Roosevelt High School - Rohian Yearbook (Virginia, MN)

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if QP . S- MISS MARY HOLLEY EDWIN HUMPAL L. G. HURST MISS PHYLLIS JOHNSON CIo'rI1Ing Insfrumenfal Music A+IwIeI'ic Diredor GirIs' Swimming FORREST JONES VICTOR JORGENSON Draffmg Job ReIa+moms Radmo Hedrwcwfy nu.,- MISS ELLEN KORPY JOHN LIND English Prmc1paI J- ' 1 O J MCILVENNA JON MALANEY Cnvscs Socwology Englxsh Journalism

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I MISS RUTH AMBROSE ANDERSON MISS GENE AURE Biology U S HisTory Dean oT STudenTs Biology LAVERNE BRAATEN Welding 41. KEITH DAVIS O J EIDE C A FLAGS InsTrumenTaI Music Gve0meTry DraTTing Remember Joe s doze? LeT us seT The scene. The room was quieT. The insTrucTor saT aT his desk. A Teeling oT uneasiness spread Through The room. ThaT breaThing sound was iusT Too deep Too ryThmic. Wary glances were casT abouT To discover The source. The sound gaThered volume and developed inTo a Tull-Tledged snore. Joe was sound asleep. We glanced aT Mr. Pedagogue. He looked remoTe and as yeT unaware oT Joe s visiT inTo dreamland behind The shield oT an opened TexTbook. One ThoughT hif his pals in The class-Joe musT be saved. Proceeding on The Theory ThaT The besT way To Tigh+ Tire is by Tire They began an organized campaign oT noise. Ben dropped his pencils Jack rubbed his head wiTh a piece oT paper. Pages oT TexTbooks were Turned Turiously TeeT shuTTled a cold or Two developed. No avail. Above and beyond all oTher sounds rose ThaT unmisTakabIe snoring sound. Mr. Pedagogue rose walked sTraighT down The aisle pasT Joesdesk Turned came back. We waTched wiTh baTed breaTh. He reTurned To his desk picked up an enormous volume sTrode back and held iT ThreaTeningIy over The sleeper s head. Sudden- Iy he glanced aT The worried Taces abouT him grinned and TipToed quieTIy back To his desk. The Ten- sion snapped and ThaT grin spread ThroughouT The room. Wonder if Mr. Pedagogue ever realized how much ThaT biT oT horseplay endeared him To us ThaT day. He d earned The supreme commendaTion a Teacher can receive Trom a pupil- Say he s human . Remember wiTh whaT skepTicism we seT aside our TavoriTe comics and dime Thrillers and reluc- TanTIy Tollowed our English Teacher s lead inTo The Tield oT classics and LiTeraTure . We knew we d be bored-we hoped To skim IighTly over The surTace wiThouT disTurbing our comTorTabIe ThoughT paTTerns or airing The pages oT The old masTerpieces. Amazing buT Those dry pages began To live wiTh Torce color and beauTy as our ears became aTTuned To rnasTerTuI phrasing. We sTood beside Mark AnTony and spoke Those subTle words To our Roman counTrymen. We lived in a rough lumber camp wifh Thomas Hardy. We TelT The charm oT Poe's haunTing play on words. Suddenly we realized ThaT here in These dusTy volumes Iay an inTriguing world To which we'd been handed The key. Digging ouT ThaT old dime novel , we suddenly Tound iT awTully dull reading. ThaT canTankerous, conTradicTory hisTory Teacher is anoTher To remember. Scarcely a day passed ThaT he didn'T dispuTe some TacT we voIunTeered. He TIaTIy denied sTaTemenTs we had long Taken To be esTabIished TruThs and challenged us To prove him wrong. This was open war. Our sTaTe oT indiTTerence disappeared and we pledged ourselves To a duel oT TacTs. We spenT hours in The library searching Through reTerence books, encyclopedias and period- icals To Tind TacTs To subsTanTiaTe our argumenTs. We quesTioned, we probed, unused secTions oT our brains groaned, creaked and sTarTed To TuncTion againsT our will. WILBUR GEARY InsTrumenTaI Music MISS MARY HALVORSON Social STudies MISS JEAN HEALY English, DramaTics

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L. L. MICHELS Boys' Swimming I 4 I MISS DORIS PETERSON Girls' Physical Educalion R. A. POTTSMITH Cabinel Making FRANK RUKAVINA U. S. I'Iislory, Drivers' Training 8 MISS ANNE MOBERG MISS STELLA OGREN Arl English Nine limes oul ol len we proved him wrong. Yes, bul why? Slrange, lhal he should have such a proud, pleased look on his lace when he admilled deleal. Remember brash, noisy Ned and lhe leacher who never raised her voice? You could pick Ned oul a block away as lhe Ioudesl and rowdiesl in lhe group. Il someone lripped walking down lhe aisle il was Neds lool lhal quickly darled back under his desk, I-Ie was lhe lype who would have made good use ol an inkwell had we lived in lhe era ol piglails. Boislerous and rude, Ned presenled a problem lo any inslruclor. We leared lor lhe menlal slabilily ol lhe soll spoken leacher when he landed in her class. During lhe lirsl week she sludied him quielly. Then one day, while handing back some wrillen work, she had her say, You have a gill ol phrasing--I enjoyed reading your paper . The nexl day Ned handed in lwo papers lo our one and in doing so, wilhdrew a couple ol paces lrom lhe cenler ol lhe slage. Slowly bul surely il happened-wilh a word ol approval here-a nole ol encouragemenl lhere-lhe obnoxious Ioudness changed lo a guiel conlidence. Remember when our hearls surged wilh lhe same rebellious spiril lell by our lorelalhers in lheir lighl againsl oppression? A lilling comparison indeed. Il was lhe lask ol memorizing lhe Declaralion ol Independence lhal had been assigned lo us by our oppressor-lhal is-leacher, lhal aroused our lighling spiril. Declaralion ol Independence-whal mockery in lhose words. This was nol independence spending hour aller hour com- milling Jellersons words lo memory, inlacl wilh every punclua- lion mark. Could be lhe lacl lhal we reciled lhe Declaralion ol Independence inslead ol counling sheep when ballling insomnia be classilied as a Hpursuil ol happinessu? Yes, we spullered, we lived wilh one ol our nalion's grealesl documenls. We be- gan lo see inlo lhe lighling hearls ol our counlrymen who had so bravely expressed lheir sland. Indeed one ol our proudesl accomplishmenls in our school years has been lo echo lhose im- morlal words which hold lheir lrulhs yeslerday, loday and lo- morrow. This abilily ol ours may even come in uselul in a TV quiz program someday. We could cile incidenl aller incidenl why we have recon- slrucled lhal pedeslal we placed our leachers on in our early school years. We also hope lhal in recounling lhese evenls we have proved beyond a gueslion ol a doubl lhal lhe omission ol lhe C lrom lhe word lacully in a cerlain sludenl wrillen Ieller was enlirely accidenlal. In a Rohian edilors' communicalion lo leachers early lhis year, unwillingly, reference was made lo all lorly ol Roosevells Faully members . Faully-a lhousand limes no. Wilh deep respecl and admiralion lhe Seniors bid farewell lo a mosl peerless FACULTY. EMIL OMAN Chemislry, Physics MISS NO RA PETERSON Foods JAMES ROWBOTTOM Algebra, Drivers' Training .q 'il' KARL RUTH ENBECK Prinling