Terry High School - Prairian Yearbook (Terry, MT)

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79 While on my vacation last year, the first in yearsg I, Geraldine Reno, was zooming through a little town in Montana and happened to run over a man who was chasing a pretty teacher. As soon as I had screeched to a stop I heard a siren in the distance. Looking around I found Robert Krieg, new marshall of Terry, helping the poor man to his feet. To my surprise and amazement the man happened to be Mr. William Mosbrucker, former class sponsor of the class of 1957, up to his old tricks again. Wi1ly happened to be uninjured and we soon fell to discussing our former days together. He then took me on a tour of Prairie County, and much to my amazement I found all of my classmates not so peaceful, but very prosperous. First I spied Marvin Dufloth, on a farm, crawling out from under a chicken brooder: he had always wanted to be a mechanic. He told me to go down the road a piece where I would find a shiny new school house with two of my classmates in attendance. Guess who? It was none other than Carol Schmidt, superintendent, and Jeanine Buckingham, history teacher. In addition to the new school there was an added attraction, an infirmary in which I found Lucille Fluss and Irene Dukart, now-fledged RNs, wiping noses and giving shots to their poor unsuspecting victims. At a farm thirty miles down the road I found Vernon Kaul, God's gift to women?, surrounded by them. You can say that again: he is the proud father of seven daughters. I was running low on gas and decided to re- turn to town. I cruised into the Conoco and there I found Charles Monaghan sitting on the hydraulic lift dangling his feet and giving orders. He was very surprised to see me and told me where I could find some more of my chums. I trotted over to the Super Valu where I spied Almeda Gaub working as checkout girl. She had advanced from the vegatable department and was enjoying it immensely. I then strolled half a block to the Reynolds store and inquired as to where my friend Marian Kuehn hung out. I was astounded to find she was a social worker in Africa, instead of working in the grocery de- partment. Saturday night I burned up the road to the Larry Ban Ranch, 15 miles west of town and was just in time to catch him and his family leaving for a basketball game at the Terry High School. I jumped in with them and we were off, careening down the road at 90 per. We arrived safely at the school, where Duane Morast was coaching the Terry Underdogs. On the team I recognized two playersg Har- old Wahl, waterboy, and Willard Carter, center. The game was a thriller-diller, with Willard making 49 points. Leading the cheers for the Terry team was Annabelle Rittal fTennantj ably assisted by a small cheering section made up of little boys that looked exactly like Fritz, her husband. Every now and then you could hear her melodious gigle floating out over the crowd. That night after the game I went directly to bed. I awoke next morning as the sun came over the hill and attended church. I was sitting in the first pew and noticed that the pastor looked vaguely familiar. It turned out to be Donald Hohensee, the new pastor of the EUB church. While visiting after churchl ran across Albert Gaub and found him to be the biggest sugar-beet raiser in Montana. Peeking around the corner I caught a glimpse of Karen Ulrich, a famous movie starlet, who was on a personal appearance tour at the local theatre. On my way home from church, I tried racing with a diesel engine. The engineer waved and tooted the whistle and I did a double-take. After the second look I knew it was Jack Trask. My vacation was drawing to a close and I had to be back at the Air Force base to teach aeronautics to a bunch of new recruits. And as I had seen all of my classmates or heard about themlknew my va- cation had been a worthwhile one. I 12

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In the fall of '53, 37 timid and frightened, but intelligent Freshmen registered in Terry High School. We suf- fered through introduction and initiation, and then were guests of honor at the Freshman Mixer. Larry Ban was chosen as class president, a position he was to hold all four years of high school. Miss Zelia Clymer was cho- sen as class sponsor, Lucille Fluss as vice-president, Charles Monaghan as secretary-treasurer, and Annabelle Rittal and Jack Trask as student council representatives. We failed to find our purple and gold pennant, so we were declared a dead class, and an appropriate funeral was held, with the seniors officiating. We sold refreshments and put on two dances to increase our financial status. In our sophomore year, 29 veterans returned and a very uneventful year passed by. Larry Ban was chosen pre- sident, Charles Monaghan, vice-president, Annabelle Rittal, secretary-treasurer, and Carol Schmidt and Duane Morast as student council representatives, and Alice Youngquist as class sponsor, We made money by selling at football and basketball games and putting on dances. In '55, we at last became almighty upperclassmen , and after choosing our class officers, we became in- volved in putting on our class play. Absolutely Murder was presented on November 30 and December l, with huge success. In the spring our lxom was held, the theme Hawaiian Enchantment was chosen. Twenty-four Juniors backed Lucille Fluss when she was chosen as candidate for Homecoming Queen, and she was elected. In our senior year, 20 students remained, and we put the poor Freshmen through the rigors of initiation and introduction. Mr. Mosbrucker was chosen as class sponsor, Larry Ban as president 5 Don Hohensee, vice-president, Robert Krieg, secretary-treasurer. Annabelle Rittal was elected Homecoming Queen this year. During November we were kept busy by having our pictures taken, ordering our annoimcements and sending for our caps and gowns. In the early part of December we sponsored an Amateur Hour which was a big success. The rest of the year was spent in our various activities including our senior play, sneak day, and last but not least, Baccalaureate zytzfd We, the most honored, glorious, ambitious, dignified, studious, elegant, supreme, and master minded seniors of Terry High School, City of Terry, County of Prairie, State of Montana, United States of America, of the planet Earth of the Universe, class of 1957, being of sound mind and body do here by decree this to be our last will and testament. To the school as a whole, we leave our good looks, manners and wonderful personalities along with our mis- chievious ways. To the class: First to the Juniors, we bequeath the two rows of seats on the north also our sense of responsiblity, extra- ordinary intelligence, and integrity, hoping that it will make an improvement. To the Sophomores who will soon be upperclassmen, we leave our ability to meet all extraordinary circum- stances with cool thinking and good judgement. To the Freshmen, we leave our hea.rtiest wishes for a happy high school life. As individuals we leave the following: Larry Ban . . . wills his ways with the girls to Eddie Eaton. Jeanine Buckingham . . . wills her laugh to Ramona Kaul, try smiling Moni. Willard Carter . . . wills his heighth to Arthur Anderson. Irene Dukart . . . wills her shy smiles to Ann Coulston. Marvin Dufloth . . . wills his quiet ways to Kenny Bolin. Lucille Fluss . . . wills her femininity to Della Ross. Albert Gaub . . . wills his safe driving ability to Larry Jens. Almeda Gaub . . . wills her job at Archie's to anyone who can keep dissatisfied customers happy. Donald Hohensee . . . wills ambition and intelligence to anyone who has the brain capacity for it. Marian Kuehn . . . wills her idiosyncrasies to Donna Ross. Vernon Kaul . . . wills his wolfish ways to any Freshmen that thinks he needs them. Geraldine Reno . . . wills her swimming ability to anyone who doesn't know how. Robert Krieg . . . leaves the high school in a state of violent turmoil. Annabelle Rittal . . . leaves her seat to Fritz, who was in it most of the time anyway. Charles Monaghan . . . leaves to join Evalena. Carol Schmidt . . . wills the SCHMIDT Sl-IANTY to her twin sisters, hoping that they will take better care of and Commencement. lt. Duane Morast . . . leaves with his numerous wise cracks still echoing in the halls. Karen Ulrich . . . wills her closet full of clothes to anyone who has hangers enough to hang them on. Jack Trask . . . wills his football ability to Larry Chapman. Harold Wahl . . . doesn't leave anything, he takes it all with him. 11

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