St Paul Park High School - Par Ki Yearbook (St Paul Park, MN)

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--.------W -. -Q--M -5- PARK-HI -1- Y- 44-6- CLASS HISTORY On September 1, 1942, 42 boys and girls entered the ninth grade at St. Paul Park. Since then we have learned what elimination can do for now we only have 18 members. They are: Florence Allen, Margie Berfeldt, Frederic Brandes, Dorothy Cooper, Richard Godfrey, Molly-Ann Griffin, Donald Gundy, Bette Mae Hall, Alvin Hannestad, Helen Hartigan, Irving Jerry, Jeanne McMillan, Harriet Moore, Willard Nollet, Lois Obri- ham, Ruth Sward, Patrick Waldner, and Is- abel Witzke. Our ninth grade class officers were: President ..........-.. - Ruth Sward Vice President ........ Curtis Kelsey Treasurer -,-,,.,,,.. Florence Allen Secretary ......... Jeanne McMillan Student Council Member .......... ----U-,,,--,- ,,---- Donald Stankie Class Adviser ........ Miss Welander During the year Donald Stankie moved to St. Paul, so we elected Floyd Hunter as the new Student Council member. Ruth Sward was the Freshmen Candidate for Queen of the Winter Carnival. The big event of the year was a party at the gymna- slum. In the tenth grade we were much wiser. That year most of us took biology. Remem- ber the nine cats we cut up? Our class offi- cers were as follows: President -- ...... .... P at Waldner Secretary ............. Lois Obriham Treasurer ........... Eunice Doville Student Council Member .......... -- ------------------- Norman Holmes Class Adviser' ........... Miss Zieske Bette Mae Hall was our candidate for the Carnival Queen. This year the big event was our initiation. The girls dressed in old house dresses. They had to wash their hair the night before and couldn't comb it out the next day. High heels and colored anklets were worn on their feet. No make-up was allowed. The boys wore earrings with their hair greased and parted in the middle. They had to wear make-up, short pants above their knees, half socks, and no shoes. Each one of us had to Wear a sign with a silly say- ing on it. Cute, weren't we? In the latter part of the year we gave a Return Party for the seniors. The class officers for the Eleventh Grade Were I President ....... ---- Fred Brandes, Vice President ......... Irving Jerry Secretary - .... ....... H arriet Moore Treasurer ............ Lois Obriham Student Council Member .......... -- --------------------- Dick Godfrey Class Adviser .......... Miss Teagles This year we have a Sadie Hawkins dance. Helen Hartigan was our candidate for Queen of the Winter Carnival. We sold stationery to make money. We started our class play, You Can't Take It With You . We selected our theme for the Prom Songs of the Island. No one really thought we were going to give it, but we did. Ruth Sward was elected to the National Honor Society. The Twelfth Grade class officers were: President -. 1........... Dick Godfrey Vice President ........ Willard Nollet Sewefary .............. Ruth Sward Treasurer .......... Dorothy Cooper Student Council Member ..,,.,,,,,,, ------------------ Irving Jerry, Jr. Class Adviser .... .... M rs. Gasperlin This year we really got down to busi- ness with Dick Godfrey making our class money with the pop corn machine, and his organization of the selling at the Little Five tournaments. We gave a play this year to the surprise of the rest of the school. Salad Days was the title. Lois Obriham was our candidate for the Carnival Queen. The class took a trip to Hastings. Dorothy Cooper and Fred Brandes were elected to the National Honor Society.

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Harriet's quiet and serene, A -fe-s ef PARK-H1 e- CLASS POEM---i946 Ladies and gentlemen, we have here for you A poem that's corny all the way through. However, we hope to express in this verse the love for each other we felt from the first. When.we were Freshmen and took English nine, We drove poor Miss Zeizke out of her mind. As sophomores we had a wild biology class, Miss Ludden stopped teaching-alack and alas. Our Junior class play would have been a suc- cess, If we'd worked a bit harder and fooled around less, And now we are Seniors and leaving forever, The teachers all hope that we'll come back never. Pat and Al are liked by all, Stars in both football and basketball. Our football captain, Donald Gundy, Spends his time eating sundaes. i'Johnny, Johnny, that's the sound We hear whenever Jeanne's around. Then there's Isabel, a cheerful gal, To all of us she's been a pal. Ruth's a leader in our class, A cheerful, smiling, happy lass. To Sophomore girls Irv's a dream, Like Sinatra, for him they scream. We would have seen everything under the sun, If Willard didn't have his work all done. Here's a gal that's really super, A leader in everything-Dorothy Cooper. Helen admits she would like to go, To the Marine base in San Diego. Dick makes the money, strange at it seems. He paid for the annual with the pop corn machine. Lois has dozens of men on her string, Blue eyes, blond curls, she's really keen. Molly-Ann is new this year, But she gets around a lot, we hear. Florence is quiet and refined, 1t's hard to find a girl of her kind. Bette Mae is full of pep, When you're with her you're really hep. Freddy Brandes is alreet, A scholar, leader and athlete. Thinking of her handsome Marine. This ends our poem, We now Say uadieux, Farewell to the Park High, Teachers and underclassmen too. Margie is a Navy fan, His name is Johnny-what a man! I I SOPHOMORE INITIATION, OCTOBER 1945 This year was our big event which the Sophomores won't forget. The girls were dressed with overalls cut off above the knees. They wore T shirts. Men's shoes with dif- ferent colored knee stockings. They were blackened like Negroes on one side of their face, arms, and legs, on the other side of their face they wore make-up. Their hair was braided with different colored ribbons. They carried a man's lunch bucket full of bricks. The boys were dressed in long white underwear with shorts over the top. One oxford and the other foot was bare. They wore wide brimmed ladies' hats and very much make-up. They were carrying large ladies' purses. In the afternoon we had a very exciting program with one exciting moment which was David Briggs being rocked by Carol Zacharias and fed warm milk out of a baby bottle. In the evening we had a dance at the gym. We think the Sopho- mores were all very good sports. 10