Russell High School - Beta Yearbook (Russell, MN)

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Graduation We regret very much the 'fact that we are about to leave Russell High School. We trust that this is not the end of our educational careers, but rather the first Step of an intellectual ladder lead- ing to higher things of life. V As graduation draws near, we realize, probably for the first time, that the time of parting with the faculty and students is near, an-d the many friendships that we have made we Shall forever hold dear. Although we have ftrod the pathway together this fiar, we now must part, each one tak- ing his own course. As Freshmen, the four years of High Scho.ol between' us and graduation seemed a long time., but now, as Seniors, we -feel that it has gone all too swiftly. As we feel the diplomas in our han-ds, 'we also feel the sincere regret in our hearts that 0-ur days in Russell High are over. Our Baccalaureate services will be helfd on the Sunday preceding graduation. Tle Bap'ift minister will deliver the Baccalaureate address this year at the Russell High School aud. torium. After we have graduated we will be happy due to the facit that we can :say with great pride, We are graduates of tl e Russell High School. Fern Brechler 1 Class History Of the class that entered school in the first grade on September 1, 1922, Vivilore Hansen, Gor- don Purdy, Jerrold Tipler, Mavis Munson, and Robert Grove began in high school together, also. Our other three members who entend high school with us, Irene Crozier, Fern Brechler, and Irene Miller, came here from other schools when in the third, fifth and eight grades first year of high school life, Frances Swanson, and Roland, respectively. In our we were joined bv Raymond and Mar- lowe Peter'-ion, but Marlowe and Raymond .dropped out before the year was over. Oif course, we did not accomplish much that year, but We were just conservfng our energy fOr future greatness. Much of our -energy was removed by the initiation, but we came through with fiying colors Cas our motto would have it--Sailing On.J Our teachers. for the year were: Miss Carl, Miss Ede, and Mr. Point. The most interesting situation of the year was the fact that the boys, with the exception of Jerrold, took Home Ec., with the girls. In our Sophomore year we gained tvio rew pu- pils, Marjorie Iilotte and Kenneth Rittow. Irene Miller, Mavis Mvnson, Vivifore Hansen and Mar- jorie Pilatte entered the Declamatory contest. Marjorie rlace-d first in the dramatic group. All of the girls but Marjorie l:-elonffrd to the Glee Club, and many of us went out for kittenbal and basket ball. Our teachers were: Miss Ede, Miss Schlamann, Mr. Point and Mr. Maursetter. In 1933 we started school as Juniors with high hopes of so0n being Seniors. .Ofur class was slightly diminished as Marjorie, Frances ariid Kenneth dis- continued school and went to school at St. Paul and Wi lrnar, resxpectively. Besides our other ac- tivities, we gave the Sen'ors a banquet which rep- resented a circus and was complete with clown waitresses, wild animals, and balloons, and some of the class, Mavis, Gondon, and Jerrold took part in the .Senior class play. This year Jerrold took first p'ace in the oratorical division. Miss Schlamiann, Mr. Point and Mr. Mikelson were Our teachers. As Seniors, our class was decreased. again, be- cause Irene Miller undertook a venture in matri- mony and Robert Grove decided to remain a Jun- ior. Now that we are Seniors we must set good ex- amples for our l0wer classmates, but we're afraid if they follow our erampes they'll be worse off than they are now. Our teacl-ers this year are: Miss Richardson, Miss Ede, Mr. Mikeltson and Mr. Point, who is also our class advisor. Jerrold is our class president, Gordon, vice-president, Fern, secretary, and Mavis, treasurer. Our class play, Oh Susan , was put on. November 9, 1934. Lucille R'stow of Willmer joined our class which mak-s our .orcmnt enrollment eight. To keep up our fame: Jerrold walked off with oratorical honors in Declarn.at0ryg all of the girls belonged to the Glee Club, all of the boys played on the kittenball, basket ball and soccer ball teams, two of tlte girls, Mavis and Fern, played On the kittsnball and basket ball teamsg Fern, Vivilore, and Lucille belonged to the orches- tra, and .most of vs worked on the ischool paper, at least some of the time. -Gordon Purdy -Jerrold Tipler. SCHOOL DAYS School days, school days, Dear old Golden Rule davsg Readin' an' writin' and 'rithmetic-, Taught to the tune of a hickory stick I was your queen in calico, You were my barefoot bashful beau: You wrote on my slate I l.ove yOu so When vie were a couple of kids.

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Senior Class of ll935 Class. Colors Class Motto Class Flower Orchid and Yellow Sail On Yellow Rose MAVIS A. MUNSON LUCILLE M' RISTOW u',u.mno1'o1:l.xNp She came -down from Will- She .often sits up late at mar this year quite late night, To change our class from And to read a book is her seven to eight. delight. Sl'e loves to dance and play, But before s-he'll indulge in this gal, any fun. But al in all, she's quite a Mavis says her work rnust be pal. done. IRENE M. CROZIER Many of her kind in every class are not found Ewen over all the world the type doesn't abound Her Share of the work she'll never srun, And she ras the sweetest dis- position. VIVILORE E. HANSEN She's m0re artistic than many girls be, Yet She retains alll of her maidish modesty, She can cook, play a cello, sew a fine seam, We think a better class mate couldn't be seen. JERROLD C. TIPLER This Senior boy is all up to .par. He realy loves to -drive a good car. He does his w0rk with a whistle anid a song. In this ol' world he's going to move along. ROLAND V. PETERSON A cute little lard, and Belly is his name. As a story teller, he'll surely win fame. He's a gre-at guy and always on the run, But his classmates always get to 'Share his fun. FERN R. BRECHLER fSAI.U'1',Vl'0RIANI Fern's athletic and she's pep- PY? She s as c'ever a girl as you could see. She studies, works, and plays a saxophone. Boy, how she can make that ol' horn moan. GORDON S. PURDY Though his future ambitions change with the years, He keeps the whole class laughing until we're in tears. First he wanted to join the navy, then be an ergineer. Whatever he is, his sense of humor will keep life from being drear.

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Class Prophecy 'I wish that telephone operator would give me Some service. Hello, wil. you call Transcontinental Airlines, please? It surely is a typical spring day here. Let me see: this is June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixty. That means it's about twenty- tive years since I was graduated from the good ol' Russell High School-H-ello, is this the Transcon- tinental Airlines? Have you any reservations left on the four o'clock transport? All right. Save that one for me, p'ease. The name is Jerrold Tipler, 7403 Park Avenue. I'believe I've earned a good three m.0nth's vacation. I've worked ever since nineteen-forty, when I started a small store back in Minneapolis, and now I have a store here in New York. I left everything in tip-top shape and caught the pane for Chicago. As I stepped oif the transport and started out of the door, I glimpsed a familiar face coming out of the control room. I looked again for sure, and who do you suppose it was? Y0u'l never guess, buit it was Gordon Purdy, my classmate of all of mg' school career. He told me that he was Hying 'his plane but had also been given a vacftion for his faithfrl service as one of the beft pilots. We vent up to his apartmert where he lived and spent lthe evening, It was uninterrnpt- od, because Gordon had remained a bache or thus far in life. It must be that women do not care for air-minded husbands. As long as our vacations coincided, we decided many of our cla'sm.ates as we could. to 'visit as Gondon said he knew where Roland could be found, and I said, Let's go, because you can be sure that Roland will know where the girls are! Therefore, we started for St. Louis the next morning, and was I surprised to find out what Belly , as we ui-Zed to call himl, was doing! After graduating he had been a successful base ball play- er anvd was now managing a team of his own. We spent two days with Roland and his. sweet wife in their home in the suburbs of St. Louis. He had a son and little daughter, Patsy, who was a cracker- jack ball player for a gir', which warmed the cockles of lfer f1atl'er's heart. Roland gave us tie whereabouts of the class as best he could. He said we could probably finid out from some of the others where they al' were. Roland had given us Fern's address, so we next flew to Reno, Nevada to see her. We rather ima- gined that we'd see her playing in an onchestra, lrut she was juzft one jump ahead .of us, for she was conducting a larfe orchestra here. She had mar- ried early in life and was well established, but were determined to remain bachelors, and the city was conxdlucting this orchestra just 'for the fun of it she said. Gordon and I soon left Reno. We was literally swarming with women. Fern had given us Iren.e's address, so we head- ed directly -for San Francisco. We founid Irene packing her bags and sweeping up the remains of the rice. She had just gotten married and was going to Paris 'for her honeymoon. Her husband was a traveling newspaper correspondent, so she was going to learn beauty culture whi e in Paris. This would give her something to do while he was away. She didn't have much time then, but prom- ised to stop and see us on her way back, which promise she kept. After Irene 'eft we idi1dn't have much to do, so we attended a movie. The firsit feature .was so tame that I went to sleep, only to be awakened by Gordon, pounding me on the back. I didn't real- ise anvthing at first, but he kept say'ng, It's Lucy! By Gee. Yes, irt's her for sure -until I came t0 the realization that the actrcss on the screen was really Lucille. We noticed the company she was work ng for and flew 'fl.0 'l l there to See her. She was very gad to see us and introduced her hus- band who was also in the movies, but in the cap- acitv of a d'rfctor. Fhe wfs unable to direct us to any of our -clfssmates, so we began to think that Mavis and Vivilore had dropped off the face of tho earth. We di .n't know their names but we spent nearly a wcerlr searching the telephone directorif of all likey places, but finally we gave it up arl Gordon returned to New York with me for a short time. About two days after our return, Gordon and I were eating d'nner in a cafeteria when a tall, well-:dressed woman W-earing glafses cam.e and sat at our table. Again Gordon beat me to irt for as she removed her glasses he calmfly said, Hello, Moses, At this remark Mavis, for it was she, promptly swallowed her mouthful of water down the wronn' way. After she had recovered sufficiently, she told us all about herself. Fhe had married about lif- te-en y-ears after graduating. She had married a news-paper man in New Orleans. She was now e - ilting a we l-known women's magazine and was, rs ste explained, in N-ew York to get some first han' information on w.omen's styles. She had no faimilf and rem.inded us of the old Mavis, who used to edit the High School paper, except for her glasses. Mavis could tel Us wh-'re Vivilore was and she did, for Vivilore had often written articles on