Storden High School - Tiger Yearbook (Storden, MN)

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We the boys of the Semor Class w1ll to the jumors our basketball abxlnty so they may wm the class tournaments next year 1 Russell Harry Larsen do bequeath to Norrxs Engebretson my good grades ln the hopes he w11l raxse hxs average Wxtnessed this 24th day of May nineteen hundred and flfty by the WILD GOOSE MULE TRAIN SHOE SHINE BOY Class H :story On a bright September day whrch matched the nntelllgence of thxs class m 1938 s1x pupxls came to Mxss Gxlmore and sand We are the new flrst graders They were Elwm La Moyne Norris Russy ElRoy Ida Marie and Harry After the seats had been asslgned they sat and stared lCl1y at the lntelllgent teacher Havxng been ln school a few weeks they became aware that Mass Gllmore was the law and order of the room Thls was most vlvxdly engralned ln the minds of the boys especially Russ and Norrxs who frequently made trxps to the teacher s desk to have thelr hands slapped wlth a ruler In the second grade we added Milan Wxlson joyce Kramer and Russell Schnormexer Norrme decxded to stay wxth the flrst grade another year as he figured we weren t good enough for hmm Remember our orange crate library? Russy was S1Ck one day and stayed up for recess Mrss Gllmore told h1m he could exercise h1s pamtmg talent and work on the lxbrary equipment When recess was over we couldn t declde whxch Russy was better talented for pamtmg hzmself or the lxbrary tables and chazrs Mlss Gxlmore cleaned hxm off with gasolme and xt was some tlme before he pamted agam Harry Benjamm also left us during the year At the start of the thxrd grade Milan Wnlson left us and went to Westbrook Thxs left seven ln our lxttle class Thzs IS the year we had Mxss Rongstad as our teacher The most memorable event of the year was the tlme E1Roy turned around and slapped joyce Kramer rn face He said she was pokxng penclls ln h1s back? 'P 'U At the begmnmg of the fourth grade Ida Marxe johnson left but Keith Olson came our class remaxned the same in sxze Thxs was the year our tonette band stepped mto the lurxellght w1th Russy as xts dxrector More fun Oh and remember those fights between Keith and Norrxe'7 Wow At the end of this year joyce Kramer moved to Wxndom In the flfth grade we got three new glrls and two new boys namely Fern Wehmeyer Grace Hanson Mary Lou Bean Leo Thorsness and Merton Scharr Our l1tt1e group was now increased to ten three gxrls and seven boys Our teacher thxs year was Mrss Noble About the only xmportant happenxng was the scrap 1ron contest Our v mmng entxtled us to a valentxne party sponsored by the sxxth grade In the sixth grade we left Fern Wehmeyer behmd us but later lh january john Donahue jomed us Durmg the year Russell Schnorme1er left us and went to Lamberton 9 C ' I . . . 1 1 O . 1 . . . . D. l . c 1 s 4 in ' I9 - 1 o I - I 1 . 1 1 1 I 1 - . ' . . . . . . . ' . . l . . . . . ' . I . . , . , . . . . I ' . l . . . . . , 9 . . , . , . . - 1 r . ' . . i . , l . . th Q 6 . . . . . . . I . I . Y so . . . . . ,,, . . ... 1 . . ,, . . ' 1 . 1 I 1 1 1 . ' ' . ' . . I - , . ' , . ' . . . , , . .

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Class Wzll of 1950 We the Seniors of Storden I-hgh School ln the county of Cottonwood and xn the State Mmnesota possessmg a sound mmd and body declare thzs to be our last wxll and test xmony As we leave this magmfieent work of art commonly known as Storden I-hgh School xt comes to our mmd that we have certaxn assets whlch wlll benefit the underclassmen Fxrst We the Seniors bequeath all of our experiences of varlous nature during school to the juniors Second We the Semors bexng the smartest class 1n school bequeath to the juniors our mental abxhty so they may become as brxlhant as we are I Waverly Arden Engeswlck do bequeath my horse sense to Norrls so that he may have more sense than a horse I Arla janet johnson w11l my flgure to Fern Wehmeyer ln the hopes that she may have more boy frxends than I have had 1 Russell Harry Larsen do bequeath to Denms Olson my he1ght so that he wxll play a sterlxng game at center for the basketball team lt badly I Keith Orlando Olson do bequeath to Neal Swenson and Robert Gebhard my languld con versatxons with a long lxst of gurls I Myrtle Elleen Oleson do bequeath upon Arlene Larsen my ab1l1ty to go steady wlth two different boys at the same tmme I john Edward Donahue will my abllxty to stand up under a Robert Burns cxgar for half an hour to B111 Kuehl I La Moyne Darrel Madson do bequeath to jack Potter and Vernell jackels my quxck passmg expert ball handlmg and good eye for the basket I jean Burnette Hedman w11l my shapley fzgure to JoAnn Lohre m hopes she may snare a man sometxme I Robert Franklm Stahl j do bequeath to Dorayne Peterson my chm so that she w1ll have eight of them l Myrtle Exleen Oleson do bequeath upon Luczlle Swenson my legs so that she can add them to her well rounded figure I john Edward Donahue wlll to Algona Henkel my one hundred and mnety two pounds she may welgh an even flve hundred at the begmnmg of football season I Kemth Orlando Olson do bequeath to Neal Swenson my drlbblxng ab111ty so he wlll make more of those layups 8 , . . . , . of 5 I, Elwin DeVere Shaner will my long, wavy hair to Bob Beck and Neal Swenson as they need ' li , ' r., ' ' r 9 ' l ' S0

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By the beglnnmg of the seventh grade Merton Scharr had also left us to go to Lamberton but Bob Stahl jomed us he came from a country school Miss Rongstad was our teacher at seems that fate had placed us ln the same room again as she had prevxously been our teacher in the third and fourth grades Nothing of importance happened thls year except the flrst Sadie Hawkins Party Remember that? Outstandmg rn our memornes because the class was more stud1ous than usual Durmg the elghth grade Mary Lou Bean Grace Hansen Bob Stahl and Leo Thorsness left our httle group Durmg the middle of the year Myrtle Oleson and Barbara Earp jomed us so there were now eight of us ready to start high school When we started school the next fall we pxcked up three more students from country schools namely jean Hedman Arla johnson and Waverly Engewwxck Thls brought the class total to eleven which is consldered a very small class even for Storden but what we lacked ln number we supplemented m mtelhgence ln our Sophomore year our class made a definite showmg of zts athletzc abxhty as we were runners up 1n the class tournaments At rmdterm Bob Stahl again joined our ever de creasxng class To start the jumor year we had lost two more members of our class Barbara Earp and ElRoy Nerness We had had twelve but now there were only ten of us left We remained thus year he left ul. and went to Westbrook to complete h1s Semor year This was the year of our 'play and the junlbr Senxor Banquet both under the dlrectxon of Mlss Estlll They were both very successful We are now a class of ten gettlng ready for our class play Tlsh dlrected by Mr Parsons As usual we have borrowed some glrls from the other classes We are also pa tiently awaiting Sklp Day and the fun it will bring Another thmg for which we are patlently wanting IS graduatxon and the many social functxons whxch wxll rnark the end of the year and the end of our years nn Storden High School The Semors of 1950 have dxstmgulshed themselves we believe ln many ways members of the class have played promment parts in athletics and other actlvxtxes of the school We hope we have played our role as leaders successfully and we extend our smcere good wishes for success to our successors the jumors Ta ttler veryone of the Storden Seniors has had their ups and downs these past years so now that the end o' our high school days have come we would llke to relate some of them We ll begin wxth jean the brains of the Senxor Class jean has never paid too much attention to men as she says you can t trust them any further than you can see them Although she has gxven up her policy to certain boys such as E1Roy Nerness Allan Math1ason and Mervm Sabohk 1 0 until the second semester of this year. when Lawerence Liepold joined us. At the end of the