St James High School - Saintonian Yearbook (St James, MN)

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Terrance Haws Chemistry, Physics, Bioloay Norbert Renner Science 8. 9 Morgan Williams Jr. Hiqh Social Studies, Science 8, 9 Helen Kiner Bookkeeping, Typing Lorene Meyman Jr. High Mathematics Geometry Carol Larson Weech Shorthand, Business Law, Typing H. R. Davidson Shop Lucille Belanger Library Helen Romness German, Spanish, English J. Joel Ball English II, Speech Elizabeth Cooper Home Economics

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SAGA Of THE 'Wers Gee. just think, only e few more days and we’ll be out of school for qood. Boy, I'm so qlad. Maybe so, but just for the fun of it let's qo back throuqh the years and see what we did, and what we will miss when we leave school. Remember that freshman year? . . . that was some year . . . the first day of school was a day of aqony for all the frosh boys, thinkinq of the job they would have that niqht tryinq to find their pants and shirts . . . Bev Olseth had her Halloween party . . . what a party—all we did was play post-office, but you didn't hear anyone complain . . . seems all we did that year was have parties, and the qirls always had to ask the boys . . . they always had to take three buses to the qames, because so many kids went each time . . . Patsy Curry took care of kids over at Wedqe's every Saturday niqht . . . Chas. could be seen cruisinq around in his 32 Plymouth . . . The polio epidemic came between our freshmen and sophomore years and caused the death of one of our classmates. Marjorie Larson . . . Kilroy was here became a popular sayinq. and we acquired stockinq caps, a fad which was to stay with us the rest of our hiqh school days . . . Elaine Burckhardt's party will always be re- membered as the party where the qirls had to pick a boy's shoe from the pile to find a lunch partner . . . Fairmont burned our homecominq bonfire and we sophs qot out of qeometry to rebuild it . . . Sadie Hawkins Day rolled around and all the boys could be seen waitinq in the halls hopinq for a date . . . Mauritz and Mae started qoinq toqether after that dance . . . Mam'selle was the sonq which was currently popular, and i+ also was the theme sonq of that year's prom . . . speakinq of the prom, remember the dance the waiters and v aitresses had to do? . . . the waiters all had tuxedos and the waitresses, black dresses with white blouses . . . the dishwash- ers were washinq dishes until 12:30 . . . after that there were the picnics out at Memorial Park . . . summer came and we could see Brad and Chuck with their mode! T's. We floated into our junior year on the notes of a 1927 revival, Peq O' My Heart by the Harmonicats . . . Property, property. was a familiar sayinq at class play practice: Jo Erickson never seemed to be around when needed . . . don't think anyone ever did find out what a trapezius or a latisimus dorsi was: everone always forqot to look them up . . . popular records were coming out in 1920 styles — loads of banjos and bass fiddles . . . the K-K was still the favorite hanqout. w:th the juke box always qoinq steady . . . Pat Killen and Bill O'Brien were the raqes of the Sadie Hawkins Day dance . . . winter Sundays were spent at Fort Ridqely. skiinq and toboqqaninq ... it seems the parties were few and far between this year, mainly because so many kids were qoinq steady . . . state tournament time rolled around and the Sheridan was packed with the anqelic Saints . . . Gmitro's Ham and Eqq shop was the breakfast hanqout. while Miller's Cafeteria was all right tor dinner . . . prom committees were orqanized w’th a Spanish Patio beinq chosen as the theme . . . the sophomore waiters and waitresses did a South American dance and some qirls could be seen wearing tiny orchids from Hawaii ... it was really a qood prom due to he fact that we accomplished almost the impossible, keeping most of the kids there until the end . . . but then we had Al Menke's orchestra . . . afterwards the kids spread far and wide, some qoinq to Lonq Lake, others to Fort Ridqely and the Cities . . . Clarence Rip Van Winkle Niemeier started his hobby (sleepinq durinq classes) . . . nobody will forqet how much fun the April music festival was and all the swell kids who were there sinqinq and playing in the bands . . . remember all of those wonderful Diizzards when the buses had to leave early, and we spent the rest of the day foolinq around . . . Mr. Ball's Enqiish classes sounded like the floor of the U. S. Senate durinq the discussion of race prejudice . . . The Jessens had a banq-up toboqqan party . . . the hills were so steep we could hardly stand up on the toboqqans. September 7 marked the beqinninq of the end of our hiqh school career . . . speckled horn-rimmed qlasses were poppinq up all over the place . . . cries of. I want the biq ripe one, could be heard flowing from the moonlit melon patches . . . The Gerdes bov$ nearly blew a fuse with their briqht red pants and purole shirts . . . Don Forseth and Tarrie Larson reiqned over the homecominq festivities . . . Mark Raabe was knocked into amnesia . . . Les closed the K-K. whereupon Swan's became the popular hanqout . . . Sward-Kemp still manaqed to grab the after-school trade . . . and Clarence slept on . . . after the election smoke had cleared it was found the Wilson Trumanites had qained the victory . . . Gene Syverson took over class presidency . . . Weezie took to knittinq her best beaus' stockinq caps . . . Macbeth roared throuqh Miss Tweeten's Enqiish classes and Klammer and Bolin Inc. qave a screaminq version of the witches . . . Schul+z is dead came into beinq and left aqain as quickly as it bed entered . . . social life on a whole increased with leaps and bounds . . . colored knee socks became a fad amonq the lower classmen, qirls, that is . . . everyone had reservations at the Sheridan aqain for the state tour- ney . . . social speeches could be heard pouring from Mr. Crosqrove's room . . . the Saints Reporter s+aff had a rip-roarinq time every other Friday niqht, puttina ihe paper toqether ... Jo and Marilyn were always qettmq up at 6:30 a. m. Saturday mornjnqs to wr:te their heads . . . Brad and Dick took excursions to the Chief's office . . . Mr. Haws had rather a rouqh time in his senior chem classes makinq everyone bear down and work . . it qradually qrew warmer . . . there were definite siqns of sprinq . . . students lolled on the lawns at noon . . . there were marble qames and roller-skaters . . . lonqer eveninqs . . . and almost too soon it was May ... we donned the blue caps and gowns . . . now there were only memories of what had been.