Rothsay High School - Tigers Yearbook (Rothsay, MN)

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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- . . . ,, , . ,, . .

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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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Class Poem Four years we ve spent w1th1n thls school Four years we ve studied the Golden Rule Yet looklng forward znto lmfe We flnd our work was worth the strlfe When we were Freshmen just a week Already cl1mb1ng toward the peak When Sophomores we were on the ball We kept on running down the hall When at last .Tumors we became Our marks m conduct were a shame And fears and worrles were decreased But at last zn Fxfty and Fifty One Our Sernor year we had begun A merry class of twenty two We worked and fooled the whole year through Soon we 11 bid our frzends farewell Thxs IS what we want to tell These years mn hxgh school we won t forget And belng wxth you we ll never regret by Harry Olson and Orlyn Kragerud , . . . N , . D 1 , . l But in our studies, marks increased, ' I , . ' 1 . . . I . . . i I . . . , .