Stoughton High School - Yahara Yearbook (Stoughton, WI)

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AWARDS Each year a Few diligent, intelligent students receive awards. When these students graduate, they will be entitled to the Feeling that in the tour years they have spent in high school they have really accomplished something. Besides the awards mentioned on these pages, there are a few others, Each year, the W,C.T.U. presents a loving cup to the most deserving senior boy and girl. The V.F.W. also ohfer prizes in their annual essay con- tests. The subject ot the essays this year was Unity lor Peace. Furthermore, scholarships are otiered to the outstanding students in the senior class. Due credit should be given to those students who receive these honors, for they are the result of am- bition plus plenty oi hard work. Lions Club Awards I. VVcn0 NI. Natvig F. Call B. Quam H. Fresc American Legion Awards During his high school career, DICK ONSRLID has certainly proved himself worthy of receiving the American Legion Award. This year Dick was captain of the football team, a sport in which he has been active ever since he entered high school. But Diclcs activi- ties were not confined only to sports. l-le was active in l-li-Y, and in his junior year he was class president and prom king. The American Legion awards this honor on the basis of character, sports- manship, leadership, and scholarship. We are all happy Dick Onsrud is re- ceiving the award, For it is recognition which we feel he has earned. 8 Spoon and Spade Esther l-loveland this year was chosen from among the Five girls ranking highest scholastically in the junior class to receive the be- ribboned Spoon. Among the Five highest ranking boys, the juniors chose Ford l-lorn to re- ceive the Spade. ,V an .. ,V ir 991 . ..,,,.. j J A Mathematics Social Science Science English Vocational Lions Club Awards Each year the Lions Club presents medals to those seniors who have done outstanding work during the year in one or more of Five departments of study in our school. Those who this year received medals because of their high grade averages were as Follows: FRANCES CALL BONNIE OUAM MARY NATVIG ISABELLE WENE HELEN FRESE

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HO National Honor Society Bnlzom row: S. Rippchen, B, Quam, I. VVtrne. BI. Benson. R. Johnson. Second row: B. Linderud, P, Amundson, P. Smith- back, H. Freso. Top rout' E. Stensaas G. Becker, J. Craig, O. Nuland. Senior Honor Society Iioilnm row: M. Natvig, I. VYmie, D. Dahle, F. Call, M. Benson. Second row: B. Quam, R. Johnson, H. Frese-, S. Rippchen. Trip row: 0. Nuland. G. Becker, P. Amunri- l son. National Honor Society The National l-lonor Society is composed of the leading students in high schools in all the forty- eight states. Membership in this elite organization is honorary, its members are selected from the top one-third of their class in their respective schools. These students must be leaders in extra-curricular activities, scholarship, character, and service. Most of the students chosen For the National Honor Society are from the senior class, but a levv are chosen from the junior class. ln an assembly period, the older members of the local society pre- sented the 1944 vvinners, giving a history of the younger members' careers in Stoughton l'ligh School. To all of those students who have received this honor, we extend our congratulations. ORS Senior Honor Society Each year twelve students, selected from the top one-third ol the class, are chosen as Senior l-lonor Students by the members ol the senior class and the faculty. Formerly, a valedictorian and salutatorian vvere chosen, but the nevv system has proved tar more democratic than did the other arrangement. The basis upon vvhich these Senior l lonor Students are selected are honesty, responsibility, initiative, courtesy, sportsmanship, loyalty, and neatness. From their ovvn group, the Senior l-lonor Students choose a graduation speaker through Whom the voice ol the senior class is heard at commencement.