Slater High School - Hawkeye Yearbook (Slater, IA)

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CLASS HISTORY In the first grade we started out with Miss Olson as our teacher. There were fourteen of us that first year. They were: Merrill Lester, Gwen Tweedt, Dean Floden, Garry Severson, Kenny Nelson, Richard Har- mon, Dennis Soderstrum, Curtis Swanson, Patti Ihle, Paul Thornwall, Johnny Larson, Kay Hood, Wayne Metcalf, and Wayne Gutenfelder. In the second grade we had Miss Erickson as our teacher. We lost Wayne Metcalf and Wayne Gutenfelder. Our third year we lost Kay Hood. Our teacher was Miss Estrem. Our fourth grade teacher was Mrs. Johanson. We lost Johnny Lar- son that year. In the fifth grade Chriseeta Newell joined us. Our teacher was Mrs. Heyerdahl. We lost Chriseeta Newell in the sixth grade. Mrs. Patterson was our teacher that year. After a seemingly endless time we were in Junior High, seventh grade. That was the year we gained Anita Kittle and Ronald Thompson. Our teacher was Mrs. Hodgin. Our teacher in the eighth grade was again Mrs. Hodgin, We gained Kenneth Twit frorn Kelley that year. Dean Floden, Richard Harmon, Kenny Nelson, Patti Ihle, Merrill Lester, Paul Thornwall, Dennis Soderstrum, Curtis Swanson, Garry Sever- son, Ronald Thompson, Anita Kittle, Gwen Tweedt, and Kenneth Twit plus two new arrivals, Jim Young and Dorothy Jarnigan, made up our class as we went into high school. Our teachers were: Mrs. Ryg, Mr. Patterson, Mrs. Wilson, Mr. Hodgin, and Mr. Carlsten. In our Sophomore year Dorothy Jarnigan and Anita Kittle moved away. leaving us only thirteen pupils. Mrs. Pollei, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Zirnmack, Mr. Becker, Mr. Hodgin, and Mr. Carlsten made up the teaching staff that year. Finally our junior year arrived, only two more years of school. Marcia Gibson brought our class population up to its present level of four- teen pupils. Our teachers that year were: Mrs. Ryg, Mr. Hodgin, Mr. Black- man, Mrs. Wilson, and Mrs. Miller. In our last year of school our teachers were: Mrs. Ryg, Mr. Hodgin, Mr. Blackman, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Jensen, Mr. Burns, and Mrs. Fausch. Our graduating class consisted of: Dean Floden, Marcia Gibson, Richard Harmon, Merrill Lester, Patti Ihle, Dennis Soderstrum, Garry Severson, Curtis Swanson, Ronald Thompson, Paul Thornwall, Gwen Tweedt, Ken- neth Twit, Kenny Nelson, and Jim Young.