Theresa Public School - Milestone Yearbook (Theresa, WI)

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FIGHTING MY WAY TO THE NORTH POLE by Harold Adclneyor, Sophomore On Sunday, March 2, 1938, ny crow and myself set out from the New York Harbor for Greenland. The U.S.S. Theresa, our ship, was loaded to the brio with food, non, coal, gas, oil, airplanes, and hundreds of other things nooessary for our long stay in the polar region. In ny cabin Russell Bandlow, one of the greatest engineers of all tines, is naking plans for our day's work. With hin is Rouben Bintzler, second Lieutenant and Co-pilot of the United States Navy, and Oliver Windy Krueger, Lieutenant and test pilot of the U.S. Navy and myself. After almost two months of rough sea going we reached the ice-coverod island of Greenland and found it almost impossible to get our ship oloso onough to shore to unload our planes and other supplies. After a bit of thinking, I decided to make a raft out of our lifeboats in ordor to get our supplies on shore. -After we had all our supplies unloadod we had to set up our Eiberboard houses that v e had already built in America. Now that we were settled we had to build a long runaway for our pianos so that we could take off. This was very hard and tiresome work which took two weoks. Then, on May 12, 1938, Windy Krueger, Reuben Bintzler, Russell Bandlow, and myself started out for our flight over the North Pole Krueger and Bintzler did all the flying, I did all of the navigating, and Bandlow payed most of his attention to the sound of the motors which ho had constructed. After almost six hours of flying I motioned Krueger to fly in a wide circle around the place where my instruments told me that the North Pole was. Therefore, on May 12, 1938 at 2:00.P. M. we flew over the North Polo and made a complete circumnavigation of tho globe in loss than five minutes. SLEIGH RIDE „ J 9 V 9 by Elmer Stegcr, Freshman ft In winter I go2sleigh riding, Over the hills I go a gliding, Far across the country hills The sled going where it wills. Swiftly going around the bond, Coning closer to the ond, Then up the hill again we'll go Gliding swiftly down o'er tho snow.