE “My words were meant for deeds.” Academic Delta Epsilon Alpha; Orphean Club 4; Rochet Business Manager 4; Crucible 4; Quill and Scroll Presi¬ dent 4; Class Treasurer 3. I am sure care ' s an enemy to life.” Industrial Social Science Club. JESSALYN LEWIS “I laugh not at another ' s loss, I grudge not another ' s gain” Academic Quill and Scroll. EDWIN MADDEN “And when a lady ' s in the case, You know all other things give place.” Academic Page Forty-One LELA MAYHOOD “Honest labor bears a lovely face.” Commercial lura McDermott “Nonsense, notv and ben, is pleasant.” Commercial Volleyball 3. JOHN MINER, JR. “Laugh and be fat, sir!” Academic “R” Club} Cheer Leader 3, 4} Athletic Representative 3} Football 1, 2, 3; Athletic Board 4; Student Council 3. ROSS MAYHOOD “Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.” Academic Eyota High School, 1, 2, 3} Social Science Club. ROZELLA MILLER “Silent, when glad; affectionate though shy.” Commercial ROBERT MINER “He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.” Academic “R” Club President 4-j Student Council President 4; Class- President 3} Football 2, 3, 4} Wrestling 3. Page Forty-Two GEORGE MORRISON NELLIE NANGLE “O all the girls that e ' er teas seen, There ' s none so fair as Nellie. Academic DALLAS NIELD “Is there a heart that music cannot melt? Academic . Senior Boys’ ' Quartette; “R” Club; Booster Club; Football 4. THELMA NORMAN “A tender hearty a tcill inflexible. Academic Delta Epsilon Alpha; Quill and Scroll; Rochet 4; Crucible 4; Basketball 3; Swimming 3; Class Play 3. “A well known knight. ' Academic Delta Epsilon Alpha; “R” Club; Radio Club; Swimming Team 2, 3, 4; Football Manager 4; Track Man¬ ager 3; Class Play Electrician 3. LELA NICKERSON. “Is she not a modest young lady? Academic Viroquo, Wisconsin, High School 1, 2, 3. ARNOLD NIETZ “And certainly he was a good fellow. Commercial Orchestra 1, 2. Page Forty-Three DOROTHY NUTTING “It is tvell for one to know more than he says .” Commercial Basketball 1 Glee Club. BETTY PATTI SON “Take me just as I am.” Academic Basketball 1, 3, 4; Swimming 3 Class Vice-President 3; Orphean Vice-President 4; Glee Club 2, 4; Senior Girls’ Quartette 4. FULTON PERRY “Whatever he did was done with so much ease t In him alone Pwas natural to please.” Academic Radio Club 4; Quill and Scroll} “R” Club} Crucible 3, 4} Rochet 3} Rochet Editor 4; Student Council 4; Class Secretary 1} Booster Club 4} Track 2, 3, 4} Football 4} Property Manager of Class Play 3. IRENE OISETH “Everything succeeds with people of sweet and cheerful disposition.” Academic Kasson High School 1 } Volleyball 3} Social Science Club} Glee Club 3; Orphean Club} Senior Girls’ Quartette. RICHARD PEDERSON “From the crown of his head to the soles of his feet he is all mirth” Industrial Swimming 3. ESTHER PETERS “A quiet conscience makes one so serene.” Commercial Girls’ Horticulture Club. Page Forty-Four ROY PIKE GEORGE PURYEAR “He knows ye not, ye gloomy Pozvers.” Industrial Wrestling 3. LEONA RADKE “Silence ami simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in women” a Academic ARCHIE REID “It is sometimes expedient to forget what you knozv.” Academic “He builded better than he knezo.” Industrial MILDRED RABER “Earnestness is needed in this world as much as any virtue.” Commercial Social Science Club; Volleyball 3. LUELLA RADKE “All zvho joy would zvin must share it.” Academic MILTON RENAUX lt A little nonsense notv and then Is relished by the tvisest men.” Industrial Wrestling 2, 3. STANLEY RUTH “ Tis better to be left , than never to have been loved.” Academic Cheer Leader 3. WARNER SANDELL “When a nctv book comes ont f I read an old one.” Industrial Roosevelt High School, Minneapolis, 1, 2, 3; Football 4. VIRGINIA RICHMOND “You know I say just what I think and nothing more nor less.” Academic Quill and Scroll} Social Science 4} Class Treasurer 4} Basketball 1, 3, 4; Swimming 3; Service Club Pres¬ ident 4. CLARA RUTZ “ The mildest manners and the gentlest heart.” Commercial Junior Orchestra} Typing Contest 3. EVA SATORIS “ Begone, dull care! I prithee, begone from me! Begone, dull care! Thou and I shall never agree.” Commercial Quill and Scroll} Glee Club Page Forty-Si a MARTIN SCANLAN “A mind content both croton and kingdom is.” Academic Heffron High School 1. MELLEGREN SCHROEDER “ With lokkes cruelle, as they zeere leyed . in .presse.” Academic, ,i . Rochet 3 j . Booster ,Glub. . CIIRISTEVA SCHWERS1NSKE “A name which you all knozv by sight very welly But which no one can speak and no one can spell.” Academic PAUL SHANDLEY u Man is seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.” Industrial Agriculture Club. ELBERT SCHWARZ u He argued high y he argued Jozc, He also argued round about him.” Industrial “R” Club; Basketball 3, 4. CLAIRE SIEGEL “Then on! then on! where duty leads. My course be onward still.” Academic R” Club; Football 4; Basketball 4; Swimming 3. Page Forty-Seven JANET SMITH “Let knowledge grow from more to more” Academic Quill and Scroll} Rochet 4; Crucible 3, 4; Girls’ Basketball 1, 2; Swimming 2. LILA STAGGERT “A likeable girl with a likeable way.” Commercial Glee Club 1, 2. RALPH STEVENS “There is no zvisdom like frankness ” Industrial NELLIE SNOW u This zvorld belongs to the energetic ” Academic VIVIAN STEFFLRE ( Szceet girl graduate , in her golden hair” Commercial Quill and Scroll 4; Crucible 4; Rochet 4. ARTHUR STOLP By the zvork one knozvs the workmen” Commercial Page Forty-Eight NINA STOLP EDWARD TABOR “I count life just the stuff To try the soul’s strength on.” Academic Holcombe, Wisconsin, High School lj Football 3, 4} Booster Club 4; “R” Club. BERTHA TILL “Patience is a flozeer that grazes not in everyone’s garden.” Commercial . Volleyball 3. MARION TOWN “When good natured people leave us, zee look forzeard zvith extra pleasure to their return.” Commercial yi‘- ' ■ • A s- ' • v | I HUH ' ■“2P “A happy so id that all the zvay To heaven hath a summer’s day.” Commercial Glee Club; Basketball 1, 3, 4; Volleyball 1, 2, 3, 4. FRANCES THORNTON “Inner sunshine zearms not only the heart of the ozener, hut all zeho come in contact zvith it.” Commercial GERALDINE TIMPAYNE “Her smile zeas like a rainbozv flashing from a misty sky.” Commercial Page Forty-Nine HENRY TRADUP “Pray you, use your freedom, And so far, if you please, allow me mine.” Commercial JULIA TRYGSTAD If she will do y t, she will ; and there ' s an end on ' t.” Academic Luther Academy, Albert Lea, Min¬ nesota; Basketball 3; Glee Club 4. RAYMOND VANDERHOFF These arc the times that try ' men ' s souls.” Academic Orphean Club; “R” Club; Swim¬ ming Team 2; Football 3, 4. MARION TROW “ never dare to write as funny as l can.” Academic French Club; Quill and Scroll; Crucible 3, 4; Rochet 4; Glee Club 2, 3; Declamatory Contest 1. LORRAINE UNDERDOWN “On with the dance l T.et joy be uncon fined ” Commercial Delta Epsilon Alpha; Rochet 4; Class Play 3. DURWELL VETTER Come not within the measure ■ of my wrath.” Academic • • Quill and Scroll; Delta Epsilon Alpha; Orchestra 2,. 3, 4; Rochet 3, 4; Crucible 4; Track 2, 3; Booster Club; Class Play 3. MARC. A RET WEIBERC. “The Vjr veet expression of that face , Forever changing, yet the same.” •Commercial Orphean Club; Senior Girls’ Glee Club; Basketball Team 2. CLARENCE WILKE “Hear ye not the hum of mighty workings?” Industrial ALLYN WILSEY “No man is wiser for his learning, Biit wit and wisdom arc born with a manN Academic “R” Club; Social Science Club; Football 3, 4. FRANCIS VIHSTADT “ There ' s time for all things Academic Radio Club. INEZ WENZEL “The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.” Commercial FRANCES WILLIAMS “Not that I dislike study , But that I like fun better Academic Glee Club 1, -2. Page Fifty-One WALTER WITZK.E “l was between a man and a boy } A hobble-de-hoy y A little, punchy concern of sixteen.” Academic LAWERENCE WYATT U I won t quarrel with my bread and butter ” Industrial Zumbro Falls, Minnesota, High School 1, 2. STELLA ZEMPEL “My way is to begin with the beginning” Commercial ZxLf- ' ELEANORA WOLFE “We call it only pretty Eleanore ' s ways” Commercial ALVA YAGER “He sleeps no more than doth a nightingale.” Academic Wrestling 2, 3. LYLA ZICK “Pleasant words are valued and do not cost much” Academic Glee Club} Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4 Volleyball 2, 3. MISS HURLEY MR. OLDENBURG MISS NAUMAN MISS ERICKSON DOROTHY ROOT WALTER HARGESHEIMER NORMAN LINDSTROM CHARLES BRITZIUS JUNIOR CLASS REVIEW The junior motto, “To live is to think,” has proved a difficult one to attain, but juniors have, for the most part, attempted to make some progress in realizing that goal individually and as a group this year. De¬ pendability, thoughtfulness, and determina¬ tion have been characteristics which they have desired in class work and in school life. The class officers are: Norman Lind- Strom, president; Dorothy Root, vice- president; Charles Britzius, secretary, and Walter Hargeshcimer, athletic representative. Helva Pekkala repre¬ sented the class on the debate team. Amy Logan was chosen as¬ sociate editor of the Rochet, and a number of juniors were members of the staff. In athletics, Walter Hargeshcimer, John Cook, Charles Britzius, and Glenn Teska have been prominent. School activities and organiza tions as a whole have been able to rely on junior support. “Martha-by-the-Day,” the class play, won approval when it was presented in March, both because of the appeal of the story and the spirit and effectiveness with which the members of the cast took their parts. The next large un¬ dertaking of the class will be the “prom,” and the juniors will endeavor to make it as delightful as that event has been in other rears. Page Fifty-Three _ THE CLASS OF 1929 Row 1 — Robert Adler, Arvilla Albert, Hannah Alexander, Lina Anderson, Lillian Anfinson. Row 2— Rhoda Bailey, Velma Batterson, James Bell, Gordon Benson, Richard Blake. Row 3 —Agnes Bourquin, Harold Boutelle, Mary Brennan, Carl Briesc, Charles Britzius. Row 4 — Gretchen Brown, Frances Burbank, James Butler, Charles Butruff, Dorothy Campbell. Row 5 —Georgia Cauchon, Arent Cloutier, Morris Cooke, Leona Crown, Dayton Davies. Page Fifty-Four THE CLASS OF 1929 Row 1—Harriet Drews, Eleanor Dunbar, William Jchinger, Aldene Ensrude, Loretta Ewald, Row 2—Robert Fitzpatrick, Rex Frost, Gertrude Frutiger, Leone Fuerstneau, May Gallimore. Row 3—Amy Gallimore, Marion Gonderzick, Mildred Greenwood, Emily Gustine, Myrtle Haggerty. Row 1 Blanche Hamill, Palma Hanson, Alice Hargesheimer, Walter Hargesheimer, Evelyn Herschleb. Row 5 Stella Hoover, Gerald Hutchins, Theresa Ilgen, Evelyn Jones, Raymond Jung. or? Page Fifty-Five THE CLASS OF 1929 r ow 1 — Doris Keehn, Kenneth Keehn, Catherine Kennedy, Donald Knowlton, Doris Kretzschmar. Row 2 — Edna Larsen, Merlin Larson, Albert Lamprecht, Dorothy Langton, Dorothy Krueger. Row 3 — Beulah Lewis, Norman Lindstrom, John Livingstone, Amy Logan, Rachel Loobs. Row 4 — Mildred Lord, Elmer Maass, Leona Malvin, William Martin, Louida Martin. Row 5 — Morris Melby, Doris Mengedoth, Wallace Meyer, Roger Mills, Ruth Moe. Page Fifty-Si THE CLASS OF 1929 Row 1 —Forest Mohler, Hazel Mohler, Lucille Mohler, Dorothy Mosing, Mary Nield. Row 2—Hazel Larson, May Olson, Floyd Oelke, James O’Neill, Harold Pallas. Row 3 —Thomas Parker, Helva Pekkala, Ardith Penny, Beulah Penz, Claudia Perkins. Row 1 -James Pleune, Veryl Predmore, Drorothy Prigge, Vera Proud, Ruth Puryear. Row 5 —Mildred Ranfranz, Betty Raymond, Florence Rcick, James Ritter, Dorothy Root. Page Fifty-Seven THE CLASS OF 1929 Row 1—Roger Ruber, Constance Rosensteel, Clifton Rosebloom, Annette Schmidt, Ralph Sader. Row 2—Orr Seaman, Eldrcd Scnrick, Ethel Schreiber, Lloyd Schultz, Frederick Smith. Row 3—Luella Spring, Adeline Staggert, Elma Starkson, Bernard Stibbs, Mardell Stout. Row 4—Charles Swanson, Clara Thedens, Frances Titrington, Esther Tomforde, Zeida Towey. Row S—Arlcen Town, Susan Volz, Priscilla Wagoner, Elizabeth Waldron, Robert Waldron. Pa%c Fifty-Eight THE CLASS OF 1929 Bernice Ward, Lenore Wetzel, Marjorie Wilsey, Buelah Wiltsey, Ralph Wooley, Margaret Blakely. Page Fifty-Nine MISS TROTT WILLIAM SCHACHT MISS SINCLAIR MISS KING DONALD OSTROM LEO STRUIF JOHN LOBB SOPHOMORE CLASS REVIEW � The 209 students in the sophomore class began their successful year by electing Leo Struif, president; John Lobb, vice-presi¬ dent; Dorothy Ranfranz, secretary; Wil¬ liam Schacht, treasurer, and Donald Ostrom, athletic representative. Though this was their first year in senior high, and they were rather “green,” they showed up well on the honor roll and in school activities. On the honor roll for the first two six weeks were Edna Krctzschmar, Betty Mus- sey, Frances Earle, Carol Wolfe, Muriel Hunter, Richard Whiting, Helen Lee, Alice Wheeler, Alice M oo r e, M a ry Alice Magaw, Ed i th Rod- dis, Helen Rowley, Edith Foster, Marion Giles, Schacht, Ranfranz, Perry, Katherine Lemon, and Edith Laws. Representing the class on the football team were Maurice Holets, Donald Freder- ickson, Leo Rowland, and John “Bus” Oelkc, next year’s captain-elect. Ray Bunge demonstrated for the second year class his abilities as cheer leader. Maurice Holets and Leo Rowlands played on the basketball team. William Schacht upheld the honors of the class in debate. A num¬ ber of musicians and declaimers belong to the Orphean Club and the Delta Epsilon Alpha. 7 ' h e four years which the class has had in R. H. S. have brought growth and development to its members, a n d the next two years prom¬ ise many more new ideas and experiences and opportunities. Page Sixty THE SOPHOMORE CLASS Page Sixty-One DONNA CAMPBELL MRS. VOLD MR. MORGENSON MISS ANDERSON RAYMON SCHULTZ EILEEN WILSON JOHN ROSENOW FREDRICK SCHUSTER NINTH GRADE CLASS REVIEW Bearing their blue and white standard to victory’s goal, graduation, the members of the class of 1932 have ended a commend¬ able career in the Junior High School. With John Rosenow leading them as their president, Fred Schuster, vice-president, and Ray Schultz, Donna Campbell, and Eileen Wilson as other officers, and with the aid and counsel of their advisors, they have succeeded most ably as the “seniors” of the Junior High. Ever since the members of the freshman class entered the halls of R. H. S., they have been prominent in the affairs of the school. They first ap¬ peared in the public eye two years ago in t h e “measle” play which was given be¬ fore the assembly, and was greeted with great applause. Since then, they have frequently been seen on the assembly stage. Both boys and girls have been well represented in the glee clubs, as well as in other activities. Billy Gates, their only representative on the football field, was a quarterback this year. Three of their men went out for swim¬ ming. This year they have given their own parties, and taken their share of responsi¬ bility in the school. Best of all, they have upheld the standard of scholarship set by their predecessors. Doris Baatz, Julia Wilson, Charlotte Palen, Barbara John¬ son, Luverne Strifert, Margie Fawcett, and Helen Moore are to be found on the honor roll. So it will be with great satisfaction that the Senior High wel¬ comes them next fall. Pane Six y-Two THE FRESHMAN CLASS Page Sixty-Three GEORGE BAIHLY MISS VAHLE MISS MATTHEWS MISS GILBERT ELIZABETH FIEGEL JOHN LILLIE GEORGE HALLENBECK JOHN LOGAN EIGHTH GRADE CLASS REVIEW Eighth-grade students elected the follow¬ ing officers for the year 1927-28: President, George Hallcnbeck; vice-president, John Logan; secretary, John Lillie; treasurer, Elizabeth Fiegel; and athletic representa¬ tive, George Baihly. Our advisors are Miss Gilbert, Miss Matthews, and Miss Vahle. Our party was held on the 16th of De¬ cember together with the seventh grade and it went off perfectly, being supervised bv our advisor, Miss Vahle. Stunts, under the direction of roll room teachers, were given in the senior assembly, christened the “Sodge Eateau” for the occa¬ sion. The “Kutie Kids” of Miss Mat¬ thews’ and Miss Thompson’s roll rooms won the prize for the best stunt. After the stunts, everyone went to the girls’ gymnasium, where presents and candy were received from Santa Claus. We had a good representation at the “R” Club Banquet on November 18, and all present thought it very w’orth while. The Junior Boys’ and the Junior Girls’ Glee Clubs and the Band have many eighth graders. We are represented on the wrest¬ ling team by Captain Darnell. Many boys have w o n district school letters and are going out for “R’s.” In declamation, we have good material, including last year’s oratorical winner. We have many students on the honor roll each period, and some are very near the top. Page Sixty-Four THE EIGHTH GRADE Page Sixty-Five FREDERICK MARGESHEIMER MR. BAATZ MISS HUGHES MR. SMITH DORIS SCHARTAU STANLEY GIBBONS MISS KEEFE ELIZABETH BRAASCH SEVENTH GRADE CLASS REVIEW The class of 1934 consists of approxi¬ mately two hundred new pupils who have already passed one of the six years in their high school career, and are looking forward to five more years in which they will have the opportunity to develop in scholarship, leadership, and character under the guid¬ ance of R. H. S. In the early part of the scholastic year a meeting of the seventh grade for the pur¬ pose of electing officers was called. The following were chosen to guide them dur¬ ing the year: Eliza¬ beth Braasch, presi¬ dent; Doris Schartau, vice-president; John Lawler, secretary ; Stanley Gibbons, treasurer; Frederick Hargesheimcr, cheer¬ leader. Later a com¬ mittee was appointed to select class colors. Nile green and gold were chosen. On December 21, the seventh and eighth grades participated in one of the most suc¬ cessful parties of the school. After an enjoyable program, gifts were distributed by Santa Claus. The following were listed on the honor roll: Beulah Anderson, Rosemary Macdon¬ ald, George Hallenbeck, Miriam Harge- sheimer, Lois Palen, Rueben Melby, Doris Larson, Virginia Lang, Dorothy Fife, and Elizabeth Braasch. Under the careful guidance of their ad¬ visors, Miss Hughes, Mr. B a a t z , Miss Keefe, and Mr. Smith, they have sup¬ ported the activities of our school and tried to take their small part in the life of R. H. S. Pape Sixty-Six THE SEVENTH GRADE Page Sixty-Seven poofe Cfjree w Miss Marian Baker, Librarian THE HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY I he purpose of education is to prepare the students to become worthy citizens. N6 one department of the school is better fitted to contribute to the carrying out of this pur¬ pose than the library. Here students from every department and every grade in the Junior- Senior High School work side bv side on history, science, geography, English, or any other subject in which library work may have been assigned. They learn to respect the rights of others as well as to use their initiative in making use of a body of reference material. The school library is primarily a reference room. Only required readings may be done there during school hours. An atmosphere inducive to diligent and painstaking work is cultivated. After school hours it is open to students who wish to go there for leisurely and desultory reading. The library is building year by year a well-balanced collection of books best suited to answer the demands of the departments of the high school. Additions are made carefully and as the result of a demand. A file of the best magazines is kept to answer the calls for current topics and to meet such needs as those of the debate team. A bulletin board of current clippings is managed by the members of the journalism class. Suggestive book lists and posters are displayed from time to time to help the students in forming their taste for worth-while books and in choosing the books which are best suited to their abilities. A special course in the use of the library is given to all ninth grade students as a part of their English course. Page Seventy THE JUNIOR ASSEMBLY Approximately 1160 of the students in the Junior-Senior High School have study- period seats assigned to them in the junior assembly where they go for at least one hour each day to work uninterruptedly on their lessons. As in the library, students from every grade work together in the study hall primarily on their own initiative. Quiet, diligent study is a matter of contagion, and it is encouraged in every way possible as well as required in the junior assembly. Absolute silence is possible, since students who wish to do reference work, which necessitates moving about, go to the library for that purpose. In spite of the fact that there is little intercourse between students in the junior assembly or between students and director, each study-hour class develops a group consciousness which is the basis of the cooperation displayed there. • The tasks which engage the students, differ¬ ent as they may be, have yet enough in common to make possible an atmosphere of unity and purpose. The personalities of the many students who come to the junior assembly are in some respects more truly revealed there than in the class room, for they are quite likely to give expression in their faces to the thought of the moment, drawn out by the quiet, contemplative attitude of the group. In the course of a day, many an interesting study in psychology presents itself to the eyes of an observant student or teacher. This same mood which leads students to reveal passing emotions, makes them also receptive to suggestions of a very personal kind, and the study hall is one of the most effective channels for the insti¬ gation of ideals of character. Pa e Seventy-One Miss Alice Endicott and Carl W. Romer, Instructors BIOLOGY The Biology Department of Rochester High School has an advantage over that of most high schools of its size in the fact that it shares the facilities of the Junior College, both in faculty and laboratory equipment. The equipment is of the best, including a large museum collection of marine specimens, mounted birds and mammals, as wejl as numerous models useful in the study of human anatomy and physiology. Last year an excellent Spencer Dclincascope, which can be used for opaque projections and for regular lantern slides, was added to the equipment. Already it has added materially to the interest in the course and has been used by other departments as well. The proximity of the greenhouse to the labora¬ tory helps much in the study of botany. In the greenhouse is a large aquarium which is stocked with a hundred or more goldhsh loaned to the school each winter by Dr. Graham. The biology course in Rochester High School is a full year course during which about one-third of the time is given to the study of zoolog} ' , physiology, and botany respectively. Zoology is studied in the fall when it is possible for the students to observe many living animals and to make for themselves a collection of insects. The last mentioned activity is of considerable service to the community in killing many hundreds of injurious insects, even though that is not its primary objective. Human physiology and hygiene are studied in the winter which is an appropriate time for this study, as the experimental “animals” arc even more lively at that season that at any other time of the year. Botanv is saved to studv in the spring. Page Scvcnty-Tzvo Miss Doris Trott, Instructor JOURNALISM The course in journalism contributes to the education of the student by training him in accurate observation and in forceful and Huent writing and by giving him a knowledge of the nature of the work done by an important profession. The requirements of the chief types of journalistic writing, including feature, interview, speech report, and editorial articles, are studied, and constant practice in writing is insisted upon. Practical experience in news-gathering is afforded by the publication of the school notes in the Post Bulletin; each student is responsible for covering his “run” regularly. A first-hand knowledge of editing copy, reading proof, and writing headlines results from the publication of the Rochet and Crucible bv the students. As much of the work in preparing both publications as they show themselves capable of accomplishing is left in the hands of the members of the class. Outstanding newspapers and magazines are examined and compared as to policy and content. The course is not intended to make journalists of the students, but rather to give them a comprehensive idea of newspaper work so that they may judge individually of the a dvis¬ ability of their taking up newspaper work as a profession. The course also aims to provide a training in journalistic writing which will be of value to the student who enters a school of journalism in college. Journalism in Rochester High School has been attracting an in¬ creasing number of students in the four years in which it has been offered, the class this year numbering 28 . The course is, for the most part, limited to seniors. Page Seventy-Three Mr. Charles Rudkin , Instructor ARTS AND CRAFTS The course in arts and crafts is intended to provide a foundation for the student who will pursue a course in college which requires the development of skill in drawing, painting, or the handling of art materials. The study of the essentials of lettering, free-hand sketch¬ ing, and composition precede work in color harmonies, which in turn precedes work in de¬ sign. After these fundamentals have been mastered, work in crafts is taken up. The specific activities of the class include such projects as making posters and illustrations; decorating the gymnasium for school parties; decorating vases, candles, and such objects; wood printing and leather-tooling. The ability to draw is necessary to the engineer, architect, designer, and expert crafts¬ man as a means of graphic expression of thought. Through its use, inventive sugges¬ tion can be designed, classified, and recorded. Any advancement in professional work of these types is practically impossible without skill in sketching, and its importance to those engaged in the various crafts cannot be over-emphasized. Even though every student will not become an artist, it is possible that all may be taught to draw well through a thorough understanding of the principles. Through this emphasis, the student is able to develop understanding so that he can grasp a difficult problem and quickly put it on paper. The course endeavors to enable the student to state by graphic representation his consciousness through vision in such a way that he will be better prepared to profit from college training. An increasing number of students are finding the course of value each year. The department included approximately one hundred fifty students this year. Pa e Seventy-Four B. F. Dunn, Instructor AGRICULTURE The Smith-Hughes Agriculture department of the Rochester High School is maintained by federal, state, and local funds to promote greater interest and efficiency in the agricul¬ ture work in the community. During the past six years, when agricultural conditions have been very discouraging, the enrollment in the vocational agriculture work has been slowlv but steadily increasing, thus showing the faith of the farmers of this community in the future of scientific agriculture. It has been the policy of this department to give the boys taking the course the funda¬ mental basic principles of plant life, animal growth, and farm management for foundations upon which to build agricultural, professional, or business careers so that they will become better citizens because of their thorough understanding of this basic industry. The regular course is two years in length and the subject matter is divided into a year devoted to the study of our field crops and their efficient maximum production, and a year of feeding, care and management of our common farm animals. Much time is given to the individual problems that come up on the home farms of the boys in the class. Trips are made to their farms, during school term and summer, and they are encouraged to get into every phase of the farm work and learn as much as they possibly can about the best ways of conducting the different farm enterprises. A three months’ part-time class is offered each winter to help boys who cannot be spared from the farm work during the fall and spring. Each year a series of evening school classes for adults has been given in some phase of agriculture work. Page Seventy-Five Miss Martha Matthews, Instructor SEWING CLASS The department of home economics, like that of manual training, is most often thought of as purely vocational. The courses given in clothing and textiles, commonly called sew¬ ing, are selected by most girls, probably because they appeal to them from the practical and the aesthetic point of view. They enjoy selecting and making their own clothes and home furnishings. This in itself has its value. The real educational value of the work, however, lies in the training of the girl to think logically and consistently; to express her¬ self rightly; to follow directions explicitly; to plan and utilize her time judiciously; to be accurate; to exercise good judgment and common sense, and at the same time to be neat and attractive. She learns that her clothing, to a certain extent, and her personal habits, have their influence on her health. She finds, too, that most of her so-called academic subjects are not entirely unrelated to her home-making courses. Her costume designing has a his¬ torical background, and it involves the basic principles of color and design; laundry and cleaning processes are only repetitions of her chemical experiments; the working of her sewing machine and electrical appliances is governed by the laws of physics; the production and consumption of textiles, fabrics and clothing involves some of the greatest social and economic problems; and mathematics is required to compute measurements for patterns and materials. She finds that, after all, her home may be an extension of her school library and laboratory and that its work need not be drudgery; that the principles of good citizen¬ ship in school are those of good citizenship everywhere. Puge Seventy-Six Miss Agnes Thompson, Instructor COOKING CLASS The home economics department in the Rochester High School consists of courses in foods and clothing and their related subject matter. The work with the Junior High School girls differs from the course offered the Senior High School girls, in that develop¬ ment of skill is not stressed in the elementary courses, but the aim is rather to help the girl to be a better member of her own family, to help her to take her place in the world more effectively, and to arouse her interest in the study of home-making subjects. In the Senior High School classes, emphasis is placed in addition, upon technique. In the foods course an effort is made to give the girls a knowledge and skill which will enable them to be of greater assistance to their mothers at home. They are trained in the preparation of simple, healthful foods, and in ways of serving. Foods are considered from the point of view of usefulness to the body as energy and heat givers, as tissue builders, and as body regulators. Meal planning is also stressed. Health needs cannot be neglected during the period of secondary education without serious danger to the individual and race. The secondary school should therefore provide health instructors, inculcate health habits, and cooperate with home and community in safe¬ guarding and promoting health. For this reason, the opportunity for health education in connection with home economics is never neglected. The home economics department aims to establish as effectively as possible better stand¬ ards for food, clothing, and personal habits and to bring to the girls a realization of the importance of home-making. Page Seventy-Seven Miss Amanda Holland, Instructor BOOKKEEPING Bookkeeping as a subject in the high school curriculum is changing its character. It tends to include less arithmetical detail and repetition of simple procedure and to leave more time for the logical development of business than was previously the case. The method of presentation is changing from the journal and account methods to the balance sheet approach. The bookkeeping department in Rochester High School introduced this method this year and found it entirely satisfactory. The subject is taught with three principles constantly in mind. First, bookkeeping should be a valuable educational instrument, providing, as it does, an orderly and reasonable sequence of subject matter. Second, it is the direct avenue to business knowledge; in the process of making the records, the student acquires a definite knowledge of the meaning and methods of business transactions, and, through these, of business itself. Third, it is valu¬ able for the vocational aspect which is illustrated by examples which represent sound, prac¬ tical technique, and methods. The specific aim of the bookkeeping department is to teach the principles of bookkeeping and business procedure, not primarily to produce bookkeepers; to lay the foundation for further study and business development; to train for positions open to students at their age level; to develop the power of sustained attention, to cultivate self-reliance, to encourage initiative and such business-like habits as neatness, punctuality, courtesy, thrift, budgeting, and the like; to teach commercial honesty. Great care is exercised that the pupils may learn principles as well as methods and forms. Page Seventy-Eight Miss Bf.th Anderson, Instructor TYPEWRITING Typewriting is a two-year course with the general aim of preparing the student to do intelligently and efficiently the work usually required of a tvpist. It is open to juniors and seniors. Writing from straight copy at a high rate of speed and with a high degree of accuracy is necessary, but it is only one part of the training which must go into the making of a good typist whose skill can be used in business. The development of skill in transcribing letters, typing statements, and addressing envelopes as well as in other types of routine work necessary in the average office is also an object of the typewriting course. The specific aim of the department, then, is to prepare the student to meet the stand¬ ards of work demanded by the best business houses. First of all, he must develop an efficient operating technique. A correct method of operating is the basis of skill, and accuracy will be secured only to the extent in which this ability is accomplished. A degree of proficiency in the practical application of the technique which will enable the student to write accur¬ ately at a fair rate of speed must also be acquired. In addition, the student must gain a workable knowledge of the principles of form and arrangement as applied to typewritten business papers, and he must be able to type such papers in attractive form from unarranged copy. This latter skill is of especial importance, since that kind of work in connection with transcribing shorthand notes is a requisite for success as a typist. Finally, the course in typewriting aims to acquaint the student with the details of business practice related to typing. Page Seventy-Nine Mr. Roy Nordby, Instructor MECHANICAL DRAWING The initial training in mechanical drawing which is offered by Rochester High School is a part of the work in the advance wood shop course, in which twelve weeks of forging and twelve weeks of wood turning are intended as a trial course. If the student cares to continue work in drawing after this trial course he may register for advanced drawing, a year course. The first half of the time is taken up with a thorough study of mechanical projection and development. The second part of the course deals with the study of me¬ chanical parts, such a threads, nuts, bolts, and machine fastenings. The work of a third year is the study of architecture. Here again the year has two divisions, the first half being devoted to a study of architectural details, such as windows, doors, cornices, and roof and wall constructions, while in the second half the student designs and makes all plans for a small bungalow. Drawing is the graphical language of the industrial world. Proficiency in expression in this language is acquired through first mastering the technique in the handling of drawing instruments. The purpose of any drawing is to indicate the form and size of an object and to give such information about it as to convey the ideas of the engineer or designer to the man who is to use the drawing. Mechanical drawing is an essential qualification in most lines of engineering and an almost indispensable accomplishment in many occupations. It has as its basis the study of geometry, and is often an influence in changing the attitude of the student toward that subject. Page Eighty Mr. Roy Nordby, Instructor PRINTING Printing in Rochester High School is not offered for the purpose of preparing students to enter the printing trade but as a correlating subject which provides a practical applica¬ tion of the knowledge gained in courses in English, art, mathematics, and science. Two years work are offered. The first includes a study of the elements of the setting of type, cutting stock, jogging, and padding. The second provides practice in job printing, and the students do the actual printing of office forms, tickets, posters, and numerous other materials used by the school. In the work of both years, the relation of printing to other subjects in the curriculum is emphasized. Students are obliged to bring to bear in type setting their knowledge of sentence construction, spelling, capitalization, division of words, and paragraphing, gained in their English courses. From their art work they apply their knowledge of color harmony in considering the application of color to the printed page. The relation of type to the shape of the page, the study of proportion, balance, tone harmony, ornamentation, spacing, hand-lettering, mechanical drawing, and making of layouts form a part of the course. A knowledge of mathematics is needed in its application to such matters as type-spacing, the point and pica system of measurements, estimating the cost of composition of straight matter and job printing, the determining of the amount of paper required for a job, and the cutting of it, the measurement of type masses, relative sizes of type, and the total cost of construction. Page Eighty-One Mr. Raymond Smith, Instructor THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WOOD SHOP The equipment of the wood shops in Rochester High School enables the industrial department to rank as one of the most up-to-date in the state. Many larger schools work with less machinery and fewer modern conveniences. The shaving exhaust system in the senior shop is in particular a matter of pride to the students and instructors. All the space allotted to the department in the new Central building is in use, and cheerful, attractive rooms provide pleasant surroundings for work. The senior wood shop is devoted to instruction in three branches of industrial work: wood-turning, cabinet making, and carpentry. The work in wood-turning forms the initial part of the course. The four principal steps, cylinder making, grooving, beading, and com¬ binations of these processes, are practiced in exercise work. This exercise work may later form the basis for a furniture project in cabinet making. Cabinet making consists of the usual furniture projects that lend themselves to such instruction. Wood selection, design, joinery, and finishing are included in the subject matter of this part of the course. Wood finishing is divided into staining, filling, shellacing, varnishing, rubbing, painting, enameling, and lacquering. In carpentry this year the boys are building a corner of a story and a half house having a dormer, boxed cornice, return, and a wood shingle roof. The house is com¬ plete inside, and involves inside finishing, plastering, laying floors, painting, and stair building. Page Eighty-Tzvo Mr. Einer Morgenson, Instructor THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WOOD SHOP The new quarters for the Junior High School wood shop in the Central building are an incentive to good work for both the boys and the instructor. They provide adequate work space for twenty-four students. Although there is a lack of uniformity in shop work in the high schools in the United States, Rochester is following what seems to be a general trend toward a comprehensive and inclusive curriculum which attempts to organize, unify, and present the subject matter in such a way as to represent the fields of industrial work. Four divisions occur in the course of study for the class in the junior shop. The year is opened with a study of mechanical drawing which lasts for nine weeks. This is followed by wood work projects, when the boys make such objects as taborets, bird houses, or some other article which offers corres¬ ponding difficulty of construction. A study of elementary electricity next occupies the class, and the boys work with such experiments as a simple hook-up. The year is completed with instruction in home mechanics, which is made as useful and practical as possible. The study of manual arts is valuable for a number of reasons in addition to the practical training which it gives. The achievements of tangible, material results makes for self con¬ fidence, and arouses interest in school, since boys almost without exception spend as much time as possible in the shop. Their powers of ingenuity are challenged, and their surplus energies neutralized. Page Eighty-Three MACHINE SHOP The new quarters for the machine shop in the Central building are ideal in the matter of lighting and in that they furnish a roomy and cheerful place for work. The new “pit” is a mechanic’s ambition realized, having in it every tool that is necessary in working with a car. Forging, machine shop work, and auto mechanics are the three courses offered to the student in Rochester High School in metal shop work. They are industrial courses and give practical laboratory experience in the problems taken up by the students. The twelve- weeks forging course covers welding, tempering, and the making of chain hooks, clevises, and gate hooks. In the machine shop work the student learns the uses of the lathe, the drill press, and the shaper, as well as bench work. This year the students made such articles as hammer kits, plumb bobs, and tap wrenches. There are two classes in auto mechanics. In these classes, the student gains not only a theoretical but also a practical knowledge of the working mechanism of an automobile. The point which was stressed most this year was the “intelligent consumption of the automobile.” Old automobile engines were brought to class and a piece was cut out of each part. Then an engine was assembled, and a working view of its mechanism could be had. The school cars were overhauled and kept in repair by the students, and a study of the cars handled bv the local dealers was made. The course in auto mechanics is open only to students who have completed the other vears of shop work. Page Eighty-Four Page Eighty-Five flynpl up! mp Jfrienb, anb quit pour boobs. 0i surelp pou’ll groto bouble, ®p! up! mp Jfrienb, anb clear pour loobsi! W )y all tbis toil anb trouble?” — MloibsUiortfj 5 ? 4 ©ooli Jfout w ► • Top rote, left to right — Walter Hargcsheimer, John Rosenow, John Lillie, Eileen Wilson, Donna Campbell, Dorothy Root, Dorothy Ranfnanz, Donald Ostrom, Norman Lindstrom, Charles Swanson. Second rote, left to right —Raymond Schultz, Fredrick Schuster, Leo Struif, Roger Enderson, Charles Britzius, John Lobb. Third rotv, left to right — John Hines, Hervey Knutzcn, Helen Darcy, Fulton Perry, Robert Miner, Luis Alvarez, Virginia Richmond, Thomas Lawler, Kenneth Guyse. Sitting, left to right — John Lawler, Donald Gibbons, Frederick Hargesheimcr, John Logan, George Baihly, Florence Zick, Elizabeth Braasch, George Hallcnbeck. THE STUDENT COUNCIL The Rochester High School Student Council was organized three years ago for the purpose of promoting student activities, discussing problems of student welfare, and training students to assume responsibility. It represents the classes of the high school and the various student organizations. The council is divided into five departments: booster, property, calendar, scholar¬ ship, and conduct. The boost¬ er committee prompts pep meetings and arouses enthusi¬ asm. The function of the property committee is to look after the tidiness of the build¬ ing. The calendar committee provides for general pro¬ grams; the scholarship section attempts to raise the scholastic standard of the school; the conduct committe supervises the general conduct of the student body. Robert Miner, the presi¬ dent of the council this year, has done a great deal in ac¬ complishing the work of the organization. He has assumed a heavy responsibility in all student affairs, and has headed the student body most ably. The council as a whole has attempted to make the stand¬ ard of the school higher in morale and scholarship. Its influence is felt through its membership, which includes all the officers of grades nine to twelve inclusive, and its importance among the stu¬ dents is growing each year. Pnge Eighty-Eight Top rote, left to right —Helen Darcy, Oscar Hargesheimer, Elbert Schwarz, Thomas Lawyer, Virginia Richman, Vivian Stefflre, Janet Collin, Helen Baihly. Second rote, left to right —Irene Oiseth, Evelyn Goddard, Beatrice Berndt, Claire Seigel, Thelma Norman, Julia Trygstad. Third rote, left to right —Edward Tabor, Robert Miner, Bertha Kretzschmar, William Hoeft, Marion Trow, Mable Hammond. Beatrice Currier. THE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY Twenty-two seniors from the class of 1928 were elected to membership in the National Honor Society early in March. In conferring the privilege of wearing the pin of the Nation¬ al Honor Society upon these students, Rochester High School gave to them one of the highest honors at her disposal. The first requirement for election into the Honor Society is that the candidate be in the upper fourth of his class in scholarship. Forty-six seniors were eligible in this respect this year. Only fifteen per cent of the entire class may be admitted to membership each year, so that twenty-two was the quota for 1928. Leadership, character, and service are the remaining considerations on which election is based. Of those students who meet the scholastic requirement, only those who have commqndable characters, who have stood out as wholesome leaders during their high school career, and who have contributed some out¬ standing and unselfish service to the school are admitted. The faculty committee which makes the election each year is composed of Miss Skoog, Mr. Dunn, Miss Hurley, Mr. Oldenberg, Miss Erickson, Mrs. Void, and Mr. Nordly. The total membership of the Rochester High School chapter is now seventy-four. The chapter was installed in 1925 through the efforts of Miss Belva L. Snodgrass, principal. The society serves both to stimulate and to reward effort toward personal development and for the growth of the school. Page Eighty-Nine Top row, left to right Evelyn Owen, Florence Reick, Edith Laws, Bernice Schwanke, Hazel Cooper, Gordon Norman, Richard Vine, Milton Schultz, Donald Grue, Lawrence Wyatt. Second row, left to right —Virginia Richman, Helen Baihly, Ralph Fisher, Clarence Dornack, Hartly Swenson, Marvel Mallen, Roger Enderson, Lawrence Gronvold. Third row, left to right —John Miner, Maurice Holets, Walter Gordon, Oscar Hargesheimer, Thelma Norman, Lila Sanders, Lawrence Dunnett. Fourth row, left to right Carl Helmholz, Dorothy Brown, Lois Palen, Florence Zick, Elizabeth Braasch, Warren Thurber. HOME ROOM REPRESENTATIVES The home room organization was emphasized this year in Rochester High School more than ever before because the opportunities for character building which it offers are not equaled by any other phase of the life of the school. Each home room acts as a unit with the home room representative as student head, and the teacher as advisor. The forty-five home room representatives who held office this year were elected by the members of their respective home rooms. Their duties have been numerous, constant and varied. In general, they have acted as boosters for all school activities and as financiers for their groups. They have had complete charge of the collection of class dues in their rooms and of the Rochet and Crucible subscription campaigns. During the basketball tournament, they sold tickets to the students and held responsible positions in connection with managing the tournament. ' The ticket sale for the “R” Club banquet was also carried on through the home room repre¬ sentatives, and in the “Have a Heart’ ' campaign for the community chest, they took charge of the collection of funds. “Service” has been the motto of the home room representatives throughout the year. As a group, the home room representatives act in conjunction with the Student Council when occasion demands. They work constantly with the president of the Student Council, who has charge of checking in the money which they handle. Each year, the responsibilities of the home room representatives will increase, and the school will depend upon them to a .greater degree. Page Ninety Top row, left to right —John Logan, William White, Frank Rommel, Donald Mason, Gordon Fawcett, Russell Johnson, William Balfour, Walter Sistrunk. Second row, left to right —John Borchert, George Hallenbeck, Helen Perry, Miss Alice Kierland, Barbara Johnson, Marion New, Virginia Nield, Ruth Schacht. Third row, left to right —Jean McGeary, Marion Knutson, Virginia Swanger, Carl Helmholz, Lula Raw-son, Frances Mussey, Peggy Moore, Marguerite Garden. MISS KIERLAND’S HOME ROOM Home Room 227 in the Central Building, of which Miss Alice Kierland is the teacher, contributed a larger amount per individual to the community chest than that given by any other home room group in the Junior-Senior High School. The gift of the twenty-six members of the group was $5.56, an average contribution of a little less than twenty-two cents from each student. The largest total amount from any home room came from the junior assembly, where the largest number of studejnts are assembled; their average gift, however, was smaller than that of Miss Kierland’s students. The community chest drive in the schools was carried on in connection with the city campaign in October. Each student was asked to give something to the fund, jio matter how small his gift might be. The entire amount contributed by the Rochester public schools was $675.41. Of this amount, the high school students gave $118.42; the teachers in the system donated $179.00. The campaign in the high school was advertised by “Have a Heart” posters, which appeared on every bulletin board in the building. The task of collection was left entirely to the home room representatives, although the teachers helped by emphasizing as much as possible the purpose of the drive. The call for gifts to the community chest formed a specific opportunity for the expression of a spirit of unselfish service, the cultivation of which is one of the ends of Rochester High School. Page Ninety-One Top rote, left to right —Esther Wilke, Albert Melby, Betty Mussev, Claudia Perkins, Della Campbell, Katherine Lemon, Jean Dabelstein. Second row, left to right —Margaret Thorson, Amy Logan, Mary Balfour, Marion Trow, Arlecn Town, Ellen Lampharc, Mary Ann Devney, Hazel Larson. Third rou ' f left to right —Bethel Lamphare, Eleanor Dunbar, Miss Munn, Helen Baihley, Ethel Schrieber, Margaret Blickle. THE FRENCH CLUB The French Club, organized in the fall of 1926, is primarily a study club which is able, because of its organization as a recre¬ ational activity, to touch upon broader and more intangible phases of the French spirit than can be touched upon with economy in the class room. It is planned that each meeting during the year will present, through an interpre¬ tation of the work of masters in the several fields of art, a new aspect of the life of the French people. The first meeting of the year was given over to a dis¬ cussion of plans for the year. Inasmuch as music and dra¬ matics were the outstanding interests, the second formal meeting of the year was planned as an introduction to French music. Informal meet¬ ings were held to determine the capacity of the group for dramatic work. Tryouts brought out material of considerable prom¬ ise. A short play, “Les deux sourds,” was chosen as a first objective in play-work. This play was presented to the members at the third formal meeting of the club. It is planned that the spring meet¬ ings will be devoted to intro¬ ductory studies of master¬ pieces of French architecture, sculpture, and painting. A final meeting will be con¬ cerned with a presentation of the outstanding personalities in French literature. The following offices were elected at the first meeting in September of this year: Helen Baihlv, president; John Lobb, vice-president; Alice Harge- sheimer, secretary-treasurer. Page Ninety-Two Top rote, left to right —Vera Karns, Helen Lee, Alice Wheeler, Stanley Hassig, Evelyn Towey, Helen Baihley, Lorraine Dunnett, Carol Wolf, Raymond Bunge. Second row, left to right —Evelyn Goddard, Mary Balfour, Gladys Blazing, Lucille Keller, Elizabeth Stearns, Margaret Weiberg, Irene Oiseth, Priscilla Wagner, Norman Markle. Third row, left to right —Margaret Mansfield, Amy Logan, Betty Pattison, Miss Helen Church, Dorothy Langton, Orr Seaman, Harold Blakeslee. THE ORPHEAN CLUB At the first meeting of the Orphean Club this year, the following officers were elected: Luis Alvarez, president; Betty Pat¬ tison, vice-president; Orr Seaman, secretary; Dorothy Langton, treasurer; Amy Logan, chairman of the program committee; Priscilla Wagoner, assistant chairman; R a y Vanderhoff, reporter. Nineteen students tried out for membership in the club at one of the first meetings, and sixteen were admitted. According to a change in the constitution, the decision con¬ cerning the acceptability of the candidates was made bv t h e advisor, Miss Helen Church, and not by the vote of the club, as was formerly the case. The plan followed in arranging the pro¬ grams for the meetings this year provided for the study of the life, characteristics, and works of a famous composer each time the club met. Bach, Chopin, and Beethoven have been studied so far. A typical pro¬ gram consists of a report on recent happenings in the musical world, and vocal and instrumental selections and special talks on the life and characteristics of the composer who is the subject of the meeting. The pin of the Orphean Club is a small octagon on which two gold eighth notes are mounted against a black background. The word, “Or¬ phean” is written above. Page Ninety-Three Top row, left to right —John Lobb, George Masuda, Elma Starkson, Bertha Kretzschmar, Vera Hunter, Arleen Town. Second rote, left to right —Edna Larsen, Wyman Smith, Margaret Eichorn, Luis Alvarez, Thomas Lawler, Lorraine Underdown. Third row, left to right— George Morrison, Helen Darcy, William Schacht, Miss Naumann, Mr. Nelson. DELTA EPSILON ALPHA Delta Epsilon Alpha, national society for high school dramatists which has replaced the former Dramatic Club of Rochester High School, has had an active and profit¬ able year under the direction of Miss Frances Naumann, dramatic coach, and Mr. Ralph Nelson, debate coach. The club’s most ambitious un¬ dertaking was the presentation of the one-act play, “Why the Chimes Rang,” given at the formal Christmas as¬ sembly. Regular meetings are held twice each month. The first of these meetings is a study hour which is open to those interested in dramatic coach¬ ing as well as to the members of the club. The study of dialects, voice exercises, stage positions, and the preparation of programs for the formal meetings have occupied these study hours. Programs given at the second meeting of each month have included an informal debate, a Riley pro¬ gram, and a joint meeting with the Orphean Club. Readings by students have been given at each meeting. To become a member of the Delta Epsilon Alpha, a student must take part in a declamatory contest, be a member of the debate squad, take a major part in a class play, or take minor parts in two one-act plays. The officers this year are: Joseph Fawcett, president; Helen Darcy, vice-president; William Schacht, treasurer; Thelma Norman, secretary. Page Ninety-Four Top rozv, left to right —Janet Collin, William McCarty, Donald Knowlton, Durwell Vetter, Fulton Perry, Eleanor Dunbar, Vivian Stefflre, Marion Trow. Second rozv, left to right —William Hoeft, Eva Satoris, Jeanette Houston, Beatrice Bcrndt, Thelma Norman, Margaret Blakely, Catherine Kennedy, Mabel Hammond. Third rozv, left to right —Carl Brookner, Helen Darcy, Norman Markle, Dorothy Hoffman, John Hines. QUILL AND SCROLL To create an impetus in raising the stand¬ ards of journalism in high school, and to recognize the merit of journalistic work done by high school students is the purpose of Quill and Scroll, national honorary so¬ ciety for high school journal¬ ists. The Rochester chapter of the national organization was installed in February, 1927, and in its year of exist¬ ence it has served to unify and stimulate the interest of students in journalism. The club has a membership of thirty students in its sec¬ ond year. Miss Doris Trott, journalism instructor, is ad¬ visor. Students who are in the upper third of their class scholastically and who are recommended by the journal¬ ism supervisor for having done outstanding work of a journalistic nature are eligible to member¬ ship. Candidates are required to submit original manuscripts for the approval of the national secretary before they are admitted into the club. The programs this year have consisted of discussions of some phase of journalis tic work, usually presented by a speaker who is engaged in newspaper work. Members of the post Bulletin staff have been generous in consenting to speak before the club at several of the meetings. A banquet for all high school students interested in journal¬ ism is being planned as a late spring activity. The officers are: Norman Markle, presi¬ dent; Helen Darcy, vice-pres¬ ident; Thomas Lawler, secre¬ tary-treasurer. rN n rfio Page Ninety-Five Top rote, left to right —William Gates, Donald Fredrickson, Lyle Cutshall, Shirley Green, Harold Becker, Claire Siegel. Second row , left to right —John Hines, Leonard Balcom, John Miner, Fulton Perry, Maurice Holets, John Oelke. Third row, left to right —Edward Tabor, John Cook, Kenneth Guvse, Mr. Baatz, Robert Miner, George Morrison. THE “R” CLUB The “R” Club has had a very successful year under the able leadership of its officers: Robert Miner, president; F.lbert Schwarz, vice-president; and Fulton Perry, secretary- treasurer. Twelve new members, made eli¬ gible by their work on the football, wrestling, basketball, and swimming teams, in¬ creased the membership from twenty-five to thirty-seven. The most conspicuous ac¬ tivity of the club this year was the “R” Club banquet given on November 1 8 to which the entire student body was in¬ vited. More than four hun¬ dred students and a majority of the faculty were seated in the gymnasium transformed into a banquet hall in which red and black decorations symbolized the club’s loyalty to the school. Dr. J. C.- Acheson, president of Macalester College, who gave an address on “Modern Chivalry,” was the chief speaker on the program. Fol¬ lowing the banquet, a dance was held in the gymnasium under the sponsorship of the _ club. The club serves to unify and strengthen the spirit of loyalty and clean sportsman¬ ship in Rochester High School. Membership is an honor conferred on those who have earned their letters and who qualify according to the school standards of leadership, scholarship, character, service, honesty, and sportsmanship. Since there are fifteen seniors in the group, the club will be somewhat diminished at grad¬ uation time, but there are a number of underclassmen who will be eligible next year. Page Ninety-Six Top rozcy left to right —Mr. Bohncr, Carl Brookncr, Fulton Perry, Francis Vihstadt, Lucas Green, William Harwick, Raymond Bunge, George Morrison, Mr. Kdefsaas. Second rote, left to right —Thomas Lawler, John Lobbs, Charles Swanson, Hervy Knutzen, Robert Plummer, Luis Alvarez. THE RADIO CLUB The Radio Club began the year with a broader purpose than that which has pre¬ viously formed the basis for its activities. It was decided at the first meeting in Oc¬ tober to include in the ob¬ ject of the club the promo¬ tion of general interest in the study of all the sciences and in inventions as well as in radio. Every topic taken up bv the club has been studied from a theoretical as well as from a practical point of view. The Radio Club, which consists of boys only, has a large membership of which Mr. W. E. Bohner, and Mr. L. G. Klefsaas, sci¬ ence instructors, are ad¬ visors. Typical of the interesting subjects which have been presented at the semi-monthly meetings was the discussion of the theory of the new electrical means for reproduc¬ ing for phonographs given by Mr. H. L. Murr. The club made a trip through the new Chateau Dodge theater in De¬ cember. The boys were shown all the mechanism be¬ hind the scenes, including the recently patented switch¬ board, the lighting system, and the motion picture ma¬ chines. Later in the year a trip was made through the Franklin Power Plant. The officers are: Hervey Knutzen, president; Morris Cooke, vice-president ; and Luis Alvarez, secretary-treas¬ urer. Page Ninety-Seven Top rowy lejt to right —Nina Stolp, Jeanette Houston, Dorothy Hoffman, Carol Wolf, Amy Logan, Thelma Norman, Betty Musscy, Dorothy Krueger, Stella Hoover, Evelyn Goddard, Lucille Keller, Catherine Kennedy, Helen Darcy. Second row, left to right —Zeida Towey, Beatrice Currier, Mabel Hammond, Helen Baihly, Marion Trow, Marion Sanberg, Margaret Kruger, Irene Oiseth, Shirley Heine, Dorothy Root, Alice Hargcsheimer, Margaret Weiburg, Edith Laws, Vivian StefHre, Bertha Kretzschmar. Third rote, left to right —Edith Foster, Mildred Ranfranz, Dorothy Langton, Alta Eckholdt, Miss Hurley, Virgina Richman, Janet Collin, Janet Smith, Margaret Jesson. THE GIRLS’ I he Girls ' Service Club was organized at the beginning of the second semester to promote the traditional spirit of Rochester High School. The girls aim through their organization to work for the development of every activity of the school and to establish high stand¬ ards among students in morals, character, deportment, and scholarship. Charter mem¬ bers were chosen on the basis of character, scholarship, lead¬ ership, and service. New members are taken in by the vote of the majority of the club, provided that the can¬ didates are approved by the advisors of the club, Miss Hurley and Miss Skogg. By a provision of the constitu¬ tion, the membership may not exceed fifty girls. SERVICE CLUB The club has been most active in plan¬ ning and carrying out programs for pep meetings, the rooting fest for the Red Wing game being the first project which the girls undertook. Virginia Richman and Lucille Keller have acted as cheer leaders for the girls this year, Ticket sales, the management of parties, and participation in general school activities have been included on their program this year. The girls have been able to promote a spirit of coopera¬ tion in the school for which they are to be commended. Officers for the club this year were: Virginia Richman, president; Thelma Norman, vice-president; Janet Collin, secretary; Janet Smith, treas- urer. Top rote, left to right —George Morrison, Joseph Faucett, Durwell Vetter, Lucas Green, Lester Goetting, Luis Alvarez, Philip Kavanaugh, Harold Pallas, Frederick Smith, Dallas Nield. Second rozc, left to right —Fulton Perry, Edward Tabor, Mellgren Schroeder, Robert Miner, Audre Berg, Lawrence Dunnette, John Oliphant, Francis Viistadt, Thomas Lawler, Kenneth Guyse. Third row, left to right —John Miner, Alva Yager, Elbert Schwarz, Oscar Hargesheimer, William Hoeft, Stanley Darling, Donald Knowlton, William McCarty, William Schacht. fourth rozty left to right —Allyn Wilsey, Morris Cooke, Carl Brookner. THE BOYS’ BOOSTER CLUB The Boys’ Booster Club was organized shortly before Christmas for the purpose of unifying the school in its support oi student activities and of student projects of all types. The most evident accomplish¬ ment of the club has been the increased support given ath¬ letic contests as displayed by the greater interest shown in pep meetings and the im¬ provement in cheering at games. Perhaps a more real service to the school has been performed by the club in the crystallizing of loyalty among students, which has been the result of its organization. The club was organized with twenty-five charter mem¬ bers. Since then, twenty- eight other boys have been made members. To be eligible for mem¬ bership in the club, a minimum grade of eighty is required. The executive council of the club votes on the desirability of can¬ didates for membership. According to the constitution, the club is lim¬ ited to seventy-five members. The officers this year are: Bill Hoeft, president; Oscar Hargesheimer, vice-president; Carl Brookner, secretary-treas¬ urer; Lester Goetting, mana¬ ger; Edward Tabor, Lawrence Dunnett, senior class repre¬ sentatives; Harold Pallas, junior class representative; William Schacht, sophomore class representative; Fulton Perry, reporter. Miss Snod- grass was chosen club advisor. Page Ninety-Nine Top rote, left to right —Charles Swanson, Gordon Devogel, John Lobb, George Masuda, Mary Magavv, Claudia Perkins, Alma Starkson, Frances Muzzey, Lelah Langley, Georgia Richardson, Florence Reick, Helva Pekkala, Luella Spring, Loretta Ewald, John Lillie, Dorothy Hoffman, Leland Fiegal. Second roto , left to right —Rachel Lobbs, Luis Alvarez, Bethel Lamphare, Carolina Goetting, Eleanor Thompson, Edith Roddis, Carol Wolfe, Alice Wheeler, Eleanor Leonard, Eva Becker, Margaret Krueger, Carl Helmholz, George Baihly, John Logan, Marjorie Fawcett, Estelle Hoover. Third rote, left to right —Charles Britzius, George Hallenbeck, Evelyn Towey, Mildred Raber, Esther Mitchell, Catherine Kennedy, Margaret Blakeley, Edma Larsen, Irene Oiseth, Beatrice Currier, Evelyn Jones, Dorothy Root, Hazel Cooper, Ruth Schacht, Leona Donahue, Priscilla Wagoner, Dorothy Kruger. Fourth rote, left to right —William Balfour, Miss Hughes, Mr. Swenson, Miss Maroney, Miss Carson, Miss Kingley, Miss Evesmith, Miss McBride, Miss Austen, Miss Glaser, William Schacht. THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CLUB The purpose of the Social Science Club, an organization new in Rochester High School this year, is, according to its consti¬ tution, “to promote a scien¬ tific study of social prob- lcIns. ,, This object has been well fulfilled in the meetings held d uring the first semes¬ ter. The seventy active mem¬ bers of the club are students enrolled in social science classes who have an average of eight-five or higher in their work. Their officers are: Luis Alvarez, president; Pris¬ cilla Wagoner, secretary; Margaret Lawler, treasurer. The instructors of the social sciences act as sponsors. Meet¬ ings are held on the fourth Wednesday of each six weeks. The programs are arranged so that each member of the society may take part in one before the end of the year. The history of Rochester’s schools since 1856 , the de¬ velopment of local industries, and places of recreation in Rochester were among the topics discussed at the first meeting of the club. An illustrated lecture on Scandi¬ navia formed the program for a later meeting. In connection with a study of Athens, which was the sub¬ ject of the third meeting, a play entitled, “Marathon,” was presented. In addition, several floor talks concerning Greek life were given. Page One Hundred First rote, left to right —Dorothy Kerr, Nita Stolp, Anctt Maatz, Bonell Berg, Hazel Cooper, Dorothy Swanson, Alma Blatner, Mary McGovern, Eleanor Leta, Eleanor Litzer. Second ro%e, left to right —Lila Sanders, Helen Schultz, Betty Halsted, Doris Baatz, Frances Schultz, Opal Myers, Eva Becker, Marvel Muller, Gertrude Waldron. Third rote, left to right —Georgia Mae Garver, Geraldine Mestad, Isabcll Berg, Luvernc Strifert, Miss Church, Ruth Schacht, Elizabeth Fiegel, Leona Donahue, Elnora Jensen. THE JUNIOR GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB The Junior Girls’ Glee Club, under the direction of Miss Helen Church, has had an encouraging year. The club made its first public appearance at a pep meeting when the members, in appro¬ priate and picturesque cos¬ tume, sang “In Old Japan” on an attractively decorated stage. The girls hoped the audience enjoyed their songs as much as they themselves enjoyed the singing of them. Later in the year they took part in the program of Christ¬ mas music given at a formal assembly by all the glee clubs. On several special occasions, the club aided the Senior Girls’ Glee Club in singing carols and melodies in the halls. Once each semester, a special musical program was prepared for presentation before the high school. Practices are held each Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. Various activities which help the girls to fur¬ ther their knowledge and ap¬ preciation of music are en¬ gaged in, including the read¬ ing of musical current events once each month. The club has a membership of thirty- one, an increase of eleven over that of last year. A uni¬ form of navy-blue skirts, white middies, and black ties was selected early in the fall. •The officers of the club this year are: Luvernc Strifert, president; Isabcll Berg, vice- president, a n d Elizabeth Ziegle, secretary-treasurer. Page One Hundred One Tup rote, left to right —Emily Gustine, Gladys Biasing, Margaret Jesson, Janet Collin, Estelle Hoover, Betty Pattison, Elizabeth Stearns, Floy Pcndergast, Lucille Jorgenson, Dorthea Prigge, Julia Trygstad, Teresa Ilgen, Lyla Zick, Irene Oiseth. Second row, left to right —Eva Satoris, Margaret Weiberg, Lucille Keller, Rachel Loobs, Loretta Ewald, Vera Proud, Lorraine Dunnette, Nina Stolp, Elizabeth Waldron, Lucille Daly, Lenore Wetzel, Lila Staggert. Third row, left to right —Carol Wolf, Margaret Kinney, Luella Spring, Fern Linstrom, Romaine Root, Miss Helen Church, Helen Lee, Betty Bush, Vera Karns, Marion Sanberg. Fourth row, left to right —Edith Raddis, Margaret Moore, Hazel Hiltne, Lenora Rund, Lenora Himile, Lila Hailing. THE SENIOR GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB The Senior Girls’ Glee Club has had a membership of forty-three this year, a num¬ ber almost double that of the membership of last year. The girls meet twice each week to practice songs which are being pre¬ pared for public presentation and to in¬ crease their knowledge of music through discussion and solo work. The girls are frequently called upon to contribute to programs, and occasionally they are asked to sing before some Rochester organization. The best remembered of the school programs which the glee clubs have provided this year is the Christmas carol service. The Senior Girls’ Glee Club has also appeared at vari¬ ous pep meetings, and at Christmas and Thanksgiving they sang songs in the corri¬ dors of the High School and Central build¬ ings in observance of the spirit of the occa¬ sion. A contata, “The Dancer,” is being prepared for presentation in the late spring. The club sang twice before the convention of the Minnesota Horticulture Socie ty held in Rochester last fall. The district music contest, in which the Senior Girls’ Glee Club took second place last year, will be held in Rochester this spring, and the girls have high hopes of winning honors again this year. Miss Helen Church, director of the glee clubs, de¬ serves much of the credit for the success of this year’s efforts. Page One Hundred Two Top rote ' , left to right —Vorlev Stefflrc, Glenn Tolefson, Hirchel Cast, John Lillie, Donald Liesch, William Balfour, John Rosennow, John Borchert, Stanley Beecher, Herold Hoffman, Gus Meyerding. Middle rozvy left to right —George Hallenbeck, William White, Joe McDermott, Herold Lundquist, Eugene Gray, Warren Thurber, Herbert Hoffman, Fredrick Stephan, Harry Luckey, Richard Oleson. Front rowy left to right —John Logan, Walter Sistrunk, David Judd, H. Church, Frederick Sivarts, Donald Haarstick, Frank Rommel. THE JUNIOR BOYS’ GLEE CLUB The Junior Boys ' Glee Club has taken an active part in the activities of the school throughout the entire year. The member¬ ship of the club was doubled over that of last year when twenty-seven young singers turned out for tryouts in the fall in the place of the fourteen of last year. Miss Church, the director, had talked to the boys in each assembly period urging them to come out for glee club, and her request, coupled with the half-hour credit given for glee club work and the attention given the club last year, was incentive enough to lay the foundation for the success of this year. Nor have the boys been content with merely learning songs to sing before the high school, for every week they have held a discussion of musical current events which gave them a great deal of information concerning mat¬ ters in the musical world of which they did not know. Early in the year, the Junior Boys’ Glee Club sang their well-known “newsy song” at one of the pep meetings. Later those who were seventh or eighth graders enter¬ tained at the seventh and eighth grade party and were hearti¬ ly applauded. In the spring they gave a lit¬ tle operetta at a pep meeting entitled “The Boy Bandits.” This performance, too, was received with ap¬ plause. The club has a promising outlook for next vear. Page One Hundred Three IRENE OISETH MISS CHURCH JANET COLLIN FERN LINDSTROM BETTY PATTISON THE SENIOR GIRLS’ QUARTET The Senior Girls’ Quartet was organized late in the fall of 1927 by Miss Helen Church, who found that there was a need for a small group of girls to take part in programs for school affairs when it was not feasible to call together the entire glee club. The senior girls in the glee club were asked to try out, and the fol¬ lowing were chosen to make up the quartet: First soprano, Janet Collin; second soprano, Irene Oiseth; first alto, Betty Pattison; second alto, Fern Lindstrom. Practices are held each Tuesday after school. Both serious and humorous music is prepared for presentation at school affairs. The girls sang before the school for the first time at the Christmas play given by Delta Epsilon Alpha, “Why the Chimes Rang,” when they sang “Sleep O Holy Child,” in the altar scene. The quartet has contributed to the programs for several pep meetings. Typical of its offerings on such occasions was the song, “Have We a Good Team? ” which the girls presented at the pep meeting for the Red Wing game. The continuance of the quartet in other years depends on the school’s need for it, and pres¬ ent demands indicate that a senior girls’ quartet ' will be organized early next fall. Page One Hundred Four THOMAS LAWLER BERT BARBEREE MISS CHURCH JOHN DISNEY DALLAS NIELD THE SENIOR BOYS’ QUARTET The Senior Boys’ Quartet was organized this year in the place of a senior boys’ glee club, the formation of which seemed impossible because an effective combi nation of the voices of the twenty boys who answered the summons for tryouts could not be ar¬ ranged. For that reason, it was necessary for the enthu¬ siasm and spirit which the boys displayed in the tryout to be confined to the quartet this year. The membership is as follows: First tenor, Bert Barberec; second tenor, Dallas Nield; first bass, Thomas Lawler; second bass, John Disney. After three weeks’ practice, the Senior Boys’ Quartet, an innovation in Rochester High School, made its first public appearance at a pep meeting. Some weeks later the boys sang again before the school, this time at the “R” Club banquet, one of the most memorable events of the school year. They felt that they were honored in being asked to sing on that occasion, and were complimented by the warmth of the reception which their numbers received. Following the banquet, the boys worked on music of vari¬ ous types and have made sev¬ eral public appearances this year. To Miss Helen Church, director, is due the praise for the accomplishments of the vear. Page One Hundred Five Top rote, left to right —Harold Hannenberger, Margaret Kinney, Earl Wolf, Raymond Stopple, Donald Enkc, Raymond Hammond, Esther Ellis, Darrel Fischer, Kenneth Goddard, Victor Ferguson. Second rote, left to right —Arline Matzke, Esther Williams, Fabian Boshnyak, Freeman Sveom, Donald Gibbons, Ellsworth Wolfgram, Marvin Hannenberger, Harold Blakslee, Allan Ferguson, Merlin Sleen, Donald Knowlton, Mr. Murr. Third rote, left to right —Carl Hanson, William Montgomery, Woodrow Zick, Don Mcrcier, Hervey Knutzen, Allen Gentling, Victor Waldron, Shirley Shonyo. Fourth rote, left to right —Evelyn Goddard, Benedict Dresback. THE HIGH SCHOOL BAND The Rochester High School Band is al¬ ways a potent factor in arousing and ex¬ pressing school spirit. The band has been present this year at most of the athletic con¬ tests, and has always contrib¬ uted to the effectiveness of the rooting. The parade which opened the district basketball tournament was headed by the band. Several local organiza¬ tions have included numbers by the high school band on programs which they have sponsored. The first public appearance of the year was made at the Merchant’s Fall Opening week. An event of importance for the band this year was the concert given by Sousa’s band in the fall, when the organization had the ex¬ perience of being directed by John Phillip Sousa. The thirty members of the band this year are as follows: Clarinets, Don Mercier, Woodrow Zick, Victor Waldron, William Montgomery, Allen Gentling, Carl Han¬ sen ; saxophones, Louis Enke, Margaret Kinney, Harold Hannenberger, Earle Wolfe, Ray Stopple, Constance Rosen- steel, Ralph Hammond; pic¬ colo and flute, Shirley Shon¬ yo; cornets, Merlin Steen, Don Gibbons, Marvin Han¬ nenberger, Harold Blakeslee, Don Knowlton, Allen Fergu¬ son, Ellsworth Wallgram; alto horns, Fabian Boshnyak, Freeman Sveom, Esther Wil¬ liams; trombones, Kenneth Goddard, Catherine Ellis, Victor Ferguson; baritone, Aline Matzke; basses, Evelyn Goddard, Benedict Dresbach; drums, Hervey Knutzen. Page One Hundred Six Top rozv, left to right —Carol Wolf, Mary Crewe, Stanley Hassig, Ralph Hagaman, Bernard Stibbs, Lloyd Schultz, Arnold Nietz, Leo Struif, Kenneth Goddard. Second rozv, left to right —Margaret Lawler, Harold Blakeslee, Richard Hargesheimer, Merlin Larson, Gordon Norman,, Walter Hargesheimer, Romaine Root, Vera Karns, Luella Spring, Ethel Skccls, Mr. Murr. Third rozv, left to right —Julia Wilson, Beatrice Shinvik, Lucille Keller, Priscilla Wagoner, Mildred Lord, Robert Lynn. THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA The Senior High School Orchestra is an organization which often contributes to the enjoyment of the student body of Roches¬ ter High School at a program given before the school or at such public presentations as class plays. In addition to its work before audiences of school mates this year, the orchestra has played on several occasions before outside organizations. Several numbers were given before the convention of the Min¬ nesota Horticulture Society and at the Junior Live Stock Show, both held in Rochester in the fall. The orchestra works constantly to maintain a standard of excellence equal to that which has been estab¬ lished in past years, and it is able to play creditably in comparison with orchestras in other high schools of the state as large and larger than ours. Among the pieces which have been studied this year are: “Stradella Overture” by F. Von Flotow, “Spanish Dance” by Moskowski, “Funeral March of a Marinette,” and the contest pieces, “Ancient Minuet” and “Miniature.” The orchestra is composed of three first violins, six second violins, one viola, two violin- cellos, three cornets, one trombone, one saxophone, two flutes, and two drums. Mr. H. L. Murr is the director, and to him is due the credit that belongs to one whose effort to achieve excellence is tireless. Page One Hundred Seven Top row, left to right — Vincent Blazing, Edmund Lynn, Harold Boutelle, Vendal Little, Richard Vine, Harold Luckey. Second rote, left to right —Elner Jensen, Maxine Ward, Annette Matz, Martha Dahlke, Allene Thompson, Lylah Sanders. Third row t left to right —Catherine Little, Virginia Nicld, Clara Rutz, Mr. Murr, Louise Faklcr, Marion Knutzen, Eileen Wilson. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA The Junior High School Orchestra has made splendid progress this year. Although the players are not experienced they have done their best, and have accomplished much in mas¬ tering the principles of orchestra playing. Since the members are chosen from the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades, the organization is thoroughly representative of the Junior High School. The purpose of the Junior High School Orchestra is to create interest in music among the students in the underclasses and to give the members experience which will be of value to them when they begin more advanced work with the Senior High School Orchestra. Members of the junior orchestra who excel in their work are transferred to the more ad¬ vanced organization even though they have not been graduated from the Junior High School. This recognition is an added incentive to members of the junior group. Several have won this honor this year. Many of the orchestra students receive their instruction in the Saturday morning classes conducted by Mr. Murr. Others depend upon the regular orchestra practice to strengthen their playing. The instruments included in the Junior High School Orchestra are: First and second violin, cornet, and piano. This year three times as many girls as boys are in the orchestra, but it is hoped that more boys will be out next year and that the orchestra will be increased bv more instruments. Mr. H. L. Murr is the director. The group meets three times each week. Page One Hundred Eight c v First rote, left to right— Lawrence Dunnett, Edna Larsen, Arleen Town, Margaret Thorson, George Masuda. Second rote, left to right —Norman Markle, Julia Wilson, Donna Campbell, Robert Lynn. Third row, left to right —Marguerite Gardener, George Baihly, Margaret Boyd, William Montgomery. THE DECLAMATORY CONTESTS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Oratorical “The American Ideal ”.Norman Markle, First “America ' s Perfect Knight .Robert Lynn, Second Dramatic “ Camille” .- Edna Larson, First “The Alien” - -- -- -- -- Margaret Thorson, Second “The Old Man” . ----- Arleen Town, Third Humorous “Aunt Drury Visits the Horsfittle ”.Wvman Smith, First “Why a Hen Lays an Egg .Lawrence Dunnett, Second “Finh eheim on de Detephome ------ George Masuda, Third JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Oratorical “Builders of Empire .Marguerite Garden, First “War or Peace or Both -------- Jessie Headley, Second “The Death Penalty .Sidney Smith, Third Dramatic “ A?i Eye for an Eye” ------ “The One Hundred Oneth” - “Just David” - -- -- -- - Humorous “Biff Perkins ' Toboggan Slide” - “The Wedding” - . “George Has a Grouch on Sisters” - - - - William Montgomery, First Julia Wilson, Second Elizabeth Braasch, Third George Baihly, First Donna Campbell, Second Margaret Boyd, Third Place Place Place Place Place Place Place Place Place Place Place Place Place Place Place Place Place Page One Hundred Nine M A RTH A-BY-TH E- DAY Page One Hundred Ten M A RTH A-B Y-THE-D A Y The phrase “Martha-bv-the-Day” was added to the vocabulary of Rochester High School students when the junior class presented Julia M. Lippmann’s well-known comedy on March 6, 7, and 8. The connotations of that rather odd group of words were made clear when Arleen Town interpreted so vividly the spirit and courage of a staunch and loving Irish mother. The play was given before three crowded houses, who were warm in their appreciation of the play and of the work of the cast. The wholesome fun of the lines, made droll by their broad Irish brogue, found a whole-hearted response i n the audiences, and the optimism of the theme of the play endeared it to the players as well as to those who watched its presentation. The story centered about the character of Martha, who was largely responsible, as a few rare souls sometimes are, for the working out of the happiness of her family and friends. The problem which Martha had to face in her own family was that of providing an oppor¬ tunity for her husband, Sam Slawsdn, to regain his fast-failing health in the open air of the mountains; and with a capital of $4.67, the securing of the opportunity would have looked well-nigh impossible to a less energetic spirit than Martha’s. Incapable of refusing sympathy wherever it was needed, Martha added to her responsi¬ bilities by befriending a young girl, Claire Latag, who was in New York without money or friends to whom she could turn. Through Martha’s ingenious planning, Claire was placed in the home of a young millionaire, Frank Ronald, as the governess of his young nephew, with the inevitable result that she remained as the mistress of the beautiful mountain home. The establishment of the Slawsons as part of the servant staff in the Ronald household solved the difficulty of providing for the recovery of Sam’s health, and Martha was instru¬ mental in uncovering the injustice which had been done the husband of Mr. Ronald’s step¬ sister when he was allowed to serve a term of imprisonment for a theft of which his wife was guilty. The cast of characters in the order of their appearance follows: Francis - Cora - Ma Slazvson - Martha Slazvson - Steve Lundy Claire Lang - Sam Slazvson Frank Ronald - Flicker Mrs. Allen Sherman - Amy Pelham Shazv - - - Allen Sherman Alice Hargesheimer Zeida Towey Gretchen Brown Arleen Town Merlin Larson Edna Larsen Morris Cooke Norman Lindstrom Dorothy Langton Evelyn Jones Gerald Hutchins Charles Swanson Page One Hundred Eleven Top rozv , left to right —Lawrence Dunnett, Jack Miner, William Hoeft, Thomas Lawler, Stanley Darling. Second rote, left to right —Thelma Norman, Betty Pattison, Margaret Eichorn, Janet Collin. WHIT E COLLARS Presented by the Class of 1928 of Rochester High School CAST OF CHARACTERS William Van Luyn Mr. Thayer - Frank Thayer - Cousin Henry - Tom Gihney Joan Thayer Mrs. Thayer Helen Thayer - Sally Van Ltiyn - Tom Lawler Stanley Darling William Hoeft Lawrence Dunnett Jack Miner Bettv Pattison Thelma Norman Margaret Eichorn Janet Collin SYNOPSIS OF SCENES Act I, Scene 1 — Portion of William Van Luyn’s private office. Scene 2 — Dining-room in the Thayer flat. Same day. Act II — Parlor of the Thayer flat; a month later. Act III, Scene I — Dining-room of the Thayers’; ten days later. Scene 2 — The same evening. Place — New York City. Time — The present. P ige One Hundred Tivelve Top rote, left to right —Lorraine Underdown, Janet Collin, Mcllgren Schroedcr, Harold Pallas, Walter Hargesheimer, John Hines, Gerald Hutchins, Luis Alvarez, John Cook, William. Hoeft, Donald Kn owl ton, Frederick Smith, Carl Brookner, Charles Swanson. Second rozv y left to right —Margaret Krueger, Catherine Kennedy, Margaret Blakely, Beatrice Bern t, Dorothy Hoffman, Helva Pekkala, Janet Smith, Jeanette Houston, Helen Darcy, Mable Hammond, Vivian Stefflre, Eleanor Dunbar, Doris Kretzschmar, Zeida Towey, Dorothy Mosing. Third rozc, left to right— Helen Baihly, Bertha Kretzschmar, Durwell Vetter, Norman Markle, Miss Trott, Fulton Perry, Amy Logan, Dorothy Root, Marion Trow, Hervey Knutzen. Edito r-in-C hie f Fulton Perry Classes Bertha Kretzschmar Helen Baihly Jeanette Houston Eleanor Dunbar Donald Knowlton Features Dorothy Root Catherine Kennedy Helva Pekkala Mabel Hammond Beatrice Berndt John Hines Art Editors Dorothy Hoffman Nellie Snow Fern Lindstrom Snapshots Janet Collin Lorraine Underdown Carl Brookner Hervey Knutzen THE ROCHET STAFF Business Managers Norman Markle Durwell Vetter Assistant Editor Amy Logan Student Activities Doris Kretzschmar Dorothy Mosing Fred Smith Gerald Hutchins Margaret Blakely Luis Alvarez Margaret Krueger Athletics Walter Hargesheimer Charles Swanson Mellgren Schroeder John Cook Helen Darcy et Smith ian Stefflre da Towey rold Pallas rion Trow Page One Hundred Thirteen Top row, left to right —Durwell Vetter, Donald Knowlton, Hervey Knutzen, John Cook, Fulton Perry. Middle row, left to right —Bertha Kretzschmar, Vivian Stefflrc, Jeanette Houston, Mable Hammond, Doris Hjerling, John Hines, Theodore Tollefson. Rotton row, left to right —Julia Wilson, Marion Trow, Miss Trott, Helen Darcy, Janet Smith. THE CRUCIBLE STAFF Make-Up Editor Marion Trow Literary Editors Mabel Hammond Carl Brookner Sports Editors John Cook John Hines Fulton Perry Humor Editors Janet Smith Hervey Knutzen Editor-in-Chicf Helen Darcy Junior High School Editors Julia Wilson Doris Engle Teddy Tollefson Assignment Editor Bertha Kretzschmar Special Features Jeanette Houston Donald Knowlton Typists Doris Hjerling Vivian Stefflre Business Managers Norman Markle Durwell Vetter Circulation Manager Thelma Norman Page One Hundred Fourteen THE CRUCIBLE , J-B - ■ The Crucible, monthly student publication of Rochester High School, is becoming more firmly es¬ tablished each year as an important contribution to the life of the school. Its appearance is anticipated with zest, its news scanned with interest, its fic¬ tion judged for excellence, and its jokes chuckled over and repeated. The staff, chosen early in Septem¬ ber, w r as composed largely of members of the journalism class, since the publication of the Crucible is considered a class project. Contributions from any student in high school are always welcomed, however, and each number contained some material from the pens of students outside the class. All the jour¬ nalism students worked with the staff as a rule in preparing copy, editing proof, circulating the magazines, securing advertising, or in doing any work in connection with the publica¬ tion which offered itself. Six issues of the Crucible were published this year. The covers were of an attractive mottled paper bearing the familiar design of the torch above Rochester High School, en¬ circled by the words, “Leadership-Character-Scholarship-Service,” the motto of R. H. S. The color of each number varied to be in keeping with the general theme of the issue. Each number contains several regular departments in addition to feature articles, fiction, and poetry. These departments are book reviews, editorials, sports, and humor. This year at least one page each month was the work of the Junior High School. The Christmas and senior issues were the special numbers of the year, each containing twenty-four instead of the usual sixteen pages. The feature material in each was suggested by the theme for the month. In the Christmas issue an article entitled, “Amazing Inter¬ views,” written by Janet Smith and Marion Trow, was received with interest and amusement, for it revealed the Christmas wishes of the faculty, and a queer set they were. The Novem¬ ber issue contained an account of the occupations and whereabouts of almost the entire class of 1927. Another interesting feature of the year was an article concerning students in Rochester High School who are work- , ing their way through school with little or no financial aid. In general, the Crucible has at¬ tempted this year to mirror the life of Rochester High School in such a way as to contribute to the unity of spirit of the entire student body. It aims to influence student sentiment, to inspire loyalty, and to recognize merit in journalistic and literary writ¬ ing. Insofar as these aims have been accomplished, the year has been a suc¬ cessful one for the Crucible. KDITORIAU cwjcHh.H «r w — ■ WM 7 A MTUftY t, HRtXTMAa CRUCIBLi- •.. -. y. . ' - Page One Hundred, Fifteen SCHOOL PARTIES Work is doubtless good for the souls of all of us, but Rochester High School students are firm believers in the importance of recreation in the life of the school, and thev would be quite unable to know what to make of their high school if the occasional parties w’hich relieve the tension of things were to fail to liven up the gym on a Friday night. These parties are always well-attended by students from the seventh grade on up, for nobody who has caught the spirit of R. H. S. would feel right about staying away. The first party of this school year was given on October 28. The seniors assumed their responsibilities by acting as hosts to all the underclassmen on this occasion. The music for the dancing was furnished by the school electrola, and the appearance of the Hi-Y initiates in a variety of regalia added to the informality of the good time. I he “R” Club banquet, given on November 18, was one of the most memorable social events in the entire year. Coming at the close of the footbal season, it served as a climax for student support of athletics and for all other activities of the school as well. The gymnasium was appropriately decorated in red and black, and the spectacle of four hundred students seated beneath their colors was a sight worth seeing. Robert Miner presided over the toasts in his characteristically sincere way. The main speaker of the evening was Dr. J. C. Acheson, president of Macalaster College, whose subject was “Modern Chivalry.” Mr. Sandberg gave a toast, and Mabel Hammond and Elbert Schwarz were the student speakers. The “Blue Devils” orchestra provided the music for the dance following the dinner. Another of the year’s most successful parties was the Christmas party given by the seventh and eighth grades on December 16. A program of stunts opened the evening, the contri¬ bution of the “Kutie Kids,” a chorus of thirty-three girls, being voted the best. Gifts were distributed by Santa Claus, alias Mr. Dunn, from a large Christmas tree in the gymnasium. Probably at no other party of the year was the sum of rollicking good fun so great as on this occasion, and certainly at no other time was formality so completely banished. Following the Lewiston, Red Wing, and Winona basketball games, dancing parties were held in the gymnasium for all the students who attended the games. On such evenings, enthusiasm and good spirits quite naturally ran high, and each of these parties was considered a great success. The Student Council, the Booster Club, and the Service Club sponsored these affairs. Two parties are scheduled for May which will have months of anticipated pleasure to their credit. One of these is to be a costume party at which long, full skirts, bustles, and their ilk will be the vogue. The other is the annual junior-senior prom, the loveliest partv of the year. Page One Hundred Sixteen FORMAL ASSEMBLIES At the formal assemblies held several times each semester, the students of Rochester High School have the opportunity of hearing speakers of some renown, of benefiting from a carefully planned program of music, or of seeing a worth-while play. The atmosphere on these occasions is one of thoughtfulness and attention, and those who have appeared on such programs have found the students responsive and appreciative. The first formal assembly this year was held in November. Mrs. Helen Field Fischer of Shenandoah, Iowa, a landscape gardener and radio speaker, spoke on “The Secret of Power.” She talked to the girls in the morning and to the entire student body in the after¬ noon. The second speech of the year was given shortly after Christmas, when Mr. E. J. Myers, president of the Board of Education of Minneapolis, addressed the students. Two of t he most enjoyable formal assemblies were given in observance of the Christmas season. The program for the first was provided by the glee clubs under the direction of Miss Church. Carols were sung by the entire group, with Helen Lee and William White taking solo parts. A few days later, the Christmas play, “Why the Chimes Rang,” was presented by Delta Epsilon Alpha members, coached by Miss Naumann. The cast was made up of Arleen Town, Edna Larsen, Evelyn Jones, Glenn Teska, Zeida Towey, and James Bell. The most scholarly and thought-provoking address which the students heard this year was that given by Reverend Guy E. Menefee, rector of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Mene- fee used as his topic the six standards of Rochester Pligh School character, scholarship, leadership, service, honesty and sportsmanship. PEP MEETINGS That pep meetings this year have aroused more enthusiasm and interest than ever before may be said without exaggeration. They have done much in securing student support for both football and basketball, and they have served to encourage the fine type of sportsmanship which won the sportsmanship trophy for Rochester High School in the basketball tournament. Pep was at rather a low ebb at the beginning of the year, but when “Fat’ Miner and a few other live wires got on the job, things were stirred up considerably. The glee clubs helped out a number of times, and individual students never failed when called on for a stunt. Enthusiasm reached its climax after the organizing of the Boys 5 Booster Club and the Girls’ Service Club. The boys held their first pep fest just before Christmas. The part which our home-grown boy from Chatfield, Lawrence Dunnett, took in it makes every¬ body recall it with a smile. The girls made their first appearance in the pep meeting for the Red Wing game. Virginia Richman and Lucille Keller acted as cheer leaders, and there were a number of special features which kept the “Gang” on their toes for an hour. Later pep meetings did not fail to meet the standard of school spirit set by these occasions. Page One Hundred Seventeen “JJf all tf je pears! toere plaptng bolfoaps, HLa sport tooulb be as tebiouS as to toorfe.” — H l)aUcspearc ® pool Jftbe w jfeatureS 4 w HELEN BAIHLY Character Page One Hundred Twenty ROBERT MINER Leadership Page One Hundred Tzcenty-One BERTHA KRETZSCHMAR Scholarship Page One Hundred Ttvenly-Ttoo THOMAS LAWLER Service Pige One Hundred Twenty-Three KENNETH GUYSE Honesty Page One Hun dred Twenty-Four FRANK EATON Sportsmanship Page One Hundred Twenty-Five Charles Britzius Service Norman Lindstrom Leadership JUNIORS Doris Kretzschmar Scholarship Walter Hargesheimer Sportsmanship Edna Larsen Character Romaine Root Service Carol Wolf Character SOPHOMORES William Schacht Leadership John Oelke Spo rtsmanship Edna Kretzschmar Scholarship Page One Hundred Tiuenty-Six ov iSiilp ROCHESTER SCENES Page One Hundred 7 ' zcenly-Sevcn WILLIAM SCHACHT BERTHA KRETZSCHMAR THE 1928 DEBATE SQUAD MABEL HAMMOND Page One Hundred Twenty-Eight THE DEBATE SEASON The debate team this year has had a most successful season. For the first time, Rochester won in the district contest, and two unanimous decisions have been given thus far in the regional contest. The question for this -year was: “Resolved, That the United States Should Construct an All-American Canal Rather Than Co¬ operate with Canada on the Great Lakes- St. Lawrence Project.” The primary purpose of debate is to teach the student to think intelligently on the spur of the moment, and to organize the knowledge he has for a practical use. It also cultivates the student’s poise and confidence in his ability to appear before an aud ience. Those trying out for the debate team started work in September under the direc¬ tion of Mr. Nelson, debate coach, and early in November, the tryouts were held. Five people were chosen for the two teams. Bertha Kretzschmar, William Schacht, and Mabel Hammond were selected for the affirmative team. William Schacht also worked on the negative team with Helva Pekkala and Beatrice Currier. The first debate of the dis¬ trict was held in Waseca, Jan¬ uary 1 2. The Rochester team, Bertha Kretzschmar, William Schacht, and Mabel Hammond upheld the affirmative and won bv a unanimous vote. The second debate was held in Blooming Prairie February 15. The Rochester team, Hel¬ va Pekkala, William Schacht, and Beatrice Currier, defended the negative and won by a 2-1 vote. In the third debate, the negative team de¬ feated South St. Paul by a unanimous vote, giving Rochester three points in the regional contest. Bertha Kretzschmar, William Schacht, and Helva Pekkala took part in this contest. The debate with Wells was the first one held in Rochester. In this contest, the team received another unanimous decision. William Schacht, Bertha Kretzschmar, and Mabel Hammond took part in this debate. The last debate of the region, to be held in Rochester March 23, will determine the winner of the regional contest. Rochester will uphold the affirmative side of the ques¬ tion. Under the new ruling of the state de¬ bate league, the team having the largest total number of votes wins in the contest. So far in the regional debates, the Rochester team has six, and the Stewartville team four votes. Consequently, the Rochester team needs but one vote to be eligible for the state contest which will be held in St. Paul the week April 1 to April 7. It is thought that the debate between Rochester and Stewart¬ ville will be a very close one, as the Rochester team has not yet been defeated, and the only de¬ cision against Stewartville is a 2-1 decision in favor of South St. Paul. XJ Page One Hundred Twenty-Nine m, FOOTBALL ft MANAGER B BASKETBALL 7 SWinniNG G TRACK 6 BOXING G WRESTLING 6 DECLAMATION 6 ' STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT 9 QEBaTE a CIRLS ATHLETIC 7 CHEER LEADER 7 Page One Hundred Thirty AWARD NIGHT Award night will be observed for the third time by Rochester High School when the program opens on the evening ol May 18, 1928. The two preceding award nights have left an impression on the student body of such strength that no other event on the calendar of the school year ex¬ ceeds in importance the signifi¬ cance which is attached to award night, when recognition is publicly given to those stu¬ dents who deserve distinction for some service they have per¬ formed or for some quality of character which they have at¬ tained. The purpose of award night is to indicate the appreciation of Rochester High School and of the city of Rochester for those students who have been outstand¬ ing in character, leadership, scholarship, or service in their school life. On this occa¬ sion, the students who have merited recog¬ nition bv the school are called to the plat¬ form of the senior assembly and presented with the awards which they have won. Needless to say, the award is followed by the applause of the entire student body, and no student wishes for a greater honor than the sincere tribute from his classmates which that applause indicates. Rochester High School confers the priv¬ ilege of wearing the “R” on the following students: the Student Council president, the editors of the Rochet and the Crucible, the participants in Senior High School declama¬ tion contest, the members of the debate team, the men who have met the require¬ ments for winning an “R” in football, basketball, swimming, track, boxing, and wrestling; the girls who have earned their “R’s” in athletics, the student managers of athletics, and the cheer leaders of Rochester High School. On award night also, em¬ blems are presented to the members of the National Hon¬ or Society and to the members of the National Athletic Soci¬ ety. Several local organizations also provide awards each year for students who are outstand¬ ing in character or achieve¬ ment. The Kiwanis Club pre¬ sents a prize to the winner of the first place in the oratorical division of the Senior High School declamation contest; the Business and Professional Women’s Club confers a prize upon the winner in the dramatic division; and The Commer¬ cial Club gives a prize to the winner of the humorous division. The Rotary Club presents prizes to the two students who have done the best work in debate, and gold medals are conferred upon all the members of the squad. A gold medal is presented by the American Legion to the student who is judged most worthy of honor in the fol¬ lowing respects: determination, ambition, optimism, personal habits, ability to over¬ come obstacles, ideals, and scholarship. Award night, like commencement, is for each senior class one of those occasions which comes but once in a lifetime, and memory of it remains in the minds of R. H. S. graduates. Page One Hundred Thirty-On Marie Randall- Verna krue er elma Precht-Bernice Scaroeder Mildred Randall When We Were Florence Zick Marie Randall ' ss Wold Miss Hurley Mr.Fry Louise Snow Miss Skoog- Marion Trow Walter Gorden Lucille Keller Page One Hundred Thirty-Two georg-e masoda Eruin Precat MISS UAHLE Miss Townsend When We Were John so BERTAA Kretzscamar MARION TOWN gT ' „ arleen Town t _ M4 madg-e town Elm a Precat Miss Austin Walter mmwm hAR £SHej M£ Marian- Wilbur Sanberg- Page One Hundred Thirty-Three Si BOD ' S COVERED WAGON School Beatrice A{s � D HER BOOKS CONNIE ' S COMPACT TWE PLUMMERS CVCLVN AMD HORN MISS SNODGRASS 5 PET FAMILIAR FIGURES Page One Hundred Thirty-Four Page One Hundred Thirty -Five Page One Hundred Thirty-Six Page One Hundred T hirtySeven Mr. G-eorg-e. KNOWLTON ' 95 DONALD KNOWJGTON Joe Fawcett ' 28 Students BERKMAN BlETtlEN ' 98 ' 98 Page One Hundred Thirty-Eight Cbttortal THE 1928 ROCHET The Rochet, annual publication of the students of Rochester High School, has a three¬ fold aim which the staff of the 1928 volume has endeavored to carry out in such a way that their book might equal in quality the excellence attained by previous volumes. First of all, the staff has attempted to embody in the pages of the 1928 Rochet an expression of the ideals, the spirit, and the purpose which Rochester High School holds before her students and which motivate her community life. In the second place, the students who have com¬ piled the book have tried to represent fully and adequately all the phases of life in Roches¬ ter High School in order to stimulate interest in the opportunities which are open to all students and to recognize the accomplishments of those students who have worked for the growth of the school. Lastly, the staff has tried to edit a record of the life of Rochester High School in the year 1927-28 which will be of use as a permanent reference book and which will represent the school fairly in the eyes of friends and patrons who are interested in R. H. S. The building of the 1928 Rochet was accomplished through the efforts of a number of people whose names do not appear on the list of the staff. As in past years, more credit for the success of the Rochet is due to Miss Belva L. Snodgrass than to any other one person. Through Miss Snodgrass’ efforts when she first came to Rochester High School, the Rochet was transformed from a small pamphlet to the All-American annual which has been placed in the hands of the students for the last three years. Little by little, Miss Snodgrass has been able to relinquish the duties in connection with the publication of the book to the staff and its advisors, but she still retains in her office much of the work involved in its preparation, and each year the greater share of the inspiration and incentive which are the foundation for a creditable annual have come from Miss Snodgrass. This year all of the busines management of the book, much of the direction of the photography, and the planning of the theme were done by Miss Snodgrass. An expression of appreciation from the staff is also due to Mr. Rudkin and his arts and crafts students, whose cooperation and effort in behalf of the Rochet were of great help to the staff in carrying out plans for those pages involving art work and cartooning. The staff is also indebted to those members of the faculty who assisted in preparing write-ups to be used with pictures and to Miss Whiting and Miss Hill for supplying information which staff members needed help in securing. Page One Hundred Thirty-Nine lUutograpf) Page One Hundred Forty utograpf)$ Page One Hundred Forty-One up, plap up, anb IP plap t e game.” — jSetobolt 2 ? poofe g ix ► w tf)lettcs w OLIVER NORDLY Head Coach and Instructor of Physical Education PAUL F. SCHMIDT Director of Physical Education for Roys GENEVIEVE TOWNSEND Director of Physical Education for Girls Page One Hundred Forty-Four First rozc ' j left to right —Coach Nordly, Harold Becker, Glen Teska, Maurice Holets, Charles Price, Lucas Green, John Oelke, Alfred Lamprecht. Second roily left to right —Leonard Bolcom, George Puryear, Roger Mills, Raymond Vanderhoff, Fred Lund, William Gates, Fulton Perry, Donald Frederickson, Frank Frcsheim, Joseph Edwards, Robert Adler. Third row, left to right —Dallas Neild, Claire Siegel, Robert Wilton, John Cook, Warner Sandell, Allyn Wilsey, Edward Tabor, Leo Rowland, Carl Briese, Frank Eaton, James Bell. THE 1927 FOOTBALL SEASON The football season of last fall was one of the most successful Rochester High School has ever had. The team played eight games and won seven, piling up a total of 189 points against their opponent’s 7. When the squad reported for practice in September there were but four letter-men in the line-up. After about a week of practice, during which some good raw material was discovered, the team journeyed to Cresco, Iowa, w’here they downed the Hawkeyes to the tune of 6-0. The weather was extremely hot, and the team was slowed up considerably. The game served to bring out the weak points of the team, and, considering the practice they had had, the boys made a good showing. On September 24, the Red and Black defeated Lake City on Mayo Field by the top- heavy score of 50-0. The Rochester team showed some real speed and strength both in the line and in the backfield. In this game none of the letter men played, and the first year men had a field day. The following Friday Rochester played an exhibition game wfith Preston at the fair¬ grounds and came out on the long end of a 38-0 score. The field was very rough and the backs were slowed down some, but the Red and Black showed superior football in every phase of the game. On October 8, the team journeyed to Faribault where they subdued the Green Fairies 18-0. This game was a battle all the way through, and was the hardest the team had played until that time. Rochester was in Faribault’s territory most of the time. The Page One Hundred Forty-Five whole team was in fine form, and they exhibited some real football. The next Saturday Rochester was again in for¬ eign territory at Austin, where the line held the Scarlet backs powerless while our backs tore off long gains around the end and battered the line for a victory of 28-0. Don Trenarv gave the team the most trouble in the backfield, while Rennobohm was a pow ' er in the Austin line. Frank F.aton was the star for the Red and Black, making two touchdowns and kicking all three points for goal. Red Wing gave the team a big scare when they held Rochester scoreless until the last quarter when Eaton ran over the goal-line to make the score 6-0 with a lone touchdown. The boys played ragged football until the last half, and Red Wing’s long passes had them worried until a defense to stop them was devised. On the following week-end, the team went to Minneapolis to see the Wisconsin-Minnesota football game, and after another week’s practice, they were able to take the Owatonna Indians into camp by a score of 38-0. The game was played on Owatonna’s splendid field on a bright, snappy day, and the Rochester backs ran wild. Rochester’s goal line had not been crossed up to this time. % The jinx, which pursues a Rochester team on a Winona field, bobbed up out of the mud and snow on Armistice Day when the Red and Black lost the last game of the season by the heart-breaking score of 6-7. Nor did the fact that Rochester outplayed the winners with fif¬ teen first downs to Winona’s five, make the disap¬ pointment less keen. THE SEASON’S SCORES Rochester 6 Opponents Cresco 0 50 - - - - Lake City 0 37 - - - - Preston 0 18 - - - - Faribault 0 28 - - - - Austin 0 6 - - - Red Wing 0 38 - - - - Owatonna 0 6 - - - Winona 7 189 Total Page One Hundred Forty-Six 1927 FOOTBALL MEN Edward Tabor, end, has won two letters in football. He held down the difficult end position his first year and was even better this year. “Red” was also a great punter, and his loss will be keenly felt when he is graduated this year. Allyn Wilsey, guard, was small for his position, but he made up for his lack of weight with plenty of fight. He will be missed in the line next year. Frank Freisheim, tackle, was out for football for the first time this year, and although he did not make a letter, he showed all the makings of a great lines¬ man. Frank is expected to develop into a star lines¬ man next year. Claire Siegel, tackle, was one of the biggest men on the team, and opposing backs found it difficult to evade his long arms. He will be graduated this spring and will be missed in the line next year. Robert Miner, center and captain, played the posi¬ tion so that no gains could be made through the cen¬ ter of the line. “Bob” was always there with the right spirit and helped keep the team in good humor. H e will be lost through graduation. Page One Hundred Forty-Seven John Oelke, fullback, could play either fullback or halfback position with equal brilliancy. John was exceedingly hard to stop when he sliced off tackle. He is captain and should make a wonderful player next year. Kenneth Guyse, tackle, was considered one of the best in the state. Ken has played three years and has placed on the honor team each year. R. H. S. will find a big hole in the line when he is graduated this year. Dallas Nicld, tackle, was a man who showed lots of fight and spirit and who knew how to “build that line. ,, Dallas alternated with Guyse at tackle and his loss will be keenly felt when he is graduated this spring. Billy Gates, quarterback, was the smallest man on the team, but made up for that handicap by his fight. Billy is a good quarterback and is a heady field gen¬ eral. He should make a regular backfield position next year. Glen Tcska, guard, playing his first year of foot¬ ball, showed what spirit and persistency can do, and won a permanent berth on the team. He will be back next year to bolster up the line. Ptige One Hundred Forty-Eight Walter Hargesheimer, quarterback, could play at either half or quarter. “Hargy” was not out at the beginning of the season and just missed making a letter, but he showed that he will be a valu¬ able man when he reports in the fall. Fulton Perry, halfback, was a new man at foot¬ ball this year, but his speed and drive won him a position on the team. Perry was not only a good ball carrier, but could block and tackle as well. He will be lost through graduation. John Cook, guard, w r as one of the strong points in our defense, and his speed and weight were assets which gained many yards for the Rochester line. “Cook” will undoubtedly have a berth on next year’s team. Maurice Holets, end, came here from Chatfield and was given a regular position on the team. Holets is a hard tackier and a good receiving man for passes. He will be back on the team next year. Leonard Balcom, fullback, played his first year of football this year and developed into a smashing line plunger. “Len” was hard to stop when once started, and the backfield will be materially strength¬ ened when he comes back next year. r Page One Hundred Forty-Nine 1 Leo Rowland, end, was always on hand when plays came around his end, and many a back was stopped before he was well started by Leo’s hard tackling. Leo will be back next year and will prove a valuable player. Donald Fredrickson, center, played his first year at that difficult position and filled it like a veteran. He was understudy for “Bob” Miner and should make a real lineman next year. Werner Sandell, end, could be played at either end or tackle. Werner is a big man and is hard to get through. He just missed getting his letter this year. Page One Hundred Fifty Page One-Hundred Fifty-One Page One Hundred Fif y-Tcvo THE BASKETBALL SEASON v� Rochester High School’s 1928 basketball season was, on the whole, a successful one. Although the team did not go to the finals in the dis¬ trict tournament, the boys were able to boast a season’s score a hundred points larger than that of their opponents. The awarding of the sports¬ manship cup to the student body made up in large meas¬ ure for the loss of the cham¬ pionship cup. The season opened auspici¬ ously for the Red and Black basketeers when they went to Kasson and won their initial contest by a score of 23-19. The game was a close struggle from the beginning, and the outcome was in doubt until the final whistle. The second game, played at Plainview, resulted in another victory for the Nordly- men. Captain Schwarz, who was not in the line-up for the Kasson game, was back on the squad at Plainview, and the team com¬ pletely outclassed their opponents, the score being 30-19. Rochester’s third successive victory was won when the squad journeyed to Owa- tonna and trounced Coach Blodgett’s long- shot artists 26-19. The score was tied at the end of the third quarter, when the Red and Blacks spurted ahead and left the tricky Indians behind. The first defeat of the season was administered in a practice game by an alumni team made up of such stars as Craddock, Nicholson, and Nuna- maker. The game was closely contested, and the final score was 23-21. Chatfield came to Rochester for the next game on the schedule and was snowed under by a score of 50-8. The smooth passing of the local cagers sifted through Chatfield’s defense almost at will, and everyone on the squad was given a chance to demonstrate his ability. Lewiston, forced to succumb to a 33-10 score, was the next victim of the Nordlvmen. The Lewiston quintet led the game 7-6 at the end of the first half, but Rochester came back in the second period to garner 27 counters to their opponent’s 3. The team worked together like a well- oiled machine and complete¬ ly outclassed their foes. The team went to Winona for the next game and was handed a 24-15 defeat. The locals were unable to connect with Winona’s basket al¬ though they bombarded the bank board throughout the game. The following night they reversed the tables by outplaying Austin at Austin 24-15. Eaton, playing a wonderful game, dribbled through the Packers’ defense time and again to score easy shots from under the basket. Red Wing came here for the next fray and won a heart-breaking game 23-21. Red Wing led 21-19 forty seconds before the end of the game, when Eaton sunk a long shot and tied the score. Red Wing called time out, and the ball went to the visitors when Eaton was called for steps. On the next play, Kernan made a shot from nearly three-quarters the length of the floor to clinch the game for the up-river team. Another trouncing was in store for Roches¬ ter on the next week-end, when they met Coach Jesse Gustus’ scrapp y aggregation on the Lewiston floor. Wert, diminutive for¬ ward on the Lewiston team, was high point man, scoring 8 field goals. Austin traveled here for a return game and upset the dope by defeating Rochester in an overtime contest. The score was knotted 23-23 at the end of the usual play¬ ing period, and two overtime periods had to be added before an Austin substitute scored a field goal, giving the Packers’ a 25-23 victory. The Nordlvmen broke into the win col¬ umn the next week, when they took Winona into camp 22-18. The Red and Black quintet used a different offense from that Page One Hundred Fifty-Three which they had tried in the first game with the Gate City team and were able to claim the victory. In the return game with Plain- view the locals hit a fast stride at the opening whistle and captured the contest 24-13. Eaton and Britzius led the Roches¬ ter attack while the whole team nailed the Plainview offense. A second game with Chatficld added another victory to the Rochester list with a 32-8 score. But the last game before the tournament ended in a defeat for R. H. S. when the team went down before the Red Wing five on the Red Wing floor. The local cagers put up a hard fight, but were beaten by the accurate shoot¬ ing of the Purple quint. In the district tournament held here March 1 and 2, Rochester’s first game was scheduled with St. Charles, the district champions. At the beginning the Saints jumped into the lead and were never headed. The final score was 18-10. THE SEASON’S SCORES Rochester Opponents Rochester - - - 23 Kasson - - - 19 Rochester - - - 30 Plainview - - - - 19 Rochester - - - 26 Owatonna - - - 19 Rochester - - - 21 Alumni - - - 23 Rochester - - - 52 Chatfield - - - - 8 Rochester - - - 33 Lewiston - - - 10 Rochester - - - 15 Winona - - - - 24 Rochester - - - 24 Austin - - - 15 Rochester - - - 21 Red Wing - - - 23 Rochester - - - 19 Lewiston - - - 28 Rochester - - - 23 Austin - - - 25 Rochester - - - 22 Winona - - - - 18 Rochester - - - 24 Plainview - - - 13 Rochester - - - 32 Chatfield - - - 8 Rochester - - - 25 Red Wing - - - 33 Rochester - - - 10 St. Charles - - - 18 400 Total 303 Page One Hundred Fifty-Four THE BASKETBALL SQUAD Frank Eaton, guard, playing his last year in the red and black uniform, showed that he was as clever a floor man as any high school guard in the state. Frankie will be missed on next year’s team. Billy Gates, forward, is good basketball material. He has three years left in which to play on the R. H. S squad. Claire Siegel, center, played his first year at the difficult pivot position and held it down like a vet¬ eran. Claire’s loss will be keenly felt when he is graduated this year. Charles Britzius, forward, playing his first year, developed into a great running mate for Schwarz. “Chuck” should be a mainstay next year. Elbert Schwarz, captain, played his best year of basketball this year as forward. Elbert is a sure shot and developed into a classy floorman. He will be lost through graduation. Page One Hundred Fifty-Five Maurice Holets, guard, came here from Chatfield where he had played basketball. Holets made a nice partner for Eaton at guard. He will be back next year. Leo Rowland, guard, showed himself to be a real guard and a good shot. Leo will be back on the team next year. Thomas Parker, forward or guard, came out for the team for the first time and showed that he could plav basketball. Tommy should be a valuable man next year. Walter Hargcsheimcr, forward, is a forward of great ability and a good shot. Walt played like a veteran thife year and will be back to help form a winning te m next year. John Wenzel, guard, is a new man at basketball but has qualities which will make him a fine player. He will be back next year. Page. One Hundred Fifty-Six R. H. S. SWIMMING The R. H. S. swimming team this year was a decided success in improving the out¬ look for future seasons. Al¬ though the team was unable to turn in enough points to win a victory, the boys made creditable showings against superior teams. With only two letter men back, Coach Baatz was confronted with the task of developing a team from inexperienced material. Sev¬ eral of the men who will be back next year have shown great improvement since the beginning of the season, and they will probably come to the front next year. The season opened December 10, when the team was thoroughly drowned by Shat- tuck at R. H. S. The cadets scored 56 points to Rochester’s 1 1 and took every first place and every second place except one. Captain Johnny Hines pushed Barret, Shad star breaststroke, to the limit and lost first place to him only by a few yards. In this meet Fred H elm hoi z, former Rochester star who matriculated at Shattuck this year, easily won the 100-yard backstroke. Helm- holz won several letters at R. H. S. and is one of the best backstroke men the red and black has had. Ferguson won the admira¬ tion of the fans for R. H. S. by his game fight against the veteran Abbe of Shattuck. “Vic” swam a beautiful race to lose to his superior by a few yards. On January 21, the stellar St. Paul “Y” tanksters invaded R. H. S. to defeat the high school mer¬ men 40-29. Captain John Hines easily won the century breaststroke, a n d Pederson took first in the fancy diving. Rochester lost two meets to Blake Academy and one to the University High School of Minneapolis. The Blake Academy was a strong con¬ tender in the state contest this year, but R. H. S. showed up well against them. Captain Thomas of Blake was the out¬ standing star in both of these meets, splashing his way to victory in every free style event. The University High meet was marked bv the work of “Steve” Barlow of the opposing team in the free style events. Barlow won the state cham¬ pionship honors in the 40 and 100 yard dashes in the state meet. Pederson and Green of Rochester showed the .best form in the dives in the U. High meet and in the last Blake meet, when they took first and second respectively. A meet is to be held with Pillsburv Academy on March 18, and the prospects for a score favorable to Rochester are prom¬ ising. Two meets with Austin were also scheduled early in March. The team is practicing steadily, and whatever the re¬ sult of these last contests, the work of this year will reap its harvest in later years, when the men who have worked this sea¬ son should be able to pile up scores for R. H. S. Page One Hundred Fifty-Seven THE SWIMMING TEAM Lyle Cutshall — After making a splendid start last year when he won his letter, Cutshall was unable to be out for the team during the first part of the season, and consequently his absence was felt in the first meets. “Pat ' ’ is a senior and his consistent point winning will be missed by next year’s team. Victor Ferguson — “Vic” is one of the best dash men who has ever splashed his way to a letter in Rochester High School. Coming out early in the season, he proved himself a glutton for work, was able to acquit himself in veteran fashion. He is a sophomore and has two years of competition left in high school. Shirley Greene — Having been out of competi¬ tion all last year because of an operation, Greene started the season under a handicap. He soon re¬ gained his old-time form, however, and easily made his letter. This was his last year of high school competition. John Hines — Johnny proved to be one of the best swimming captains Rochester has ever had. He was a diligent worker and a brilliant breaststroker. The medley relay was his specialty and his loss will be keenly felt when he is graduated this spring. Tom Lawler — Although this was Tom’s first year out, he proved himself a valuable man, swimming in every meet as a swimming mate to u Vic” Fergu¬ son in the 40 and 100 yard dashes. Tom’s loss will be keenly felt by next year’s team. Page One Hundred Fifty-Eight Robert Lynn —Swimming backstroke and free¬ style with equal ability, “Bob” Lvnn was a mainstay of this year’s team. He will be back for two more years of competition, and if he continues to improve, should prove a dangerous foe in any meet. George Morrison — A veteran of last year’s squad, Morrison was an able running mate to Hines in the breaststroke and was called upon to fill the Rochester captain’s boots when the latter was out of several meets on account of illness. He is a senior and will not be back for next year’s team. Roger Mills —Improving steadily throughout the season, Mills was a consistent point winner dur¬ ing the latter part of the season. His experience helped him greatly, and he was the Rochester main¬ stay in the 220-yard swim. He is a junior and will be back next year. Harold Pallas — Showing an unusually fast im¬ provement throughout the entire season, Pallas pushed Lynn more and more for backstroke honors as the season went on. He will be back next year and should win his letter several times over. Richard Pederson — “Ike,” a senior and veteran of several seasons, was a consistent point winner throughout the year and won many firsts for Roches¬ ter. The team was unusually strong in diving this year, and it was usually a toss-up between Pederson and Greene as to who would get first. Page One Hundred Fifty-Nine THE 1927 TRACK SEASON When Coach Carl Nordly issued a call for track men in the spring of 1927, eight men responded and organized a track team with Frank Eberts as captain. The team practiced daily at Mayo Field or at the Fair Grounds, and by May 14, was ready for the state meet at Carleton in which teams representing many of the leading high schools in Minnesota participated. Philip Sternberg, Durwell Vetter, Charles Van Campcn, Frank Eberts, and Fulton Perry represented R. H. S. at the meet. This group took part in the leading events, including the 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, half-mile run, high jump, broad jump, high and low hurdles, and the discus and shot puts. The scarcity of men reporting for track and the participation in other events prevented R. H. S. from entering a relay team at the meet. The Carleton meet was staged in Carleton’s new stadium. It was damp and foggy on the day of the meet, and a light rainfall throughout the day made the breaking of any old records and the establishing of new ones practically impossible. Despite keen competition, the red and black teams showed up very favorably. Eberts and Sternberg placed in their individual heats and failed by only a small margin to place in the finals. In the half-mile run, Vetter did credit to himself by keeping up with some of the best runners of southern Minnesota high schools. Perry placed third in the broad jump by jumping 20 feet 6 inches, while Wood of Mankato established a state record in the same event by jumping 21 feet 224 inches. A week after the Carleton meet, Rochester High SchooPs interclass meet was held at Mayo Field in the presence of a large crowd. The classes of the Junior-Senior High School competed in all events, the seniors winning by a large margin. The enthusiasm for the meet ran high among the students, and the interest displayed at the time gave every reason for expecting that the interclass track meet will become an annual event, establishing records which will stand until they are broken. The following records were made at the first meet: 11 seconds for the 100-yard dash; 24 seconds for the 220-yard dash; 1:15 for the half-mile run; 5 feet 3 inches for the high jump; 20 feet 4 inches for the broad jump. Plans are already under way for the 1928 track season, although the call for men will probably not be sent out by Coach Oliver Nordly until the last of April. It is expected that a much larger number of men will report than turned out last year. With the train¬ ing and incentive which the interclass track tournaments should provide, Rochester High School should be able to develop splendid track teams in the future, and the prospects for this spring are good. Page One Hundred Sixty First roily left to right —Harold Becker, manager; Frank Freishiem, Tillman Erickson, Kenneth Guyse, Gordon Benson, Archie Gray, Forrest Mohler. Second roic, left to right —Ralph Woolley, Robert Busby, Lowell Ostrum, Lyle Darnell, Charles Butruff, Hartley Swenson, George Puryear. THE WRESTLING SQUAI) When Coach Morgenson sent out a call for wrestling candidates late in the fall, forty men responded. Among these were two let¬ ter men, Captain Darnell and Kenneth Guvse. Rochester secured two fra¬ cases with Cresco’s experi¬ enced team, one of which was held here, while the other was held at Cresco. Although the team was de¬ feated in both of these meets, Darnell, Guvse, and Farnham won their individ¬ ual events against the Cres¬ co battlers, and consequently won letters. The members of the team are Guyse, Darnell, Puryear, Farnham, Oscar Hargesheimer, Fres- heim, Reneaux, Swenson, and Butruff. Rochester is one of the few high schools in Minnesota to have a wrestling team, and because of lack of competition the outside activities of the team are limited. Page One Hundred Sixty-One Monograms are awarded each year to the girls who have won the required +00 points in the athletics which the physical education depart¬ ment for girls sponsors. The award is made on the basis of general achievement in many types of athletics rather than for unusual proficiency in one sport. Two girls in R. H. S. were accorded the right to wear the monogram before their senior year. They are Edith Laws and Ruth Puryear, both sophomores. Six other girls have won the emblem in the few years it has been offered. They are: Helen Thomas, Edna Maass, Muriel Hilker, Harriet Quale, Carrie Mae Burr, and Grace foster. All of these girls are alumnae. There are a number of ways in which a girl may win points toward her emblem. Proficiency in performing certain exercises and in doing folk dances taught in the gym classes will credit a EDITH LAWS girl with points. Membership in the class bas¬ ketball teams also wins points for the girls who attain that honor. Volleyball, a spring sport, offers another opportunity for working for a monogram, and roller-skating baseball, hiking, tennis, and outdoor swimming add points toward the coveted “R.” Perh aps no other sport credits so many girls with points as does swimming. For the swimming test, which every high school student must pass before graduation, credit is awarded, and 100 of the necessary 400 points may be earned by passing the Junior Life Sav¬ ing Test. Those who pass this test also become members of the Life Saving Corps. The swim¬ ming tournament, which is held in May each year, results in an increased number of points for those girl- who show themselves efficient in div¬ ing, form swimming, plunging, and racing. R. H. S. MONOGRAMS The awarding of monograms to girls in Rochester High School is comparatively new. A number of girls will qualify for that honor when award night comes in May, and the prospects are that more girls will win monograms each vear. Page One Hundred Sixty-Tcio Doris Hjerling Nina Stolp Miss Townsend Evelyn Goddard Lila Zick Eileen Burke THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL TEAM The annual girls’ basketball tournament opened on P ' ebruarv 21 under the super¬ vision of Miss Townspend. Excitement, which was warranted by the weeks of prep¬ aration which preceded the event, was at a high pitch among both the players and the rooters. The turnout for the games was good, and the entire department was keen¬ ly interested in the outcome. The first game was a thriller between the fresh¬ men and the sophomores. The teams were evenly matched, and the final score, 12-9, gave the freshmen the victory in an exceedingly close game. On the next day the junior girls bowed in de¬ feat to the senior team by a score of 12-9. This game won the championship cup of the Senior High School for the upper classmen, and al¬ though their claim of it was based on a small margin, the skill which the girls displayed made their title unques¬ tionable. The championship team was composed of the following seniors: irginia Richman, Doris Hjerling, Nina Stolp, Evelyn God¬ dard, Lila Zick, and Eileen Burke. The junior team con¬ sisted of Dorothy Root, Emilv Gustine, Aldene Ens- rud, Dorothy Krueger, Amy Logan, Lima Starkson, Rachel Laabs, Lenore Wetzel, and Florence Reich. The sopho¬ more squad was made up by the following girls: Mary Balfour, Marian Sanberg, Edith Laws, Edith Roddis, and Aileen Shepard. Dorothy Krueger was the manager of the tournament, and a great deal of the credit for its success is due to her efforts. Page One Hundred Sixty-Three Standing —Hazel Lund, Maxine Hutchings, Ada French, Mary Crewe, Miss Townsend, Eva Becker. Sitting —Margaret Swendson, Eileen Wilson, Hazel Olson, Margie Fawcett. Alethea Watkins, THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL TEAM I he Junior High School girls’ basketball tournament opened with a game between the seventh and eighth grades, of which the eighth grade was the winner by a 10-6 score. On the same day, February 22, the freshman team succeeded in defeating the sophomore class team with a 12-9 score. 1 he following day the eighth grade played the freshman for the Junior High School championship. The freshmen won the game, which was a well- contested struggle, and likewise the Junior High School championship cup. T his cup is an annual trophy for the winning team in both the Junior and Senior High School and has been an award in Rochester High School since 1912. The girls’ basketball teams began practicing shortly after the Christmas holidays under the direction of Miss Townsend and the class assistants. Dorothv Krueger was general manager of the tournament. The winning team in the Junior High School contest was composed of Margaret Swendson, Eva Becker, Alethea Watkins, Ada French, Mary Crewe, Maxine Hutchings, and Eileen Wilson. Margie Fawcett and Hazel Olson acted as substitutes. The eighth grade girls who played in the tournament were Mildred Shandey, Maxine Ward, Davill Berg, Virginia Nield, and Alene Thompson, with Maxine and Helen Krueger substituting. The seventh grade team was made up by Marjorie Burns, Nina Stolp, Verna Krueger, Florence Zick, Della Dugan, and Twila Crag, with Dova Stricland and Vera Nelson as substitutes. Page One Hundred Sixty-Four Left to right —Alta Eckholdt, Margaret Lawler, Evelyn Towey, Ruth Puryear, Doris Baatz, Arleen Towne, Dorothy Root, Evelyn Jones, Helen Darcy, Mildred Cast, Katherine Lemon, Mary Balfour, Edna Larsen, Edith Laws, Margaret Thorson, Amy Logan, Evelyn Walker, Margaret Blakely, Betty Pattison. THE GIRLS’ LIFE SAVING CORPS The Red Cross Life Saving Corps in Rochester High School has increased its member¬ ship this year to twenty-six in place of the thirteen girls who were in the group last year. Of this number sixteen have passed the tests this year. The members of the corps must take intensive training in the various methods of life saving used bv the Red Cross under the direction of Miss Genevieve 7 ownsend, director of phvsical education for girls, or under Mrs. Charles Singlev, her assistant. To pass the test the candidate must disrobe in deep water and swim 100 yards; perform a surface dive, retrieving a light object three times and a 10-pound weight once; demonstrate the four holds and carries used on a drowning person; demonstrate the three approaches; demon¬ strate the method used by the Red Cross in reviving unconscious persons, using the Schaefer prone pressure method of resuscitation, and pass an oral test given by the examiner con¬ cerning several points about drowning. Membership in the Life Saving Corps is the goal of many high school girls, some of whom are already working on the requirements, while other are practicing to improve their form in the standard strokes taught in the regular classes. Each girl passes first the Red Cross beginner’s test and then the swimmer’s test, which is now a requirement for gradua¬ tion, before she is eligible to work on the requirements for the Life Saving Corps. Instruc¬ tion to help the girls meet each test is given in the regular class work. Pnge One Hundred Sixty-Five u lf augb at pour friends, and if pour friends are sore; o mucf) tfje better, pou map laugb tfje more.’ $iope 57 poofe g eben Calendar SEPTEMBER A. S. (Ante Script) — A calendar fixes the year so that anybody can take a month off. 6 — School starts. 1 2 — Seniors start. 13 — Home rooms full-fledged. Success in building a cabin has reinforced Miss Snodgrass’ determination to build a school. 14 — Boys aged five to fourteen wanted to sell Pictorial Review. Dur, here’s your chance! 1 5 — A hot time in the old town. 16 — And still it’s hot. Miss Gleasman’s class melts and runs down the stairs. 17—Stop and go. (School stops; Saturday; and team goes to Cresco, 6-0.) 21—Quibble and Scrap opens year. (Helen Darcy’s a member.) 24—We play hopscotch with Lake City, 50-0. 2 5—Crucible staff ' plunges in. Lifesaver, M iss Trott. 26—Debate team begins an honorable ca¬ reer. 29— Thirty-two more weeks of school. 30— Sprinters attend Preston football game at fairgrounds, 38-0. Rah! Rah! OCTOBER 6 — The school board’s not Scotch. We get out on Thursday. 8 — Our rooters get a thrill. We beat Faribault, 18-0. 1C — Teachers tell us we’ve forgotten how to study. And we were having such a good time? 1 1 — October Crucible out. It’ll do for a starter. 1 5 — Austin gridders gaze on Guyse. Re¬ sult, 28-0. And how! 16 — We have discovered the purpose of the Junior High School—it saves the Freshmen from their proper inferior¬ ity complex in spite of all the seniors can do. 19— Report cards. Some are born bright, others attain brilliance, and the rest of us explain to Dad. 20— We turn Indian and walk single file. 21— The school plutocrats pay the Student Council ten cents and sit on the new bleachers. We think it indelicate of the Council to cause us to confess our poverty in this public manner. Page One Hundred Sixty-Eight 27 — Orphean Club meets and wears out piano. 28 — Piano tuner sent for. 29 — Janet Smith informs N. K. Markle Jr. that he is to buy his tickets from her. 30— Rochet staff goes into annual hiberna- nation. 30 — Zero hour — first failure list. We hoped Miss Snodgrass had forgotten such things. NOVEMBER 4 — Senior rings ordered. Price, five dol¬ lars. Blethen tells friends he has in¬ sufficient funds. Attempted robbery of executive office creates sensation. immediate cause, new rings. Faculty has difficulty in holding attention. 28 — We don’t feel very well, but it was a grand dinner. 29 — Junior class play chosen. It’s “Martha- bv-the-Day” from now on. 30 — Christmas vacation no longer seems a myth. Yea-bo! DECEMBER 1 — More report cards. There’s no peace for the wicked. The Kretzschmar’s cop the usual flock of ninety-fives. 3 — Lots of us look at Mr. Mosing’s birdie. A — Something is going to be done to pep up the pep meetings. Blethen appears with five dollars. (Editor’s Note: Since two and two make six, this is not intended as libel.) 5 — Drop the handkerchief (behind the goal) is played with Owatonna. Score, 38-0. 11 — Winona, 7; Rochester, 6. The ill wind blew the wrong way. 17 — N. K. Markle, Jr., surrenders two dollars to Janet Smith. Persuasion, thy name is woman. 18 — We wear our best clothes to “R” Club banquet. When our eyes are accus¬ tomed to Sunday finery, we discover who dragged who. Miss Church’s four horseman starve for art’s sake. 24 — Seniors discover the artistic effective¬ ness of gesturing with hands. The Tn£ v ' oor DOj-,THE R $ TV FFfa Page One Hundred Sixty-Nine 6 — Twenty more shopping days until Christmas. We remind our families. 16 — Freshies write to Santa. 17 — Sophies and Juniors ditto. 18 — Seniors don’t believe in Santa. They write to Mr. Woolworth. 19— 23 — Many visitors. Many assemblies. many meetings. Little study. Eure¬ ka! and other expressions of ecstacv! 20 — Booster Club starts boosting. 24 — Fall of the Bastille — school’s out. JANUARY 1 — Leap Year! Watch out, Chuck! Helen leaves for Austin. 9 — School opens. Spring fever sets in. 10 — Morpheus rules in R. H. S. 12 — Girls again take up battle with jani¬ tors. 14 — Girls Service Club begins serving. The girl across the aisle wonders what. 16 — R mermen recovering from water fight. Shads take hook, line, and sinker. 17 — Red Wing pep meeting. Girls act natural and make much noise. 20 — Mary Braden memorizes Post-Bulletin bachelor list. 23 — Semester closes. War department (faculty) takes another shot at us. 27 — Pretty Oscie Hargesheimer strokes his handsome cooky duster. 29 — “Coony” Holets wonders why the poet should single out the springtime for a young man’s fancy to turn to thoughts of love. His experience is that it can happen in the middle of winter. FEBRUARY -The Junior High School holds Gold Medal contest in spite of our protest. We think children should be seen and not heard. These youngsters are learn¬ ing to express themselves too effect¬ ively. -Miss Skoog disheartens seniors in their non-stop flight to college by assigning a monstrosity of a theme. Ray Van- derhoff reported lost in the region of Encyclopedia Islands. Page One Hundred Seventy 4 — Austin basketball game. End of ticket battle between Boosters and Servers. 8 — Senior High School declamation con¬ test. O, for a silvery tongue! 10 — Basketeers bamboozle Binona. 22-18. 1 1 — Junior play cast develops a far-away look in the eyes and is heard to mut¬ ter vague Irish sayings. 14 — Valentine’s day. Bob gets a new col¬ lar. Hervey says Pris didn’t even send a candy bar; he doesn’t see any point in Leap Year after all. 1 5 — Pat gets big-hearted and does her hair up. What a relief. 16 — Crucible staff comes across with an¬ other issue. We were beginning to get worried about getting our dollar’s worth. 1 7 — Senior class decides to graduate from Saint Mary’s. Evidently many cases of nervous prostration are expected. 22— Edna Larsen, Nellie Snow r , and George Washington celebrate birth¬ days. 24 — Day by day in every way R. H. S. students take up more strenuous ath¬ letics. For example — the chess tourna¬ ment. 27 — Ray Bunge ruins vocal chords trying to cough up a dollar for a tournament ticket. 28 — Four hundred sixty-six students spend sixth period making up work for tournament. 29 — A rare day. We captivate the eye of the public with a parade. Excuse, the tournament. Edith Laws celebrates fourth birthday. MARCH 1-2 — The tournament comes off. Getting out of classes alone was worth the dol¬ lar, and the games weren’t hard to look at. 4 — Ten years from today Tom Lawler will move into the White House. (Editor’s Note: Via servant’s en¬ trance.) 6-7-8 — “Martha-by-the-Day,” alias Ar- leen Town, wins the applause of R. H. S. 7 — More report cards. Another night¬ mare. 8 — The very mysterious disappearance of Quill and Scroll picture makes possible a mid-morning trip to Mosing’s for the members. Those journalists know their negatives. 9 — The wages of labor. The members of the National Honor Society an¬ nounced. “Twenty-two angels with halos fair, At Mosing’s pose with glassy stare.” 9 — The Rochet, on the point of going to press, is abandoned while staff searches journalism room for Miss Trott’s overshoe. 9 — Fierce and deadly battle ends when seniors squelch sophies by score of 40-12. Page One Hundred Seventy-One Prefer 10 — Three more weeks till spring vacation. Hoopla! and other expressions of thanksgiving. 10 — Stevenson’s open large ladies’ shop. 12 — “You cur! You beast!” Not another murder trial — merely tryouts for the Senior class play. 13 — Mr. Nelson’s triplets defeat Wells. Well, well! Imagine anybody attempt¬ ing to prevail against Bill, Bertha, and Mabel anyway. 14 — Journalists investigate Post Bulletin. Uncover more than they can under¬ stand. 14 — Lorraine Underdown goes to Chateau to see “Why Gentlemen Blondes.” 16 — Physical education exhibition. Mar¬ velous wooden soldiers. 17— M iss Hurley paints her water glass green to honor the day. 19 — Two weeks, ten days, fifty-two hours, or 3420 minutes — vacation! 22 Splash! Splash! Splash! Interclass water fight. Everybody does his best to drown his worst enemv. 23 — State basketball tournament. North- field represents us. 26 — Don Knowlton complains of his chronic ailment, spring fever. 27 Crucible staff exhibits signs of restless¬ ness. Could it be that we arc to have another issue? 30 — It arrived; we thought it would. Va¬ cation is the cure for many ills. 31 — “Rest, there is rest, There is rest, In old R. H. S. There is rest, sweet rest.” APRIL 1 — This is your day. 9 — For some people this day is the end of lent; for us, it is the end of all bliss. 10 — We’re back for the last fling; seniors look a bit doleful. Page One Hundred Seventy-Tv 12 — Seniors start to bring Miss Skoog flow¬ ers. Like MacBeth: “To be thus is nothing — But — To be safely thus — .” 20 — Senior finals begin. School clad in deepest sorrow as deluge of knowledge falls from ? ? ? ? ? Mostly, how¬ ever, it doesn’t fall; it fails. What agony 24 — Senior finals well under way. Miss Snodgrass sarcastically announces that announcements will soon be distrib¬ uted. Why can’t someone have pityP 25 — Spring showers bring out bevy of bright-colored rain coats. Some con¬ solation for a rainy day. 27 — Seniors allow school to resume usual routine. Exams over. 29 — Sunday. Our enjoyment of a leisure¬ ly spring day marred only by the fact that tomorrow is Monday. 30 — We spend odd moments dreaming of summer plans. Furthermore we think the teachers would like to do the same. MAY 1— “I’m to be Queen of the May, Mother, I’m to be Queen of the May.” 2— Announcements arrive. Sheckels jingle. 4—Senior reports handed in. A case of sink or swim. Alas, we now know the truth of the swimming requirement. 10-11—“White Col lars” done up in fine style. 17—Athletic meet for grades and high school. 1 8—Big costume party. Many get tangled up in long skirts. 19—Award night. To the victors belong the spoils. They deserve ’em in this case. 23—Underclasses wrestle with finals. The Seniors get the last laugh. 27— Commencement sermon. 28— Junior-Senior prom. 30— Alumni banquet. 31— Commencement. And so it is over. Adieu, adieu, adieu. Page One Hundred Seventy-Three WHY THEY COME TO R. H. S. There is lots of reasons why us kids come to R. H. S. Some say we is scairt of the tru¬ ant officers; but we know that most of the boys anyways come ’cause their girls are here, any¬ way we know this is so about Johnnie H ines and Red Tabor ’cause they both always want to sit by Helen all the time. Tom has his picture on every other page of this here book, so we sure know the rea¬ son he gets up at 7:30 every morn¬ ing. To set around in the knowledge factory on second street is easier than to work all day ac¬ cording to Jo Ken¬ nedy who says he just comes to school to get out of work. Helen Darcy says that she don’t care nothing about learning, but she loves to see the teachers work enough to earn their pay checks. Some kids don’t mind their mothers, but Normy minds his when she says he has to go to school. We know Luke. He come to school to show everyone that he’s a real gentleman. He always brings his car so he can pick up the girls in his free bus. Schools a good excuse for Lucille to get her daily mail (male). And she gets it and them too. We’s sorry the school board don’t furnish couches for Stan Ruth, but he makes the best of it, we all knows that he just comes to school to catch up on a few hours lost sleep. Of course, he likes Miss Hurley’s class pretty well, too. There’s a bunch of girls who come to school to show off their long hair. We guess Betty Pat started it, then if Ginny Richman, an’ Keller, an’ Fern, an’ Bertha , an’ Dorothy Hoffman, an’ even Ev God¬ dard did’nt have to go and copy her. There is some ambitious kids in our school. Hervey, Myles, Hagaman, and Beatrice Currier really do come to learn their—Oh, what did you bring that up for, anyway? Helen Baihly (When Mr. Nelson point¬ ed her out as one who knew quite a bit about the debate question): “Oh, no I don’t, I’ve just listened to you talk.” Hervey K: “Tell all you know, Charlie; it won’t take long.” Charlie S: “I’ll tell all we both know, Hervey, it won’t take any longer.” Page One Hundred Seventy-Four Page One Hundred Seventy-Five ? SOME PEOPLE ARE SO DUMB THAI ' THEY THINK: A revolver — is a merry-go-round. A quarter back — is a refund to a foot¬ ball game. A football coach — is something with four wheels. A humbug — is a singing insect. An exposition- A tutor —is a horn. An itching palm —is a tropical plant. The Charge of the Light Brigade —is a gas bill. A high school principal —is a code of ethics. is a county fair. CUCKOO SONG EIGHT DIRECT PATHS TO FAME Schoole is y comcn in. Loudly sing, Cuckoo! Burneth oil with midnight toil, And zeros ’gin anew. Sing, Cuckoo! Scorneth all the sleep the wise; Sleepeth during school the dumb; Students hasten, teachers chase ’em, Merry sing, Cuckoo! (Chorus) Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Well singest thou, Cuckoo! Nor cease thou evermore. 1. Receive a smile from Miss Whiting on Monday morning. 2. Yawn in Miss Skoog’s class every five minutes. 3. Discover a method to play hockey on the grade school rinks. 4. Park in cars during a school party. 5. Hire a ten-piece orchestra for a school dance. 6. Carry loose papers in books into Miss Glasser’s room. 7. Come to school minus a necktie. 8. Run past Miss Maroney’s door. Page One Hundred Seventy-Six MR. SANDBERG TRAVELS ABROAD AMONG THE FACULTY From Glaser’s icy mountains to Moore’s green meadow wide, From Holland back to Austin with a true, keen Romer’s stride; Then off again upon the Hunt in a gentle Trott; A King he meets beside a Hill, with some Snodgrass (like as not) And farther on he goes to Church, then hears a Carroll sung, Or else he enters Adams, or runs on to get things Dunn; Mayhap, he needs a Baker, mayhap, a Gardner more, Mayhap he must to Townsend, or enter Adams’ store. At noon, he takes a small Fry, but later does deMurr, For time will wait for Naumann, e’en if he tired were. Next he gets some Whiting, and then some other Hughes To frighten all poor students in paying most their dues. To do all this, he needs some “Munn” without it life is dreary. H is voice like thunder Vahles as he plods his way so weary. Mr. Bohner: “What is the quickest wav to make sawdust?” Lawrence Dunnette: “Er—a—a—well.” W. E. B: “Come, come—use your head.” Helen Darcy: “Did you have Burn’s in English today?” Dur Vetter: “Gosh, no, I got enough in Chemistry.” John Cook comes across with a heavy thought: “One way to keep stamps from sticking together is to buy one at a time.” Mr. Fry: “Who said, ‘We have come to bury Caesar; not to praise him’?” Bill Schacht: “Oh, some undertaker.” Claire Seigel: “Say, do you know you reminded me of an airplaine?” Joe F: “Cause, I’m a high flyer? ” C. S: “No, because you aren’t any good on earth.’’ Gladys Biasing: “What did the absent- minded professor give his children for Christmas? ” Vivian S: “An Easter lily, a package of fire-crackers, and some April-fool candy.” Mr. Nelson says that there are three kinds of students—bad, indifferent, and de¬ baters. Helen D.: “What’s your next story going to be written on? ” Marion T: “Paper, sap.” Page One Hundred Seventy-Seven % R. H. S. MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES I Sing a song of R. H. S. A faculty full of fun, With zeros here and zeros there, And students on the run. II Upon my word and truth, Believe it or not, for sooth I did meet Pat, With her hair done back, Upon my word and truth. Ill There was a girl in our school, And she was wondrous wise; She jumped into a pile of books, And worked out both her eyes. And when she found her eyes were out, With all her might and main, She jumped into another book, And worked them in again! IV Little lines of Latin Little lines to scan Make a Mighty Vergil And a crazy man. V Rest gentle students on the desk top, When you get zeros, the cradle will rock, The cards will come out, and your cradle will fall— THEN—down will come sorrow and students and all. Pnge One Hundred Seventy-Eight VII Simple Simon met a barber Coming from R. H. S. Said Simple Simon to the barber, “What think you this is?” Said the barber to Simple Simon, “No place for business, for fair— For every pretty girl I’ve met, Is doing up her hair.” VIII Latin’s a wild vexation, Hist’ry’s just as bad; Chemistry perplexes me, And physics makes me mad. Page One Hundred Seventy-Nine IX One bright and sunny noontide, When there was lots of weather, A youth went dashing past me With his coat just half together. I began to compliment; but he’d not even speak; Yet I heard him murmur happily, “The tournament’s next week.” X Where did you come from, student dear? “Out of the office into here.” Where did you get those eyes so red? “Ask those teachers up overhead.” XI Rock-a-bye, students on the desk top, When you get zeros the cradle will rock When cards come out, vour tears they will fall Then! Down will come sorrow and stu¬ dents and all. XII Hey diddle diddle Pris and her fiddle, And Hervey jumped over the moon; And Wally just laughed To see so much raff, When Hervey appeared the next noon, Page One Hundred Eighty XIV Oh dillars and dollars, The neckties and collars, Why are they wearing them now? With their nickels and dimes They spend all their time, Vainly trying to buy the stores out. XV Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark! The freshmen are in for some knowledge. Some are green (and) Some are keen BUT The seniors arc going to college! Pnge One Hundred Eighty-One r x THE HANDWRITING ON THE DESKS How often each of us has cursed them; how many idle moments we have spent adorning them so that students of the fu¬ ture too may curse them; how many study periods have we spent in earnest perusal and deciphering! “They” are the hand writing on the desks, the initials, drawings, lines, and names that are written, carved, or scratched on every desk; those desks are volumes of interest in themselves. One long-suffering desk in a Latin room is deeply engraved with the initials “T.L.,” another tells the casual onlooker, “Ita est tuus senex.” (So is your old man.) Truly the student body gives its Latin every day use. Perhaps the most ornamental chairs in the building are the ones in the Journalism room, the same ones used last year in Miss Smalley’s room. The various signs and symbols on them would puzzle the most experienced heiroglyphics decipherer! One is printed “F. P. — un bon mot,” truly, written by somebody who has a knowledge of French to apply; on another is inscribed F. F. F. F., perhaps in the language of music meaning “fortissimusest”; on the same desk in small letters written in pencil are the words: “Dew Drop Inn.” Dew Drop Down would perhaps hit the mark more closely. The initials “N. K. M. Jr.” (Three guesses as to identity — first two don’t count!) “A. E.”; “D. V.”; “T. N.”; “L. B.”; “E. S”; “H. D. ’28”; and “L. M. VIII” are arranged in prominent places on several desks. Still another chair boasts that “Bill” once occupied it, and at another time that “Phil Sternberg” was its occupant. Another chair shrouds more carefully the identity of its marker, saying only “Don Juan.” There are many, many more writings on chairs, some of them undecipherable; but as I looked at them and vainly endeavored to read the scrawlings, I looked at a chair near me, not new but unscrawled upon, and thought, “How much more fun it is to see a chair like that! its secrets are not written plainly for the world to see; it has mystery.” “Babe” Adler has been puzzling over the following account, which has taxed his brain unrelentingly since he deposited in the bank his graduation gift of $50. Withdrew $20 Withdrew 15 Withdrew 9 Withdrew 6 $50 Leaving balance of $30 Leaving balance of 1 5 Leaving balance of 6 Leaving balance of 0 $51 Rochester Traffic Cop: “So you say you saw the accident Miss? What was the number of the car that knocked this man down? ” M iss Erickson: “I am afraid I have for¬ gotten it. But I remember noticing that if it were multiplied by fifty, the cube root of the product would be equal to the sum of the digits reversed.” Page One Hundred Eighty-Tzvo Page One Hundred Eighty-Three WO tK ' y u. j) sr [kms I iBLETHEMj LLE hAUDowllvfHST VtwsI Oiji i uj £ £ DUR ' S Stccviow 3 ;!i i o 8 -J — R HIGH HOUSE PR� Si| F er cvx-ve dor. Fulton fURioN-TROW, HEUEN QAiHL - PLK ' f- ' fEU! CHILD RENS SL ot SPIV.V ICR£EK Sl -HILL - Ui v9 £ or O 3 X«? O he 3 2 mm m0mm Ark v s t m®■ 6MFoqr] pspemen IPftT’s) fcftS e;. [ ieofei MNlOTHtR � S fh ALL THAT IS Beyond the horizon of most young Middle Westerners are a number of vague places which seem imcomparably better in off moments than Rochester; outdoor camps and resorts which arc glorified by the glamour of summer vacation trips, and enchanting cities whose names, familiar since babyhood, incite the romance of the unknown. At times when the situation at home or at school becomes suddenly woefully tangled, even such scorned towns as Winona become for the moment tremendously desirable. There, students have far more freedom than we in Rochester High School; Winona parents seem to have learned to recognize the fact that high school sons and daughters have grown up! Page One Hundred Eighty-Four all ? IMPORTANT IN ROCHESTER On normal and healthy days, however, any sane and matter-of-fact R. H. S. student finds Rochester exclusively absorbing. It is his world, and rightfully so; it contains his friends and comrades, his interests, his work; no place else could be so permanently satisfy¬ ing. Furthermore, there is little in the town itself which is important besides Rochester High School and the places associated with that center of activities. Remove Rochester High School, and the town, with its clinic, hospitals, and hotels, would be dull and uninter¬ esting; but granted that essential to life, Rochester is the most interesting place in the world — and Rochester High School is all that is important in Rochester. Page One Hundred Eighty-Five PERSONAL LETTERS Dear Basketball Captain: This letter is to express my appreciation of your excellent work in my course this year. Your convincing arguments proved an inspiration and influence on my students and myself. I’m sure I would have been embarrassed many times if you hadn’t helped me solve some of the difficult problems in algebra and geometry. I hereby recom¬ mend you for my position. Algebraically and geometrically yours, Prof. “Erik.” My dear Tiddley: Your super-intelligence and voluntary work in my chemistry class have never been surpassed. Your attitude in reciting and helping me out is surely remarkable for a boy of your age. In the future, I wish you the best of luck. Yours scientifically, W. E. B. Dear Bob: I have only one criticism to make of you, and that is that you never entered enough activities in school. You gave no service to the class of ’28 and although, you have the ability to carry on many responsible jobs, you lack the ambition to perform those jobs. I hope you may be able to remedy this fault in the future. Yours for efficiency, B. L. S. DREAM DAYS Days when the door was open whenever we wanted to go in. Days when Durwell had a gentle, soothing, voice. Days when responsibility was not men¬ tioned in the morning bulletin. Days when Vandy could repose in one chair. Days when Nellie Snow didn’t have “Break¬ fast at Sunrise.” Days when one could chew a stick of gum all day without getting caught. Days when students weren’t reminded of their class debts. Days when the boys didn’t have to wear ties. Days when a student could get the Rochet dummy away from Miss Trott. Days when home representatives could rest in peace. Days when “I could sit comfortably for twenty minutes without being disturbed by the faculty”—Signed, Bob Miner. Days when Fulton Perry had two cents. Days when we could walk “double” file though the hall ways. Days when Mr. Bohner wasn’t loyal to a “Chevy.” Page One Hundred Eighty-Six MY HEART LEAPS UP My heart leaps up when I behold A ninety on my card; So was it when I was a Frosh, So has it been e’er since, b’gosh, So be it when I shall grow old Or let me die: That I should get it, ’course is bosh, But 1 could wish my cards to be Marked all alike, each Freshie to Ray V: “Did you ever have any brothers or sisters?” Ray V: “Ya, once, but I drowned them all.” Joe Kennedy: “Mr. Bohner, I don’t think I deserve a 3 on this test.” W. E. B: “I don’t either, but I hate to give you a 4.” Jim Hudson: “Miss Hurley, do left- handed people wear their engagement rings on their right hand?” Miss Trott: “Well, if I can’t hear any¬ thing, how do you expect me to see?” ninety-three. ♦ Mr. Bohner: “What do you know about nitrates? ” Francis Vihstadt: “Well, they’re lower than day rates.” Fair One: “But why are those trees bending over so far?” Lucas Green: “You w’ould bend over too, if you were as full of green apples as those trees are.” Miss Godfrey: “What can you tell me about Aaron?” Wyman Smith: “His name was the first in the telephone book.” WHEN IRENE OISETH SINGS G’way an’ quit dat noise, students, Put dem music books away; What’s de use to keep on tryin’? Ef yo’ practice ’twell you’re gray, You can’t st’at no notes a flying’ Lah de ones at rants and rings F’om Mis’ Church’s room an’ assembly When Irene Oiseth sings. Page One Hundred Eighty-Seven Page One Hundred Eighty-Eight COMPLETE - LIST OF ' THE INHABITANTSOr - O «,Wn :i c ' ff v: tr v iVf v c 7 1 c )ff , - 1 MRNUEL C.IFPEN AANU , w,ff 0 , n t,‘ ' t - 11 U e lrnnuel g JW V jp SJ-) Vl IV Page One Hundred Eighty-Nine “jXob mabe tf )t coun= txy, anb man mabe tfje toton. — Cotoper ©ooli tjgjt w ► The FIRST NATIONAL BANK ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA WITH TRUST DEPARTMENT J. H. Kahler C. A. Chapman Burt W. Eaton L. J. Fiegel C. J. Leusman E. A. Cegal Officers Chairman of Board President Vice-President Cashier Assistant Cashier Assistant Cashier Directors J. H. Kahler, Chairman of Board Chairman of the Board of Kahler Cor poration C. A. Chapman, President Burt W. Eaton, Vice-President Attorney A. C. Gooding Investments H. P. Christenson Farmer C. M. Judd President Weber Judd Co. J. A. Melone, General Agent Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. T. R. Lawler Undertaking, Trunks and Bags Old National Charter No. 579 This bank, chartered as a national bank in 1864, has continued uninterruptedly as a national bank for 63 years. It has occupied its present quarters (with enlargements) since 1870. It was the 579th national bank chartered in the United States, and the 4th in Minnesota. 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MASSEY COMPANY Edna Larsen, Beulah Lewis, Amy Logan, Hazel Larson, Rachel Laobs, Mildred Lord, Dorothy Langton, Doris Mengedoth Pa pc One Hundred Ninety-Three A CHEERFUL SPOT IN THE HEART OF ROCHESTER WHERE FRIENDS MEET When you have tried the others, your friends will vouch for us. With a delightful breakfast, a delicious dinner, and a savory supper, you cannot afford to miss our meals; you’ll like them. WITH COURTESY, CLEANLINESS, SERVICE, AND POPULAR PRICES The GRAND CAFETERIA ROY MASUDA, Proprietor Ruth Greenlee, Evelyn Goddard, Lester Goetting, Walter Gordon, Lucas Green, Lawrence Gronvold, Shirley Green, Kenneth Guyse Page One Hundred Ninety-Four Our Excellent Work Accounts for Our Success Phone 2200 phone 2200 Dry Cleaners Pressers Dyers When your garments need cleaning and pressing be sure to call us; we can give you wonderful service on your gar¬ ments and send them back to you looking like new. Our Dye Work cannot be beat, as we do our own dyeing and can give you very good service on same. We reline coats, and do all kinds of alteration work on all garments. Give Us a Trial and Be One of Our Many Satisfied Customers Prompt Auto Delivery 20 So. Broadway Robert Waldron, Ralph Wooley, Dorothy Root , Mildred Fanfranz, Betty Raymond, Fima Starkson, Adeline Staggert, Annette Schmidt Page One-Hundred Ninety-Five THE MOST ADVANCED and ACCURATELY STYLED Young Men ' s Clothes IN ROCHESTER MARK A. BAIER JAMES M. O’CONNER All G. K. Suits Have Two Trousers Page One Hundred Ninety-Six We Serve the Public Call on Us for Charter Busses. Prompt and Cheerful Service Given at All Times Call 3434 Van Tassel Auto Service 1127 2nd St. S. W. Rochester, Minn. •� c Charles Butruff, Harold Becker, Robert Adler, James Butler, Harold Boutelle, John Brown, Gordon Benson, Charles Britzius Page One Hundred Ninety-Seven E. A. KNOWLTON COMPANY Department Store ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA Beauty Shoppe Children’s Wear Notions Corsets and Accessories Ladies’ Wear Misses’ Wear Dry Goods Hosiery Underwear Millinery A Rochester Institution with an associated 1,200-store buying power, supplying you and yours with the latest styles, best qualities at lowest prices, year in and year out. Music Records Yard Goods Furnishings ALSO, A BARGAIN BASEMENT, OFFERING MANY THINGS THAT YOU CAN BUY HERE FOR LESS Groceries Houseware Curtains and Drapes Candy Beatrice Berndt, Eileen Burke , Luis Alvarez, Albert Adler , William Blethen, Audre Berg, Bert Barbaree , Carl Brookner Page One Hundred Ninety-Eight The Message of Cleanliness Brings cleaner clothes, brighter clothes, health and happiness into hundreds of homes each year. And for this work you must call A MASTER DYER and CLEANER You will find our work of the highest quality. REMEMBER—Your goods are insured with us at all times. It’s New When We ' re Through Lawler’s Cleaning Works W. W. LAWLER Phone: 2323 and 2828 3 South Broadway Dorothy Nutting, Arnold Nietz, Dallas Nield, Faye Owen, Irene Oiseth, Betty Pattison, Esther Peters, Ruth Predmore Page One Hundred Ninety-Nine SKELLY OIL COMPANY Where Quality and Service Reign Supreme w When Out of Gas, Call for The Skelly Skooter” FIRST AVE. AND W. CENTER Phone: 2240 Catherine Lemon, Luretta Lewis, Mildred Lifto, Edith Laws, Helen Lee, Bethel Lamphare, Mary Magaw, Adeline Marquardt I Page Two Hundred We Lay Claim to Master Photography and Live Up to It YOU WILL BE PLEASED This Is Our Seventh Anniversary as Your School Photographer MOSING STUDIO Georgia Allen, Nina Biglow, Mary Braden, Helen Baihly, Mary Bemel , Agatha Brandly, Gladys Biasing, Catherine Brookner Page Tzvo Hundred One f where savings are greatest Broadway at First St. S. E., Rochester, Minn. DO YOU EVER SKIP THE LAST CHAPTER? Did you ever skip over to the last chapter of a detec¬ tive story? Most of us have, and it is quite an under¬ standable impulse. But not many of us ever refused to read the last chapter, and yet there are people—customers of ours — who do not understand many things about our doing business and never ask about them. Why don’t we sell on installments, for example, or deliver your purchases, and why can we give such ex¬ cellent quality at a rock-bottom price? If you don’t know the answer to these questions, ask us. Our manager will be glad to explain. Don’t skip the last chapter. Find out the whole story. L . Ethel Schreiber, Luella Spring, Mardell Stout, Clara Thedens, Arleen Town, Esther Tomforde, Frances Titrington, Zeida Towey Page Two Hundred Two HOME? What Is It? O UR HOME is no longer a cave or a den in the ground. No, it is far from that. The Home that is within comparatively easy reach of each and every one of us in this day and age is more like a palace when you consider the comforts it affords its occupants, alongside of what was considered a luxurious home even as recent as fifty years ago. Consider the improvements in materials readily available today: cement, seasoned and kiln-dried lumber, plaster, insulation, window and door construction, and cabinet work, insuring added comfort both summer and winter. The modern heating plant—distributing comfort to every part of the Home in the most severe weather. Present lighting facilities, thanks to Mr. Edison—yes, there are people living in our city today to whom in their youth even the kerosene lamp was unknown, candles being the only form of making light. Plumbing—we no longer carry water from the spring in sub-zero weather nor enjoy the more recent luxury of thawing out the pump—we turn the faucet. The craving for this privilege of building and enjoying Homes of their own, humble though they were, was one of the causes that attributed materially to the founding of this wonderful government of ours. It has been well and wisely said, The Home Is the Backbone of Our Government.” Are we really appreciative of all the comforts of our Home that our Maker and our govern¬ ment has given us the power and privilege to enjoy? Are we seeing to it that our Home is retaining its proper support and position? Are we watching that our interest in present day luxuries and extravagances will not overshadow our high esteem of Home? Money spent in extravagance is forever out of your reach. Money invested with us in the building of a Home will give you and your children life-long enjoyment. It is our chosen profession to help you get the most possible comfort in your Home with the least amount of effort on your part, and in so doing, to help in our small way to steady and stabilize this important pillar of our government, HOME”. When You Think of Home, Let Us Help You Buy if from Phone 3160 JWlFIHJ Sty Rochester, Minn. LUMBER L COM. COMPANY Page Two Hundred Three When you want the . . . . BEST FLOWERS you will naturally go to our store. We have all the best varieties of ROSES, CARNATIONS SPRING FLOWERS and BLOOMING PLANTS We r.ow haw to put them up HOLM 6? OLSON CO. Opposite the Postoffice ROCHESTER, MINN. Maxine Daly, Lorraine Dunnett, Lucille D. Daly, Dorothy Drews, Jean Dabelstein, Marie Dwyer, Theresa Dornach, Pauline Day We are members of the Florists ' Telegraph Delivery Association and can deliver flowers anywhere , anytime L. T. STEVENSON’S, Inc. 101 So. Broadway Rochester’s Finest Shop for Miss or Matron Frocks for Every Occasion Dance, Party, Street and Sports Visit Our Hosiery Department Every Need for the School Girl LINGERIE — HOSIERY — DRESSES — COATS FURS — NOVELTIES Myrtle McDermott, Petty Mussey, Adeline Marquardt, Doris Nanyle, Helen Pearson, Ruth Pierce, Vivian Proud, Myrtle Pfeifer . i Page Two Hundred Four Page Ttvo Hundred Five Coats - Dresses - Millinery - Phoenix Hosiery We sell quality goods for less. Come in and let us prove it to you. THE EMPORIUM 218 South Broadway Edward Tabor, Harwell Vetter, Francis Vihstadt, Allyn Wiltsey, Walter Witzke, Lawrence Wyatt, Clarence Wilke, Alva Yager. MAGAW KJERNER Dealers in Staple and Fancy Groceries 19 South Broadway Quality Foods Are the Real Means to Honest Economy HERE YOU WILL FIND THE BEST IN STAPLE AND FANCY FOODS, BOTH DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED MAGAW KJERNER Variety — Service — Quality — Interested Attention Carl Briese, Richard Blake, James Bill, Donald Brandly, Morris Cooke, Arent Cloutier, John Cook, Gretchen Brown. Page Tzco Hundred Six Queen City Creamery Co. Manufacturers of Jersey Brand Creamery Butter Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Perfectly Pasteurized Milk and Cream They’re Pure — That’s Sure We Pasteurize for Your Protection Edna Horton, Jeanette Houston, Thelma Hanson, Lillian Hutson, Shirley Hein, Myles Hendricks, John Hines, William Hoeft. LEO N. HERRICK 312 S. Broadway ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA Columbia, Iver Johnson and Fairy Bicycles Velocipedes, Kiddie Kars, Juvenile Autos, Dolls and Doll Buggies. Harley-Davidson Motorcycles and Radio Sets. I carry a complete line of Thornes E. Wilson’s Sporting Goods. I sell wholesale to schools, ball clubs, and Y. M. C. A.’s. Frances Thornton, Marion Town, Marjorie Twaites, Lorraine Underdown. Page Ttvo Hundred Seven NACHREINER’S BOOT SHOP Keep in Step With Youth Sport, Street, Party O T T | ? O for School and and Dress Wear JL JL V i College Folks YOUNG WOMEN’S AND YOUNG MEN’S SHOES CORRECT FOR ALL OCCASIONS Phone: 2185 New Masonic Temple Bldg. Rex Frost, Leone Fuerstneau, Gertrude Frutiger, Betty Francis, George Greenumldt, Fred Guyse, Gerald Hutchins, Walter Hargesheimer. DELICIOUS FOUNTAIN DRINKS Hot or Cold High School Students know that a trip down town is not complete without lunch at the GOODY SHOP. Light foods, well prepared, can be had at any hour—tasty sandwiches, wholesome hot or cold drinks. Get it at the GOODY SHOP” 23 Second St. S. W. Phone: 2643 Helen Campion, Harriet Drews, Eleanor Dunbar, Loretta Ewald, Dayton Davies, Leon Doole, William Eichinger, Robert Fitzpatrick. Page Two Hundred Eight LYMAN’S Rochester’s Leading Style Store Paris is the source of style creations, but America is their accomplishment, and in our fashions we show the still greater achievements of the American designers’ adoptions—all of which, are presented by us in models exclusively selected for our particular requirements. Here are to be found some of the more noteworthy of the newest fashions. COATS DRESSES SUITS FOOTWEAR MILLINERY Margaret Blakesley, Mary Brennan , Marie Buske, Velma Batterson, Frances Burbank, Leona Brown, Dorothy Campbell, Georgia Cauchon. OLMSTED COUNTY BANK TRUST COMPANY Rochester, Minn. Capital, Surplus and Profits, $108,000.00 OFFICERS C. F. Dabelstein, President J. A. Cooke, Vice-President A. E. Lamprecht, Cashier L. E. Kennedy, Asst. Cashier S. J. Condron, Asst. Cashier A. R. Cunningham, Asst. Cashier May Gallimore, Emily Gustine, Amy Gallimore, Mildred Greenwood, Marion Gonderzick, Raymond Jung, Kenneth Keehn, Donald Knowlton. Page Tzco Hundred Nine Southern Minnesota’s Largest, Finest and Most Complete MEN’S AND BOYS’ STORE Catering Especially to the High School and College Man THE BOSTON M. C. LAWLER ROCHESTER OWATONNA Robert Waldron, Ralph Wooley, Helva Pekkala, Ruth Puryear, Vera Proud, Claudia Perkins, Georgia Richards, Florence Reick. Dial 2025 when in need of first class PLUMBING and HEATING A doily benefit MAASS McANDREW COMPANY 12-14 4th St. S. W. Satisfaction Guaranteed Rochester, Minn. Hazel Mohler, Dorothy Mosing, Mary Nield, May Olson, Dorothea Prigge, Ardith Penney, Beulah Penz, Vcryl Predmore Page Tivo Hundred Ten ADAMS BOOK AND ART SHOP will endeavor to serve the students of Rochester High in a manner that will entitle us to both their Good Will and Patronage Our Stock Always Affords a Good Selection and During the Holidays Will Be Full of Attractive Gift Items Give us an opportunity to be of still further service to you. ADAMS BOOK AND ART SHOP Elva Kragness, Margaret Krueger, Joe Kennedy, George Klann, Raymond Kamesch, Philip Kavanaugh , Hervey Knutson, Tom Lawler The ROCHESTER OIL COMPANY Dealers in PETROLEUM PRODUCTS Gasoline Gas Oil Distillate Lubricating Oil Kerosene Road Oils and nearly all Petroleum Products QUALITY MERCHANDISE Try Energee Detonox Gasoline Florence Smith, Margaret Saholt, Grace Stephan, Evelyn Towey, William Schact, Donald Thornton, Oliver Sorenson, Earl Wolfe. Page Tzco Hundred Eleven ELLIS MOTOR COMPANY Dodge Brothers’ Motor Cars and Graham Brothers’ Trucks We Specialize in Automobile Accessories Dependable Garage Service Telephone 2023 101-3 No. Broadway Claire Siegel, Mellg ren Schroeder, Elbert Schwarz, Paul Shandley, Martin Scant an, Arthur Stolp, Ralph Stevens, Werner Sandell. Why Athletes Drink Milk A THLETES drink milk because it builds endurance and stamina. Take the case of Mr. Blank: Blank was on the track team at school. He had average physique—nothing to brag about, long and skinny, inclined to be slightly knock- kneed. At the start of the season he happened to read a story about the health value of milk. He asked the coach about it, but didn’t get much information. How¬ ever, the lad kept on—making milk and milk products a strong factor in each day’s diet. In two months he surpassed the entire city’s athletes and broke the local record in the broad jump! This story is entirely authentic. It has been paralleled in many places. Now coaches everywhere stress the value of milk as a maker of champions and vigorous men in all walks of life. Milk builds resistance to disease; it furnishes energy and life to the body—it digests easily and quickly, and it is the most in¬ expensive of foods. ROCHESTER DAIRY COMPANY Page Two Hundred Twelve DRY CLEANERS S ' 115 N. Broadway Phone: 2525 Elizabeth Stearns, Dorothy Smith, Dorothy Srartau, Shirleu Shonyo, Margaret Thor son, Dorothy W ode, Louise Wilson, Alice Wheeler. When in Need of Furniture, Rugs, Draperies or Linoleum Remember The Luger-Buur Furniture Co. 105 North Broadway Quality Merchandise Reasonable Prices Robert Alvarez, Robert Anderson, Charles Alexander, Cecil Brown, Stanley Burgess, Raymond Range, Adrian Clark, Merton Cowan. Page 7 ' tvo Hundred ' Thirteen Porter’s Greenhouse Floral Co. Ferns, Flowering Plants, Cut Flowers DESIGN WORK A SPECIALTY Deliveries Promptly Made Flower Shop—Kahler Hotel Greenhouse—14th St. N. E. Telephone 2184 Telephone 6263 ROCHESTER, MINN. Donald Eppard, Frank Eaton, Tillman Erickson, Louise Fakler, Carolyn Fratzke, Harold Fitzpatrick, George Famham, Joe Fawcett. Drink Coca-Cola in Bottles Fakler Bottling Company Manufacturers of Fakler’s Famous Ginger Ale And All Kinds of Carbonated Beverag es 214 North Broadway Phone: 2853 Lura McDermott, Roselia Miller, John Miner, Norman Markle, George Morrison, Ross Mayhood, Robert Miner, Edwin Madden. Page Trio Hundred Fourteen MEREDITH METZEROTT, INC. 307-311 First Ave. S. W. Phone: 2110 Morgan Hall, William Haack, Amos Henke , Ralph Hammond, James Hudson , William Hamrick, Maurice Hotels, Stanley Hassig. THE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY has been in business for seventy years and during all that time it has adhered strictly and faithfully to the purposes of its founders to make of it purely a life insuring company. It has resisted the temptation to enter other fields of insurance because it believes that it can, under its long-observed policy, render more efficient and economical service to its patrons. The Company recognizes that a limited number of definite needs prompt men to buy life insurance, and it has been its constant aim to develop both an organization and a service to meet those needs in the most complete and satisfactory manner. The following specific needs, and the most effective way to meet them, have had special attention: Income for wife or other dependents Funds for the education of children Cash to pay off mortgages, etc. Cash to pay debts, including administra¬ tion, last illness and funeral expenses, and for family adjustment Cash to pay taxes of all kinds Bequests to Hospitals, Churches, Schools, etc. Birthday, Christmas and other remembrances Funds for old age and retirement Corporation Insurance, and Partnership Insurance The Northwestern holds that those who use Life Insurance to meet any or all of these needs, ought to have the assistance and advice of an Intelligent and Responsible Agent at the time of the sale and throughout the life of the policy, if Maximum Results from Insurance arc to be procured. J. A. MELONE, General Agent —The Kahler L. S. WILLIAMS, Special Agent JAS. H. STARKEY, Special Agent Page Tzuo Hundred Fifteen A SELF-CONTAINED SERVICE INSTITUTION 15 BRANCHES OF SERVICE Under One Roof Ford - Fordson - Lincoln Sales and Service NELSON MOTOR SALES Ford Products Dealer ROCHESTER, MINN. Charles Swanson, Francis Sehl, Norman Sheets, Orr Seaman, Ralph Sader, Lloyd Schultz, Eldred Senrick, Glenn Teska. rom the Standpoint of STYLE INDIVIDUALITY BEAUTY More Cannot Be Said If It Comes from ORR’S Leading Jeweler Gladys Anderson, Enterene Albert, Irene Brown, Mildred Bach, Robert Albarez, Robert Anderson Charles Alexander, Walter Adamson. Page Two Hundred Sixteen First State Bank 8C Trust Company ROCHESTER, MINN. 11 Second St. S. W. Phone: 2343 DEPARTMENTS Commercial Savings Trust Investment Safety Deposit DIRECTORS George W. Granger O. G. Hanson F. W. Schuster Ralph Baihly E. L. Lyman George B. Doty Lowell Ostrom, John Oliphant, Donald Ostrom, John Oelke The LIDDLE HARDWARE Quality - Service in Hardware, Fishing Tackle, Guns, Ammunitions, Kitchen Ware, Paints and Brushes All High Class Merchandise Usually Carried in a First Class Hardware The Liddle Hardware Phone: 2183 Lila Jameson, Lucille Jorgenson, Florence Knutson Margaret Kepp The Greatest of All ’ ' LADIES’ HOSIERY” MADDEN’S STORE Grace Smith-, Nellie Snow, Lila Staggert, Eva Satoris BUICK A SIZE and MODEL TO FIT YOUR NEEDS Si 195.00 to S1995.00 F. O. B. Factory Kitzman, West 8C Postier Milton Renaux, Archie Ried, Lawrence Raymond, Stanley Ruth Page Tzvo Hundred Seventeen FRATZKE BROTHERS Our Aim Is to Specialize in QUALITY HARDWARE a Better Grade at Lowest Prices The Recollection of Quality remains long after the Price Is Forgotten” Fratzke Brothers Phone 5255 6 South Broadway Clara Rutz, Mildred Raber, Virginia Richmond, Leone Radke For Comfort’s Sake Be Sure to Specify Our Coal and Lumber Dodge Lumber 8C Fuel Company 515-21 Second Ave. N. W. Phone 2067 ROCHESTER, MINN. William McCarthy, Nellie Nangle, Lela Nickerson , Thelma Norman ROCHESTER ICE AND FUEL CO. Phone 3305 The Famous General Electric Refrigerator COAL - COKE - BURNING OILS Grain Feed PURE MANUFACTURED ICE Quality and Service Always Guaranteed George Pnryear, Ray Pike, Fulton Perry, Luella Radke Misses Scott and Everstine Ladies’ Furnishings and Needlecraft Shop HAND MADE RUGS, PETTIE POINT, CROSS STITCH LAMP SHADE MAKING AND PAINTEX DECORATIONS Corset Fitting a Specialty 109 First Avenue South West Zumbro Hotel Block Page Tzco Hundred Eighteen Music Is Essential” When the purchase of a Piano comes up for consideration, keep well in mind the character of the House back of it. Every Piano sold by our firm is fully guaranteed. BACH MUSIC CO. Pianos, Victrolas, Radios, and Everything Musical Palma Hanson, Evelyn Herschleb, Theresa llgen, Evelyn Jones WEBER JUDD DRUG CO. Everything in the Drug Line FREE DELIVERY SERVICE to Any Part of the City MASONIC TEMPLE DRUG STORE KAHLER DRUG STORE CLINIC DRUG STORE GIFT STORE Phone: 2176 Rochester, Minnesota Doris Keehn, Dorothy Kreuger, Catherine Kennedy , Doris Kretzsehmar MIDLAND LUMBER COAL COMPANY K lean OAL East Kentucky Coal A FORD COAL [QUALITY | w] A wmr SAHARA COAL w Berwind’s Briquets Pocahontas Hard Coal Get Our Number for Lumber Phone: 2616 Norman Lindstrom, John Livingstone, Alfred Lampreeht, Merlin Larson Reputation Is Valuable A GOOD reputation is one of the most valuable business assets you can have. Other things being equal, the man of unquestioned reputation can get accommodated more quickly and with less red tape at his bank than the man whose reputation is somewhat doubtful. A man who has properly established re¬ lations with his bank and has the reputa¬ tion for always making his word good, has a big edge over the other fellow in making a success of his business. Union National Bank Rochester, Minn. Lucille Mohler, Ruth Moe, Leona Malvin, Louida Martin Page Two Hundred Nineteen Congratulations to the CLASS OF 1928 Rochester High School Fred W Haase Good Clothes Always” Lelcih Langley, Jessalyn Lewis, Fern Linstrom, Lelah May hood The Home of GOOD SWEETS AND EATS THURBER’S SWEET SHOP Phone: 2164 19 2nd St. S. W. ”The Place to Meet Your Friends” John Disney, Clayton Daly, Margaret Eichhorn, Vernon Eckholdt SNOWFLAKE ROCHESTER and POST-BULLETIN A NO. 1 HARD FLOUR High grade family patents milled from All the School News the Choicest Spring Wheat. Every sack All the Time fully guaranteed. When buying flour from your grocer, TRUTH insist on Snowflake or A No. 1 Hard Flour. It makes Better Bread. in NEWS ROCHESTER and MILLING COMPANY ADVERTISING ROCHESTER, MINN. Rochester, Minnesota Gordon DeVogel, Stanley Darling, Leigh Donovan, Lawrence Dunnett Helen Darcy, Vivian Daly, Lyle Cutshall, David Dee Piig e Two Hundred Twenty FIRST CLASS TONSORIAL PARLOR Ladies’ and Children’s Hair Bobbing a Specialty W. A. PURVES, Prop. Y. M. C. A. Building Oscar Hargesheimer, Ralph Hagaman, Wilbur Hailing, Margaret Jesson PRIEBE’S Store No. 1 Store No. 2 420 2d St. S. W. 713 2d Ave. N.W. THE THE HIGH NORTHROP SCHOOL SCHOOL STORE STORE Esther Kvnerth, Lucille Keller, Bertha Kretzschmar, Margaret Kinney DURABLE and USEFUL Are Our Timepieces of Nationally Known Makes Which We Show in a Variety of Designs AMERICAN and SWISS, MAKES Both of Which We Guarantee Blickle’s Jewelers 21 2nd St. S. W. Irene Hagedorn, Mabel Hammond, Doris Hjerling, Dorothy Hoffman HOLT SC PERRY Abstracts of Title to All Lands in Olmsted County General Insurance Real Estate Investment Bonds Surety Bonds Farm and City Loans D. H. HOLT J. G. PERRY First State Bank and Trust Company Building Margaret Weiberg, Frances Williams, Inez Wenzel, Eleanor Wolfe Page Two Hundred Twenty-One LOW COST LIFE INSURANCE HUBERT J. HARVEY Special Agent The Prudential Insurance Company of America Susan Volz, Marjorie Wilsey, Priscilla Waggoner, Elizabeth Waldron FURNITURE of QUALITY at MODERATE PRICES We invite you to visit our store and to see our display of house-furnishings. R. L. Tollefson Co. Home of Good Furniture 225-227 1st Ave. S. W., Rochester, Minn. Bernice Ward, Leonore Wetzel, Betty Francis, Alice Wilson 1 First in Service” First in Satisfaction” STYLEFUL SHOES AT First in Selection” Popular Terms If Desired Prices LIBMAN’S Hosiery to Match ROCHESTER FURNITURE See Our Windows” COMPANY 321 So. Broadway Your Home Should Come First” 230 South Broadway Rochester, Minn. Vera Hunter, Margaret Hubbard, Muriel Hunter, Anna Heutzenroeder Bendict Dresbach, Leonard Donovan, Leslie Ecklund, Joe Edwards Page Ttvo Hundred T-zvenly-Ttvo JUST” YOU WILL FIND FOOTWEAR the Newest Styles and Patterns Always in TIES, SHIRTS, SHOES, HATS, and TROUSERS at Blakeley 8C Kennedy The Leader Leads in Lower Prices Southern Minnesota’s Greatest Shoe Store MAX MARK, Proprietor ROCHESTER, MINN. 112 So. Broadway Stella Zempel, Lyla Zick, Viola Zimmerman, Henry Tradup Arvilla Albert, Lina Anderson, Verna Alexander, Hannah Alexander FINKELSTEIN-RUBEN Present QuALm- DRUGS The Chateau Dodge Theatre We carry SHEAFFER, CONKLIN Minnesota’s Fountain Pens and Pencils Only Atmospheric Theatre Presenting High Class Photo Plays And Stage Presentations Richter Bernard The World’s Great- and His Chateau est Blind Organist Orchestra Quauty ice cream Rochester, Minnesota Lillian Anfinson, Robert Adler, Agnes Bourquin, Rhoda Bailey Alice Hargeshiemer, Myrtle Haggerty, Blanche Hamill, Stella Hoover Page Tzvo Hundred Twenty-Three Baihly Market We Are Serving Now — BREAKFAST The Best DINNER of Everything in SUPPER Meats Our Toasted Sandwiches Are Delicious Home-made Candy — Ice Cream THE PRINCESS 108 South Broadway CANDY KITCHEN Phone 3332 14 South Broadway Phone: 2145 Leona Malvin, Arlene Matzke, Margaret Mansfield, Alice Moore Harold Pascke, Carl Pagel, Herbert Pat tins on, Lyle Pike The Golden Arch One of the Newest and Finest Confectioneries and Cafes in the Northwest. We Specialize STEAKS - LUNCHES - CANDIES Quality and Cleanliness Is Our Motto Your Patronage Is Appreciated Phone: 2266 Romaine Root, Lenora Rund, Elsie Rieple, Lonise Roessler Page Tzvo Hundred Tzventy-Four Hudson Bay Blankets Motor Robes Complete Assortment F. J. Paine Company 311-315 South Broadway, Rochester, Minn. Arthur Brehmer, Helen Carnego, Janet Collins, Shirley Cummins, Beatrice Currier, Leona Desbiens, Leone Doyle, Lucille J. Daly. BUREAU of ENGRAVING, Inc. MINNEAPOLIS Engravers Printers For the 1928 Rochet V