Rushford High School - Valley Legend Yearbook (Rushford, MN)

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 Aaron Slick from unkin Crick was the story of a young widow, Mrs. Berry (who takes in summer boarders) and her neighbor and bashful boy friend, Aaron Sliok. Things really get under way when Mrs. Berry’s boarder, Wilbur Merridew, and his niece, Gladys Mae, discover oil on Mrs. Berry’s farm and plot to get the farm from Rosie for an under-priced sum of money. Sis Riggs, a young tomboy, overhears Merridew and his niece discussing the oil and tells Aaron of the plot. Aaron then helps Mrs. Berry get a large price for the farm. With the money, Mrs. Berry and Sis go to Chicago to live in style as city women just as Rosie had always longed to do. The joke is on Merridew, however, for soon after Rosie and Sis ha e left, he discovers that what he had thought was oil was nothing more than a few barrels of oil that Aaron Slick had dumped into the spring. Merridew and Gladys Mae rush to Chicago to force Mrs. Berry to return the money; at the same time Aaron also goes to Chicago to help Rosie protect her interests and, most important of all,to ask her to marry him. While in a cabaret in Chicago, his money is stolen by the Girl-in-blue, but Aaron very cleverlv steals it rigtrfc back. Everything turns out all right when Clarence Green, who had been shadowing Merridew, arrests him for a crime he had committed in another state. Finally, Aaron very shyly proposes to Mrs. Berry; she accepts, and they go Dack to live in Pumkin Crick. The cast consisted of the following! Aaron Slick, Rosa’s neighbor................ •♦John Printing Mrs. Rosa Berry, a young widow.............•••••Mary Sandsness Wilbur Merridew, Mrs. Berry’s boarder...............Carl Jahr Sis Riggs, a young tomboy...........••••••Bernadette Corooran Gladys Mae, Wilbur Merridew s niece............Mavis Anderson Clarence Green.••••••••••••••• .........•••••Henry Colbenson Girl-ln-Blue ............................•••••••.Marllyn Dean Director.• ........•••••«••...................... ..Mr. Cleland 15

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LILA KELSON is planning on building a bookkeeping school on top of the hill near the Rushford sign. She feels that is where her class could study best, concentrating 2M hours a day on dear old bookkeeping. Her idea originated from high school where she sat in bookkeeping class and so often gazed out and up to that spot on the hill MAUREEN JENSEN, one of the most famous musicians of the day, was declared the best ten-thumbed organ grinder Of course, people do get her mixed up with the monkey who travels with her. DARLENE JOHNSON, who recently won first prize in the national bread baking contest held in Kryzerville, was seen in a dime store buying toy tractors—nine of them! During the Mars ts Earth revolution SHIRLEY EVEN SON founded a rest home for space cadets in . Now that the war is over, she has made a home for one of the lucky ones! Mademoiselle EVELEEN HOVLAN(d) has just received a fat check for her latest Parisian design— spectacles for the modem miss They are unbreakable, unbendable, and contain some secret charm so the boys now all look for gals wearing glasses JOHN PRINZING, criminal lawyer, got Scarface McDoddle off with a 99 year sentence. The Jury was thinking about giving him lifel SHIRLEY ERICKSON, lady detective from the Lumber Yard Just finished her most baffling case the Case of the Threaded Needle . She admitted it was one of her toughest cases because.. The needle and I Just didn!t see eye to eye. The Hula-Hula Weekly reported that Chicky CORCORAN was a smashing hit in her dance routine. The paper summed up her success by saying She's a Corker . Plash: Count Archibald Shagnasty HENRY van C0LB2NS0N, rich Hungarian farmer, threw Vail Street into a panic when he flooded the wheat market by selling 100,000 bushels of wheat. Since he has a corner in the market, it was estimated that he received $10 a bushel. Congrats1 Hank! Secretary of Agriculture, RAYMOND KJOS, who owns approximately l 5 9?8 of the United States didn't like van Colbenson's move to plant corn again on his one acre of land because he was contemplating buying it, but now he souldn't get his money's worth and all his plans were loused up. CARL JAHR, who just won the Indianapolis 500 mile race, was asked how he became such a good driver, he replied, ■ Driving around Rushford in my Chevrolet. Countss8 La Reine de MARILYN DEAN, after receiving the award Magna Cum Richa attributes her success to ...quote ■ I use my bean! LOIS HOPP, first grade teacher in South Africa was asked why she chose to teach little children. She said I Just want to get some practical experience for the future. The long wought after answer of why the donkey tail is more popular than the pony tail was given in on exclusive report by EGGERT, originator of the donkey tail. Vhe ways, Girls who wear the pony tail have inferiority complexes because ponys are so dumb, while those wearing my donkey tail creation know that donkey's are smarter than ponys so they can feel superior to those wearing pony tails. The Evils of Society was the topic of DONALD McELMURY, experienced lecturer on this subject to a group of society dubutants in flew York City. Asked where he learned to speak so well, he said, Vihere else but in my favorite class, English 1953! Mac also enthralled the group with his rendition of rfhen the Stars Get in Your Eyes which he sang and played on the guitar. 14

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JUNIORS Row I: 1. to r N. Johnson, B. Clness, L Henderson, A. Rislove Row III J. Larson, L Markegaard, J Bjorge, B. Nowlan, S Volkman, L. Magnuson, S. Soattum, M Helgemoe Row Ills D Larson, R Forsythe, Q talker, J. Jertson, D. Runger, H. Hill Advisors: D Koffron, G. Meyers