Rothsay High School - Tigers Yearbook (Rothsay, MN)

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Allen Morris had married a young girl and was raising a fine family He was liv ing in a large ultra modern igloo on the Sahara Desert Having heard about the Ship of the Desert he had set up a boat repair service and made large sums of money selling port holes on the black market In his spare time he was writing a book about his moments of embarassment ln high school The book was entitled How I Studied English ln My Junior History Book' LeRoy Nord was the owner of a crematmg parlor in Detroit Lakes Minnesota Most of the cremation was done during the summer because he was kept busy sprin kling ashes on the extremely slippery sidewalks during the winter LeRoy spent his vacations in Audubon supposedly shooting pool with his friend LeRoy had also worked a short time for the Morton Salt Company in Ohio He had gotten fired when the boss found him using red pepper instead of Morton Salt on his breakfast cereal He had not yet married At one time however he was about to be married but had to postpone the wedding when he remembered he had a date with another girl on the same night Gordon Flatm was living right in good old Rothsay He had written a song about his yellow sweatshirt The song was entitled I Wouldn t Change You For All The Girls The World The song was not appreciated by the American public The people all said it smelled Gordie was now the owner of the Rothsay Telephone Company He re membered the telephone conversations of his high school days and knew that friendli ness among students and teachers could create a very serious commotion To prevent any such disorder Gordon hooked up all teachers on a private lxne which he never kept in working order square cigar It had one main advantage over the old fashioned round cigars in that the D L Special was guaranteed not to roll off a level surface Donnie also perfected a square circle which made it possible to equip all new cars with square cigar lighters light the revolutionary new square igar Ethel Olson had gone to Hollywood She owned a beautiful home in Beverly Hills was very popular wzth the handsome men in the studio where she worked and was even reported engaged to none other than the studio janitor Ethel was unemployed at the present time She had been fired because she hadn t put enough life into a death scene Jane Brenden was a dress designer in New York Once a bill was introduced in Congress to abolish sleeveless dresses Jane immediately opposed this bill on the grounds that it would be unconstitutional because the Constitution gives the right to bare arms ldella Toso was teaching the first graders in a small country school in the cotton district of Minnesota She taught her pupils considerable amounts of technology and sociology and other simple things which first graders ought to know something about She had worked hard earned a large fortune and spent it supporting a loving husband Doris Dahnke was a taxi driver in Washington D C She had so many accidents in a single year that the Agriculture Department stressed soil conservation only on land that could qulckly be made znto a favorable cemetery The War Department presented her with an award for making the war casualties look small in comparison with the traf fic deaths The city itself was changed considerably All buildings were moved back so that they would be at least 100 feet away from the curb, sidewalks were raised ten feet above the street steel railings were built in front of all plate glass wmdows and gas pumps and fire hydrants were all suspended in air . . - . . ,, . ., . , ' ! D . . . . ,, . ' 9 . . . ,, , . , . ' - - n n - ' . ' ' I I . 9 . . - 4. 1 . In nw . . . . , - D Donald Lein was a traveling salesman, selling his own invention. He had invented a . i . - . . , . tl ' OD - . . . . . . . . to ' I 1 . . , . . ll Il , ' . . . I - . . . I I . . I D

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The Class Prophecy We always knew the class of 1951 would make the world much more convenient and extremely beautiful by each member contrxbutmg his or her knowledge mventtons Ideas to the general publxc Well here It IS 1961 and exactly ten years smce the Semors of 51 graduated from Rothsay I-hgh School Let s see what has become of the members and what each one has accomplished Arlene Ronmngen has become a tallor in the lovely metropolis of Carlxsle ln thzs partrcular community 50'Z, of the marrxed couples are men Few Carllsle women know how to sew and to keep any of the men from trymg thexr hand at sewmg Arlene uses advert1s1ng slogan wh1ch reads Whatsoever man seweth so shall It rlp' She had marrled a well known gentleman from Carlisle and goes home to spend the evenmgs wxth her family after she has locked up her place of busmess and made sure that her husband has washed the dishes Geraldlne Bzlden was the owner of a swanky restaurant and ballroom ln Ch1cago She called xt the Fxshbowl because xt was the favorite hangout for all the suckers m the entire state of ll11no1s Rebecca Lackman was lxvlng m Washmgton where she had establlshed a home for rich beggars and other vrctlms of mlsfortune Among the unfortunate who found con tentment here were dzsgusted fzshermen unhappy students and husbands whose wzves had taken the car Rebecca being very kmd hearted glves them free a bowl of soup and an aspzrm Now Eldon Brenden really got to be a bag shot' He was the head of the Atomlc Re atomic experts wanted to talk to h1m they knew they would always find him at 724 Calvin Street Fergus Falls Minnesota When Eldon was not busy with molecules he had found tlme to invent many small artxcles Among them was a szmple but comph cated thing called the left hand hammer He was domg pretty good 1n lxfe accordmg to the last report we heard Harry Olson had secured a posztlon of d1gn1ty He was presldent of the Oldsmobzle D1v1s1on of General Motors ln Detrolt M1ch1gan He had spent the last eight years try ing to flnd out how Oldsmobile could make so much money when the company had noth mg worth sellxng Harry spent his summers wrth a farmer near Baker Mlnnesota who had a thousand acres of wonderful potatoes but only one beautlful daughter Donald Rasmusson was the owner and operator of a beautiful new pool hall m Audubon Minnesota He had a cute httle s1gn on the door whlch read Don t get behlnd the 8 ball be safe and shoot snooker Donnie also remembered h1s Enghsh classes and so he spent many long evenlngs teaching his pretty young wlfe the correct way to use left hand Engllsh Perry Larson had gone to Hollywood Here he was employed by Paramount Studios I-hs Job was teachlng the proper way to walk and other soc1al graces to young actresses In his hxgh school days Perry had always been an ardent lover of Shakespeare Hxs en th11S1aSm over gallant kmghts and beautxful ladxes had enabled hzm nn hxs spare trme to be the drrector of many movles The most outstandmg bemg the Black Rose . . . . Y . . , or I r 1 . . , . . . . . . . , an . . . ,, . . ,, I ' ! ' ' Al ' ll D U lg UO 9 . . . . n ' , . search Commission. He had not yet married or made a home, but whenever any other . . , . . - I I ' 0 , - . . . . . ' . . . . - . . . I .- . . t . . , . , , . . . . . ,. , . Q ' I - ,., . . . , . . . , t . - . , . . . , . . . , . . . . ,. ..

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Al1ce Hensen was lwxng ln Los Angeles Cahforma She made more dates than any other gurl 1n town You see she worked an a calendar factory She was just the kxnd of a gxrl a man would want to marry and settle down with after he quit fallmg in love She had mvented a sort of pressure meter that reg1stered the number of pounds of pressure a man was exertmg on a glrl s waxst The gadget was marked off ln four d1v1s1ons 1 just being mce Z this IS love 3 this IS true love 4 slap lus face' Marcella Wexk had gotten marrled to a soldxer when he was home on a furlough Shortly after the hasty marrxage she Joined the W A C S She thought lt was all right to flght with her husband now since they were both in fightzng umforms Marcella had recexved her basxc tralnmg in Alaska where xt was so cold that all she could say was Brrr le Marjorxe Hovland had set up a thrwmg business ln New York Clty She gave ad vxce to the lovelorn and trxed to discourage dworces She herself had been fortunate 1n havlng had seven successful marrxages Charles Martlnson s love for gxrls had led h1m to invent a flea powder that lf ap plted correctly kxlled all male fleas but let the females survive Charhe was also the nuts had a very pecullar taste Many of the gravedzggers thought Charles powdered his doughnuts wlth hrs flea powder which had been used on cattle so often that It was no long er effective Orlyn Kragerud was travelxng wxth a large clrcus He had had many excltmg ex per1ences For example he had a steady g1rl whom he had met ln a revolving door and he 15 stlll going around with her Orlyn s Job with the czrcus was a very easy one He merely stood on the stage wlth a sxgn whlch read l rn From Mlnnesota Beslde h1m stood a seven foot 350 pound gfant who wore a slgn wh1ch read I m From Texas Richard Nltz was playzng pr ofesswnal basketball He had xnvented a devxce that made xt easier to score a basket It s mazn feature was a magnetic basketball When this ball was thrown near the basket xt was pxcked up by radlo actlve waves concealed ln the bank board Thxs resulted ln the ball bexng pulled right through the hoop Nltz had been working on this th1ng for many years When xt was still in th experxmental stages it had worked fine ln a game at Underwood where It enabled him to score Z7 points Mxllard Mortenson was l1v1ng ln San Antonxo Texas Mxllard was a llcensed and bonded undertaker He was very well liked by all hzs customers He says no one whom he has burned has ever complamed about hrs servxce . . . . . ,c,. . .,t,.. ,t,.. ,cy . . owner of a doughnut factory, located in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota. His powdered dough- . . . ,, , . ,, . .